With several members citing the need for a Town Administrator and a firmer plan, the Derry Town Council voted 4-3 to remove the funding for a Community Development Coordinator from the proposed FY 15 budget. The Council removed the funding…
What are the skills needed to succeed in today’s workplace, and how can a high school student acquire them? These are the questions to be answered in June, when Pinkerton Academy partners with two community colleges to introduce the WorkReady…
The Derry Town Council has approved the working budget for Derry Community Television, while expressing the need for a workshop to discuss the relationship between the town’s cable department and the school district. Chris Martin and Debbie Roy, cable coordinator…
As part of its process for finding a replacement for Hampstead Middle School principal Patti Grassbaugh, who is retiring, the school district has invited its three finalists for the post to a public meeting with the community. The names of…
It’s an idea whose time may not yet have come. That was the consensus of Derry Town Council members to a proposal by Acting Town Administrator Larry Budreau to hire a Community Development Coordinator. While the Council took no formal vote…
Though by the start of this week, the state Attorney General’s office and Governor Maggie Hassan were confident in the ability of Fred Fuller Oil and Propane Co., Inc. to meet its customers’ home heating needs, it has been a…
New Hampshire is the best state in the nation for controlling diseases and the fifth best for its overall ranking. There was little in the recent United Health Foundation report that surprised Garrett Simonsen, coordinator for the Derry Regional Public…
The Derry Cooperative School District is doing its part to meet the requirements for a waiver for New Hampshire from the federal No Child Left Behind law. Under the waiver, the district, formerly a District In Need of Improvement (DINI),…
A routine public hearing on grant acceptance turned into an exploration of Town Council etiquette and relationships in a snowy night meeting Dec. 17. The Town Council held a public hearing on a proposed grant from the New Hampshire Department…
Brian Jarvis makes his Introduction to Manufacturing class at Pinkerton Academy as real-world as possible. He’s formed a mini-factory with his 14 students in the inaugural program, and had them run the numbers on a theoretical business. After figuring out…
