BY JENN McDOWELL School officials for Salem, Pelham and Windham schools are breathing a sigh of relief now that the state has agreed to extend the deadline for instituting public kindergarten. In its definition of an adequate education, the state Legislature included public kindergarten as a requirement. Since then, 12 ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham School Board and the Fire Department are looking to pool their resources to purchase 11 new automated external defibrillators for town buildings and the new Windham High School. The Windham Board of Selectmen gave their conditional approval to the Fire Department to waive the bid process pending some ...

BY JENN McDOWELL An amendment to a bill going through the state Legislature that mandates public kindergarten for districts without it poses several options for communities looking to establish a program by the September 2009 deadline. Rep. Lynne Ober, one of the drafters of the amendment to the state’s original kindergarten ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Pelham School Board is looking at adopting a new policy that would tighten the rules regarding school lunch money owed to the district. The school district’s food service director, Megan Bizzarro, proposed a draft of the policy to the School Board at a meeting on Wednesday, April 9, which would allow the ...

BY DARRELL HALEN Frank Bass is going to stay on as superintendent of schools in Pelham and Windham after apparently working out problems with two School Board members. Bass had applied to become Manchester’s school superintendent just seven months after coming to SAU 28, the Windham and Pelham school districts. His move prompted ...

By Darrell Halen   Only seven months after becoming school superintendent in Windham and Pelham, Frank Bass has applied to serve as Manchester’s next superintendent of schools. His move has prompted Al Letizio Jr., the chairman of the Windham School Board, to accuse two of his colleagues, Barbara Coish and Beverly Donovan, of ...

By Darrell Halen   The Windham School District has a baby grand piano – thanks to the generosity of a local couple. School Board member Beverly Donovan said Al and Cathy Pappalardo, who recently sold the Guesthouse Inn and Suites in Methuen, Mass., donated the Kawai baby grand piano to the Windham Endowment for Community ...

By Darrell Halen   An educator from Hollis has been chosen as the first principal of Windham High School. Richard Manley was recently selected out of two finalists for the job by the Windham School Board. He will begin working full time in his new position on July 1. “We had two excellent candidates to choose from. However, Mr. ...

By Darrell Halen A move to put a construction project to build a second road to Windham High School on the school ballot instead of the town ballot has prompted school and town officials to discuss how they can work together. Currently, a new road leads from Route 111 to where the school is being built. It’s part of the school ...

By Darrell Halen  The Windham and Pelham school districts share employees, resources and costs by belonging to School Administrative Unit 28. But beginning in March, Windham voters might start the process of pulling their community out of the SAU. A warrant article on the Windham school district ballot, if passed, would create a planning ...