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 Michelle Kim   A dramatically reduced bond article to improve Bolton Field Memorial Park and the reallocation of the land-use change tax were some of the most debated items at the Feb. 2 deliberative session of Town Meeting. Almost 100 residents met at the Center Woods Elementary School gymnasium on a relatively mild Saturday morning ...

 By Michelle Kim WEARE – New buildings and bodies are the main requests voters will see before them at the upcoming Feb. 2 deliberative session of Town Meeting, Voters can expect to see articles on the town warrant regarding the operating budget, as well as improvements to the Bolton Field Memorial Complex, a new public works and ...

By Michelle Kim NEW BOSTON – The departure of yet another New Boston police officer may have opened the door for the Police Department to eventually meet its basic scheduling needs. And that news has Chief Chris Krajenka elated. At the Jan. 5 meeting, the Finance Committee decided to approve Krajenka’s request for a new full-time ...

By Michelle Kim WEARE – The Fire Department proposed the addition of two full-time staff members to its volunteer force during the week days, along with more money for fire inspections in its requested operating budget for 2008. Fire Chief Bob Richards said the request for two full-time staff members is slightly different than the ...

BY MICHELLE KIMWeare residents can expect to pay slightly less in property taxes this year, thanks to a drop in local school rates and level town rates. The overall property tax rate for 2007 has been set at $15.27 per $1,000 of assessed value, which is a drop of 78 cents, or 4.9 percent, from last year’s rate of $16.05. This means the the ...

BY ROD HANSENResidents should face cuts in services after rejecting the proposed operating budget at Town Meeting, said some town officials at the board of selectmen’s meeting on April 2. “The public voted for the default budget. We need to show people out there that services will be cut if you go with the default,” said ...

BY ROD HANSENWeare’s tax rate for 2006 has been set, with bills to be sent out soon and due by Dec. 27. This year’s rate has been set at $16.05 per $1,000 of assessed value, which will produce a bill of $4,012.50 for a home valued at $250,000. The new tax rate reflects a town portion of $2.76, a school tax rate of $10.28, a state ...

BY ROD HANSEN Weare property owners can expect to receive their tax bills sometime around Thanksgiving, town officials say. Auditors from the Department of Revenue Administration were expected to review tax projections with the town’s assessing and tax departments on Nov. 17, said Tina Pelletier, the town’s finance clerk and ...