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LEBANON — The playoff run for the Lebanon High boys tennis team got off to a flawless start on Thursday afternoon when the Raiders dropped just two games in a 9-0 sweep of Kingswood to open NHIAA Division II postseason play at the CCBA courts.Mason...

Local roundup: Two big innings propel Newport softball past Hanover Staff Reports Modified: 5/19/2021 11:12:11 PM NEWPORT — The Newport High softball team used a seven-run second inning and an eight-run fourth to pull away for an 18-5 win over Hanover on Wednesday, bumping the Tigers’ record to 7-1 on the season. Newport overturned an early Hanover score with a two-run first, then took over with 12 hits. Winning pitcher Tanya Sanchez (five strikeouts, one walk, two HBP) helped herself with...

Four more school districts – Hopkinton, Lebanon, Manchester, and Nashua – will join the ConVal School District’s lawsuit seeking equitable education funding from the state.“The Lebanon School Board felt it was important to join with other school...

Manchester School District joins ConVal’s education funding lawsuit A ConVal School District bus. (Benji Rosen/ Monadnock Ledger-Transcript) Benji Rosen Published: 5/18/2021 3:13:57 PM The Manchester School District will be joining the Con-Val School District and several other school districts across the state as co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire regarding education funding. Filed in March 2019, the lawsuit claims that the state government does not meet its duty in...

LANGDON, N.H. — Lebanon (2-6) softball picked up its second win in a row with an 18-8 road win over Fall Mountain.This continued Lebanon’s big week, as the Raiders snapped a 44-game losing streak Monday, also against Fall Mountain.The Raiders started...

Three Upper Valley districts join fight Modified: 5/10/2021 9:56:32 PM CLAREMONT — Three Upper Valley school districts plan to join a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s education funding system as part of a coalition that now stretches from Sullivan County to the Seacoast. Claremont, Newport and Grantham will join seven other school districts that intend to argue state funding fails to meet students’ basic educational needs, according to Manchester attorney Michael Tierney, who represe...

Their moment in the sun: Lebanon softball gets first win since 2017 The Lebanon softball team cheers as coach Ray Petterson joins them in the outfield following their 24-11 win over Fall Mountain in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, May 10, 2021. It is the teams first win in four years. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Autumn Crowell sprints toward third on her way to the first of two ho...

ConVal school bus in snow Staff photo by Ben Conant Published: 5/6/2021 4:32:35 PM The Grantham School District and the Oyster River Cooperative School District will join the ConVal School District’s lawsuit filed against the State of New Hampshire over equitable education funding, ConVal announced in a press release Thursday.  The Grantham and Oyster River Districts join seven other co-plaintiff districts: Claremont, Fall Mountain, Hillsboro-Deering, Mascenic, Monadnock, Newport and Winches...

NH ranked dead last in state education funding, 2nd in student-teacher ratio. Vt. is tops in both Modified: 4/29/2021 11:04:55 PM New Hampshire ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to low student-to-teacher ratio, a new national education report shows, but is dead last among all states when it comes to state funding for public education. Vermont, on the other hand, ranks first in both categories. The National Education Association, the national labor union representing teachers, re...

N.H. ranks dead last in the nation for state education funding A ConVal School District bus. (Benji Rosen/ Monadnock Ledger-Transcript) Benji Rosen Published: 4/29/2021 4:39:56 PM New Hampshire ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to low student-to-teacher ratio, a new national education report shows, but is dead last among all states when it comes to state funding for public education. The National Education Association, the national labor union representing teachers, released...