BY STEPHEN BEALEThe Town Council and School Board each have two new members, following the election on Tuesday, March 11. On the town side, Chris Bandazian and Bill Dermody won two seats to the Town Council with 1,721 and 2,093 votes, respectively. “I think my stand on taxes was acknowledged by the voters,” Dermody said. “I ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThe Bedford School District will now be able to move forward with its land purchase-and-sales agreement and begin plans to build an emergency access road to Bedford High School, as voters narrowly approved the article on Election Day. Article 2 on the school ballot asked voters to approve the purchase of the land for $275,000 to ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe town election on Tuesday, March 11, reversed a string of defeats for proposals to expand the Fire Department. In two previous elections, voters had thrown out plans for 18 and 10 firefighters, but Tuesday they signed off on hiring two. The cost of the new firefighters will be split with a Homeland Security grant, which will ...

BY JENN McDOWELLPembroke will not suffer any staff cuts or eliminate any sports programs after voters at the School District Meeting decided in a 95-71 vote to pass the School Board’s proposed operating budget. “The meeting went exactly the way it should have gone,” said School Board Chairman Clint Hanson, adding there is no ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYTaxpayers will be asked to approve School District Warrant Article 2, to purchase a 1.3-acre parcel of land for $275,000, and to fund a new emergency access to the middle/high school site. Although the 1.3-acre parcel has never been appraised, it was assessed at $87,000 in 2004. Under the purchase-and-sales agreement, the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Hooksett School Board has adopted new policies that would provide better notification of and protection against sex offenders living in the town. School faculty and staff will now be told where sex offenders reside. While they will not be able to disseminate the information to parents, they will be able to use it for ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe School Board issued a renewed plea to voters to approve a town bond that would pay for the reconstruction of the Nashua Road intersection with Route 101, improving access to the new high school. The $8 million town bond includes $3 million for the upgrade, with the rest intended for the annual road rehabilitation program, ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEAfter 10 years as superintendent, Darrell Lockwood could be leaving the school district at the end of the academic year. Lockwood, whose contract expires in June, is a candidate in the search for a new superintendent in Tyngsborough, Mass., about 30 miles south of Goffstown. Keith Allard, chairman of the Goffstown School Board, ...

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 CHRIS QUARTARONEGrowth in Bedford schools, a secondary emergency access road and taxpayer involvement in spending were the main topics discussed at the School Board Candidates’ Debate. The event, sponsored by the Bedford Men’s Club, featured four candidates – Gary Pariseau, Don Graff, Bill Foote and Bob Donahue – vying ...