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Former UNH Head Coach Bill Herrion added Stonehill Basketball Staff
Former New Hampshire head coach Bill Herrion has been named as an assistant basketball coach at Stonehill University. Herrion has spent 32 seasons as a D1 head coach, serving at UNH (2005-23), East Carolina (1999-05), and Drexel (1991-99). He holds a career mark of 464-472 (.496), with his best stretch coming at Drexel, where he went 167-71 (.702) during his eight seasons at the helm. The veteran coach also worked as an assistant for Mike Jarvis at both Boston University and George Washington. Tagged with: NEC Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Related Posts Chicago State Basketball Staff Update Stonehill...
Names to Know: Meet the Seacoast business professionals receiving recognition
EXETER — MVSB (Meredith Village Savings Bank) welcomes Kelly Geary as Branch & Business Development Manager to oversee the Bank’s new Exeter Office at 2 Meeting Place Drive. The branch is currently under construction and set to open in July. “Kelly’s banking experience, dedication to fostering strong community...
HRCU coming to Greenland, Confident Med Spa opens in Rochester: Seacoast business news
GREENLAND – HRCU, a community credit union founded as Holy Rosary Credit Union in Rochester, N.H. in 1962, announces it will open a new full-service branch in Greenland, N.H. in early fall 2024. Located within a new, mixed-use building at 603 Portsmouth Avenue, the new branch will be next to the Greenland Post Office on Route 33.
Exhibits, galleries, theater and more: Seacoast arts and culture news
PORTSMOUTH — Strawbery Banke Museum announces “Tuneful Treasures - Discovering Musical Instruments in American Collections,” a lecture by Darcy Kuronen, Former Curator of Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts. The event occurs in the Lawrence J. Yerdon Visitors Center, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, on Thursday, July 25, from 6-7 p.m. Tickets cost $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers and are available in advance online via Strawberybanke.org/connolly-speaker-series.
MDP Motorsports Promotions and The Racing Guys Present: Racers Honoring Racers 76
Walpole NH – July 3, 2024** – MDP Motorsports Promotions and The Racing Guys are excited to present the highly anticipated “Racers Honoring Racers 76” event this Saturday, July 6th, at the renowned Star Speedway in Epping New Hampshire. This electrifying event will feature the Cars and Stars of Open Modified Racing, competing in an intense 76-lap showdown with a lucrative $7,600 prize for the winner.
Here's where Portsmouth Booma Post 6, Exeter Post 32 stand after Seacoast clash
EXETER — The Portsmouth Booma Post 6 American Legion baseball team is on a roll. Booma picked up its sixth win in a row by defeating Exeter Post 32, 9-0, on Tuesday at Phillips Exeter Academy. Portsmouth improved to 11-1 on the season, not counting two non-league wins over Massachusetts teams. Exeter fell to 4-6. ...
Phil Parker Commits To Franklin Pierce
The '03 from Medfield, MA began his junior hockey career with the Express Hockey Club in the Eastern Hockey League Premier (EHLP), back in the 2021-22 season. Parker jumped up to the Eastern Hockey League (EHL) with the Express in the 2022-23 season, and then played out this past year with Providence.
N.H. firefighter keeps charity baseball streak alive
SALEM, N.H. — Salem firefighter Colton Houle has kept a streak alive for more than a decade which he doesn’t see stopping any time soon. The 10-year veteran of Salem Fire Department will swap his firefighting helmet for a baseball one as he gears up to raise funds and play shortstop in this year’s Special Olympics Heroes Cup.
Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Matt Nakoa To Return to Park Theatre This Month
Back by popular demand, upstate New York prodigy Matt Nakoa will return to Jaffrey’s Park Theatre stage on Saturday, July 13 at 7:30pm touting a newly released CD "Antique Pieces.” Matt Nakoa is an internationally known singer/songwriter/instrumentalist, appearing at The White House and touring regularly with folk icon Tom Rush. Tom is quoted as saying, “Matt makes me sound much better than I really am. The crowd loves him,” -Tom Rush.
Wildcats Attending NHL Development Camps
DURHAM, N.H. – University of New Hampshire junior forward Cy LeClerc (Brentwood, N.H.), senior captain Alex Gagne (Bedford, N.H.), sophomore forward Ryan Conmy (Alexandria, Va.), sophomore defenseman Brendan Fitzgerald (North Reading, Mass.), sophomore forward Marty Lavins (Riga, Latvia) and freshman forward Ryan MacPherson (Windsor, Ontario) are on National Hockey League Development Camp rosters taking place from July 1-7. The development camps feature top prospects who will participate in team meetings, off-ice testing, on-ice sessions and scrimmages.
ARMI secures grant to help biofabrication research in Manchester
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, known as ARMI, will receive a $44 million grant to advance biofabrication science in Manchester. U.S. Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen were at the Regen Valley Tech Hub in Manchester on Tuesday for the announcement. Officials...
Former Vermont basketball star lands spot in NBA
T.J. Sorrentine is headed to the National Basketball Association. The former Vermont basketball star famously known for that shot from the parking lot in the 2005 NCAA Tournament has accepted a gig on the Washington Wizards bench, the Providence Journal reported on Wednesday. Sorrentine, who spent 16 seasons at Brown,...
School district drops challenge against former business administrator
LACONIA — The city’s school board will no longer fight a decision that a former employee was wrongfully denied pay for unused vacation time, ending a legal battle that started with her firing more than two years ago. Christine Blouin, then-business administrator for the school district, was fired...
Windham teen receives Gold Award Girl Scout Scholarship
WINDHAM, N.H. — A Windham teen became the only person in New Hampshire and Vermont to win the Gold Award Girl Scout Scholarship this year. Sarah Zachas, 18, was awarded $5,000 for her work building a pollinator garden at Moeckel Pond and teaching the public about protecting pollinators. Zachas...
30 new condos part of big housing project in Rochester
ROCHESTER — Thirty condominiums in five new buildings may soon be added at 86 Church St., where plans also call for upgrading 12 existing apartments into condos. The city Planning Board on Monday night voted to advance the project, which will total 42 condo units, according to Scott Lawler of Norway Plains in Rochester, the engineer for the project. The development is being proposed by Stabile Companies of Nashua.
The Ridge in Rochester offers free movies, fun summer events: Here's the schedule
ROCHESTER — The summer entertainment schedule is set for The Ridge Marketplace shopping plaza's lawn, a community gathering space offering free events for all ages. Bounce & Splash & Entertainment will be offered Wednesdays, July 3 to Aug. 21, noon-3 p.m.: Rochester Recreation will offer Toddler Playgroup Fridays, July 5, Aug. 2 and Aug. 16, 9:30-11 a.m.
RiverWoods returns with revised health center plan: Neighbors call it a ‘monstrosity’
EXETER — RiverWoods is moving forward with a revised plan to construct “a new state-of-the-art” health center along Jolly Rand and Kingston Drive. The continuing care retirement community went before the town’s Planning Board on Thursday, June 27, for a preliminary conceptual consultation on the proposed three-story building. The proposed 158,000-square-foot building will replace...
New England College Hosts over 500 Executive Master’s Students for Summer Residency
In June, New England College hosted over 500 students from the College’s executive master’s degree programs for their summer residency weekend. These programs include Business Administration, MBA; Data Science and Analytics, MS; Information Technology and Cybersecurity, MS; and Information Technology Project Management, MS. NEC’s executive master’s programs are...
Birds found an improbable home next to a Market Basket parking lot. Now they’re gone.
Caelin Graber is now banned from entering the Market Basket grocery store in Milford, so she has to conduct an interview from across the street. “This was my Market Basket that I shopped at regularly,” she says, ducking into some shade on a recent sunny afternoon. Nearby, cars and...
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