By Dan O’Brien Recent statewide budget cuts to welfare-related services could affect Allenstown hard. The cuts include funding for funeral expenses for those supported by the Aid to the Totally and Permanently Disabled program; a 50 percent cut in an emergency assistance program that typically pays for emergency rent or utility bills for ...

By Kathleen D. Bailey Allenstown will hold a special Town Meeting on Saturday, June 13, to see if residents will approve a bond issue for $1,625,000 to upgrade the town’s aging wastewater treatment facility, with half the money to be reimbursed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the other half to be paid from the ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERAllenstown voters will consider accepting a proposed $5.3 million town operating budget on the warrant March 10. Exactly 100 registered voters who attended the Jan. 31 deliberative session of Town Meeting rejected a proposed amendment that would have cut the bottom line of that budget by $250,000. This budget represents an ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Allenstown Board of Selectmen has decided to cut more than needed to create a buffer for possible upcoming costs which would include paying for the outside accounting help needed as well as possible spring flooding of the Suncook. There was a $191,996 difference between the default and proposed budgets, but in two meetings ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKIWith few articles to consider and only 32 registered voters in attendance, the deliberative session of the Allenstown School District Meeting wrapped up in just a half hour. No changes were made to the wording of any articles, so it will now go to residents to decide whether to follow the recommendations of the School Board or ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAllenstown voters will decide whether to accept a 11.4 percent increase in the town’s operating budget after being on a default budget this year. “It’s a big increase, but it’s like we lost a year,” said Selectman Sandy McKenney, explaining the current year’s default budget was likely a result ...