It was an audit that alerted the Claremont School Board to a $5 million financial hole last August, kicking off an all-hands scramble to save the district from possible closure.  And it will be an audit that helps prevent Claremont — and every other New Hampshire public school administrative unit — from making those kinds […]

Christine Downing’s phone told a story. Over the course of a multi-hour hearing Tuesday afternoon, the SAU 75 superintendent received a text from her business manager about a personnel issue, a school principal about a family in need, the district’s attorney about “an ongoing legal case,” and the Grantham police chief about a law enforcement […]