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Download The Messenger – April 19,2024 (pdf)

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Goffstown woman pleads guilty to transporting of body parts

A Goffstown woman, half of a husband-wife couple accused last year of selling and mailing body parts stolen from the Harvard Medical School’s morgue, has plead guilty to a charge of interstate transportation of stolen…

Dunbarton Elementary 6th graders graduate from “Too Good For Drugs” program

Approximately 30 6th grade students at the Dunbarton Elementary School (“DES”) graduated from the LEAD – Law Enforcement Against Drugs and Violence’s “Too Good for Drugs” (“TGFD”) program on Friday, April 12th 2024. This marks the…

H-D Board approves replacement of High School roof and boiler – purchase of Reading Curriculum

At the beginning of Monday’s Hillsboro-Deering School Board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Crawford announced that New England College had presented the District with its “Community Partner Award” for the many cooperative efforts over the years. After receiving…

BASEBALL

Bishop Brady 10, Hillsboro-Deering 0, 5 inn: The Giants broke the game open with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to end the game early…

SOFTBALL

Goffstown 16, Nashua North 2: Senior Brit LeClair went 4 for 5, with two singles, a triple and a grand slam, driving in seven runs, leading Goffstown to a 16-2 win over Nashua North in a softball season opener. Senior Elocin Bradley went 2 for 3, recording her first varsity hit…

Download The Messenger – April 5, 2024 (pdf)

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H-D schools facing nearly $9.2 million in needed Capital Improvements

Business Manager Grant Geisler briefed the H-D School Board on the dozen Capital Improvements projects the District is facing over the next few years and suggested the following priorities…

Kearsarge Middle School flew to success at a New England drone competition

Kearsarge Regional Middle School sent four teams to the New England District Championship drone competition in Connecticut on Saturday, March 16, and three teams qualified for a national competition at Fairmont State University in West Virginia on May 17-18. The Flying Ninja Nuggets Team, consisting of…

Homeowners purchase Mobile Home Park for $5 Million

Homeowners in Longwoods Mobile Home Park in Deering recently purchased their 98-unit park, making it New Hampshire’s 149th resident-owned manufactured-home community (ROC). With training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s…

NHIAA & NHADA Scholar Athletes Awards Ceremony

The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association and New Hampshire Athletic Directors Association held the Annual NHIAA and NHADA Scholar Athlete Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. This is the 31st year for females and the 26th year for males to receive this highly distinguished award…

Download The Messenger – March 22, 2024 (pdf)

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ConVal Consolidation Plan rejected

Voters in the nine towns of the Contoocook Valley School District on Tuesday defeated a plan that would allow the school board to close up to four elementary schools in Bennington, Dublin, Francestown and…

Hillsboro-Deering Preschool Lottery applications available

Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School will accept applications for the Preschool lottery for the 2024-2025 school year, Monday, April 1, 2024 through Friday, April 26, 2024. Preschool registration can be filled out online at…

Two New England College graduates murdered in Miami

Two former New England College athletes living in Miami were shot and killed Saturday night in what police say was a double murder-suicide. Meghan Moore, 25, and Sidney Capolino, 23, graduated from the…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Division II – Second Team: Jake Reardon, so., Bow. Honorable Mention: Brendan O’Keeffe, so., Bow. Division III – First Team: Noah Whipple, sr., Kearsarge. Second Team: Abram Standefer, sr., Hopkinton…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Division II – First Team: Eleanor Girardet, sr., John Stark. Second Team: Juliette Tarsa, sr., Bow. Honorable Mention: Abby Duclos, sr., John Stark; Bryana Szepan, jr., Bow; Avery Geaumont, sr., John Stark; Ella Trefethen, so., Bow. All-Defensive Team: Bryana Szepan, jr., Bow…

Download The Messenger – March 8, 2024 (pdf)

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Major decisions facing ConVal School District voters

ConVal School District voters are being asked to approve a $58.4 million budget at Town meetings throughout the District. In addition, they will vote on an adjustment to the articles of agreement which would allow officials to close some of the district’s elementary schools. The school…

Contoocook cadet awarded a $5,000 Air Force Scholarship

New Hampshire Air National Guardsman and University of New Hampshire (UNH) sophomore Jack P.H. Horne of Contoocook recently was awarded $5,000 in scholarships from Granite State Flight #53, Order of…

Hopkinton/Stark Robotics win coveted “Imagery Award”

The Hopkinton High School/John Stark Regional High School Robotics Team, Oz-Ram 1922, competed in the New England FIRST Granite State District Competition March 1-2 at Salem High in Salem, NH. 35 teams from all around New England showcased their…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Division II Opening Round – No. 7 Bow 41, No. 10 Souhegan 34: Souhegan erased an 11-point deficit to lead by one point at halftime and by one heading into the fourth quarter, but the Saber shots that were falling from 3-point land in the first half weren’t landing in the second and the Falcons made enough plays down the stretch…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Division II Opening Round – No. 4 John Stark 61, No. 13 Milford 46: The Generals consistently put up points throughout the game and went on a 6-0 run to end the first quarter to build some cushion early…

Download The Messenger – February 23, 2024 (pdf)

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Antrim school’s drone team soars

The Great Brook School’s aerial drone team placed first in the skills portion and second overall in the Rec Foundation’s aerial drone competition last month in Springfield, Vermont. GBS was represented by three teams of students at the event, entitled Mission Eclipse. They competed against 15 other teams from across…

Multiple departments battle Warner fire for over 2 hours

While firefighters from around the region were fighting a fire at the historic Stark Mansion in Dunbarton, another house fire was reported in Warner. Capital region dispatch requested “all units available,” at just past…

First responders called to fatal accident on Hopkinton Road

Concord first responders were sent to the area of Loop Road for a report of a crash. Police dispatch was attempting to find out how extensive the injuries were and fire dispatch did not know if there was entrapment but…

BOYS ALPINE SKIING

Division III Championship – Hopkinton 1st: Senior Harrison Wilson won the giant slalom in the morning, junior Merrick Chapin won the slalom in the afternoon and also finished second in the GS, and the Hopkinton boys’ Alpine team recovered from…

GIRLS ALPINE SKIING

Division III Championship – Hopkinton 1st: The Hopkinton girls’ Alpine ski team has been consistent all season and that wasn’t about to change on Wednesday. Hawk sophomore Marcella Guadagno finished second in both the slalom and…