New Hampshire: The Real Facts

An offer they can't refuse?
Board gets grant invitation to study two KMS options

Sarah Palermo
Sentinel Staff

Carol A. Brown looked a possible gift horse in the mouth - and smelled something fishy.

Brown, a member of the Keene Board of Education, was the sole vote against applying for a $1 million grant for a Keene Middle School feasibility study at the suggestion of an anonymous donor, to be administered by the N.H. Charitable Foundation.

Despite months of vowing to push forward with plans for a new middle school, the board decided on Tuesday night, by a vote of 7-1, to ask for the $1 million grant, to study the comparative costs of constructing a new school versus renovating the current building.

Once the board applies for the grant, the foundation and the donor can review the proposal and accept or reject it, or offer suggestions for changes, according to co-acting Superintendent William B. Gurney.

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