Published: 6/9/2021 4:00:55 PM
The Department of Education has required school districts put into place a plan for the 2021-22 school year by June 23, and local districts are starting to make decisions about what the fall will look like.
Earlier this year, Gov. Chris Sununu announced all K-12 schools must offer a full-time, in-person learning as of April 19, and all local schools have been operating full-time since then, if they weren’t already, but still offered a fully-remote option.
Local school districts appear ready to carry on the five-day in-person schedule in the fall, according to current reopening plan discussions.
On Monday, the Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School Board made two adjustments to its current framework, effective immediately, and discussed a community survey asking parents their preferences for the fall.
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Published: 6/9/2021 4:13:10 PM
Miller State Park’s auto road is scheduled to reopen on June 11, heralding the completion of a number of major improvements to the park.
The 1.3-mile paved road connecting Route 101 to the summit of Pack Monadnock is a popular walking spot for locals and visitors. Over the past three years, local park users have been working with the DNCR, Eversource, and other state interests to devise a beautification plan for the park, to deploy in tandem with necessary upgrades to the utility lines that extend up the mountain.
Work started in April. Eversource removed some existing poles along the road, buried lines underground at the summit, and rerouted their lines to a visually inconspicuous path through the woods. “All line construction was completed on May 20th and it is energized and in service,” an Eversource representative wrote on Monday. The Auto Road was able to open to the public on weekends before closing this week
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Published: 6/9/2021 4:02:25 PM
Temple voters will once again decide whether or not to adopt SB2 at Saturday’s Town Meeting. It will be the 16th time the town has voted on it in nearly as many years.
SB2 is a process that allows residents to vote on all warrant articles by ballot. In towns that adopt SB2, the first session of Town Meeting is a deliberative session where residents can discuss, debate, and amend warrant articles. The second session comes about 30 days later as a ballot vote, typically on the second Tuesday of March in which voters choose all elected officials, and vote on zoning amendments as well as the warrant. This contrasts with traditional Town Meeting format, in which residents cast ballots for elected officials and zoning amendments at the first session, and the second “business session” is an in-person meeting where residents deliberate and vote on the warrant.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year and thousands of New Hampshire residents lost jobs or were laid off, the expectation was that local food pantries would be flooded with new clients in need of food.Some pantries have seen an uptick in visitors.
Temple is shooting for a unanimous approval of the town’s broadband internet bond at Town Meeting, Broadband subcommittee Chair Jessica Hipp said at Wednesday night’s bond hearing. The hearing was the second-to-last required step in the town’s process.