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• Town on default budget while school passes in Candia

  BY GRETYL MACALASTER Candia will operate for the third year in a row on a default budget after voters rejected the proposed budget by a vote of 454 to 339. Residents spent hours discussing the budget during the deliberative session of Town Meeting and Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:36 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, school district

• Candia School budget increased by voters

  BY DAN DeCONINCK Just one week after a grueling seven-hour Town Meeting, citizens of Candia reconvened at Henry W. Moore School for their second deliberative session. While the meeting on Jan. 31 was to discuss the town budget and other social programs, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:30 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, school district

• PTO letter draws fire

  BY TOBY HENRY Some Candia residents say they’re angry after a recent letter warning about “significant reductions” in the school budget was sent home with students. “I think it’s outrageous,” said Ingrid Byrd, the School Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:12 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, schools, school board, PTO

• Tight school budget plan cuts field trips

  BY TOBY HENRY Candia Budget Committee members and school officials sparred as the committee recommended a $7.31 million budget that some say cuts too close to the bone, possibly eliminating field trips and Minds in Motion. “As a taxpayer and resident, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:57 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, schools

• Candia asks state to be allowed to draw from reserve fund as expenses mount

  BY TOBY HENRY Candia selectmen and members of the Budget Committee are at odds after a 2008 budget shortfall prompted officials to seek permission for an emergency expenditure from the Department of Revenue Administration. On one hand, Budget Committee Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:12 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, selectmen, taxes

• Candia faces 10 percent budget increase for town

  BY TOBY HENRY Candia Budget Committee members say they’re bracing for some tough choices as they eye a potential increase of as much as 10 percent for next year. “Our comment to (department heads) was ‘if we have to cut the budget, where Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:18 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, Board of Selectmen

• Recycling key to keeping costs down

  BY TOBY HENRY Town officials say initial department head requests total some $2.35 million as they begin to look at the expenses in store for 2009-10. The first initial view of next year’s budget began on Sept. 13, as selectmen reviewed the budget Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:52 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Fire Department, police, budget, selectmen, transfer station

• Conservation funds may go toward fuel

  BY TOBY HENRY A Candia selectman said officials might consider tapping a conservation funding source in light of increased town expenses while some School Board members said they’re hoping to flatline their budget as much as possible. Selectman Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:19 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, selectmen, school board, fuel

• Summer rec program cut

  BY TOBY HENRY Candia officials say it could be the end of the road for the decades-old summer recreation program after rising fuel costs and a lean budget year made selectmen give the program the axe. Selectmen Chairman Fred Kelley said the program, which Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:57 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, recreation, summer, Kids & Family

• Candia town budget criticized

  BY JENN McDOWELL The 100 or so Candia voters who showed up for the deliberative session of Town Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Moore School struck a compromise between the proposed town operating budgets proposed by the Board of Selectmen and the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:07 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, budget, town meeting, Board of Selectmen

• Candia restrains school budget

  BY JENN McDOWELL Candia’s School Board and Budget Committee agreed on every single number in the 2008-09 proposed school operating budget for the second year in a row, the Budget Committee accepting the School Board’s budget as is at $7,486,408. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:19 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, budget, school board

• Voters will be asked to disband Candia Budget Committee

  BY JENN MCDOWELL Candia voters will see a selectmen- petitioned warrant article at this year’s town vote asking whether the Budget Committee should remain in place. The Candia Budget Committee is only three years old at this point, but selectmen Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:53 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, budget, voting

• Calls up – Police activity increases while department budget cut

  BY SUSAN WARE A typical week for the police in Candia includes a stolen F-350 pick-up truck crashing into a telephone pole and snapping it in half, leaving the transformer in the middle of the road; copper pipes stolen from vacant homes; a domestic assault Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:51 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, police, budget, crime

• Crime’s up but money’s tight - Candia Budget Committee trims proposed police budget

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN CANDIA – Candia Police Chief Michael McGillen said cuts in his department’s proposed budget – which will be up for deliberation at the upcoming Town Meeting – could hinder police productivity as the department Read More... Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:30 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, police, budget