So far, the debate over solving the school funding crisis has been characterized by more disagreement than consensus among the state's various business, civic and legislative groups. On one of the few dry fields in the state, the Winnacunnet High School softball team opened its 2001 campaign against Manchester West on Wednesday afternoon. The Warriors were the hosts in spirit, but it was technically a road contest for the Warriors as the game had shifted to Hampton due to an unplayable surface in Manchester. Wednesday afternoon's season-opening lacrosse game between Winnacunnet High School and Portsmouth left a good feeling all around.
All fights are dangerous and are an inappropriate means to resolve conflict.
And the mentality that combatants should be left to duke it out must end. Mass. Seven gay and lesbian couples, financed by the same group that sued for legal civil unions in Vermont, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn Massachusetts' ban on same-sex marriages. Karen Bonde's third-grade class at Dondero Elementary School in Portsmouth says the Pledge of Allegiance after their school receives a new American flag to hang on the school's pole. The students of the class wrote letters to the American Legion requesting a new flag. Don Poisson, commander of Frank E. Booma Post 6, holds the old flag after it was properly folded.