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• Master plan may mean one less elementary school

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Digging in for a tough fight, parents are mobilizing to save the Walter F. Haigh School as the School Board considers a master plan that could close the elementary school. No final decision has been made. Estimates predict the district Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:08 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, students, school board, school

• Law raising dropout age to 18 means schools must find, return kids to class

  BY DERRICK PERKINS When school doors opened across the state this fall, an unexpected group of students was affected thanks to a new law that raised the minimum dropout age from 16 to 18. Schools in New Hampshire were given the task of locating formerly Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:53 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Pelham, school, dropout

• Kindergarten ready to roll - First year for Salem, Pelham and Windham begins Sept. 2

  BY DERRICK PERKINS School district officials say they are ready to roll out the town’s first public kindergarten program for the inaugural 213 students when the school year begins Sept. 2. “We’re good to go,” Edie Soley, assistant Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kindergarten, school, Pelham: Windham

• Salem school officials say last-minute kindergarten sign-ups will have them scrambling

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Officials fear a sudden surge in kindergarten enrollments in late summer could make the start of the school year a little more hectic than usual. According to Superintendent Michael Delahanty, the district projected that around 300 Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:52 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kindergarten, school

• Salem kindergarten plans underway - students signing up

  BY DERRICK PERKINS With funding for Salem’s public kindergarten program now restored to the school district’s operating budget, officials look forward to tying up the administrative details in time for the start of school in the fall. About Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Kindergarten, school board, school

• Salem boy helps those in need on his birthday

  BY DONNA KISH If you asked Salem resident Anthony Bellomo what he wanted most for his eighth birthday, you might be pleasantly surprised. Instead of gifts, Anthony, a second-grader at North Salem School, asked his friends to bring food donations to his Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:00 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Salem, fundraising, school

• Salem secretaries union drops petition for revote

  BY JENN McDOWELL After renegotiating their contract with the Salem School Board, the Salem Educational Personnel Association has withdrawn its Superior Court petition asking for a judge’s approval for a special meeting and revote on salary increases Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:02 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, voting, school board, school

• Failed Salem special ed warrant may affect school spending on other items

  BY JIM DEVINE SALEM – Although the school district budget passed March 11, the failure of a deficit spending article for ballooning special education costs has put pressure on supply purchases, school officials said. “It’s not necessarily Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:04 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Budget, voting, school