Parties on both sides of the recent firings at Hooksett Town Hall said they don’t know who leaked information that two fired employees may have been offered their jobs back.

The Union Leader reported that 27-year town employee Sandy Piper, who headed the assessing department, and code enforcement officer Michelle Bonsteel, both of whom were fired last month, were offered reinstatement.

Piper’s assistant, Joanne Drewniak, and Bonsteel’s assistant, Jessica Skorupski, were also fired by the Town Council last month, but The Union Leader reported they were not offered their jobs back.

B.J. Branch, the fired employees’ attorney, who’s said they were let go for inappropriately discussing a rumor around town hall and for using an “inappropriate” word, said he received a letter from a town attorney stressing confidentiality.

As he was on the phone with his clients – who were together having lunch – revealing to them the contents of the letter and discussing the request for confidentiality, he got a voicemail from a reporter asking about the possible reinstatements.

Branch said he couldn’t discuss the letter, but said he’s confident his clients didn’t disclose its contents.

“The notice I received from the town specifically stated it was confidential,” Branch said. “I have instructed (my clients), at this juncture, to talk only to me.”

Town councilors, meanwhile, remain publicly silent about anything to do with the firings, and several of them said they don’t know who may have leaked the information. “I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t know,” said Councilor Pat Rueppel.

Councilor Michael DiBitetto stressed it’s the council’s policy never to discuss personnel matters. “I don’t know what the source of that information is,” he said.

Councilor Stuart Werksman stuck to what George Longfellow has described as the council’s “no comment rule.”

“I can’t say anything,” he said. “I’d like to, but I can’t.”

He added, ambiguously, “I’ll just say one thing: Don’t believe everything you read in the Union Leader.”

Said Union Leader Managing Editor Ed Domaingue, “We stand by our story.’’ Six other councilors didn’t return phone calls by press time.

Debra Ford, a Devine Millimet attorney recently representing the council since the firings, was out of the office before press time and didn’t return a phone call.

The four fired employees had requested to appeal the dismissals said Branch, and the council recently offered to hold an appeal hearing.

That hearing is now scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, but will only feature two of the fired employees, Branch said. The council’s next regular meeting is Wednesday, May 9.