BY DAN DeCONINCK and MATT SCHOOLEYCell phones – it seems like everyone has them. After all, this is the age of technology, and being without mobile capability is like being without shoes – you could probably make it through the day barefoot, but you certainly wouldn’t like it. Everywhere you look, cell phones are present: in ...

BY CAROLE KLEMENT HUXELJyl Dittbenner has been teaching at Villa Augustina for seven years, and each year she organizes a junior high sleepover to participate in the World Vision 30-Hour Famine. The 30-Hour Famine is an international youth movement to fight hunger, and each Villa student promised to eat nothing but rice and water from 2 a.m. on ...

BY CAROLE KLEMENT HUXELMaple Avenue Elementary School Principal Mark Boyd marched into the cafeteria dressed from head to toe in a Pilgrim costume on Thursday, Nov. 20, to carve a turkey for the school’s annual Thanksgiving feast for the students. Having donated the most canned goods in this year’s food drive, Christina Lamson’s ...

BY SAMUEL PERRONContributing WriterIn July, seven Goffstown High School students and three teachers spent a week in Nicaragua. Along with experiencing a very different way of life, they worked with some organizations on important social and environmental projects, and did some sightseeing along the way. Students who took part in the trip included ...

Imagine 12 high school students giving up a week of their summer vacation to study politics at a college level. You don’t really need to imagine, all you have to do is stop by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. From July 12 to 19, 12 students from eight different high schools around New Hampshire attended the Civic Leadership Academy, ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe state’s standards for measuring adequacy among New Hampshire school students were raised this year, and based on the results from the New England Common Assessment Program test scores students took in fall 2007, Goffstown schools did rather poorly while Dunbarton and New Boston showed continued improvement. The testing ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe owners of the Villa Augustina School are ready to sell it to parents. That news prompted a joyful response from parents who have been believing against the odds that they could save the school from shutting down. “Yes, we did Believe!” the Villa Augustina Leadership Transition Team wrote in a letter announcing the ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR The Grizzlies had the Division II playoffs in sight, but on one rain-soaked Saturday afternoon they allowed the postseason to evade their grasp.  Though many local football and soccer games were postponed Nov. 3 due to inclement weather, Howard Sobolov, Goffstown High School athletics director, and Rob Cathcart, GHS ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR John Stark was a leaping, kicking, flipping example of the old adage, “Save the best for last.” Of the 38 competing squads at the New Hampshire Fall Spirit Championships, the Lady Generals were one of the final groups to take the floor. Competing against 12 fellow Class I schools on Sunday, Nov. 4, at the ...

BY JERRY LIPTAK Despite thoroughly outplaying their hosts for 75 of regulation’s 80 minutes, the Lady Generals faced overtime at Merrimack Valley. After the John Stark girls warmed up for the extra period, their fifth-year head coach, Heather Doucette had simple instructions for them, which she delivered through the many raindrops falling ...