BY TOBY HENRYCandia Budget Committee members say they’re bracing for some tough choices as they eye a potential increase of as much as 10 percent for next year. “Our comment to (department heads) was ‘if we have to cut the budget, where should we cut?’ even though it’s a bottom-line budget,” said committee ...

BY TOBY HENRYTown officials say initial department head requests total some $2.35 million as they begin to look at the expenses in store for 2009-10. The first initial view of next year’s budget began on Sept. 13, as selectmen reviewed the budget requests from the town’s Fire Department, police, road crew and other areas. Selectman ...

BY TOBY HENRYA Candia selectman said officials might consider tapping a conservation funding source in light of increased town expenses while some School Board members said they’re hoping to flatline their budget as much as possible. Selectman Joe Duarte said he is growing increasingly concerned over what will happen this winter as home ...

BY TOBY HENRYCandia officials say it could be the end of the road for the decades-old summer recreation program after rising fuel costs and a lean budget year made selectmen give the program the axe. Selectmen Chairman Fred Kelley said the program, which had been budgeted at about $20,000, was not included in the final run-through of the budget ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCassie Hobbs of Auburn said she might have gone with other friends from Auburn Village to Derry for high school had she known the sports and art classes she loves at West High School would be struck from the school’s budget for her senior year. “I wouldn’t be in this district if it weren’t for these ...

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 ...

BY JENN MCDOWELLCandia voters will see a selectmen- petitioned warrant article at this year’s town vote asking whether the Budget Committee should remain in place. The Candia Budget Committee is only three years old at this point, but selectmen Chairman Fred Kelly said the committee has made the budget process more complicated, adding an ...

BY SUSAN WARE A typical week for the police in Candia includes a stolen F-350 pick-up truck crashing into a telephone pole and snapping it in half, leaving the transformer in the middle of the road; copper pipes stolen from vacant homes; a domestic assault arrest or two, several motor vehicle stops on Route 101 and new evidence in a 10-year-old ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNCANDIA – Candia Police Chief Michael McGillen said cuts in his department’s proposed budget – which will be up for deliberation at the upcoming Town Meeting – could hinder police productivity as the department has been dealing with increases in criminal activity, and will soon likely have to deal with some ...