BY RYAN O'CONNOR When Ed McCormick took over the Manchester Central High School crew team, 12 students attended his first meeting. By the time the fall season began, he had built a squad of 30. Now, the Little Green feature roughly 80 active members, including 15 to 20 Hooksett students annually, creating one of the more formidable high ...

BY JENN MCDOWELL Hooksett students have scored well enough to get their elementary schools off the state’s list of schools in need of improvement. However, graduates of middle schools in Hooksett, Candia and Auburn may step in to high schools in which the state is a heavy presence come next year. The Hooksett School District, with ...

BY DAVE CHOATE A back-and-forth game ended in quick and bitter fashion for the Memorial High School varsity field hockey team. The Manchester Central High School Little Green squeaked past the Crusaders, 3-2, on Aug. 29; an overtime goal by junior forward Beth Haydock ended the battle. With 11:27 left in the sudden-death extra session, ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Sean Colligan thought it would be fun to welcome a couple of his friends from Manchester to the annual Goffstown Gallop – a 28-year-old non-sanctioned road race pitting runners from across the state and beyond against each other. Less than a half an hour after the race began, the soon-to-be Goffstown High School ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY With a Rubik’s Cube, a first-grade T-shirt and 465 oversized, beach balls, the Manchester West graduation for the Class of 2007 turned out to be a well-behaved event. None of the 465 graduates tossed beach balls during the Wednesday, June 13, graduation ceremony, probably because they were promised a surprise ending. As ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY With a Rubik’s cube, a first-grade T-shirt and 465 oversized bouncing balls, the Manchester West graduation for the Class of 2007 turned out to be a childish, but very well-behaved, event for Hooksett, Bedford and Manchester students. With a Rubik’s cube, a first-grade T-shirt and 465 oversized bouncing balls, the ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK On Saturday, June 2, the state’s best track and field athletes converged upon the University of New Hampshire’s oval to take part in this year’s Meet of Champions. The final results yielded strong finishes and secured spots for several Neighborhood athletes in the New England High School Track and Field ...

BY MATT STOUT In the bottom of the seventh inning with two out and the team ahead, 2-1, Manchester West was on the verge of upsetting one of the top teams in Class L. If they hadn’t already, the Blue Knights realized – at that point, on that day – this season was not meant to turn out well for them. The game in question, a ...

BY MATT STOUT Despite its finish at the Class L championships on Saturday, May 26, the Manchester Memorial boys track and field team will go down as one of the most talented the state has ever seen. But the Crusaders learned the terms “talented” and “successful” sometimes occupy two very different planes. Despite ...

BY MATT STOUT Phoebe Lyman had an idea that the Manchester Central girls tennis team’s hopes against Bishop Guertin in the Class L championship hinged largely on her match. But she wasn’t about to let it get to her. “Even if she did ask (what the score was),” said Central coach Bill Cannon, “I wouldn’t have ...