BY JENN McDOWELLHonors and advanced placement students at John Stark Regional High School will not be able to partake in one of the many rewards of hard study and determination next year, known as “crisping.” And Weare resident Helen Ray is not happy about that, especially since her daughter, Sarah, 14, just completed her freshman ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Last year, the John Stark varsity girls soccer team surprised everyone by advancing to the championship game for the first time in the program’s history. With four returning starters this year, the possibility of a repeat seems unlikely to most, but not Heather Doucet. “I think we can have a repeat performance,” ...

BY SARAH LEBRUN Arthur Aaronson will retire as principal of John Stark Regional High School in Weare on June 22, but not from the world of education. Aaronson has signed a one-year contract to be an educational consultant to mentor principals in the public school system in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates. “They’re ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Arielle Turcotte, who plans to pursue culinary arts in college, found the perfect opportunity to gain much needed experience with food preparation and cooking at Page’s Country Store in Dunbarton. Turcotte, 18, of Weare, attends Bishop Brady High School in Concord, from which she will graduate this June. Still, she ...

BY ROD HANSEN Parents with children in one Center Woods Elementary School class received a special Mother’s Day present this year. Students in Barbara Grantz’s third-grade class crafted special butterfly houses as Mother’s Day gifts, in a project that taught the youths the finer points of art and of building a structure out of ...