BY JENN McDOWELL Windham’s Board of Selectmen is planning a special election in September to obtain funding for a secondary access road for the new high school currently under construction. The new road would overlap the current London Bridge Road, connecting the entrance to the high school on Route 111 to Castle Hill Road behind ...

BY JENN McDOWELL While the state standards for measuring adequacy among New Hampshire students were raised this year, the elementary and middle schools in Salem, Pelham and Windham did generally well overall, according to the results from the New England Common Assessment Program test scores. Both Salem and Pelham high schools, ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY The words of four Hopkinton High School students will soon be heard across the airwaves of New Hampshire radio stations, cautioning youths of the dangers of underage drinking. New Hampshire’s beer distributors sponsored the public service announcements, which had the students act out common scenarios high school ...

BY JIM DEVINE WINDHAM – If school officials want the state to reimburse part of the second access road to the high school, it cannot be a public throughway, state officials have mandated. Superintendent Frank Bass said the condition was made clear during a special meeting called between selectmen, School Board and department of ...

BY DARRELL HALEN Following a lengthy debate, voters consolidated requests for additional athletic facilities for the new high school into one bond article during the Windham School District’s deliberative session. Originally, $900,000 for a second gymnasium, $778,500 for three extra fields, and $3,819,980 for a multipurpose ...

By Darrell Halen Freshman Chris DiPersio likes going to Salem High School, where is he actively involved in the band program. And he wants to stay there, even though his town will be opening a brand-new high school next year. DiPersio was one of several students and parents who weighed in at a Windham School Board meeting on whether ...

By Darrell Halen This year’s Windham School District warrant includes several articles to provide money to Windham High School, which will open in 2009. Those articles, and others, will be the subject of discussion and debate when voters attend the school district’s Friday, Feb. 8, deliberative session. The session starts ...

By Darrell Halen  Selectmen have withdrawn a $1 million warrant article to build a second road to Windham High School after a similar article was submitted for the school district’s March ballot. A move may be made to modify the wording of state Rep. Charlie McMahon’s $1.25 million warrant article at the school ...