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Your Grampa's WRX

Bill Maynard

WRX's Grandpa: Meet Superoo, America's first competitive factory-backed Subaru race car

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For this member of the Hemmings contingent that attended the 2012 AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet at Hershey, Pennsylvania, the highlight of Saturday's AACA show was seeing the spunky Superoo on display, sharing the field with some of the most beautifully restored and original-condition cars ever built.

This little front-wheel-drive two-door started life as a 1972 Subaru GL, and it was the first factory-backed, factory-financed, competitive Subaru race car in the United States, having been road-raced from new in a "development-through-racing" program. It remains…

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Five Things: Victoria Arlen Parade

Bill Maynard
by Jason Claffey


A parade for Victoria Arlen will be held in downtown Exeter at 10 a.m. Saturday. Arlen, a swimmer who attends Exeter High School, recently won a gold medal in the 2012 London Paralympics. Here are five things you need to know about the parade:

  1. The parade start will start at Pleasant Street and go over the Great Bridge through Water Street.
  2. The route will end at Swasey Parkway, where local officials…
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What is ... a Winner? Exeter Man Wins Jeopardy!

Bill Maynard
By Jason Claffey


An Exeter man won the popular game show Jeopardy!

Brendan DuBois, a novelist and former newspaper reporter, won the game back in July, according to Foster's Daily Democrat. His episode aired early this morning.

"It was a very surreal experience," DuBois told Foster's.

Foster's reported DuBois was leading going into the final round. Many of the questions focused on history and literature - topics that are in DuBois' wheelhouse.

His episode will air again Monday at 7:30 p.m. on WBZ-TV, according to Foster's.


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NH officer honored for rescue efforts in shootout

Bill Maynard

STRATHAM, N.H.-A New Hampshire police officer has been honored for rescuing two officers caught in the line of fire at a shootout that killed the Greenland police chief.

The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/NgAXzO) Police Officer Charles Law of Stratham was given the department's Medal of Valor on Monday.

During the April 12 shooting, Law drove his vehicle toward two wounded officers, pulled them into the cruiser as shots were fired and brought them to an ambulance.

The officers, University of New Hampshire Detective Eric Kulberg and Rochester Detective Jeremiah Murphy, were part of drug…

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Fund Set Up to Repair Damaged Memorial

Bill Maynard

 


A fund has been set up to pay for the repair of Daniel Healy's memorial after it was vandalized this week.

Police are still looking for the person of persons who smashed a porcelian photo of Healy, who died in 2005 when his helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan during a mission to rescue fellow soldiers under fire. He was 36 years old.

His mother, Natalie, was devastated when she learned that a porcelian photo of her son had been smashed up.

The repair fund has been set up at Citizens Bank in Stratham:

  • Dan Healy Memorial Fund
  • c…
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Motorcyclist Tries to Hit-and-Run, But Is Chased Down by Victim

Bill Maynard

Generally, hit-and-run incidents involve filing a detailed description of the offending vehicle in a report to the authorities and hoping the will be caught. In this case, though, a motorcyclist picked the wrong person to clip and then try to speed away from. They were not only chased down, but the whole incident was also caught on a camera mounted on the bumper.

According to the video's description on YouTube, a man on a "crotch rocket" was passing the driver of a 2006 Subaru WRX Limited going at…

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Paralyzed Exeter Teen Sets Swimming Records

Bill Maynard

She will compete in London, England this year.

By Jason Claffey

An Exeter teen dealing with a rare spinal cord condition that nearly took her life is making waves after setting a pair of U.S. Paralympic swimming records, according to WMUR-TV.

Victoria Arlen broke records in the 100- and 400-meter events. She will compete for Team USA this summer in the Paralympic Games in London, England.

"I'm just happy to go there," Arlen told WMUR.

Arlen, 17, currently attends Exeter High School. She has been dealing with her spinal condition since she was 11.

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New Hampshire Marine matures through deployments

Bill Maynard

5/23/2012  By Cpl. Katherine M. Solano  , 2nd Marine Logistics Group 

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.  - Some Marines spend their first enlistment or two hopping around bases and stations in the United States.  Some Marines will never even set foot outside of the 48 continental states.

One Marine with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, has done just the opposite in his short, action-packed seven-year career.

Sgt. Timothy Adamovage, a combat engineer with 8th ESB, has been stationed in Hawaii, toured in multiple countries in Southeast Asia, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and is currently biding his time…

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Maverick American Designer Behind Acrylic Furniture Craze

Bill Maynard
Written by  Jennifer Osborn Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 8:37 am
Neal Small strokes one of many plastic rats affixed to his Subaru. Anything is a vehicle for art, says the plastics designer whose work has been shown and collected by many museums. Neal Small strokes one of many plastic rats affixed to his Subaru. Anything is a vehicle for art, says the plastics designer whose work has been shown and collected by many museums. Jennifer Osborn

STEUBEN - Have you seen a black Subaru with black plastic rats affixed to its roof and hood tooling around Hancock County? Have you wondered who in the world is behind that wheel?

Well, the car belongs to retired designer Neal Small, described by The New York Times in the '60s…

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