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 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 Michelle Kim   WEARE – School Administrative Unit 24 recently announced Superintendent Dr. Christine Tyrie is stepping down at the end of the school year to pursue new challenges and will be replaced by current Assistant Superintendent Doug White starting July 1. “It was time for me to take the step in my career,” said ...