Alan Greenwood

MAY 14, 1955 – From Fred Dobens’ ‘Around the Town’ column:

“A petition will be filed with the Park Commission within a short time requesting that part of Greeley Park be set aside for the building of a nine-hole course.

“The sponsors of the petition say that a lot of people play golf in Nashua – or would like to – but there isn’t a public facility here where they can enjoy the sport for a modest sum. The city has two golf courses – the Nashua Country Club 18-hole course reserved for members only and the Riverside course, a public one. But there is no municipal course, say the sponsors.”

MAY 14, 1975 – The New Hampshire Senate was decades head of its time; by 15-7 vote it approved a bill to legalize sports gambling.

“A bill that would legalize betting on professional and collegiate sports has been approved by the New Hampshire Senate by a 2-1 margin. The bill was sent to the House, where a similar measure was defeated by 49 votes last week.

“The measure would authorize the State Sweepstakes Commission to sell betting cards on all team sporting events, except those in New Hampshire.”

Ah, betting cards; what a quaint little world we lived in.

MAY 14, 1980 – “Two area high school soccer players will participate in the first Vermont-New Hampshire Lions Twin-State Soccer Game. Mike Testa of Wilton and Charlie Hogan of Hollis will be the are representatives to the inter-state contest. There will be 22 players from each state facing each other.”

If anyone out there has a t-shirt commemorating the first Vermont-New Hampshire Lions Twin-State Soccer Game, send along a photo so we can see how that title was made to fit.