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When Terese Bastarache returned to her truck after last year’s Merrimack Valley School District annual meeting, she cried.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Boscawen’s snow plow operators work the night shift, they nap in their trucks. When other public works employees take their breaks, they pull up chairs and crowd around the cramped office of their boss, director Dean Hollins. And when visitors come by the Woodbury Lane building, they enter through that same office into a building that is so low and crammed with stuff that many of the town’s vehicles can’t fit inside.

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Inside EFAs is a Monitor series about New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program. Check out the other stories in the series here.

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Lorrie Carey is used to close races.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Four days after voters approved a $2 million reduction to the Merrimack Valley School District’s budget for next year, board members clashed with their superintendent over who would have the final say over cuts.

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Jessica Bickford, a longtime special education teacher and administrator, will serve as the next superintendent of the Pembroke and Deerfield School Districts, SAU executive board chair Kerri Dean announced Tuesday.

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Pembroke Academy sophomore Campbell Nivison was not in the high school gymnasium last March when residents approved a $3 million reduction to the school board’s proposed budget.

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When Pembroke residents cast their votes for school board on Tuesday, the ballot will direct them to pick two out of the three candidates running.

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A deeply divided Merrimack Valley community narrowly approved a nearly $2 million reduction to next year’s proposed school budget late Thursday night, plunging the 2,200-student district into a period of uncertainty.

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Boscawen’s Patrick Sadlemire, on the ballot for a three-year seat on the Merrimack Valley School Board, announced on Tuesday that he was dropping out of the race.

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The three candidates for a Boscawen Select Board seat – incumbent Lorrie Carey and challengers Loren Martin and Jay Westgate – sparred over how to fund capital projects, the hours town offices should be open, a potential conflict of interest, and several other topics during a candidate forum this week.

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Despite a common grumble against rising school costs, next year’s spending plans for districts across Merrimack County show a more modest increase than last year.

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New Hampshire’s largest teachers union is challenging the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal funding from schools that participate in diversity, equity and inclusion programming.

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The Republican-controlled House Education Funding Committee on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to make New Hampshire’s school choice program fully universal starting in 2026.

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Inside a windowless office crammed between two classrooms at the Mill Brook School in Concord, Louise Irafasha had a very special introduction to make.

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Editor’s Note: This story was updated to include information and a link to a GoFundMe for the passenger of the truck involved in last month’s crash, McIntyre Tintle.

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The people responsible for posting a video with the sign “Jesus loves white children” outside of Pembroke’s elementary school this week shared similar videos on social media in the last year that appeared to have been filmed outside other locations around the state, including two other area schools.

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Most students get to spend four years on their high school robotics team.

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In the weeks since President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at barring transgender girls and women from participating on female sports teams, New Hampshire school districts have been flooded with a flurry of conflicting guidance about how to proceed.

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Emergency crews freed six trapped cows during a three-hour rescue operation Friday evening after a barn at the landmark Highway View Farm in Boscawen partially collapsed.