1980 CLAREMONT Newly-returned from three months of study in Rome, the Rev. Hector LaMontagne is visibly impressed by the warmth and awareness of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy today. “It isn’t a bureaucracy without a heart, but just the opposite,” he said. “It offers easy accessibility and the men are not[Read More…]
Past Times
Saggiotes brothers purchase Newport House for $20,000
1980 CLAREMONT Media personalities stumping for presidential candidates is an ancient political strategy still popular in the 1980 campaign. But actor Martin Sheen who visited Claremont Thursday, gave the role a new twist in his support of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy…if you like me well enough maybe you’ll start thinking[Read More…]
Telephone service to be extended in Claremont-Newport area
1979 CLAREMONT Photo Caption—Stevens High School Drama Club will present two plays tonight at the school auditorium. The plays, directed by Thomas Everett, are “Diary of Adam and Eve” based on a work by Mark Twain, and an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adam and Eve, played by Erin[Read More…]
Claremont voters to decide what to do with extra Sweeps money
1979 CLAREMONT Photo Caption—Second-place finisher in the state, Lisa LeBlane, center, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis LeBlanc, 10 Glenwood Drive, receives congratulations from civics teacher Barry Levine and Stevens Annex Principal William Armstrong, left. Lisa was runner-up in an essay competition conducted by the New Hampshire Council on World[Read More…]
Towle High School grad is elected VP of UNH freshman class
1979 CLAREMONT Photo Caption—First graders are absorbed in choosing from a variety of books presented to them and their schoolmates at the annual North Street Book Fair this week. From left, Paul LaCasse, Dale Kenyon, Shawn Jarvis and Renee Wilcox, confer over their pick of books. Various book companies send[Read More…]
Richard Girard takes over Golden Cross Ambulance in Claremont
1978 CLAREMONT Airman Stacy J. Boutwell, son of June Boutwell, 27 Elm St., Claremont, has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas. Airman Boutwell is a 1978 graduate of Stevens High School. Photo Caption — Chairmen for the upcoming “Capers ‘78” production, sponsored by the Ladies Union[Read More…]
Claremont Police Commission recommends repeal of curfew law
1978 CLAREMONT A workshop on Stevens High School Project Challenge was presented by Claremont teachers at the sixth annual national conference on experimental education held Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 in St. Louis. Karol Richardson, Les Greene and Chris Bottinger gave two slide presentations on the Allagash Wilderness of Stevens[Read More…]
Varsity cheerleaders elected at St. Mary High School
1978 CLAREMONT Exhibiting a variety of talents, an impressive cast of 99 Claremont and surrounding area residents will stage “Capers ‘78” to benefit Claremont General Hospital. Claremont participants include Lynn Annino, Janet Arel, Sally Asanowicz, Joel Bass, Albert Belanger, Lisa Berdecki, Elbert Bicknell, Marilyn Blight, Carol Calkins, Don Chabot, Nancy[Read More…]
Nearly 50 percent of Sullivan County adults over 25 have not completed high school
1978 CLAREMONT In a special session Tuesday the city council approved a five-year lease agreement with the Arrowhead Recreation Area (ARA), which turns over the ski area’s equipment to the city in 109 years. The city has been in negotiations with ARA for the last several months trying to get[Read More…]
North Charlestown School gift valued at $700,000
1990 LANGDON They accepted the gift with a unanimous vote. The Fall Mountain Regional School Board voted 10-0 at its meeting at Fall Mountain Regional High School Monday night to accept the gift of an enlarged Farwell School in North Charlestown. Retired paper manufacturing company executive, Harvey Hill and his[Read More…]