1985
CLAREMONT
Claremont Junior High School students on the high honor roll for the third quarter include Lisa Bourque, Julie Beckman, Cory Belden, Evan Brinson, Michael Frailer, Susan Gold, Christopher Hawkins, Judy Silvers and Kristin Trepanier, Grade 7, and Richard Buckley, Christine Beckman, Michael Cahill, Ellen Demers, Lee Hentschel, Matt Islam, Stanley Karpinski, Michael Kierstead, Debra Langevin, and Kenneth Lemire, Grade 8.
Vic St. Pierre and Paul Judd scored four goals each to give the Crushers a15-9 victory over WHDQ in the championship game of the Nick Marro Jr. Indoor Soccer Tournament Sunday afternoon. Leo Lawrence scored five goals for WHDQ but it wasn’t good enough. The game was played at the Goodwin Community Center.
At least100 people attended the Fiske Free Library fundraising cocktail party Saturday evening. A trust fund honoring Robert B. Buckley has been established and a brass plate has been mounted on wood with his name, which will be on display in the library entrance room, was presented to his widow, Mrs. Buckley, who was accompanied by her son Robert B. Buckley Jr. The fund will be used to purchase new computer disk music recording equipment.
Cited by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company as regional sales leaders were staff manager Joseph L. Choquette Jr., Claremont, and agents Richard N. Pariseau, Newport, and Anthony DiPadova, Sunapee.
Sullivan Machinery Company has submitted to the city a payment schedule to pay off its delinquent 1984 property taxes. The firm, which owes $288,836, almost a third of the city’s $940,203 of delinquent taxes, sent a five-part payment plan that would retire the debt by May 1, 1986.
NEWPORT
The Newport Revitalization Committee in response to criticism of the need for rehabilitated, subsidized housing for the Newport needy, voted unanimously Monday to support the program. They skirted the idea of supporting a program of new construction to provide such housing. The committee voted in answer to critics, at the last selectmen’s meeting, when proposals to renovate the Eagle Block and other properties on Sunapee Street and Cross Street were discussed. A number of critics are from Guild, where an apartment house subsidized by state and federal funds, was said to be attracting too much attention of the police. Virginia Irwin of the revitalization committee led an attack on the critics of the need for subsidized housing, claiming she doesn’t like the “constant barrage against the poor.” She said some in Newport are trying to attract members of a labor force for a growing town, but “want no place to house them.
Christine Luck, 16, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Luck, Keene Road, Newport, has been selected to compete in the seventh annual New Hampshire Miss T.E.E.N. Pageant to be held July 12-14 at the Sheraton North County Inn in West Lebanon. She is sponsored by Carpet World Inc., Newport Lions Club, Shoeeast, Roland and June Gagnon, Derby’s of Newport, Sugar River Savings Bank, McCrillis and Eldredge Insurance, Newton-Bartlett Funeral Service, Harrington’s Jewelers, Nelson’s Hardware, Gloenco of Newport, Carol and Lloyd Dutton and her parents.
UNITY
Sandra LaPointe, interim supervisor of the Sullivan County House of Corrections since March 15, was appointed supervisor of the county jail Wednesday after two of the county commissioners decided they could not meet the salary request of job applicant Frederick Domini. Commission Chairman Sydney Clarke said the job was initially offered to Domini but he refused it at the proposed $18,378 salary. According to Clarke, Domini sent a letter to the commissioners requesting that the job’s salary begin at $20,261 and go up to $21,275 after a 90-day probationary period.
LEMPSTER
Two students received high honors on the third quarter honor roll at Goshen-Lempster Cooperative School. They are Stephanie Faulkner, Grade 7, and Barbara Harrison, Grade 8.
SUNAPEE
Photo Caption—Headed for the semifinals, this Sunapee High School team beat a team from Sant Bani last week on the Granite State Challenge. Team members, seated from left, Dean Miller, William Ashford, Bethuel Hunter and Shaun Hekking. Alternates, standing, are Ryan Kangas, Tom Lohman, Matt Duggan and Tim McGinnis.
CHARLESTOWN
The State Supreme Court sided Friday with the Public Utilities Commission against the owners of the Cheshire Toll Bridge who wanted to double the toll. The PUC allowed the tolls for cars and motorcycles to rise from 20 cents to 25 cents.
1965
CLAREMONT
A two-man team, comprising Health Officer Dr. Wilson Haubrich and Fire Chief Paul Lovejoy or one of his deputies Friday will begin inspections of dwellings, which may be substandard, City Manager George Benway said today. Benway’s announcement came on the heels of a Daily Eagle picture page and editorials on the deplorable conditions in an apartment building on Factory Street, discovered by the newspaper after a family of seven had been driven out by a fire.
Miss Susan Henault, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Henault of 86 Charlestown Road, Claremont, was one of 19 students at Keene State College named to the President’s List of Honors for the first semester. Miss Henault was a 1963 graduate of St. Mary High School and was valedictorian of her class.
Rep. Ruth Hamilton, Claremont Democrat, is working on legislation, which would establish a one-cent tax on each bottle of beer and each can of beer sold in New Hampshire. The money would be used to help defray the cost of picking up highway litter throughout the state.
NEWPORT
Carol Sue Morgan will continue her education after graduation from Towle High School in June in the Mary McClellan Hospital, Cambridge, N.Y. where she will take a two-year course in x-ray technician work. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Morgan, Laurel Street. She is employed by the Newport office of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Walker & Koski, television and appliance sales and service firm is moving this week from 9 South Main St. to the shopping center on John Stark Highway. In the new quarters, with increased floor area available, the firm will offer a larger line of appliances. Charles H. Walker Jr. and Aaro O. Koski established the firm in 1953 on lower South Main St., and moved to the present quarters six years later.
John E. Sideris, Claremont, former principal of Towle High School, has been granted a leave of absence by the Claremont School Board to accept an appointment by Gov. John W. King as a representative of the state under the Economic Opportunity Act. Mr. Sideris is chairman of the social studies department at Stevens High School, Claremont.
SPRINGFIELD
The committee appointed to buy a fire truck went to Woodsville, Mass., last weekend to inspect trucks. The committee includes Malcolm Patten, Donald Heath, Justin Nichols, Dennis George and Fred Davis. They purchased a 1950 Ford F700 commercial-made vehicle.
CROYDON
Lawrence Darling, who has been driving the school bus for Croydon for the past 13 years, will not transport the children to school this fall. Mr. Darling started with a 28-passenger bus.
SUNAPEE
Committee members of the Sunapee High School Alumni Association have been named by Mrs. Albert Putonen, president. They are Mrs. Stanley Cutts, Mrs. Charles Boyce and Mrs. Luther Weigle Jr., banquet; Mrs. Alfred Dashner, Mrs. William Austin and Miss Linda Gardner, nominating, and Mrs. Albion King, new member of the scholarship committee.
LEMPSTER
Mr. and Mrs. Camille DeCook are moving to Newport. They have sold their Keyes Hollow property to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Fowler of New York.
1950
CLAREMONT
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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Monetta of 65 Mulberry St. will leave by plane tomorrow from Logan International Airport at Boston for a two-month visit to Italy, their homeland. The couple plans to spend about 10- days touring Rome before traveling further to visit with Mr. Monetta’s brothers and sisters in Potenza, a central city in the southern part of the country.
Master Sgt. Rocco A. Zullo, USMC, of 12 Fremont St., visited three continents during February while serving as a crewmember aboard the heavy cruiser USS Newport News. All hands were afforded an opportunity for liberty and recreation when scheduled calls were made to Augusta, Sicily; Taranto, Italy; Tripolio, North Africa, and Beirut Syria.
Delegates and alternates to a Northeast Moose pre-convention meeting at Newport June 2 and 2 were named at a meeting of Claremont Lodge 1201, Loyal Order of Moose, here last night. Delegates will be Vernon Whitcomb, Earl Northey, Leslie Hunt, Edward Gaudette, John Patch, Armand Grenier and Reuben Leahy. Alternates named were William Mullen, Henry Drapeau, Thomas Nelson and Walter Granger.
NEWPORT
Richards Junior High School will present its annual operetta at 8 Thursday night at the town hall under the direction of Joseph Hearne, school music director. Titled Jerry of Jericho Road, the story is a musical presentation in two acts. Cast members are John Newton, Herbert Bugbee, Virginia Rollins, David Prince, Nancy Shepard, Ilona Siren, David Vosburg, Rodney Colasacco, Virginia Rowe, Bernice Elgar and Richard Buglar. Chorus members are Marilyn Arlin, Elaine Berry, Joanne Blomquist, John Butler, Mary Butler, June Childs, Avis Clark, Brant, Clark,. Marina Coidakis, Karlene Cuthbert, Mary Demayo, Floriane Desrosier, Rita Geoffrion, Marilyn Glazier, Barbara Hamel, Joyce Hamel, Katherine Hinze, Susan Johnson, Dorothy Jubb, Shirley Kendall, Barbara LaPointe, Loretta Lemay, Mary Marcotte, Donald Morrow Arlene Mountain, Joanne Neimi, Janice Pevine, Virginia Rowell, Evelyn Sherman, David Smet, Shirley Surrell, Robert Surrell, Hugh Tait, Catherine Whitney, Eleanor Winter, Janice Woodhull, Joan Woodhull, Roberta Woodhull, Wallace Murgatroy, Cynthia Pollard, Janet Rollins and Myrna Smith.
LEMPSTER
Students scoring 100 percent in arithmetic Thursday were Lawrence Drew, Francis Schulenberger, Kathleen George, Judith Belanger, Janet Nichols, John Wirkkala, George Hodskins, Katherine Wirkkala, Edward McCullough, Ralph Wilson, Rose Whipple, Terry McCullough, Caroline Walch, Virginia Martin, Robert Wilson, Rodney Ballou and Jon Locke.
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