Population up, school Enrollment down in N.H.

July 26, 2008 Seacoast Online Demographer says it’s a good reason to worry PORTSMOUTH — A pair of local demographic experts weighed in on the causes behind numbers that suggest that even though New Hampshire’s population is trending upwards, there are...

District Again Rebuffs Parents’ Calls for Info

From the Concord Monitor The parents of a severely disabled Deering boy say they will file a lawsuit against the Hillsboro-Deering School Board after it again refused to discuss a decision to put their son into the public school district. Ed Naile, chairman of the New...

School Board Urged to Find Some Balance

From the Concord Monitor Unity was the message residents delivered to the Hillsboro-Deering School Board at last night’s meeting as board members began work to select a new member. Six candidates applied for the fifth spot on the board, which opened last month...

Where did the state suddenly get money to study trains?

July 23, 2008 By Charles M. Arlinghaus FINDING A LITTLE extra money from the taxpayers to help out your friends is always more popular than cutting spending to balance the budget. It shouldn’t surprise us that just weeks after the latest round of spending cuts,...

Portsmouth City Council Defeats “Anti-Pledge” Resolution

July 23, 2008 by Bill St. Laurent, President The Association of Portsmouth Taxpayers The Portsmouth City Council had a public hearing, Monday night, to get the residents to vote for a city resolution to do away with the “pledge”. This resolution was...