By PATRICK O’NEILL Working with rockets is no easy business. But one group of students from Dunbarton has already become experts. This club, made up of eight middle and high school students from Weare, Dunbarton, and Hill, will compete in the ARLISS project in September, a program that allows students to build and launch a scientific ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe state’s standards for measuring adequacy among New Hampshire school students were raised this year, and based on the results from the New England Common Assessment Program test scores students took in fall 2007, Goffstown schools did rather poorly while Dunbarton and New Boston showed continued improvement. The testing ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though her roots are in South America, Lorena Bouroncle, “the Peruvian Heat,” has bloomed during her seven years in the Goffstown School District. Moving to Dunbarton in May 2000, Bouroncle finished fifth grade with her classmates, barely able to speak a word of English. “All I knew was basic terms ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Ashley Jennings is preparing to graduate from Goffstown High School, but she’s not sure what that means for her future. Ashley, consistently an honor roll student throughout high school, scored a 400 in reading and 350 in math on her SAT. She also scored poorly on an Army entrance examination. “(Goffstown ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Arielle Turcotte, who plans to pursue culinary arts in college, found the perfect opportunity to gain much needed experience with food preparation and cooking at Page’s Country Store in Dunbarton. Turcotte, 18, of Weare, attends Bishop Brady High School in Concord, from which she will graduate this June. Still, she ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though the Bow, Dunbarton and Hopkinton school districts missed only one day of school over the winter, the month of April has proven to be more costly than usual in terms of missed class time. This year, April showers will bring additional school days in June. Hopkinton On Tuesday, April 17, Harold Martin Elementary ...