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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.

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Editor’s note: This story is part of the Monitor’s Inside EFAs series, which examines New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program.

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Pending charges against a Concord police officer accused of assaulting two people while on duty in 2023 have been dropped by prosecutors, court records show.

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A year after voters in Pembroke rejected a multi-million dollar budget increase, school leaders now face the real prospect of a repeat of sorts – albeit on a smaller scale – this spring.

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As part of our Inside EFAs series, the Monitor compiled a database of all Education Freedom Account spending that did not go to private school tuition.

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Editor’s note: This story is part of the Monitor’s Inside EFAs series, which examines New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program. The series’ first story focused on how money is spent on private and religious schools.

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Leaders of school districts hammered by the rising costs of special education services reacted with muted optimism to the news that Gov. Kelly Ayotte plans to increase a component of state funding for special education by nearly 50%.

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State Rep. Dan McGuire testified Monday that a meeting with Epsom School District administrators was the genesis for a bill that would eliminate multiple subjects from a list of requirements for public schools.

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An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday aimed at barring transgender girls and women from participating on female sports teams has already had a tangible effect on at least one local school district.

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Boscawen’s modest 1.7% proposed budget increase is good news for taxpayers, but town leaders cautioned that the seeming stability belies what could be around the corner.