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Keene Sentinel Cheshire County Sheriff Eli Rivera is proposing a pilot program in which armed civilian guards could be placed at schools to serve as a “first line of defense” to confront an active shooter.He still needs to find funding, develop...

The New Hampshire Senate Finance Committee recently rejected a request to fund a pilot program, but Cheshire County Sheriff Eli Rivera said he is still interested in pursuing the proposal if he can find a way to pay for it.

As spring will soon round the corner to summer, the end of the school year in the Monadnock Region is looking much as it did in 2019.And it’s not just the familiar daffodils pushing up through the earth or the muddy trails winding across Pisgah State...

In December, Nashua teacher Walt Freeman stepped up to the mic to speak to the city’s Board of Education.“If I were to write a futuristic dystopian novel, it would begin with a deadly pandemic as a backdrop. The schools in my dystopian novel would be...

In December, Nashua teacher Walt Freeman stepped up to the mic to speak to the city’s Board of Education.“If I were to write a futuristic dystopian novel, it would begin with a deadly pandemic as a backdrop. The schools in my dystopian novel would be...

Credit Sarah Gibson for NHPR Some school districts say they need more time to fully reopen than they have under the April 19 deadline Gov. Chris Sununu has set. They point to teacher vaccination timelines, understaffing, and inability to social distance on buses and in some classrooms as the major hurtles to a full return. After Sununu’s executive order, the Monadnock Regional School District school board voted to stick with their original plan to reopen fully on May 3. In a letter to Educati...

Listen to the interview here. Sarah Gibson: So what do you make of the governors, essentially [its a] mandate, for schools to fully reopen? Are you prepared to do so? Robert Malay: I think its going to be incredibly challenging to overcome some of the logistical obstacles ahead of us. But I am very confident with the staff that we have that whatever the obstacle is, well be able to overcome it. The additional time for us to make sure our staff were through that vaccination period would have bee...

New Hampshire Schools Confront Student Broadband Issues In a survey conducted this summer by the N.H. Department of Education, 32 percent of parents in Keene, H.H., and several other municipalities, said technical issues disrupt their childs remote instruction at times. by Caleb Symons, The Keene Sentinel / December 14, 2020 Shutterstock/Sue Tansirimas Faulkner Elementary School in  Stoddard, where Bridges teaches 4th and 5th grade...

Copy URL In one of the most frightening winters in recent memory, when coronavirus is killing thousands, and millions of children are barred from their classrooms, struggling for enough internet to learn, Campbell’s Soup made a decision. It would fight, in its cozy way, for kids’ right to take a day off. But the iconic food company’s “Save the Snow Day” campaign, launched this month, isn’t finding a universally warm-and-fuzzy reception with its intended audiences: parents, and t...

The Keene High School building is closed today after someone within the school community tested positive for COVID-19. According to a Thursday letter sent to KHS families by Principal Cindy Gallagher and SAU 29 Superintendent Robert Malay, the individual who tested positive had been in the building less than 48 hours before the letter was sent. The school has reached out to people who have had close contact with that individual — defined as being within 6 feet of the person who tested posi...