BY SARAH LEBRUNThe Dec. 11 ice storm left thousands without power and and curtailed the operation of many businesses and organizations throughout town, including the schools. In New Boston, officials closed the Central School from Dec. 12 to 18. Students went back to school Friday, Dec. 19. SAU 19 Assistant Superintendent of School Brian Balke ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY With Halloween arriving, not all students will be getting tricks or treats in the classroom, as many schools have shifted away from traditional festivities. One school that has done away with Halloween festivities is Hooksett’s Fred C. Underhill School, as Assistant Principal Ralene St. Pierre said the school has been ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThree new people are filling the top positions for the school districts of Goffstown, Dunbarton and New Boston this year. They are interim Superintendent Stacy Buckley and assistant superintendents Brian Balke and MaryClaire Barry. Both Buckley and Barry have held other positions in SAU 19, the school administrative unit that ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYIt may be warm in July, but area residents are still feeling the pain of the past winter’s heating bills and fear what the future holds. Goffstown resident Carol Clark said her oil prices have tripled from what she used to pay. “It’s extremely frustrating. I don’t know what to do. A $300 fill will cost ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThere are many ways one could measure how bright a valedictorian is. There are the spotless, straight-A transcripts, the accumulation of advanced placement courses, or the acceptance into an Ivy League college. Tyler Clites, of Dunbarton, who is the valedictorian for Goffstown High School this year, has all those marks of an ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEKathi Titus, an assistant superintendent for Goffstown, Dunbarton and New Boston, is retiring at the end of this school year. Her departure will coincide with that of Dr. Darrell Lockwood, the 10-year superintendent who is taking the top school administrative position in Tyngsborough, Mass., after this year. The other assistant ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe state’s standards for measuring adequacy among New Hampshire school students were raised this year, and based on the results from the New England Common Assessment Program test scores students took in fall 2007, Goffstown schools did rather poorly while Dunbarton and New Boston showed continued improvement. The testing ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYLong after the snow has melted beneath the warm rays of spring sunshine, New Hampshire towns will still be feeling Mother Nature’s wrath. This time, it won’t be barraging residents from the sky. Instead, it will hit them under their tires. “I was coming from Hannaford the way I come up every day,” said Jane ...

BY MICHELLE KIMGoffstown may start passing onto New Boston and Dunbarton the costs of some services it provides to the schools previously not charged under a “gentlemen’s agreement.” At the Board of Selectmen meeting on Dec. 10, Selectmen Scott Gross suggested the idea of billing the school district for providing the school ...

BY MICHELLE KIM After considering a short list of options, the Dunbarton School Board decided Oct. 3 to remain with the current arrangement for integrated special education preschool programming until more specific information on an in-house program could be gathered. Currently, Dunbarton sends its preschool-aged children requiring special ...