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By DAN ATTORRI

NORTHWOOD – As the largest team-scoring invitational in New Hampshire that falls around the middle of the season, the Black Bear Invitational can often be used as a measuring stick to see how the state’s high school track and field teams stack up against each other. This spring’s edition wasn’t a typical one, with wet and windy conditions forcing the cancellation of the pole vault and high jump events. 

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The financial repercussions of Merrimack Valley’s $2 million over-expenditure will likely spill into a second school year, according to Superintendent Randy Wormald.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Shaun St. Onge, the current principal of Manchester Memorial High School, was selected to become Merrimack Valley High School’s next principal.

By DAN ATTORRI

KINGSTON – It was far from a normal track season this spring.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A series of longstanding financial missteps combined to cause the Merrimack Valley School District to unknowingly spend roughly $2 million it didn’t have last year, superintendent Randy Wormald said this week.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As the bird flu drove up egg prices, Merrimack Valley High School senior Olivia Barto wondered whether raising chickens at home could save her family money.

By ALEXANDER RAPP and DAN ATTORRI

Bow crowned itself Division II baseball state champion last year after a strong playoff run where it upset John Stark in the semifinals and Souhegan in the title tilt.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Merrimack Valley School Board experienced its third resignation in less than six months.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Merrimack Valley School District will eliminate 21 positions next year in response to a $2 million reduction to the district’s proposed budget, administrators announced Monday.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

To stave off teacher layoffs, Merrimack Valley School Board members indicated Wednesday that they may support charging families for school sports, forgoing certain building maintenance and halting a program that provides each elementary student a computer.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

For nearly two weeks, Merrimack Valley High School teachers said they’ve been left to wonder whether they’ll have jobs next year.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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

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.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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.

Editor’s note: Following the publication of this article, Patrick Sadlemire announced he was dropping out of the race for Boscawen’s 3-year seat, citing “a change in personal circumstances.”

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Merrimack Valley School Board Chair Tracy Bricchi accused some district residents of “border[ing] on libel” at the conclusion of a contentious budget hearing Tuesday that saw some attendees call out the board and its administrators for what they described as a lack of transparency and accountability.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Editor’s note: This story was updated on Friday morning to note that the minutes for one of the meetings described were updated following this story’s publication.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

One by one, friends, family, teachers, and even strangers stepped forward, their hands trembling as they each took a candle at the snow-covered field at Merrimack Valley High School.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Merrimack Valley School District exceeded its approved budget by more than $2 million last school year, the superintendent acknowledged this week, more than two months after district administrators became aware of the full extent of the shortfall.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The town of Boscawen is currently without representation on the Merrimack Valley School Board after both members from the town resigned in the last three months.Loren Martin stepped down on Sunday due to what board Chair Tracy Bricchi described as...