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Local
Thursday July 15, 2010
Amherst Local business helps raise money Emeran Langmaid of A & E Coffee Roastery, Route 101A, presented a check for $950 to Rosie Garvey, of Amherst, for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Langmaid donated $1 for every pound of coffee sold during May, and her customers bought roses to help raise money.
Safe riding is focus of yearly Bike Rodeo
Local
Thursday June 24, 2010
HOLLIS – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says 52,000 people in the United States were injured when riding a bicycle in 2008. The Hollis Police Department wants to change this statistic, one biker at a time. The eighth annual Bike Rodeo will be held from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday at Hollis Primary School. Children younger than 14 are encouraged to bring their bicycles, scooters, helmets and safety gear to the event.
Fundraising ride/walk set for May 8
Local
Thursday April 29, 2010
Volunteers from Hollis, Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo and friends around the country are organizing the third annual bike ride and walk in memory of Hollis native Jonathan Gilmour, a former zookeeper at Zoo New England’s Franklin Park Zoo, who passed away at 29 in 2006. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Jonathan Gilmour Memorial Scholarship Fund, which awards annual grants to support the ongoing education and professional development of individual staff members at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass. The third annual Jonathan Gilmour Memorial Scholarship Fund Ride and Walk will be in Hollis on Saturday, May 8.
Beaver Brook gets new director
Local
Thursday March 11, 2010
HOLLIS – Drew Kellner, president of the Beaver Brook Association, announced that Fred Lyford will fill the executive director’s vacancy left when Cliff Simmonds resigned recently. Lyford, a retired Hollis businessman, is no stranger to Beaver Brook, having served on the association’s Board of Trustees for several terms.
Beaver Brook looks to expand with Whaleback property
Local
Monday February 1, 2010
HOLLIS – The Beaver Brook Association is currently raising money to purchase 80 acres adjoining its existing 1,850 acres in Hollis and Brookline. The Whaleback Property, consisting of four parcels off Rocky Pond Road, adjacent to the northern area of Beaver Brook, will represent the largest land purchase in 35 years for the BBA.
Local VFW post works hard for the community
Military
Wednesday January 13, 2010
Although the Hollis VFW Post is relatively new (founded in 1992) and small (48 members) with 7 members active, it does a lot for the community and veterans of Hollis and Brookline. Teaming up with the Brookline American Legion, the two organizations cover the two towns with great interaction as they have members who belong to both groups.
Military
Thursday December 3, 2009
HOLLIS – John W. Kowalski has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader Development and Assessment Course at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash.
Military
Thursday December 3, 2009
HOLLIS – Air Force Airman Jacob R. Boulay graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Selectmen sign Military Community Covenant on Hollis common
Military
Friday October 9, 2009
It was a beautiful night Sept. 14 as we all stood in the middle of the Hollis Common for the first signing of the Military Community Covenant to be held in a town in New Hampshire. There have been two covenant signings before Hollis.
Hollis Area High School class of 1975
Reunions
Thursday January 28, 2010
Hollis Area High School class of 1975 is planning its 35th reunion for July 31. Contact Sue Sommer Ballou at sballou@tds.net.
Reunions
Saturday January 23, 2010
Hollis Area High School class of 1975 Hollis Area High School class of 1975 is planning its 35th reunion for July 31. Contact Sue Sommer Ballou at sballou@tds.net.
Bus practice run for Hollis K-1
Youth-Education
Monday August 23, 2010
HOLLIS – One of the most exciting aspects of entering elementary school is the anticipation of riding the bus to school like the big kids. Hollis Elementary kindergarten and first-grade students will be able to sample that thrill, courtesy of a program sponsored by the Hollis Woman’s Club and the Hollis Elementary Parent Teacher Association. On Tuesday, Aug.
Exchange student headed to local school
Youth-Education
Thursday August 19, 2010
Responding to a call for help from the Hollis Brookline Rotary Club, more than six Brookline and Hollis families stepped forward to open their homes to a high school junior from Phuket, Thailand, who will attend Hollis/Brookline High School during the coming year. Jekita Suhiranyawanich arrived in Hollis in mid-August.
Hollis woman receives NDA Medallion Award
Youth-Education
Wednesday August 11, 2010
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. – The Academy of Notre Dame has selected five local leaders as recipients of its Medallion Awards for Leaders of Distinction for the third consecutive year. The award ceremony will be Friday, Sept.
Youth-Education
Thursday May 13, 2010
American University Mollie Garber, of Hollis, was named to the fall 2009 dean’s list at American University in Washington, D.C. Berklee College of Music The following local students were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester at Berklee College of Music in Boston. FROM HOLLIS: Molly Furlong FROM HUDSON: Kyle Lambert. FROM MERRIMACK: Jennifer Allen. FROM NASHUA: Thomas Caminito. FROM WINDHAM: Alexander Abraham. Boston College Justin Wright, of Nashua, was recently inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society. He is currently a sophomore majoring in chemistry and math at Boston College.
Youth-Education
Thursday April 22, 2010
Hollis Skater performs with Olympians Anupama Rao, a ninth-grader at Hollis/Brookline High School, skated in the Skating Club of Boston’s annual ice show April 10-11 at the Harvard Bright Arena. Also appearing in the show was Olympic silver medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White, as well as U.S.
H/B Rotary Club meeting in Brookline now
Clubs
Monday August 30, 2010
BROOKLINE – After nearly 14 years of holding its weekly meetings in Hollis, the Hollis/Brookline Rotary Club, under the leadership of this year’s president, Dennis McMann, has moved its meeting location to Brookline. “We have for 14 years been the Hollis/Brookline Rotary Club,” said McMann, speaking after the club’s first meeting in its new location, “but we needed – and still need – to do more to make sure that we recognize the involvement and the importance of both of our towns in all we do.” The move to Brookline was made possible by Ron and Kathy Pelletier, owners of the Brookline Event Center on Route 130, near the Hollis line.
Hollis Democrats Reoganization Meeting; Your Input is Valuable
Clubs
Wednesday March 10, 2010
The Hollis Democrats will next meet on Monday, March 22, at the Hollis Social Library meeting room. Dinner is served at 6 p.m., the meeting begins at 7 p.m. Reorganization of the Hollis Democrats is almost complete.
Trip to NYC Sponsored by the Hollis Woman’s Club!
Clubs
Monday March 1, 2010
The Hollis Woman’s Club is sponsoring a spring bus trip to New York City on Saturday, June 5th and it is open to everyone! For $60 you get a round trip luxury bus ride, map and guidebook, bus gratuity and surprises! The bus leaves the exit 6 Welcome Center at 6am and returns by midnight. The day is your own to plan, but you’ll have plenty of time to see a Broadway show matinee, shop, or sightsee.
Hollis Rotary Club works on Katrina project
Clubs
Friday February 26, 2010
HOLLIS – Hurricane Katrina is just a memory in New Hampshire, but in Pass Christian, Miss., citizens still live with its effect every day. This Gulf Coast town of 6,500 people was wiped out by the worst storm ever to hit the area. Hollis/Brookline Rotary, together with 28 other Rotary clubs in New Hampshire and Vermont, joined forces with the Pass Christian Rotary and with a Rotary club in New Zealand to help with the reconstruction. With 32,000 clubs around the globe, Rotarians pull together to help when disaster strikes. When the late Dr.
Hollis/Brookline seniors ready to take wing
Columnist
Monday June 21, 2010
This morning, I was sitting on my front porch peering into the sunlight sparkling on the water that lay in front of me. As I enjoyed the first morning of my summer vacation, I noticed a mother duck and her ducklings, waddling along the shoreline, one after another. On June 12, Hollis/Brookline High School’s class of 2010 similarly marched to the stage where our diplomas awaited us. In the words of senior Russell Curry, it was a “surreal experience.” And as many of us look back on the day, one thing comes to mind: the soggy weather that fell over the lacrosse field that day.
HBHS seniors go white-water rafting on class trip
Columnist
Sunday June 13, 2010
Smiles engulfed the faces of seniors and staff members, while laughing and the screeches of exhilaration permeated the air as they traversed rapids and the rush of water, and bonded as a class. These were the white-water rapids of the Kennebec River in Maine, the location of the Hollis/Brookline High School class of 2010’s senior class trip for white-water rafting. The senior class began their excursion at the Moose River Outpost in Jackman, Maine.
HBHS celebrates the weather – and seniors – with Aloha Luau
Columnist
Monday June 7, 2010
Hot weather has officially dawned on Hollis/Brookline High School, bringing heat waves into the already humid hallways. Students are buzzing with anticipation for summer vacation, waiting anxiously for the end of the school year. In the meantime, however, activities are being held to celebrate the sun – such as Field Day, powder puff football and, on Saturday, the first Aloha Luau. Hosted by the Culinary Club, the luau was planned as a summer-based party to take place in a Hawaiian setting. Scheduled activities were limbo challenges, hula-hoop contests and live music, as well as an original menu planned by the cooking club.
HBHS says goodbye to an honorable man
Columnist
Sunday May 23, 2010
Inside the school, into the main office and past the front desk is a wooden door on the left where a man of great authority changed Hollis/Brookline High School from just a school to a building where everyone is treated like family. Now, the man who made a difference at Hollis/Brookline High School is saying goodbye. Principal Tim Kelley is leaving the job open for someone else. Who will it be? Is Hollis/Brookline ready for a new principal? What will he or she be like? The answers to all these questions will be unknown to the students until next year.
Color option would make ‘Cav Chron’ a keepsake
Columnist
Sunday May 16, 2010
The “Cavalier Chronicle” is the monthly Hollis/Brookline High School newspaper that covers stories from sporting events to club activities. But for the staff members who put it together, it’s much more. A lot of time and effort go into every issue, and for the upcoming June issue, this group of students is planning something big – and something never done before.
Spader drove at school with weapons in car
Local
Friday September 3, 2010
HOLLIS – Police found a knife and shotgun inside a car Steven Spader was driving at the town high school, five months before the murder he is accused of committing in Mont Vernon, according to a police report. Spader was pulled over by Hollis Police Officer Katherine Walsh on Broad Street near Monument Square around 11 a.m. Thursday, May 14, 2009. Officer Tracey Dunne had previously spotted the blue Mazda driving around the Hollis/Brookline High School campus.
Mold has no hold on school in 2010
Local
Thursday September 2, 2010
HOLLIS – What a difference a year, and a new energy-recovery ventilation unit, make. A year ago, after mold was discovered on the lower level of the Hollis Upper Elementary School, the sixth grade classrooms and learning labs were relocated to other parts of the building. Some classes met in the library.
Help is
in store for store owner
Local
Wednesday September 1, 2010
HOLLIS – Brian Spence, the 53-year-old owner and operator of the Hollis Grain & Hardware Store on Broad Street, has always been a go-to man. Whether it’s a horse person or a dog owner, a farmer or a do-it-yourselfer, people here usually find what they’re looking for when they visit Spence. But when it comes to getting what they need, it’s not just customers who have Spence’s number. The winter that Sue Yamamoto’s late husband, Tony, spent at a Boston hospital, for example, following a freak accident that left him a quadriplegic, Spence was the one who showed up every time it snowed. “I’d come home and the walk was plowed,” Yamamoto said. “It was Brian.” It was the same after Keith Adamyk, a local builder, hurt himself on a construction job.
Man held after car chase and arrest
Local
Wednesday September 1, 2010
HOLLIS – A Massachusetts man fled from Hollis police on foot after he was chased at high speeds in his car early Sunday morning, police said, and he now faces multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. Daniel Stevens, 29, of Sawmill Drive in Dracut, Mass., is being held at the Valley Street jail and faces felony charges of possession of a narcotic drug and receiving stolen property. He was also arrested on misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated, third offense; driving after revocation; disobeying a police officer; resisting arrest; and possession of drugs in a motor vehicle. Sgt.
State, hark: Silver Lake Park tarnished
Local
Saturday August 28, 2010
HOLLIS – The town and state are at odds over how to deal with broken picnic tables, lingering trash, a 5-foot-deep hole covered with old boards, and weeds left untrimmed along the water’s edge at Silver Lake State Park. State officials say the park is one of 92 properties owned and operated by the Division of Parks and Recreation, and isn’t the only one where routine maintenance has been deferred for years because of an absence of funding. Town Administrator Troy Brown says he isn’t convinced that a lack of money is the only cause of the problem. Earlier this week, when three officials from the state Division of Parks and Recreation met with selectmen, Brown blamed poor management and a weak work ethic. “Who’s responsible for inspecting it?” Brown wanted to know. “Why is grass growing on the beach and why hasn’t anyone trimmed along the guardrails or picked up the trash?” Brown said it looks like the seven college-age students hired by the state to maintain the park aren’t doing their jobs. Instead, he said, employees are hanging out and socializing. “It’s real basic, simple stuff,” Brown said.
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