BY MATT SCHOOLEYDespite a loss to Goffstown, the Manchester West girls volleyball team looks to take momentum into a matchup with Central and grab its first victory of the season. Although the Blue Knights dropped the match to the Grizzlies on Friday, Sept. 26, West’s head coach, Connie Kyriakopoulos, said she thought her team played as ...

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 JENN McDOWELLAfter months of toiling over the Manchester school budget, it’s almost time for the Board of Aldermen to settle on an amount. The Board of Aldermen had to make a decision on the city budget, which includes the mayor’s proposal for a $140 million school district budget for 2008- 09, by Tuesday, June 10. As of June 3, ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORHe was expecting the call, but he still had his fingers crossed it wouldn’t come.It did. CJ Beck picked up the phone. “Remember that bet you made,” said the voice on the other line. “We didn’t forget.” So Beck paid up. West High School’s No. 2 boys tennis player shaved his ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThe Lady Blue Knights still have a chance. Despite their current 3-9 record, the West girls lacrosse team, with two Division I games left this season, still has a chance to sneak into the playoffs. But whether her team accomplishes the goal or not, first-year head coach Brenna Matarazzo said she couldn’t be happier ...

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’CONNORSteve Houle and his Lady Blue Knights aren’t happy with last year’s playoff result, and they plan on spending this entire season rectifying it. After a fine 2007, West tennis fell in the Class L semifinals to city rival and eventual state champ Central. Now, Houle said the pieces are in place to sweeten last ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe cost of sending Bedford students to West High School in Manchester has gone up as enrollment has gone down in high schools across the city. Manchester had projected it would have 6,000 students in its high schools this year, however, the city was off by about 500, according to School Board Chairman David ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThis Manchester West team has a basketball player and plenty of football players. Now Josh Greenwood just needs to make sure they’re familiar and comfortable with a lacrosse stick in hand. The Blue Knights boys lacrosse team hopes to use its 14 seniors to improve on last year’s four wins. Those hopes rest largely on ...