MLB Star Sam Fuld Stops by Exeter

The Tampa Bay Rays star was in town to play the Boston Red Sox.

VIDEO: Phillips Exeter Academy Welcomes New Students

The video was sent to students recently accept to the prestigious school.

Phillips Exeter Academy welcomed new students who were recently accepted in this video.

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Phillips Exeter Alum Sam Fuld Returns to NH

The Tampa Bay Rays outfielder helped the Seacoast Mavericks celebrate their first annual Hot Stove Dinner and Auction at Harbor Events Center.

The Seacoast Mavericks first Hot Stove Dinner and Auction was greeted with a lot of excitement and energy just a month after the Futures Baseball Collegiate League team announced they would call Portsmouth home. Boston Red Sox Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld, a Phillips Exeter Academy graduate, added even more buzz to the evening. "This is a great opportunity for a lot of people to do great things and do great things for this game," said Saltalamacchia referring to the money the dinner's guests would raise via the live and silent auctions for the Mavericks baseball scholarship programs. Fuld said being able to help the Seacoast Mavericks promote their team allowed him to come home. "Doing an event like …

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What's Going On at Phillips Exeter Lawn?

It's part of a unique new system.

Those huge green rigs on the Phillips Exeter Academy lawn are digging hundreds of feet into the ground to make way for an alternative energy system that the school says will give off less pollution. Crews are installing a geothermal system that will harness heat generated naturally underground. Plans call for 49 wells that will reach 400 feet underground, according to an overview of the project. A sketch of the project can be found above in the photos. A pump will push a glycol solution through a pipe system. The solution will be warmed by the earth and shoot back up to a mechanical system that will cool or heat Phillips Hall. The system is about 30 percent more efficient than a traditional heating/cooling system. There's no air pollution …

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IMAGES: 231st Phillips Exeter Graduation

It was held Sunday.

Abotu 300 students graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy Sunday during the prestigious private school's 231st graduation ceremony. Have photos from the ceremony? Post them here for everyone to see by clicking the "Upload" button.

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Olympic Dreams for Phillips Exeter Academy Rower

Deaglan McEachern is hoping to qualify for the Summer Olympics.

Deaglan McEachern said it takes 10,000 hours before someone can get really good at something and he has spent at least that much time rowing since he first took up the sport as a sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy in 2000. Twelve years later, the 28-year-old Portsmouth native hopes to qualify for the men's pair event at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London and it will all come down to how well he and his teammate on the U.S. National Rowing Team perform in the qualifying race on June 12 in Princeton, N.J., where the U.S. National Rowing Team trains. McEachern is confident he can achieve a time of 6:24 or less in the 2,000-meter rowing event. There will be as many as 12 two-man teams from across the country who always want to compete …

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Phillips Exeter to Test New Crosswalks

School officials want to make them safer.

Phillips Exeter Academy will soon test a new crosswalk system with enhanced safety features. The pilot program will be at the crosswalk near the Exeter Historical Society. Phillips Exeter will pay for it. If it's successful, it could be expanded to about a half-dozen other crosswalks around the Phillips Exeter campus. The new system will use a combination of LED lights and reflective signs, among other features. Currently, the crosswalk near the historical society has faded paint and a small, free-standing sign in the middle of the road. School officials devised the system over the last few months. Exeter Selectmen approved the pilot program Monday night. "It sounds like a good plan," said Selectman Frank Ferraro. "It's a step up from what…

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Jason Claffey

7:36 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Also I dug up this YouTube clip of a lighted crosswalk system in Mass. just as an example. It would certainly seem to get people's attention: http://youtu.be/LBhcDkWkBbk –The Editor   more ›

Climate Change Rally to be Held in Exeter

Phillips Exeter Academy is helping organize it.

The following is a news release: Phillips Exeter Academy’s chapter of 350.org and the town of Exeter will co-host a climate change rally on Saturday from 12 p.m.-2 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring bikes for an optional ride. The rally will be held at the Exeter Bandstand at 7 Front Street. All are invited to attend. To raise awareness about extreme weather events worldwide and the universal impact of climate change, members of 350.org will begin the demonstration at the bandstand, and then bike to nearby town halls to join other demonstrators and “connect the dots” between communities. The Exeter rally will be part of 1,000 events scheduled worldwide to “connect the dots” between the impact of extreme weather and global warming. …

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Phillips Exeter Academy Goes Bottle-Free

New water fountains were installed.

Sayonara, plastic water bottles. Phillips Exeter Academy last month did away with all plastic water bottles on campus in a sustainability initiative. Instead, the prestigious private school installed water fountains around campus where students and staff can fill up cups and reusable water bottles. The effort was organized by the school's Sustainability/Environmental Stewardship Office. it was done in conjunction with World Water Day. Under the new program, bottled water will no longer be sold at the school's "Grill," bookstore, vending machines, or served at any events on campus.

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Dan Brown to Attend Seacoast Event

He'll be in the area in May.

Bestselling author Dan Brown, who grew up in Exeter and attended Phillips Exeter Academy, will appear at The Music Hall in Portsmouth in May. He will be there May 18 to talk about writing, movie making, science, religion, and more in the first-ever benefit for Writers on a New England Stage.  Proceeds from the evening will help The Music Hall and New Hampshire Public Radio continue present their writers series. "As a big fan of both The Music Hall and New Hampshire Public Radio, I'm honored to help celebrate two organizations of such great local importance," Brown said in a statement. Brown was recently in Exeter to celebrate Water Street Bookstore's 20th anniversary. Following his on-stage discussion, Brown will talk to NHPR host Virginia…

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