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Town Council Wants Tax
Rate Down $2 Per Thousand
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Derry Town Council
will try to find ways to save
an additional $2 per $1,000
from its tax rate, and has
directed Town Administrator
Galen Stearns to look at how
that can be done.
At the Dec. 16 meeting,
the Council took no action
on a scenario Stearns had
researched after they asked
him to see what reducing the
tax rate by $2.50 per $1,000
“looked like.”
Stearns reported back
and told them that for a
$2.50 reduction, they would
have to look at cutting two
Finance Department employees, nine Department of
Public Works (DPW) employees, 16 police officers
and 22 firefighters.
The Council took no
action on the $2.50 per thousand scenario, but later
voted unanimously to direct
Stearns to look at a $2 per
$1,000 reduction.
“I am working on that
now,” Stearns said Monday.
“I won’t know what it will
look like until I get the final
crunching of numbers.”
Stearns said he had
asked the department heads
to get back to him with recommendations on where to
cut.
“This is the goal,” he
said. “The Council would
like me to present them with
this as a budget.”
The 2014 tax rate set by
the Department of Revenue
Administration in October is
$29.42 per $1,000, down
from $31.49 per $1,000 in
2013. The breakdown is
$9.72, town; $16.11, local
school; $2.44, state school;
and $1.15, county.
At the Dec. 2 meeting,
Stearns had been directed to
see what a $2.50 per $1,000
reduction would “look like.”
To achieve a $2.50 per
$1,000 cut equates to cutting
roughly $6 million from the
2016 budget, or 49 positions.
Stearns based his calculations on the current approved budget, the 2015
budget. The FY 15 budget is
$42,012,542, he said, with
the addition of the Veterans
Tax Credit of $48,850,
which was voted in between
budgets. The town portion of
the tax rate is $9.70 per
$1,000. With the reduction
of $6,274,856, a cut of
$6,274,856 is necessary, he
said. It would reduce the
town portion of the tax rate
to $7.20 per $1,000.
Stearns did a ranking of
Derry against 10 other
Southern New Hampshire
towns. Derry’s town tax rate
is the highest in towns from
Concord to Portsmouth, he
said, and is higher than the
average of the 10 towns,
which is $8.43 per $1,000.
continued on page 5
Council Gives Preliminary
OK to Revised Ethics Policy
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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has given preliminary approval to a more specific
policy dealing with ethics
and conflicts of interest.
At the Dec. 16 Town
Council meeting, the Council reviewed a revised section of the Town Council
Rules dealing with ethics.
The review was the first
reading of the revision. After
a second reading, there will
be a final vote to adopt the
revisions.
Council Chair Mark
Osborne, who asked for the
update, said, “We in municipal government should lead
the way in ethical behavior.
The way the Council Rules
defined ‘conflict of interest’
was weak. It didn’t give the
Council guidance, it didn’t
give the Chair guidance.”
The revisions are primarily to Section I, “Relations
With the Community,” and
the major revision is to Item
(f).
Item (f) currently reads,
“Remove themselves from
decision making if they have
a conflict of interest or even
the appearance of one.” The
revision would replace it
with the following: “No
Council member in his or
her official capacity shall
introduce, discuss, deliberate, approve or vote upon
any matter in which he or
she or any member of his or
her family or business associate has an interest known
to said member. Neither
shall s/he knowingly enter
into any discussion, testimony or deliberation without
first, publicly and for the
record, stating all dealings,
interests, relationships and
possible conflicts that may
exist between said member,
his or her family or business
associate, the principals and
continued on page 9
VFW
Spreads
Joy
Elora Schumacher, 8, was one of many in
the room full of local children treated to a Christmas Party and gifts at the Derry
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post on Saturday afternoon. Santa, Frosty and Rudolph all
stopped in to bring joy to their guests for the holiday. See more photos page 2.
Photo by Chris Paul
Derry School Lunch Prices
to Rise 10 Cents in January
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Derry School Board
approved a 10-cent per meal
increase in school lunch
prices, in response to Federal guidelines.
The board approved the
increase at its Dec. 16 meeting after hearing an update
from Business Administrator Jane Simard and Food
Service Director Susan
Baroskas.
Simard explained that
due to a Federal mandate
and formula, the district is
required to increase the
lunch prices. “We hoped we
wouldn’t have to do it,”
Simard said.
Baroskas said that every
year the district gets a new
formula of what the Feds
think it should charge for
school lunches. It is a
weighted formula that balances the average number of
children who pay full price
for lunch against the price
they pay. Last year the forcontinued on page 6
Page 2
Nutfield News • December 25, 2014
VFW Post Spreads Joy During the Holiday Season
Derry Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
#1617 hosted a free Christmas party for
area children Saturday, with guests including Rudolph, Frosty and Santa, along with
food, candy, games and gifts. Pictured
from left and clockwise are Gianna Douglas, 7, and Felicia Edwards, 10, getting
early gifts from Santa; Phoenix and Talon
Snyder posing with Santa and Rudolph;
and youngsters showing off their Christmas gifts.
Photos by Chris Paul
Pinkerton Academy No Longer Available as Poll Site
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Town of Derry and
the Derry Cooperative School
District will consider holding their 2015 elections in
two Derry schools and one
Derry church, after determining that a Pinkerton Academy
location has not worked out.
Laura Nelson, superin-
tendent of School Administrative Unit (SAU) 10, announced at the Dec. 16
School Board meeting that
Pinkerton Academy was no
longer available for voting,
and that a second middle
school, West Running Brook,
was being activated for service.
Town Administrator Galen Stearns confirmed the
change in a phone call Monday. Stearns said after conversations with Pinkerton, “It
was determined that voting
while school is in session creates a number of problems.
“We will not be going to
Pinkerton,” Stearns said.
However, he said, the
Town Council, which decides where the town votes,
had not discussed the mat-
ter. “This is a recommendation to the Council, and it
will be discussed in the next
Town Council meeting,” he
said.
The three polling places
for the November general
election were Pinkerton’s
Hackler Gym, Gilbert H.
Hood Middle School gym,
and the gymnasium at Calvary Bible Church in East
Derry. Districts 1 and 3 voted
at Pinkerton, District 2 at Calvary, and District 4 at Hood.
At the November election concerns were raised by
Derry voters about difficulty
getting to the polls. Some
residents complained that
school buses waiting to
transport children from
Pinkerton’s half-day blocked
their access to parking
spaces and some handicapped voters had to park
across the street. After the
election, Town Clerk Denise
Neale, Moderator Margaret
Ives and Pinkerton Headmaster Griffin Morse agreed
to meet and discuss things
before the March election.
In a statement through
school spokesperson Chip
Underhill, Morse said he had
outlined to the Derry Town
Clerk the logistical difficulties of elections on a school
day, but that Neale had not
responded to him to discuss
future plans of any kind.
Ives said the decision of
where to vote rested with the
Town Council.
Town Council Chair
Mark Osborne said the possibility of leaving Pinkerton
had been discussed, “but I
had no idea it had been finalized.”
Neale was on vacation
and did not return calls for
clarification.
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Town Council Revises Building Code to Combat Blight
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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has approved a revision to its
Building Code that will make
it easier for the town to be
proactive about unkempt
buildings and unsightly lots,
commonly known as “blight.”
The Council reviewed the
revisions to Chapter 30 of the
Building Code at its Dec. 16
meeting and unanimously
approved them.
Building Inspector/Code
Enforcement Officer Bob
Mackey presented the revisions to the International
Property Maintenance Code
(IPMC), which was adopted
by the town in 2005 and last
revised in 2009.
An ordinance revision
committee has been meeting,
with Town Councilor Tom
Cardon as chair, Mackey said.
Mackey wrote in a memo
that “The RSAs of the state of
New Hampshire grant power
to municipalities that support
our authority to control most
of these issues. The Town has
in place the powers under certain statutes to order a building to be repaired and under
certain conditions, demolished.”
Mackey said that his
office has been using the regulations all along in landlordtenant disputes and complaints about trash. With the
amendments, he said, his
office and the town can “educate property owners, more
effectively enforce the ordinance and maintain a safer
community.”
Mackey said the revisions
deal mostly with Chapter 3 of
the Building Code, which
addresses the outside of properties.
Central to the increased
enforcement is a proposed
Property Maintenance Committee, which will be charged
with listing “distressed properties,” setting priorities and
goals, dealing with property
owners to resolve issues, and,
if necessary, recommending
the levying of fines according
to the IPMC, which can be up
to $275 per day of non-compliance.
Council member Joshua
Bourdon liked the idea, noting that, “Many residents and
business owners want to see
progress in this area.” He
asked Mackey, “What have
we accomplished since we
adopted the code in 2005?”
Mackey said the code has
been successfully employed
in the landlord-tenant disputes. He recently used it in
getting a downtown property
owner to deal with smashed
windows in an empty building, he said. “But it’s never
been used in a proactive
sense,” he added.
Councilor Al Dimmock
reminded the Council and
audience that the committee
will be advisory in nature, in
line with the Highway Safety
Committee. He volunteered
to be on the committee.
But Dimmock warned
that Mackey is dealing with,
in essence, absentee landlords. “You can impose all the
fines you want,” he said. “But
what happens if they don’t
pay?” The cost of razing the
building and reselling the land
could be a financial burden on
the town, he said.
Member Phyllis Katsakiores also expressed concern about absentee landlords.
Mackey said the revisions in
the ordinance will allow him
to “keep the pressure on.”
Mackey added that some of
the most extreme cases would
fall to the Council to decide,
“and they would have to make
some tough decisions.”
In the public hearing resident Marc Flattes called
attention to two different
paragraphs, one about “abandoned” property and one
about “vacant” property. Flattes objected to the “vacant”
designation, saying that many
homes for sale stay vacant for
60 days or more. Flattes, who
is looking to buy a house,
asked, “How would that
attract me as someone who
wants to buy something? This
doesn’t exclude residences.”
Mackey said the ordinance refers primarily to
buildings that have been abandoned. “If it’s being actively
marketed, this does not
apply,” he said.
The intention, Mackey
said, is “not to go in and board
up buildings that are viable.”
“It’s just another tool for
Code Enforcement,” Cardon
said. “We’re not going to
board up every building that’s
been vacant for 60 days.”
The buildings to be boarded would be those carrying a
risk of criminal activity or
public safety concerns, Mackey said.
Council Chair Mark Osborne asked, “In enforcing
these changes, does it come
with a reasonable amount of
discretion?” Mackey said it
did.
Steve Trefethen, a community member and Realtor,
said in his opinion, the ordinance doesn’t need the term
“vacant.” He recommended
the paragraph on “securing
vacant property” be eliminated.
But Councilor Michael
Fairbanks disagreed, saying,
“Abandoned and vacant mean
two different things. I can see
why it’s in there.”
Planning Director George
Sioras recommended passage
of the revisions, saying,
“We’ve been talking about
this on the Downtown Committee for a couple of years.
It’s a great tool.”
Osborne reminded the
Council that the committee to
revise the ordinance was put
together almost a year before
in response to community
concerns.
“No proposed law is perfect,” he said. “If we waited on
every law, we’d never have a
single law on the books.”
The Council voted 7-0 to
approve the revisions.
Floyd School Development Snow Storage Questioned
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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With a request for a better plan for snow storage,
the Highway Safety Committee has passed along a
traffic plan for the former
Floyd School site to the
Planning Board.
Project manager Karl
Dubay of the Dubay Group
represented the developers,
Extended Realty, at the Dec.
18 Highway Safety Committee meeting. While members liked a lot about the
plan to redevelop the site as
townhouses, they objected
to a plan to store snow at the
corner of Highland Avenue
and Florence Street, and
Dubay agreed to tweak the
plan.
The plan for the school
site originally called for 19
apartments and remodeling
the old brick school building. But the building had too
many issues, Dubay said,
and the decision was made
to raze the school and build
20 townhouses instead. The
Technical Review Committee (TRC) had some minor
questions before sending the
project on to Highway Safety, Dubay said.
Dubay said he has
revamped the entrance and
egress on Florence Street,
moving the entrance further
up and the exit closer to the
intersection. “This is a safer
flow,” he told the committee.
The plan calls for some
milling and overlay work on
Highland Avenue and adjusting the gravel on the private road, which is the former school driveway, Dubay
said. He was scheduled to
meet with the TRC one
more time on Friday, Dec.
19, and had an abutters’
meeting at the site scheduled
for Saturday, Dec. 20, he
said.
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an area at the corner of
Highland and Floyd and
another at Highland and the
private road. “The snow
storage is only 40 feet from
the intersection with Highland Avenue,” he said.
He expressed concern
that there wasn’t enough
sight distance. “You come
around the corner and try to
make a right turn, and you
can’t see around the moun-
tain of snow,” he said.
While Dubay said the
condo association would
take care of the snow, Cote
said in his experience, that
didn’t always happen. “People,” he said, “do not want to
pay to have it trucked off the
site.”
He suggested having
snow piled on an adjacent
site, owned by the IJN Realty Trust, which is bisected
by a brook and not suitable
for a lot of other uses.
Dubay said he would inves-
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tigate this with the owners.
“People do not want to
truck snow away, and I don’t
want to see snow storage on
corners,” Cote said.
Dubay agreed to look at
other places for snow storage.
The committee agreed to
forward the plan to the Planning Board, with a letter stating it asked Dubay to remove
the snow storage from the
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Editorial
Sleeping Giants Awaken
Just when it seemed that residents
concerned about local issues were batting
their heads against a wall, there’s reason
to take heart.
The Londonderry Zoning Board of
Adjustment met last week to decide on
variance requests sought by the developer
of a workforce housing project on Stonehenge Road. The developer openly stated
he sought the variances to make the project financially viable and enhance his
profit margin. And although he argued
that Londonderry needs more workforce
housing, there’s a difference of opinion as
to whether data supports that viewpoint.
Potential neighbors of the development spoke out, as they have on similar
developments. But in this case, their
words did not fall on deaf ears.
Residents concerned about property
values and their rights vs. those of an outof-town developer made their case
cogently and clearly, and the Zoning
Board listened.
While this is one instance, and the
arguments made by residents pertained to
one specific development, it’s a win that
should remind us that an informed citizenry is a sleeping giant waiting to be awakened.
When residents attend public meetings, do their homework and express their
views, it is indeed possible for them to provide convincing and successful arguments.
It’s easy to sit home and complain. It’s
quite different to come out to a meeting,
take the microphone, and express a viewpoint politely but firmly. But a resident’s
opinion should hold at least as much
weight as an out-of-town developer.
Londonderry is far from alone in
issues that would benefit from public
input. A week doesn’t go by that Sandown
doesn’t face questions about the financial
operation of the Timberlane School District. With that town’s tax rate skyrocketing in the past few years because of school
costs, residents are speaking out not to be
contrary but because their homes are at
stake. And they should be heard.
Chester is getting ready for the master
plan update process. That’s a perfect time
for residents to talk about what kind of
town Chester should be. With plenty of
open space left to develop, the potential
for change is real, and should be in the
hands of residents, rather than those who
live elsewhere. But that requires time at
the microphone.
Hampstead faces warrant articles for
substantial sums of money for school renovations. Is that what residents want to
pay for? Speak out.
And Derry, with its high tax rate and
tax cap, faces a big choice in whether to
cut services and staff to provide relief.
Take a page from the Londonderry
success story, prepare your comments,
and head to the meeting microphone.
Let’s awaken the sleeping giant.
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Rotary Winner Art McLean, left, Derry Rotary board member;
Donald Blaszka, Super Bowl drawing winner; Lauren Neves, Derry Rotary president; and Scott Johnston, Rotary president-elect, are pictured at a recent drawing
held at the Marion Gerrish Community Center. More than 240 tickets were sold at
$100 per ticket, and the drawing raised more than $24,000. Blaszka won a trip to
the Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., including two Super Bowl tickets, round trip air
from Boston for two, a three-night stay at a local hotel and $300 in spending money.
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Letters
Acts of Kindness
To the editor:
I stopped at a gas station
to fill my car with gas, and a
woman came running over.
She said she wanted to pay
for my gas. I told her thank
you, but it was all right, but
she answered that this is an
act of kindness and good
cheer for the holidays.
As I found out, there
were four ladies doing this
together to spread good
cheer during they holidays.
They went to Dunkin’
Donuts and paid for quite a
few coffees and they also
went to Hannaford’s to put
25 cents in all the vending
machines with toys and
gumballs for the children.
I was just amazed by the
kindness, love, and generosity of these women and the
good will they were spreading during the Christmas
season. It makes me so
proud to serve this town as a
town councilor and legislator when we have such wonderful people living here.
Phyllis Katsakiores
Derry
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Blizzard Bags Get OK for
Derry School District
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Derry Cooperative
School District has received
approval to move forward
with its Blizzard Bag program.
Superintendent Laura
Nelson made the announcement at the Dec. 16 School
Board meeting. Nelson said
she had received a letter
from State Commissioner of
Education Virginia Barry
authorizing her to move forward with the Blizzard
Bags.
The district has been
approved for up to five days’
use of the bags, which provide lessons that children
can complete at home on a
snow day.
A parent information
night will be held Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 6:30 p.m. at
West Running Brook Middle School. A forum was
scheduled for Dec. 9 but was
cancelled because of snow,
Nelson said.
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Route 111 Development Sent to Derry Planning Board
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Derry Highway Safety Committee has passed on
to the Planning Board a proposed mixed-use development at the junction of
Route 111 and Island Pond
Road.
At its Dec. 18 meeting,
the committee heard from
David Frahm, developer of
Cowbell Corners; Joshua
Tax Rate
continued from page 1
In assessed valuation Derry
is #8 on the list. In the area
of “tax commitment” it is
#5, at $72,625,418, but
close to the average of the
10 towns, which is
$71,247,523.
Derry is #8 on the chart
in terms of tax commitment
per person, with the Derry
number at $2,194 and the
average for the 10 towns
$2,500.
An arbitrary cut of $2.50
will have further implications than residents fighting
their own fires and solving
their own crimes, according
to Stearns. He reminded the
Council of its tax cap, which
does not allow the town
budget to increase over the
rate of the Consumer Price
Index. That’s averaged out
at 1.65 percent for the past
six years, he said, adding, “It
would take us a significant
amount of time to get back
to where we are today.
“If we want to restore
services, we will be limited
by the charter,” Stearns
Manning, his engineer; and
traffic engineer Steve Pernow on the project, which
will begin with a gas station
and convenience store and
be phased in to include two
more buildings.
Pernow said the State
Department of Transportation (DOT) did a traffic
count in 2013 and reported
14,000 cars a day on that
stretch of Route 111, down
from 15,000 in 2010.
Pernow said the intersection is continuing to operate
below capacity in the afternoon peak time, which is
good news for his employers.
When the project is fully
built, Pernow said, he recommends adding an additional five seconds to the
green light on the left-hand
turn and an additional 10
seconds on the north-south
green light.
Derry Superintendent of
Operations Alan Cote reminded the group that the
DOT controls the signal
lights. “If there is too much
‘queueing,’ they’ll make the
adjustment,” he said.
Police Chief Ed Garone
asked Pernow if he had any
observations on the right
turn to the east-west corridor.
“There are wide shoulders on the east and west
turns,” Pernow said, “and
some drivers are using the
shoulder for their right turn
onto Island Pond Road. It
helps in the matter of capacity.” Making the shoulder an
official right turn could be
part of future development,
Pernow said.
The tenant mix is estimated to be office, retail and
medical, Frahm said.
Member Randy Chase
asked how much traffic the
tenants were expected to
generate, and Pernow said
there would be 130 customers during the peak
hours, for all three buildings.
For queueing, Pernow
said he expected no more
than seven cars in the morning and no more than 11 in
the afternoon.
The committee voted unanimously to recommend
the proposal to the Planning
Board.
pointed out.
Stearns did not recommend the “drastic” cut of
$2.50, suggesting instead
that the Council look at
other means of lowering
taxes, such as increasing
revenue and increasing the
tax base.
When Chairman Mark
Osborne asked for comments on Stearns’ research,
the Councilors were silent.
But speakers in the Public
Forum had plenty to say.
Community member
Richard Tripp said he had
also been researching area
towns. He pointed out that
Londonderry’s burden of
taxes on residential property
is 62 percent compared to
Derry’s 82 percent.
“This is why a lot of people are dead set against higher taxes,” Tripp said.
Tripp agreed with
Stearns that it would be hard
to come back from such a
drastic cut, and suggested
instead that the Council continue its current policy of
trying to attract business and
industry. “Exit 4-A will be a
boon to that,” he said, noting
that most of Derry’s potential industrial property is
landlocked.
Bruce Brown, a retired
teacher, agreed. Other towns
have “something going for
them,” he pointed out. “Merrimack has Anheuser-Busch,
Salem had the racetrack and
may have a casino, Concord
has government, Londonderry is near the airport.”
Resident Marc Flattes
agreed that a $2.50 cut was
too deep. “What would $1
look like?” he asked Stearns.
Stearns said he could run
a different scenario with less
drastic reductions.
Resident Hal Schindlein
is a retired municipal worker from another town and
said the benefits offered
today’s municipal employees are far greater than what
he received. “I retired 10
years ago, and in the first
seven of those years, we got
no raises. In my last three
years we got a 1 percent,” he
said. “We got 15 sick days
when I started, which was
seven by the time I retired. I
had 50 days left when I
retired, and I got $10 a day
for them.
“In these days and times,
we have to cut back,”
Schindlein said.
Resident and Realtor
Steve Trefethen defended
the proposed $2.50 cut, saying Councilor Dave Fischer,
who proposed looking at it,
was “spot on.”
“Dave was just responding to citizens’ requests,”
Trefethen said. “We have to
have a goal.”
Flattes argued for changing the Charter and taking
the school budget under
town auspices.
But resident and State
Rep John O’Connor, R-
Derry, said he had been on
the last Charter Commission
and it would be a “huge
effort” to dissolve the Derry
Cooperative School District.
“To solve the problem,
you need more than one
approach,” O’Connor said.
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KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Fire Chief George Klauber has submitted his resignation effective Jan. 31,
2015. He will be retiring
after 11 years with the Derry
Fire Department.
Administrator
Town
Galen Stearns made the
announcement at the Dec.
16 Town Council meeting.
Human Resources Director Larry Budreau said
Klauber joined the Derry
department in July 2003.
Budreau said the town is
looking at a salary range of
between $86,840 and $112,860
for Klauber’s successor. He
said while the details on recruiting are not finalized, sources
will include the New Hampshire Municipal Association
Website, Monster.com, and
websites and list serves commonly frequented by the fire
community.
Council Chair Mark
Osborne praised Klauber for
his professionalism, noting
that Klauber conducts himself in a professional manner
whether he’s making an official appearance as Fire
Chief or just “out and about
the town.”
“We didn’t always agree
on things, in particular
where budgets were concerned,” Osborne said,
adding, “But he can politely
disagree with a person, and
conduct a conversation the
way it should be conducted.
I’ve never seen him take
anything personally.”
Klauber is presently on
vacation and could not be
reached for comment.
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Goodhue Road Request Continued at Safety Committee
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Highway Safety
Committee will postpone a
request to place a sign at the
curve near 91 Goodhue
Road.
Property owner Mark
Bishop asked the committee
to recommend a sign at a
sharp corner near his house,
where he said cars go off the
road and often hit a wall on
his property.
Public Works Superintendent of Operations Alan
Cote noted that the turn
doesn’t look “dramatic” on
paper and guardrails exist.
The problem, Cote said, is
that the road drops as
motorists head east. “People
tend to drift off,” he said,
and there have been a number of minor accidents on
the road, most notably on
the past icy Thanksgiving
morning.
“Two cars went off the
road on Thanksgiving,” Cote
said.
But he added that sign-
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“I could put 20 signs on
Goodhue and it wouldn’t
matter because of the
change in topography,” he
said.
Cote said the problem is
primarily with the eastbound
traffic, which goes around
the corner and over a
“hump” as the road curves
to the left.
Also, he said, the majority of traffic on Goodhue is
local. “I would think they
would be familiar with the
topography,” he said.
The guardrail doesn’t
help, Cote said in response
to a question from member
Donald Burgess. “What
they’re going to do is,
they’re going to crash into
the guardrail,” he said.
The speed limit for the
road is 35 miles per hour,
but that is based on optimum
conditions - it’s clear and
dry, it’s daytime, “and
you’re not talking on your
cell phone,” Cote said. He
said people were expected to
adjust their speed in lessthan-optimum conditions.
Police Chief Ed Garone
observed that the problem
could be inattention from
the drivers.
Cote suggested that
members take a drive out to
Goodhue Road and see for
themselves, and the members agreed to table the item
until they did so.
Lunches
throwing food away, or are
they happy with their choices?”
The district is still having problems with the Federal nutrition guidelines,
Baroskas said. The Federal
guidelines mandate that
each child must take a fruit
or a vegetable, and that
doesn’t always go over well,
she said. “Yesterday I was in
one of our cafeterias and I
saw an apple go into the
garbage,” she said.
Derry is combating the
potential waste by wrapping
the mandatory fruit and
placing a bowl near the
checkout. That way a child
can legally put the fruit on
their tray and dispose of it.
The wrapped fruit is then
available to any other child
in the cafeteria, she said, and
the leftovers from that are
used in the After-School
Program.
The board voted to approve the change, and Simard said it would be instituted in January, after a
campaign to inform parents.
But there’s also bright
news coming from the
kitchen, Baroskas said. The
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
program at Grinnell Elementary School is going
well, allowing children to
try new fruits and veggies
four times a week, subsidized by a Federal grant.
“This year we bought lots of
local tomatoes,” Baroskas
said, and she was able to use
them not only at Grinnell but
across the district.
The new policy of not
allowing a child to have
more than $5 negative balance has also worked out
well, Baroskas said. The district has gone from $12,000
in outstanding school lunch
balances to a little under
$3,000, she said. She’s also
been receiving donations
from the community to help,
and she’s been able to apply
$1,200 to various children’s
balances.
Baroskas thanked her
staff, saying, “My ladies do a
good job with limited resources. They come in every
day with smiles on their
faces, ready to feed the kids.”
Members and advisors of the West Running Brook Middle School National Junior
Honor Society are pictured with the lighted Christmas trees they created to give to
local nursing homes.
Photo by Penny Williams
PENNY WILLIAMS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The West Running Brook
Middle School National Junior
Honor Society made Christmas trees out of Box Elder
boughs to give to local nursing
homes this holiday season.
Advisors Suzanne Carr
and Patti Thomas expressed
pride in the effort put forth
by the students.
Eighth grader April Di-
Domenico, president of the
school’s National Junior
Honor Society (NJHS)
chapter, said they raised the
money for the project by
asking school staff to pledge
money in return for the
NJHS members doing good
deeds for them.
Then, with the help of
the parent of a former student and her sister, they
found the trees.
“A group of members
volunteered to put the trees
together along with them,”
she said. “Blake Leister,
chorus director, and the 6-78 grade chorus recorded a
CD of Christmas songs to go
along with the tree. The
cover for the CD was done
by Olivia Corlis, an eighth
grade student.”
The trees were then
decorated and were delivered to Meals on Wheels
and to local nursing homes.
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charge 10 cents more, and
this year it is mandated to
charge another 10 cents. The
new price comes out to $2.40
for elementary schools and
$2.50 for middle schools.
“We just follow the
directions,” Baroskas said.
There were other options, Baroskas said. One is
having the School District
subsidize the extra 10 cents,
but “that has not typically
been a good idea.”
Member Dan McKenna
noted that other districts,
notably Salem, are leaving
the Federal program altogether.
Baroskas said districts all
around the country are dropping out, but that she wasn’t
sure it was a good idea for
Derry. Also, she said, “I
don’t know what these districts are going to do about
Free and Reduced lunch.”
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Animals Surrendered After Police Called to Derry Home
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Several pets were surrendered by a Derry woman
after police paid a wellbeing call to her home at 4
Scenic Drive on Thursday,
Dec. 18.
Derry Police Capt. Vern
Thomas said police received
a telephone call at 1 p.m.
from a concerned citizen
regarding a “strong odor”
coming from the house.
The caller described the
odor as animal urine and
feces.
Thomas wrote in a press
release, “The responding
officers found a strong odor
and conducted a well-being
check of the people who live
in the home.”
Officers found a woman, her adult daughter and
three minor children at the
home. Upon investigation
by police and Animal Control Officer Marlene Bishop,
it was determined that the
home contained several
dogs and cats as well as a
potbellied pig.
The home was littered
with animal feces and urine
from these animals.
Thomas further wrote,
“The officers determined
that due to the number of
animals being kept at this
home the owner had become
overwhelmed and was unable to clean up after them.
The officers suggested that
she relinquish the animals
for their safety and that of
the family.”
The owner agreed,
Thomas wrote, and the New
Hampshire SPCA (Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals) in Stratham was
contacted to assist.
The NHSPCA removed
five of the dogs, eight of the
cats and the potbellied pig.
The homeowner chose not
to relinquish three dogs and
three cats.
The surrendered animals
were taken to the NHSPCA,
where their health is being
assessed. At the time of the
surrender, no obvious signs
of illness or health concerns
were observed by the investigators.
The three minor children
are staying with relatives
while the homeowner cleans
the house, and, Thomas
wrote, the NHSPCA is
working with the homeowner to determine the disposition of the surrendered animals.
The incident is under
investigation by Derry Police and Animal Control. No
charges are being considered by the police at this
time.
School Board Hears Update on Middle School Libraries
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Librarian Stefania Metalious says students come
into the school library for a
variety of reasons. Some tell
her, “I saw the movie and I
want to get this book.” Others are more vague, asking
for “The book with the eyeball on the cover,” while still
others come in for the traditional reasons. “They need a
pencil,” Metalious said with
a smile.
Serena Levine, Derry
Cooperative School District
Director of Supplemental
Services, and Metalious, the
librarian who serves both
Gilbert H. Hood and West
Running Brook middle
schools, spoke at the Dec.
16 School Board meeting on
what today’s young teens
need from a library and what
they’re able to give. The
presentation was introduced
by Leslie Saucier, principal
of West Running Brook.
Today’s library is more
than books and today’s
librarian more than someone
who “shushes,” Metalious
said. She is developing collections that are matched to
the curriculum, in formats
ranging from short stories to
novels to biography, from
how-to to poetry. She consults often with classroom
teachers on what books they
need to enhance their curriculum, or what books she
already has.
Books are now planned
to fit in with the Common
Core standards, Levine said,
and while there is still plenty of fiction on the shelves
or on the e-readers, there’s a
thrust toward “informational
text.” There are also more
magazines than when she
and her audience were in
school, including “Teen
Ink” for young writers and
“Chop Chop” for would-be
cooks.
Metalious also buys a
number of graphic novels,
which draw students into the
library and into reading, she
said.
The emphasis is on
drawing both eager and
reluctant readers, and Levine said this is done in the
following ways:
• Engaging displays;
• Book talks and “ads;”
• Subject searches;
• Easy and immediate
access to materials;
• Catering to “impulse
shoppers” and
• Constant updates to the
collection.
The middle-school libraries have five subscriptions to databases for on-line
inquiry-led research, Levine
said.
This is crucial, Metalious said, because, “A lot of
what the kids are looking at
for research is so up-to-date,
we don’t even have books on
it.”
There is currently a curriculum focus on government, Metalious said, and
she frequently directs her
patrons to sites such as
nh.gov.
She said she educates
both students and staff on
how to use online resources
and the latest research tools.
Circulation is up, Metalious said, with 5,000 pieces
of material circulated last
year, as opposed to 4,900 the
year before, and she’s projected 7,000 for this year.
“That does not include ebooks or interlibrary loan,”
she said.
Metalious attributed
some of the increased usage
to the fact that last year’s
approved budget included a
second library assistant. As
she splits her time between
the two middle schools, having an assistant at each
school allows them to keep
the libraries open more
hours, and she’s seen an
increase in walk-in traffic.
“They come in after lunch,
they come in after school,”
she said.
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“We are re-cataloguing the
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Next Charter School Students Featured at Exhibition Night
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Callista Lemieux, a Derry resident and second-year
student at the Next Charter
School, gestured to the blue
curtains in her booth at the
school’s winter Exhibition
Night. “The curtains are a
way to hide,” she said.
“When you’re online, you
don’t know who you’re talking to. But kids should be
able to feel safe, not to be
worried that someone may
be coming after them.”
Her school, now in its
second year, is a way for
“kids to feel safe” about who
they are and also to expand
their horizons. They did both
at the Exhibition Night on
Tuesday, Dec. 16, in the
Next quarters at West Running Brook Middle School.
The first-year students
were assigned a presentation
on “Who am I? Why am I
here?” and the second-year
students, a project on Social
Media.
Lemieux said her project
involved several steps. “I
defined social media, first
from dictionary.com, then
writing my own definition,”
she said. “I broke it down
into what other people use it
for, and what sites and apps
are used the most.”
Lemieux drew stick fig-
ures on a tablecloth of children playing outside, noting
that now “they don’t feel
safe in their own yards.” She
also took photos of two
groups of her friends. In one
photo they were all using
their devices and ignoring
each other, while in the second photo, they were chatting.
Another second-year student, Phil Berube of Derry,
researched You Tube because, “I use it a lot. I listen
to music while I do my
work.”
Berube decided to research You Tube, how other
people use it and what it can
be used for. He found many
pieces to the program, from
music to videos to comedy
to education. He used a howto app to help him fix an
ATV (all-terrain vehicle), he
said.
“I didn’t know that it
started with three guys in a
garage,” Berube added.
Each student used a variety of disciplines to express
themselves,
including
posters, an essay, artifacts
and objects, and their own
videos. Then they were
responsible for interacting
with guests and talking about
their interests. Berube said
he liked the approach, noting, “In a traditional school, I
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Ben Hernandez, another
Derry second-year student,
also studied You Tube, but
his topic was how the popular app affects teenagers. He
did a survey of seven classmates, asked them seven
questions, and used the survey results to make his
video, he said.
Joe Crawford and Justin
Krieger, co-directors of the
school, chatted with students
and their parents as visitors
moved from room to room.
Krieger said the Exhibition
Night is a twice-a-year
event, in winter and spring.
The strength of the program, he said, is in allowing
students to interact with “an
authentic audience. They
investigate essential questions and communicate their
findings to an audience.”
In the first-year students’
room, Santino Cerino talked
about who he is and why
he’s at Next. He made a
poster telling some of his
essential beliefs, including
that “holiday figures” like
Santa and the Tooth Fairy are
nonsense and that he’d like
to be involved in time travel.
A yarmulke represented the
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Photo by Kathleen D. Bailey
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and shared that his hobbies
included video games, especially Nintendo.
Cerino said he decided to
go to Next in part because of
its size. “It’s small, and I’m
not very social,” he admitted.
“But the kids here are nice,
the teachers are nice.”
He also likes the educational concepts, which
include mastering competencies. “They are like little
pieces of credits,” Cerino
explained, “and when you
have enough, you get a credit.”
Holly Toto would be a
sophomore in traditional
school but is in her first year
at Next, so she was assigned
to do the “Who am I?” project. She listed her hobbies
and interests as “Animation,
drawing, painting, video production, food and animals.”
Her ambition is to own an
animation studio and have a
wolf hybrid as a pet.
Her beliefs are “Everyone’s smart, nobody’s perfect, nobody lives a perfect
life. There will always be
someone who loves you. It
will get better.” And if you
have a past hurt, “You can
run from it or learn from it.”
Toto loves animals and
birds and brought her two
Green Cheek Conure birds,
Xander and Sage. “Xander
will dance if you bob up and
down. Sage likes to cackle,”
a placard on their cage read.
Toto has wanted to go to
Next since seventh grade,
when Crawford told her about
it. She was the first applicant
on the list but didn’t make the
lottery, so she spent a year at
Pinkerton Academy before
trying again.
Amy Green, first-year
student from Derry, wore her
Kenpo karate uniform with
its first-degree brown belt.
Her artifacts included a basketball and three volumes of
the “Divergent” series, each
of which she read in three
days or less.
“This is awesome,”
Green said of Next. “I like
working at my own pace, in
a small community.”
The compact nature of
Next, in a self-contained
space at the back of West
Running Brook, also appealed to Green, who said, “I
did not want to walk back
and forth on the Pinkerton
campus.”
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South Range Kids Care Club Wins $10,000 in Toys
Care Club, received notice of
the award in an email from
generationOn.
Sachs mentored a Kids
Care Club at Grinnell Elementary School for nine
years before coming to
South Range, where she
started a similar club this
year. It has 30 members.
Sachs entered the Take
the 2014 Joy Maker Challenge, sponsored by Points of
Light’s generationOn. The
challenge, which ran from
NUTFIELD NEWS
Nov. 10 to Dec. 10, was
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intended to connect students
South Range School’s
in Kindergarten through
Kids Care Club is the grand
Grade 12 to meaningful,
prize winner of $10,000 in
hands-on service projects
toys and games, a $1,000
during the holiday season.
grant and a holiday party from
Hasbro donated the toys
Points of Light’s youth service
for the challenge.
enterprise, generationOn.
Sachs said the project the
Kyle Sachs, school libclub entered was the making
rarian and facilitator of the
of fleece blankets by the kids
school’s newly formed Kids
in the club for the Derry
Community Fund. She said
the idea for making the blankets was given to her by a
teacher at Ernest P. Barka
Elementary School. The
South Range club members
also made Christmas cards
to distribute to residents at
Pleasant Valley Nursing
Home.
The $10,000 in toys
arrived at the Derry Salvation Army headquarters
Thursday afternoon, Dec.
Parents of South Range School Kids Care Club stu- 18, and will be split between
dents gathered at the Salvation Army in Derry last the Salvation Army and the
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PENNY WILLIAMS
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Ethics
the issue under deliberation,
as may be known by the
member. Violations may be
subject to the Derry Town
Charter Section 5.6, Removal of Councilors.”
A footnote to be added
defines “conflict” as “any
matter that could result in a
direct/indirect financial,
material, proprietary, real
estate (i.e. property value)
benefit to him/herself, a rel-
ative, business associate, or
any private organization in
which he/she has a personal,
business, legal or political
interest.”
The revision also changes the first sentence of Item
1 from “Council members in
their relations with the community should” to “Council
members in their relations
with the community shall,”
and changes “should” to
“shall” in Item II, Relations
with Town Administrator.
Osborne said the revi-
sions have been reviewed by
Town Administrator Galen
Stearns, Assistant Town Administrator Larry Budreau,
and an attorney at the New
Hampshire Municipal Association.
Stearns reminded Councilors that the revisions
require two readings and
two votes. Last week their
first vote to approve the revisions was 7-0. The second
reading will take place at the
first meeting in January.
Salvation Army Captain Christopher Williams opens boxes of toys the South Range
School Kids Care Club students won from Generation On in the 2014 Joy Maker
Challenge. The club gave the toys to the Salvation Army and the Derry Community
Photos by Penny Williams
Fund for distribution to needy area children.
subsequently distributed to
children for Christmas on
behalf of the South Range
Kids Care Club.
“We started this club
with no funding so this
money is absolutely wonderful,” Sachs said of the $1,000
award. “We will be able to
use it for donations and for
the purchase of materials to
make gifts for other projects.
At the end of school in the
past I have gone grocery
shopping and donated the
purchases to the local food
pantry, and I expect to be
able to do that here, now that
we have money.”
The members of the Kids
Care Club wore “Joy Maker
Challenge” T-shirts at a ceremony announcing their prize
and later in the day as they
packaged gifts.
On the afternoon of Dec.
18, a large room at the Salvation Army headquarters was
filled to overflowing with 4foot-high stacks of gifts
delivered for distribution.
The Kids Care Club members were filling bags with
gifts that the Salvation Army
distributed on Saturday at
Pinkerton Academy as part
of the Salvation Army Angel
Tree Project.
The room was crammed
with the gifts, leaving barely
enough room for parents to
take pictures and the kids to
fill the bags.
Salvation Army Captain
Christopher Williams said he
was absolutely thrilled to
have this wonderful outpouring of gifts to distribute to
kids during the Salvation
Army’s Angel Tree event.
Maryanne Taylor said
that the portion of the gifts
given to the Derry Community Fund would be put in
storage for next year but
would be a wonderful help at
that time.
“We distributed our gifts
this past weekend so we will
save these for next year and
they will make a big difference then. What a wonderful
Christmas gift,” she said.
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Derry Family Left Homeless
in North Main Street Fire
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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An apartment fire Thursday, Dec. 18, left a local
family homeless and sent
one Derry firefighter to
Parkland Medical Center,
where he was treated and
released.
The fire broke out at 5
North Main St., according to
a press release from Battalion Commander Jack Webb.
The 1,774-square-foot balloon frame building is a twostory, two-family rental unit
built in 1900 and was home
to three adults, a child and a
dog on the first floor and one
adult on the second floor.
The fire was called in at
approximately 9:20 a.m. At
the time of the fire two
adults were home asleep in
the first-floor unit. One adult
male woke to the smell of
burning plastic and observed
furniture on fire in the living
room. He and an adult
female evacuated the dwelling and called 911 from a
cell phone, according to
Webb.
Derry Car 1 arrived about 50 seconds after being
dispatched, according to
Webb, and observed heavy
smoke billowing out under
pressure from the rear of the
apartment. One of the residents, wearing only sweatpants and a T-shirt, was
attempting to put out the fire
with a garden hose, Webb
said. The resident stated that
an adult female was still in
the building on the second
floor, and firefighters went
up the exterior stairs to get
her.
There was a delay in
response caused by simultaneous emergency calls in
Derry. While the fire is a
quarter mile from Derry
Central Station, crews from
that station, Derry Engine 1
and Medic 1, responded
from Parkland Medical Center, after having treated and
transported a seriously ill
a d va n c e d - l i f e - s u p p o r t
patient. The next closest
engine, Engine 3, responded
Two lines go into the front door with class A foam at last
week’s house fire at 5 North Main St.
Photo courtesy of Paul McCallum
from English Range Road
and arrived at 9:25 a.m.
Upon arrival, Engines 3
and 1 began an aggressive
interior attack with two hose
lines through the front door,
Webb said. Engine 2
brought hose line to the second floor, and firefighters on
Engine 1 and Medic 1
searched and ventilated the
structure.
The fire was brought
under rapid control, according to Webb, due to Engines
1 and 3 crews being able to
quickly deploy hose and
hand tools to attack the fire
in the first-floor unit. The
second-floor unit had only
minor smoke damage and
the tenant was able to move
back in that afternoon.
The fire was under control at 9:48 a.m.
Derry Firefighter Tom
Porter became ill and was
transported to Parkland
Medical Center. He was
treated for over-exertion and
released.
There were no civilian
injuries or injuries to pets.
Derry Fire Prevention
investigated the fire and
determined that its origin
was an electrical element
connected to a fish tank in
the living room, under a
desk.
The building is assessed
at $150,000 and the damage
estimated at $70,725. The
first-floor unit was deemed
uninhabitable and the contents a total loss.
During the fire Derry
Police provided traffic control and shut down North
Main Street. The Greater
Derry Salvation Army
responded to provide rehabilitation services to the fire
crews and is assisting the
family with toys and gifts
for Christmas. Family support services were provided
by the American Red Cross
and the Human Services
Department for the Town of
Derry.
Mutual aid was provided
by Auburn and Windham,
with a Londonderry engine
added when Porter became
ill. Station coverage was
provided by Manchester,
Chester, Hampstead and
Salem.
The apartment had a
smoke detector but it did not
activate to warn residents of
the fire. Webb reminded residents to check and update
their smoke detectors.
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PA Hockey Wins One, Ties One, Drops One to Start the Season
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
Pinkerton forward Tim Cronin attempts to collect the
puck from out of a corner during his team's seasonopening tie with Salem last week. Cronin assisted on
one of the two PA goals.
Photo by Chris Pantazis
——◆—–––
After playing its first two
official games of the 201415 Division I season last
week, the Pinkerton Academy ice hockey team found
itself still hunting for its first
victory.
Varsity coach Joey Lee’s
icemen had to settle for a
deadlock in Salem in their
first contest of the campaign, and in their second
they wound up on the down
side of a lopsided decision
against the Bedford High
Bulldogs on the road.
The Astros had to be satisfied with a 2-2 tie with the
tough Salem High Blue
Devils in their season-opener at the Salem Icenter
Wednesday, Dec. 17.
The Astros had plenty of
reasons to be pleased that
they only trailed by a 1-0
count after one period had
been completed, because it
could have easily been 3-0
or 4-0, were it not for fine
work in net by goalie
Brendan Murphy.
Pinkerton’s play was
lackluster in the first period,
and the host Blue Devils
dominated the action. But
keeper Murphy - a transfer
from Minnesota prior to the
2013-14 season - made nine
stops to keep his side in the
fray.
Each team enjoyed two
power-plays in the second
period, but the score didn’t
change from 1-0 despite
high-speed action from both
sides.
The academy side finally
got its first goal of the campaign 54 seconds into the
third period when Tyler
Poole ended a great flurry of
pressure on the Salem net by
rifling a shot home. Steve
Leonard and Gio Corsetto
had the assists.
With 11:06 to go in regulation time, Pinkerton was
assessed a five-minute major
penalty for a hit from behind, and their host was
given a chance to snag the
lead again. But the Astros
fought off that long powerplay and snagged a lead of
their own with 5:41 to go
when forward Ryan Monte
scored with assists from Ethan Landry and Tim Cronin.
Salem knotted the score
back up at 2-2 on a man-up
goal with just 1:17 showing
on the game clock, and that
score didn’t change through
the remainder of regulation
time or the overtime stanza.
Goalie Murphy registered 26 saves in the hardfought tie, and Lee was left
happy with about two-thirds
of his team’s regulation-time
performance.
“I liked our performance
in 30 of the 45 minutes. We
played well in the second
and third periods, but the
first period wasn’t representative of what we can do,”
said Lee.
And his team’s ability to
battle its way out of mandown situations - with keeper Murphy taking the lead throughout the game pleased
the coach as well.
“Our best PK guy was
number 35 (Murphy), and
you like to be able to say
that,” said Lee.
But very little went well
for the Astros in their 5-1
loss to Bedford at Saint
Anselm College last Saturday, Dec. 20.
The host Bulldogs led 20 after one period and 5-1
after two periods had been
completed.
Gio Corsetto killed Bedcontinued on page 14
Pinkerton Academy Boys’ Basketball Opens Season with 2-0 Start
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Four Pinkerton Academy
boy basketball players
scored in double figures in
helping to lead their Astro
contingent to a 69-60, season-opening victory over the
visiting Nashua High South
Purple Panthers in Derry last
Friday night, Dec. 19.
Coach Peter Rosinski’s
academy crew won each
quarter save for the fourth,
when the Gate City opponent attempted a comeback
that didn’t ultimately succeed.
The Astros led by a mod-
est count of 17-13 after one
quarter, by a much more
commanding count of 37-24
at the half, and by a 56-42
score rolling into period
number four.
The visiting Purple Panthers outscored their hosts
by an 18-13 tally during
those last eight minutes, but
their comeback work didn’t
wind up winning out in the
end.
The locals had Drew
Green and impressive new
guard Geo Baker-Occeus
each score 11 points, and
Matt Rizzo and David
Faulks each net 10. All in all
the victorious hosts had 10
players reach the score sheet
as a bunch of Astros had a
hand in starting the new
campaign with a win.
The academy males then
pushed their season record
up to 2-0 on Monday
evening with a 74-55 road
trouncing of the Salem High
Blue Devils.
The winning side received 17 points from
Brendan Morris, 11 from
Caleb Godin, and nine
points, 11 assists, and four
steals from Geo BakerOcceus.
The team’s next Division
1 opponent will be Winnacunnet on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
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PA Girl Hoopsters Rout Opponents, Move To 3-1
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
Pinkerton sophomore guard Victoria Overko finds herself surrounded by Merrimack High Lady Tomahawks
during her basketball team's lopsided win over that
opponent in Derry last week. Photo by Chris Pantazis
——◆—–––
Last week, neither the
Merrimack High Lady Tomahawks nor the Nashua
South Lady Purple Panthers
wound up being any sort of
match for a Pinkerton Academy girls’ basketball squad
intent upon fixing the frustrating mistakes it made in
its tough season-opener.
The locals then moved
on to holiday tourney play this past weekend - and did
still more winning.
After being disappointed
in their performance in their
first game of the new campaign the Lady Astros had a
couple of good practices and
aimed to re-set in their homeopener against Merrimack in
Derry Tuesday, Dec. 16.
That contest finished
with the Pinkerton squad
savoring a 77-40 blowout
victory over the 0-2 Lady
Tomahawks, and coach Lani
Buskey had every reason to
wear a grin.
“After the Central game,
we had two practices where
we went back to fundamentals
and tried to understand what
we’d done wrong and tried to
make corrections,” said
Buskey. “The goal was to take
from the Central game the
things that were weaknesses
and make them strengths.”
The hosts played a lackluster first quarter, missing a
number of easy shots and
failing to box out under their
own basket far too much.
When that period was over,
the academy side still held a
14-11 lead, but its advantage
could have been considerably larger.
Pinkerton outscored its
guest 26-14 in the second
period and 22-10 in the third
to carry a commanding, 6235 advantage into the last
eight minutes of play.
PA senior star forward
Val Martin led all scorers
with 13 points at halftime,
but her evening ended early
in the third quarter - without
her having done any more
scoring - when the skilled
veteran turned her left ankle
on a rush up the court. She
remained on the Pinkerton
bench through the remainder
of the game with an ice pack
on that ankle, but according
to the PA training staff the
injury didn’t appear serious.
The Lady Astros capped
off the win by outscoring
Merrimack by a 15-5 tally in
quarter number four, and
junior forward Sara McLeman paced all scorers
with 19 points, senior forward Jaime Caron netted 14,
and Martin contributed her
PA star senior forward Val Martin thinks about her
options during her team’s win over Merrimack in Derry
last week.
Photo by Chris Pantazis
13. But Buskey was particularly happy with the fact that
10 Lady Astros were a part
of the scoring in the lopsided win.
And a lot went well for
the academy crew in its
Friday night, Dec. 20 contest at Nashua South, including having Martin in uniform and effective.
The senior scored 13
more points to help pace
Pinkerton in its 45-23 hammering of its host.
The Lady Astros led 8-5
after one quarter, 26-12 at
the half, and 39-16 in the
final eight minutes of play.
Junior guard Marissa
Stacy led the winning side
with 18 points - including
four, three-pointers - while
Martin contributed her 13 in
a game in which seven Lady
Astros registered points as
the locals moved to 2-1 in
Division I.
The Astros then began
their holiday tournament
involvement Sunday, Dec.
21, by playing the Salem
High Lady Blue Devils at
Merrimack College in North
Andover, Mass.
And everything went
quite well for the locals in a
56-42 defeat of the fellow
New Hampshire opponent.
Val Martin had herself
one bang-up night, scoring a
game-high 22 points.
Marissa Stacy sank three
treys and finished with those
nine points, and Sara McLeman was also good for
nine points.
The academy girls led
12-8 after one quarter, 25-14
at the half, and 34-28 after
three periods before closing
out the win by outscoring
their opponent by a 21-13
margin in the fourth quarter.
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Pinkerton Boy Tracksters Focus In on Title Four-Peat
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
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If it’s able to perform up
to its considerable capabilities, the Pinkerton Academy
boys’ indoor track team can
win a fourth consecutive
Division I championship
this winter.
The three-time defending champs posted a 35-1
meet record on the way to a
third straight crown last winter, and although the Astros
lost some talent to graduation there’s plenty still in
uniform on the team.
“The distance team has
the opportunity to score a
huge number of points, and
that makes the team really
strong,” said coach Ian
French. “They will need to
perform up to expectations
for the team to win. Another
key to winning will be picking the right four events for
T.J. Urbanik to compete in.
He could qualify and possibly place in the 55-meter
dash, the 55 hurdles, the
300, the high jump, the long
jump, and the shot put, and
he’d like to be on our 4x200
team.”
The PA leader added,
“The team has been successful the last three years
because of balance and scoring in virtually every event.
If we do that again, we will
have a strong chance to
make it four in a row.”
Among the Astros’ stalwarts are distance men Tom
Hanlon, Nick Sevilla, Nick
Pietrocarlo, Matt Robinson,
Austin Smith, Owen Clark,
Noah Davis, Nate Rees,
Nick White, and transfer
student Jeff Reddy, who was
one of the top cross-country
runners in the state of
Massachusetts at Methuen
High School this fall.
Ryan Lynch and Sam
Lanternier will look to get
some work done in middle
distance events, with junior
stalwart Urbanik, Nico
Buccieri, and freshman
Kaycee Shibbert aiming to
tally points in the 300.
Sophomore Buccieri and
a group of talented freshmen
will be aiming for successes
in the 55-dash, with Urbanik
poised to be a mover and
shaker in the 55 hurdles.
In the field events,
Urbanik, Colin Coutts, and
Eric Goulet will be young
men to watch in the high
jump, with football star
Urbanik also looking to lead
the Astros in the long jump
and the shot.
“I think we have the team
to beat this season because
of a strong balance across
the events,” said French.
“Londonderry is a team to
watch as Starlin Ortiz is a
one-man wrecking crew. He
could score 30 points by
himself. If they can find
some guys to back him up in
a few events they can definitely be competitive.”
The coach also sees
Nashua North and Bedford
as contingents to watch this
season.
The Pinkerton boys traveled to the University of
New Hampshire’s Sweet
Oval in Durham Sunday
night, Dec. 21, for their first
meet of the season, and they
Veterans Hope to Have Lady Astros’ Track in the Mix
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Battle-tested Pinkerton
Academy indoor track and
field veterans like Aeriela
Thornton, Kayla Watson,
Morgan Sansing, and Ariel
Vaillancourt are familiar
with what it’s like to deal
with the pressure of a big
meet. And veterans like
them sit right at the center of
the Lady Astros’ 2014-15
hopes this winter.
Seniors Thornton (sprints)
and Watson (throws) and
junior distance stars Sansing
and Vaillancourt - who are
both coming off of an excellent cross-country season are coach Rebecca Noe’s
biggest standouts as the
squad steps into the new
campaign.
Other returnees include
seniors Kaila Cote (distances), Sophie Rouge
(throws), and Olivia Tracy
(distances) and sophomore
Bela Fast (sprints).
When asked what her
team’s keys to success will
be this winter, Noe responded, “The girls coming in
ready to work hard and build
a family helps the season
start off right. I think starting
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Other Pinkerton wins
were delivered by Morgan
Sansing in the 1500 (4:56.90)
and Kayla Watson in the
shot (30 feet, 2 1/2 inches).
“The girls are ready for
the season and fired up to
keep improving and performing well,” said Noe.
“Overall, we’re happy with
our first UNH meet of the
season, and we look forward
to seeing what we are able to
do at Dartmouth next week.”
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White meet gets them in the
spirit of the season and helps
new people understand that
this very individual sport
can be better with positive
team atmosphere.”
And the Lady Astros
won their season-opening
meet at the University of
New Hampshire in Durham
this past Sunday night, tallying 61 points to outdistance
six other teams, including
the runner-up Londonderry
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came away with a huge victory by scoring 101 points.
The Londonderry High
Lancers wound up a distant
second with just 54.5.
PA points were registered in virtually every
event, with wins coming
from Jeff Reddy in the 3000meter run, Austin Smith in
the 1500-meter run, Kaycee
Scheibert in the 55 dash, and
Nate Rees in the 1000-meter
run.
“We look to have a lot of
potential point-scorers, with
seven guys already qualifying for the state meet,” said
the proud coach. “The team
will look to keep the season
on the right track next week
at Dartmouth.”
Athlete of the Week
Week of Dec. 15
Kayla Watson, Senior,
Girls’ Indoor Track
This battle-tested veteran
earned a spot in the division
championship meet in her
first regular season meet of
the year. She threw the shot
put 30 feet, 2 1/2 inches to
qualify right away.
Nathan Rees, Senior,
Boys’ Indoor Track
This skilled 12th grader
helped his Astros to an
impressive first meet victory, taking home first place in
the 1000-meter run at the
University of New Hampshire.
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Pinkerton Wrestlers Get New Season Started in Fine Style
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Coach Dave Rhoads
wound up with plenty of
reasons to be pleased with
and proud of his Pinkerton
Academy wrestling squad as
the 2014-15 season got started recently. And the Astro
grapplers were right on top
of their game in competition
last week.
The academy guys rolled
over a Nashua opponent in a
two-team meet and then put
forth a strong effort in a 20team tournament in Hollis.
The Astros bumped their
dual-meet record up to a
perfect 2-0 Wednesday, Dec.
17, with a convincing 55-24
road win at Nashua High
School South.
Individual victories were
snared by Derek Wilson at
106 pounds (on a pin 2:23
in), Keygan Nacos in the
113-pound bout (12-2 major
decision), Shayne McCann
at 120 pounds (pin 18 seconds in), Eric Daigle in the
126 class (6-4 decision),
152-pound grappler John
Butler (by forfeit), 160pounder Zach Lombard (by
forfeit), Tyler Wilson at 170
pounds (pin at 1:35),
Christian Sullivan in the 182
class (pin at 1:35), Dylan
Barreiro in the 195 division
(pin at 3:43), and Jacob
Weishaar in the 220 bout
(forfeit).
And at the 20-team
Nor’Easter Invitational at
Hollis-Brookline High Saturday, Dec. 20, Rhodes’ roster finished a strong fourth
overall with a team tally of
127.50, behind victorious
Hollis-Brookline (153), Bedford (150.50), and Windham
(141).
Weight class titles - and
Bowling Squad Finishes Fourth in Merrimack
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The Pinkerton Academy
bowling team had a rough
day at Merrimack Ten Pin
last Saturday, Dec. 20, finishing fourth out of four
competing teams.
The Astros met Bishop
Guertin of Nashua, Laconia,
and Spaulding of Rochester
at the Merrimack venue and
wound up claiming just one
point for the day by finishing at the bottom of that
competitive grouping.
“We had a tough time
converting the spares, and
the strikes were hard to hit,”
lamented PA coach Janet
Boyden.
The Astros rolled a twogame standard total of
1,711, making them the top
seed for Baker-round play in
starting the day well.
Jordan Caux bowled a 170
and 138, Whitney Leyland
had a 130 and a 155, David
Pierson rolled a 163 and a 180,
Keenan Nash snared a 170
and a 180, and senior standout
Raina Stobbs shot a 198 and
the high individual game for
the meet with a 227 game.
Austin Caux contributed
games of 152 and 149.
In round one of the
Baker match, the Astros was
defeated by fourth-seeded
Laconia in two games, losing the first 176-148 and the
second 201-181.
Second-seeded Spaulding then faced third-ranked
Bishop Guertin and was
defeated in two games, 157130 and 192-169.
The Astros next competed against BG for third place
in round two but lost in two
games by tallies of 197-164
and 177-148.
The winning team from
Laconia then defeated
Spaulding’s Red Raiders by
game scores of 167-141 and Pinkerton goalie Brendan Murphy was a true standout
157-132 to claim top honors for his team in its season-opening, 2-2 tie with Salem
last week. Photo by Chris Pantazis
for the day.
undefeated records - were
collected by Shayne McCann at 113 pounds, Tyler
Wilson in the 160-pound
division, and Dylan Barreiro
at 195 pounds.
PA also had Derek Wilson snare a third place in his
106-pound class and Eric
Daigle finish fourth in the
126 -pound class.
Hockey
ford’s shutout hopes with
6:03 left in the middle stanza after having been set up
by Leonard to make it a 4-1
contest at that juncture.
Pinkerton goalie Murphy
turned aside 22 Bedford
shots in the decisive defeat.
But game number three
was the charm for the academy icemen, who bagged
their first victory of the
young season in a 4-0 blanking of the visiting Saint
Thomas Aquinas Saints at
the Ice Den in Hooksett this
past Monday night.
West Running Brook
Names Volunteer of Year
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Laura Desjardin gets as
much out of volunteering as
she gives.
The mother of three was
honored Tuesday, Dec. 16,
as West Running Brook
Middle School’s “Volunteer
of the Year.”
West Running Brook
Principal Leslie Saucier
introduced Desjardin to the
School Board and said she is
in her ninth year of volunteering. She’s had two sons
go through the school, one
now in high school and one
in college, and her daughter,
in eighth grade, will leave
the school this year.
“We call her our ‘stealth
volunteer,’” Saucier said.
“She comes in, does what
she has to do and goes.”
Desjardin has worked on
several projects for the
school and is currently
involved in program design,
Saucier said, noting, “She’s
doing the program for our
band concert and she’ll be
doing the program for ‘The
Little Mermaid,’ our upcoming theater production.
“I can’t say enough
about Laura and her beautiful children,” Saucier said.
After Superintendent
Laura Nelson presented her
with a certificate of appreciation, Desjardin said the
pleasure was all hers.
“The reason why I volunteer is the school and the
teachers,” Desjardin said. “I
really enjoy what I do here it gives me a sense of
accomplishment.”
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Dietitian Offers Tips on Common-Sense Holiday Eating
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Corinne Chaar, a dietitian with Parkland Medical
Center, looked at the food
chart projected on the wall
from her laptop. “I would
have a hard time substituting
for pecan pie with a piece of
melon,” she said thoughtfully. “How about pumpkin
pie? That’s better for you
calorie-wise.”
Chaar and her University
of New Hampshire intern
Dina Wilford brought their
common-sense approach to
holiday eating to the Marion
Gerrish Community Center
last week as part of Parkland’s Healthy Aging lecture
series. While Thanksgiving
is a bloated memory for
most of us, the Christmasto-New-Year’s stretch still
involves a fair amount of
feasting and a fair number of
chances to fall off the
dietary wagon. Chaar and
Wilford reminded their
audience to plan ahead, set
realistic goals, and keep
moving.
Chaar asked her audience, “How can we not gain
weight over the holidays?”
“By locking myself in
my room,” one senior woman wisecracked.
But that’s not a good
solution, Chaar cautioned.
“Your goal is to stay social,
but not overeat.
“A buffet, either commercial or the family
potluck, is dangerous territory,” Chaar said. “You’ve got
everything, soup to nuts.
What are you thinking
about?”
“I go to the veggie tray,”
one woman said.
Chaar developed her
strategies through experience. “I would go to a buffet,
start at one end, go to the
other - I was trying everything,” she said. “Now I look
it over and decide, ‘How far
off the mark do I want to
be?’”
She advised the seniors
to keep active. “The more
calories you burn, the better
your metabolic rate,” she
said. “What are some kinds
of exercises you do?”
“Lifting grocery bags,”
one woman said jokingly.
But others said they
walked, did Tai Chi or the
Bone Builders program.
One of the tools Chaar
uses with diabetics and other
clients is the My Plate concept of meal planning,
which works for dinners out,
parties, buffets and home.
“You fill half your plate with
fruits and vegetables, or just
vegetables if you’re diabetic,” she said. “A quarter is
grains, a quarter is protein.
Don’t forget the protein, it
curbs your appetite. And
include dairy products —
they’re good for bones.”
Chaar debunked a few
myths, including one that
“regular” soda is better for
you than diet. “There are 40
grams of carbohydrates in
one cup of ‘real’ soda, and
it’s pure sugar,” she said.
“That’s all the carbs you
should have for a whole
meal.”
And are eggs the enemy?
Not necessarily, Chaar said.
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When she counsels people
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never seen anyone get in
trouble just over eggs,” she
said. “Usually there are
other factors, such as red
meat and fried food.”
Wilford presented a concept called “mindful eating,”
in which “you slow down,
and give your body time to
realize, ‘I’m full!’”
Many people enjoy the
spirit of the holidays with
spirits, and those aren’t offlimits, Chaar said. Light
beer has on the average onethird fewer calories than
“regular” beer, and 4 ounces
of wine is 80 calories, compared with the 215 in a
“wine cooler.”
“What about Bloody
Marys?” one woman asked.
“She uses V-8, so there’s
no sodium,” a friend contributed.
Sodium is a good area to
cut back on, Wilford said. “I
had to take a culinary course
as part of my program, and
the professor marked me
down because I actually
wasn’t using enough salt,”
she said with a smile.
Chaar went over a few
menu makeovers, including
one for breakfast. One
option, with 3 ounces of
juice, toast and butter, eggs
cooked in butter, and coffee
with cream, clocked in at
655 calories, while one with
a small fruit salad, toast and
peanut butter, and coffee or
tea with low-fat milk racked
up 300 calories. It’s all about
choices and substitutions,
she said, and there are Web
sites available to help.
Chaar added that they
don’t need to forego their
traditional Christmas or
New Year’s treats. Most
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NUTFIELD NEWS
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struggle with just the ordinary things of life, finding
ways to make sure their children have a happy Christmas
can be stressful. Recognizing this, a cardiology nurse
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Jill Lacaillade contacted
Maryanne Taylor, a Derry
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said. A cup of traditional
eggnog is 340 calories, but a
cup of “light” eggnog is
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She urged her guests to
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It’s hard to know when
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all of the proceeds went
toward purchasing coats for
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“We also decided to have
a holiday bake sale,” she
added. “Employees from
our EAG group as well as
the cardiology department
baked goodies for people to
purchase prior to Thanksgiving. Through both of our
fundraising efforts we raised
over $400 and were able to
purchase 44 coats to be distributed by the school social
workers.”
Taylor said 32 coats have
already been given to first
grade and kindergarten students. She said that Lacaillade told her that when they
were collecting the money
for the project one individual provided a very large
donation that Lacaillade
knew she couldn’t afford.
“When asked why she
had done that the lady said
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Thursday, Dec. 25. Friday and
Saturday, Dec. 26-27, 7:30
Derry Transfer Station a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Closed
hours of operations during the Sunday, Dec. 28. Wednesday,
holiday season are: Closed Dec. 31, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Closed Jan. 1. Friday, Jan. 2,
7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For further information, call Joan
Cornetta, recycling coordinator, at 432-4650.
Transfer Station
Reflections Exhibit
Derry schools are participating in the New Hampshire Parent Teacher Association’s Reflections program, with students expressing what the theme “The
World Would Be A Better
Place If...” means to them in
visual arts, photography,
music composition, literature, film production, or
dance. Student work from
Ernest P. Barka, Derry Village, and East Derry Memorial elementary schools is
on display at The Coffee
Factory in Hood Commons
now through Jan. 7. Top
scoring entries from each
school will advance to the
state level.
Taylor Story Hour
Taylor Library Story
Hour registration for a sixweek session starting Jan.
12, 2015 is now open. Call
The youngsters in the Grinnell Elementary
Taylor Library at 432-7186
School Greater Derry Extended Day Care earned 127 stars for good behavior and
to register, as space is limitgood sportsmanship during a campaign that emphasized positivity, according to
ed. Sessions are: Tiny Tots,
coordinator Terry Callihan. The stars were turned into cash, and toys and gifts were
Mondays or Fridays at 10
bought for the group to donate to the Derry Community Fund. The class is pictured
a.m. for ages 6 months to 2
with their adult helpers, Callihan and Maryanne Taylor, representing the Derry
years, and Story Hour and
Community Fund.
Photo by Penny Williams
Crafts on Wednesdays at 10
a.m. and 1 p.m., with stories
to register, as space is limit- Office at 18 South Main St. or newest items, plus a reasonand a theme-based craft.
ed.
at www.sau10.org. The dead- able number of older items.
Taylor LEGO Club
line for applications is Jan. 12, Donations of good condiFacilities Committee
tion, modern clothing may
2015.
The Taylor Library
The
Derry
Cooperative
be placed in a donations bin
LEGO Club starts Tuesday,
Free Clothing
Board
is
seeking
Derry
School
by the door at any time.
Jan. 13, from 3:30 to 4:30
residents
interested
in
serving
Renew
gently
used
Summer clothing is not curp.m. and runs for six weeks.
Call Taylor Library at 432- on a Facilities Committee. clothing giveaway takes rently accepted. No mone7186 to register, as space is Committee members will ana- place Jan. 10 from 8 to tary donations are accepted
lyze data from the Facilities 10:30 a.m. at Calvary Bible in return for clothing. For
limited.
Study completed in October Church, 145 Hampstead details, find “Renew Derry”
Minecraft
and develop a plan for best use Road, Derry. Enter at the on Facebook, email renewA Minecraft group meets of district buildings. Ap- church marquee sign; Re- clothing@yahoo.com, or
monthly at the Taylor plications are available at the new is at right. Each house- call the church secretary at
Library, and starts Jan. 15, Superintendent of Schools hold is limited to 20 of the 434-1516.
2015 from 4 to 5 p.m. Call
Taylor Library at 432-7186
Good Citizens
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New Years Eve Events Dec. 31 at the Radisson Hotel in
Manchester: gala, comedians, or hypnotist! Gala features
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Comedy Show: Ira Proctor (Comedy Central, Comcast
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Meetings Set on Next
Charter School Location
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Derry School Board
has released its schedule for
the High School Committee
to meet with citizens about
the future location of Next
Charter School.
The committee will hold
public meetings Thursday,
Jan. 15, at 7 p.m.; Thursday,
Jan. 22, at 6 p.m.; and Monday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m., all at
West Running Brook Middle School. A public forum
in which they discuss their
findings will be held Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. at
West Running Brook.
The committee is seeking public input after several
residents criticized the decision to move Next from
Gilbert H. Hood Middle
School to its current quarters
in West Running Brook.
For more information,
call the district at 432-1210.
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Homeless Man Arrested
for Vandalism, Threatening
A man who gave his
address as homeless was
arrested Dec. 10 and
charged with two counts of
criminal mischief/vandalism
and one count of criminal
threatening/Intimidation.
Stephen Ferge, 21, no
known address, was arrested
after police responded to a
reported domestic dispute at
his mother’s home at 36
South Ave.
“We located Mr. Ferge
and he attempted to leave
the area on foot,” Derry
Police Capt. Vern Thomas
said. Thomas said Ferge’s
mother alleges that he damaged several items, including a kitchen chair he
allegedly threw across the
room and broke a glass plate
that he allegedly smashed.
“She further alleges that
he threatened to kill her,”
Thomas said.
Bail was set at $2,500
cash. Ferge was taken to the
Rockingham County House
of Correction, from which he
was arraigned the next day.
Protective Order Violation
Leads to Arrest
A Derry man was arrested Dec. 13 and charged with
20 counts of violation of a
protective order.
John L. Witherbee, 43,
of 10 Daniel Road was
arrested after a woman
reported to Derry police that
a man was pounding on her
door, according to Derry
Police Capt. Vern Thomas.
Thomas said the woman had
a protective order against
Witherbee.
“We verified that, and
she reported he had been
calling her on her cell
phone,” Tomas said. “Over
the last two days, she alleges
he called her 16 times and
left multiple messages.”
No bail was set and
Witherbee was taken to the
Rockingham County House
of Correction, from which
he was arraigned by video
the next day.
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Naked Man Arrested for
Drugs
said, officers noticed a white
powdered substance on the
kitchen table, consistent
with the appearance of heroin, and a ball of what
appeared to be a green leafy
substance consistent with
the odor and appearance of
marijuana.
He was taken into protective custody for the alcohol impairment and received
a summons and a court date
of Jan. 15, 2015.
possession of a controlled
drug.
Michael Hargreaves, 54,
of 3 Silvestri Circle #5,
Derry, was arrested after
police were called to
Silvestri Drive at 7:23 a.m.
on the report of a naked man
in front of an apartment window, Derry Police Capt.
Vern Thomas said.
Thomas said, “We made Derry Man Charged with
Assault
contact at his door and he
A Derry man was arrestappeared to be impaired by
alcohol.” While speaking ed Dec. 17 and charged with
with Hargreaves, Thomas simple assault.
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Barka First Graders Climb
Aboard the Polar Express
First graders at Ernest P. Barka Elementary School were treated to a fun ride aboard the Polar Express
last week, as former Derry Cooperative School District Superintendent John Moody paid a visit to the
school for the 10th year in a row to play the part of the Conductor on the Polar Express. Students and teachers, decked out in their pajamas, paraded through the school, led by the conductor, and enjoyed hot chocolate in the library while the story was read to them by Moody. Photos by Chris Paul
Crime Briefs ––––
Jason Elliott Doughy,
43, of 6A Mary Jo Lane was
arrested after he came in to
the Police Station to report
an alleged domestic violence assault, according to
Thomas. Doughty alleged
that his wife scratched him
on the arm. His wife alleged
that he pushed her and
caused injury to her leg. She
received treatment for the
leg injury at Parkland
Medical Center.
Doughty was arrested
and bail set at $1,000 personal recognizance. His
court date is Jan. 15, 2015.
Teen Faces Drug Charge
possession of a controlled
drug.
Michael Morse, 19, of 4
Maple St. #5, Derry, was
arrested after police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle at Aladdin
Circle, according to Derry
Police Capt. Vern Thomas.
Thomas said the vehicle
was parked at the edge of
the circle and no one was
moving. “We made contact,
and the investigating officer
identified an odor consistent
with that of burning marijuana,” Thomas said. A
search of Morse produced a
small quantity of a green
leafy substance consistent
with the odor and appear-
that her car had been damaged by her former boyfriend,” Derry Police Capt.
Vern Thomas said. “He is
alleged to have punched the
windshield and smashed it.”
Domestic Dispute
Leads to Arrest
personal recognizance, with
A Derry man was arrest- a court date of Jan. 15, 2015.
ed Dec. 19 and charged with
criminal mischief/vandal- Man Faces Two Counts of
Assault
ism.
A Derry man was arrestBrandon Doane, 23, of 16
Abbott St. was arrested after ed Dec. 21 and charged with
police were called to a two counts of simple assault.
Kenneth Robinson Jr.,
domestic dispute at that
address. “A female reported 30, of 9 Hoodkroft Drive
ance of marijuana in a plastic bag, Thomas said.
Morse was released on a
summons, with a court date
of Jan. 22, 2015.
was arrested after a woman
came to the Police Station
and reported an alleged
assault by Robinson, whom
she identified as her boyfriend. The woman alleges
that Robinson pushed her
off the bed and punched her
in the face.
“We located Mr. Robinson and spoke to him, after
which he was arrested,”
Thomas said.
personal recognizance, with
a court date of Jan. 15, 2015.
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