BY JENN McDOWELLIt’s going to be a lot harder for the Hills family of Allenstown to stay afloat financially this year, with fuel prices hitting record highs. Jeanne Hills babysits her toddler grandson, staying home while her husband and her adult children work. With the price of heating oil averaging more than $4.50 a gallon, according to ...

BY STEPHEN BEALETurnout was low but voter satisfaction was high in the school and town elections earlier this week. All the warrant articles on the town and school ballots passed on Tuesday. Most were by comfortable margins, including a $3.7 million operating budget for the town and a $10.2 million operating budget for the school district. In ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAside from electing their town officials, Auburn voters also decided whether to go to an official ballot style of voting on town matters and school matters. In an overwhelming vote, it was decided the town and school district would now be governed by the official ballot law, often called SB2 for the Senate bill that became the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom’s Board of Selectmen will remain at three seats for at least two more years after voters re-affirmed their 2007 vote to decrease the number of seats on the board. In a 275-495 vote at this year’s election, Epsom voters decided they made the right decision last year to go to a three-member Board of Selectmen after ...

BY JENN McDOWELLVoters in Allenstown said no to all the proposed monetary issues brought forth on this year’s ballot for the town and school district. In a to 388-264 vote, Allenstown voters again nixed a $15 million expansion for the Suncook Wastewater Treatement Facility, serving both Allenstown and Pembroke. At the town’s ...

BY JENN MCDOWELLCorrected 3:30pm 3/8/08 After being on a default budget, Weare town officials hope voters will pass the proposed $4.6 million operating budget for the coming year, particularly for department budget increases related to fuel costs. “They’re almost entirely fuel related,” said Fred Ventresco, Weare town ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAuburn’s Board of Selectmen and School Board are holding public hearings for two citizens’ petitioned warrant articles asking whether the town’s voters would embrace converting to the official ballot law form of town and school elections, often called SB2. In such towns, voters can only amend warrant articles at ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe 100 or so Candia voters who showed up for the deliberative session of Town Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Moore School struck a compromise between the proposed town operating budgets proposed by the Board of Selectmen and the Budget Committee. On Tuesday, March 11, voters will decide whether to pass the amended proposed ...

BY JENN McDOWELLA recent public hearing on a petitioned warrant article to bring Epsom’s Board of Selectmen back to five seats revealed that many residents who voted to decrease the number of seats to three at last year’s Town Meeting have changed their minds. Bruce Graham, one of those who voted to go to a threemember board, called ...

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 ...