Friday night’s School District Deliberative Session saw an effort to decrease funding for Article 9, architectural and engineering professional services for a proposed community auditorium at the high school. The School District proposes via Article 9 to appropriate $500,000 to…
The Town Council added a mechanism to the proposed FY16 budget for expending funds generated by the Airport Tax Increment Finance (TIF) District on a new traffic light on Pettengill Road. With a vote of 5-0 during their Jan. 22…
Londonderry Comprehensive Planner John Vogl reminded his fellow Master Plan Implementation Committee members that the general thought was that once the area near the airport was “opened up,” it would fill in a heartbeat. “We’re finding that to be the…
Town Councilor Jim Butler walked up to a table in front of his fellow councilors and opened a box, dumping the contents on the table. Spilling out of the box were beer cans with bullet holes in them, spent cartridge…
The Lions Hall on Mammoth Road, which is owned by the town and leased to the Lions Club for $1 a year, has a new floor and a new lease. After the town found the floor unsafe, the old floor…
School District Business Administrator Peter Curro and Food Service Director Nancy Faucon gave the school board an update on the lunch program, with the warning that it continues in the red. Curro said that for FY 14 they expect to…
While it wasn’t on the agenda for Monday night’s Town Council meeting, the fate of the Town Common and surrounding area, and the concepts for that part of town as included in the most recent Master Plan, brought a bit…
Given several apparent setbacks to their choice of a West Road site, including locked gates and snow removal maintenance issues, the dog park committee is concerned that it may have to look elsewhere. With the gates locked in the off-season…
Stuart Arnett of the Arnett Development Group, contracted by the town for planning, brought a revised proposal for a recreation guide – at a cost lower than previously offered – to the Londonderry Conservation Commission. The Conservation Commission had previously…
When there’s an overriding need – skyrocketing use of heroin and resulting crimes, expansion of the interstate to handle gridlock, failing bridges, funding to boost economic development (think Pettengill Road), the place we all turn to is the federal government,…
