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As the Challenger launch date approached in January 1986, sixth-grader Kim Bleier rushed home from the Conant School each afternoon to catch the latest news on television, captivated by a mission that was set to make Concord High School social studies...

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In a move that is becoming more common across the state, a group of residents is vying to slash the Kearsarge Regional School District budget by an amount district leaders contend would force them to lay off scores of educators and close schools.The...

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Complicating the road forward for the Pembroke school district is yet another high-profile departure, this time from Superintendent Patty Sherman, who announced that she will retire at the end of the school year.Sherman becomes the latest district...

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Longtime educator Dan Morris will step down as headmaster of Pembroke Academy at the end of this school year, he announced earlier this month.The fallout from voters’ $3 million cut to the proposed school budget contributed to his decision to...

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The ice climber who fell 60 feet during a climb in Harts Location on Saturday is expected to survive without any long-term injuries, state officials said Monday morning.Slavek Zaglewski, 55, of Oakland, New Jersey, was climbing with a friend on a...

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Merrimack Valley High School senior Keighen Duppong knows attending the University of New Hampshire would likely cost thousands of dollars less per year than most of the schools on his college list.Duppong, who plans to study applied physics, has sent...

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A Concord school bus that veered off the road Friday morning did not have any students on it and there were no injuries, according to Concord Police Department Deputy Chief John Thomas.The incident involved a car and occurred at the intersection of...

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The water supply in the Hopkinton Village Precinct is down Thursday morning and the Harold Martin School was in the process of dismissing students early as of 9:30 a.m., according to a series of notifications that went out to parents.A separate...

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It took longer than expected, but Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee finally has hired a consultant to facilitate its first steps as a committee.The Texas-based Racial Equity Group beat out three other applicants...

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Hiring superintendents, principals and nurses is not necessary to provide the state’s youngest residents with an adequate education, Solicitor General Anthony Galdieri argued at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday.Neither is providing heat...

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It took just a few hours for a vandal to strike The Satanic Temple statue erected in front of the State House on Saturday evening, said Ellen Read, the state representative who coordinated the unveiling.In the ensuing days, the plaque displaying the...

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Editor’s note: Inside EFAs is a new occasional Monitor series that will examine New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program from multiple perspectives over the coming months.The vast majority of money from New Hampshire’s four-year-old school...

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A proposal by district administrators to raise meal prices in Merrimack Valley schools was temporarily tabled by the school board on Monday, with some members expressing concern that any increase could further hamstring families who are struggling to...

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The Kearsarge Regional School District has yet to face any legal consequences for declining to comply with a new state law barring transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams, according to Superintendent John Fortney’s response to a...

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Moo-ve over, class fish and hamsters. Merrimack Valley Middle School math teacher Becky King has adopted a cow.Bonnie, a Brown Swiss dairy cow, does not literally live in King’s sixth-grade classroom, but her presence is very much felt. The...

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The night after the man she considered her grandfather pleaded guilty to assaulting her as a child, Haley Dempsey had a dream.“It was the same scenario: everything looked like that day in the courtroom,” she recalled. “But as he was put in handcuffs,...

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Most visual artists stick to a primary surface. Jaeden Taylor is not like most artists.The Merrimack Valley High School junior has designed gnomes adorned with three-dimensional beards and has sold painted rocks that customers use as paperweights.Even...

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New Hampshire schools likely surpassed $1 billion in special education spending for the first time last year, though the final numbers are still rolling in.As special education costs have steadily risen since the pandemic, state aid has stayed roughly...

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Hopkinton School Board members erupted in anger at the state Legislature over news delivered earlier this month that school districts would receive significantly less money to cover certain special education expenses than they are eligible to...

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School Superintendent Marcy Kelley told a federal judge that the symbol “XX” displayed on pink armbands worn by Bow parents should be banned from all sporting events going forward, whether or not a transgender athlete is playing.Kelley repeatedly...