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Time Travel: Nashua’s Gondek leads Dodgers over Portsmouth

JUNE 22, 1960 – “Former Nashua High pitching star Tom Gondek last night pitched and hit the Nashua Dodgers to a 4-3 triumph over the Portsmouth City Club at Holman Stadium. “Gondek scattered eight Portsmouth hits and held the visitors scoreless until the eighth inning and at the same ...

Time Travel: Looking back at Nashua’s baseball roots

JUNE 23, 1965 – Fred Dobens' “Around the Town” column included an old Nashua ballplayer's response to a previous Dobens essay in which he recalled the earliest days of the city's baseball history: “One of Nashua's all-time favorite ballplayers, Leo Gauthier, whose pitching delighted ...

North-Souhegan hockey revolving coaching door must stop

Puck People, we have a problem. It looks like a big one. Let's face it, the Nashua North-Souhegan hockey co-op has been, well, a nightmare. A nightmare for Nashua athletic director Lisa Gingras, a nightmare for any of its coaches, and probably not as fun as it should be for its players and ...

Time Travel: Frank Stawasz opens Nashua lost and found

JUNE 20, 1945 – We begin with sports editor Frank Stawasz’s lost and found report: “Doug Cooke, Bowlaway first sacker, is currently wondering what became of his shoes and coat which he left lying on the sod at the North Common softball diamond while he played ball against the Laton House ...

Time Travel: Teaming up for 1955 Governor’s Cup at Nashua Country Club

JUNE 19, 1945 – “Playing good golf all the way, Walter Fergnani and Romeo Dion teamed up to win the Governor's Cup finals at the Nashua Country Club. They defeated the team of Dr. Robert Maxwell and A.D. Barnes, who for the second time in a row finish in the runners-up spot. “In 1944 ...

Reviewing season that wasn’t

It certainly was the spring of our discontent. We turn the page from The Season That Never Was, as summer begins this weekend. The tributes to the high school and college Class of 2020 have been far and wide. This weekend would have marked the official end to the New Hampshire ...