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With strong senior leadership on the field and in the huddle, the Conant field hockey team is off to a promising start this fall under new head coach Sarah Graage.The Orioles picked up their first win of the year Thursday afternoon in Jaffrey with a...

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Mascenic is heading to Saturday's NHIAA Division IV softball championship after winning a soaking semifinal slugfest, 8-7, over No. 1 Woodsville Wednesday evening at Plymouth State. The No. 5 Vikings trailed 2-0 after three innings, as Mascenic...

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Conant and Mascenic qualified several athletes for the Meet of Champions during the rain-soaked NHIAA Division III track and field state championships at Sanborn. States began on Wednesday afternoon with torrential rain in the forecast. Some start...

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The Mascenic volleyball team may be 1-12 on the season, but every loss is an opportunity for the young Vikings. "I tell the kids, ‘It's not losing, it's learning,’" said first-year head coach Dominic Viglione after Monday night's three-set loss to...

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The one-win ConVal baseball team is nearing the end of a difficult season, and during Monday’s 15-5 loss to visiting Lebanon, head coach Matt Harris had to let his “rough edge” show.After a disastrous top of the third that saw the Raiders score six...

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ConVal softball’s seven-game streak was snapped Friday thanks to a dominant pitching performance from visiting Merrimack Valley, who shut down ConVal’s offense for the first time since early in the year.After dropping three straight to start the...

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Leah St. John’s sixth-inning homer punctuated a dominant Mascenic victory in Wilton Monday afternoon, as the Vikings snapped a two-game losing streak at the Warriors’ expense. “Coming back from two losses made us hungry to want to destroy them, really...

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After jumping out to a commanding early lead over rival Sunapee Thursday afternoon, the Wilton-Lyndeborough softball team faced one obstacle after another as the Lakers battled back and forced extra innings.But the Warriors never said die and ended...

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Newmarket showed up to Wilton for a Division IV baseball semifinal rematch on Monday afternoon, but the only similarities between last spring’s thriller and Monday’s tilt were the jerseys and the end result, a win for the Mules. “We put the ball in...

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The first meeting between the Conant and Mascenic baseball teams this season resulted in a thrilling 7-6 walkoff win for the Vikings thanks to an eighth-inning hit by Rowan Vautour. Friday’s rematch was a much different story, as Conant put the game...

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The Conant and Mascenic softball teams met under the sunny skies of New Ipswich Friday afternoon for another classic rivalry game which saw the Orioles come out on top of a 2-1 pitchers’ duel. “Nothing better than that,” Conant senior captain Rylee...

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The Conant track and field team began its title defense on Tuesday, and while the Orioles lost some key pieces from last year’s boys’ championship team, they should be right back in contention for the best in Division III.“A lot of people are looking...

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The promising, if shorthanded, ConVal boys’ tennis team put up a valiant effort in Tuesday’s season opener against Goffstown at Adams Playground, but the undermanned Cougars couldn’t overcome the hole in their ladder, losing 6-3 to the visiting...

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What started as an outlet for recent graduates to keep playing hoops has turned into a venerable tradition in Wilton, as the Wilton Men’s League celebrates its 50th year in action this spring. “We've been going 50 years,” said Walter Bausha, who...

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The lights in the Greenfield Meeting House dimmed and flickered as former Selectman Bob Marshall stood to speak, drawing a murmur from the 60 or so gathered townspeople, most of whom had experienced a power outage at their own houses during the past...

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When Linda Ruth and Greg Spitzfaden built their Peterborough home in the late 1990s, they also built in some good fortune. As avid practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, Ruth and Spitzfaden wanted to build a home that reflected their values and...

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Just a fraction separated Littleton and Mascenic at Thursday’s NHIAA Division III winter spirit championships at Pinkerton Academy, but once the dust settled, the Crusaders were out ahead of the Vikings to claim their record 10th title.It was the...

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Former MacDowell director Nancy Englander died last week at the age of 78.Englander served as director at MacDowell from 1977 to 1981, during which time she oversaw the stays of artists and writers the likes of Mary Higgins Clark, Miyoko Ito and...

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The Next Level Church has closed its doors amid allegations of bullying and financial misconduct by its leadership team.Somersworth-based Next Level Church, a subsidiary of the Association of Related Churches, had seven locations in Massachusetts,...

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The No. 8 Mascenic boys’ basketball team won their Division IV playoff opener against No. 9 Groveton Monday night, 66-52, behind a pair of 20-point performances by seniors Joe Cocozella and Dylan Barthel. “The Mascenic Vikings came to play like...