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• School Board sends city scathing letter

  By Dan O’Brien Fed up with a lack of communication and funding issues with Manchester public schools, the Hooksett School Board has sent a scathing letter to the mayor of Manchester and is talking about building a new high school here. Hooksett Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:08 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Manchester, School Board, High school

• City high schools consider forcing payment for extracurriculars

  By MATT SCHOOLEY City school officials are drafting a pay-to-participate policy that would include athletics, a policy that many say would have negative consequences at all three city high schools, but particularly bad at West High School. Facing a budget Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:26 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Candia, Auburn, Manchester, School Board, budget, athletics

• Investigation report on Hooksett Police Department, Commission: No coverup, poor communication

  By Ginger Kozlowski An investigation by the Merrimack County Sheriff into whether the Hooksett Police Department tried to hide the existence of safe school reports or cover up safety issues in Hooksett public schools has found no such coverup exists. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:23 PM by Hooksett Editor | 18 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, schools, School Board, Police Department, safety

• City budget cuts worry Hooksett School Board

  By Lauren Sausser Hooksett School Board members are concerned about the kind of education the town’s high school students will receive given budgeting problems in the city of Manchester. At the School Board meeting on Tuesday, June 2, they did not Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:05 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Education, School Board, budget, High school

• Press release on police, School Board dispute doesn’t satisfy public

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER A press release that was prepared weeks ago by members of the Hooksett School Board and Police Department was intended to end an ongoing debate about the existence of safety threats at Cawley Middle School. But much to the chagrin of Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:18 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, School Board, Cawley Middle School, Police Department

• April vacation might turn into school days in Hooksett

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett students are currently scheduled to be released for summer vacation on Monday, June 29, but School Board members have floated the idea of making up missed snow days earlier this spring in order to accommodate an earlier release Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:16 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, School Board, snow days, vacation

• Knives in school

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER According to safe school reports recently released by the Hooksett Police Department, eight counts of confiscated knives and reported knife possession by Cawley Middle School students have been filed during the past two school years. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:11 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, School Board, school, Police Department, knives

• School on Memorial Day? It’s possible

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett School Board is bouncing around the idea of dipping into spring holidays to make up for the lost instructional time if Hooksett students miss more than two more school days for weather-related cancelations. Currently, Hooksett Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:54 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Education, School Board, snow days

• Hooksett Police chief, school officials to iron out disagreement on weapons in schools

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Representatives from the Hooksett School Board and Police Commission decided meeting behind closed doors will be more efficient as they seek to air out any misunderstandings about safety issues present at Cawley Middle School. Both groups Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:20 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, School Board, Cawley Middle School, weapons, drugs

• Hooksett School Board, police at standstill on weapons reports

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER The debate between the chairman of the Hooksett School Board of the chief of police over alleged weapons and drug possession incidents at Cawley Middle School will continue until the two groups can agree on a time and place to meet. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:00 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, School Board, weapons

• Police chief asks for details on school trouble

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER When Hooksett School Board Chairman Maura Ouellette reported serious incidents of weapons and drug possession by students at Cawley Middle School in an editorial letter to The Hooksett Banner in November, officials at the Police Department Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:27 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, School Board, Cawley Middle School, drug possession, weapons

• Hooksett school officer is reinstated

  BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Hooksett School Resource officer Jason Defina has been restored to full-time duty in the schools, following public outcry against the shifting of his duties to street patrols. At the Hooksett Police Commission meeting on Tuesday, Nov. Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:04 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, School Board, resource officer

• Hooksett police needed on streets, not school

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett Police Department needs more officers on the street and – to that end – it is pulling the town’s school resource officer out of the schools and onto the road. Hooksett Police Chief Steve Agrafiotis said Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:51 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, schools, Police, School Board, budget

• Land available for possible Hooksett high school

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett may not need a high school right now, but – just in case – the School Board already has its sights set on a spot. An 80-acre parcel off Route 3 just south of Head’s Pond has been offered by Manchester Sand Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:29 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, School Board, land, High school, Manchesterer Sand & Gravel

• Hooksett schools search for energy savings

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett Schools Superintendent Charles “Phil” Littlefield is looking at what the district has been spending on energy costs and is more than a little worried. With sky-high gas prices sure to set in this winter, the picture Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:57 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, schools, School Board