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…
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…
Leadership Londonderry, which has trained residents in the inner workings of their government and given them the background as well as the skills to volunteer for their community, is taking a break. New Hampshire’s many forms of government all share…
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…
The hope of the future, or the people who helped make that hope possible? A soul-searching Derry Town Council discussed its options at the April 22 budget meeting, after Councilor Michael Fairbanks suggested a straw poll on two issues that…
After extensive discussion, the Derry Fire Department survived a challenge to its overtime line in the April 22 budget meeting. Fire Chief George Klauber presented the working budget for Prevention and Emergency Services. While Town Councilors questioned several expenses, in…
One of Derry’s newest Town Councilors has questioned the process by which the Council reviews budget requests. Councilor David Fischer, representative for District 3, asked for a budget process discussion to be added to the agenda for April 15. Fischer…
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…
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,…
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…
