Monthly Archive for February, 2019

In New Hampshire – March 2019

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Download In New Hampshire - March 2019 (pdf)Climb to the Clouds Hillclimb returns to Mt. Washington July 2020

Officials with the Mt. Washington Auto Road in Gorham, New Hampshire and the Sports Car Club of New Hampshire announced today that one of the Nation’s oldest automobile races, the historic Mt. Washington Hillclimb, will be returning to the Northeast’s tallest peak July 9-12, 2020. Organized and sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of New Hampshire, the 2020 Mt. Washington Hillclimb will serve as a 3-day motorsports festival that will include an 80-car field filled with some of the best drivers from North…

Maple Sugaring Season for families

Maple Sugaring Season! Saturdays, March 2-30; 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00 $10 ($8 Members; FREE for upgraded members). Join us to experience an old-fashioned New England Tradition – making maple syrup! From tapping a tree to tasting delicious maple syrup, you will participate in every step of the…

Maple Sugar Day at Burleigh Farm

Mark your calendars for March 23rd, 10 am to noon for the 2019 Maple Sugar Day at Burleigh Farm. This is a free, community event co-sponsored by the Squam Lakes Association, the Squam Lakes Conservation Society and the Lakes Region Conservation Trust. Please join us for a fun day at the farm with sugaring demonstrations and maple sugar tasting, followed by…

Celtic Woman at Concord’s Capitol Center for the Arts On Friday, March 29

CELTIC WOMAN – vocalists Mairead Carlin, Eabha McMahon, Tara McNeill (fiddle) and newest member Megan Walsh (who makes her debut on ANCIENT LAND) – continue the centuries-old Irish tradition of telling stories through song: stories of the land, stories of love and stories of dancing; songs that will bring a piece of Ireland into viewers’ homes and hearts. Since their 2005 debut…

Published by QuillDesign on 1 February 28, 2019 in IN New Hampshire. Closed

The Messenger – March 1, 2019

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Download The Messenger - March 1, 2019 (pdf)Newport Presidential Scholars

Elizabeth Tremblay, daughter of James and Victoria Tremblay, Benjamin Jachim-Gallagher, the son of Cindy Gallagher and Geri Jachim, and Victoria Burroughs, the daughter of James and Stacey Burroughs, graduating seniors at Newport High School, have been named in the 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million…

WWII Veteran’s remains identified 75 years after death

An Antrim woman has learned that the remains of her brother who was listed as missing in action for decades have now been identified, 75 years after 1st Lt. Burleigh Curtis died in World War II, his little sister Madelyn Klose now has closure. On June 13, 1944, just one week after D-Day, Curtis was piloting a bombing raid when his plane crashed into a field in France. The military delivered a telegram, saying that he was…

Hillsboro-Deering DECA awarded 2 trophies, 24 medals and 14 plaques

A young and talented Hillsboro-Deering DECA team had great success at the recent New Hampshire DECA 62nd Annual Career Development Conference. It was held Wednesday, February 13 through Friday, February 15, 2019, at the Hilton Doubletree in Manchester, NH. Twenty-nine team members attended this year’s…

Couple responds to aid Epsom fire victim

A couple is being credited with helping an Epsom man after his home caught fire Friday night. Caroline Perreault and her fiancé, Jason Martin were driving about 8:30 p.m. when they saw what they thought was a bonfire, but they quickly realized the flames were coming from a…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Division III Quarterfinals. #1 Conant 46, #8 Belmont 37: They started the season with a 73-37 loss to these same Orioles and fell short of the upset and ended the season with a 46-37 loss at No. 1 Conant. #3 Newfound 46, # 6 Hopkinton 32: The Hawks led 6-4 after the first quarter, but the Bears scored 17 points in the second to take control of the game…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Division IV Preliminary. #5 Sunapee 43, #12 Derryfield 41: The Lakers had to scrap their way to the D-IV quarterfinals with a 43-41 win. #6 Pittsfield 61, #11 Farmington 49: Farmington opened the 4th quarter with five points to tie the game, 47-47, with four minutes to go, but Pittsfield closed the game with a 14-2 run and went 13-for-14 from the free throw line to punch its ticket to the quarterfinals…

 

Published by QuillDesign on 1 February 28, 2019 in The Messenger. Closed

The Messenger – February 22, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 22, 2019 (pdf)20-year-old Hillsborough woman hit & killed on Main Street

A Hillsborough family is mourning after a woman was hit by a pickup truck and killed Thursday while she was walking across a street. Arianna Theberge, 20, was struck on West Main Street. “This is not the way it’s supposed to…

Newport’s Alia Gonzales named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist

Alia Gonzalez, granddaughter of John and Eileen Barton, has met all the requirements to advance to become a National Merit Scholarship finalist. Finalists are considered for National Merit Scholarships to be offered in the spring. Over 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the…

Henniker Rescue Squad recognizes heroic efforts of police officer

At Tuesday’s Henniker Select Board meeting, Gregory Aucoin, Deputy Chief of the Rescue Squad presented Officer Matthew Mitchell with the following citation. “On January 23, 2019 Officer Mathew Mitchell responded, while on duty, to a medical call for a patient who was not conscious or breathing. The town’s primary ambulance was already at Concord Hospital due to a different medical call that had…

Hillsborough teenager found not guilty of graduation threat

A jury took less than an hour to find John Thomas, 19, of Hillsborough, not guilty of perceived threat. Thomas was arrested four months after the school shooting in Parkland, FL, which left 17 people dead and reignited concerns nationally about school shootings and easy access to guns for disturbed kids. The jury rendered the verdict on…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

#4 Woodsville 57, #13 Sunapee 45: Woodsville led 38-34 entering the fourth quarter, but then outplayed the Lakers in the final frame. #6 Mount Royal 45, #11 Lisbon 35: On the opening night of NHIAA basketball’s tournament season, the No. 6 Mount Royal dropped to No. 11 Lisbon in an upset, 45-35 in D-IV action…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Mascoma 59, Hillsboro-Deering 40: Halie Hurd (17 points) and Fayth Grimes (12 points) led the Hillcats. Hopkinton 49, Gilford 29: The Hawks jumped out to a 15-5 lead after the first quarter and held Gilford to single-digit scoring in each quarter…

Published by QuillDesign on 1 February 21, 2019 in The Messenger. Closed

The Messenger – February 15, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 15, 2019 (pdf)Hillsborough teen indicted

A grand jury has indicted Alan Clark, 19, of Hillsborough for attempting to steal two NH State Police cruisers in Canterbury last fall. State Police arrested Clark the day after he caused a nearly head-on collision in Canterbury. Clark walked away from a trooper who tried to question him then ran to an idling cruiser, got in and…

DECA Recognizes Hillsboro-Deering DECA’s Gold Level School Store

The School-Based Enterprise (SBE) at Hillsboro-Deering High School – The Hillcat Corner was among 483 school-based enterprises in the United States achieving Gold Level Certification or Gold Level Re-certification this year and will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in…

Ice jam may cause flooding in Goffstown & New Boston

The towns of New Boston and Goffstown are again facing the possibility of severe flooding later this spring thanks to a fast-growing ice jam in the Piscataquog River that’s already three quarters of a mile in length. Formed by the accumulation of floating ice chunks that slow or fully obstruct…

Nebraska fugitive avoids arrest after Peterborough tractor-trailer crash

A tractor-trailer unit rolled over the middle of a roundabout, closing Route 101 in Peterborough for nearly three hours on Monday morning. Drew Davis, 38, of Gastonia, North Carolina, reported that he was driving his tractor-trailer, loaded with 60,000 pounds of…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Oyster River 69, Kearsarge 53: Kearsarge hung with one of the top teams in D-II, taking an 18-15 lead after one quarter and trailing 52-44 after three. Hinsdale 47, Mount Royal 17: Sophie LaRose had 9 points and 7 boards, and Alexis Matte scored 7 and came away with 4 steals…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Stevens 54 Newport 51: It wasn’t easy for Stevens, as a last second Newport shot ended up short to give Stevens a hard-fought, three-point win. ConVal 56 Stevens 52: Matt McCool got eight of his team-high 22 in the fourth quarter, edging the Sabers back into the game, but the Cougars won it, 56-52…

Published by QuillDesign on 1 February 14, 2019 in The Messenger. Closed

The Messenger – February 8, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 8, 2019 (pdf)Two Newport Selectmen challenge School Board

The largest crowd in recent history filled the High School gym during Saturday’s Newport School District Deliberative Session. First up for discussion was the proposed $18,963,855 Operating Budget, with a Default Budget that was actually larger at $19,163,662. Officials cautioned that even if the budget passes as presented staff layoffs remained a…

Kearsarge students form Students Practicing Ethical Leadership (SPEL) Group

Superintendent Winfried Feneberg has announced that a group of Kearsarge Regional High School students is creating a new student organization after attending an ethical leadership conference in December. A group of 25 Kearsarge High students in grades nine through 11 recently joined peers from six other…

Two charged with road rage in New Boston

While on a routine patrol, New Boston Police Officer Andrew Vollaro witnessed 23-year-old Corey Lafontaine of Windham and 52-year-old Daniel Handrahan of Goffstown taking part in what police described as a road rage incident. Lafontaine and Handrahan appeared to be racing each other, with the two men reportedly observed crossing the solid yellow line in order to pass other vehicles. The passing took place as…

Twelve towns provide mutual aid in battling Bradford house fire

On February 1st, 2019 at 12:16 am, the Bradford Fire Department was dispatched with Automatic Mutual Aid from the Towns of Washington and Henniker FD’s to 209 East Washington Road in Bradford for a reported fire in the basement. Prior to arriving on the scene Fire Chief Mark Goldberg contacted Concord Fire Alarm and asked for a 2nd alarm structural response and a 3rd alarm tankers due to the…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Belmont 56, Hillsboro-Deering 29: Julianna Estremera had 30 points as the Raiders opened the game with a 22-2 first-quarter lead and led 35-9 at halftime. Hopkinton 64, Campbell 35: Katie Meserve and Ellie Owen scored six points apiece in the first quarter to get the Hawks off and running en route to their third straight win…

BOYS HOCKEY

Mascenic 80, Hillsboro-Deering 62: Elijah Winters scored 24 points, Sam Hatcher 9 points and Charles Veitch 9 in the loss.
Belmont 67, Hillsboro-Deering 50: Keith Landry led the way with 11 points, while Matt Thurber and Mikey Sprague had 10 each for Belmont, which took a 41-19 halftime lead…

Published by QuillDesign on 1 February 7, 2019 in The Messenger. Closed

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