A Win for the Parents of Joel Durham
by Ed Naile “Out of left field” is how Cindi Durham, mother of the 17 year old special needs student, described the decision by Hillsboro/Deering Cooperative School District’s “Life Skills Team” to leave her son, Joel Jr., in the Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation...SAU 44 Fires Superintendent
From the Concord Monitor The school district that includes Northwood severed ties with its superintendent last week, halfway through her two-year contract. District officials confirmed that Judith McGann is no longer employed by SAU 44, which includes schools in...N.H. has lowest birthrate in nation
August 22, 2008 Boston Globe WASHINGTON – The stork apparently has trouble landing in New England. New Hampshire has the lowest, Vermont the second-lowest, Rhode Island the third-lowest, Massachusetts the seventh-lowest, and Maine the eighth-lowest birth rates...Somersworth considers new school, bonding explained
August 20, 2008 Fosters SOMERSWORTH — City officials have three options in bonding for the new elementary school, if they choose to move forward with that plan. Recently, Sheila St. Germain, executive director of the New Hampshire Municipal Bond Bank, spoke to the...Homeschoolers Threaten Our Cultural Comfort
August 18, 2008 Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store. It’s a big family by today’s standards – “just like stair steps,” as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed...VISITORS