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Donate to Brookline Woman’s Club food drive for SHARE
Local
Sunday October 25, 2009
BROOKLINE – Every year, the Brookline Woman’s Club organizes a food donation collection service throughout the community of Brookline for SHARE, a food pantry which serves the communities of Brookline, Mont Vernon, Amherst and Milford. Drop baskets have been placed at Richard Maghakian Memorial School and Captain Samuel Douglass Academy (peanut and nut free), the post office, Town Hall, library and TD Bank for donations from the general public.
Airman 1st Class Christina J. Zore
Military
Monday November 9, 2009
BROOKLINE – Air Force Airman 1st Class Christina J. Zore graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Military
Monday November 9, 2009
HOLLIS – John W. Kowalski has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader Development and Assessment Course at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash.
Military
Monday November 9, 2009
HOLLIS – Air Force Airman Jacob R. Boulay graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Military
Friday October 9, 2009
Navy Seaman Amanda C. Pope, daughter of Vicki L.
Navy Reserve Seaman Recruit Ryan A. Harvey
Military
Friday October 9, 2009
Navy Reserve Seaman Recruit Ryan A. Harvey, son of Chris A.
HBHS holding workshop for parents of teens
Youth-Education
Wednesday October 28, 2009
HOLLIS – Hollis/Brookline High School PTSA’s S-Team is sponsoring a free, public educational workshop on “Children in Distress: Mood Imbalances in Our Teens,” to be presented by Gail Vanark, MSN, FNP-BC, from the Center for Preventative Medicine of Amherst, on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Brookline Women’s Club to meet
Clubs
Monday November 16, 2009
BROOKLINE – Join the Brookline Women’s Club at 7:30 p.m.
Blood drive coming back to Brookline
Clubs
Monday November 16, 2009
BROOKLINE – The Brookline Women’s Club and Brookline Ambulance Service are hosting an American Red Cross blood drive on Monday, Nov. 23, from 1-6 p.
Rotary night of entertainment a success
Clubs
Sunday October 18, 2009
The Lawrence Barn in Hollis was the perfect venue for an evening of musical entertainment featuring local artists. The opening act was the jazz trio of Trevor Nierendorf, Jared Rocco and JT Trull, all students at Hollis/Brookline High School.
Good food, entertainment at Hollis/Brookline’s Fall Feast
Columnist
Monday November 16, 2009
While the school cafeteria makes good food, the Hollis/Brookline High School Culinary Club specializes in making delicious goodies and snacks for famished students after school. On Nov.
Trebuchet tradition is a big hit at Hollis/Brookline
Columnist
Sunday November 8, 2009
Lock the arm, balloon in place, call “Fire in the hole!” And off goes the balloon.
Moroccan, US cultures learn about each other at HBHS
Columnist
Sunday November 1, 2009
Last weekend, a group of 15 Moroccan students arrived in New Hampshire to spend two weeks with Hollis/Brookline High School students. Staying with selected family volunteers, the exchange students will tour the East Coast, traveling to places such as Boston to see the Freedom Trail and New York City.
Hollis/Brookline seniors pay it forward to freshmen
Columnist
Sunday October 25, 2009
Picture this: It’s your first day of high school – freshman year, the most dreaded of them all. You’re walking down the hallways when you come to a group of seniors assembling around the lockers and making fun of all the underclassmen.
New rules help make Hollis/Brookline blood drive successful
Columnist
Sunday October 18, 2009
The Hollis/Brookline High School Red Cross Club held its first blood drive of the year on Oct. 8 in the mini gym.
Free H1N1 clinics to start next week
Local
Saturday November 21, 2009
The state’s first series of free public clinics offering the H1N1 swine flu vaccine will begin next week, but a five-hour event at the Manchester Health Department on Tuesday will be the closest to Nashua. The H1N1 vaccine is taken considerably longer to produce that had originally been expected.
Around the towns: Bus system kicks in to help
Local
Saturday November 21, 2009
Members of the Souhegan Valley Transportation Collaborative have been making the rounds in the four towns served by its bus service asking for funding to keep it going. The bus, run in conjunction with the Nashua Transit System, takes people to medical appointments and shopping plazas.
Fifth arrested in Mont Vernon murder
Local
Thursday November 19, 2009
MILFORD – The arrest of 20-year-old Autumn Savoy, of Hollis, on Wednesday brings to five the number of young men to be charged in connection with the Oct. 4 Mont Vernon home invasion that ended in the death of 42-year-old Kimberly Cates and left her daughter, Jaimie, 11, with serious injuries from which she continues to recover.
Court rules against tobacco shop
Local
Tuesday November 17, 2009
Customers are still rolling their own smokes at Tobacco Haven, despite a superior court ruling Monday that says the Brookline shop is a cigarette manufacturer that hasn’t been paying either the mandatory Tobacco Settlement tax, or making escrow payments. Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler issued a temporary injunction against Tobacco Haven on Monday, ordering the shop on Route 13 to either ensure that its supplier has paid the required tax or escrow payment, pay itself, or stop operating its two high-speed cigarette-rolling machines.
Telegraph staffers tried roll-your-own smokes
Local
Tuesday November 17, 2009
EDITOR’S NOTE: The roll-your-own cigarettes made on the machines at Tobacco Haven are controversial and inexpensive, but are they any good? Three Telegraph staffers who smoke gave them a try when the issue first arose in August.
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