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North senior named a top achiever
Youth-Education
Monday March 15, 2010
NASHUA – Samita Mohanasundaram, 18, a senior at Nashua High School North, was named by the Siemens Foundation as one of the nation’s top achievers in Advanced Placement science and mathamatics courses. “The Siemens Foundation is proud to recognize these outstanding students and teachers for their extraordinary accomplishments,” said James Whaley, president of the New Jersey-based Siemens Foundation.
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Food pantry donors won’t come up empty
Youth-Education
Monday March 15, 2010
MERRIMACK – A fundraiser that combines good art and good eats will be held in Merrimack to benefit local food pantries. The Merrimack High School art department and national art honor society has organized the fourth Empty Bowls event, in which participants buy a handmade bowl and fill it with locally made soup to help those in need.
Groups to make mark with cleanups
Youth-Education
Monday March 15, 2010
NASHUA – Nashua-area parks and community spaces are about to become a lot cleaner thanks to the efforts of local youth who were recently awarded start-up funding for their United Way-Youth Venture teams by successfully presenting their change-making ideas before a panel of volunteers at Nashua Community College. Urban ABC’s from Souhegan High School in Amherst and Team Make a Scene, a collaboration of students from Nashua Community College and Nashua High School South, both plan to help beautify their communities by contributing their energy and talents and engaging others to do the same.
Local students take top spots at regional MathCounts competition
Youth-Education
Thursday February 18, 2010
BEDFORD – On Feb. 6, 116 students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades from 18 schools competed in the 27th annual Southern New Hampshire Regional MathCounts competition at the McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford.
Scouts to become Eagles at ceremony
Scouts
Friday February 26, 2010
HOLLIS – An Eagle awards ceremony will be held at 2 p.m.
Longtime leaders in Troop 12 pass torch
Scouts
Wednesday February 24, 2010
HOLLIS – Scouting teaches leadership; Warren Coulter and Donna Cormier have modeled that well for Hollis Troop 12 Boy Scouts over the past two decades. This dedicated team provided hundreds of Scouts with opportunities and experiences and skills that will last a lifetime.
Scouts
Monday January 25, 2010
AMHERST – Matthew Becker, of Merrimack, a member of Boy Scout Troop 807 in Amherst, was presented with his Eagle award Saturday, Jan. 9, at a court of honor held for him at the Amherst Christian Church.
Kaklamanos Awarded M.S. in Civil Engineering
Scholars
Saturday January 9, 2010
James Kaklamanos, 23, of Nashua, has been awarded a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a concentration in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. His thesis is entitled “Model Validations, Comparisons, and Issues of the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Relations for Predicting Earthquake Ground Motions.
Scholars
Thursday October 29, 2009
University of Connecticut The following local students were named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. FROM AMHERST: Brian Eric Hynes, Jeffrey Richard Wenzel.
Adult Honors
Thursday December 24, 2009
NASHUA – Corrine Krycki, Nashua High School North health teacher, was recently awarded a N.H.
Volunteer coordinator wins Judith Lonergan Award
Adult Honors
Thursday October 22, 2009
NASHUA – To say that Norah Sutton, director of volunteer services at Hunt Community, was surprised when her name was announced as this year’s winner of the Judith Lonergan Award would be an understatement. Each year, the New Hampshire Association of Volunteer Administrators awards a member for their outstanding achievement in volunteer administration and is named in honor of Judith Lonergan.
Hudson teen wins achievement award
Adult Honors
Thursday October 22, 2009
HUDSON – Amanda Knightly, of Hudson, received the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2009 Robert Ross Personal Achievement Award for New Hampshire. Knightly, 19, was selected for the honor because of her personal and academic success and for serving as an inspiration and role model for others.
Academy for Science and Design honor roll, Q2, 2009-10
Honor Rolls
Wednesday March 10, 2010
The Academy for Science and Design in Merrimack has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2009-10 school year. HIGHEST HONORS Nathanael Caleb Avery, Joshua D.
Alvirne High School Honor Roll , Q2, 2009-10
Honor Rolls
Wednesday March 10, 2010
Alvirne High School in Hudson has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2009-10 school year. HIGH HONORS GRADE 9: Amanda Arnoff, Aaron Bellomo, Amelia Bois-Rioux, Rebecca Brin, Jose Bunag, Joshua Carter, Randy Colburn, Kayleigh Comer, Erin Craven, Michael DeMinico, Victoria DeRoche, Bryan Dube, Brandon Dumais, Jessica Dumas, Jeremy Dutil, Benjamin Emmons, Cheyenne Farnum, Heather Hardy, Tara Hardy, Amanda Ingersoll, Jedidiah Langlois, Daniel LeBourdais, Casey Leva, Susan Li, Miranda Liang.
Bedford High School Second Quarter Honor Roll, 2009-10
Honor Rolls
Wednesday March 10, 2010
Bedford High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2009-10 school year. HIGH HONORS GRADE 9: Nicholas Biedermann, Sam William Daly, Erika Davis, Linda Delahunty, Jessica Michelle Grill, Rachel Kassler, Kristen Elizabeth LaRosa, Jennifer Dee Leahy, George McMurdy, Tyler Murry, Kimia Nikseresht, Allison Nichole Soldau, Valerie Touba, Gautham Upadrasta, Daniel Scott Waldman, Matthew Phillip Weeks.
Scholarships
Thursday February 18, 2010
Amherst Garden club offers scholarships The Amherst Garden Club is offering two $1,500 scholarships to residents of Amherst or Mont Vernon who’ll be attending an institute of higher learning to study horticulture, botany, plant science, landscape design, environmental science as it relates directly to horticulture, or another related field. Applications are available from student services at Souhegan High School.
WSBE students awarded scholarships
Scholarships
Thursday December 3, 2009
Whittemore School of Business and Economics students recently won scholarships at University of New Hampshire at the WSBE annual Scholarship Award Ceremony held Sept. 25 at the Elliot Alumni Center on campus.
Scholarships
Thursday December 3, 2009
MERRIMACK – At the New Hampshire Public Television 2009 Women of Influence luncheon recently, University of New Hampshire Manchester student Meghan Marcus, of Merrimack, received the 2009 Charter Charitable Foundation Scholarship for Communications and Media Students and $2,500.
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