vol. cxlvii, no. 14 lancaster, new hampshire telephone
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BY EDITH TUCKER
CONCORD — “In New Hampshire, everyone counts,” Governor Mag-gie Hassan, a Democrat of Exeter, pointed out in re-marks she made on Thurs-day afternoon, March 27, before signing into law SB 413, the bipartisan leg-islation to allow the state to accept federal funds to expand access to health coverage to 50,000 work-ing Granite State men and women and their families.
The plan, using fed-eral Medicaid funds available through the Af-fordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is designed to help low-income New Hampshire workers ob-tain health insurance.
Hassan echoed what she had said in her State of the State address at the start of the 2014 legislative ses-
sion by saying that the law would help to reduce levels of uncompensated care at hospital emergency rooms and cost-shifting onto New Hampshire businesses, encourage primary and
preventive care, provide coverage for substance abuse and mental health services, and bring nearly $2.5 billion into the state’s
BY EDITH TUCKER
LANCASTER — Paul Theroux will sell the inven-tory in his 4,000-square-foot retail store, the Kilkenny
Building Center, on Middle Street by the end of April and then shut its doors.
Theroux has owned and operated the Kilkenny Building Center since 2002 when he, his late wife Ter-
rill-Ann, and their two chil-dren, Christopher, now of Montpelier, Vt., and Rebec-ca moved to town from Wa-terford, Conn. His 63-year-old wife died on Dec. 23, 2013, of complications of
Lyme disease. Theroux explained in a
Wednesday evening phone interview that he likely should have closed the store a year ago, but that it just hadn’t been possible.
“There’ve been practi-cally no ‘stick’ houses built in the last three years,” he said.
The local economy be-gan spiraling downward after Wausau Paper closed in the waning days of 2007, the year after Groveton Pa-per Board closed, Theroux explained.
“I did $1 million in sales five years ago and by 2012 that number had fallen to $400,000,” he said. “Few contractors are still operat-ing locally, and our lumber and materials business fell sharply.
“I used to sell 500 eight-foot-long 2 x 4 studs a month and that fell to 50 a month.
“I used to sell 2 to 3 pal-
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LES kindergarten student Lillian Ingerson uses “Starfall,” an elec-tronic interactive software program projected onto a wall in her LES classroom, tht encourages her to expand her vocabulary and become a more fluent reader.
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The Kilkenny Building Center will sell its inventory and then close its doors by the end of this month, explained owner-operator Paul Theroux.
Kilkenny Building Centerto close by end of month
Planning Bd. hearing for 20’
shorter cell tower set for April 15
BY EDITH TUCKER
WHITEFIELD — Cell service around this town will greatly improve within the next months.
The second 60-day con-tinuance recently granted by Superior Court Judge Peter Bornstein to the par-ties that had reached a tentative out-of-court set-tlement on Jan. 2 to allow Industrial Tower and Wire-less, LLC (ITW) to put up a 175-foot-tall monopole cell tower on a small cleared parcel owned by Lois and Bob Stiles of Whitefield has resulted in a signed agree-ment.
The Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, to consider a now-need-ed minor change to the site plan that was approved nearly a year ago on May 14, 2013, that permitted a 195-foot-tall lattice-style tower to be erected on the Stiles parcel, located on the east side of Route 3 North approximately a mile-and-
a-half from the front steps of the Mountain View Grand.
Under the agreement, the new facility will be painted light gray, specif-ically Pantone 429U, as approved by the Grand Ho-tel’s owner, the American Financial Group Inc., a Cin-cinnati-Ohio-based holding company whose primary business is insurance.
If, as expected, it is ap-proved, the 175-foot mono-pole will only be 24 feet taller than the single wind tower that is 151 feet tall from base-to-blade-tip that the Mountain View Grand installed several years ago to make visible its commit-ment to “green” practices. That facility provides ap-proximately half of the elec-tricity used in the resort’s main building.
Settling the matter out of court leaves unresolved the issue of whether or not the Grand Hotel would have had “standing” in this legal dispute since it is not tech-nically an abutter to the Stiles parcel.
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The three Dalton select board members — Kathy Barden, chairman Nancy McVetty, and Julia Simonds — who likely make up the town’s first all-women select board have changed their weekly meetings from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Mondays. They expect to switch to meeting every other week later this year.
Kilkenny, PAGE A13
Select board works togetherto solve day-to-day challenges
BY EDITH TUCKER
DALTON — New-ly elected select board member Nancy McVetty became chairman on a unanimous vote, 3 to 0, on March 17, the first meet-ing following the March 11 town meeting. Julia Si-monds, who is in the third year of her term, declined the nomination.
The board also agreed to change its weekly Mon-day meetings from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The board had its first split vote that night, ac-cording to the minutes. Barden and McVetty vot-ed “yes” to Barden’s mo-tion to turn the cameras in the building’s security system toward the outside windows to provide only perimeter surveillance plus monitors in the town-tax collector’s office and not to be a financial bur-den to the town. Simonds voted “no,” saying the sys-tem’s cost was not either a hardship or burden to the town.
At the board’s next meeting on Monday eve-ning, March 24, McVetty set some ground rules for office procedures. Mail ad-dressed to individuals or boards can only be opened
by the addressees and not by others, according to federal law, she explained. And only copies of doc-uments and files can be
taken out of the municipal building but no originals, the chairman explained.
McVetty reported that the board’s administrative
assistant, Amos Bell, had unfortunately fallen on the ice in his driveway at
Selectboard, PAGE A13
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Right after signing the bipartisan Senate Bill 413, designed to expand Medicaid coverage for 50,000 Granite Staters under the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Maggie Hassan, center, posed in the Executive Council Chambers for a photo with three Coös legislators who supported it: Rep. Marcia Hammon, left, a Democrat of Whitefield; District 1 Senator Jeff Woodburn, a Democrat of Dalton, and Rep. Herb Richardson, a Republican of Lancaster.
Gov. Hassan signs bipartisan health care expansion bill into law
Bill, PAGE A13
USPS meeting set at 5 p.m. on Friday at Town Hall
BY EDITH TUCKER
JEFFERSON — A sched-uled meeting at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 4, for towns-people and other stake-holders who regularly use the Jefferson Post Office has been moved to Jeffer-son Town Hall on Route 2 from its original venue in the small Post Office lobby.
Scott Cassady of USPS’ Northern New England District will drive north from Manchester to dis-cuss the results of the sur-vey mailed out to Jeffer-son residents before Town Meeting that listed the four options available in to-day’s “downsized” world, including cutting window hours from 7½ hours a day to six.
Other options includ-ed moving the window
services into an existing Village business and shut-tering the P.O. and con-ducting a study.
For now the post office remains open with Officer In Charge Jim Caouette on hand from 8 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
LANCASTER— Everett W. “Hooper” Rexford, 84, of Causeway Street, died at his home Saturday March 29, 2014 after a long illness surrounded by his loving family.
Mr. Rexford was born in East Burke, VT on January 13, 1930 the son of Carroll I. and Myrtle (Danforth) Rexford. For a short time he was raised there until his family moved to White-field where they operated a dairy farm.
Eventually Hooper moved to Middle Street in Lancaster where he raised his family. At first he went into the logging business with a two-year hiatus to serve in the US Army in an artillery unit during the Korean Conflict. Return-ing home he continued in the logging business and
also started a scrap metal business.
He was a determined entrepreneur who operat-ed several other business-es, for a time he was in the building construction busi-ness and built many homes in the Lancaster area. He also started Rexford and Son Construction Company and from 1981 to 1987 he ran Hooper’s Auction House. In 1988 he opened Hooper’s
Furniture and retired in 2000.
Hooper served his com-munity for 22 years on the Lancaster Fire Department where he was a former as-sistant chief. Memberships include the Kiwanis Club and the American Legion.
Many things in life brought him enjoyment including fishing, berry picking, gardening, casino gambling, Auctions and traveling. He also loved riding his Segway and be-ing with his dog Buddy.
Surviving family mem-bers include his wife Phyl-lis (Manville) Rexford of Lancaster; his five children and their spouses, Wayne & Tina Rexford, David and Linda Rexford, Gary and Terri Rexford all of Lancast-er, Susan and Mario Audit of Groveton, Randall and Patricia Rexford of Lancast-er; two stepchildren and their spouses, Ronald and Lisa Manville of Lancaster, Bonnie and Robin Reynolds of Groveton; many grand-children and great-grand-children; a brother Rodney Rexford and wife Nancy of Dalton and a sister Gail Cormier and husband Eu-gene of Whitefield. He’ was predeceased by a brother Wendell Rexford and his twin sister Evelyn “Sue” Eastman.
At Hooper’s request there are no visiting hours or services.
Donations may be made in his memory to a charity of one’s choice.
Arrangements are un-der the direction of Bailey Funeral Home, Lancaster. Please go to www.baileyfh.net for more information or to send an online condo-lence.
Everett W. “Hooper” Rexford
Everett W. “Hooper” Rexford
LANCASTER— Charles J. Huntington, 62, of Starr King Park, died Monday morning March 31, 2014 at Weeks Medical Center, Lancaster after a long bat-tle with cancer.
Mr. Huntington was born in Lancaster on March 25, 1952 the son of Leslie S. and Elinor (Al-drich) Huntington.
Charlie was a grad-uate of White Mountain Regional High School and the New Hampshire Police Academy. For 25 years he has worked as a lineman for Public Service of New Hampshire. For over 30 years he has served as a police officer in Lan-caster and Jefferson. He also served as Jefferson’s
Health Officer. He enjoyed horse pulls and Nascar rac-ing and most of spending time with family. He was also a big support of 4-H.
Family members in-clude his wife Deborah (Samson) Huntington of Lancaster; four children and their spouses, Shelli Roberts and Michael of Lancaster, Michael Hun-tington and Stephanie of Lancaster, Kelly Noland and James of Lunenburg, Katrina Stewart and Ran-dy of Lancaster; eight grandchildren, Cameron, Michaela, Brooke, Hollie, Matthew, Scott, Kyleigh, Emree; five siblings, Rog-er Huntington of Lancast-
er, Donald Huntington of Rindge, Sharon Bushaw of Lancaster, Sidney Hun-tington of Jefferson, Cyn-thia Smith South Carolina; and many nieces and neph-ews.
He’ was predeceased by his parents and a brother Herbert Huntington.
Visiting hours were held Tuesday April 1 at the Bai-ley Funeral Home in Lan-caster. A funeral service was held Wednesday morn-ing at the Lancaster Con-gregation United Church of Christ in Lancaster. Reverend Sharon van der Laan, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be held at the convenience of the family in Summer Street Ceme-tery, Lancaster.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made in his memory to Simon B. Hun-tington Scholarship Fund, % Passumpsic Bank, 117 Main Street, Lancaster, NH 03584.
Please go to www.bai-leyfh.net for more informa-tion or to send an online condolence.
Charles J. Huntington
Charles J. Huntington
WHITEFIELD—Clarice L. Jordan, 86, Whitefield passed away Wednesday March 19, 2014, in Lancast-er surrounded by mem-bers of her loving fami-ly. Clarice was born in Berlin, in 1927 to Harvey and Cora (Pelchat) L’Heu-reux. Clarice graduated from the Whitefield High School in the year 1947. In the years following her graduation she became a housewife and clerk at the popular Spencer Drug Store in Whitefield where she was well known for her easy-going personality and skills as a short order cook. Clarice was an ani-mal lover and a member of the Whitefield VFW Aux-iliary for many years. She spent a lot of hours knit-ting and crocheting and there were many deserv-ing children who benefited from the fruits of her la-bor. She was happily mar-
ried to Ken Jordan for over forty years prior to his passing on February 20, 2014. She’ was predeceased by her parents and her son Gerald, and a sister Ve-ronette DeRoche. She’ is survived by her daughter, Shirlene and her husband Ron Byron and three chil-dren from Colorado and Kansas, Stepsons Kenneth M. and Louise of White-field Steven and Chick of Littleton, and Kevin and Louise of Groveton, Cla-rice thoroughly enjoyed
her 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren, and two sisters Lorraine Kar-powicz of Maine, and Ber-tha Sinlak of Turkey.
A combined Celebra-tion of Life for Clarice and Ken was held at the McIn-tyre School Apartments, 16 Highland Ave, White-field, on Monday March 24, 2014 with Rev. Lyn Winter officiating. There will be a combined graveside ser-vice for both Ken and Cla-rice in the spring at Park Street Cemetery in White-field to be announced at a later date. Those who wish to make donations in Cla-rice’s memory may do so at Riverside Animal Res-cue, 236 Riverside Avenue, Luneburg Vermont 05906, or at their website at www.riversideanimalrescue.org. To send a private note of condolence to the family go to www.RossFuneral.com
Clarice L. Jordan
Clarice L. Jordan
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014Coös County DemoCrat
Coös CountyPlanning Board
Meeting Tuesday, April 8, 2014
6:00 p.m.North Country
Resource Center(DRED Building)
Lancaster, NH
COÖS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Regular MeetingWednesday, April 9, 2014
9:00 a.m. Coös County
Nursing HospitalW. Stewartstown, NH
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
SHELLY L. LaBOUNTYNOVEMBER 16, 1962 — APRIL 15, 2013
Let me dedicate my life todayTo care of those who come my way.Let me touch each one with healing
handsAnd the gentle art for which I stand.And then tonight when the day is
done,Let me rest in peace if I’ve helped
just one.
Forever in our hearts, Mom and Dad
Chad, Jeannine and Family Marc, Vicki and Family Tim, Gaby and Family
Jody, Donna and Family
Nordic Ski Team State Championship Community Celebration
Please join us in honoring theDivision III
Nordic State Championson Sunday, April 6th
atWhite Mountains
Regional High School Gymnasium
Events begin at 4:30 pmwith a buffet dinner
being served at 5:00 pm.
Sponsored byWMRHS Booster Club and Family Members
IN MEMORIAM
Paul “Red” W. SullivanSeptember 18, 1931 — March 29, 2007
Our Dad, Grandpa, & Brother
“A Proud Irishman”
Time has come and gone since you left us seven years ago.
We have such great and loving memories of you, and all of us together.
We miss your smile, your advise, your knowledge, and your quiet nature. WE LOVE YOU!
GOD BLESS YOU….
Fred, Patti, Lynne, Dawn, Sherry and Families Pamie, Rob, Paul, Abbey, Amanda and Kamryn
Allison, Diane, Randy & Nic Frances & Johnny, and Jim & Bea
1. What was a retiarius gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?
2. What Kentucky tourist attraction’s entrance was allegedly discovered by a hunter while tracking a wounded bear?
3. Which millionaire yachtsman perished on the Lusitania in 1915?
4. What staple of Sigmund’s profession lies in state at the Freud Museum in London?
5. In golf, who presents the green jacket to the US Masters winner?
FIVE QUESTIONS
Colonel Town Senior news
L A N C A S T E R — O n Tuesday March 11 twelve members of the Colonel town senior citizens lunch club met for lunch and the monthly business meeting at the community house.
The menu of the day, in honor of St. Patrick day was corn and cabbage served with boiled potatoes and carrots, rolls, assorted bev-erages, and spice cake with butter crunch ice cream.
Thank you Tri County Cap cooks Sue, Lisa, and Bill also Vickie Pierce, Manager. Thanks also to our Lunch committee Lou-ise Ann Weatherbee, Joyce Eldridge, Sandra Mac Kil-lop and Larry Downs who helped serve.
Following lunch presi-dent Judith Fuller opened the business meeting with the Lords Prayer and the pledge of allegiance. Re-ports were read by secre-tary Louis Mc Gee & Trea-surer Sandra Mac Killop and accepted by a majority vote.
President Judith Full-er informed the members about the NH senior confer-ence on ageing at the Radi-son in Manchester on May 22, 2014 more information on reservations bus trans-portation etc. will be avail-able at a later date.
Winner of the 50/50 drawing of $5.00 was our newest member Marian Bucklin, Welcome Marian.
Birthday person of the
month is Hanna Statkum, “Happy Birthday Hanna”
Following the meeting the members sang a se-lection of Irish songs ac-companied on the Colonel Town antique piano by Louis McGee.
At a previous meeting on February 25, we enjoyed ‘ Old time fiddle tunes’ played by guest Lyndal De-mers and Dick Russer on their fiddles many thanks to them for their special music.
Our next sociality and lunch meeting will be Tues-day, March 25 at 11am. Come early, Joyce Ball and Lyndall Demers will be playing more old time fid-dle tunes Joyce will alter-nate playing the mandolin and fiddle and Lyndall will be playing her fiddle.
Lunch will be served at noon. The menu is a choice of honey chicken or meat-loaf.
All are welcome to enjoy the music. Those staying for lunch please call by Sat-urday, March 22, to any of the above names. Reserva-tion for the meal is a must.
The Colonel town senior citizens craft club meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month through the month of April at the com-munity house in the living room from 1pm to 3pm.
All are invited no re-quirements. Come and work on your projects and meet some new friends.
IRIS W. BAIRD
William Dennis Weeks was a grandson of the John Weeks who was among the earliest settlers in Lancast-er. He was born February 28, 1818 and died February 27 1885.
He grew up on what is now Prospect Farm, then the family farm. He attend-ed local schools and became a teacher for a few years. Later he was employed by the E. & T. Fairbanks Com-pany in St. Johnsbury. He was a farmer as well and represented the town and county for some years, as a representative in the state legislature and as select-man. He served as deputy collector of revenue until that position was abolished. His friends proposed him as a candidate for governor, but he declined that honor.
In 1876 he was appointed Judge of Probate, although he had not been trained in the law. He served “justly, honestly, and satisfactori-ly” (according to the Coos County History) until his death.
In 1864, at a special town meeting, Weeks was ap-pointed to a committee of the town to purchase the land on which the Centen-nial celebration had been held and to deed it to the town as Centennial Park.
In 1868 Weeks served with Richard P. Kent and Benjamin F. Hunking on a committee to find a place for a new cemetery. The old cemetery on the mound near the center of town was no longer adequate. Land was selected for the new cemetery on Summer Street, after first consider-ing a place near the Con-
necticut River.When it became possible
to transport products from Lancaster to Portland or Boston, several local men built factories to process potatoes into starch. Starch was more valuable per unit of weight, and less likely to rot in transit. For a few years this was a profitable business, but increased competition from other mills around New England which were closer to the markets made it unprofit-able.
Several of the starch companies suffered. One, the Lancaster Starch Com-pany, which was on land
later occupied by Thomp-son Manufacturing Compa-ny, was a joint stock com-pany, of forty shares, each originally valued at $ 100. Stockholders sold out at whatever price they could get. Then a fire destroyed the factory. William D. Weeks was one of the heavi-est losers, and could have cut his losses by selling out his stock as well. Instead he chose to try to save what he could and to preserve the credit of himself and his associates. The Town History says of him “It has ever been the pride of Lan-caster business men of the old stock, that in all busi-ness enterprises involving risks their creditors must not suffer by the failure of their ventures. Many of the business enterprises of that class of men have failed, and they have lost heavily, but their creditors have al-most invariably been paid to the last penny of their just claims.”
In 1870 the Coos and Es-
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Mary’s New You
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April 5 from 3-7.
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HAM RAFFLEFriday Night April 4, 2014
Route 3 in Groveton, NHAmerican Legion Post #17
Starts at 7:30 PM ...til the hams are gone!!!50 Hams to be Raffled
All Members and Bonafide Guests are Welcomed
MONTESSORI NIGHTMonday, April 7, 2014 — 5:30-6:30
Child Care Available The Montessori Method and materials will be discussed.
You are invited to attend this informational evening. Please RSPV.
The Children’s House75 Bronson Street, Littleton, NH
603-444-6464
Photo by Peter Gair
Emily Webb (Catherine Carter) has that frank, hard conversation with her good friend and neighbor George Gibbs (Mike Perry) about his faults and flaws on the way home from high school in the Colonel Town Players’ produc-tion of “Our Town,” Thornton Wilder’s classic love story and tribute to New England will be on stage in the Lancaster Town Hall on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 4, 5, and 6, and Saturday, April 12, plus on Friday, April 11, at the Tillotson Center in Colebrook. All Lancaster shows are free as part of Lancaster’s 250th Anniversary Celebration. Tickets to Colebrook’s special performance cost $15.
Photo by edith tucker
In Act I — “Daily Life” — of Thornton Wilder’s classic play, “Our Town,” we meet the residents of Grover’s Corners and see the town though the descriptions of Stage Manager-narrator (Joe Doherty). The Colonel Town Players’ production of “Our Town” will be on stage at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 4; 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5; and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 6; and Saturday, April 12, at the Lancaster Town Hall. All Lancaster shows are free as part of Lancaster’s 250th Anniversary Celebration. A special performance will also be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11, at the Tillotson Center in Colebrook where tickets cost $15.
LANCASTER 250TH
William Dennis Weeks
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Lancaster, PAGE A15
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Members of Girl Scout Troop 13061 of Northumberland recently collected a variety of goods to make up a number of military care pack-ages under the guidance of Scout leader Wendy Weagle, left, back row: Kelly, front row, Lacey, Amie, Katryna, and Ava, and Danielle, back row, Anna, and Davey. Four Scouts missed the photo op: Dellanie, Joli, Kelsea, and Mackenna. Three local stores cooperated to make the effort a great success: Dollar General, Nugents and Sons, and the Groveton Village Store.
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Restoringlost rights
The New Hampshire Senate last week approved SB 244, a bill that would regulate how names of those who’ve received mental health treatment are reported to a federal database of gun purchas-ers. Most importantly, and most controversially for some reason, the bill also puts in place an annul-ment process so that one’s rights can be restored.
Senate Republicans and four Democrats, including the North Country’s own Jeff Woodburn, voted in fa-vor of this bill and the an-nulment process by which those who have completed mental health treatment can have their rights to own firearms restored.
We salute Woodburn
and the other senators for their commonsense view on this matter. It seems only fair that if one’s rights can be taken away, they can also be reinstat-ed. Apparently this is not a popular view among some in Concord and the gover-nor has criticized the Sen-ate for its vote.
Any bill that touches on gun ownership is contro-versial in this day and age and there has been much fear among gun owners that going to seek mental health counseling could result in the loss of certain rights, or that the database could be misused as a po-litical tool. The annulment process might go a little ways towards easing that fear. A little ways.
Spartans FCCLA would like to say Thank YouTo the Editor:
Since October, the local Spartans Family, Career, and Community Leaders chapter (FCCLA) at WMRHS has been working on their community service project. Led by Anastasia Maher and Emma Portinari, the Spartans made twenty-five pillowcases to donate to the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. To start, they held a fundraiser in November called Pie-A-Teacher. Pie-A-Teacher allowed students to enter for a chance to pie one of their teachers in the face. From there, the chapter spent each Friday af-
ternoon sewing pillowcases. To wrap up the project, they collected change at WMRHS. Anastasia and Emma will be delivering the project to C.H.A.D on March 29. From there, the duo will take the project to the FCCLA Spring Conference on April 4 and 5. They want to thank all those who donated fabric, helped in the sewing process, and have supported them along the way.
Sincerely,Anastasia Maher and Emma Portinari
Spartans FCCLA
Vote for KaitlinTo the Editor:
I’m a senior at White Mountains Regional High School and I am writing this letter to ask for your support. I’m competing for the Hood Sportsmanship Scholarship. The 10 students who receive the most online votes will move on as finalists who interview with a panel to award 3 lucky
seniors with a $5,000 scholarship. I really need your vote. Please go to www.hood.com/scholarship and vote for me. The rules state that anyone who is at least 13 years old is eligible to vote once each day until April 17.
Thank you!Kaitlin Wood
I’m just a little store On a corner of a small townSo come on in to see what’s inside me.I see many people come and goFrom my place With smiles upon their faceSome look sad but now happy.Car plates from many statesCome just to visit me.People walking by stopping inside Just to see what’s inside.I have a dream that’s made me,Happy to see all the people care for me,My little place on the cornerInside I see people take a book to read,Get clothing for their childrenColoring in my little corner,Laughing while playing with the toysThat’s just for them.Little ones finding a stuffed animal to cuddle Just for a friend Getting sheets, blankets to keep warm, Curtains to cover their windows.I have furniture for themThey set up on to Talk, laugh, cry,Just to have a friend nearby.Furniture, dishes, and other stuffTo use with prideFor their new home or For just a special placeSo they could readOr do arts and craftsOr to eat up on,And lights to seeSo please stay and make me happy To see all the people safe and happyAnd enjoying my little placeOn the corner of our Little town of WhitefieldSo thank you for keeping me
In your hearts and soul.
I’m Just A Little StoreBY LILLIAN HARRIMAN
It’s that time of year again- the Spring Bulb Sale! This year we offer you colorful choices in convallaria, columbine, crane’s bill, gladiolus, iris, aster, dianthus, dahlias, asiatic lilies, daylily, this-tle, liatris, hosta, peony and several potted plants to choose from to ensure a vibrant garden this spring. All bulbs are commercially grown, not collected from the wild. Thank you for your purchase in advance, as it continues the mission of the CCCD to promote and achieve conservation in Coos County.
Ordering: Orders and payment (check or cash) are due by Monday, April 7. Checks should be made out and sent with the order form to:
Coös CountyConservation District
4 Mayberry LaneLancaster, NH 03584
Pickup: At the above ad-dress Monday, May 5 from 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.; Tues-day, May 6 from 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
*If you cannot pick up your bulbs at these times we can ship your bulbs for $5.00 or 15% of your order, whichever is the larger
sum OR call us to schedule a different time to come into the office.
Please call the office if you have any questions at (603) 788-4651 x 102 or email @ [email protected]
Spring Fundraiser: Bulb/Flower Sale
Blood Drive April 14LANCASTER—Monday
April 14, at Colonel Town Community Center 16 high street from 12pm to 5:30 pm.
Sponsored by Passump-sic bank Free Subway six-inch sandwich coupon at participating restaurants for all presenting donors.
Walk-in for an appoint-ment, visit www.redcross-blood.org or call 1-800 RED CROSS.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned during 66 years on the planet, it’s that people hate it when, in the middle of a late-March snowstorm, someone says “Wow---isn’t this great?”
That someone is apt to be me, because I have an
unabashed love for snow-storms---the more storms, the longer, the deeper the snow, the better. And this from a guy who has to keep house and barns shoveled out and snowbanks pushed back with a bucket-loader, and slog out through it all to heave three-foot pieces of wood into an outdoor fur-nace.
Word of this quirk of personality has appar-ently gotten around, be-cause a friend I bumped into during the height of the latest snow-squall last week looked me in the eye and said, with desperation, “This must be too much even for you.” I didn’t have the heart to say “Nope.”
It has been some kind of winter (not that it’s quite over yet), reminding me of winters we had during my growing-up years on Park Street in downtown Cole-brook, where, in a town just eight miles shy of the 45th Parallel, halfway be-tween the Equator and the North Pole, such weather was to be expected. It nev-er occurred to me that the weather was more like the North Pole for more than half the time and hardly ever seemed at all like the Equator, a puzzle that still intrigues me.
People are always say-ing that adults remember some things strictly from a kid’s perspective, as in how
deep the snow was when we were kids, and it’s true that the family car seemed to be the size of a steam lo-comotive (a what?) and the supper table was the size of a tennis court.
But telephone poles don’t lie, and it was a fact that the snowbanks along Park Street were up to and sometimes over the lowest rung that the line crews used to climb to the wires, and the lowest rung was just about as high as a tall man could reach.
“So this winter has been just like the old-fashioned winters we always had,” I’ve been saying this win-ter, making some people want to punch me, maybe because I’ve been too obvi-ous about enjoying it. This might be why some people seem to be crossing the street to avoid me.
Another thing I’ve learned is that it doesn’t do any good, when it’s snowing so hard you can’t see across the road, to say “Hey, in no time this will all melt and run down into Long Island Sound.” And then, thinking about ice jams and floods, add “Slow-ly, I hope.”
In retrospect, I think we have our demented mother
to thank for this weather attitude that’s slaphappy bordering on insane. Our mother eagerly threw us out into rainstorms to play in the mud, amusing our-selves by building dams and dikes and canals while the children of horrified neighborhood mothers gaped at us from behind windowpanes, and she just as eagerly threw us out into six feet of snow to see if we could wear it out, which we tried mightily to do.
With a background like that, there’s hardly ever a parade I can resist rain-ing on. Just the other day, as we were stamping our boots coming into the gro-cery store in the middle of the latest snowstorm, a
friend said “I’ll bet we’re seeing the last of this.”
I couldn’t help observing that it was only the end of March. “My birthday is April 22nd,” I said as he began edging away, “and I can remember getting a new bicycle on my twelfth birthday and not being able to ride it because we had a foot of snow,” and for some reason he walked away without another word.
(This column runs in 13 weekly papers covering the northern two-thirds of New Hampshire and parts of Maine and Vermont. John Harrigan’s address: Box 39, Colebrook, NH 03576, or [email protected])
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John harrigan photo
Millie on a snowbank. Like me she doesn’t mind even a spring snow-storm.
By John harrigan
Columnist
“Why, when I was a kid…” (And some of it was true)North Country Notebook
CNN interviews former editor about old story
Network doing show on local doctor who kidnapped daughter
in 2004BY ART MCGRATH
LANCASTER–This sum-mer area residents will see some familiar faces as CNN airs a report about a local doctor who allegedly kid-napped her daughter child and hasn’t been seen since 2004.
Over the weekend CNN was in the area filming seg-ments of a new show called, “The Hunt,” about old, un-solved cases. The case they were filming about was the kidnapping of Mary Nunes by her mother Genevieve Kelley and stepfather Scott Kelley. Genevieve, a local doctor, alleged that her ex-husband, Mark Nunes, had abused their daughter Mary. Police investigated the allegations and found no credible evidence for the allegations but a recording Genevieve made of Mary was considered so disturb-ing that police began inves-tigating Genevieve.
Eventually the Kelleys moved to Colorado, and then disappeared. A war-rant for kidnapping was issued for their arrest in 2006. Mary was 8-years-old when they disappeared. She turned 18 in February.
That was one of the rea-sons CNN chose this case.
“There’s something par-ticularly compelling about this,” said producer John Scholl while filming in Lan-caster over the weekend. “Most high profile cases we look at involve violent crimes, bank robbers or murderers who go into hid-ing.”
Scholl described the sto-ry as a sleeper, that was easy to pass over at first glance but was striking and powerful the closer he looked.
“You normally don’t think of parental abduc-tions but in actuality they are quite common,” Scholl said. “People can’t think a parent can kidnap their own kid—but they can.”
The case was so powerful that it stuck with a number of people who stuck with it over the years, including law enforcement and the media. Former Whitefield Police Chief Wayne Rioux was interviewed. Also in-terviewed this past week-end was former reporter and editor of the Coös County Democrat, Melissa Grima. CNN interviewed her at her old desk at the Democrat.
“I got close to this story,”
Grima said after the inter-view. “I spent more time working on it than any other story I’ve ever done—about a year of research.”
Grima said she was struck by the lack of con-cern many in the area expressed over the disap-pearance of the Kelleys with Mary. “Most people shrugged. She was with her mom.”
Grima said that in ex-amining the court docu-ments she was struck by how nasty a divorce it was. They were only able to communicate with each other by means of a note-book that was sent back and forth with young Mary. Soon Genevieve made ac-cusations of abuse against Mark.
“I don’t think she nec-essarily lied but she con-vinced herself that some-thing was going on,” Grima said. “She was looking for something she could use.”
Genevieve took Mary to Spurwink Services in Maine where they told her that some of the issues she was concerned with were normal childhood develop-ment, Grima said.
“I got the impression she was shopping for the result she wanted,” Grima said.
In the middle of this was Mary. “This was so unfair to her,” Grima said. “She has siblings she has never seen.”
After police began inves-tigating her because of the video, Genevieve and her family left the area for Col-orado, eventually leaving the country. Authorities think they went to a Span-ish speaking Third World country and Genevieve could be working as a doc-
tor.Scholl said one of the
hopes of the show is to get the word out there. Perhaps someone knows where Mary and Genevieve are. Perhaps even Mary herself might see her own story.
The show’s first season starts in July. The segment about the Kelleys will air sometime over the sum-mer.
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Former Coös County Democrat editor and reporter Melissa Grima during her interview with CNN on a story she worked on in 2008. At left is producer John Scholl and cameraman Vitaly Bokser.
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Former Coös County Democrat editor and reporter Melissa Grima during her interview, Saturday, with CNN at her old desk at the Democrat. At left is cameraman Vitaly Bokser.
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served by poverty” when he wrote “Trav-els with Charley: In Search of America,” published in 1962.
The 13 to 11 roll call vote to pass SB325 came on the heels of pipeline spills in Ohio and North Da-kota. In the Ohio spill, 20,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from a five-inch crack in an underground pipe-line, contaminating wetlands in a nature preserve.
In New Hamp-shire, 160,000 barrels a day of light crude oil are currently be-ing pumped from Portland, Me. to Montreal, Quebec, through an aging 24-inch pipeline that runs through five Coös towns: Shelburne, Gor-ham, Randolph, Jefferson, and Lancaster.
The Portland Pipe Line Corporation (PPLC) — a subsidiary of Imperial Oil
(majority-owned by Exx-on), Shell Oil, and Suncor —owns this pipeline, plus a more than 60-year-old, now-idle 18-inch pipeline that lies alongside it on nearly the entire route
across New Hampshire. This line has been eyed in the past for a project to pump Alberta tar sands crude (a.k.a. diluted bitu-men, or “dilbit”) to Port-land by reversing its flow,
increasing existing spill risks.
Many fear it is only a matter of time before this project is revived since Cana-dian regulators have approved running heavy crude from Al-berta to Montreal.
PPLC’s original 12-inch pipeline that was installed in 1941 to help the Common-wealth country of Canada fight Nazi Germany has been taken out of service but remains in the ground.
“We are grateful to Senator Woodburn for sponsoring this important legisla-tion,” said Michael Bartlett, president of the New Hampshire
Audubon Society in a press release. “We appreciate his tireless advocacy, and the strong support of SB 325’s co-sponsors. Pipeline spills are occurring with increasing frequency, and
we have just marked the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez tanker spill — a historically tragic event that motivated the strengthening of feder-al oil pollution laws. NH Audubon and its members are pleased to see the Sen-ate act to protect the Gran-ite State’s natural environ-ment.”
The Pipeline Safety Trust, a nationwide non-profit organization fo-cused on pipeline safety and spill preparedness, provided detailed testimo-ny to disprove the pipe-line’s claims that SB325 is subject to federal preemp-tion.
Senators Bob Odell, a Republican of New Lon-don, Martha Fuller Clark, a Democrat of Portsmouth, David Watters, a Demo-crat of Dover, and John Reagan, a Republican of Deerfield, plus Reps. Mar-cia Hammon, a Democrat of Whitefield, and Suzanne Smith, a Democrat of He-bron, co-sponsored SB325.
BY EDITH TUCKER
CONCORD — District 2 Senator Jeanie Forrester of Meredith was surprised on Thursday morning that SB245, designed to re-structure the state’s qua-si-judicial Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) charged with approving the state’s energy projects, “sailed through the Senate on a voice vote” with very little discussion.
“Since my first term in office, I have been working to improve the SEC,” For-rester wrote in an electron-ic letter to her constituents. “SB245 was my second at-tempt to pass legislation to address deficiencies in the SEC process.“
Forrester, a Republican, was the bill’s prime spon-sor, which was co-spon-sored by District 1 Sen. Jeff Woodburn, a Democrat, District 3 Sen. Jeb Brad-ley, a Republican, and Dis-trict 21 Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, a Democrat, plus Grafton County Reps. Su-san Ford, Rick Ladd, and Suzanne Smith, and Car-roll 1 Rep. Gene Chandler of Bartlett.
“The final version of SB245 includes four im-portant aspects: requires the SEC to make a finding that each new energy facil-ity proposed is in the pub-lic interest as a condition of approval; requires two publicly appointed mem-bers to serve on the SEC and reduces its size from 15 to 7 state agency heads; makes the SEC process more user-friendly to the public by restructuring
L A N C A S T E R — T h i s Thursday April 3 at 6 p.m. the Lancaster School will be hosting its annual Tal-ent Show. The card fea-tures more than twenty unique acts spanning Kin-dergarten through Grade 8. This year’s show will be extra special as the focus
of the show will be around a young lady who has per-formed in our show for the last four years, Hannah Smith.
Hannah has been fight-ing Cystic Fibrosis for a number of years now. Re-gardless of this illness, she has continued to live a life every child should have, participating in sports, dancing, and being the fun loving little girl any-one would be proud to call “daughter”.
Because she has been a part of our talent show family all her life, we felt it was time for the show to give back. We will be accepting donations at
the door to help Hannah’s family with the expenses they have incurred since Hannah’s diagnosis. Cys-tic Fibrosis has had a pro-foundly negative affect on the respiratory system and Hannah is in need of an air purification system. We hope that you can help us make this a reality and come support the local talent and Hannah at this very special talent show!
For more information please call the Lancaster School at 788-4924 or vis-it “Shine on for Hannah” on Facebook for informa-tion about our little girl’s amazing story.
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REQUEST FOR BIDSTOWN OF WHITEFIELD
The Cemetery Committee is accepting bids for the 2014 mow-ing season. All bids to be sent to the Cemetery Committee, Town of White-field, 38 King Square, Whitefield, NH, 03598 by the 15th of April, 2014. Contact Edgar Cormier at 603-616-4267 for any questions.
GROVETONELEMENTARY
KINDERGARTENSCREENING ANDREGISTRATION
Groveton Elementary School will hold Kindergarten Screening and Registration on Thursday, May 8, 2014, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm at the Groveton Elementary School.
This registration is for children who will be age 5 by September 30, 2014 and planning to attend Groveton Kindergarten in the fall of 2014. Parents must bring their child’s birth certificate, proof of recent physical, and immunization record.
Because this is also a screening, children are required to attend. Please call Wanda Cloutier at 636-1806 to schedule an appointment.
If you are unable to attend but have a child who will qualify, please call Mrs. Cloutier. This will help us with planning for the upcoming year.
SAU #58 VACANCIES 2014-2015
Groveton High SchoolHigh School Guidance Counselor
Groveton Elementary SchoolElementary Special Education Teacher
Interested candidates must submit a letter of interest, resume, 3 current letters of reference, transcripts and certification to:
Carrie Irving, SecretarySAU #58
15 Preble StreetGroveton, NH 03582
Ph: 603-636-1437 Fax: 603-636-6102
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SAU #58NOTICE OF MEETINGS
APRIL 2014
STRATFORD SCHOOL BOARD
Stratford Public School Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, April 9, 20146:00PM – Board Meeting
NORTHUMBERLAND SCHOOL BOARD
Groveton High School Library
Monday, April 14, 20146:00PM – Board Meeting
SAU BOARDStratford Public School
Multipurpose RoomTuesday, April 29, 2014
6:00PM – Board Meeting
STARK VILLAGE SCHOOLKINDERGARTENREGISTRATION
Registration for children entering kindergarten in Au-gust, 2014, will be held at the Stark Village School on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 8:00am – 11:00am.
In order to attend kindergarten, children must be 5 years of age as of September 30, 2014. Immuniza-tion requirements must be completed before they enter school. As required by State Law RSA 141:C, no stu-dent is to be allowed in school without an acceptable immunization record or qualification for conditional en-rollment.
Parents should have available at the registration ses-sion, a copy of their child’s birth certificate, their immu-nization record, and proof of custody, if applicable. Please call Lisa Shorey by May 2nd at 636-1092 to schedule an appointment.
Talent show, April 3
Senate passes bill to restructure Site Evaluation Committeethe public information and public hearing schedule to allow more time for the public to acquire informa-tion about the project and to prepare and submit com-ments; and provides staff and financial resources for the SEC to do its work,” Forrester pointed out.
Sen. Fuller Clark of Portsmouth noted that these modifications repre-sent a “tremendous step” forward, not only by add-
ing public members but also by “strengthening the public process.”
In the future, fees to cover the costly permit-ting process likely will be charged applicants as is now the case in many oth-er states.
While siting energy projects was once consid-ered an occasional activ-ity, four or five energy projects are now being pro-posed every year as sourc-
es of energy are more di-versified than in the past. Commissioner Tom Bu-rack of the Department of Environmental Services, who chairs the SEC, testi-fied at an earlier hearing that a single proposed proj-ect could take up 100 hours of time.
The bill will now be tak-en up in the House, since Thursday was “crossover day.”
Photo by Edith tuckEr
Sen. Jeff Woodburn, the prime sponsor of SB325 that is designed to give authority to the state Department of Environmental Services over oil pipeline operators’ spill preparedness plans to ensure they are adequate, narrowly passed the Senate on a 13 to 11 roll call vote on Thursday, March 27.
Oil spill preparedness bill passed by Senate, 13 to 11BY EDITH TUCKER
CONCORD — The amended Senate Bill 325 introduced by prime sponsor Senator Jeff Woodburn gives the state Department of Environ-mental Services (NHDES) authority over oil pipeline operators’ spill prepared-ness plans to ensure that they are adequate. The bill’s original wording also called for fees to be collected to prepare, train and equip emergency per-sonnel.
Since Friday was “crossover day,” the bill has now moved to the House.
The pipelines’ right-of-way (ROW) roughly paral-lels Route 2 and includes more than 70 stream and wetland crossings, includ-ing the Connecticut and Androscoggin Rivers.
In his remarks on the Senate floor, Sen. Wood-burn recalled that au-thor John Steinbeck had been impressed with this stretch of rural country-side that “has been pre-
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Gregory Gagne
Wilma Corrigan | 586-4488 JEFFERSONNOTICE: All Residents
of Jefferson ... There will be a special meeting for our Post Office Plan held at the Town Hall on Fri-day, April 4, 2014, at 5pm, so residents can voice what they most prefer for an alternative to the cur-rent open hours that are offered now. There will be issues to be discussed as to keeping the Office open for service, open hours for window service, and the overall Mail perfor-mance. It will be in every ones best interest to at-tend this meeting.
The Jefferson Histor-ical Society will not hold an April meeting, but will have a Tuesday, May 6, 2014 meeting held at the Museum at 7pm if tem-perature conditions per-mit.
Their needs to be a new slate of officers presented so elections for 2014 may be conducted.
News on the Christmas Ornaments stand as, all of the Water Wheel and Old Corner Store ones are sold out, but there is quite a number of the previous ornaments left to sell, with only a few of the Mu-seum (original St. John’s Church),Waumbek and the Tower left. Plans for year 2014 is to set up the gift shop, and organizing the long closet area, with the wall shelves and front window into the Library for research and other matter.
Last week we spoke about the Blue Moon and what it represented. Well my niece in Bloomfield, Conn. sent me a note tell-ing me what it is-----It is a term that is used to de-scribe the third Full Moon of a Season that has four full moons with the sea-son, Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn), and Winter in a year. Each season has three months and three full moons each. When one of the seasons in a year has four full moons instead of the usual three, the third full moon is called a Blue Moon. One
such Blue Moon occurred on the 21, August of 2013. We need to discover when 2014 has its blue moon. My apology for miss in-forming all of you, I stand corrected.
At the Jefferson Ele-mentary School students are always busy on dif-ferent projects the third graders made a fabulous presentation to the fourth graders on early farms, the general store, early schools, early travel, and early games and toys. The fourth graders fin-ished the chapter on New Hampshire in the Amer-ican Revolution. In the Fifth and Sixth grades the Fifth graders topics they have covered characteri-zation, summarizing and paraphrasing and making logical predictions, mak-ing inferences, sequenc-ing and drawing conclu-sions. The Sixth graders finished discussion on the Civil War and the as-sassination of President Lincoln. Discussed Union and Confederated, Civil War Battles, famous gen-erals, reconstruction, the thirteenth amendment and John Wilkes Booth.
On Thursday, March 27,2014 the JAC’s held their second meeting of the month with 10 mem-bers present.
The’ tables were deco-rated by Patty Angelicola for the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. She used orange tablecloths with white napkins and under plates. The centerpiece was a very tall white, but slender tea serving pot having 5 sample liquor mini bottles on either end of the pot followed by a dainty dish of mixed nuts and candies. At one end of the tall serving pot was a short regular tea-pot representing Mother Goose for afternoon tea. The second table was dec-orated the same, but with a green tall and slender Serving Teapot, and the short teapot was in mem-ory of Cinderella and animal friends using the
skirt part of Cinderella,’ s dress with the animals sitting on the top of the teapots cover. That table also had a collection of ten different mini liquor sample bottles. The menu for the day was Meat Pie, and Mashed Potatoes with gravy, cut Green Beans for a vegetable ending with a good piece of Black Forest Cake for dessert, all served with milk by the staff of the Weeks Memorial Hospital of Lancaster.
The luncheon, gift was won by Ernie Angelico-la that chooses him to bring the gift for the next meeting. There was no meeting held, but there is always a collection of paperback books that one can choose from to take home. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, April, I 0, 2014.
Jefferson Town Clerk, Polly Bronson will not have Office Hours on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, but will resume regular hours on Thursday, April 10, Thank You for your understanding!
HUMOR: Oh Gosh George of 03598 we are at that time of year when you want to be alert for April Fools Day!
When our children were young, and in school, it was a standard treat to play tricks on one another, but the best one to April Fool was their father, short sheet his bed, sew up the legs to his PJ’s at different lengths, or put a toy frog or some-thing into his dinner pail. “April Fools Dad!” ------Here is a gig that fits the date----A Wealthy lawyer was having his house painted when a passer-by walked up and asked if he could do something to earn a few dollars. “Sure,” the lawyer said. “Take a can of paint, go around back and paint my porch.” Fifteen min-utes later, the wanderer was back “Done already?” he asked. “Yeah, but it’s actually a Mercedes.”
Balsams project will not go forward if Senate doesn’t pass
HB 1590, county treasurer warnsBY EDITH TUCKER
LANCASTER — “The Balsams project will not go forward” if the bill that passed the House – HB 1509 — earlier this month to correct a tax issue in the Unincorporated Places of Dixville and Millsfield does not also pass the state Senate, warned Coös Coun-ty treasurer Fred King of Colebrook, a former state senator who also serves as vice chairman of the Coös County Planning Board for the Unincorporated Places while addressing the coun-ty delegation of state repre-sentatives at their Monday morning meeting on March 31.
“We need that Balsams project,” exclaimed King, who added that the current economic situation is dire in the Colebrook area.
HB 1509 would require Coös County to maintain the valuation of the Granite Reliable Power (GRP) wind farm project for county tax purposes at $113,000,000 as long as the current pay-ment in lieu of taxes (PILT) agreement is in effect.
The state Department of Revenue (DRA) put a far higher value on the GRP wind farm than was stip-ulated in the PILT agree-ment signed by the Coös County commissioners and the wind farm owners. This will greatly raise the tax burden of all other taxpay-ers in these two Unincor-porated Places. Ordinarily property owners in Unin-corporated Places upay lit-tle or no taxes because the 10 percent timber tax from tree harvesting usually covers the cost of the few government services pro-vided.
Most of the Balsams property, including the his-toric hotel and the Wilder-ness Ski Area, is located in Dixville.
Delegation chairman Rep. Robert Theberge of
Berlin is the bill’s prime sponsor.
Therberge assured King that District 1 Senator Jeff Woodburn of Dalton, who is one of the bill’s co-spon-sors, is very familiar with the intent and need for the bill and is ready to work for its passage in the Senate.
Coös County is fighting DRA’s action in court, but from the outset both the commissioners and delega-tion have believed that leg-islative action would pro-vide the best and speediest remedy.
Balsams owners Danny Dagesse and Dan Hebert, both Colebrook natives, are now working with Les Otten of Maine who revolu-tionized the ski industry by investing in snowmaking at ski areas starting with Sunday River, have not yet announced any specific plans for the world-famous Balsams Resort.
Otten, however, has talked about a multi-phase expansion plan that would start by quadrupling the size of the Wilderness Ski Area and ultimately add literally thousands of beds in Dixville Notch, giving the upper reaches of Coös a major economic shot in the arm.
Commissioner Jeff Rose of the Department of Re-sources and Economic De-velopment (DRED) replied on Monday in answer to a general inquiry about the Balsams project via his spokesperson Lorna Col-quhoun that “things are progressing nicely.”
Earlier in the meet-ing, the county delegation passed the same 2014 coun-ty budget it had approved on a contingent basis on March 17. The dollar amount to be raised by tax-es — $14,339,928 —dropped by .68 percent.
Leadership North Country to Begin its 11th Year
NORTH COUNTRY—Leaders and aspiring lead-ers from throughout the North Country are encour-aged to consider partici-pation in the Leadership North Country program (LNC). This program has been bringing Civic mind-ed people together since 2004 to explore the unique challenges and opportu-nities in our region. The call for applications for the 2014-2015 Program is now open. The program year begins in October and runs through June 2015.
Each year LNC selects a diverse group of people who learn and work together for 9 months covering top-ics such as education, arts and culture, rural health and poverty, travel and tourism, and government and politics. Program par-ticipants gain information and experience through in-
teractive presentations and panels, insider tours, and informed conversations with experienced leaders from a wide variety of ar-eas.
Leadership North Coun-try was founded by a con-cerned group of regional advisors and modeled after highly successful state and regional leadership pro-grams nationwide.
Here in northern NH the program’ is supported, in part, by White Mountains Community College and the Tillotson Foundation.
Applications for LNC are available through the WMCC website--www.wmcc.edu - under the “Workforce Development” heading. For additional in-formation about LNC, con-tact Tamara Roberge, Proj-ect Manager at [email protected] or call 603-342-3062.
BY EDITH TUCKER
GROVETON — All of the buildings except the three-story boiler build-ing that were scheduled to come down have been demolished on the site of the former Wausau Paper and Groveton Paper Board sites, explained Bob Chap-
man of Chapman Scrap, Recycling and Demolition of Milan, Berlin and Gor-ham in an informal inter-view at noon on Wednes-day, March 26, in the North Country Family Restau-rant on Main Street.
“There’s not been enough room on the ground near the boiler to store its
component parts once they were taken down,” Chap-man said. “That’s because all the steel that can be sold and recycled has been stored there.”
Nineteen trailer-loads of steel were hauled out the week of March 17, he said. A total of 50 loads of steel will be taken to a dock in Everett, Mass., located on Massachusetts Bay for ex-port overseas, likely to Chi-na and Turkey.
“Everything will soon be cleaned up — the bricks
in April and the cement this summer,” said Chap-man who jointly owns the property, now named Groveton NH1, LLC, with Arizona-based Green Steel.
Right now Groveton NH1 is looking to see if there is a company, cor-poration or business that is interested in renting or buying the remaining of-fice building. If not, it may be demolished, too, Chap-man said, noting that there is also good warehouse space available for pur-
chase or rent. Chapman and Mike
Sterling of Green Steel are working together to make the available acreage as appealing to buyers or ten-ants as possible.
Tonight, April 2, Groveton NH1 will seek a lot line adjustment and a minor subdivision at a pub-lic hearing at a Planning Board meeting that starts at 7 p.m. in the town’s mu-nicipal offices.
The first public hearing will consider the request of Groveton NH1 for a lot line adjustment between two of its own parcels that would change a 42-acre par-cel that includes a portion of the Upper Ammonoosuc riverbed and a 1.9 acre par-cel into two parcels: one, 30.1 acres and the other, 14 acres, including the riv-erbed portion. Both par-cels, located on Mechanic
Street, are zoned Heavy Industrial.
The second public hear-ing has been scheduled to consider a request by Groveton NH1, LLC for a Minor Subdivision into two proposed lots. If ap-proved, the parcel would consist of 14 acres. One proposed 2.7acre parcel would contain the exist-ing Co-Gen building, and the other 11.3 acres would contain the existing office building. Both would con-tain a portion of the river-bed. This parcel, also locat-ed on Mechanic Street, is zoned Heavy Industrial.
Chapman and Sterling consulted with the Plan-ning Board at its March 5 meeting and agreed that a large number of abutter notices would be mailed out to potentially affected property owners.
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BY EDITH TUCKER
LANCASTER — Only a few people came out on March 25 to hear the details of the proposed replace-ment of Rogers’ Rangers Bridge that carries Route 2 over the Connecticut Riv-er, connecting Lancaster to Guildhall, at a formal pub-lic hearing held to deter-mine whether the project is, in fact, a “Necessity.”
A follow-up meeting for Commission members — chairman Barbara Ashley of Franconia, former state Rep. William “Bill” Remick of Lancaster, and former state Rep. Paul Ingersoll of Berlin — is scheduled on April 7 in Concord.
The bridge is 80 percent owned by NHDOT, and 20 percent by VTrans.
If found a “necessity,” site work and construction would begin in Summer 2019 and the new bridge’s expected opening would be Fall 2020, with some final details completed in Spring 2021.
Built in 1950, the two-span high-Parker through steel truss bridge has dete-riorated from a “fair” con-dition in 2011 to a “poor” condition on July 16, 2013, qualifying it for NHDOT’s Red List.
The bridge’s clearance is 2½ feet below today’s standard of 16-and-a-half feet, making the historic structure the only vertical obstacle on Route 2 in New Hampshire.
After extensive engi-neering and cost studies, the state’s preferred al-ternative is to replace the 398-foot-long bridge in a project with a 400-foot-long bridge with an overall width of 47 feet — two 12-foot travel lanes, two five-foot shoulders and a 10-foot-wide sidewalk that can accommodate snowmobiles traveling in opposite direc-tions. NHDOT engineers determined that this $10 million alternative is far less expensive than trying to rehabilitate the deterio-rating bridge now in place.
The proposed new bridge would be built on the up-stream side of the existing
bridge, which would then be removed when no longer needed. Traffic will con-tinue to flow in both direc-tions on the existing bridge during what could be up to two years of construction. On average, 4,000-plus ve-hicles a day used the bridge in 2012, 10 percent trucking.
The proposed improve-ment would also include the reconstruction of 1,400 feet east and 600 feet west of the bridge on Route 2. The only historic structure that would be impacted is the existing bridge itself which is eligible for listing on the National Historic Register.
Some slivers of land — 1.12 acres in Lancaster and .28 acre in Guildhall — would have to be acquired for permanent rights-of-way (ROW) for this re-alignment, but a barn on the edge of Route 2 in Lan-caster is already owned by
NHDOT on land it acquired in 1950.
The Route 2 - Vt.102 in-tersection would also be re-configured to make it safer, the engineers explained.
George Blakeslee of Guildhall, who lives seven miles north of the bridge, asked that the proposed plan for that intersection be reexamined, since it still looked to him to be unsafe. Blakeslee did say, however, that he was very pleased that the existing bridge would not be closed at all during construction since emergency vehicles depend on its use.
A public hearing will be held by VTrans in Vermont at a date to be announced.
This reporter asked that the new design include el-ements, such interpretive plaques and cutting-edge LED lighting, that would help mark the transition
from one state to another, recognize the history of Rogers’ Rangers, and pro-vide an attractive and note-worthy entrance to Coös County’s seat. The bridge is named “Rogers’ Rangers Bridge” because the area is historically known as the crossing point of Sgt. Ben Bradley’s Party during the famous retreat of the Rang-ers from Quebec in 1759.
A Vermont historic marker stands near the Route 2-Vt. 102 intersection: “Major cross-state route: U.S. 2 is the major highway between the Atlantic and Lake Champlain. It leads through St. Johnsbury, the maple sugar center, down the Winooski Rive to Mont-pelier, through the tallest mountains at Bolton Gorge
to Lake Champlain at Bur-lington, University center and the state’s largest city.”
In coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice, the riverbed near the
Replacing Rogers’ Rangers Bridge discussed at public hearing
Photo by Edith tuckEr
Commission chairman Barbara Ashley of Franconia and former state Rep. Bill Remick, right, along with NHDOT officials, held a public hearing on the “Necessity” of replacing Rogers’ Rangers Bridge on March 25. The remaining Commission member, former state Rep. Paul Ingersoll of Berlin, was unable to attend. Photo by Edith tuckEr
Bob Landry, Chief of Consultant of NHDOT’s Bureau of Bridge Design, described details of the proposed replacement of Rogers’ Rangers Bridge connecting Lancaster to Guildhall on Tuesday night, March 25, at a meeting in Lancaster.
Photo by Edith tuckEr
George Blakeslee of Guildhall told NHDOT engineers that he did not believe that the pro-posed reconfiguration of the Route 2-Vt. 102 intersection provided adequate safety for drivers entering from the north.
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CONCORD — District 1 Senator Jeff Woodburn, a Democrat of Dalton, was one of 15 state senators to vote “yes” on Thursday to increase the state’s 18-cent gas tax by 4.2 cents a gallon, effective July 1. Nine sen-ators voted “no.” The bill now awaits action in the House.
Senate Bill 367 stipu-lates that a bond would be floated to pay to widen I-93 between Salem and Man-chester and that addition-al monies would be used to rebuild the Sarah Mil-dred Long Bridge in Ports-mouth, eliminate the Exit 12 ramp toll on the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack, and increase resurfacing and rehabilitation projects in all six NHDOT districts across the state.
“This final result is one we should all be proud of,” said prime sponsor Sen. Jim Rausch, a Republi-can of Derry who chairs the Senate Transportation Committee. He character-ized the collaborative pro-cess leading up to SB367’s passage as “a problem-solv-ing effort done in the best interest of our citizens and our state.”
Governor Maggie Has-san immediately praised the Senate’s effort. “To-day’s bipartisan vote to strengthen infrastructure investment reinforces that there is broad consensus that we must take action
to improve our roads and bridges,” Hassan wrote in a prepared statement. “I encourage both Democrats and Republicans in the House to support this bi-partisan measure and send the bill to my desk so that we can boost our economy by strengthening our roads and bridges.”
Woodburn issued a statement in mid-March explaining his “yes” vote for an earlier version of the gas-tax increase bill: “It is takes tough decisions to turn our economy around and improving our roads is essential,” Woodburn wrote. “I cast my vote in favor of a 4-cent gas tax increase because I am con-vinced it is the right —not easy — thing to do. Our poor roads are a speed bump on the way to the state’s economic recovery, but here in Coös County, they are a road block. Near-ly a quarter of all the state’s roads are in my District. Any improvement in our road system benefits the North Country more than anyplace else. History re-minds us: ‘Isolation leads to desolation.’”
Fifty years ago the ‘Ber-lin Reporter’ predicted that building I-93 so that it would by-pass Berlin and Coös County would trans-form Lincoln and Little-ton into boomtowns and Groveton and Berlin into ghost towns, Woodburn re-minded. “And between the years of 1954 and 1974, Ber-
lin and Coös County went from having the lowest un-employment in the state to the highest.
“Today, in the spirit of … the late District 1 Execu-tive Councilor Ray Burton, I will not let Coös County be forgotten — cut off, isolated and left behind — in order to satisfy an ideology or an election,” Woodburn con-cluded.
How the bill would affect Coös if passed in the House has been the topic of a number of e-mails between elected officials.
County commissioner Rick Samson of West Stew-artstown and Rep. Leon Rideout, both Republicans, wrote Woodburn directly to ask him for his rationale in supporting the measure.
Woodburn replied that incomplete news accounts had created the wrong im-pression by not being clear that the I-93 expansion would be bonded and would not be paid for by gas tax revenue.
“I support the gas tax because it will provide the North Country with an enormous net benefit. It is a huge transfer of wealth from the South to the North,” Woodburn wrote. “The reason is simple; we have so many state roads — more than 20 percent — and we pay so little of the total tax.
“Just .03 percent of the total volume of gasoline sales come from gas sta-tions in Coös County, and
we have to presume that a portion of this is paid by non-Coös County residents who make up our tourism industry.
“In fiscal year 2015, ap-proximately 14 percent of the newly appropriated funds from the gas tax will go to projects in District 1 — and remember each dis-trict represents 4 percent of the state’s population.”
Projects include the Hillside Avenue Bridge in Berlin previously slated for FY 2017 and various road betterment and paving projects in Lancaster, Nor-thumberland, Columbia, Colebrook, and Dixville, plus Route 2 in Randolph and Route 110 in Berlin, plus also sending monies back to municipalities, Woodburn noted.
“This may explain why the late Councilor Burton lobbied me so hard to sup-port the much larger gas tax increase proposed last year — because the system favors us so much,” the freshman senator said.
The areas hurt by failing to increase the gas tax for 21 years are those that have so many roads and need them to grow their economy and move people and products, Woodburn maintained.
“Decent roads are es-sential to developing our tourism, second home, and the industry that exists. A growing bi-partisan con-sensus has emerged on this issue and the ‘do-nothing, against-everything’ crowd
will stay true to their ideol-ogy and preserve the same-old status quo. Reviving the North Country
economy requires tough choices and practical, non-partisan solutions and that’s why I support the gas tax,” he wrote.
Rideout also weighed in. “I have been reading
about this fuel tax issue, and I must take issue with this being a windfall for the North Country,” the fresh-man rep wrote. “While it is mentioned the low amount of the fuel tax that comes from Coös stations, that statement discounts the fact that many Coös residents travel out of the county for work and purchase fuel in other counties. It also does not take into account that Coös residents have to trav-el more for just their basic services that this, coupled with a lower wage scale and depressed economy, which means that the financial impact on its residents will be much greater.
“The 14 percent of the new revenue is again short-changing the North Coun-try since we are the home to 20 percent or more of the state’s roads,” Rideout pointed out. “The state has failed in maintaining the North Country’s roads for generations; that’s why many roads in Coös have had seasonal weight re-strictions for close to 75 years!” he argued. “That only 4 percent of the state’s population lives in District
1 is a false argument; the number of roads should be the true measure.”
Berlin Mayor Paul Gre-nier, a Democrat, also re-sponded to Woodburn’s e-mails. “I want to thank you very much for your ex-planation. It makes a great deal of sense to me. When I see New Hampshire with a lower fuel tax but retailers charging the same price as in Maine and Vermont I can only conclude that the wholesale distributers are laughing all the way to the bank.
“We need infrastructure improvement in Coös if we are going to revive the up-per reaches and the Con-necticut River regions.”
Rep. Larry Rappaport, a Republican of Colebrook, also joined the electronic discussion. “The town of Pittsburg has about 800 full-time residents. The week-end population swells to about 5,000, with many of them towing a trailer. They use trucks or cars to get there. These people are not counted in the 4 percent, so I agree with Rep. Leon Rideout: A far better mea-sure is miles of road not population. Obviously, the state must agree; otherwise what would be the purpose of widening I-93?
“Roads are built because people want them. If they fall into disrepair, every-one suffers. Priority is and should be given to those roads that carry the most traffic, but an even higher priority should be given to those roads and bridges which exist for safety rea-sons, such as the bridge connecting Beecher Falls and West Stewartstown.
“The fire department is on the Vermont side, but it services and is supported by West Stewartstown res-idents. If the N. H. side has a fire north of the bridge, a water-filled tanker must drive an additional six miles to and from the Ca-naan, Vt., bridge.
“The W-Stew-Beecher Falls Bridge is in absolutely horrible shape,” Rappaport said. “It should be repaired tomorrow, not in 2017 when it is — or might be — sched-uled to be repaired or re-placed.
“It is human nature to buy gas where it is the cheapest, and folks buy gas in the southern part of the state because it costs less down there,” Rappa-port noted. “That certainly doesn’t prevent them from using it to drive up north. Using dollar figures from gas stations to determine the road toll doesn’t reflect usage and never will.
“Some of us might vote against the gas tax,” he con-cluded. “It is a mistake to assign simplistic reasons to us for doing so.
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LITTLETON — It’s not going to be a walk in the park for Granite Reliable Power (GRP) to secure the expedited (speedy) waiv-er it seek when the state’s Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) meets to consider the wind farm’s request at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 7, at the Opera House.
Counsel for the Public Peter Roth of the state At-torney General’s Office has filed strong objections to GRP’s request to amend the Certificate of Site and Facil-ity (permit).
Roth maintains that the motion not only lacks appropriate “evidentiary support” but also is looking to make a change that is against all its representa-tions and assurances made in 2011. This, the attorney points out in his filing, could have the effect of un-dermining a key element of a carefully crafted set of conditions in the High El-evation Mitigation Settle-ment Agreement (HEMSA), without which the wind farm project in Millsfield and Dixville would likely not have been approved.
GRP seeks to amend the terms of the permit that requires compliance with specific terms, including re-vegetating the road on Mt. Kelsey to a width of 12 feet and requiring re-veg-etation of all areas above 2,700 feet.
Roth points out, “the stated basis for the relief is that last summer (2013) one of the turbines on Mt. Kelsey required unsched-uled maintenance due to a bearing failure and (that) a crane larger than the 12-foot road width had to be brought up the road.” It is from this “unscheduled” event, Roth points out, that GRP has concluded that now “periodic mainte-nance” will continue to re-quire the larger crane and that the road width will always need to be larger making what the attorney describes as “a wholesale
rollback of the condition.” Roth notes, “GRP al-
leges that expedited relief is required so that it can begin re-vegetation work this spring and because it believes the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and Fish & Game will agree to this request.
“It is important to re-member that the reason for these conditions … was be-cause Mt. Kelsey in partic-ular encompass[es] high-el-evation ecosystems of particularly high quality, and that the development of [the project] will impact these habitats and wildlife species of conservation concern that are known to or may potentially uti-lize them, including but not limited to American marten, Bicknell’s thrush, three-toed woodpecker and Canada lynx,” Roth writes.
These high-elevation areas were described as “among the last remaining areas of contiguous high elevation spruce fir forest in New Hampshire,” and the evidence showed that the project “would have an unreasonable adverse im-pact” on those forests and the species of concern that inhabited (them), the attor-ney explained. “In short,” Roth argues, “Mt. Kelsey is (or was) a natural resource of great importance and a rare and special habitat for threatened and endangered species. Changing the con-ditions that were imposed to protect that habitat and promote its recovery from the intrusion by the project should not be allowed by the SEC without a compel-ling show of evidence that the changes will not further harm the environment,” Roth argues.
“Without some evidence and explanation of why GRP could not reasonably have foreseen the circum-stances that precipitated the change, the SEC should not grant relief,” Roth ar-gues
The SEC specifically found “that the Project will not have an unreasonable
adverse effect on the nat-ural environment so long as the HEMSA is adhered to along with certain oth-er conditions.” The Com-mittee recognized that the project would “decrease the conservation value” of the project sites and would “disrupt” the lives of the various important species occurring there. Thus, the HEMSA was a key to the approval of the project.
Roth points out that the SEC “has broad discretion not to reopen an evidentia-ry record in a proceeding. Courts have consistently held that agencies are not to be required to reopen except in the most extraor-dinary circumstances. This rule evidences a strong preference for finality of agency proceedings; oth-erwise the agency could never consummate any ad-ministrative proceeding. Reopening the record in cases is rare and reserved for ‘exceptional circum-stances’ and GRP bears a heavy burden. The GRP Motion does not carry that burden or show the excep-tional circumstances nec-essary to change the Com-mittee’s final 2009 Order,” he notes.
Roth points out that GRP has not alleged in its motion or presented any evidence that it will need to use the larger roadway at anytime in the foreseeable future, much less a time in the immediate future.
“Consequently, Roth writes, “there is no factual basis for expedited determi-nation of this Motion.”
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his home and that others had to temporarily fill in. After meeting in a short executive session, the board voted, 3 to 0, to have Cathy Fountain hold office hours from noon to 8 p.m. on Mondays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays. Jessie Wentworth will be on hand on Tuesdays and Thursdays so that towns-people can buy town trash bags, dump stickers and the like.
Fire Chief Ron Sheltry reported that he and Bob Wentworth would volun-teer to do some light main-tenance work in the mu-nicipal building, changing light bulbs and repairing doors.
He also said that June Garneau, working for North Country Council, has asked to delay starting on the town’s Emergency Management plan until June 1. He agreed since it works out well for him and the other stakeholders.
The chief said he is
working on an account-ability tag and photo ID system that meets the town’s needs as well as those of North Pack mutu-al aid system. “It’s a safety issue,” Sheltry explained. The cost of buying the needed software and lam-inating machine is likely to be in the $1,200 to $1,500 range.
Sheltry said that de-veloping a system under which the Department can buy gasoline at a munici-pal price at the Jiffy Mart in Whitefield is impera-tive, since only a limited number of gallons are on hand in Dalton. The town uses about 600 gallons a year.
He is also looking to buy an fire alarm system that would include heat moni-toring capabilities, likely at a initial cost of $800 plus some $240 a year. A frozen pump in an engine could cost thousands to replace, Sheltry warned, making this, in essence, an insur-ance policy. “We have $1 million inventory in that
economy to create hun-dreds of new jobs. “It’s not about Democrats and Re-publicans; it’s about help-ing people,’ she said.
Minority Senate Lead-er Sylvia Larsen, a Demo-crat of Concord, and House Speaker Teri Norelli, a Democrat of Portsmouth, both of whom helped shepherd the bill though the Legislature, spoke in advance of the governor in the Executive Coun-cil Chambers that were crowded with legislators, mostly Democrats, health care advocates, and other state officials and stake-holders.
The Senate approved the bill as amended on March 6, 18 to 5, with Sen. Peter Bragdon abstaining because of a conflict of in-terest. Both District 1 Sen. Jeff Woodburn, a Demo-crat of Dalton, and District 2 Sen. Jeanie Forrester, a Republican of Meredith, voted “yes.”
The House approved the bipartisan Senate plan, 202 to 132. All seven Coös reps who are Democrats voted “yes:” Gary Cou-lombe, Robert Theberge, and Yvonne Thomas, all of Berlin; Larry Enman of Errol, Marcia Hammon of
Whitefield, Bill Hatch of Gorham, Wayne Moyni-han of Dummer, plus Rep. Herb Richardson of Lan-caster, the lone Republican “yes” in Coös. Both other Coös Republican reps vot-ed “no:” Coös 7 Rep. Leon Rideout of Lancaster and Larry Rappaport of Cole-brook.
On Wednesday, March 26, the Executive Council approved the first phase of the plan on a 3 to 2 vote, with District 1 Councilor Joe Kenney of Wakefield and District 3 Councilor Christopher Sununu of Newfields voting “no.”
“Our bipartisan health care expansion plan is an historic step forward for the health and financial well-being of Granite State families, businesses and communities,” the gov-ernor said. “It is a fiscal-ly responsible, uniquely New Hampshire solution that will inject $2.5 billion in federal funds into our economy and improved the lives of 50,000 hard-work-ing people who deserve the security of health insur-ance.
“By reaching biparti-san consensus to expand health coverage, we have demonstrated again that in New Hampshire we are able to work across party
lines to solve problems and make progress for our peo-ple and our economy.” The bill as passed represents “a true bipartisan com-promise,” Hassan said, noting that Washington D.C. seems to have lost this valuable skill.
Hassan thanked legis-lative leaders, individual legislators, and doctors and healthcare profession-als for their willingness to continue to work to find common ground, leav-ing ideology behind to do what’s best for New Hamp-shire citizens.
“The healthcare expan-sion plan will use federal Medicaid funds available through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to help N. H. citizens at or under 133 percent of the federal pov-erty level — approximately $16,000 for an individual — access to health insurance. If a qualifying individual has access to private cover-age through an employer, he or she will be able to en-roll in the employer-based coverage through the state’s Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) program that will pay for the individual’s premium and cost-sharing.
For other eligible indi-viduals, coverage will be available through a pri-
vate managed care compa-ny, beginning as soon as July 1.
Beginning in 2016, the plan moves the newly eli-gible individuals who are not participating in HIPP onto the state’s federally facilitated health insur-ance marketplace to pur-chase private coverage though a new premium as-sistance program funded by the federal government. Elements of the plan are subject to the state getting federal waivers from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.
“Our continued collabo-ration is essential through-out the federal-waiver and implementation process,” Hassan said. “We must continue to put ideology aside and focus on our common purpose and com-mon vision.”
New Hampshire is the 26th state to expand its Medicaid program under ACA.
U. S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen has already writ-ten to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kath-leen Sebelius to ask her to work expeditiously — fast and efficiently — with the state of New Hampshire to develop and approve a waiver that is compliance with the law.
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lets, each holding 40 80-lb. bags of cement, and that dropped to half-a-pallet a month.
“Our True Value paint business has remained strong, but a lot of custom-ers are inclined to believe all those TV and radio ads that say the big box stores, like Home Depot and Lowe’s, really are cheaper. It’s been frustrating,” he said.
“I’ll be speaking to the banks; the business is an LLC, so it will fall on me,” Theroux said. “I want to sell as much of the goods on hand as possible so I can pay as many bills as possi-ble.
“Main Street is showing signs of life, but we need to have stores open on the ground floor and occupied apartments above them to
keep downtown’s vitality,” Theroux pointed out, add-ing that having the Rialto movie theatre open and drawing customers is a plus.
At one time he had five employees but now only Linda Coates, who has worked at the store for 27 years, remains on payroll.
Theroux said he hopes to find work over the sum-mer to keep himself busy and then figure out what to do next. He’s grateful to be covered by Medicare, since he’s never before had health insurance coverage, and, he added, at age 66 he now qualifies for Social Se-curity.
His wife, he explained, only had health insurance coverage after she quali-fied for Social Security dis-ability coverage.
Sadly, Theroux summed up the situation, “It is what it is.”
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fire station,” he said.The select board also
discussed keys, job de-scriptions, TAN interest rates and whether or not security glass should be installed when the office locations of some town employees are changed for efficiency’s sake. The se-lectmen agreed to find out the relative prices of a new window with plain glass as well as one outfitted with security glass.
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Dora and Peanut are both 6-year old cats that were surren-dered due to a fam-ily allergy. They are the sweetest girls that love each other very much. They are both spayed and up to date on vaccines. To adopt these girls please fill out an application atwww.riversideani-malrescue.org or call 802-892-5300.
LANCASTER—Listen up foodies, skiers, Mt. Pros-pect veterans and support-ers. The ski club is sponsor-ing a fund-raiser breakfast
on Saturday, April 5 be-tween 9 and 12 at St. Paul’s on Main St. in Lancaster.
Come partake of our stel-lar local fare, Polish Prin-
cess biscuits with Meadow-stone sausage and gravy, local eggs, beans prepared by chef Dan Recor and a vegetarian alternative hash made by well-know local cook and baker Wen-di Pederson. The suggested donation is $5 for kids and $10 for adults but all pro-ceeds will go towards a new rope ($1,000), increased insurance ($1,500), the pur-chase of a used snowmobile (unless of course we can get one donated?) and ski equipment for kids who can’t afford it.
The opening of the Mt. Pleasant Trail in 1939 by the Lancaster Outing Club was the beginning of the 75-year legacy, which sub-sequently produced the ski club and supports the rope tow years hence. In Janu-ary of 1946 The Coos County Democrat the reported that “Mt. Prospect Park is being developed....A conveyance to the summit and a 900’ tow on the open slope was planned...Warren Whitney has a contraption he calls a Jigaboo which will be used to take 10 skiers at time to the summit”. What a trea-sure we have here. Come join us and celebrate with good food and shared mem-ories.
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Missing Vermont girl found with Stark man in N.C.
NORTH CAROLINA—Runaway Juvenile Mor-gan Clark,16 of Mud Hol-low Road, Kirby Vt. was located with Matthew Keene of Stark in North Carolina by local law en-forcement. Clark is safe
and in the process of being returned to her family in Vermont.
Keene is in custody in North Carolina pending possible extradition to Vermont for the Charge of Unlawful Restraint in
the Second Degree. He is also pending possible ex-tradition to Connecticut for Violation of Probation and Violation of the Sex Offender Registry.
Northumberland Police News from 24-30 Mar 2014
NORTHUMBERLAND —March 24 2:41 pm – A ve-hicle key was found on the side of the road and turned into the PD. If anyone has any information please contact the PD at 636-1430
4:02 PM – Jennen Te-treault turned himself in on warrants for Breach of Bail. He was booked and re-leased on $5000 PR bail with a court date in the Lancast-er Court on 21 April 2014.
March 25 5:43 pm – Of-
ficers responded a motor vehicle accident on Route 3 just North of the Lancast-er town line. John Bean of Groveton was traveling north when he’ was struck from behind by a vehicle operated by Kenneth Dil-boy of Groveton. No one was injured and both vehi-cles drove away from the scene.
March 26 6:43 pm – Of-ficers assisted a lady who had ran out of gas in her
vehicle. March 27 3:40 pm – Of-
ficers conducted a welfare check on a citizen. His family had not been able to reach him. Officers made contact with him and deter-mined that he was all set. Advised him to contact his family.
March 2812:10 pm – Offi-cers responded to Ball road for a 911 hang up. Upon ar-rival they determined that the individual had trou-ble getting up. The person was assisted and officers cleared from the house.
7:25 pm – Officers re-sponded to a residence on Lancaster Rd for a 911 hang up. Upon arrival it was de-termined that it was a 991 misdial.
March 29 10:55 am – Of-ficers responded to a resi-dence on Brooklyn St for a 911 hang up. Upon arrival it was determined that it was a 991 misdial.
11:40 pm – Officers as-sisted Groveton Ambu-lance personnel with a call on Lancaster Rd.
Friends-N-Neighbors thrift shop
WHITEFIELD—Friends-N-Neighbors Thrift Shop’s early spring bag sale will be on April 10, 11, and 12.Cost is $5 a bag. Stop by and check out the clothing as well as all kinds of household fur-nishings. Look for some warmer weather items as you think of the spring days ahead! Perhaps you will find a nice outfit for Easter.
We have a great supply of jigsaw puzzles and books. Inventory changes daily. We are located at 4 Main Street across from Cumber-land Farms in Whitefield. Business hours are Mon-day – Saturday from 10:00 –5:00; open until 6:00 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. For more information, call the shop at 837-9044.
Take down birdfeeders-don’t get caught by surprise this April!
CONCORD— While it may look more like mid-January rather than late March across the New Hampshire landscape, don’t be fooled. Spring is here. The late March sun is strong and snow will soon start to melt fast. As the days become warmer, bears will start to get ac-tive and it is time to put the birdfeeders away until late fall. Some homeowners have already reported see-ing bears at birdfeeders in different areas across the state. To help prevent bear visits, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Depart-ment recommends taking down birdfeeders from April 1 to December 1.
The Fish and Game De-partment urges the New Hampshire public to be proactive and take action now to prevent attracting a bear to their home. Do not wait for a bear to get the birdfeeder and then respond. Doing so encour-ages foraging behavior by bears near residences. A single food reward will cause the bear to return and continue to search the area for food.
While bear/human conflicts during 2013 (527 complaints) were below the long-term average (695 per year), 2012 was a chal-lenging year resulting in a record total of over 1,100 statewide complaints, ac-cording to Fish and Game Bear Biologist Andrew Timmins. Nearly 10% of the bear complaints during 2012 involved bears at bird feeders. Additionally, another 40% of the com-plaints were the direct result of bears raiding un-secured garbage at homes and businesses. “These two common food attrac-tants accounted for half of the total bear-human con-flicts in that year and could have been easily avoided by removing or securing
common food attractants around the yard,” said Timmins.
“The rate of bear/hu-man conflicts that will oc-cur this spring and summer is unknown and difficult to predict. Bears went to den in good shape due to gen-erally abundant foods (i.e., beechnuts, apples, moun-tain ash berries, and choke cherries) last fall. Howev-er, it has been a long den-ning season and bears have depleted considerable body fat,” said Timmins. “When bears emerge, they will be hungry and food will be limited until spring green-up occurs. We are hoping homeowners will be vigi-lant and remove/secure at-tractants so as not to entice bears and create nuisance behavior.”
Black oil sunflower seeds are simply too high a quality of food (high in fat and protein) for bears to ignore. Natural bear foods during spring and summer are generally high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat. As a result, birdseed is high on the menu! If bears have previously acquired sun-flower seeds at your home, they will be back looking for more. The best way to prevent attracting bears is to remove birdfeeders until December 1 and secure oth-er household food attrac-tants.
Homeowners should take action to reduce the chances of a bear visiting their home. Avoid encoun-ters with bears by taking a few simple precautions:
* Stop all bird feeding by April 1.
* Clean up any spilled birdseed and dispose of it in the trash.
* Secure all garbage in airtight containers inside a garage or adequate stor-age area, and put garbage out on the morning of pick-up, not the night before. If
using a dumpster, inform your dumpster company that you need a dumpster with metal locking tops and doors that are inaccessible to bears and other wildlife.
* Avoid putting meat or other food scraps in your compost pile.
* Don’t leave pet food dishes outside overnight.
* Clean and store out-door grills after each use.
* Finally, never feed bears!
These steps will help to ensure that your backyard does not become attractive to bears and other wildlife, which is important because it prevents property dam-age by bears and because it keeps bears from becoming nuisance animals.
For more information on preventing conflicts with black bears, visit wild-nh.com/Wildlife/Some-things_Bruin.htm.
If you have questions about bear-related prob-lems, you can get advice by calling a toll-free num-ber coordinated jointly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Ser-vices and the New Hamp-shire Fish and Game De-partment: 1-888-749-2327 (1-888-SHY-BEAR).
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sex Agricultural Society was organized with Weeks as president. It took over holding “county fairs” with some success for a number of years. The Riding Park Association was also orga-nized in 1870, and reorga-nized in 1884 to encourage and promote horse trotting (harness racing) and other sports as part of the county fair attractions. Weeks was also a director of this orga-nization.
Weeks belonged to the Unitarian Society which had separated from the First Congregational Church in 1854. The sep-aration was essentially
amicable following a peri-od in which either or both church groups occupied the pulpit. Following the formal separation, the Uni-tarians built a new house of worship, which was com-pleted the following year.
Mr. Weeks served in the militia, in two regiments of militia which were associ-ated with local towns. He was listed as a lieutenant in the infantry, from 1831, and as a major in the field unit of the 42nd Regiment in 1857. At that time, as in Co-lonial days, every able bod-ied citizen between the ages of 18 and 45 was enrolled and mustered for regular duty. These musters were held in Lancaster and often
included companies from neighboring towns. At the beginning of the Civil War the state Adjutant-general organized what had been essentially local militias into a state wide unit.
Needless to say, Weeks was on the committee which organized the Lan-caster Centennial celebra-tions in 1864.
When his son, John Wingate Weeks offered to give the library to the town in 1905, he asked that it be named in honor of his father, William Dennis Weeks. His portrait hangs in the reading room at the library, a pair with his son’s portrait in the history room.
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The New Hampshire Food Bank and Citizens Bank are working to put a dent in hunger in New Hampshire. As part of the Food Bank’s “Nothing” campaign, people purchase cans of “Nothing” for $5 each at participating grocery stores, fill them with donations and return them to the NH Food Bank. Citizens Bank is matching donations up to $25,000. Pictured here, from left to right, Dona Young of the Lancaster UMC Food Pantry & Soup Kitchen, Connie Chaffee of Jiffy Mart, and Myra Emerson of the Lancaster UMC Food Pantry & Soup Kitchen.
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Launch Box Party at White Mountains Community CollegeLITTLETON— A Small
Business Launch Box Par-ty is being held on April 15 at 9 a.m. in Littleton at the White Mountains Com-munity College, 646 Union Street.
This Launch Box Party is for those individuals who are thinking of starting a new business. The Launch Box is designed to be an all-inclusive box full of ma-terial to start a business. Almost everything that you will need to start a business
is included in the Launch Box; forms for registering your business name, forms for applying for an EIN number, marketing infor-mation, financial informa-tion, and a place to organize your business records for a year is included.
Along with the Launch Box Party is a series of sem-inars to help strengthen the information included in the Launch Box. The series schedule is: April 22; In-formation on legal aspects
such as business entities. April 29; Financial infor-mation about the record keeping and tax obligations. May 6; Marketing informa-tion about branding and the need for marketing materi-als. May 13; Information on Planning: the business plan, the marketing plan, and a financial plan. May 20; A Resource Panel for more technical assistance or fi-nancing.
The series will be held from 9am – 11am at White
Mountains Community Col-lege, Littleton.
“Any one just opening the Launch Box will find necessary information to start a business, but we want to offer more,” said Joyce Presby, Entrepreneurial Resource Consultant for the White Mountains Com-munity College. “By offer-ing the series of seminars and inviting experts in the field, the new business will have the opportunity to get the answers they need for a
strong start in business.” Maybe you have been
thinking about starting your own business and just do not know where to start, maybe you have a hobby and would like to develop it into a business, or maybe you just need extra income. Whatever your reason, there is not a better time than now to explore your options.
This Launch Box Party is brought to you by Busi-ness Services North, which
is a collaboration of White Mountains Community College (WMCC), Northern Community Investment Corporation (NCIC), and the NH Small Business Devel-opment Center (NH SBDC).
Registration is free but required and seating is limited for the Launch Box Party, so register early. For more information and regis-tration for the Launch Box Party or any of the semi-nars, please call Joyce Pres-by at 717-5457.
CONCORD— The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is now accept-ing applications for its Lou-ise Tillotson Teaching Fel-lowship and Professional Development Scholarship programs. Both programs strive to raise public aware-ness about the value of ex-cellence in education with a goal to retain good teach-ers in North Country New Hampshire schools. The fellowship and scholarship programs, were established by Louise Tillotson, a self-made businesswoman, wife of Neil Tillotson, and resi-dent of Dixville Notch.
Now in its seventh year, The Louise Tillotson Teaching Fellowship was established to honor and celebrate North Country teachers in public edu-cation. The fellowship is available to K-12 teachers in North Country public schools with a preference for teachers in Coos Coun-ty. Each year, the fellow-ship provides one to three teachers with awards rang-ing from $10,000 to $15,000 each. A selection commit-tee will award fellowships based on candidates’ com-mitment to public educa-tion, breadth of experience, demonstration of innova-tion in education, creativ-ity in solving problems, communication skills and ability to inspire educators and students in the North Country.
Previous year Tillotson Fellowship recipients in-clude Rob Hamel, English teacher at Gorham High School in Gorham; Karen LaRoche, Family and Con-sumer Sciences teacher at White Mountains Regional High School in Whitefield; and Tricia Walsh first grade teacher at Edward Fenn Elementary School in Gorham. Fellowship appli-cations are available on the Charitable Foundation’s website at www.nhcf.org/tillotsonfellowship.
Completed applications are due Friday, April 25, 2014. Applications will be reviewed and a small num-ber of finalists will be invit-ed to a personal interview in May. In 2013, the Lou-ise Tillotson Professional Development Scholarship Program was established to provide professional devel-opment and continuing ed-ucation for North Country teachers. Scholarships are available to K-12 teachers in North Country public schools with a preference for teachers in Coos Coun-ty. Scholarship funds can be used for continuing ed-ucation expenses, as well as workshops, tuition, and conferences in support of professional development. Candidates can apply for up to $1,000 by submitting an online application at www.nhcf.org/tillotson-scholarship.
The application dead-
line is Friday, April 25, 2014. Applicants may be contacted for more infor-mation regarding their application. Inaugural win-ners of the Louise Tillotson Professional Development Scholarship Program were Lisa Harold, a school coun-selor at Lancaster Elemen-tary School in Lancaster; Brooke Grondin, a speech pathologist in the Gor-ham-Randolph-Shelburne Cooperative School Dis-trict; and Sheli Aldridge, a mathematics teacher at the Pittsburg School in Pittsburg. The Louise Til-lotson Fellowship Selection Committee includes: Peter Benson, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; Rolanda Duchesne, Unit-ed Way and former North Country Board member of the New Hampshire Char-itable Foundation; Katha-rine Eneguess, President of White Mountains Commu-nity College; Robert Mills, Superintendent of SAU #7; Irene Mosedale, retired ed-ucator; Susan Wyman re-tired educator; Gail Paine, former New Hampshire school board member; Richard Bond, Linda Ben-
nion, Judy Jacques, Lisa Kenny, Michele Johnsen, and Stephanie Lyons, ed-
ucators and former award recipients. For more infor-mation on the fellowship or
scholarships contact Peter Benson at 603-225-6641 ext. 1271 or [email protected].
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Dalton Library
DALTON—The Dalton ladies aid will be holding a rummage sale on Friday April 11 from 4-7pm and on Saturday April 12 from 9-2pm at the town hall in Dalton.
The Library will also have a book sale at the same time. For more infor-mation on helping set up or volunteering at the sale contact Doris Mitton at the Library 837-2751 or Jean Abbott at 837-9592.
Talented North Country Teachers forLouise Tillotson Fellowship and Scholarship Programs
“Button Up NH” Weatherization Workshop coming to Twin
Mountain, April 16TWIN MOUNTAIN--
Button Up, New Hamp-shire! That’s the message the New Hampshire utili-ties are spreading to home-owners through a series of energy saving workshops taking place around the state.
The next Button UP NH Workshop is scheduled to take place on Wednes-day, April 16, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Twin Moun-tain Town Hall, 92 School Street Twin Mountain. This free workshop is be-ing sponsored by the Twin Mountain-Bretton Woods Chamber of Commerce and the Twin Mountain Fire Department. Refresh-ments will be served.
Button Up NH work-shops are designed to pro-vide homeowners with in-formation and techniques to help them save money on home energy use. The presentation is conducted by an independent certi-fied energy professional. Participants will learn ba-sic building science con-cepts and learn the basics about air sealing, insulat-ing, and conservation mea-sures that reduce fuel and electricity use.
Workshop participants will learn how to sign up for Home Performance with Energy Star (HP-wES): a program run by the energy efficiency ser-vices at Liberty Utilities, PSNH, NH Electric Coop and Unitil. HPwES is open to all New Hampshire fam-ilies and is solely based on whether your home has a higher than average heat-ing fuel bill. By signing up for the HPwES program, NH residents can access a Home Energy Audit for $100, financial incentives up to $4000 and technical expertise.
According to Craig Cadieux, a BPI Certified
Building Analyst and But-ton Up presenter, “The Home Performance with Energy Star Program is something every home-owner should consider. It gives homeowners the as-sistance they need to make energy efficiency improve-ments to their homes. When a homeowner par-ticipates in the program they will receive a list of recommendations for cost effective energy efficien-cy improvements and will have the opportunity to de-cide, if any, the work they want done on their home.”
These workshops are being funded by Liber-ty Utilities, NH Electric Coop, PSNH and Unitil. The Plymouth Area Re-newable Energy Initiative (PAREI) of Plymouth is working with local groups statewide to bring this im-portant information to the public on behalf of New Hampshire’s utilities.
Pre-registration is encouraged but not re-quired. To register go to: (buttonuptwinmountain.eventbrite.com). All But-ton Up NH Workshops are free and open to the general public. For more information on dates and locations for upcoming workshops visit: http://www.myenergyplan.net/buttonup
If interested in hosting a Button Up NH Workshop in your community, e-mail Zak Brohinsky, [email protected] or call 536-5030.
The Button Up NH pro-gram also includes over a dozen mini energy videos to help NH residents start learning right now about home energy issues and savings. These videos can be viewed by going to the Button Up Videos link on the home page of www.plymouthenergy.org.
WHITEFIELD — Vol-unteers play an integral part in the well-being of residents at The Morrison nursing home and Sartwell Assisted Living in White-field, and during the month of April they will be recog-nized and feted for all their many contributions.
April is National Volun-teer Month and April 6-15 is National Volunteer Recog-nition Week. A special cele-bration honoring The Mor-rison’s 40 volunteers and their work will be held from 2-3 p.m. on Friday, April 25, at the nursing home, with light refreshments and a
special gift for each volun-teer.
“We value our volun-teers so highly,” said Erin Oleson, The Morrison’s Activities Director and Vol-unteer Coordinator. “Vol-unteers free up our staff by assisting in daily activities like helping with feeding
and passing trays. Others make one-on-one visits with residents read to them and help them write letters. We have volunteers who play the piano or guitar for our residents. VFW and Amer-ican Legion veterans make regular visits with their fellow veterans, and school
children come in and play games with residents.”
Other volunteer activ-ities include helping resi-dents to garden in the good weather, taking them for walks, accompanying staff and residents on outings, calling Bingo, assisting with social events, and
helping residents arrange flowers that have been do-nated to the facility.
“Whatever your inter-est, we can match you up with a resident or activity, and our residents and staff will be so appreciative,” said Oleson.
The Morrison’s volun-teer program is growing, and ideally, she said, the goal is to have one volun-teer for every resident who would like one. The volun-teer application process includes a reference and criminal background check along with a 2.5 hour ori-entation and training that helps match the volunteer with their area of interest. There is a special need for volunteers during the 2-5 p.m. time period when resi-dents appreciate some extra attention.
Anyone who needs more information or is interested in volunteering can con-tact Oleson at 837-2541 or at [email protected].
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project will be surveyed by a qualified expert at least one year before construc-tion begins, but no more than two years, to evaluate the federally endangered dwarf wedge mussel popu-lation, which if numerous would be relocated. Any observations of a specific dragonfly — the riverine clubtail —seen in 2010 will also be noted.
As now, a single pier in the river will support the bridge. The new design will feature four columns with a diameter of approximately six feet, rather than the sol-id pier of similar width that is now in place.
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The Morrison Celebrates Its Volunteers
George’s Closet Helps
Community with Equipment Needs
WHITEFIELD — Do you have a need for durable medical equipment? Per-haps you’ve just had sur-gery and need a wheelchair to get around for a while. Before community mem-bers purchase new equip-ment, they might want to call The Morrison and see if the item they need is stored in George’s Closet.
Named for The Morri-son’s founder, Dr. George Morrison, the Closet came into being because the nurs-ing home had equipment left behind by residents and decided to provide a com-munity service by making the equipment available to anyone who needs it, free of charge.
At any time, George’s Closet might hold beds, shower chairs, wheel chairs, walkers, crutches and canes, or other assistive devices that might be useful to a community member.
“We continue to offer this service as part of our community outreach,” says Mary Bates, MS, CT, Social Services Director. “We know that equipment can be expensive, and if we have something a commu-nity member might be able to use, it means they can spend their money on some-thing else they need to help them get well.”
Many people return the equipment once they’ve fin-ished using it, but it’s not a requirement. The Morrison also accepts donations of used equipment from com-munity members.
Anyone who is interest-ed in finding out more can contact The Morrison at 837-2541.
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The Dance Images dance studio of Lancaster compet-ed at the Star Quest dance competiion in Concord on Sunday. They came away with three Gold Medals, Five high gold Medals, three spe-cial judges awards, placed fifth overall top high score and placed third overall top high score: (front) Alexis Packard, Hannah Forcier, Kate Brown, Erika Kay, Kyiah Lewis, Cortney Patterson, Rachel Westover, Emma Portinari, (back) Sarah St. Martin, Dhelia Lachance, Kelsey Carlson, Danika Kay, Ashley Reardon-Packard, Sam Paquin, Skylar Carr, Lakoyha Lewis, Sara Brodeur, Sophia Kenison and Izzy Holmes.
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Team Bud Studs won Saturday’s Floor Hockey Tournament held at Lancaster Elementary. The event raised funds to help eight-year-old Hannah Smith who is battling a life threatening disease known as Cystic Fibrosis.
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1914Governor of New
Hampshire is Holman A. Drew of Berlin!
Mrs. Clara Randall Noyes, widow of Parker J. Noyes died suddenly at her home on Prospect
Street.
1924Mrs. Edna B. Haley has
been appointed Deputy Town Clerk of Lancaster as first assistant to Clerk Rollin J. Brown.
Many a headache goes when glasses come — Visit optometrist H. J. Whitcomb of Lancaster and stop the suffering.
1934Unfavorable weather
conditions cause concern with North Country ma-ple producers who are impatient for the sugar season to get underway.
Death of prominent physician, civic leader, and friend, W. H. Leith leaves a community in mourning. He served the community as a family doctor, attending to those at birth into maturity.
1944Mr. and Mrs. William
P. Caron received word that their son, Vernon
Caron arrived safely in North Africa, where he met a Lancaster chum, Avon Kenison.
Seaman Paul White, son of Arthur White, left Lancaster for Newport, R. I. after a brief leave at home. He has already seen action in two major engagements in the South Pacific, and received shrapnel wounds in both legs. He was hospitalized at Pearl Harbor.
1954Historic Lancaster
Hotel, built in 1882, was gutted after guests flee terrific flames.
Bradley White was painfully injured when attacked by a boxer dog at the home of Ray John-
son of Bunker Hill Street.
A fire of undermined origin leveled the stock barns on the Carl Lufkin Jr. farm on Union Road in Dalton.
1964C. Robert Canton of
Whitefield was recently appointed by Gov. John W. King to the State Board of Education. He is the first member of the board from Coos County since the 1950’s.
Mrs. George Gould was guest of honor at a sur-prise stork shower held at her home receiving 24 relatives and friends at-tending.
1974Mrs. and Mrs. John R.
Jackson celebrate their 60th anniversary in Cole-brook.
Announcement has been made that New Hampshire is going to buy the top of Mount Washington from Dart-mouth College, who cur-rently holds the title.
1984“Reckless” featuring
Aidan Quinn is playing at the Rialto.
Mrs. Bertha Marshall Martin was joined by
family and friends at the Country Village Center in Lancaster where she was honored by Mt. Pros-pect Grange No. 242 for 80 years of continuous mem-bership.
Named as All State Basketball selections from the North Country: Paula Goodreau and Cin-dy Lawton of Colebrook, Vincent Judd of Pitts-burg, Becky Thurston from the Regional, Brian Tilton and Ron Ash from Groveton.
1994Jefferson Boy Scouts
gather firewood for their overnight stay on Mount Cabot to light the annual cross for Holy Week. Pic-tured are Jamie Savage, Eddie Perry, Mike Earn-shaw, Ryan Knapp and Mike Kenly.
Lancaster Fair will feature county music leg-end Waylon Jennings.
Jefferson’s Isabelle Davis was awarded New Hampshire School Bus Driver of the Year.
2004Patti Fuller of Fuller’s
Sugarhouse received a special certificate from Partners in Health for hosting a group of chron-ically ill children who were treated to sugar on snow on Saturday.
Shaw’s sold again to Idaho-based Albertson’s Inc.
The Lancaster Ambu-lance Association donat-ed a defibrillator to the Jiffy Mart complex, on the heels of one being donated to Colonel Town as well in an effort to help with future medical emergencies.
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Dance Images of Lancaster leapt into action and performed their hearts out at the Star Quest Competition in Concord Sunday.
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Calendarof Events
Send us your listings by 9 a.m. on Friday [email protected] to
Democrat, P.O. Box 29, Lancaster, NH 03584
Weekly
Ongoing Events:
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets Thursday evenings at the Lancaster Emergency Medical Services (LEMS) Build-ing, 19 Mechanic Street, Lancaster. Weigh - in is 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., followed by a meet-ing at 6:15 pm. Parking and entrance at rear of building. Call Bonnie at 802-892-6614 for more information.
Lancaster AA Meetings — Sundays 9:30
a.m. 3rd and 11th Step meeting at Weeks Hos-pital,3rd floor conference room. Wednes-day’s 7:00 p.m. - 12 & 12 discussion group, Weeks Hospital 3rd Floor conference room; Thursday’s 8:00 p.m. open discussion, at All Saints Catholic Church, Main St., Lancast-er. Saturday’s 7:00 p.m. Big Book discussion group, Weeks Hospital, 3rd floor conference room. Ongoing.
North Country Toastmasters, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at The Beal House Inn, 2 West Main Street, Lit-tleton. Practice your communication and leadership skills in an easy going, no pres-sure, supportive atmosphere. Open to the public ages 18 and older. Stop in or contact Elaine for more info: [email protected]. Find us online at http://1431722.toast-mastersclubs.org
Groveton Weight Watchers meets Mon-days at the United Methodist Church in Groveton at 6:30 p.m.
Weight Watchers meets Thursdays at the Christ United Methodist Church in Lan-caster at 6:30 p.m.
The Presidential Gem and Mineral So-ciety meets the 2nd Thursday of the month. There is a program, raffle and refresh-ments. Jefferson Town Hall 6:30 p.m. Open to all. For more info call Sharon O’Neill at 466-2395 or Dave Tellman at 837-9764.
Guildhall Public Library will be open starting Saturday, June 1 from 9:00 – 1:00. Library also open Mondays and Wednes-days from 2:00 – 8:00.
Randolph Public Library is open on Mondays 10:00 a.m. - noon, Wednesdays & Thursdays 3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. and Satur-days 10 a.m. – noon.
Saturday, April 5Free Community Supper - 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
St. Francis Hall, Groveton. Baked Ham, All Welcome.
Thursday, April 10Gorham Middle High School presents
2014 Cabaret, ‘Road to Fame’ theme, 6:00 p.m. Tickets: Adult $10, $5 students, seniors, children. Reserve with Anne in reception office at GMHS or call her at 466-2776.
Friday, April 11Gorham Middle High School presents
2014 Cabaret, ‘Road to Fame’ theme, 6:00 p.m. Tickets: Adult $10, $5 students, seniors, children. Reserve with Anne in reception office at GMHS or call her at 466-2776.
Saturday, April 12Gorham Middle High School presents
2014 Cabaret, ‘Road to Fame’ theme, 6:00 p.m. Tickets: Adult $10, $5 students, seniors, children. Reserve with Anne in reception office at GMHS or call her at 466-2776. MAT-INEE TODAY AT 2:00 P.M.
PLEASE FORWARD CALENDAR ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE COOS COUNTY DEMOCRAT AND BERLIN REPORTER TO [email protected] OR CALL 788-4939.
Coastal Maine seems to be the topic for the week. Three new gifts focus on the waterways and his-tory of that region. John Gibson writes about the “Rivers of Memory” as he investigates the mid-coastal waterways. “Down East: a Maritime History” is by Lincoln P. Paine. “Rivers of For-tune” by Bill Caldwell is about the economic histo-ry of the Maine coast.
Former Republican Governor of Florida Charlie Crist writes with Ellis Henican about his decision to run again, this time as a Demo-crat. His book is called “The Party’s Over.” Considerable attention is being paid to those few surviving veterans of the Second World War. “The Last Leaf” Voices of His-tory’s Last Known Survi-vors” by Stuart Lutz in-
cludes other veterans, as far back as the Civil War, in his collection of mem-oirs.
“Reinventing Amer-ican Health Care” is by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Med-ical Ethics and Health Policies at the Universi-ty of Pennsylvania. He has had an opportunity to study the negotiations and compromises which resulted in the passage of the Affordable Care Act. He is also well posi-tioned too to consider the current state of Ameri-can health care delivery, and to point out ways in which it has become very expensive and dysfunc-tional.
Bruce Weber set out to ride his bicycle across America. “Life Is a Wheel – Love, Death, etc. and a Bike Ride across Ameri-ca” is his account of the journey.
“The Human Brain Book” by Rita Carter is a good book to put out on a sturdy table. Profusely illustrated, and exhaus-
tive, it’s not one to curl up with in on a chilly night. Suspense novels and thrillers have a de-voted following. Among the new ones are “Black Horizon” by James Grip-pando, “Bone Deep” by Randy Wayne White, “NYPDRed2” by James Patterson and Marshall Karp, “Missing You” by Harlan Coben, and “The Cairo Affair” by Olen Steinhauer.
New fiction includes “City of Jasmine” by Deanna Raybourn, “Pow-er Play” by
Danielle Steel, “Tempt-ing Fate” by Jane Green and “Cambridge: by Su-sanna Kaysen.
“A Shining Light” is book 3 of the “Home to Amana” series by Judith Miller.
Writing as Jayne Cas-tle, Jayne Ann Krentz has gathered a pair of short novels into each of two books. The first is “Des-perate and Deceptive” and the second is called “Sinister and Fatal.” Har-vey Karp, M.D., has writ-
ten “The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep.”
Three books offer ad-vice and direction to those who have been ap-pointed executors of an estate. “The Executor and Trustee Survival Guide: us by Douglas D. Wil-son CPP, CTFA. “Wills, Trusts, and Estates Ad-ministration” is by Susan D. Herskowits. This is the fourth edition. “Liquidat-ing and Estate is by Mar-tin Codina. He explains “how to sell a lifetime of stuff and live to tell about it.” “The Know Mainte-nance Perennial Garden is by Roy Diblik. His the-ory is that perennials and a useful way of organizing a garden, and that with a certain amount of ad-vance planning they can also be low maintenance. Berries can be grown in fairly small spaces and generally need less atten-tion than full sized fruit trees. “The Berry Bible” by Janie Hibler contains some 175 recipes for ber-ries and some thoughts on what is available.
Weeks Memorial Library
By Iris W. Baird
WHITEFIELD — The WMRHS Booster Club is pleased to announce the Nordic Ski Team State Championship Commu-nity Celebration. On Sunday, April 6th, White Mountains Regional High School Booster Club and community supporters will be honoring the Divi-sion III Boys Nordic Ski Team State Champions starting at 4:30 pm at the high school gymnasium in Whitefield.
The event, which will be held from 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm, will include buffet dinner served by Nordic parents and friends. The formal program will show-case highlights of the 2014 Nordic team including , recognition of the Girls Nordic Team DIII Runner Up awards and followed by the recent tradition of unveiling the State Cham-pionship banner to be dis-played in the gym. The general public is invited
and the event is free to all those interested in cele-brating the most recent accomplishments of the WMRHS Athletic Program.
“This is our first boys State Championship in a while. Booster Club is very excited to honor our Nordic ski team and share our enthusiasm with the community.” said Heidi Barker, Co-chair of the Booster Club. “In 2012, we celebrated three State Championships for our
Girls and the Community Celebrations were a great way to say ‘thank you’ to all who contributed to the teams’ successes. We look forward to continuing this tradition.”
For more informa-tion about the Nordic Ski Team State Championship Community Celebration or the WMRHS Booster Club, one may contact the high school at 603.837.2528 or email, Heidi Barker at [email protected].
High School Championship Community Celebration
How would you like an extra $28,000 or so for very little work? Accord-ing to a new SEC Inves-tor Bulletin titled “How Fees and Expenses Affect Your Investment Portfo-lio”, if a person invests $100,000 in a mutual fund with a 0.25% expense ra-tio rather than a mutual fund with a 1% expense ratio and both funds earn 4% a year before fees, the lower fee fund will have a $28,000 greater value af-ter 20 years. You can find the bulletin at investor.gov and choosing Inves-tor Bulletins under the News & Alerts tab.
In the bulletin they have a nice graph show-ing how a $100,000 grows at 4% a year assuming three different annual fees. As I said, after 20 years, the difference is about $28,000 between a
1% annual fee and a 0.25% annual fee. The SEC bul-letin then also takes the analysis a step further and concludes that if you had invested the $28,000 savings over the 20 years, you would have earned an extra $12,000 on top of the $28,000 savings.
Do you know what you are paying in fees and are you shopping around for low cost investments, particularly mutual funds? According to TIAA CREF 21% of Amer-icans spend more than two hours buying a flat screen TV but only 15% of Americans spend more than two hours planning an IRA investment. Un-fortunately, as the SEC is pointing out, not taking the time to choose invest-ments wisely can have a significant cost over time.
There are two types of investor fees – transac-tion fees and ongoing fees. Transaction fees are one time fees such as commis-sions, sales loads and sur-render charges. Ongoing fees are things such as in-vestment advisory fees, annual operating expens-es for mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETF’s), 401(k) operating and administration fees and annual annuity fees. Mutual funds and ETF’s
all have ongoing expens-es to manage the fund. But, all other things be-ing equal, the fund with the 0.25% expense ratio might be the wiser op-tion than the fund with the 1% expense ratio just because the costs add up over time. One percent doesn’t sound like much but if you do the math, it can be shocking. For ex-ample, 1% of $500,000 is $5,000. Would you rather pay $5,000 a year for an investment or say $250 a year for a very similar investment but with a 0.05% expense ratio?
FINRA has an inter-esting calculator on their website at finra.org/fun-danalyzer. This calcula-tor allows you to compare the cost of two different mutual funds. Compar-ing a $10,000 investment in a low cost index fund with a 0.05% expense ra-tio to a fund with a 0.5% and assuming a 5% annu-al rate of return, shows me that the cost of the lower fee fund is $5.12 the first year vs. $51.11 for the higher fee fund. By year 10, the cost difference is more than $1,400 a year. The $10,000 has grown to more than $26,000 in the low cost fund compared to $24,000 in the higher cost fund. These operat-ing expenses are taken
out of the investment be-fore performance report-ing so we don’t see an actual dollar cost on our statements, which is why it is important to read the prospectus and ask ques-tions about fees before making an investment.
If you are working with an advisor is perfectly acceptable to ask lots of questions about what any investment they are pro-posing you consider will cost and whether there are lower cost alterna-tives that may be just as good. If you feel your in-vestment choices in your 401(k) plan have high fees, feel free to speak up and ask them to add some high quality, low cost fund options to the plan line-up.
If you take the time to shop around, educate yourself and make in-formed investment deci-sions it might just make a significant difference in the long run.
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Cynthia V. Taradash, is a fee-only financial ad-visor, holds a Certified Financial Planner certif-icate and is the owner of CVT Financial Planning. Her web site is www.cvt-financial.com. She lives and works in Whitefield.
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Lafayette Center
LNA POSITION AVAILABLECompetitive Pay and Benefits
Fax cover letter and resume to:Tanya Ingerson - Human Resources
603-823-7173Or apply online @ www.genesishcc.com
You may also call 603-823-6514to inquire about the position.
Lafayette Center
RN/LPN POSITION AVAILABLE
Competitive Pay and Benefits
Fax cover letter and resume to:Tanya Ingerson - Human Resources
603-823-7173Or apply online @ www.genesishcc.com
You may also call 603-823-6514to inquire about the position.
PRESBYCONSTRUCTION, INC.
Family owned since 1948
PRESBYCONSTRUCTION, INC.
Family owned since 1948
244 Main Street, Franconia, NHPhone: 603-823-5298 • Fax: 603-823-8114
www.presbyconstruction.com
HELP WANTEDReceptionist
• Secretarial Skills• Pleasant outgoing personality• Able to get along well with others• Good organizational skills• Ability to multi-task in a fast pace office• Experience in QuickBooks a plus
Job Duties to Include• Answering telephones • Administrative Assistant to office personnel• Direct contact with clients
Full time position Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.Competitive wages, paid vacations, holidays and 401K
benefits. Apply in person.
APPLY NOW TO JOIN OUR TEAM
HELP WANTEDat the
LANTERN RESORTRte. 2, Jefferson, NH
Positions Available:
• Housekeeping
• Front Desk
Interviews will be held Saturday, April 5th 9:00-11:00 at the motel office.
GROVETON RECREATION DEPT.NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR:
REC. DEPT. SUPERVISORPOOL SUPERVISOR
LIFEGUARDSRECREATION PERSONNEL (CPR & FIRST AID)
APPLICATIONS MAY BE PICKED UP AT THE TOWN OFFICE AND SENT TO:
SAM CANTON24 EAMES ST.
GROVETON, NH 03582
COPIES OF CERTIFICATION MUST BE ATTACHED TO APPLICATIONS. APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL
APRIL 24TH BY 3PM.
Participant Directed and Managed ServicesService Coordinator – Developmental Services
NHS is seeking to hire a full time Service Coordinator for this family directed region wide program. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, development of new PDMS programs, advocacy through Service Coordination, ensuring services are implemented within the regulated guidelines while balancing the needs of families; staff recruitment and supervision following all Department of Labor laws and Agen-cy policies; developing and monitoring individual budgets.
Requirements include a minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience in Devel-opmental Services or related field, ability to work both independently and as a sig-nificant participant of the regional team; ability to prioritize, multi-task, and maintain accuracy and confidentiality; strong written and oral communication skills; profi-cient computer skills including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and Agency systems as required. This position is based in Berlin/Whitefield area, training for this position would be 4-6 months in the Conway office as well as frequent travel throughout the NHS region is required.
Please send cover letter and resume to:
Denise DavisNorthern Human Services
87 Washington St.Conway, NH 03818
[email protected]: 447-8893
This position at NHS requires a valid driver’s license, proof of adequate auto insur-ance and the successful completion of criminal and background checks. This Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider.
School Administrative Unit #20Milan School District
NOTICE OF VACANCIESThe Milan Village Elementary School has the following positions avail-able for the 2014-2015 school year:
• Part time Nurse – 22.5 hours per week, 5 days a week
• Part time Librarian – 2 days per week
• Part time Computer Teacher 1 day per week
• Para Educator – 6.5 hours per day to provide small group, one to one and Kindergarten classroom support.
Candidates should be team oriented, well-organized and flexible, have the ability to communicate effectively with all students and staff, have experience at the elementary level working with students who have diverse learning needs. A positive caring attitude is essential for the successful candidate.
Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, resume, creden-tials and three current reference. Positions open till April 18th or until filled.
School Administrative Unit #20Paul Bousquet, Superintendent
123 Main StreetGorham, NH 03581
Phone # (603) 466-3632Fax # (603) 466-3870
SAU #20 is An Equal Opportunity Employer
WHITE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
2014-2015 School Year
Teaching Staff• Library/Media Specialist• Special Education LEAStaff• District-Wide Athletic Director(For further information, please contact Michael Berry, Principal, WMRHS, 837-2528)
Support Staff• Cook
Submit resume to Office of Superintendent of Schools
ATTN: Roxanne Hartlen, Admin. Asst.14 King Square
Whitefield, NH 03598(603) 837-9363
Web site: www.sau36.org
Full Time 3:00 - 11:00RN Supervisor
Position AvailableWe are looking for individuals who are qualified, positive, energetic workers able to work in a fast-paced environment and who take pride in quality work.
We offer a competitive salary and compensation package, including benefits, health/dental insur-ance, vacation and personal time, 401K.
Please apply online at: Genesishcc.comOr call: Wendy Brousseau, RN, BSN, DNS
603-788-4735
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ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANTNorth Country Council, Bethlehem, NH
The North Country Council in Bethlehem, NH is seeking a full time Administrative Assistant. The ideal candidate will have excellent organizational skills, be detail oriented and have exceptional interpersonal skills as they are the initial public contact both on the phone and in person. For a full job description visit www.nccouncil.org.Send cover letter and resume by April 10, 2014 to:
ATTN: Administrative AssistantNorth Country Council
107 Glessner RoadBethlehem, NH 03574
PRESBYCONSTRUCTION, INC.
Family owned since 1948
PRESBYCONSTRUCTION, INC.
Family owned since 1948
244 Main Street, Franconia, NHPhone: 603-823-5298 • Fax: 603-823-8114
www.presbyconstruction.com
HELP WANTED• Experienced
Carpentry Supervisor• Experienced
Concrete ForemanFull time employment with competitive wages,paid vacations, holidays and 401K benefits.
Apply in person.APPLY NOW TO JOIN OUR TEAM
Please stop by to fill out an application at 106 Burndy Rd. Littleton NH 03561. You can send your application via e-mail to
Charlene Marois, Human Resources Assistant at [email protected]
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Employment ServicesNH Job Seekers Wanted to attend a3-week WorkReadyNHtraining in Berlin. Gain new skills orsharpen the skills employers want,Earn 2 certificates, the NationalCareer Readiness Certificate andWhite Mountains CommunityCollege Soft Skills certificate.Training is tuition free. The 3 weekclass runs 4/7–4/25, M - F, 8:00 am –1:00 p.m. Space is limited and regis-tration is required. Call 342- 3099, orvisit www.ccsnh.edu/workreadynh
General Help WantedFull Time Family Support Worker(FSW) Upper Grafton CountyFamily Support Worker will work intheir home with clients prenatallyand with children between 1- 18years of age Position requires strongrecord keeping skills, data entry intoa state wide data base, reflective lis-tening skills, along with past workwith families. Bachelors degree withbackground in human services, edu-cation or counseling helpful. Must beavailable to attend week long train-ing out of town. Weekly supervisionand support will be provided. Familyfriendly work atmosphere with teamsupport. Benefits include Paid timeoff/holidays/mileage reimbursementetc. Must have a car and valid driver’slicense.
e-mail resume and cover letter by April 11, 2014 to:
Sue Watson, Director FamilyPrograms
[email protected] Main St, Gorham, NH 03581.The FRC is an Equal Opportunity
Employer.
Full time year round Line cooks andwait staff positions available for busymidscale restaurant located inLancaster, NH. great opportunity forthe right person. High visibility atmultiple food shows throughout theyear. Must be experienced. Call forinterview: 203-305-6529.
Raft NH is seeking seasonal raftguides up to Class IV in Gorham, NH.Training available for Maine guidecertification. Friday - Sunday andyear round positions available.
FMI call 603-545-4533 or [email protected]
The Lodge At lincoln Station cur-rently has front desk and housekeep-ing positions open. Weekendsrequired. Please apply in person atThe Lodge At Lincoln Station, 36Lodge Rd, Lincoln NH.
WHITEFIELD HELP WANTED —Full time experienced short ordercook. Apply in person at Grandma'sKitchen, 187 Lancaster Road, Route3, Whitefield. No phone calls please.
Part-Time Help WantedJEFFERSON - Old Corner Store :Deli clerk/cashier. Part-time posi-tion. Days/evenings. Must be selfmotivated, mature and reliable. Call631-0509 or pick-up application atstore.
Special Instructions
Franconia, would you like aspot where you can paint, craftetc. with others once or twice aweek? I have a large new barn,close to town, heated, but withno insulation. There are tables.There will be a kiln and accessto a pottery wheel. We could useit if we insulate it with fiberglassbetween the studs. Are youinterested? Call 823-2015.
Nurse Assistant Training
BERLIN4/28/14 - 6/30/14
Mon/Wed8AM - 2PM
LANCASTER, NH4/26/14 - 6/8/14
Sat/Sun7AM - 3PM
WHITEFIELD, NH5/27/14 - 8/12/14
Tues/Thurs5PM - 10PM
Payment Plans & StateAssistance Available
Contact Clinical Career Training1-800-603-3320
www.clinicalcareertraining.com
Pet Care
DO YOU NEED FINANCIAL HELP
with spaying or altering of your dog or cat? Call 603-224-1361
before 2 pm.
Pets & BreedersBluetick/Walker puppies for sale.Ready to go on April 18th. Both par-ents are UKC registered with a histo-ry of coon championships. They aregreat coon, bear or mtn cat huntingdogs or a nice family pet. Very smartdogs. 5 females and 3 males left. Call603-449-6679 or 631-0666.
Pets & Breeders
1DOGS, PUPPIES, KITTENS
of various ages, breeds, mixtures,available for adoption to approved,good homes! Please adopt so moreneedy critters can be taken in and
helped. Call for appointment. Donations of money & items
needed for the new area shelter.Licensed, tax exempt! Call
Lancaster Humane Society603-788-4500
or write LHS, RR 2 #564, Lancaster NH 03584
N.H. Law Requires that dogs andcats...
1. Not be transferred before 8 weeks old.
2. Have Vet’s healthcertificate within
14 days of transfer.3. Be inoculated.
This applies to all dogs & cats,mongrel or purebred, gift or sale, planned or accidental
litters.
Auctions/Antiques/Auctioneers
AuctioneersC.W. Gray & Sons, Inc.
East Thetford, VT.802-785-2161
Farm equipment. &consignment sales.
Livestock dealer.
Barn/Garage/Yard Sales
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Buying all US and foreigncopper, gold and silver coins.
Buying estate jewelry, damaged jewelry,
dental gold, sterling silver. Free oral appraisals.
North Country CoinsMain Street
Plymouth, NH603-536-2625
Fuel/WoodCut and Split firewood SpringSpecial, buy it cut to your specifica-tion and have it delivered! Discountper cord for early orders! Will deliverin the Lancaster/Littleton area noextra charge. Please call for pricing603-837-3255 or 603-991-3954
GREEN CORD WOOD FOR SALE -$250 CORD —Ski Hearth Farm isoffering green cord wood for sale. Amixture of birch, beech, rock maple,soft maple, and ash. Cut to length 16to 24 inches. Price includes deliverywithin ten mile radius of Sugar Hill,NH. Will deliver longer distances formulti cord purchase and/or addition-al fee.
N.H.DEPT. of Agricultureweights & Measures Lawrequires: that cordwood (firewood) must: 1. Be sold by the cord or fractionof a cord; 2. Contain 128 cubic feet per cordwhen stacked; 3. Be accompanied by sales slipstating the amount of wood sold &the price.
Hobbies & CollectorsFOR SALE — Antique! Tube-typeold CB & Ham Radios. Heathkit,Gonset, Polytronics, Cobra Cam 88,Johnson Messenger 1, JohnsonMessenger 2, Siltronix Moden 9 VFO.TEMPONE – HAM RADIO, RegencyHR2R 2 Meter, Ham Radio, RadioShack HTX 2-Meter, Ham Radio,HTXCOMRS with SWR Meter & ant – theHTX is a NEW radio. Have more thanlisted, Call 603-636-1743. If noanswer, leave message.
Misc. For SaleOld NH Fish and Game, ca. 1890,bearing laws, penalties and seasonson moose, caribou, furbearers, fish,etc. Measures 12”x18”. May be seenat the Coös County Democrat, 79Main St., Lancaster, NH.
Price, $4; if mailed, $8. Call 603-788-4939 or email
Wanted To Buy
Private CollectorBuying Paintings
by Cape Ann and White Mt.Artists Champney, Shapleigh,Gruppe and Hibbard, Thieme,
Stevens, etc.Immediate payment made.
Send photosPO Box 2180
Wolfeboro, NH [email protected] Tim @ 603-569-3510
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$32,900 14 wide 3 bedr,$44,995 double wide 3 bedr.Mod, $98,995 2-story or 56x28Ranch.
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Tilton NH
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The Federal Fair Housing Lawwhich makes it illegal
“to make, print or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published
any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to
the sale, or rental of a dwelling thatindicates any preference, limitation,
or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap,
familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such
preference, limitation or discrimination.”
(The Fair Housing Act of1968 at 42 U.S.C. 3604(c))
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are hereby informed, that all dwellings advertised in this
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Apartments For RentAffordable, convenient & charming!One bedroom LANCASTER second-floor apartment features tall ceilings,lots of windows, full kitchen, largerooms, fresh paint. Tenant pays utili-ties. Close to Shaw's and Rite Aid.$525/mo. Call or text 603-991-0394 after 5 pm ONLY.
Bethlehem - Adorable one bedroomduplex-style apartment with big frontporch. Plowing, mowing included. $435.00/mo does notinclude utilities. First, securitydeposit, references and leaserequired.
603-869-5474 7AM-7PM.
BETHLEHEM: Efficiency units. Nosmoking, No pets, Security depositrequired. Utilities and cable included.603-444-2075
JEFFERSON MEADOWS: Country Setting, clean, secure,one bedrooms. $575 and up,includes heat, DISH, stove,refrigerator, snow and garbageremoval.
603-586-7902
LANCASTER/WHITEFIELD — One& two bedroom apts available. $550 -$650/mo. Some include heat. Call631-5012.
LITTLETON - 2 bedroom, Main St.Heat, utilities included. No pets. Nosmoking. $750/mo Call Dan 444-7776.
PELLETIER PROPERTYMANAGEMENT, LLC
120 Cottage St., Suite #2Littleton, NH 03561
Phone: 444-6999email:[email protected]
Lancaster1 bdrm 2nd flr with Heat & HW-$500/mo
Littleton1 bdrm 2ND flr with Heat & HW$600/mo
Lisbon2 bdrm Ground flr Apt with Heat& HW - $700/mo
One bedroom apartments availablein N. Stratford. Spacious apartmentswith heat & hot water included.Plenty of parking. Rent based onincome. Income limits do apply.Equal Housing Opportunity. Pleasecall for an application at 444-5244.
St. Johnsbury, VT- PassumpsicHousing: 2 BD: Disabled and/orElderly Housing: Rent includes utili-ties, heat, hot water, trash and rub-bish removal. Must be income eligi-ble for HUD Subsidy, income restric-tions apply. Rent is 30% householdmonthly income. Call E.P.Management 802-775-1100 or [email protected]. E.H.O.
Wells River Apartments, Wells River,VT: Wells River Apartments 1& 2 BDapartments: $575 - $665 Includesheat, trash and snow removal.Income restrictions apply. Call E.P.Management 802-775-1100 or [email protected]. E.H.O.
WINN ASSOCIATES PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT INC69 Meadow Street,
PO Box 966, Littleton, NH 603-444-0709
[email protected] visit our website
www.winnrentalsplus.com
BETHLEHEM1 bdrm, heat incl, $500/mo
LITTLETON3 bdrm, 2nd fl, heat & hot waterincl., $1100/mo2 bdrm, No Utilities, $675/mo2 bdrm, 2nd fl, Heat & Hot Waterincl. $775/mo
LISBON3rd floor 1 bdrm heat & hot waterincl $650/mo2nd floor 2 bdrm heat & hotwater incl $725/mo
WHITEFIELD2 bdrm, Heat & Hot water incl.$650/mo3 bdrm, All utilities incl.,$750/mo
Commercial SpaceFor Rent
Beautiful Large Two BedroomApartment located on CottageStreet in Littleton. The groundlevel apartment features a PrivateEntrance, Dining Room, LargeKitchen, Built in Hutch, WasherDryer Facility and FullySprinklered. Walking distance toMain Street Littleton, restau-rants, shops, Common SenseFitness, Jax Jr. Cinemas and gro-cery stores. Rent includes heat,water, rubbish removal and park-ing. A security deposit isrequired. Sorry no dogs allowed.Rent: $725
Eames Realty444-6944 Ext. 22
www.eamesrealtyco.com
Furnished ApartmentsBETHLEHEM - Nice 1 BedroomApartment, weekly or monthly, fur-nished, all utilities included, reason-ably priced. $550/mo. $140/wk. Call444-6061.
Houses For Rent
SPRINGWOODGUEST HOUSE RENTAL
Close to LRH1-BR,LR,Kit. fully furnishedplus all linens and kitchen uten-sils. Rent of $1400 includesheat, phone, internet, electric,etc. Nicer than a motel for lessmoney. Sorry, no pets. Call forbrochure.
603-444-0946
Care Giver ServicesWanted: Part-time caregiver for eld-erly lady, Whitefield. One or twoweekends per month. Saturdayand/or Sunday days Referencesrequired.
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MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS/MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
FULL-TIME Primary responsibilities involve the testing of body fluids and other specimen samples submitted to the Laboratory for analysis. Medi-cal Technologist (ASCP, AMT or equivalent) preferred; or Medical Laboratory Technician (ASCP, AMT or equivalent). Medical Tech-nologist must possess a Bachelor of Science degree that meets the academic requirements of the ASCP Board Registry or academic experience by recognized accrediting agencies and is certified within one year of hire by either AMT, ISCLT, HHS, or NCA in the Labo-ratory Technologist category. Medical Laboratory Technician must possess an Associate’s degree that meets the academic requirements of the ASCP Board Registry or academic experience by recognized accrediting agencies and is certified within one year of hire by ei-ther AMT, ISCLT, HHS, or NCA in the Laboratory Technologist category. Generalist Technologist/Technician preferred. Computer literacy and Laboratory Information Systems experience desirable. A pleasant demeanor, good patient manner and the ability to communi-cate with patients is essential. Candidate must demonstrate excellent customer service skills. Full-time, 40 hours/week, shares call and hol-iday coverage. This position is benefit eligible.
If interested please apply Onlinewww.ucvh.org
Heidi SaariHuman Resources
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Colebrook, NH 03576603.388.4236
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NORTH COUNTRY—Leaders and aspiring leaders from throughout the North Country are
encouraged to consid-er participation in the Leadership North Coun-try program (LNC). This
program has been bring-ing Civic minded people together since 2004 to explore the unique chal-
lenges and opportunities in our region. The call for applications for the 2014-2015 Program is now open. The program year begins in October and runs through June 2015.
Each year LNC selects a diverse group of people who learn and work to-gether for 9 months cov-ering topics such as edu-cation, arts and culture, rural health and poverty, travel and tourism, and government and politics. Program participants gain information and ex-perience through inter-active presentations and panels, insider tours, and informed conversations with experienced leaders from a wide variety of ar-eas.
Leadership North Country was founded by a concerned group of regional advisors and modeled after highly suc-cessful state and regional leadership programs na-tionwide.
Here in northern NH the program’ is support-ed, in part, by White Mountains Community College and the Tillotson Foundation.
Applications for LNC are available through the WMCC website--www.wmcc.edu - under the “Workforce Develop-ment” heading. For addi-tional information about LNC, contact Tamara Roberge, Project Manag-er at [email protected] or call 603-342-3062.
Two days before the fi-nal race of the year Moth-er Nature dropped close to two feet of snow in the Pittsburg area. Normally snow fans are excited for this large amount of snow, but for vintage racing this is too much snow, in too
short a time. The Pittsburg Ridge Runners grooming crew had two days of snow removal crunched into one day. Farr road had to be plowed, the parking lot had to be plowed, and the race track had to have snow removed. A huge un-
dertaking for one day, but this dedicated crew did an outstanding job to have the track conditions race ready by Saturday morn-ing.
A mild 32 degree morn-ing in the Great North Woods greeted racers, vol-unteers and fans traveling to Farr Road for the final race of the season. Many
of the seventeen division-al races were close and this final race would de-termine who would be our series champions. There were 158 race entries for the day, our largest of the year! There were 556 en-tries in total for the four series races.
The GNWVRS commu-nity would like to recog-
nize our title sponsors this year. Thank you to LaPer-les’s IGA, Tuckerman’s Restaurant & Tavern and The New England Inn & Lodge for their generous support of the race series.
Thank you to all the racers and spectators who supported the event and to all of volunteers who continue to make this race
series a success. Special thanks to Perry Stream Land and Timber Compa-ny for use of their proper-ty to hold the race.
The Race Committee will be finalizing our rules, class changes and our 2015 race schedule over the next few months so please check the web-site for updates.
Last Ridge Runners race of Season
Leadership North Country to Begin its 11th Year