By Ginger KozlowskiIt may not hold any legal power, but 78 citizens are asking the Candia Board of Selectmen and School Board to help them pay their taxes by keeping the property tax rate from increasing. A petition-like form was sent around town in early November and was available in several businesses. It said: “To: “Candia ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSThe Walter F. Haigh Elementary School is here to stay. The School Board voted 4-1 on Oct. 20 to keep the 55-year-old building open and pursue a master facilities plan incorporating all six elementary schools in Salem. The move came after Haigh parents lobbied board members to save the neighborhood school during two public forums ...

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 DERRICK PERKINSDigging in for a tough fight, parents are mobilizing to save the Walter F. Haigh School as the School Board considers a master plan that could close the elementary school. No final decision has been made. Estimates predict the district would save more than $1.5 million by closing Haigh. The facilities plan would spend $4 to $7 ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSWith the town’s new high school up and running, the School Board is taking a hard look at the rest of the district’s facilities and asking residents to get in on the process. The board held the first of several planned public forums focusing on the district’s future facility needs late last month, a discussion ...

By Jillian JorgensenA Goffstown High School teacher argued to the School Board that she was only trying to help a Mountain View Middle School administrator by sending her e-mails about “rumors,” but the school district maintained those e-mails were threatening and harassing at a grievance hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Donna Pinard, a ...

The Bedford School Board has elected Dawna Duhamel as the district’s chief financial officer to replace Mark Conrad, who is leaving the district in late August to become the superintendent of schools for the Nashua School District. Duhamel has served as the business administrator of SAU 41 (Hollis, Brookline, and Hollis-Brookline ...

By JILLIAN JORGENSENMcKelvie Intermediate School will get a new outdoor basketball court for free. The Bedford School Board accepted a donation from the Bedford Basketball League for the court, but decided to remove lighting from the plans to keep players off the court at night. The court will be part of a new playground installed this summer. ...

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 ...