Claremont News

Kathy Sullivan, former state Democratic Party chair, has taken on the GOP-led Legislature over what she calls the "war that has erupted against New Hampshire's public schools." In a recent commentary, Sullivan points to the debate over CACR 12, a proposed constitutional amendment to give the Legislature more flexibility for funding local education ... (more)

Proponents of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Claremont education funding principles make the argument that virtually all laws are judged with a rational basis test and that it is unusual for courts to apply a strict scrutiny standard to legislative decisions.

On Tuesday, BCC's trustees unanimously recommended the current interim president to be the college's seventh president in its nearly 53-year history.

The Northern New England Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archaeology is holding a group tour about the city's industrial history on Saturday.

Mechanical is proud to announce the training achievement of 10 HVAC technicians, installers and plumbers.

A New Hampshire farmer says more than 50 of her ducks and chickens are missing - and she suspects foul play against her fowl.

A convenience store in a New Hampshire town is getting ready to reopen after a fire destroyed it last year.

Once again, passing a constitutional amendment on education funding is proving to be quicksand to lawmakers in the New Hampshire House and Senate.

Here we are in 2012 still trying to find a solution to our school funding question that meets the interpretation of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Claremont decision back in 1993.

Fifteen years after the New Hampshire Supreme Court's landmark Claremont ruling, you could forgive the plaintiffs for forgetting that they had actually won.

On Thursday, the editorial board here at Foster's Daily Democrat met with the New Hampshire House leadership team - Speaker Bill O'Brien, Deputy House Speaker Pam Tucker and Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt.

After more than 80 attempts in the past two decades to change the state's constitutional requirements for education funding, members of the New Hampshire House and Senate have come closer to that goal in the last year than any of their predecessors.

They are Steven G. Budd, president of River Valley Community College in Claremont, N.H.; Ellen Kennedy, BCC's interim president; and Valerie R. Roberson, vice president of academic affairs at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Ill.

Alyssa Caggiano said she was thinking, 'We will find a cure!' when her mother, Debra Foster, snapped this photograph during their last Susan G. Komen 3-day fundraising walk in Boston.

The finalists announced Tuesday are Steven Budd, president of River Valley Community College in Claremont, N.H.; Ellen Kennedy, the school's current interim president; and Valerie Roberson, vice president of academic affairs at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Ill.