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The Concord school board has commissioned a demographic study to forecast enrollment trends.The $16,500 contract will go to Davis Demographics & Planning, Inc., a California-based firm that make enrollment projections seven years into the... → Read More
Pembroke Academy will be kicking off a year-long celebration of its 200th birthday with a day of events at the high school Saturday.“We want to first honor Pembroke Academy’s role in the community and celebrate its historical heritage,” said Dan... → Read More
Unlike traditional schools, PACE Career Academy, a charter high school in Allenstown, doesn’t have a prep kitchen, a band room, or athletic fields. Instead, it rents space at the Suncook Business Park in Allenstown, and makes do with reworked office... → Read More
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is required by law to offer legal opinions on “any question of law” submitted by either branch of the Legislature.Historically, those opinions are public, and even posted on the Attorney General’s... → Read More
With property-poor towns clamoring to stop cuts to state education aid, lawmakers decided last legislative session to study the state’s formula for funding schools more closely over a year.But with the panel’s work focused on redistributing what aid... → Read More
A few voters complained about ever-increasing taxes at the Epsom school district’s deliberative session Tuesday, but residents ultimately left unamended all three of the school warrants.“If you keep relying solely on taxation to fund the education... → Read More
For a 2 percent bump in the tax rate, Concord’s schools could expand to full-day kindergarten next year.That’s according to the $81.79 million general fund budget proposal presented to the school board Wednesday, when district leaders unveiled a first... → Read More
As congressional Republicans work out the differences between House and Senate versions of a sweeping tax reform bill, Nathaniel Stafford is bracing himself. The Ph.D. candidate in the psychology department at the University of New Hampshire is one of... → Read More
For many, Concord’s municipal election Tuesday was relatively ho-hum. But for the blind and visually impaired, it marked a milestone.“This is the first time ever that there was an accessible voting system available in (a Concord race),” said Guy... → Read More
In wards 1, 2, 3 and 4, Concord voters choosing a school board member to represent District A will have their pick between a veteran of the board and two fresh faces.Tom Croteau, the incumbent and the school board’s secretary, hopes voters will stick... → Read More
The education tax rate in Concord will rise about 3 percent this year.School board members on Wednesday voted, 8-0, to put a small surplus toward a fresh fruit and vegetable program at two elementary schools and the facilities stabilization fund.The... → Read More
Just as Concord is weighing plans to rebuild the city’s middle school, the district is eyeing a $19 million pot of state money to recoup some of what was spent on the district’s rushed conversion to natural gas this year.Officials said Wednesday that... → Read More
Parents of Rundlett Middle School students will see a different sort of report card come home at the end of the quarter.Like many districts across New Hampshire, and, increasingly, the country, Concord’s schools are switching to a competency-based... → Read More
While it received little coverage in the American media, the British Virgin Islands, and in particular, Tortola, the region’s largest island, were one of the places hardest-hit by Hurricane Irma.But at home in Amherst, Missy Gaffney worried... → Read More
The “Live Free of Die” state prides itself on certain traditions of civic engagement like its citizen Legislature and the first-in-the-nation primary. But speedy, consistent access to government records? That’s a different story.Enter Right to Know... → Read More
A Hopkinton physician who gained prominence as one of the whistleblowers at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Manchester is running for Congress.Stewart Levenson, 60, announced Wednesday he would be a Republican candidate for New Hampshire’s 2nd... → Read More
University of New Hampshire researchers will study whether training college students on how to handle receiving a sexual assault disclosure from a friend helps those survivors recover better.Sexual assault survivors typically don’t report first to law... → Read More
Concord residents and the city’s school board got an early look at what a new Rundlett Middle School could one day look like on Wednesday.Architects with HMFH, the Massachusetts firm that designed three new elementary schools for the district in the... → Read More
Like most assembled in Concord High School auditorium on Tuesday morning, English teacher Heidi Crumrine thought she was there to watch CHS senior Laila Ruffin, the state’s youth poet laureate, be honored.But after Ruffin read her poem about... → Read More
Lawmakers have written some wiggle room into the rules attached to a controversial school nurse licensing law.A state law that passed in 2016 required school nurses have a bachelor’s degree and at least three years of pediatric experience. It was... → Read More