BY MATT SCHOOLEY CONCORD – The Concord High School girls basketball team was “hungry” for its first win of the season, but Salem High School wasn’t letting that get in the way of its fast start to the year, cruising to a 63-47 road victory. Concord kept the contest on Friday, Jan. 25, within shouting distance ...

The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce announces that applications for the 2008 Capital Area Student Leadership (CASL) program are now available. The CASL program is open to high school sophomores who reside in the Greater Concord area, and attend the following schools: Bishop Brady High School, Bow High School, Concord High School, The ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Though far from a mainstream sport, crew is gaining popularity throughout the country, and it’s showing on a local stage. The squad at Manchester Central High school has grown from 12 participants to 80  the last five years, and other schools, including Concord High School, are exhibiting better performance along ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK On the practice green at Canterbury Woods prior to this year’s NHIAA Class L golf tournament, the boys of Concord golf saw eye to eye with their coach. Following the match, the Crimson Tide head coach and his golfers disagreed. After taking Class L titles in 2005 and 2006, Concord fell short of making it three straight, ...

Concord High School’s TV Production Club, with their ad on the dangers of tobacco use, and Prospect Mountain High School’s Controlling Our Own Lives (COOL) group, with their ad on New Hampshire’s Party Host Law, are this year’s winners of the Concord Substance Abuse Coalition’s 2007 Radio Ad Challenge. Both teams won ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Pitcher Colin Begin fanned the first three batters in the game and then homered to straight-away center to lead off the second inning. But on Monday, June 25, personal and team success proved short-lived for Windham’s 11- and 12-year-old Little League all-stars. Begin allowed eight runs in the bottom of the second ...

BY MATT STOUT Thirteen innings, a combined 31 strikeouts, two no-out, bases-loaded situations – and no runs to show for it. They’re oddities for most teams. They were the norm for the Manchester West softball team this season. Though it definitely stung more, the Blue Knights’ 1-0, extra-inning loss to sixth-seeded Concord ...

BY MATT STOUT In droves they’ve come, challengers to the Concord boys tennis team’s throne in Class L, and time after time, they left beaten, bruised and empty-handed. Manchester West, though, was different, the only team to beat the Tide in the last 10 seasons -- twice, in fact, including once in the state final two years ago. On ...

Project Running Start is a partnership between the New Hampshire Community Technical Colleges and area high schools enabling students to earn college credits while in high school. The NHCTC Foundation has announced that it is offering full tuition $100 scholarships for students who enroll in a course in the fields of mathematics, science, ...

BY MATT STOUT Steve Houle isn’t fooled by the score, and anyone who looks beyond it, the Manchester West girls tennis coach said, will see why. “You look at court No. 6 (singles), which was an 8-2 match,” Houle said following his team’s 7-2 win over No. 4 Concord in the Class L quarterfinals on May 24. “That was a ...