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• Hooksett Town Meeting vote, elections are May 13

  BY JENN McDOWELL Hooksett voters will decide on May 13 whether to spend $15.7 million on the town operating budget, a $1.5 million sewer bond and whether to add two new firefighters to the Fire Department. A citizen’s petition to establish a public Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:29 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, vote

• Hooksett zoning warrant would phase growth

  BY JENN McDOWELL In addition to the financial items already discussed at Hooksett’s deliberative session of Town Meeting and electing town officials, voters will also weigh in on several zoning amendments when the polls open on Tuesday, May 13. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:37 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, zoning, Planning Board, elections

• Town Meeting debates sewer, cable TV needs

  BY JENN McDOWELL The 60 or so voters who showed up at the deliberative session of Hooksett Town Meeting on Saturday, April 5, sent all monetary warrant articles to the May 13 ballot virtually unchanged, except for a few clarifying amendments. Articles Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:37 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, voting, budget, fire department, sewer expansion

• Hooksett to consider sewer plant expansion

  BY JENN McDOWELL Among the items Hooksett voters will discuss at Town Meeting on Saturday, April 5, are a $1.5 million bond for sewer plant upgrades, two new trucks for the Highway Department, raises for nonunionized town employees, additional staff for Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:52 PM by Hooksett Editor | 3 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, town meeting, sewers, voting, fire department, Highway Department, public access TV, sewer plant

• $16 million reduction in Cabela’s bond needs vote

  BY JENN MCDOWELL Hooksett residents will be able to reduce their risk on the Cabela’s TIF bond by $16 million with a special Town Meeting vote next month. Hooksett Town Councilors said there will be a special election on Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 6 Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:23 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, zoning, local business

• $100,000 question - Council debates Town Meeting decision

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN Vincent Lembo wants to make sure the Hooksett Town Council doesn’t lose track of $100,000. Lembo, a Budget Committee member, amended the budget up by the $100,000 at the floor of the deliberative session of Town Meeting. The reason, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:36 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, town meeting, town employee

• Money added at Town Meeting

  BY STEVEN ANDREWS The operating budget facing voters will be $100,000 higher than the one initially proposed, thanks to an amendment which received overwhelming support by town employees and most of the crowd at the deliberative session of Town Meeting Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:58 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, budget committee, town meeting

• Hooksett readies for Town Meeting - Sewer work, police contract, new park to be discussed April 7

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN Following a year in which an $18 million bond proposal drew hordes of people to the polls, Hooksett’s 2007 town warrant – up for discussion at the Saturday, April 7, deliberative session of Town Meeting – is remarkably Read More... Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:37 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, Police, town meeting, taxes

• Teacher contract passes

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN HOOKSETT – Voters enthusiastically backed the town’s teachers on election day, Tuesday, March 13, by approving a new three-year contract 1,206- 315. Voters nixed a teacher contract proposal last year, and school officials Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:49 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, teacher contract

• Hooksett school budget upped at deliberative session

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN Hooksett residents boosted the proposed school district budget by nearly $345,000, though some worry the change could jeopardize a new contract proposed for teachers this year. About 100 people came out to Cawley Middle School for the Read More... Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:34 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, teacher contract