By MATT SCHOOLEYAfter the final Bedford student walks across the stage during Manchester High School West’s graduation ceremony on June 20, a new era will officially begin at the school. What that era will consist of remains to be seen. With Bedford students no longer filling the hallways and classrooms at the school, West administrators ...

By Lauren Sausser Hooksett School Board members are concerned about the kind of education the town’s high school students will receive given budgeting problems in the city of Manchester. At the School Board meeting on Tuesday, June 2, they did not publicly speculate on whether legal action would be necessary surrounding budget cuts to ...

BY DAN DeCONINCK and MATT SCHOOLEYCell phones – it seems like everyone has them. After all, this is the age of technology, and being without mobile capability is like being without shoes – you could probably make it through the day barefoot, but you certainly wouldn’t like it. Everywhere you look, cell phones are present: in ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe Hooksett School Board is bouncing around the idea of dipping into spring holidays to make up for the lost instructional time if Hooksett students miss more than two more school days for weather-related cancelations. Currently, Hooksett students have missed four school days due to winter weather, including the December ice ...

BY SUSANNA HARGREAVESIn the heart of Hooksett is a genuine Renaissance woman named DeLuna. In her music studio, DeLuna surrounds herself with various unique instruments from the Renaissance era and from all over the world. DeLuna plays the harp, recorder, flute, bowed psaltery, hammer dulcimer, percussion, bells, singing bowls and many other ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter just about a year of studying the elementary levels of the Hooksett School District, the School Board’s Long Range Planning Committee came back with the conclusion that the town would need another school in the next 15 to 20 years, according to enrollment projections. They also concluded the district would need to do ...

BY GRETA CUYLERSouthern New Hampshire University is gearing up for a nearly $20 million construction project to include a new academic building, dining hall and parking lot on North River Road. If approved by the town, the university plans to break ground this summer; construction will last 16 to 18 months, SNHU President Paul LeBlanc said. ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKindergartners, don’t fret. You may still get into Harvard even if your report card shows that you need to improve your ability to name geometric shapes, plan and control your body movements or recite the alphabet. But your report card will be changing, and becoming more stringent, at almost every level of your ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNSeveral Manchester parents told a committee considering the future of West High School – which will see an exodus of Bedford students over the next two years – that a simple solution would be to send all students from Hooksett, Auburn and Candia to the West Side school. “I think the most practical solution is to ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWN HOOKSETT – A committee formed after the annual School District Meeting voted unanimously to pursue withdrawing the district from SAU 15, the central administrative unit it shares with the school districts in nearby Auburn and Candia. The SAU 15 withdrawal committee said branching out alone would allow SAU staff ...