ECRWSS PRESORT STD U.S. Postage PAID Winnisquam Echo Postal Customer Winnisquam Echo THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2008 SERVING TILTON, NORTHFIELD, BELMONT & SANBORNTON, N.H. FREE MAP testing: changing the way teachers teach BY MEGHAN SIEGLER [email protected] elementary school, students don’t have to know how to head to the computer room read. They’re allowed to WINNISQUAM — For the for the MAPs. wear headphones that enable last time this year, Win- “They’re so able to work them to rehear a question; in nisquam Regional School on the computer,” Kim Con- second grade and up, they District students set aside stant, the computer assistant have to read it on their own. class time to take Measures at Union Sanborn, said. Plus, there are more pictures of Academic Progress tests, Constant sets up the com- and other visuals for the which track student puters for each student so younger children. progress throughout the they’re taking their own in- Along with MAP’s ability school year and are used by dividualized test. She also to track student learning, it teachers and administrators monitors the test-takers and also creates individualized to develop more individual- gives instructions through- tests based on each student’s ized curriculum. out the hour or so that each response. For example, if a MAP testing is an assess- test takes. student gets a question right, ment product offered by “Take your best guest – the next one will either be the Northwest Evaluation Asso- there may be something you same level of difficulty or ciation and, unlike the New don’t know, and that’s OK,” harder; if he or she gets a England Co\mmon Assess- Constant said to a first-grad- question wrong, the next ment Program, is not re- er who was preparing to take question will likely be easier. quired by the state. But for a MAP test last month. Neville said that this process some teachers and adminis- There’s a big jump from continues until a student’s trators, it’s another tool that the kindergarten and first “instructional level” is allows them to better identi- grade MAP tests to those tak- found. fy the needs of their stu- en in second grade and up. “MAP tests are unique in dents. Even first graders For one thing, students in that they adapt to be appro- PHOTO BY MEGHAN SIEGLER take the tests twice a year, kindergarten and first grade SEE MAP PAGE A10 Union Sanborn School first-grader Ethan Avery ponders a question on his MAP test. and grades two through 10 take them thrice yearly. “They’re actually picking it up where they left off,” Tim Auto purchases reflect fuel prices, economy Neville, principal of Union Sanborn School in North- BY ERIK ZYGMONT that some of the second ve- national media reporting [email protected] field, said of the MAPs. hicles in households, which sweeping lifestyle changes “That’s what makes this par- LAKES REGION — As used to be large SUVs, are brought on by the economy ticular test special … you can gas prices rise, vehicle sizes now smaller, more economic and fuel costs, the trend is really notice the growth be- are shrinking, according to models,” said McGreevey. slower in his experience. tween fall and now.” area auto dealers. He noted, however, that “We can’t just do that “This little store, we’ve al- many customers are still de- (change our lifestyles) at a Taking the tests ways been a pretty big truck manding large vehicles. drop of a hat,” he said, citing Test-taking isn’t the typi- seller historically,” said Ruth “A significant amount still families with four or five cal fill-in-the-bubble-with-a- Stephenson, sales and leas- want SUVs, for their children as an example. “Peo- #2-pencil anymore. Even in ing consultant at Meredith lifestyles or particular ple buy vehicles that make Ford. “Last month was the needs,” he said. their lifestyles more com- first month in years that we McGreevey observed that fortable.” sold way more cars than despite “mass waves” in the SEE AUTO PAGE A10 DPW trucks.” “I think this is a trend that will stick around,” she PHOTO BY ERIK ZYGMONT Communities look at outlines added. Kamal Gosine, sales representative at AutoServ of Tilton, stands next to The model of the moment a line of empty lot space that he says was filled with smaller, economy model cars just days ago. at Meredith Ford is the Fo- ‘single-stream’ recycling summer cus, a four-cylinder coupe or done really well; it’s a great Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, BY ERIK ZYGMONT “The technology in these [email protected] sedan. The EPA estimates car,” said Stephenson. “But Kia, and Nissan, the shift in plants can separate materi- roadwork that the five-speed manual since that gas has gone up consumers’ demands is more LAKES REGION — As als without a whole lot of la- BY ERIK ZYGMONT version gets 24 miles-per-gal- over $3 per gallon, we’ve sold subtle, according to Market- part of the Concord Region- bor,” he said. [email protected] lon in the city, and 35 on the more than ever.” ing Director David Mc- al Solid Waste/Resource Re- Presher added that single- highway. At AutoServ of Tilton, Greevey. covery Cooperative, several stream, or “no-sort” recy- SANBORNTON — DPW “The Focus has always which sells models from “We have found, candidly, Lakes Region communities cling is convenient for peo- Director John Hubbard gave are pondering a new,“single- ple, and more recyclables the selectmen a preliminary stream” recycling system. will be separated from the outline of what his depart- Belmont, Gilford, North- solid waste stream. ment hopes to accomplish field, Sanbornton, and Tilton He said that once the sys- with the $600,000 allocated are among the communities tem is in place, communities for reconstruction and main- that, in the near future, will that chose to recycle will tenance of town infrastruc- have the option to combine drop their recyclables off at ture. their recyclables, without the facility, where they will At Town Meeting, voters sorting, and send them to a be first separated and then appropriated $450,000 for single facility, site as of yet marketed to “wherever the roads, and $50,000 for undetermined, for process- best prices are for the com- bridges. An additional ing. modities,” including over- $100,000 will come from state Jim Presher, director of seas, Presher said. grant money, according to the CRSW/RRC, said that “There’s quite a demand town officials. three locations are currently for fibers, especially over- The $600,000 total is for being considered, two in seas,” he said. town roads and bridges only, Concord and one in According to the CR- not the Class II, state-main- Franklin. Construction of SW/RRC Web site, www.cr- tained roads of the Y Project. the facility is slated for 2009. swrrc.org, the facility will ac- The two “definites” for Presher said that the sort- cept mixed papers, newspa- PHOTO BY ERIK ZYGMONT SEE DPW PAGE A11 Fiery blessing ing facility would be the per, office paper, cardboard, The Rev. Albert Tremblay of St. Joseph Parish in Belmont blesses the Fire Department’s new ladder truck, “next generation in recy- box board, one through sev- approved by voters at 2008 Town Meeting. cling.” SEE SINGLE STREAM PAGE A11 INDEX Out to eat Volume 5 • Number 23 ● Going bald Mission Sometimes children and restaurants just don’t mix. 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The selectmen de- bench and worked on a me- er date, a five-member ceme- cided to pursue the idea of a morial garden. tery committee has asked the town cemetery,and the ceme- The cemetery was chal- selectmen to establish a town tery committee became the lenged in court by Sanborn- cemetery every year, begin- Cemetery Trustees and ton resident Helmut Busack, ning in 1997. gained the legal authority to who owns land nearby. In Sanbornton has about 76 establish a cemetery. January, Probate Court up- family burial grounds, Shaw Volunteers spent a couple held the Cemetery Trustees’ has said previously,but those years readying the Tower efforts to establish the ceme- are filled to capacity or are Hill site, which was part of tery. “way out in the boondocks.” the Town Forest, and part of Now the site is ready, the The cemetery committee’s the Town Fairgrounds before memorial garden is ready to efforts were fruitless until that. bloom, and the first burial is 2005, when a local teenager Volunteers cleared the scheduled for June 10, Shaw PHOTO BY ERIK ZYGMONT was killed in a car accident, land, built stonewalls, and in- said. The town cemetery, located near the end of Tower Hill Road, was officially dedicated by the Board of Selectmen last week.