Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 6/9/2021 4:02:25 PM
Temple voters will once again decide whether or not to adopt SB2 at Saturday’s Town Meeting. It will be the 16th time the town has voted on it in nearly as many years.
SB2 is a process that allows residents to vote on all warrant articles by ballot. In towns that adopt SB2, the first session of Town Meeting is a deliberative session where residents can discuss, debate, and amend warrant articles. The second session comes about 30 days later as a ballot vote, typically on the second Tuesday of March in which voters choose all elected officials, and vote on zoning amendments as well as the warrant. This contrasts with traditional Town Meeting format, in which residents cast ballots for elected officials and zoning amendments at the first session, and the second “business session” is an in-person meeting where residents deliberate and vote on the warrant.
Published: 5/25/2021 11:14:12 AM
When Jimmy Smith first heard of Carele Mayer’s request for donations to help buy peanut butter for End 68 Hours of Hunger, ConVal, he sent out a plea to his network.
Mayer has been collecting money to buy peanut butter by the case from the Harvester Market in Greenfield for years and every so often asks Union Congregational Church Pastor Bob Marrone to put a call out to the parishioners of the Peterborough church. One Sunday, from his home in Florida, Smith heard the ask and wanted to help.
Originally, the goal was to bring in $2,000 but in just 12 days, Smith surpassed that total. So he kept reminding others of the need and by early December, the fundraising endeavor had wracked up more than $5,100. As of last week, the peanut butter drive had collected $8,860 for End 68 Hours.
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 the state constitution to provide an adequate education to all New Hampshire residents, echoing earlier lawsuits regarding educational funding such as the Claremont case.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled against the state’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, sending it back to Superior Court.
Published: 5/10/2021 4:31:50 PM
Callie Boisvert and Abbey Shumway are willing to share their struggles with mental health. But that wasn’t always the case.
Boisvert was bullied in her last two years of middle school and it led to what she called a suicidal depression. Instead of discussing with others how she was feeling, Boisvert kept it buried deep inside.
“I had no idea how to handle it,” she said. “I never really fully recovered from it. It affects me so much to this day.”
But Boisvert has seen changes in herself, especially after she started to be more open about how she was feeling – to her parents, friends and a counselor.