It all began several years ago at the indoor sports center of the Souhegan Valley, Milford’s Hampshire Dome. Little did anyone know that when Elisabeth Jacob’s parents signed her up when she was 5 years old for a preschool indoor soccer program at the popular facility that a budding ...
NASHUA – Practice makes perfect. The problem is, at Rivier University, that’s all their athletic teams can do this fall. But it’s better than what happened last spring, when all the seasons were scrapped and the campus shut down due to the pandemic. Now, there are students on ...
NASHUA – There are all sorts of little details that get recalled here and there about a championship season that often get overlooked. There’s no one better than one of only two people still in the area from the Nashua Pride 2000 Atlantic League of Professional Baseball championship team ...
Sometimes, winning one championship in a season isn’t enough. Sometimes, you need two. That was James Lofton’s thinking back in the late summer of 2000, when, after winning a title with the Tri-City Posse of the independent Western League, he sought to do the same thing with the ...
The games are few, so the expectations may be many. That’s the look of local high school boys soccer this fall. With a shorter preseason, fewer games and an open tournament, teams can use the time to work out the kinks with no pressure moving toward late October-early November. It’s a ...
NASHUA–- It’s a long way across the pond. But for one local coach, it was a trip worth taking. Some 20 years ago, a former soccer standout in England made a life-changing decision. Then, a young Winston Haughton, convinced by a couple of UK colleagues who would become business partners, ...
NASHUA – Cam Cook and Kyle Jackson were sitting in Cook’s Holman Stadium office back in April. The pandemic was raging. Things were being canceled right and left. But there they were, Cook, the first-year Nashua Silver Knights general manager and Jackson, their first-year manager, going ...
NASHUA - For Nashua residents Bill Provost and Jeff Margolis, there was never a question about participating in this year’s Pan-Mass Challenge. The reimagined, virtual event meant that riders would reinvent how they rode. And that’s exactly what Provost and Margolis did. On Aug. 1, more ...
NASHUA – The Nashua Silver Knights pitching staff is a mix of familiar names and new ones. And, it’ll be a mix of a few innings here and a few innings there. That’s because, well, they have a ton of arms. As many as 20 as they prepare to open the abbreviated Futures Collegiate League ...
They’re back. Yes, in these pandemic-dominated days, we have a Silver lining. The Futures Collegiate Baseball League, including the Nashua Silver Knights, actually pulled it off. On Thursday at 6 p.m., Holman Stadium will actually be the site of a game. Amazing. It certainly wasn’t ...
Ahhh, the Voice. It was arguably the best in Nashua, and when Bob Bates used those golden pipes and spoke into a microphone, people in the stands at Holman Stadium, Stellos Stadium, Conway Arena, and a few other spots always listened. Proof of that was when, as he recounted in an article he ...
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department completed its annual aerial stocking of remote trout ponds this past week. Fish and Game contracts for a helicopter to stock remote ponds across the Granite State, from the Sunapee Region to Pittsburg. During this one-day event, nearly 50 remote ...
NASHUA - The game of golf got another local boost when it was announced Sunday that registration is now open for the 60th annual Nashua City Golf Championship. The two-day tourney will be held Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26 at local courses Souhegan Woods in Amherst and Nashua Country ...
Here are a few tids and bits as we welcome in June, hoping it brings progress following all the rough times we’ve all experienced or seen experienced lately: – Now that we’re coming to the near end of the school year, the focus will soon be on the fall season possibilities for school ...
NASHUA – It’s beginning to look like there may be a Nashua Silver Knights and Futures Collegiate Baseball League season this summer after all. FCBL Commissioner Joe Paolucci told the Telegraph on Wednesday that perhaps there’s a 70 percent chance that the league can begin play sometime ...
NASHUA – American Legion baseball appears to be set to go in South Dakota this summer, despite not being sponsored by the National Legion Organization. So that begs the question: Why not other states, including New Hampshire? “Once National sent us the email saying they weren’t going ...
Here are some local and regional tids and bits for the pre-Memorial Day week: Over the weekend it was announced the New England Senior Hockey League was folding – in part due to the pandemic – leaving a lot of hockey players and teams out of luck, having already paid dues. But according ...
AMHERST – Like he hadn’t missed about a month and a half of the golf season, Steve Actis unloaded his golf bag, put on his shoes and made his way to the first tee for his 9:48 tee time on Monday morning. The first shot was right where he wanted it and he and his group were off and running ...
MERRIMACK – Military veteran’s cars lined up at the Anheuser-Busch on Monday, as the brewery partnered with Food4Vets to distribute meal kits for veterans and their families. Food4Vets is part of a partnership between USA for Veterans and Military and the Massachusetts Military Support ...
HOLLIS – For Neil Stone, teaching martial arts takes discipline and concentration. And as days turn into weeks with the COVID-19 crisis, reaching out to his students took some ingenuity and reinvention as he parlayed his classes into the virtual realm. Students at Neil Stone’s Karate ...