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By EILEEN O’GRADY

The school budget will take center stage for John Stark School District voters on Election Day in March, as it’s the only big cost item that voters are being asked to consider.The district’s proposed school operating budget for 2023-2024 is $14.66...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The John Stark School District will hold a public hearing Friday on the proposed school budget for the 2023-24 school year. The hearing is an opportunity for members of the public to weigh in on the proposed school budget before the deliberative...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Increasing wages for school support staff known as paraeducators is one of the focal points of the Weare school district this year.Weare voters will be asked to approve a new contract with paraeducators and a proposed school budget of $18.3 million....

By MELANIE MATTS

Eric and Sharon Houle have grown more and more upset since last school year when they were informed of a racist death threat targeting their son written on a bathroom wall of John Stark Regional High School in Weare.Equally disturbing as the threats...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The Weare School District will hold a public hearing Wednesday on the proposed school budget for the 2023-2024 school year. The hearing is an opportunity for members of the public to weigh in on the proposed school budget before the deliberative...

DUNBARTONHistorical Society anniversary■Congratulations to the Dunbarton Historical Society, established in 1963, on its 60th anniversary.■The DCC Book Club has a new name, Beyond the Book. This month the club is reading No Time Like the Future by...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Melissa Goyait of Weare helps local students access college and career opportunities through a program that supports them long after high school.Goyait is the associate director at Educational Talent Search, a federal program housed at the University...

Weare Middle School and Center Woods Upper Elementary School will have a new principal next year. SAU 24 Superintendent Jacqueline Coe announced last month that Jon Barry will become the new principal of the school, effective July 1.Barry will be...

By DAVID BROOKS

Clough State Park, off-road trails in the Hopkinton-Everett System and the beach at Elm Brook Park have been temporarily closed by rising waters which are being held back by the Hopkinton and Everett dams to prevent downstream flooding.A week of heavy...

By CHRISTINE HAGUE

Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student activism generated protests for civil rights and...

By RAY DUCKLER

For the human side to the story, Monday’s press conference at the Weare Police Department served its purpose.Officer Paul Lewis, his right arm totally bandaged beginning with his knuckles, was grateful he could celebrate his 28th birthday, seven days...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

The day Dunbarton teen Trevor Gonyer died, Stephanie Burke called his phone dozens of times.Burke, a Goffstown High School student at the time, knew her friend was dead. Her baby sister had told her, “bawling her eyes out,” the morning of July 3,...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Two alleged motorcycle club members, including a Hells Angels member, are among four New Hampshire men arrested recently on federal drug trafficking charges following an investigation officials say spanned several years.James Cunningham, 60, of...