Browse by Tags

• Board of Selectmen
• budget
• Center Woods Elementary
• elections
• Goffstown
• John Stark
• Merrimack Valley
• public works
• school
• school board
• school budget
• School district
• taxes
• town warrant
• Weare

• Weare residents look to save money

  BY SARAH LEBRUN Residents in Weare have spoken, and the general consensus is to keep the increase in taxes to a minimum for the coming year. Out of the 19 monetary items on the town, school and John Stark School District ballots, residents only voted Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:14 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, taxes, voting, John Stark, School district

• $1.25 million requested for new highway garage

  BY CHRISTINE HAGUE A proposal to replace Weare’s Public Works garage will be on the ballot when voters go to the polls on March 10. The $1.25 million project would bring the town into compliance with safety requirements and facilitate annual reductions Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:03 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, voting, public works

• Weare residents unhappy about 2.75 percent increase

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Weare residents will decide whether to approve a $13 million school operating budget on the warrant March 10. Two proposed amendments to decrease the proposed bottom line were both rejected at the deliberative session of Weare School Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:04 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, budget, voting, school, School district

• New Public Works facility needed in Weare

  BY SARAH LEBRUN A big-ticket item Weare voters can expect to see on the town ballot this year is a bond proposal for a new 22,400-squarefoot Public Works and transfer station/ recycling facility. This proposal is Article 9 on the town warrant. It currently Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:20 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, voting, public works, town warrant

• Weare School Board wants public input on budget

  BY JENN McDOWELL The Weare School Board will take its new 2008- 09 operating budget to task at the upcoming meeting on Tuesday, June 17, and members want the public’s input on how they should spend the money. The decision now is not how much money Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:13 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, budget, voting, school board

• Weare school has June 3 revote

  BY JENN McDOWELL The Weare School District is asking voters to go back to the polls Tuesday, June 3, to vote on a second version of a proposed school budget. The polls will be open at Center Woods Elementary from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. After a group of concerned Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:15 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, voting, school budget, School district, Center Woods Elementary

• Weare sues state over districting

  BY JENN McDOWELL The town of Weare has joined five other towns in the state and members of the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation in a lawsuit against the state declaring the current districts of the House of Representatives unconstitutional. The suit Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:50 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Weare, voting

• Many big items denied in Weare

  BY STEVEN ANDREWS Voters appeared to have the volatile economy on their mind as they voted on town warrant articles on Tuesday, March 11. The operating budget, a new public works facility, improvements to Bolton Field and many fire and police department Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:34 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, Merrimack Valley, budget, voting, elections

• Gas prices fuel town increases

  BY JENN MCDOWELL Corrected 3:30pm 3/8/08 After being on a default budget, Weare town officials hope voters will pass the proposed $4.6 million operating budget for the coming year, particularly for department budget increases related to fuel costs. “They’re Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:59 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Weare, Merrimack Valley, budget, voting, Board of Selectmen

• Board: Voters force cuts in service

  BY ROD HANSEN Residents should face cuts in services after rejecting the proposed operating budget at Town Meeting, said some town officials at the board of selectmen’s meeting on April 2. “The public voted for the default budget. We need Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:18 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, taxes, Merrimack Valley, voting

• Recounts don’t change any Election Day results

  BY ROD HANSEN Recounts of two town ballot items in Goffstown and a school budget vote in Weare produced different numbers, but identical results. Goffstown’s Article 13, which would have paid for a water distribution system in Lynchville/Danis Park Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:43 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Weare, voting, Goffstown