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 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 ...

BY MICHELLE KIM Residents will see a lower overall property tax rate this year, due in large part to a drop in the school portion of the tax rate. This year’s tax rate has been set at $14.56 per $1,000 of assessed value, which is 11.5 percent lower than last year’s rate of $16.46. This means the owner of a $200,000 home would be ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though her roots are in South America, Lorena Bouroncle, “the Peruvian Heat,” has bloomed during her seven years in the Goffstown School District. Moving to Dunbarton in May 2000, Bouroncle finished fifth grade with her classmates, barely able to speak a word of English. “All I knew was basic terms ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Ashley Jennings is preparing to graduate from Goffstown High School, but she’s not sure what that means for her future. Ashley, consistently an honor roll student throughout high school, scored a 400 in reading and 350 in math on her SAT. She also scored poorly on an Army entrance examination. “(Goffstown ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Arielle Turcotte, who plans to pursue culinary arts in college, found the perfect opportunity to gain much needed experience with food preparation and cooking at Page’s Country Store in Dunbarton. Turcotte, 18, of Weare, attends Bishop Brady High School in Concord, from which she will graduate this June. Still, she ...

BY SARAH LEBRUN After sending special eduation children to preschool in New Boston for 12 years, school officials are looking to bring preschool back to Dunbarton. “It’s hard to argue with the fact that a preschool program should be on campus,” said Dunbarton Elementary School Principal Brent Rogers. “It makes the most ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though the Bow, Dunbarton and Hopkinton school districts missed only one day of school over the winter, the month of April has proven to be more costly than usual in terms of missed class time. This year, April showers will bring additional school days in June. Hopkinton On Tuesday, April 17, Harold Martin Elementary ...

The Heritage Home-schoolers of Dunbarton have been busy for the past seven months making an apple pie. They were finally able to taste the fruits of their labor on Saturday March 24, after their rod puppetry performance, based on Marjorie Priceman’s book “How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.” The performers shared ...