BY DARRELL HALENNick Peters was “drunk” when the vehicle he was driving knocked over an orange safety cone. He hadn’t really been drinking. Rather, the goggles he was wearing had impaired his vision as if his blood alcohol content level was .15 – beyond the state’s legal limit. Just hours before their attending ...

BY DARRELL HALEN Several times a week, while dressed in hospital scrubs, Salem High School senior Courtney Morgan is busy helping people at Parkland Medical Center in Derry – preparing rooms, making beds, walking with patients, getting them something to drink. She’s not getting paid. But Courtney, who watches nurses at work in the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY With two undefeated teams going head to head, there was plenty of electricity in the crowd Friday, Nov. 2, as Gilford and Pelham squared off at Pelham High School to close out the regular season. Strangely, in the first quarter, the only thing missing from the game was electricity. The Pythons worked around a 19-minute power ...

BY DARRELL HALEN When Robert Duffy Jr. was brought into the Pelham Memorial School cafeteria one day in late September, his fellow seventh-graders greeted him with a thunderous standing ovation. Robert, 13, is battling brain cancer, and his surprise visit – when Assistant Principal Tom Adamakos pushed his wheelchair into the room – ...

BY DARRELL HALEN The sales of pink bracelets and freshly baked cookies during a school fundraiser may not bring in a lot of money, but for Taryn Kayo it’s a way to support the fight against *** cancer – a disease that struck her grandmother nine years ago. “It’s a serious issue for me,” said Taryn, 16, a member of ...

BY DARRELL HALEN As Pelham Memorial School students filed into school, the theme song from the movie “Rocky” sounded over the building’s public address system. Their teachers wore brand-new lime green T-shirts with the words “striving for excellence” printed on them. It was Tuesday, Oct. 2, the kickoff of four ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR After leading his Pythons boys basketball squad to three consecutive state title games and taking home the 2006 Class I championship, Todd Kress decided he needed to spice things up by adding another personal challenge. Pelham High School’s golf team presented just such an opportunity. This year, Kress took over the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Pelham High School field hockey team continuously pressured Bow High School on Friday, Sept. 21, but the Lady Pythons scored only once, losing 3-1. Alex Catalano was outstanding in net for the Pythons. The freshman made 14 saves, including many diving stops in the face of Bow’s attack, to help keep her team close most ...

BY DARRELL HALEN Pelham Memorial School has been designated as a school in need of improvement after it did not achieve adequate yearly progress in student proficiency in reading for the second year in a row. Now, educators are developing strategies to help those students and creating an improvement plan that must be submitted to the New ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY It’s early in the season, and both John Stark and Pelham’s girls volleyball teams were in – no surprise here – early season form. Neither squad found consistent rhythm in the contest, but visiting John Stark returned to Weare with a road victory, winning 3-1 at Pelham High School on Monday, Sept. ...