Autumn Mirror in Candia

BY JENN McDOWELLIt’s going to be a lot harder for the Hills family of Allenstown to stay afloat financially this year, with fuel prices hitting record highs. Jeanne Hills babysits her toddler grandson, staying home while her husband and her adult children work. With the price of heating oil averaging more than $4.50 a gallon, according to ...

BY CHRISTINE HEISERNext winter, when the temperatures drop and the oil tank is low, rising fuel costs might bring on a budget crisis for some homeowners. Unlike public utilities such as gas or electric, private oil companies are not bound by law to deliver in the winter even if the customer doesn’t pay their bill, so each company sets its ...

BY TOBY HENRYThe defeat of a two-town middle school to serve Auburn and Candia has left Auburn to evaluate a possible new school proposal on its own while Candia officials say they’re done making plans for now. In Candia, the past five years have seen three school proposals shot down, including the recent failure of a tuition contract which ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCandia residents decided against the tuition agreement for a joint middle school with Auburn in a 278-766 vote. The article for a $25 million bond will now come off Auburn’s warrant, being void. Candia School Board Chairman Karen Smith said she was disappointed with the result, but that the School Board would continue to ...

BY JENN McDOWELLNew Hampshire towns are gearing up for the annual vote on town and school issues. Polls will open Tuesday, March 11. Hooksett’s official ballot town elections are not until May 13. Pembroke and Auburn adhere to the traditional Town Meeting format, and are only electing officials on March 11. Auburn will, however, decide ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYHaving lost by 29 points to Auburn earlier in the season, Candia’s Henry Moore Middle School boys basketball team could have entered the semifinals of the Tri-County Class S playoffs feeling overmatched. Instead, the team left the semifinal-round game feeling overjoyed. Candia beat Auburn, 54-47, on Jan. 30 to advance to the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe timing of the deliberative session of Candia School District Meeting drew about as much attention from residents as discussion of its warrant articles. The meeting, called to order at 12:54 p.m., immediately following the deliberative session of Town Meeting, took only about 45 minutes. As opposed to the Town Meeting, at which ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe 100 or so Candia voters who showed up for the deliberative session of Town Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Moore School struck a compromise between the proposed town operating budgets proposed by the Board of Selectmen and the Budget Committee. On Tuesday, March 11, voters will decide whether to pass the amended proposed ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCandia’s School Board and Budget Committee agreed on every single number in the 2008-09 proposed school operating budget for the second year in a row, the Budget Committee accepting the School Board’s budget as is at $7,486,408. The proposed operating budget is less than the $7,526,161 default budget by about ...