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Donation lets Passage players skate with a hockey sled
The Phillips Academy hockey players got creamed in this game, 13-1. No one seemed to care.
The game, a charity sled hockey game, was in good fun and came as a result of student hockey players raising money to buy a sled for a sled hockey team from Northeast Passage of Durham, N.H.
Sled-hockey competitions are games where disabled athletes play hockey on sleds rather than traditional skates.
Northeast Passage, founded in 1990, is a nationally recognized leader in innovative therapeutic recreation services for the disabled. The company is based at the University of New Hampshire's Durham campus and sponsors competitions.
Representatives from Northeast Passage came to Andover to get the sled and just couldn't resist challenging the students to a friendly game before leaving.
"We didn't know we were going to play hockey," said Eric Matlin, ice rink supervisor at PA. "We just thought we were giving them the sled."
However, PA students trying out for the girls' and boys' ice hockey teams traded in their skates for sleds for the surprise charity game against the much more experienced team.
"PA hockey players wanted to get them a new sled. Donations came in and it was great," Matlin said.
The event was a joint effort between the school's athletics and community service departments.
"Yeah, they smoked us," Matlin said, "but this loss was for a good cause."
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Scout brings new boardwalk to Pustell Reservation
Eagle Scout candidate Evan Doyle, 15, of Andover stands with Conservation Commission Project Manager Bob Decelle at the edge of a 60-foot boardwalk Doyle built that allows people to cross the Pustell Reservation to other green areas of town.
Move over Snookie! Andover has a brand new boardwalk in town.
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Andover's boardwalk story has a lot less drama than Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's reality TV show Jersey Shore, set on a New Jersey boardwalk. Here, it's all about an Andover teen who simply wanted to do something nice for his hometown. -
Pair return from four years at sea
After nearly four years of living afloat, Sara and Bob Knapp of 1 Woodland Road sailed back into their home port of Salem, Mass. earlier this month with their yellow labrador, Bentley aboard.
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The couple reported visiting 70 islands, representing 23 countries, 11 currencies and six languages. -
Dalton column: Readers recall the great storms of '54
"During the hurricane several huge pines fell across Abbot Street near where I lived as a girl. Fortunately, they fell on open space and no houses were damaged," wrote Margaret Blake in response to my column about the two summer storms of 1954. The first and more violent of the two storms was Hurricane Carol, which was the storm Margaret mentioned. It had top winds of 125 mph and was followed by the flooding rains of Hurricane Edna two weeks later.
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