BY DERRICK PERKINS Selectmen held off on making a decision to petition for a special town meeting in the fall that would allow them to move toward rebuilding two bridges on the state’s red list. During the Monday, June 23, meeting, selectmen discussed a possible special vote, which would allow the board to contract with an engineering ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Windham’s Board of Selectmen is planning a special election in September to obtain funding for a secondary access road for the new high school currently under construction. The new road would overlap the current London Bridge Road, connecting the entrance to the high school on Route 111 to Castle Hill Road behind ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Weare School Board will take its new 2008- 09 operating budget to task at the upcoming meeting on Tuesday, June 17, and members want the public’s input on how they should spend the money. The decision now is not how much money to restore, but what to do with a budget that is half-way between what was initially proposed ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Weare School District is asking voters to go back to the polls Tuesday, June 3, to vote on a second version of a proposed school budget. The polls will be open at Center Woods Elementary from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. After a group of concerned Weare parents started a grassroots campaign in support of the new budget that helped bring ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bow’s Town Meeting outcome was similar to last year’s, as voters again decided to cut the budget by a significant amount. The May 14 meeting lasted until 11 p.m., with the budget and 13 other articles passing. Residents voted to continue discussion on the remaining articles during a second Town Meeting on ...

BY STEPHEN BEALE The town has hired a firm to design a new fire station, recommend where it would be best to build it and help officials educate voters about the project, if they choose to follow through with it. That decision on the design was made by the Board of Selectmen at its weekly meeting Monday, May 12. The board also approved ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The town of Weare has joined five other towns in the state and members of the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation in a lawsuit against the state declaring the current districts of the House of Representatives unconstitutional. The suit also asks for a judge to compel the state to redistrict prior to the filing period ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Keeping in line with housing values, certain exemption allowances will be decided at Town Meeting. At the Wednesday, May 14, meeting, voters will decide articles 24, 25 and 26 that seeks to modify property tax exemptions for the elderly, disabled and legally blind. “If the value of the house goes up and ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bow voters will have a chance to extend the town’s growth management ordinance and limit the number of elderly housing built in one year. In addition to voting for town and school candidates on Election Day, May 13, Bow residents will be asked to vote on seven zoning amendments. All seven amendments are under ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY After hearing from library trustees at a recent public hearing about the operating budget, Bow Budget Committee members decided to return $15,000 to the budget for the Baker Free Library. By a 4-3 vote after the public hearing, Budget Committee members brought the recommended budget to the same number as the ...