The spring season has officially begun for athletes at Manchester’s Central and West High Schools. Here’s a glance at this year’s outdoor squads from two athletics programs with a long history of spring success.
With no boys varsity team this year, the only vestiges of Manchester West High School’s once-great tennis program are seven varsity girls learning as they go.
Like their counterparts throughout the country, West High School’s spring athletes were denied a 2020 season due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This week, the Blue Knights ride again.
Dan Belliveau grew up skating against Central High School. The former Nashua High player, now head coach at Merrimack High School, said he saw glimpses Wednesday of the Little Green teams that used to give the rest of the state fits when his Tomahawks faced the Central/West co-op team at Manchester’s West Side Arena.
Principal Dichard manages the everyday challenges – and many changes – at West High School.
More than 50 English Learner students from Manchester High School West and Hillside Middle School shared their stories in art books they worked on over the past three months. The presentation was held at City Hall.
Career Day at West High School is happening March 14, 2019, and the public’s help is needed to make it a success.
Don’t panic. West High School will be the center of a mock-disaster training drill on Oct. 8.
The Board of Aldermen will hold onto $30,000 they designated for a pilot mentorship program at West High School rather than turn it over to the school committee, as requested.
Everyone’s a suspect until students participating in a crime scene investigation unit solve the crime.
If you have some time and some talent, please step up and share them with our students on Career Day.
School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas did his best to share with the Board of Aldermen the plan he is mapping out for the future of the district, one that is focused on achievement in a time of budgetary austerity.
A meeting set for Feb. 7 has been rescheduled for Feb. 20.
Prior to the formal meeting, West High School principal Rick Dichard will give a tour of the affected areas of the school at 5:15 for those who are interested.
New Hampshire Band Directors Association (NHBDA) executive board has named West High School band director Diane Francoeur the NHBDA Outstanding Band Director for 2016.
“If I hadn’t stopped on the bridge and found out the next day there had been a suicide, I would have felt very guilty. It would be awful to know I was there and could have done something.” – Desmond Powell, West High senior
Jamboree with community cookout and bake sale, Aug. 22 at West High School.
Mariel was nominated for the opportunity to join the Advisory Panel on Student Opportunity by her guidance counselor at West, Eli Glass. She is one of 16 student members who represent different regions of the country, come from various socioeconomic backgrounds, and are at different stages in their academic careers.
