Regarding the March 6, 2025, School District Annual Meeting

The people have spoken…

Despite our best efforts to bring sanity to the ever-rising school budget, at the School Board annual meeting on March 6, 2025, the townspeople rejected our proposals.

Congratulations to the parents, teachers, administrators, and … read more

A group of concerned citizens got together as a result of the March 2023 issue of the school board trying pass a $17 million project for additions to the school.  We decided that our town needed a watchdog group to pay attention to the town’s finances and to make these issues quickly and easily available to the townspeople.

Note, this site is not political.  Members are both conservatives and liberals.  To the extent possible we try to take no sides, rather, we present facts and ask questions.

We set up this site because navigating the financial entities for the town is cumbersome and confusing.  There are three main components that drive your property taxes:

• Town operations – roads, police, fire, etc
• Thornton Central School – on Route 175, grades K-8, there are about 190 students there as of late 2023
• Plymouth Regional High School – in Plymouth, this is where we educate grades 9-12

At the outset, we are focusing on the town operations and the Thornton Central School operations.  Eventually we will include Plymouth Regional High School.

But, there is one more component to your property taxes and that is who your elected officials are.  Other than road signs and maybe a Facebook profile, there is no central place where candidates can tell you about themselves.  That’s why we’ll added a Candidates page prior to the March elections.  Any candicate can submit a 500-word or less bio about themselves, their background and qualifications, and why they want to run.

Here is a link to the 2024 Town of Thornton Annual Report (although it’s called the 2024 report, it was published in March of 2025 for the calendar year 2024). 2024_town_report_for_web.pdf

Important links

1. Town website:  www.townofthornton.org
2. Calendar of all meetings for the town (not including the schools. Calendar: Public Meeting | Thornton NH (townofthornton.org)
3. Thornton Central School website: Thornton Central School (pemibaker.org)