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Concord town criers for May 16, 2021
Published: 5/14/2021 9:07:03 PM
PENACOOK
Services available
■United Church of Penacook continues to offer in-person services at 10 a.m. every Sunday. You can also listen to a recording or a YouTube video of the full service by visiting ucpnh.org.
■The food pantry at the United Church of Penacook is open every Tuesday from 9:30-11:30 a.m. for Penacook residents. Pantry visitors are allowed two bags of groceries and one bag of personal care items every two weeks.
CHERYL STINSON
Parks and Rec program
■The Concord Parks and Recreation Senior Program will have Dorean Kimball coming to the City Wide Community Center on May 26 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to present information about the accordion and her therapeutic volunteer work at Concord Hospital and local nursing homes. Dorean will talk about the accordion and play some beautiful, familiar tunes. For more information or to sign up to attend, contact Becky at 230-4982 or rbukowski@concor
The Payson school board this week adopted an optimistic preliminary budget plan, with lots of problems in the fine print.
A flush of federal funding has provided something of a financial high in the face of big enrollment declines and worrisome state funding formulas.
Kind of like giving pain killers to a cancer patient.
Still, the board members made the best of an uncertain situation â with promised federal funding for the moment preventing the widespread cuts that enrollment declines and extra costs related to the pandemic might otherwise require.
The district has suffered a roughly 15% enrollment decline since the onset of the pandemic â roughly 300 students. The drop wiped away years of slow enrollment growth. In addition, about 15% of students have opted to remain full time in distance learning mode, which also costs the district funding.