Roberta Branca

Roberta Branca lives in Newmarket, NH with her husband and her dog Joey. Her past writing experience includes both journalism and fiction, with an interest in blending both in personal essays that will hopefully help others connect the dots between personal experience and public culture and/or policy. Her fiction has been published in The Litchfield Literary Review, Bewildering Stories, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, and Prick of the Spindle. Her journalism experience includes The Webster Times in Webster, MA; The Lake Placid News in Lake Placid, NY; and The Herkimer Evening Gazette in Herkimer, NY.

School Days Haze : New Hampshire public schools altar schedule due to heat wave

September 9, 2023by Roberta Branca

Education, climate change, and pandemic relief spending are colliding as schools opened during a heat wave this past week. Schools around New Hampshire are dealing with a relative rarity in New England, even in late summer: it’s been too hot to learn, and some school districts either closed or instituted…

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