BySARAH LEBRUN Weare school officials are considering a plan to combine high school and elementary school students on the same buses, which would, in turn, change all school start times. “We’re looking to reduce three buses, which (would save) $120,000 in Weare,” said Doug White, SAU 24 superintendent of schools. According to ...

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 McDOWELLAs the school year opens, the school administrative unit governing Weare schools has a new team in charge. Doug White, the former assistant superintendent, has moved up to the superintendent position after former superintendent Christine Tyrie left the district for a new job with the Blackstone- Melville Regional school district ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter the Weare School Board’s final meeting of the current fiscal year, the school administration now has some directions on what to restore to the 2008-09 budget. Making their way back into the budget are two teaching positions for the second and fifth grades, to deal with enrollment bubbles in those grades; night and ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Weare School Board will take its new 2008- 09 operating budget to task at the upcoming meeting on Tuesday, June 17, and members want the public’s input on how they should spend the money. The decision now is not how much money to restore, but what to do with a budget that is half-way between what was initially proposed ...

BY JENN McDOWELLIn a 751-591 vote, the Weare School Board succeeded in its second attempt at getting a 2008- 09 budget passed. A total of 1,342 out of 5,852 registered Weare voters showed up at the polls at Center Woods Elementary School on Tuesday, June 3, to cast their vote on whether to adopt a school budget $240,000 more than the default that ...

BY JENN McDOWELLMore than 100 voters concerned about the deep cuts in the school district staffing the default budget brings showed up to another deliberative session on a new school budget. The warrant article, which calls for a total budget of $12,703,776 budget for the 2008- 09 year rather than accepting the default budget, was passed to the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAbout 20 Weare parents and teachers met at the middle school recently to get up to speed on the impact the default budget will have on programs and staff in the district, and to brainstorm ideas for getting the word out on the upcoming re-vote on a revised budget proposal. After voters said no to the $12.9 million 2008-09 budget ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Weare School Board is heading back to voters with a revised 2008-09 proposed school budget that would add about $240,000 to the default budget currently in place after the March 11 elections. At their meeting Monday, March 24, the board voted to hold a special election for the newly proposed $12.7 million school budget on ...

BY STEVEN ANDREWSVoters appeared to have the volatile economy on their mind as they voted on town warrant articles on Tuesday, March 11. The operating budget, a new public works facility, improvements to Bolton Field and many fire and police department staffing requests were denied. About 27 percent of voters showed up at the polls to shoot down ...