Upcoming
Important Dates To Remember:
School District Deliberative Session:
Thursday, February 4 at 7 pm, Northwood School (Snow Date:
Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 pm)
Town Deliberative Session: Saturday,
Feb. 6 at 9 am, Coe-Brown Academy (Snow Date: Sunday, Feb. 7 at
9 am) All registered voters in Northwood are encouraged to
attend.
Coe-Brown
Northwood Academy
Quarter 2 Honor
Roll
Headmaster David S. Smith is pleased
to announce the honor roll for the second quarter.
Grade 12 – Highest Honors
Molly Boodey, Samantha Bruce, Hannah
Carlson, Christie Clause, Molly DeTrude, Cheyenne Gardner, Ryu
Kondrup, Brooke Laskowsky, Katherine Martel, Maria Rainey,
Meredith Roman, Jake Scarponi, Kristina Seavey
Grade 12 – High Honors
Parker Aube, Nicole Beaupre, Dannielle
Belcher, Chloe Bettencourt, Kayleigh Bounds, Jared Carlson,
Nathaniel Chagnon, Liam Clinch, Jessica Cooper, Julia Cormier,
Laura Cozine, Elisabeth Danis, Hayley Dunn, Megan Elwell,
Maximin Fahey, Brendan Fallon, Sydney Fisher, Tayla George,
Rosemary Goodwin, Taylor Goodwin, Brian Gordon, Arianna
Gunderson, Julia Harcourt, Tyler Holman, Lily Hunt, Colin
Johnson, Nicole Johnson, Colin Jozokos, Samuel Koskela, Cameron
Lamarre, Jolene Levesque, Damian May, Ian Melewski, Jared Neal,
Jason Palmer, Kayla Patten, Billie Pingree, Cullen Pitman,
Bailey Poland, Max Ravenelle, Ashley Reiff, Devin Reimel,
Zachary Rheaume, Carter Rollins, Holly Roman, Megan Scannell,
Kayleigh Sherman, Andrew Shultz, Megan Spainhower, Henry
Turcotte, Mariah Valerio, Ryan Wadleigh
Grade 12 – Honors
Brandi Allen, Janais Axelrod, Ryan
Bailey, Callie Brochu, Nicholas Chase, David Coe, Alexander
Corwin, Nicholas Cutter, Randall Daniels, Bailey Docko, Erin
Docko, Andrew Douglas, Brittany Guillemette, Claire Hammond,
Sara Harris, Shayne Henry, Alyssa Jenkins, Wyatt Jozokos,
Ezekiel Langevin, Bethany Levenson, Cortney Lewis, Brianna
O’Connor, William Ohrenberger, Ryan Oliver, Hayley Pierce,
Kaitlyn Ross, Cole Short, Julie Souryavong, Liam Taylor, Abigail
Turcotte, Josef van Gerena II
Grade 11 – Highest Honors
Taylor Baxter-Orluk, Amanda Bolduc,
Marissa Gast, Caroline Lavoie, Zackary Pine, Allison Pratt,
Thomas Sheehan V, Kelsey Wallace
Grade 11 – High Honors
Miranda Adcock, Isaiah Allen, Brody
Ashley, Elizabeth Bisson, Joel Boulanger, Kira Cameron, Kayla
Cates, Lynzie Chase, Samantha Clarke, Kate Clinch, Donovan
Corless, Emelia Cronshaw, Hannah Daly, Abigail Dupuis, Shane
Fillion, Sheridan Gancarz, William Girard, Vincent Glidden,
Jillian Gordon, Emily Goulas, Nathan Griffiths, Catherine
Langdon, Amanda Lee, Samuel Lupinacci, Donald MacCallum, Sarah
Madore, Arianna Maker, Derek Meyer, McKenzie Moehlmann, Michael
Mulligan, Steven O’Donnell, Mallory Perron, Caitlyn Pitre,
Christopher Pratt, Tanner Richards, Samantha Roche, Cody
Schwieger, Emery Travers, Noah Wojtkowski, Zowi Woodman,
LilyGrace York, Abigail Zollman
Grade 11 – Honors
Talia Antman, Emily Barnes, Cassandra
Barnhart, Matthew Brown, Lauren Burrows, Nora Canepa, Damarah
Cormier, Jesse Cormier, Davio DeLuca, Abigail Devaney, Alexander
Gray, Joshua Hall, Brenda Hayes, Emily Hughes, Tristan Jardon,
Maxwell Judge, Rebecca Masison, Sophia Menjivar, Jordain Pierce,
Katie Rankins, Zachary Richards, Shannon Riley, Jacob Snow,
Kylee West
Grade 10 – Highest Honors
Bailey Arnold-Fuchs, Raven Barnes,
Sandra Black, Sarah Dupuis, Alexander Mercedes, Alyssa Reiff,
Hailey Stevens
Grade 10 – High Honors
Emma Arsenault, Maxim Begin, Taylor
Bettencourt, Jaelyn Brooks, Orion Clachar, Paul Colson, Emily
Cunningham, Sarah Doiron, Jackson Douglas, Emma DuBois, Derek
Elwell, Isabelle Feenstra, Sydney Gast, Julia Greene, John
Grygiel, Jordan Haddock, Hannah Halka, Joseph Hebert-Morello,
Sydney Ho-Sue, Brady Johnson, Alexis Kendall, David Krunklevich,
Nina-Marie Laramee, Olivia Lee, Kathryn Levesque, Jacob Lock,
Isabelle Lupinacci, Trevor Massingham, Eleanor McDonough, Erik
Nelson, Amaya Newport, Margaret Norman, Scott Norwood, Shania
Patten, Catrina Purington, Nicholas Sanderson, Victoria
Sheridan, Julia Sommer, Kiley St. Francis, Casey Szmyt, Evan
Tanguay, Caitlyn Ustaszewski, Mitchell Wade, Faith Wilson
Grade 10 – Honors
Alicia Baratier, Preston Bethke, Erin
Boodey, Rachel Bouchard, Suzannah Buzzell, Domminique Depianti,
Sarah Fortier, Jocelyn Gagnon, Spencer Goad, Samuel Godwin,
Rebekah Hinrichsen, Jacob Lorden, Abigail Mathison, Michaela
McAllister, Ahna McCusker, Cailinn Monahan, Kayla Pollak, Nicole
Rogier, Garrett Skidds, Courtney Snow, Cassandra Stover, Devin
Sullivan, Skylar Turcotte, Benjamin Watson, Ander Wensberg,
Lindsay Wright
Grade 9 – Highest Honors Shayla
Ashley, Paige Marston, Shane Marston, Kelsey Pine, Emma Tobbe,
Megan Wimsatt
Grade 9 – High Honors
Aidan Ahern, Taevamaria Ahern, Elijah
Allen, Tanner Bane, Shealyn Bedell, Jordan Bell, Jackson Burke,
Susan Burnap, Clayton Canfield, Drew Ceppetelli, Madison
Cunningham, Makenzie Daly, Jalyse Daudelin, Dylan DeTrude,
Nicholas Dyer, Maggie Eaton, Alice Ewing, Olivia Farrar, Ian
Gollihur, Benjamin Healey, Kayla Hicking, Alyssa Hill, Colby
Hoffman, Delaney Jean, Nicolas LaMontagne, Albert Lapiejko,
Logan Ledoux, Mackenzie Ledoux, Cooper Leduke, Holly Magowan,
Lillian Marie, Hannah Marsh, Lily Marston, Lucciano Minasalli,
Hayden Murray, Sydney Neuman, Jackson Noel, Emily Olofson, Maria
Ortiz, Stephen Peroff, Serena Poulin, Alexander Reynosa, Jacob
Rich, Zachery Sheehan, Rachel Simmons, Rebecca Simmons, Jonathan
Thorn, Bailey Travers, Emily van Gerena, Mason Winiarski
Grade 9 – Honors
Gavyn Auclair, Jacob Burghardt, Sarah
Burleigh, Luke Chalifour, Dominic Cronshaw, Kristopher Cronshaw,
William Curtis II, Alivia DiPrizio, Cameron Goodwin, Kirsten
Gunderson, Nathaniel Hoffman, Ryan Holland, Todd Holman, Brice
Lussier, Tyler Millette, Jonathan Moehlmann, Anna
Prescott-Nichols, Carly Ramsey, Madison Rollins, Alison
Routhier, Brooke Sawyer, Noah Sinnamon, Jessica Sterberg, Samuel
Thurston, Julia Warren, Levi White
Letter To
The Editor
Doing Kindergarten
Right
Let me begin by saying that Tim Jandebeur and I agree on the
desirability of full-day kindergarten. He told me this in
a one-on-one conversation after a Budget Committee meeting in
December. But, as he said in his letter last week, for
him, it “almost always come(s) down to ‘return on investment.’”
He goes on to say that he thinks that “students in our
(half-day) kindergarten program are not any more prepared to go
into first grade than those students who did not participate in
kindergarten.”
There are a lot of reasons, statistically, why one might find no
difference between these groups, but one non-statistical reason
is that a half-day is NOT ENOUGH TIME. So what would a
more effective full-day program look like?
Oyster River School District is
implementing a full-day program in the fall, and this is what
their schedule, taken from their website, looks like:
• Literacy – 60-90 minutes
• Mathematics – 45-60 minutes
• Science/Social Studies – 60 minutes
– Integation and discussion
• Lunch/Recess – 25 minutes
each/play structured & unstructured
• Specials – 45 minutes – PE, Art,
Music, Library, Technology
• Choice/Free Exploration – 30 minutes
- Time to develop social skills & independent learning
For those who have suggested that
kindergarten is “glorified day care,” I would suggest that this
schedule is not.
And for those who think that a
half-day program is no better than no program at all, I suggest
that we try this.
Please come to the school deliberative
session on Thursday, Feb.4, at 7:00 pm to learn more.
Tom Chase
Concerned Citizen
CBNA
Announces Poetry Out Loud Contest
On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 6 pm,
in the Gerrish Gym, twenty Coe-Brown students will participate
in this year’s Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Poetry Out Loud
school contest as part of the Poetry Out Loud National
Recitation Contest, presented in partnership with the NH Arts
Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry
Foundation.
This program is part of a national
program that encourages high school students to learn about
great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition.
The CBNA winner will advance to the
regional competition. New Hampshire’s champion will then advance
to the Poetry Out Loud National Finals on May 3-4, 2016, in
Washington, DC, where $50,000 in awards and school stipends will
be distributed.
This event is free and open to the
public.
Letter To
The Editor
How Much is
Enough?
The proposed Northwood School Board
Budget will be discussed at the Deliberative Session on February
4th and voted on March 8th. The budget includes $88,000
Coe-Brown tuition for 5 students (3 “homeschooled” and 2 “alt
ed”).
There are several problems with this
item:
1. The students are pure guesswork.
The 2 “alt ed” students don’t exist, and the homeschooled
students’ families have indicated that their children will not
attend Coe-Brown next year. It is unlikely any of these
students, let alone all 5, will materialize.
2. The Board already has in place a
High School Capital Reserve Fund of $112,000 and is asking
voters to add another $20,000 to it this year. Since this fund
is sufficient to cover costs for at least 7 students, any
unexpected Coe-Brown students have already been provided for,
even if voters turn down the additional $20,000.
3. If, as is likely, these 5 students
do not appear at Coe-Brown, the Board can spend the $88,000 any
way it likes, whereas money from the reserve fund must be spent
only on tuition.
4. Most significantly, this expenditure is in the default budget
as well. Therefore, voters will have no say about this spending,
even if we defeat the proposed budget. Yet the default
budget is supposed to represent last year’s spending, with only
necessary contractual adjustments.
We are told the $88,000 needs to be in the Default Budget
because we are obligated to provide schooling for every student.
But if such students are already covered by the existing reserve
fund, why the double billing?
Finally, should a small town really
have to spend just under $12 million to send just over 600
students to school for a year?
Michael Faiella
Northwood
Letter To
The Editor
I don’t have any children in the
Northwood school system; however, I am very concerned with the
quality of education in our elementary school, based on other
schools in our SAU.
I thought it might be good to look at
how our tax dollars are being spent. The largest item in our
town budget is our school system, so I did some research and the
results may surprise many people in the town. Through a friend,
I was referred to a website SCHOOLDIGGERS.COM. looking at the
“best schools in N.H.” Under grades KG-8 heading, I found the
following results for the three towns in our SAU.
State ranking by town Average standard
score Student/Teacher Students 2014/2015* Nottingham 56th 67.90
13.2 +16 Strafford 84th 57.83 12.4 -7 Northwood 129th 41.28 11.4
-15
Note: There are 198 elementry schools
in N.H.
Using the same website, I then
researched high schools.
Coe-Brown 3rd 96.59 11.3 N/A
Note: There are 77 high schools in
N.H.
If the Northwood School System
receives the largest amount of money from our town budget/tax
dollars, why is our elementary school ranked so low? The other
question is why is Coe-Brown doing such an outstanding job with
the same students? I would like to see a short and long term
plan established by the Elementary School on how the school is
going to improve, and present it to the people of the town, so
that we better understand how the education of our students is
going to be improved.
I think the students in our school
deserve a better education for the tax dollars being spent!
*Student enrollment numbers obtained
through phone calls to schools.
Doug Pollock
Northwood
Letter To
The Editor
Did you know that history shows Northwood School has been an
educational stand-out in multiple instances? Northwood
recognized early the importance of public kindergarten.
Northwood School welcomed its first kindergarten students in
1980. Northwood’s program was 29 years ahead of the state
mandate, and decades ahead of most of NH’s rural towns. The
town’s oldest students have had the opportunity to gain a high
school education right in town for 115 years. History shows that
1901 was the first year, Northwood started paying tuition for
its teenagers to have the opportunity of a high school education
at the local academy. This is well ahead of the experience of
most NH teenagers. Decades ago, kids would often attend high
schools wherever there was a seat for them. More recently,
Northwood School was named the 2009 K-8 School of Excellence.
We offer these facts to say let’s keep aiming high.
The Teachers’ Contract , Warrant
Article #4, was negotiated with an eye to the future. The salary
schedule addresses the needs of our youngest teachers who come
to the district with hefty student loans. Beginning teachers and
those with up to three years of experience will be offered
competitive salaries that are in line with surrounding
districts. Experienced teachers will see forward movement on the
salary schedule to keep up with cost of living expenses and
increased costs due to a change in insurance plans. The proposed
contract was approved unanimously by the Teachers, the School
Board, and the Budget Committee.
The cost of the teachers’ contract is
$62,170. This is a sustainable number that keeps a positive
momentum going in our community.
Please vote “Yes” for Article #4 on March 8. For more
information contact [email protected]
and visit our website at northwoodteachersforlearning,com
Sincerely, Melissa Moore Ellen Gibson Lauren Dow Northwood
School Teachers
CBNA FCCLA
Chapter Provides Holiday Cheer
CBNA FCCLA President Nicole Hodgdon; Sandy Priolo, of
the Northwood Fire Dept. Santa’s Helpers; and Jolene Levesque,
FCCLA Vice-President fill stockings for local community members
during the holidays.
During the month of December
Coe-Brown’s chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of
America (FCCLA), was very busy trying to give everyone a little
bit of holiday cheer. To start, senior Lexi Arsenault, took the
initiative and put together a Parents’ Night Out. This event was
very helpful for parents, especially during the holiday season
but it was also a great chance for parents to take a relaxing
night out together. Lexi and everyone in FCCLA want to thank
Cowabunga’s in Hooksett for letting the children and the FCCLA
members use the facility. The FCCLA chapter also wants to thank
Hannaford’s in Northwood for the donations of snacks for this
amazing event. This was a great night for everyone!
CBNA FCCLA members were also involved
with Santa’s Helpers for the town of Northwood this year. FCCLA
teamed up with the Northwood Fire Department to put together
stockings for less fortunate children in the community. Thanks
go to Northwood Hannaford’s and Meyer Dentistry for their
amazing donations and for being so supportive to this community
endeavor. CBNA FCCLA would also like to thank Mrs. Priolo for
providing us the opportunity to help local families in need.
Finally, FCCLA would also like to thank anyone that gives a
donation to any type of cause. The size of the donation doesn’t
matter, but the impact you’ll have on someone’s life will
matter! Our chapter believes in the importance of strong
families and strives to help our school and community in various
ways throughout the year, because together we will make a
difference! Be sure to watch for upcoming events as we are
planning another Parents’ Night Out at CBNA in February! Feel
free to contact Mandy Morales, FCCLA advisor at
[email protected] for
more information or any needs in the community.
Letter To
The Editor
To the Editor,
Being a Northwood School Board member
is difficult. Saying that, I know that the difficulty is on me.
I simply cannot, will not, rubber stamp what for years has been
an expensive and disastrous K8 school. I’ve already said that I
see a pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel. But I know
what the data, data, data says also.
So finally we received an “update” on
kindergarten. We saw what last year’s students did and how this
year’s students are doing. It was a great presentation. I was
very happy to see that there is an effort at many levels to
improve kindergarten. What I didn’t see was real data showing
that students that go to kindergarten are better off going into
first grade.
Everyone has data. What I saw did not
change my mind one degree. When, after at least a year of
effort, the unfiltered data shows that kindergarten is an
educational advantage here in Northwood, then I will vote for
spending one hundred and five thousand to expand it to all day.
I am only one vote. Prove the
educational value by showing that the plans are working and
you’ll get it.
Tim Jandebeur
Letter
Citizens of
Deerfield, Epsom and Northwood-- Support the Fight Against
Invasive Milfoil!
The Northwood Lake Watershed
Association (NLWA), has spent a great deal of time and effort
over the years working to protect Northwood Lake from the
unchecked spread of invasive aquatic species, including variable
milfoil. We have been working with the Boards of Selectmen in
Northwood, Deerfield and Epsom to secure ongoing economic
support for what is looking to be an expensive road ahead. All
three towns have warrant articles that will be presented to you,
their citizens, in the upcoming March 2016 elections. Without
that support, the financial burden of the fight against
invasives may very well threaten the very existence of the NLWA.
If that happens the choice will be clear and painful-- lose the
lake to milfoil or have the burden of carrying on the effort
fall upon the municipalities themselves. The years of
experience, expertise and coordination built by the NLWA would
be lost; the towns would have to start from scratch and the time
lost would most likely be fatal to the lake. For the next couple
of years, we will most likely be faced with using both diver
harvesting as well as chemical treatment in order to regain the
upper hand.
Please come out and vote to support
your town’s anti-milfoil warrant article to help the NLWA
control this clear and present danger to our lake and its
watershed.
Kevin J. Ash, President
Northwood Lake Watershed Association
(NLWA)
Obituaries
Robert V.
Lindquist Sr.
April 4,
1928-November 11, 2015
Northwood - Born in
Weymouth MA, the son of Allie Lindquist and Isabelle (Briggs)
Lindquist.He was a machinist and welder in his later years. An
army veteran during the Korean Conflict and his military career
led him to a job working for George C. Marshall Space Flight
Center in Alabama. Werner Von Braun nickednamed him “Lindy”. He
was also a ham operator, W1ELW He is predeceased by his wife,
Alice D.(Lynch) Lindquist and sister Dorothy (Lindquist) Moquin.
Survived by son, Robert Lindquist Jr.and daughter, Cathy Ann
Lindquist. He is also survived by grand children, James and
Danielle Lindquist, three great grandchildren and sister
Christine(Lindquist) Lovering. Nieces And nephews.
Memorial services will be held on January 30, 2016, 1 PM,
at the Higher Ground Baptist Church, Rte. 4, Nottingham N.H.
hgbcnh.org for directions
