The Derry School Board approved a 10-cent per meal increase in school lunch prices, in response to Federal guidelines. The board approved the increase at its Dec. 16 meeting after hearing an update from Business Administrator Jane Simard and Food…
A discussion on easements needed to expand town water and sewer down Route 28 South turned into whether the expansion was appropriate at this time. Michael Fowler, Director of Public Works, and Thomas Carrier, Deputy Director, discussed the easements at…
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…
Council Chair Mark Osborne said this week that a nonpublic session to talk about Town Historian Rick Holmes was intended to give him more information on the historian, his post and his presence in the Municipal Building. Holmes was not…
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…
The Derry Police Department has been involved in trying to prevent 16 drug overdoses since January, with 12 from heroin and the other four from other opiates. Five deaths resulted, four from heroin and one still under investigation. “These are…
With a sense of deja vu for those watching, the Taylor Library survived another challenge to its existence at the April 17 Town Council budget meeting. While the library was fully funded in Acting Town Administrator Larry Budreau’s working budget,…
Jim Roche, president of the Business and Industry Association (BIA) of New Hampshire, heard three themes from a recent study: the consistency and predictability of the business environment is a challenge; the labor pool of science, technology, math and engineering…
The Derry School Board conducted first readings on several policy updates at its April 8 meeting. Superintendent Laura Nelson presented the policies. In most cases, she said, the policies clarified language; in some cases they condensed it. One policy, BEDC,…
The Derry Town Council swept a new carpet for the Municipal Center under the carpet and trimmed several requests for overtime in Public Works Director Mike Fowler’s budget request for 2015, but otherwise approved the working budgets for eight of…
