Author: Rich Girard

Published June 13 at 9:30 PM The passing of Manchester’s budget:  A history of how we got here from there. I am a veteran of many budget processes and battles in Manchester.  Having served as an administrative assistant to...

GIRARD AT LARGE EXCLUSIVE  Posted 11:59 PM on June 11, 2012 Girard at Large has learned that three budget proposals will vie for votes at the special budget meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen that will convene at 4 PM on...

Posted  June 11, 2012 @ 11:59 PM.  The Manchester Board of School Committee did not take a vote on using “one time money” from it’s Expendable Trust accounts to help fill the coming year’s budget gap....

June 11, 2012  11:59 PM The meeting of the school board’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee got off to a bad start when committee member Art Beaudry from Ward 9 launched into the administration for not providing the...

BREAKING:  May 11, 2012, 11:30 AM Girard at Large has learned that, after extensive talks with Mayor Ted Gatsas and Superintendent Tom Brennan, the Association of Manchester Principals is preparing a counter offer to the...

Posted at 10:00 PM on June 10, 2012. Girard at Large has learned that Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas hopes to present a tentative agreement to the Manchester School Board at its meeting on Monday night.  Gatsas confirmed that...

Posted on June 10, 2012 @ 9:30 PM – MORE evidence that relying on “one time money” is bad. The Finance Committee of the Manchester Board of School Committee will review a report received from Business...

PUBLISHED MAY 7TH AROUND 5 PM. Manchester’s paraprofessionals’ union, representing more than 100 of the school district’s 330 teacher assistants, soundly rejected the tentative agreement that was negotiated...

PUBLISHED JUNE 6, 2012 AT 9 PM! There has been a great deal of speculation regarding whether or not the Manchester School Board will reverse course and tap it’s expendable trust funds to mitigate their budget woes.  Girard...

Posted June 5, 2012 Goffstown School Board Vice-Chair Dian McCarthy voted last night to proceed with a questionable competitive bid process involving her employer The Southeastern Regional Education Service Center (SERESC),...