Friday, May 10, 2013
Exeter Patch wants to see athletes of all ages in action, so help us highlight your favorite teams!
Whether it’s on the baseball diamond, at the soccer field or during a flag football game at a local park, spring sports are underway around Exeter, and we want to help share all the great moments and highlights with the community! Patch is looking for athletes, coaches, parents, booster club members and fans who are eager to show their team spirit on Exeter Patch Here's how you can share news about your sports team this spring: 1. Post in the Local Voices section about your sports team: Share stats, recaps, photos and/or videos from the game in your own sports blog. Discuss the team, coaches and players with other fans in the community. Interested in blogging? First, you need to create a Patch account, or if you're already a Patch user, …
The Exeter High student was lost to suicide.
A group is organizing a race later this month in memory of Connor Ball, an Exeter High School student lost to suicide in 2011. The "A Will to Live 5K and Family Walk" will be held Sat., May 25 at Exeter High. Register for the event here. It's being organizing by Connor's brother and several Exeter High students. "Connor was an incredible person with a great future ahead of him," the group, named Connor's Climb, said in a statement. "Losing this gifted young man to an irreversible decision of suicide impacted the family, his friends and the community as a whole." Money raised through race registrations will go to suicide prevention programs in the state, the group said. The Will To Live Foundation is also helping organize the event. It was …
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Officials have taken measures to stop it.
Officials have closed the bathrooms at the Exeter Recreation Complex after they were vandalized. Town Manager Russ Dean said the bathrooms with damaged with a bunch of pine cones. The bathrooms will be reopened next month when the town pool opens, Dean said. The damage to the bathrooms is the latest in a series of vandalism incidents at the complex on Hampton Road. Last year, someone broke part of a stone monument for Daniel Healy, a Navy SEAL from Exeter who was killed in Afghanistan. The community raised money to fix the damage.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
All proceeds from the event will support the Exeter Elementary PTO.
A 5K road race will be held in Exeter next month. The "Get Fit in May 5K" will be held Sat., May 18 at the Lincoln Street School. All proceeds from the event will support the Exeter Elementary PTO. You can register for the event here. The event began in 1999 with the support of founding sponsor Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics. The race is USATF-certified. The race will also feature a health and wellness fair with a bunch of local vendors. There will also be live music, a rock climbing wall, demonstrations, food vendors and several other health-themed activities. "We look forward to this event each year," said Eric Cimon, of Access Sports Medicine. "With a focus on health and wellness and the participation of hundreds children and …
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
There are several memorial displays around town.
There are several memorial displays around Exeter honoring the victims of Monday's Boston Marathon bombings. Town workers dropped flags at Town Hall and Swasey Parkway, among other locations, to half-staff. A sign at the Sunoco gas station on Portsmouth Avenue read, "May God bless the Boston victims." Town Manager Russ Dean gave the following statement: Like many others we're remembering the victims of the bombing attack and those that were injured. Boston will come back stronger than ever from this and next year the marathon will set an attendance record. I have no doubt that will happen. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. If you have photos from memorials around Exeter, post them here by clicking the "Upload" button …
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There are several memorial displays around town.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Exeter resident Christopher Collier ran the Boston Marathon and was in the vicinity of a deadly bombing.
Christopher Collier, one of 13 Exeter residents who ran Monday's Boston Marathon, said he couldn't believe the loud pop he heard after he finished the race was a deadly bombing. "I thought it was a cannon or something for Patriots' Day," said Collier. "You don't think that a bomb went off." So far authorities have confirmed three people died and more than 150 were injured in two explosions near the finish line. No one has been arrested as of Monday afternoon. Collier finished the race in a time of 3 hours, 31 minutes—about a half-hour before the explosions. He said he was about 150 yards away from blasts. Collier said it was his second time running the marathon as part of a charity effort for Mass Mentors. Collier said he will not let the …
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Julie Benson said she was less than a half-mile from a deadly bombing.
An Exeter woman who ran the Boston Marathon on Monday said she's "grateful to be alive" after the deadly bombing. Julie Benson said she was less than a half-mile from the finish line when she heard a huge explosion. That explosion, which police said happened near the finish line, killed at least two people and injured dozens. "It was so awful and scary," said Benson, who ran the race to raise money for victims of the Newtown, Conn. shootings in December. Benson, a mother of two who works as a local guidance counselor, said she met a stranger who let her use his phone to call her husband and let him know she was safe. She made it out of the area in a bus and met up with her husband in Chelmsford before heading back home to Exeter. "I'm very…
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Julie Benson said she was less than a half-mile from a deadly bombing.
"Ambulances were jumping the curbs to get to the scene," said Eric Cimon.
ksardinas
3:38 pm on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
3 minutes 30 seconds.... that has to be a world record ;-) more ›