BY SARAH LEBRUNResidents in Weare have spoken, and the general consensus is to keep the increase in taxes to a minimum for the coming year. Out of the 19 monetary items on the town, school and John Stark School District ballots, residents only voted to accept five. The biggest item voted down was a $1.25 million bond for a new Highway Garage and ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERWeare residents will decide whether to approve a $13 million school operating budget on the warrant March 10. Two proposed amendments to decrease the proposed bottom line were both rejected at the deliberative session of Weare School District Meeting on Feb. 2 at Weare Middle School. About 40 residents attended that meeting for ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Weare School District is asking voters to go back to the polls Tuesday, June 3, to vote on a second version of a proposed school budget. The polls will be open at Center Woods Elementary from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. After a group of concerned Weare parents started a grassroots campaign in support of the new budget that helped bring ...