After much debate over a proposed reduction in teaching assistant hours, voters at Friday night’s Deliberative Session amended the Londonderry School District’s operating budget to include an additional $240,000 for classroom assistants. The voters at the session also turned back…
The School Board approved sending a proposed teacher contract for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017 to the voters as a warrant article on the March ballot. “Negotiations with the Teacher Union were very productive and went very quickly,” Vice Chairman…
With the first meeting of the Town Council and Budget Committee scheduled for Nov. 15, Town Manager Kevin Smith presented a budget overview at the Town Council’s Monday night meeting. “We were tasked with coming in with a budget that…
Town Manager Kevin Smith says the spending freeze he implemented in February seems to be working. He told the Town Council Monday night that “at the end of March, we should have been at about 75 percent. We’re at 77.4…
The Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) has granted a variance for the proposed site of a FedEx Ground distribution warehouse on Pettengill Road. Attorney Morgan Hollis of Gottesman and Hollis requested the variance to allow a subdivision to create a…
The state is interested in learning whether well water users understand it is their responsibility to test their water, and how to encourage them to do so. Michael Paul, Community Engagement coordinator with the Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program and…
Tony Basso of Keach Nordstrom and Attorney Andy Sullivan presented the Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) with a request for a variance for 3 Garden Lane, which currently is the site of a car wash and an auto parts store.…
The Town of Londonderry issued 171 residential certificates of occupancy and 67 commercial certificates in 2013, compared to 139 residential certificates of occupancy and 59 commercial certificates in 2012. The annual Building Inspector/Health Officer’s report represents all permits issued and…
Town Manager Kevin Smith has ordered a spending freeze. He told the Town Council at its Monday, March 3 meeting that not much has changed with regard to the snow removal or other budgets as of Feb. 28. “We’re up…
During the public comment segment of the Town Council meeting Jan. 6, Londonderry Historical Society secretary Sue Joudrey and member Ann Chiampa presented concerns from the society over a proposed cut to their budget. Joudrey said the proposed $1,000 cut…
