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Co-op, Residents Discuss Mascoma

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Enfield — By the end of yesterday’s meeting with representatives from the Co-op Food Stores, organizer Dorothy Heinrichs had the names of more than 100 residents who supported her cause. She’ll need them all and more for her goal of opening a Co-op store in the Mascoma Valley to become a reality. Although Co-op Food Stores Finance Director Tony Alongi said they will re-evaluate the Mascoma Valley market numbers, he …

Haverhill Gets Fire Safety List

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Haverhill — The state fire marshal has given the Haverhill Cooperative School District a to-do list of requirements following the rejection of a warrant article by voters in March that would have paid for necessary fire safety improvements at the high school. The $330,000 warrant article failed by just two votes. If it had passed, the money would have completed the final phase …

Mascoma Officals Wait For N.H. Fire Marshal

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Canaan — Administrators at Mascoma Valley Regional High School are still waiting to hear from the state Fire Marshal’s Office after a renovation plan that would have added a sprinkler system failed in March. In March, a $21.8 million proposal to renovate the 50-year-old high school failed. It was the third renovation bond to fail since 2008. The high school received a letter …

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Hanover’s Katie Irwin reaches for a ball from St. Thomas’ Kelly Carson during their NHIAA Division II semifinal match at the Boss Tennis Center in Hanover yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Saints Stop Marauders
St. Thomas at Hanover girls tennis in Hanover, N.H., on May 24, 2013. St. Thomas won, 7-2. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Photo Gallery: St. Thomas at Hanover Girls Tennis
Radio host Terri Dudley jokes with Mascoma Savings Bank President Stephen Christy during a break in the last taping of Sunday Mornings with Terri Dudley on WTSL-AM in West Lebanon yesterday afternoon. Dudley is retiring after 50 years in the public eye. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Dudley Steps Away From Mic
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Mascoma Valley Regional High School first-year English teacher Jessica Kinzie moves between classrooms with her cart of teaching supplies. Teachers at the school have to move from one classroom to another during the day. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Time to Grow at Mascoma? High School Renovations on Warrant

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Ballot voting for all articles for the Mascoma Valley Regional School District will take place on Tuesday, March 12, in each of the five towns: Canaan fire station from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Dorchester Town Hall from …

Letter: Mascoma High Needs Updating

Monday, May 20, 2013

To the Editor: As a 1970 graduate of Mascoma Valley Regional High School, I vividly remember when the high school was built. During the construction, I was in sixth grade and could hardly wait to enter the new school. More importantly, I recall my parents’ pride in supporting …

Column: Mascoma District Desperately Needs a Performing Arts Center

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Mascoma High School has a large number of students interested in athletics and in the performing arts. Each group is equally important, and perhaps in the eyes of their parents, most important. Yet we have a facility that can address the needs of only one of the groups …

Dorchester to Vote on Renovations

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Dorchester Town Meeting voters will elect town officials by paper ballot from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12 at the Town Hall. Action on the remaining warrant articles will be conducted from the floor Saturday, March 16 at 10 a.m. at the Town Hall. ∎ …

Missie Rodriguez, of Canaan, celebrates a strike while bowling at Upper Valley Lanes and Games in White River Junction on Thursday. Rodriguez coaches the Upper Valley Hawks Special Olympics Team and recently coached four snowshoers on the U.S. Special Olympic Team in South Korea. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Helping Across the World

Saturday, February 16, 2013

White River Junction — Twenty years ago, Missie Rodriguez’ desire to help athletes with mental disabilities brought her to the Upper Valley. Since then, the passion has carried her all over the world. Rodriguez, a Canaan resident, recently …

Claremont School Proposal Raises Conflict Issue for Chairman

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Claremont — Residents in the Claremont and Mascoma Valley school districts will vote March 12 on what seems at first glance to be the proverbial win-win: proposals to install new boilers and other school energy upgrades at no net cost to taxpayers. Advocates say the improvements might even …

Custodian Brian Sullivan sweeps the floor as health teacher Lynn Bates of Campton, N.H., heads to the door for her long commute home from Mascoma Valley Regional High School in Canaan. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

School Notes: Commuting Educators Go the Distance for Their Jobs

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

When Lynne Bates left her job as a medical technologist 12 years ago to become a high school health teacher, she probably didn’t anticipate how far she would go in her new career. Between the Campton, N.H., resident’s …

Sophomore Karina Zawilinski, 15, of Enfield, describes the shortcomings of the 50-year-old Mascoma Valley Regional High School during yesterday’s deliberative session at Indian River School in Canaan. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Mascoma School Renovation Bond Gets Widespread Support at Deliberative Session

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Canaan — A proposed $21.8 million bond issue that would overhaul out-of-date systems throughout the Mascoma Valley Regional School District drew hundreds of supporters to yesterday’s deliberative session. About 15 people took to the lectern in the Indian …

Mascoma Has Complex Plan For Its Voters

Monday, January 28, 2013

Canaan — One year after voters narrowly rejected a proposal to renovate Mascoma Valley Regional High School, district officials have regrouped and developed a new proposal, this time with energy efficiency upgrades broken out as a separate spending item that would lower the amount borrowed for the renovation …

Letter: State Goofs; Others Pay the Price

Monday, May 20, 2013

To the Editor: Here we go again, downshifting more cost to the cities and towns in the guise of a goof. A key state office, the Department of Education, despite having professional and knowledgeable people on its staff, commits a $3.4 million dollar goof and then expects the …