BY RYAN O’CONNOREntering his first season at the boys soccer helm West High School, Stephen Signor undoubtedly smiled when he glanced at his roster. Despite losing his starting striker and left midfielder to poor grades, the Blue Knights returned 18 seniors from a unit that reached the Class L quarterfinals last year. Though West is off to ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe Hooksett School Board does not know if the town needs a high school. But they are ready to find out. A newly formed committee – which has not yet held its first meeting – includes elected officials and community members. The Hooksett High School Committee is charged with considering whether a new high school is a ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORShe played under one coach and with another. Now their peer, Kris Komisarek rolled out the welcome mat for the second straight year for her former mentors. You see, Komisarek played under local legend Peter Lally, who has spent the last 36 years maintaining a perennial girls soccer powerhouse at Manchester Central. Last ...

The YWCA recently awarded its Young Woman of the Year 2008 award to Etana Jacobi of Hooksett, a senior at West High School. The Young Woman of the Year award is presented to a young woman who:is between the ages of 13- 18 and lives within the YWCA service area, which includes Manchester, Auburn, Candia, New Boston, Goffstown, Bedford, Weare, ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCarissa D’Agata didn’t require an enchanted pumpkin and body-morphing mice to get to the prom. Nope, she just needed the sleek, fuschia hot rod she saw driving down her street once in a while. She’d seen the car in prior summers, and wondered whether the owners would be open to provide chariot and chauffeur to ...

BY JENN McDOWELL With the Manchester Board of School Committee having announced several times they would not authorize the dissemination of 80 pink slips to teachers in Manchester schools this year, communities holding tuition contracts with Manchester’s school district are breathing a wary sigh of relief as they wonder how the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter pleading guilty in Manchester District Court to five counts of criminal threatening, a Manchester West High School student who threatened to “do a Columbine” and shoot teachers, administrators and other students was released from jail. Sterling Lindbloom, 17, of 659 Montgomery St., Manchester, spent more than two ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOREvery game is an adventure. So Dan Drewniak and his Lady Blue Knights are enjoying the excitement, though they won’t be needing a nail file anytime soon. West, which currently maintains a 4-4 record on the young softball season, averages 1.3 runs scored per game – second to last in Class L. Though Drewniak is ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKThe Division I match-up between 9-4-0 Salem and 5-6-2 Manchester West had a little something for every ice hockey fan: fine goaltending from both starting netminders, hard-hitting confrontations in the corners, frenetic action from blue line to blue line, even some heated verbal exchanges. Ultimately, the visiting Salem Blue Devils ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAdministrators at West High School have announced a plan they will bring before the city’s School Board to establish a series of academies at the high school. About a third of Hooksett high school students currently attend West. The preliminary plans, which will go before the School Board sometime in February, would start ...