A Derry homeowner and a business owner came to a truce as part of the Nov. 5 Planning Board meeting. Maureen Rose, a resident of 115 Windham Road, and Edward Smith, a businessman hoping to put a 44,000-square-foot self-storage facility…
The search for a new Derry Town Administrator is off to a good start, Town Councilors and residents agreed. Progress on the search to replace John Anderson, whose employment was terminated in October, is progressing well, with a Council mostly…
Students at Pinkerton Academy will not have to adhere to a Unified Dress Code offering a variety of clothing items. The semi-private high school will maintain its current dress code instead. The concept of a unified dress code was first…
Hooksett voters sent their School Board back to the drawing board for high school options, after a two-thirds majority of voters rejected a 10-year contract with Pinkerton Academy. The contract was Article 3 on the warrant voted on March 11.…
The Town of Derry will keep a series of Town Council e-mails private, after a Rockingham County Superior Court judge ruled that the e-mails in question are confidential personnel documents. On Thursday, March 6, Judge Marguerite Wageling heard testimony from…
The Derry Town Council will take a second look at its vote to approve the Professional, Administrative and Technical Employees’ (PATE) collective bargaining agreement. At its Feb. 18 meeting, the Council voted 3-2 to approve the contract, with Councilor Phyllis…
Restoration work will be done on the Opera House portion of the Adams Memorial Building, after a split vote by the Town Council. In his presentation at the March 4 meeting, public works director Mike Fowler said that in a…
A Rockingham County Superior Court judge is examining documents in the Town of Derry’s effort to keep a series of e-mails private. Judge Marguerite Wageling heard testimony Thursday, March 6, from Kevin Coyle, the resident requesting the documents under RSA…
An effort to lower an already-amended Derry School District budget failed in a secret ballot, and the budget proposed by the School Board will go to the voters March 11. The School Board’s working budget of $80,817,146 was reduced to…
The Town of Derry is one step closer to a contract with its Professional, Administrative and Technical Employees (PATE). At the Feb. 4 Town Council meeting, Acting Town Administrator Larry Budreau put on his Human Resources Director hat to present…
