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Windham-Raymond School Board vote against naming school after children's advocate
WINDHAM (WGME) -- Windham's new middle school will not be named after a long-time child advocate in Maine. Wednesday night, the Windham-Raymond School Board voted against naming the school after Bill Diamond. They instead approved the name Windham-Raymond Middle School. Diamond, who died last year at 80, represented both Windham...
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Gorham voters approve $6 million for high school renovations
GORHAM (WGME) -- Voters in Gorham have approved more than $6 million for renovations for the high school. Work will include improving parking, sidewalks and drainage, along with millions going toward replacing old, portable classrooms.
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Gilford Class of 1976 to look back with opening of time capsule, 50 years later
GILFORD — It was a time when the Pet Rock emerged, the country was about to celebrate its bicentennial anniversary, and Led Zeppelin released “Physical Graffiti." Bellbottoms and big hair were all the rage, and funk music was making a (not so) subtle evolution into disco. A time...
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N.H. volleyball: Oyster River survives Hollis-Brookline, advances to DII championship
DERRY – The Oyster River High School volleyball team got all it could handle from upset-minded Hollis-Brookline in Wednesday night’s Division II semifinals, but the Bobcats held on for a hard-fought 3-1 win to set up a championship match against rival Somersworth. For the second straight year, second-seeded Oyster River (17-2) and top-seeded Somersworth (18-1) will face off in the Division II championship. This year, the teams will meet at noon on Saturday, Nov. 7 at Pinkerton Academy. Oyster River, the defending state champions, handed Somersworth its only loss of the season, 3-1, on Oct. 16. Maggie DeWire delivered in a pressure-packed moment in the deciding fourth set. Making her first serves of the season, DeWire helped bring the Bobcats back from a 23-19 deficit to a 24-23 lead. Oyster River went on to win the set, 26-24, to close out the match. “That is the first time Maggie has served in a game this season,” Oyster River head coach Cassie Doore said. “She rattled off (four) points, and she played some defense back there too, which we don’t normally ask of her. Maggie was huge. I can’t say enough about her.” “I was definitely very nervous, but what kept
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UNH English professor emeritus Andy Merton releases new autobiography
On Thursday Nov. 5 at 5pm, former University of New Hampshire (UNH) English professor Andy Merton is set to read passages from his new autobiography, Gloria Steinem Blurbed Me (And Other Miracles). The reading, located in Hamilton Smith Hall, brings Merton back to the place he taught writing for more than forty years.
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UNH students, faculty oppose potential removal of up to 300k books from library
Justin Kostopulos is not a traditional art history student at UNH. He’s 35 and a commuter, so he spends a lot of his time between classes wandering the stacks of the library. When he found out the Dimond Library was reviewing nearly 300,000 print titles for potential removal, he started a petition to ask the university to reconsider. Within a week, it gathered over 600 signatures.
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Foxcroft Academy scores late 4th quarter goal to win Class C North title
OAKLAND -- No. 1 Foxcroft Academy beat No. 2 Dexter 1-0 to win the Class B North title game. The game was a defensive battle with both goaltenders, Dexter's Isabella Wallace and Foxcroft's Lili Bisson, shining bright in this contest. The 0-0 tie was finally broken in the fourth quarter.