New Hampshire Business Review - February 27 2009

School board fights for budget increase

Voters met Wednesday night to decide between competing budgets for the Hollis/Brookline Cooperative School District. The meeting did not wind up in time for today's Telegraph. Results will be in tomorrow's paper. The school district's Budget Committee is asking for…

Board sets pay for school chief

NASHUA - The next superintendent won't start out making any more than the current one and could make less. At Wednesday night's Board of Education meeting, members voted 4-3 to set a starting salary range of $135,000 to $150,000 for…

Big issues to be debated at session

The annual meeting of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District is apt to be a long session. Among the 11 articles to be discussed are expanding the cooperative district to include the elementary schools in the two towns; a $5.9 million…

Record turnout at budget meeting

The annual School District Meeting on Tuesday night was like a foreclosure auction: the School Board offered what it deemed a rock-bottom price to operate the district next year, and taxpayers countered with a succession of bids to lower the…