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By LISA RATHKE

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Students angry about a plan to switch to an all-digital library at three Vermont state colleges and to restructure athletics took their cause to the Statehouse on Tuesday, hoping lawmakers could help reverse the schools’...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A complaint by a parent about a teacher at one of Concord’s elementary schools has reached the point where the staff member filed for a restraining order and police were called to the District’s central office last week when a group arrived, upset...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Franklin’s School Board is calling for changes to the state’s school funding system, hoping that it would bring more money to the city schools and lower property taxes for residents. On Tuesday, the Board passed a resolution to ask their...

By ETHAN DEWITT

It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The finalist for SAU 53’s co-superintendent serving the towns of Allenstown, Chichester and Epsom was introduced to residents at a meet and greet event Wednesday. Jack Finley, the principal of the Hanover Street School in Lebanon, emerged as the...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Concord residents voiced concerns this week about pedestrian safety near a new proposed gas station that is planning to open across from Concord High School.The Concord Planning Board approved a conditional use permit Feb. 15 for Nouria Energy...

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The New Hampshire Department of Education saw a record number of nominations this year for the 2024 Teacher of the Year award, during the nomination period which ended Feb. 5.The award, which recognizes one exceptional teacher each year for their work...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A local Concord fourth-grader is one of 12 young journalism enthusiasts from across the country chosen to be on the Junior Council of The Week Junior, a national news magazine for kids.Sam Sexton, 10, a student at St. John Regional School, loves...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A person has been detained by Hopkinton Police in connection with a threat against a student which resulted in all three Hopkinton schools going into secure campus mode Friday.In a letter to the community sent mid-day on Friday, Superintendent Michael...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Mark MacLean, Superintendent of Merrimack Valley and Andover school districts, will be leaving his position at the end of the school year and moving to a new role as the executive director of the New Hampshire School Administrators...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A new commission established by Gov. Chris Sununu will be tasked with creating a Christa McAuliffe memorial at the New Hampshire State House.The Christa McAuliffe State House Memorial Commission, which was created by an executive order Tuesday, will...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Education took a central role in Gov. Chris Sununu’s budget priorities for the next two years, with changes to the school funding formula and support to boost computer science and a civics curriculum. In his budget address to the state legislature...

By EILEEN O’GRADY and GEOFF FORESTER

St. John Regional School administrative assistant Tara Puleo remembers being in her office the morning of Dec. 8 and hearing a sudden loud crash as first responders entered the building.“As I stepped out into the hall I was told this was a lockdown,...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Deerfield residents discussed an increase to the school budget and a boost in teacher salaries, but a 20-year tuition agreement with Concord dominated a lengthy deliberative session this weekend.About 60 voters gathered in the Deerfield Community...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A $14.6 million school budget will be the focus point for John Stark Regional School District voters in March.Weare and Henniker residents gathered for a deliberative session at John Stark Regional High School Friday night to discuss the school...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Over the past year, the Bow Fire Department has experienced a number of personnel issues, and the resignations of call members have made it more challenging to fill shifts.A 4.1% increase to the fire department’s proposed budget would add a part-time...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Rising budgets, salary increases for police officers, town employees and paraeducators, and purchasing town vehicles will be a focus for Weare voters on Election Day in March.Weare residents gathered at the middle school to discuss the town and...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Deerfield residents packed the basement community room of the town office building with one topic on their minds – the future of Deerfield’s high school age students.The event, a panel discussion on school choice, was put on by a citizens’ group that...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Hopkinton town officials hope a bond that’s on the table for the March annual meeting will help make a dent in a vast to-do list of road rebuilds. Meanwhile, residents are torn between supporting the higher of two proposed school budgets and keeping...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a town meeting truism that the smallest items can generate the most discussion. That proved accurate Tuesday in Henniker, where almost all the debate concerned summer concerts that would cost 1/10th of 1 percent of the operating budget.By the...