By Dan O’BrienFed up with a lack of communication and funding issues with Manchester public schools, the Hooksett School Board has sent a scathing letter to the mayor of Manchester and is talking about building a new high school here. Hooksett has a 20-year tuition agreement to send its public high school students to Manchester and has had ...

By MATT SCHOOLEYCity school officials are drafting a pay-to-participate policy that would include athletics, a policy that many say would have negative consequences at all three city high schools, but particularly bad at West High School. Facing a budget crisis that could lead to layoffs in the city, Manchester school officials discussed the ...

By Ginger Kozlowski An investigation by the Merrimack County Sheriff into whether the Hooksett Police Department tried to hide the existence of safe school reports or cover up safety issues in Hooksett public schools has found no such coverup exists. However, the report also took the Hooksett Police Commission and Hooksett Police Department to ...

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 LAUREN SAUSSERA press release that was prepared weeks ago by members of the Hooksett School Board and Police Department was intended to end an ongoing debate about the existence of safety threats at Cawley Middle School. But much to the chagrin of the involved parties, the argument is still being discussed. Members of the community and School ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERHooksett students are currently scheduled to be released for summer vacation on Monday, June 29, but School Board members have floated the idea of making up missed snow days earlier this spring in order to accommodate an earlier release date. At the March 3 School Board meeting, members discussed whether school administrators ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERAccording to safe school reports recently released by the Hooksett Police Department, eight counts of confiscated knives and reported knife possession by Cawley Middle School students have been filed during the past two school years. Nearly 50 safe school reports, all filed since late 2007, were released to Hooksett School Board ...

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 LAUREN SAUSSERRepresentatives from the Hooksett School Board and Police Commission decided meeting behind closed doors will be more efficient as they seek to air out any misunderstandings about safety issues present at Cawley Middle School. Both groups announced they will meet in a closed door session on Wednesday, Feb. 4, to address ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe debate between the chairman of the Hooksett School Board of the chief of police over alleged weapons and drug possession incidents at Cawley Middle School will continue until the two groups can agree on a time and place to meet. The School Board recently extended an invitation to members of the Hooksett Police Commission to ...