BY STEPHEN BEALEA new joint Fiscal Communications Committee between town government and the school district will look to save taxpayer money by coordinating expenses. Council Chairman Mike Izbicki said the committee would look at potential increases in the budget and ways of saving costs together, such as buying fuel for the town and school ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe Town Council is hoping to close the door on 2007 – a year marked by division and discord – and move on to the challenges it faces this year. The town road program, rising taxes and the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Road are among the top policy priorities the council has for 2008, according to Mike Izbicki, ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEThe Bedford Town Council took on an estimated $3 million for road improvements, which coincide with the secondary access project to the high school, onto its proposed $12 million road bond. The $3 million is in addition to the $12 million bond to pay for the reconstruction of some town roads that will go to voters on March 11. ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEBedford’s new town manager, Russ Marcoux, officially took the helm Feb. 5. Police Chief David Bailey had been filing in as acting town manager since November 2006 when Keith Hickey left Bedford to be town manager of Merrimack. In 2007, Bedford residents saw a town council seat controversy, a new health ordinance, ...

BY JENN McDOWELL A completely restructured deal that will result in a Cabela’s sporting goods store and a hotel in Hooksett will also reduce an already approved bond authorization from $18 million to $2 million as well as create a new TIF, or tax increment financing, district in the town. The new plan requires voter approval, a decision ...

BY JENNIFER MCDOWELL The Hooksett Town Council voted 7-2 on Wednesday, Aug. 22, to skim a half million dollars off of the traffic impact fees Cabela’s would have to pay once the sports retailer’s development begins bringing in tax revenue. The decision came after the Planning Board already voted to approve what dissenting Councilor ...

BY SUSAN WARE If a new plan for the Palazzi property goes as expected, a special town meeting may be called in September to ask voters to approve a new finance structure that would lessen taxpayer liability by $16 million. On Wednesday, July 11, Feldco Development Corp., a Connecticut-based real estate developer, presented the Hooksett Town ...