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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As town officials ramp up spending year after year, people like Ray Olivier can’t keep up. On Saturday, the challenge for Oliver and other residents on fixed incomes became more pronounced after Pembroke voters approved a $11.6 million budget, which...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Four months back, Ian Tewksbury was looking after his 11-year-old granddaughter when she accidentally jammed her finger in a bedroom door, causing the tip to chip off.Being an experienced EMT, Tewksbury understood the urgency of the situation and...

By CHLOE RATTEE

In Loudon, like town meetings across the state, attendance was higher than usual due to the concern over high taxes. Throughout the meeting, residents spoke of their disappointment.“I want to thank everyone for turning out today, this is by far the...

By CATHERINE McLAUHLIN

Some things about Town Meeting never change.For one, Cheryl Gordon said, “the smallest amount of money takes the longest time.”Gordon would know — Canterbury’s town meeting Friday night was her 45th, and final, as a municipal official there. She...

Loudon wants some new vehicles, like a $150,000 excavator with a trailer, a $75,000 road tractor, and a $60,000 police cruiser.Voters will be asked to give the town permission to buy those things this Saturday at the annual Town Meeting. Residents...

By DAVID BROOKS

The continuing problem of cyanobacteria blooms in French and Keyser ponds, mostly caused by phosphate from runoff and septic systems, would be targeted under a proposal to hire a consulting firm to recommend ways to tackle the problem. The $100,000...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michael Cutting opened Warner’s Town Meeting with a mea culpa. The long-time town budget committee chair admitted town spending over the last five years had gotten out of control.Since 2019, the town’s annual operating budget has increased from $4...

By DAVID BROOKS

Weare voters rejected the town operating budget but approved the school operating budget on Tuesday, and made a decision that leaves a decade-old debate about town-owned land on East Road even less settled than it was before.Voters approved both...

By DAVID BROOKS

Incumbent Select Board member Kris Blomback was re-elected while Peter Flynn will replace Scott Osgood on the five-person board after Tuesday’s election in Henniker.In the Henniker School District, voters easily passed the operating budget of $10.07...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Boscawen voters approved a 1.1% increase to the town operating budget, a plan to join the Community Power Coalition, the creation of a town forest along Walker Pond and the sale of two historic town buildings at their town meeting Tuesday night. With...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Paula Gallion first saw the $3.24 tax impact for the operating and capital budget, she feared taxes on her home in Salisbury would increase by over a thousand dollars annually. She was in for a surprise.While other towns dealt with double-digit...

Towns throughout the area settled local business and elected new representatives Tuesday. Only SB2 towns will have full results from Tuesday's voting. Traditional towns will only have elected positions and zoning amendments settled on Tuesday.

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET

Unlike other school districts around the state that are losing enrollment, Dunbarton is adding students.“This is a growing community and in many ways, a sought-after community,” Superintendent Marcy Kelley said at Saturday’s school district annual...

By RAY DUCKLER

In years past, Tara Blaney, a member of the Chichester Budget Committee, has carried a fiscally conservative voice into town and school meetings, trying to balance the welfare of the town with the health of its bank accounts.Saturday, though, at the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The way William O’Mahoney saw it, Pembroke voters had two options: price out the elderly or support schools. With a proposed budget of $33.8 million delivering a 28% tax increase, it was hard to feel like one didn’t come at the expense of the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After the moderator read the results of the Merrimack Valley School Board elections Friday night, Julia Jones dabbed away a few tears.Though she is the president of the Salisbury parent-teacher group, she relied only on word of mouth to promote her...

Boscawen voters will be asked to establish an 82.5 acre town forest along Walker Pond, primarily on land acquired in 2021 from a sale with the water district.The town-owned land offers residents an opportunity to access the 200-acre pond, a former...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For Karen Coyne, Warner seemed like the perfect retirement town for her family. She and her husband bought a house on a dead-end road with seven other houses. And then for the past three years, they’ve seen double-digit tax increases forcing their...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Merrimack Valley School District voters will weigh a 5.9% budget increase and decide two contested school board races on Friday. The proposed operating budget for the five-community district is $48,298,106, up almost $2.7 million from last year. The...

By DAVID BROOKS

Henniker voters will face a town operating budget of $6.66 million, up 6% from the amount approved last year, on election day as well as a $1.5 million bond to continue upgrades of the wastewater system.Tuesday’s budget hearing contained some debate...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Christine Frost recognizes the many duties of a select board member in Warner. Sometimes they need to know the role of a town librarian. Other times, they’re a town historian. And they’re often equal parts rule-setter and follower. She believes it’s a...