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March 6, 2014
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Volume 15 – Issue 10
A FREE Weekly Publication
Town Manager Orders Spending
Freeze Effective on March 4
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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own Manager Kevin
Smith has ordered a
spending freeze.
He told the Town
Council at its Monday,
March 3 meeting that not
much has changed with
regard to the snow removal or other budgets as
of Feb. 28.
“We’re up higher than
we should be and we’re
up higher than we were in
FY 13, so effective March
4, I’ve instituted a spending freeze for all non-
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essential items across all
departments, and we will
be looking at that every
month to see where we’re
at,” Smith said. “If it turns
out at the end of March or
the end of April we’re
back where we should be,
then we’ll lift the freeze at
that time. I think it’s the
prudent thing to do right
now.”
Smith said that “just
looking again at some of
the areas where we saw
the overages in the snow
removal, Public Works
budget, the firefighter
overtime and the legal
department, not much
has changed.”
He said some accounting adjustments were
made within the Public
Works department that
caused a slight increase,
with that budget running
about 10 percent higher
than in FY 13. “We’re
about 68 percent right
now,” he said.
He said the Fire department overtime line
was at $739,945, or about
$15,000 over what was
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Voters Urged to Polls for School
and Town Elections March 11
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
“Absentee ballots are
————––––––————–◆ for residents that will be
he Londonderry High out of town or who are
School Gymnasium traveling, residents who
is the place for vot- can’t get to the polling
ers to cast their ballots on place due to disability,
Tuesday, March 11, from 7 residents who work out of
a.m. to 8 p.m. to make town and won’t be home
their choice known for until after the polls close,
Governor Maggie Hassan visited the Coca-Cola of
both contested and non- and for religious obserNorthern New England facility in Londonderry last week, with General Mancontested races and a vance, if the election is
ager Rick Neal guiding her through the complete process at the bottling comvariety of warrant arti- being held on a day when
pany. See story on page 2.
Photo by Chris Paul
cles.
for religious reasons the
Town Clerk Kathleen resident can’t come to the
Donnelly said absentee polls,” Donnelly said.
ballot requests can be
She said residents can
obtained from the town go to the Town Clerk’s
web site at www.london- office and fill out the
derrynh.org or at the request and vote at the
JAY HOBSON
the SAU’s Interim Superin- Moody said. “Mr. Corey will town offices at 268B Mam- office; the Town Clerk will
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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receive a three-year con- moth Road.
hold that ballot until ElecCorey’s appointment tract with a starting salary
ndrew Corey, Assistant Superintendent is effective July 1.
of $130,000.”
“Following weeks of
of the Londonderry
Moody said the SAU 41
School District, has been work by the Superinten- Governing Board was
named the new Superin- dent Search Committee, Mr. impressed with Corey’s
tendent of Schools of Corey was one of the final- credentials, his extensive
School Administrative Unit ists forwarded to the SAU work on curriculum and
(SAU) 41, the Hollis- Governing Board for initial assessment, and his
See pages 21-22
Brookline school district, interview, site visit, public involvement with a comcontinued on page 5
according to John Moody, forum and final interview,”
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Facility Tour
Londonderry Assistant Superintendent
of Schools Takes Hollis-Brookline Post
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Sample Town Ballot
For March 11 Election
tion Day, when the moderator will open and tally all
absentee ballots. “Or they
can take the ballot home
and mail it in,” Donnelly
said.
Donnelly said the town
has 15,944 registered voters. Residents can register to vote until 10 days
prior to the election. In
addition, New Hampshire
has same day registration, meaning residents
can register to vote at the
polling place on the day
of the election. A photo
ID, proof of citizenship,
and proof of residency are
continued on page 8
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M ARCH 6, 2014
Governor Visits Londonderry Coca-Cola Bottling Plant
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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overnor Maggie Hassan recently visited
the Coca-Cola of
Northern New England
(CCNNE) bottling plant
just off exit 5 of Interstate
93 in support of the company’s efforts at innovation and sustainable energy use.
At her Wednesday,
Feb. 26 visit, Hassan said,
“One of our focuses has
been not only how can we
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attract businesses to the
state but how businesses
can be innovative and
responsive. There is so
much innovation going on
in New Hampshire, and
one of the things I’m looking forward to hearing is
your sustainability energy
efforts because it is such
a huge issue.”
The Governor, a Democrat, said she was interested in “how to get more
gas capacity up here, how
do we diversify our ener-
gy portfolio, which should
help bring prices down not tomorrow, but we are
working on it as hard as
we can.”
CCNNE Director of
Capabilities Mike Elmer
said the company is separate from Coca-Cola itself
and employs over 525
persons in New Hampshire, with 470 full-time
equivalents and the rest
part time and seasonal.
He said the average salary
is $54,000 a year.
“Our payroll is about
$30 million and we have
4,800 customers such as
Market Basket in seven
states,” he said.
When Hassan asked
about whether the company has difficulty finding
the skilled workers it
requires, General Manager Rick Neal said, “I think
our wages are in a place
where they attract strong
candidates.”
“I was talking to the
National Governors Association and a gentleman
was talking about needing
a talented workforce and I
Coca-Cola of Northern New England Director of Capabilities Mike Elmer, right,
gives Governor Maggie Hassan a presentation on the company’s operations.
said, ‘guys, we settled the
state out of granite, we
have the most talented
workforce anywhere in
the country,’” Hassan
joked.
Sustainability Director
Ray Dube said recycling is
the “right thing to do. We
were sustainable before
people realized what sustainability was. It was just
the culture of the company for us (and) started
back in the ‘70s.”
In a short video on
recycling shown to Hassan, CCNNE president
Mark Francoeur said sustainability is one of the
company’s top priorities.
“Ninety-two percent of
everything is recycled,”
Francoeur said.
“It’s about saving water,
saving energy. Right now
we’re recycling everything from bottles to aluminum to stretch film,”
Neal said.
Hassan asked how recycling could be encouraged more, and Dube
responded, “Education is
the key.”
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Senior Center St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon On Sunday
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
Governor Maggie Hassan gets an extensive tour
of the Coca-Cola of Northern New England facility
in Londonderry last week by General Manager
Rick Neal. Photos by Chris Paul
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own Manager Kevin
Smith will be singing songs “in the
best Irish brogue that I
can provide” at the Londonderry Senior Center’s
St. Patrick’s Day luncheon
at noon Sunday at the
Senior Center.
Councilor Joe Green
said that he had heard
that Smith was “quite the
singer.”
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“Come Sunday and
find out in person. Tickets
are going fast so you can
call the senior center and
reserve your spot,” Smith
said.
Smith added that the
Town Annual Report is
now available for pick up
at Town Hall and the
Leach Library. It will also
be available at the polls
on Election Day, March 11.
In other business at
Monday’s Town Council
George
meeting:
• The Council reappointed Sherry Farrell to
the Elder Affairs Committee, with her husband,
Council Chairman John
Farrell, recusing himself
for the vote; appointed
Bonnie Ritvo to full voting
member on the Elder
Affairs Committee; and
appointed David Paquette
to the Zoning Board of
Adjustment.
Farrell thanked Pa-
q uette for volunteering
for the ZBA, which has
been short staffed for
quite a while.
“We need two or three
more like you,” Councilor
Joe Green said.
• The following Boy
Scouts led the Pledge of
Allegiance at the meeting: James Buttafuoco,
Troop 521; Jack Kelly,
Troop 521; Ryan Leo,
Troop 521; and Matt
Michaud, Troop 426.
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Airsoft ‘War’ Fundraiser Proposal Seeks Use of Musquash
JAY HOBSON
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articipants in Destination Imagination
(DI), an organization
that focuses on critical
thinking skills, teamwork
and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math), want to use the
Musquash conservation
area for an Airsoft “war”
fundraiser, and approached the Conservation Commission with their plans.
“DI taught me how to
be a creative problem
solver in my everyday
life,” Megan Maher, 13,
told the Conservation
Commission at its Tuesday, Feb. 25 meeting. “DI’s
main goal is to create
tomorrow’s leaders and
innovators.”
She said her group has
chosen a project called
“Aiming For A Cure” to
“raise money for cancer
awareness.” The group
wants to use the Musquash on April 12 and in-
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vite people to participate
in the Airsoft war. They
plan to charge $5 to play
and will rent eye protection and Airsoft guns.
Trevor Melanson, 14,
said the pellets used in
the game are BB sized and
are biodegradable, although he said he did not
know what they are made
of. He said that after the
event, the group would
police the area for any
trash. They hope to use
an area the size of the
Musquash Landing.
“We think 30 to 50 people will show up so we
only need a small area,
and the area will marked
off by tape so people will
know the Airsoft war is
happening,” Maher said.
The event is expected to
last about two hours.
Commissioner Paul
Nickerson asked what age
group would be participating and Maher said it
would be open to ages 12
and up.
Melanson said the
area behind the schools
was suggested but because the event involves
air guns, he did not think
school property would be
an option.
Commissioner Marge
Badois asked long it takes
for the pellets to break
down. Melanson said he
would research that and
get back to her.
Commissioner Eugene
Harrington noted that
there is more than one
access point to the
Musquash and those
would have to be monitored so people wouldn’t
stray into the “war” area.
He suggested using
the Town Forest instead,
saying it is less openended than the Musquash
and much easier to control. “The Town Forest is
much more delineated
and much easier to control where your warriors,
if you want to call them
that, stay within where
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you want to confine the
game, so you don’t get
innocent bystanders wandering in,” he said.
Harrington also noted
there would be more
parking at the Town Forest as compared to the
Musquash.
Commissioner Mike
Speltz asked about liability. “If somebody gets
hurt, how do you avoid
being liable, and if it’s on
town land, how do we
avoid liability? You may
have to check with town
staff,” Speltz said.
Maher said they were
planning on putting out
fliers noting trip hazards
in the woods.
Harrington said the
Town Forest was a much
more logical place for the
event.
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Police Seek Name for K9
Training Mannequin
ondonderry Police
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Perry and his dog,
Mingo, have received a
gift from the Crossroads
Animal
Hospital
on
Nashua Road of a mannequin that will aid officers in training on how to
give first aid to Mingo,
should the need arise.
The training man-
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nequin does not have a
name, and a contest has
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what they think would be
a good name for the mannequin.
“Please help us give
him a name so we can
train our officers how to
help our K9, Mingo, if he
gets hurt,” Perry said. A
name will be chosen
from entries received by
April 4.
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“You might want to go
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what you think, and
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Letters
Editorial
Make It More Than a Slogan
Londonderry Supervisor of the
Checklist Geraldine “Gerry” Van
Grevenhof wants people to come out
and vote March 11.
“The elections affect everybody
within the town,” Van Grevenhof
said. “The money that’s being spent
is their tax money and they should
have a say in it.”
Next door in Derry, Town Moderator Margaret Ives gives her annual
plea for voter turnout. “We have the
right to vote and we need to exercise
it,” Ives said. “This is our town. And
town elections matter.”
Derry Supervisor of the Checklist
Lorraine Routhier, who has been
working at the polls since 1952,
added, “We are fortunate to be able
to vote the way we do. It is an
honor.”
Well, it’s not an honor or a right
or a chance to have a say if you stay
home and don’t exercise it. And
while staying home is easy, taking
the time to cast an informed vote is
what a democratic country expects
of its citizens.
We let ourselves and everyone
else down when we ignore the election, then we find ourselves taxed
out of our homes and represented by
people who embarrass or upset us –
think the Derry Town Council - all
because we didn’t make the effort to
vote.
People take to the streets and literally risk death to demand free elections and the right to govern in countries in Europe, Asia and South
America. They look to the United
States as an example of how government by the people should be.
And what do we do? In a state
that offers just about the best opportunity for people to participate in
self-government, we see turnouts of
10 percent at town and school elections.
Do you like that $3,000 tax bill
twice a year? If not, why didn’t you
try to amend the budget, or offer
your views on long-term bond articles, or throw your hat in the ring
when filing time rolled around? The
mirror is a great place to look for
why your taxes are so high.
So what’s your excuse? Hopefully
you won’t need one, and will get to
the polling place or fill out an absentee ballot and vote on warrant articles and on candidates or write-ins
for public office, both school and
town sides.
In Sandown, when enough interest was generated in the Timberlane
school budget, a crowd finally came
out to deliberative session. Wouldn’t
it be great if that kind of attendance
became the norm, and government
“by the people” became more than a
slogan.
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Gas Tax
To the editor:
State Rep. Lisa Whittemore, D-Londonderry is
after your money at the
gas pump again by asking
you to support another
gas tax increase.
SB 367 was introduced
to increase the gas tax by
amending RSA 260:32.
Representative Whittemore would like you to
believe that this meager
increase, on top of the 18
cents (per gallon) you already pay, is needed to fix
our roads. She will tell
you that it is only a 4-cent
increase. She will tell you
that the 4-cent increase
pales in comparison to
the increase that the oil
companies have gotten in
the past two weeks. She
will share her story on
how she was stuck in traffic due to two accidents
one morning and almost
missed her meeting.
What she will not tell
you is if this bill is passed,
the calculation of this tax
“shall be adjusted by multiplying the effective rate
during the prior 12-month
period by a fraction, the
numerator being the annual average CPI (Consumer Price Index) for the
year 2013 and the denominator being the annual
average CPI for the year
2003.” That somehow
equates to 4 cents.
What she will also conveniently skip over is this
calculation will be repeated every four years, thus
raising your gas tax every
four years!
Also, what she will not
tell you is this new tax,
instead of being required
to go 100 percent to fixing
the roads, will go to the
Department of Transportation and expended as
they see fit.
If you feel as though
you can afford to give
Representative Whittemore more of your money, by all means vote for
her in her upcoming reelection. If not, let her
know how you feel, and
that is of course if she hasn’t already blocked you on
her State Representative
FB page because you disagree with her.
Nick Amerena
Londonderry
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View of America
To the editor:
Here is a look at where
this country is headed.
The President of the
United States is picking
and choosing which parts
of the laws passed by the
U.S. Congress, and signed
into law by a President of
the United States, he will
enforce and when.
The U.S. Attorney General is outright stating
that he will not enforce
the laws of this country
that he doesn’t like and is
now instructing the Attorney Generals of the individual states to follow
suit. He authorized the
indiscriminant selling of
firearms confiscated in
the U.S. to unnamed, unknown parties in Mexico.
Some of those guns are
now being used to commit
crimes within our borders
and one was used to kill a
U.S. Border Patrol agent.
The Secretary of State
of the United States denied requests from a U.S.
Ambassador for added
security in the face of an
ever-increasing threat.
That Ambassador and
three other American citizens were killed by AlQaida terrorists as a
result. After it was revealed that the U.S. government lied to the world
about the cause for those
murders, she had the gall
to ask a U.S. Senate Hearing committee, “What difference does it make?”
She is the frontrunner for
the Democratic nomination for the President of
the United States in 2016.
The Federal Communications Commission wants
to place agents in every
major media outlet to
monitor and advise the
press as to what to cover
and how, because it believes that they are not
doing their jobs correctly.
This is a clear infringement of the freedom of
the press and is unconstitutional.
Currently, because of
differing diagnoses between two hospitals, the
State of Massachusetts
removed a teenage girl
from her Connecticut parents’ custody and placed
her into the “care” of the
same agency that lost
track of hundreds of children. The father is going
to court because he had
the audacity to speak to
the press about the case.
Meanwhile, the child’s
health is deteriorating,
the mother is fainting
from the stress and the
world takes little notice
because it isn’t happening
to them - yet.
These are just some
examples of what our government is doing. Under
the guise of security, by
manipulation of the free
market through government regulation, and
through fear, intimidation
and accusations of intolerance and bigotry, the
citizens of the United
States of America are
slowly allowing our once
great country, a beacon of
hope and prosperity, to
be turned into a socialist
state where the government controls everything.
Some of you may think
I am paranoid but consider this – when the government finally takes total
control of the medical
system, and it will if something doesn’t change,
what will you do when
some bureaucrat tells you
that you are too overweight to have a slice of
pizza and a soda? If the
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M ARCH 6, 2014
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More than $20,000 Spent in Winter Maintenance, Repairs
JAY HOBSON
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own Manager Kevin
Smith outlined to
the Town Council
the amount of $20,419.47
taken from the Expendable Maintenance Trust
Fund for several projects
ranging from winter maintenance to repairs.
“We have a number of
projects for winter maintenance at the Town Hall,
Police Department, Leach
Library and the cable
access building during a
number of snow events
that we’ve had over the
past couple of months,
totaling $5, 442.50,” Smith
said at Monday night’s
meeting.
The dates include the
period Dec. 17 through
Feb. 10 and include labor
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and materials for snow
and ice treatment at the
various buildings.
Smith said winter
maintenance at the Senior
Center cost $2,570 for
snow removal and parking lot/walkway ice treatment and plowing on
dates from Jan. 22
through Feb. 21.
The expenditures also
include preventive maintenance on a mixing valve
and expansion tank at the
north fire station, totaling
$1,296; and general maintenance and painting of
the garage bay ceiling at
the Department of Public
Works (DPW) garage, with
DPW employees supplying the labor and a total
cost of $410.97.
Smith said the ceiling
did not supply a sufficient
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School District.
“It’s a great choice by
them,” Londonderry Superintendent Nathan Greenberg said. “He is an outstanding educational leader and there is no doubt
in my mind that he will be
an outstanding Superintendent. Andy in his
decade here has been
absolutely superior. A
number of years ago,
when he was Middle
School principal, he was
Middle School Principal
of the Year. He has done
an absolutely fantastic
job as Assistant Superintendent of Schools. Brookline is very lucky to get
him. He’s just a fantastic
Andy Corey
educational leader.”
Corey has been assistant superintendent in
Londonderry since 2010.
“It was a good opportunity and I was fortunate
enough to be chosen and
it will be interesting,”
Corey said. “I’m excited
by the opportunity and
the challenges to move an
outstanding district in
amount of light, and existing fixtures were replaced
for $4,610.
“Currently there is no
light over the main entrance door, creating a
safety hazard for the
employees during nighttime operations,” he said
of the DPW garage. “They
have mercury vapor and
halogen lighting, and this
request was to add an
LED fixture over the main
entrance door and to replace the existing floods
with LED technology,
which increases the illumination in the work area.
The cost was $2,490.”
Smith added that ice
build-up on the roof was
excessive at the Access
Center and had to be
removed before it caused
interior damage. The cost
was $3,600.
The Council approved
the expenditures unanimously.
In other Council business:
• Resident Kent Allen
said the issue of liability
regarding the clean-up of
the Town Forest can be
avoided if ALERT (A Londonderry
Emergency
Response Team) was officially “called out” and
training time used to
remove brush and downed trees.
He claimed any injuries would be covered
under workers compensation.
Town Council Chairman John Farrell asked if
Finance Director Sue
Hickey had said ALERT
was covered by insurance
and Allen said she told
◆ him ALERT would be if
New Hampshire forward.
In my research and with
talking with people in a
small state, I realized it
was very similar to Londonderry. The parents
and the students have the
same goals and aspirations as here, and when I
went over to visit and to
interview, it was all confirmed, so it’s a very exciting opportunity for me.”
Greenberg said the
search for Corey’s replacement will begin with
advertising in the next
week or so and the application period will be open
through March.
“Then we’ll conduct
interviews and hopefully
shortly thereafter we’ll
have a successful candidate, one that will hopefully be able to fill his
shoes,” Greenberg said.
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called out.
Smith said he had not
had an opportunity to discuss the matter with Hickey.
Administrative Support Coordinator Steve
Cotton said what Allen
was saying was correct.
Farrell said there
would be some “checking
into it” and asked Smith
to look into it.
• Smith said he understood from talking with
Fire Chief Darren O’Brien
that the cost figures for
the Londonderry Fire Department dispatch in handling Hampstead Fire’s
dispatch weren’t in yet
but the necessary upgrades to Londonderry’s
computer system would
be paid mostly by Hampstead. Hampstead has
contracted with Londonderry to provide dis-
patch. Any extra cost can
be absorbed by the FY 15
budget, Smith said.
• Police Chief William
Hart said a new truck was
needed by the police
department to plow the
parking lot and for other
uses. He said the current
truck had served its life
span.
“We’ve been told that
it won’t pass inspection
and it will cost several
thousand dollars to repair
it,” Hart said.
He is requesting a new
truck at $22,773, with
$13,273 coming from the
Vehicle Expendable Maintenance Trust Fund and
the balance of $9,500 from
the Police Department
Capital Lease Line.
The Town Council approved the purchase unanimously.
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L O N D O N D E R RY T I M E S
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Regional Public Health Training Offers Pointers
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
gave them the tools to
————––––––————–◆ deal effectively with peotraining exercise ple who need extra oxyfor local public gen in an emergency.
health
workers
Garrett Simonsen, co-
A
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Manchester
students label cots during the training exercise at
West Running Brook Middle School in Derry .
ordinator for the Greater
Derry Public Health Network, said the exercise,
which took place Wednesday, Feb. 26, at West
Running Brook Middle
School, brought representatives of 10 area towns to
Derry for a state-sponsored training.
Simonsen said the
exercise began in the
morning, when students
from the Massachusetts
College of Pharmacy in
Manchester and Saint
Anselm College in Goffstown helped set up beds
in a simulated emergency
shelter. “We set up 37
potential patient beds for
use in a pandemic,” Simonsen said. “Of those, 13
beds were designated for
people who needed extra
oxygen.” Respiratory therapists from Parkland Medical Center assisted in setting up the oxygen flow,
he said.
“The goal was to evaluate the layout we use in
the gym,” Simonsen said.
West Running Brook has
been designated as Derry’s
shelter in a large-scale
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The exercise identified
“a couple of different
ways” to improve the layout, Simonsen said. One
was to avoid tripping hazards associated with the
oxygen tubing.
Simonsen said 43 people from the various
towns registered for the
exercise.
It was a true community effort, Simonsen said,
with a Hampstead Boy
Scout troop helping to
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PA G E 7
Lawsuit Against School Staff: Police Conclude No Crime Committed
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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yle Lynch, a former
student at Londonderry High School,
and his father, Devin
Lynch, of Winding Pond
Road are suing the Londonderry School District,
LHS Principal Jason Parent, School Superintendent Nathan Greenberg
and teacher Greg Warren,
alleging that Warren physically assaulted Lynch in
the school library in 2011
because Lynch wouldn’t
remove his hat.
But a police report,
released to the Londonderry Times under the
Right to Know statute
finds that the police concluded that no crime was
committed by Warren and
no charges would be filed.
As previously reported
by the Londonderry Times,
according to court documents, on or about Feb. 7,
2011, Kyle Lynch was wearing a hat in the school
library when Warren
accosted him. The documents allege that Warren
physically assaulted Lynch
by physically ejecting him
from his seat, propelling
him from the library and
hurling him into a masonry
K
wall, causing him to strike
his head. The suit alleges
Kyle Lynch sustained injuries requiring medical
treatment, including a closed head injury.
The Lynches are represented by attorney
James Walker of Walker &
Buchholz P.A.
In the police report
filed at the time of the
incident, Juvenile Division Detective Donald
Laduke concluded that:
“At no point does Gregory
Warren nor Daniel Alexander act without provocation. There is no evidence
to suggest that neither
Mr. Warren nor Mr. Alexander had any other
motive to use force, other
than that force which is
authorized by law when
such minor refuses to
leave the premises or for
the maintenance of discipline. It is in the contrary
that Kyle Lynch was using
force when grabbing Mr.
Warren’s vest and tie,
which is not authorized
by law under NH RSA 631
:2a Simple Assault.”
In his report, Laduke
noted that on March 3,
2011, Kyle’s parents met
with him about the incident involving Kyle, who
was 16 at the time. Devin
Lynch told Laduke that
Kyle had been assaulted
by Warren while staff
member Daniel Alexander
was present on Feb. 7,
2011. He noted a school
district video of the incident.
The report also states
that Devin Lynch told
Laduke “he has delayed
reporting because he is
not interested in making
waves, or suing the School
District for monetary gain.
He has incurred medical
bills, which has reached
$1,000, for a head injury.
He explained that during
the incident, Kyle’s head
hit the floor and since
then, he has had to go to
multiple medical appointments (he has had prior
concussions which made
him vulnerable to further
injury).”
Laduke states in his
report that Devin Lynch
said he thought Greenberg and Parent treated
his complaint with concern, and noted that
Greenberg cannot tell him
what the consequences
are for Warren because it
is a personnel issue.
Laduke later viewed
the School District video
Devin Lynch mentioned.
He wrote that the
video does not have
audio, and shows Warren
and Alexander approach
Kyle in the library. “Warren pulled out his chair,
and pushed Kyle to move;
it is not a violent shove,
but seems to be a push to
move Kyle in a certain
direction,” he wrote.
“Kyle did not lose his balance or control over his
equilibrium, nor had fallen as a result. Both staff
members take his arms
and walk him through the
doors. No further footage
follows from this vantage
point. The other video of
the hallway shows Kyle
following behind Warren
followed by Alexander.
Warren suddenly turns
around, and grabs Kyle
while facing him, while
Warren is moving Kyle
backward and they go out
of the camera’s vantage.
“When they come
back into view,” he continued in his report, “Kyle is
walking without being
held. Warren is walking
backwards and seems to
be confronting Kyle (without touching Kyle), with
Mr. Alexander walking to
Kyle’s left. Warren then
turns to walk into the
stairwell. He turns again
when Kyle reaches him to
confront him again (without touching Kyle) and
escorts Kyle to his right
while Mr. Alexander walks
behind him. They descend the stairs and go
out of view. End of video.”
Laduke interviewed
Kyle on April 13. “ I asked
him why he was here to
talk to me and he said he
was there to talk about
the incident regarding
Greg Warren,” he wrote.
“Kyle alleges that after
Warren came into the
library, he grabbed Kyle’s
left arm and he was escorted to the library door
and it was closed. Both
Kyle’s arms were behind
him and he was pushed
through the doors, using
his body to open the door
by Warren and Alexander.
They pushed him into a
hallway wall and held him
there, facing the wall.
They let go after a minute
or two. It was a concrete
wall and when asked, he
didn’t remember getting
hurt or being injured at
all. He said he punched
the wall with his fist, only
once.”
Laduke said Kyle told
him the two men held his
arms behind his back and
moved him to the floor,
pushing Kyle’s shoulders
down. Kyle said that
caused him to hit the floor
with his forehead and
caused him to black out.
Laduke said that when
asked, Kyle said nothing
was said to him just prior
to being moved to the
floor, and he was not
resisting.
Laduke said Kyle told
him the men told him he
was acting in a threatening manner. Kyle further
said he was swearing at
Warren “after he knocked
me out.” I asked if Kyle
made any threats, and he
said, ‘I don’t remember.’”
While Kyle claimed not
to have touched the men,
Warren said in a written
statement to police that
Kyle had grabbed his vest
and shirt.
In his report dated Sept.
29, 2011, Laduke found that
the elements of Simple
Assault had not been met
by Warren, thus no crime
had been committed. “This
matter will be considered
closed,” he wrote.
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Election
required to register. A
birth certificate or passport establishes citizenship, and a mortgage or
rent receipt would prove
residency if a driver’s
license shows a different
address, Connelly said.
Supervisor of the Checklist Geraldine “Gerry” Van
Grevenhof said she hopes
more people will come out
to vote next week.
“The elections affect
everybody within the
town,” Van Grevenhof said.
“Everybody should come
out if possible to vote
because the money that’s
being spent is their tax
money and they should
have a say in it. People
don’t show up at the deliberatives because they can’t
vote on anything at the
deliberatives, but they
aren’t informed because
they don’t come to the
deliberatives, and so therefore they just don’t know
what they are voting for.”
Contested races on
the ballot are: Town Council, two seats, Thomas
Freda, Joseph Green,
Christopher Melcher and
John Robinson; Town
Clerk/Tax Collector, one
seat, Sherry Farrell, Adriana Komst and Deborah
Shimkonis Nowicki; Trustee of the Leach Library,
two seats, Raymond
Brown, Melissa Coffey
and Cynthia Peterson;
and School Board, two
seats, Nancy Hendricks,
Dan Lekas and George
Tsekrekas.
Candidates in non-contested races are Budget
Committee, three seats,
Dana Coons; Town Moderator, one position, Cindi
Rice Conley; Supervisor
of the Checklist, six-year
term, Anne Warner; and
Supervisor of the Checklist, two-year term, Christine Tighe.
Included among the
articles on the Town Warrant are:
Article 2: To change
the elected position of
Town Clerk/Tax Collector
to two separate positions,
with the Town Clerk elected for a three-year term
and the Tax Collector
appointed.
Article 4: The operating budget of $28,054,908
and the default budget of
$28,086,186.
Article 6: To raise and
appropriate $2,629,815 for
construction, payment of
the interest on any debt
incurred, management,
maintenance, operation
and repair of newly constructed sewer systems.
appropriate $275,000 to
be placed in the Town’s
Roadway Maintenance
Trust Fund.
Article 12: A citizen’s
petition to transfer all
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supervision and management of the Town Forest
from the Conservation
Commission to the Town
Manager.
Included among the
school district warrant
articles are:
appropriate $4,000,000 for
renovation and construction to all buildings in the
district. This is a bond
and requires a 60 percent
majority to pass.
appropriate an operating
budget for the fiscal year
2014-2015 of $66,240,583,
with a default budget of
$66,545,528.
be placed in the School
Buildings Maintenance
Expendable Trust Fund.
be placed in the School
District Equipment Capital Reserve Fund.
Election results will be
posted at www.nutpub.net
on Wednesday morning,
March 12. Because the
Londonderry Times will go
to press for its March 13
edition before the polls
close on March 11, full
election coverage will be
included in the March 20
edition.
OBITUARY
Charles “Chip” Horwath
Charles J. “Chip” Horwath, 72, of Londonderry died
Saturday March 1, 2014, at Greenbriar Terrace, Nashua.
He was born in Allentown, Penn., on Nov. 29, 1941, a
son of the late Charles and Claire (Flammer) Horwath.
He was a graduate of Liberty High School and Moravian College, both in Bethlehem, Penn. He earned his MBA
from the University of Texas at Austin.
He served with the U.S. Coast Guard from 1959 to
1965. He retired in 1996 from FHA/HUD, where he worked
as a real estate appraiser.
As a hobby, he enjoyed working on cars.
He is survived by his wife, Gina M. (Gregor) Horwath
of Londonderry; his son, Jesse G. Horwath of Malden,
Mass.; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brother, Jeffrey L. Horwath.
Calling hours will be Monday, March 10, from 6 to 8
p.m. in the Peabody Funeral Home and Crematorium, 290
Mammoth Road, Londonderry. Services will be held Tuesday, March 11, at 11 a.m. in the chapel at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, Route 3, Boscawen. Donations in his memory may be made to the American Stroke
Association Founders Affiliate, 300 Fifth Ave., Suite 6,
Waltham, Mass. 02451 or to the American Kidney Fund,
11921 Rockville Pike, Suite 300, Rockville, Md. 20852. To
send a condolence or for more information, visit
www.peabodyfuneralhome.com.
OBITUARY
Persis “Mitch” Martin
Persis C. “Mitch” (Hicks) Martin of Londonderry, 87, a
nurse, musician, composer, dancer, and poet, died Feb. 26,
2014 in Nashua, following a brief illness.
The youngest of four children born to Thomas M. B. and
Mildred (Todd) Hicks, Mrs. Martin was born in Brownsville,
Texas, on July 5, 1926, but spent much of her childhood in
Kingston, Penn. She graduated from Kingston High School in
1944.
After attending Ohio Wesleyan University, she danced
professionally in New York before marrying Charles R. Scoggins Sr., a career Air Force officer. A master of several musical
instruments and often self-taught, she taught ballet and tap
dancing and also composed liturgical music. She produced
and directed the opera “Patience” at Rikkyo University in
Tokyo while living in Japan in the late 1950s, and while living
in Chelmsford, Mass., during the 1960s, wrote the original
songs, choreographed, produced, directed, and acted in the
town variety show, “The Chelmsford Follies.” She also directed the local Miss Massachusetts Pageant during that time and
was the organist and choir director at All Saints Episcopal
Church in Chelmsford.
After moving to California and then to Maryland in the
late 1960s, she graduated with high honors from Prince
George’s (Md.) Community College with a degree in nursing in
1973. She worked in the Intensive Care Unit at Prince George’s
County Hospital. After moving to Hampstead in the mid-1970s,
she worked at Hampstead Hospital and Parkland Medical Center in Derry before becoming director of nursing at Salem
Haven in Salem, N.H., where she also played the organ at
chapel services.
In Hampstead she directed variety shows for the Lions
Club and was a ham radio hobbyist with the call sign KA1TRP.
A lung cancer survivor, she participated in the annual CROP
walks.
Following her retirement, she married Rev. Walter “Doc”
Martin and was a member of Christ the King Lutheran Church
in Nashua.
She is survived by her six children, Charles R. Scoggins Jr.
and his wife, Victoria, of Lowell, Mass., and St. Petersburg,
Fla.; Richard T. Scoggins and his wife, Cathy, of Glendale, Calif.;
Wendy E. Elliott and her husband, David, of Jaffrey; Kim C.
Scoggins and his wife, Deborah, of Bluffton, S.C.; Erin M. Scoggins of Port Orange, Fla.; and Colin S. Scoggins and his wife,
Helene, of Nashua; three stepchildren, Virginia Jennings and
her husband, Gregory, of Acworth, Ga.; Peggy Wilkinson and
her husband, Joe, of Somerset, Ohio; and David Mitchell and
his wife, Tina, of Oreland, Penn,.; 16 grandchildren; 14 greatgrandchildren; many nieces and nephews; a sister, Barbara
Harding of Sterling, Va.; her first husband, Lt. Col. (Ret.)
Charles R. Scoggins Sr., of Edgewater, Fla., and Jaffrey; and
Rev. Martin’s daughters, Judy Smith of Bridgewater and
Eleanor Gilder of Port Washington, N.Y. She was preceded in
death by her brothers Thomas Hicks IV and Warren Hicks, her
second husband, Maj. (Ret.) Wallace Mitchell, and her stepson, John Mitchell.
Calling hours are Thursday, March 6, from 4 to 7 p.m. in
the Peabody Funeral Homes and Crematorium, 290 Mammoth
Road, Londonderry. Funeral services are Friday, March 7, at
10 a.m. in Christ the King Lutheran Church, 3 Lutheran Drive,
Nashua. Burial will be in the spring in Conant Cemetery, Jaffrey. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Pastoral
Care at Salem Haven, 23 Geremonty Drive, Salem, NH 03079;
Church World Service CROP WALK, New York Corporate Center, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 700, New York, NY 01015; or
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PA G E 9
Verizon to Join AT&T at Kelley Road Cell Tower
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he new cell tower
on Kelley Road is
well hidden, and not
too many town residents
can see it.
“If you drive down
Bartley Hill Road toward
the intersection where it
meets Mammoth Road,
you can just see the tip of
it,” Londonderry Building
Inspector Richard Canuel
said.
Canuel said the tower
currently serves AT&T.
However, not all as-
T
pects of the tower are up
and running. AT&T customers in the area have
noted that they still do
not have cell service,
even though the tower is
there. And they’re not
likely to see any improvement until well into the
summer.
Wil Keyser, spokesman
for AT&T, said AT&T is in
the process of installing
antennas on the tower,
which is owned by ATC
(American Tower Co.).
“We hope to be able to
provide service sometime
◆
could be in the process of an alternative location planning to use the tower
having some antennas that would serve the and requested that a 500being installed on the needs of the wireless. gallon diesel tank be
tower but having those They eventually granted installed for a portable
antennas connected to the variance after repeat- generator.
“On the original site
the network and having ed continuations - it was
the tower have power is opposed by an abutting plan provided by the
property owner, they owner, there was not going
still in process.
“It’s probably going to denied his appeal, he fur- to be any fuel storage on
take a little bit of time, ther appealed to court the site, in fact one of the
which is why we’re fore- and eventually it was notes on the plans states
that, so when Verizon had
casting it for the end of built.” Canuel said.
“The residents that are it on their plan to coJuly,” Keyser said.
Canuel recalled that close to it can’t see it for locate, we went before the
when the tower was pro- the trees, they’re too Planning Board and they
posed for that location, close,” he said. “They did said that they were OK
there was some contro- a good job hiding it, with it because it wasn’t a
versy due to the residen- which was part of the condition of the site plan
approval and it could be
tial nature of the neigh- plan.”
◆ borhood.
At the most recent handled administratively,”
“They had to show Planning Board meeting, Canuel said. “So the tank
during the variance Town Planner Cynthia and the portable generaprocess that there wasn’t May said Verizon is now tor were approved.”
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labor, see what kind of
assistance might be available at the town level,
that sort of thing - for
instance, clearing any
brush that needs to be
cleared. Would they be
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towards the end of July,”
he said. “There may be
some antennas on the
tower but they are not
fully installed and functional. There’s a multistep process in terms of
how a tower can provide
service. First you have to
have the structure, then
you have to get the antennas installed on the tower,
and you also have to have
power, and you have to
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Dog Park Set For West Road Site
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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og Park Committee
chairman Dottie Grover said the proposed dog park will go in
on a parcel of land on
West Road, next to the
soccer fields.
“The Town Manager
checked with everybody
because the Town Council put in his hands, and
he informed us that it’s a
go, we’ve got it,” Grover
said.
While the committee’s
meeting Tuesday, Feb. 25,
did not achieve a quorum,
four members attended
and discussed what
comes next. “Marketing,
fundraising, design of the
park, those kinds of
things,” Grover said.
The next meeting is
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March 11 at 6:30 p.m.,
which is Election Day. “We
have our meetings at the
LACTV center, which is
right next to the gym
where people vote, so
committee members can
vote and walk over to the
meeting. It’s real convenient,” Grover said.
Up next for the committee is coming up with a
park design. “That’s how
we’re going to figure out
what we need for materials, and when we know
what we need for materials, then we’ll know what
we’ll need for money, and
then the fundraising can
begin,” Grover said. “I’ll
be working on a marketing plan so that we can let
the community know
what’s happening, get
people on board to
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M ARCH 6, 2014
Airport Control Tower Overnight Hours Remain In Effect
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA)
is looking at reducing
the overnight operating
hours of the air traffic control tower at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. Most of the airport is
in Londonderry.
The proposal under
consideration would keep
the tower unmanned from
midnight to 6 a.m.
The New Hampshire
Congressional Delegation,
however, has expressed its
views in a letter, saying the
reduction would be harmful
to the area.
According to a letter
sent to the FAA by the New
Hampshire Congressional delegation of Senators Jeanne
Shaheen, D-NH, Kelly Ayotte,
R-NH, Congresswoman Carol
Shea-Porter, D-1st District,
and Annie Kuster, D-2nd District, “on Feb. 11, 2014, the
New Hampshire congressional delegation was made
aware of a request to the
New England Regional Administrator to close the
Manchester Air Traffic Control Tower (MHT ATCT) during the midnight shift between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m.”
The delegation expressed its concern that this
request, if approved, would
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create an unnecessary safety risk for both the aircraft
and airport personnel that
rely upon an operational
tower at the Manchester airport during this shift.
“MHT has been designated as a diversion airport for
New England, meaning it
often receives non-scheduled operations during the
midnight shift,” the letter
states. “This is particularly
true during times of severe
weather, like those that the
region has seen this winter.
Additionally, (the airport) is
home to the DartmouthHitchcock emergency medical helicopter. Restricting
the use of this critical emergency aircraft - as this
request will do - jeopardizes
the safety of our constituents who may not be
able to get the care they
need in a timely manner.”
The delegation letter
also states that there appear
to be procedural flaws with
the request.
“Section 6 of the guidance requires the FAA to
‘determine the impact a
reduction or increase in
operating hours would have
on the local community by
early informal coordination
with airport users, community leaders, and airport
managers.’ Though the
request claims that ‘coordi-
“Honesty,
Integrity &
Attention to
Detail”
nation and concurrence
from all local stakeholders
was completed,’ (airport)
officials assert otherwise,”
the letter states.
“Eliminating the midnight shift at MHT is an
unsafe means to achieve
nominal FAA staffing benefits. For these reasons, we
urge you to deny this request,” the delegation wrote.
On Feb. 28, the delegation released a press statement that said the FAA
informed them that the air
traffic control tower at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport would remain open during the midnight shift and
that any future changes to
that status would not be
made unilaterally and without input from stakeholders
at the local, state and feder-
al levels.
“While the FAA has signaled that it is not set to
close the air traffic control
tower during the 12 to 6 a.m.
shift, it has not formally
denied the request to do so and the New Hampshire
congressional delegation
today restated its view that
keeping the tower open
overnight is a safety priority,” the statement said.
Governor Maggie Hassan
also wrote to advocate keeping the tower open through
the night.
When reached for comment, the FAA said, “The
FAA has not decided to close
Manchester Tower on the
overnight shift. We are continuing to review the proposal and we will coordinate
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staffing hours.”
Malafronte said they
have done the review many
times, most recently in 2008,
and every time they did the
review they decided not to
close the tower at night.
“So basically it’s still in
the internal review stage,”
he said. “It’s somewhat of a
formality in terms of the
process of looking at the
operations that we have.
Because the letter from the
FAA went to the people that
I mentioned, we felt obligated to send out a letter that
we were not supportive of
any recommendation to
close the tower at night.
“We haven’t had any further discussions or direction regarding the potential
closure from midnight to 6
a.m.,” he concluded.
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Zoning Board Still Seeks Members
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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t the last several
meetings of the Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA), Chairman
James Smith has given
notice to the parties before
the board that they are
down to two full members
and two alternates. Sometimes only three are present, and Smith tells the
applicant that the vote will
have to be unanimous in
their favor for the request
to pass, or they can return
when the fourth member is
in attendance.
Some take Smith up on
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his offer, others take their
chances, but whatever the
case, the ZBA is in need of
volunteers to fill the board
vacancies.
“You don’t need to be a
lawyer, you just need common sense and the ability
to read and understand the
ordinances,” Smith said.
Smith said some new
members come on as alternates and get “on-the- job
training” by watching and
listening to the full members as they learn the system.
The newest member to
join the board, Jacquline
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making a final decision.”
Manchester Airport spokesman Tom Malafronte also
said the issue is under
review by the FAA.
“The FAA Tower Manager did an internal review,
which is standard operating
procedure, just to look at
the number of operations
that we have here at the airport every day, and found
that the number of operations between midnight and
6 a.m. fell below the minimum criteria that they have
for staffing,” he said. “He
wrote a letter to the FAA
regional administrator and
copied our congressional
delegation and all of the airport’s tenants and users,
saying that the airport fell
below the minimum criteria
and qualified for reduced
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until she was comfortable
with the procedures. Now
she takes part in questioning the applicants, the
deliberations, voting and
filling out paperwork.
While there were two
full member vacancies and
one alternate vacancy, the
Town Council appointed
one full member Monday
night (see story page 2).
The Zoning Board of
Adjustment is also referred
to as the Board of Appeals
and is required by RSA
673:1 whenever a town or
city enacts a Zoning Ordinance. As a “quasi-judicial”
entity, the main goal of the
ZBA is to make exceptions
to the ordinance without
having to change the ordinance itself, something
only the Town Council has
the authority to do.
Under State enabling
statutes (RSA 674:33), the
ZBA has the authority to
act in four separate and distinctive categories whenever
a property owner seeks relief
from the requirements of
Londonderry’s zoning ordinance: Variances, Special
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PA G E 11
Derry’s State Senator Promotes Gas Tax Increase
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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hile State Sen. Jim
Rausch, R-Derry,
has his eye on
improving infrastructure
for the entire state, he
thinks increasing New
Hampshire’s gas tax will
improve life for his constituents in Derry, Hampstead and Windham in two
ways: by improving roads
and bridges in general, and
by widening Interstate 93
from Windham to Manchester.
Rausch is the main
sponsor of SB 367, a bill
that would increase the 18
cents-per-gallon gas tax by
4 cents, tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It
is long overdue, Rausch
said in a phone interview
last week.
Rausch said various
methods have been proposed to fund infrastructure. His first choice would
have been to expand gambling in the state and use
the proceeds for infrastructure. As that won’t happen
in the near future, Rausch
said he is turning to the gas
tax, which has not been
increased since 1991.
“There is no doubt,”
Rausch said, “that our
infrastructure is deteriorating.”
He pointed to the Sarah
Long Bridge in Portsmouth, which is in need of
shoring up; the shortfall for
expanding the I-93 project,
which is unfunded at $250
million; and New Hampshire’s late winter headache of the pothole. “You
can drive down any street
and see where it needs
improvement,” Rausch
said.
Chris Clement, Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, predicted two
weeks ago that he would
have to lay off 700 workers
if more money is not found.
He told the Senate Ways
and Means Committee, of
which Rausch is a member,
that his agency is facing a
shortfall of $48 million and
$105 million during the
next two budget cycles.
A backlog of projects
includes 500 bridges, state
and municipal, with serious structural problems
and 1,600 miles of state
roads.
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A bill earlier this year to
raise the gas tax by 12
cents per gallon, sponsored by Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, passed the
House before being rejected in the Senate. Campbell,
chair of the House Public
Works and Highways Committee, is now a co-sponsor
of Rausch’s bill.
Rausch’s bill is different, raising the gas tax in
alignment with the Consumer Price Index for
Greater Boston (the Boston-Nashua-Brockton arc).
He thinks his bill, if
approved, would restore
“purchasing power” to New
Hampshire consumers.
“This one is more reasonable, modest,” Rausch said.
States linking the gas
tax to inflation include
Florida, Massachusetts and
Maryland. Other states
have variable rates according to the price of fuel.
He arrived at his num-
ber by looking at a 10-year
snapshot of the CPI and
“splitting the difference” in
the CPI changes from 2003
to 2013.
At this point, he is not
seeking to have automatic
increases tied to the CPI in
future years.
Will there be pain at the
pump? He doesn’t think so.
“If you drove 10,000 miles
this year and got 25 miles
to the gallon, your 4-cent
increase would come out
to about $16 a year,” he
said.
Fixing the roads should
benefit New Hampshire
motorists, in Rausch’s
opinion. “If you go over a
pothole and you need an
alignment, that’s $100 at a
minimum,” he pointed out.
“According to AAA, the
average cost per year from
road damage is $300 per
car.”
There has been opposition, Rausch said. Some of
his colleagues think that if
they cut the budget
enough, they won’t need to
increase the gas tax. “But I
challenge anyone who
thinks we can go 22 years
without an increase in the
gas tax,” he added. “If
someone has a better
answer, so be it.”
Rausch said that should
the increase pass, he doesn’t have dedicated funds
for I-93. “I don’t like to talk
specifics,” he said. “We are
a state.” But he thinks that
should money be allotted
to the widening, it will benefit his communities. The
improved access would
foster business growth,
which would in turn
increase the business profits tax, he said.
The gas tax and vehicle
registration fees are the
principal sources of funding for the highway department.
Two other legislators
want to impose the surcharge on alternative
sources of energy. Rep.
Candace Bouchard, D-Concord, is proposing extending the tax to vehicles that
use alternative fuels,
specifically commercial
and government vehicles;
Rep. David Watters, DDover, wants to place a surcharge on electric vehicles
and hybrids.
Alternative
vehicles
that use less gasolin are
responsible in part for a
drop in gas tax revenue.
Motorists purchased 60
million fewer gallons of gas
in 2012 than they did in
2005, according to data
from the Department of
Safety Road Toll Bureau.
This has led to an $11 million decrease in revenue.
On March 4, following
the Senate Ways and
Means Committee’s 4-1
vote to recommend passage of SB 367 as amended,
Governor Maggie Hassan
said, “In order to keep New
Hampshire’s economy moving forward, we must work
together to address our
transportation infrastructure challenges. A solid,
modern
transportation
infrastructure is one of the
essential foundations for
New Hampshire’s longterm economic growth. SB
367 will help us make
progress on that important
effort, helping ensure we
can continue to plow and
repair our roads and keep
our people safe.
“I want to thank Senator
Rausch for leading efforts
to take an important step
toward addressing our
transportations needs, and
I encourage members of
both parties to support the
committee’s bipartisan recommendation to strengthen our roads and bridges.”
The bill now goes to a
full Senate vote.
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M ARCH 6, 2014
Londonderry High Band Plans ‘Tale Of Two Cities’ Tour
From left, Erin Conti, 18, Beckie Walker, 16, Danielle Souza, 18, and Joe
Conti, 18 are preparing to march in two St. Patrick’s Day parades this month in Washington, D.C., and in New York City - March 16 and 17 with the LHS
Marching Band. Photo by Jay Hobson
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Londonderry
High School Marching Band is gearing
up for another trip, this
time traveling in what
Music Director Andy
Soucy calls “A Tale of Two
Cities.” The band will be
performing at the Washington, D.C. St. Patrick’s
Day Parade on Sunday,
March 16, and then driving to New York City to
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march in its St. Patrick’s
Day Parade. Making the
trip will be 285 band
members and staff.
The timing of the two
parades made the trip a
practical one for the
band.
The band will be leaving LHS at 6 a.m. Friday,
March 14, and traveling
11 hours to Washington,
D.C. The next morning the
band will be at Arlington
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Sohm was a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air
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Palm Sunday, April 17,
2011, in a small airplane
crash outside of San
Angelo, Texas. He was 23.
The band will then
tour the White House
before visiting the Smithsonian Air and Space
Museum and attending a
performance of “Shear
Madness” at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
After a group photo at
the United States Capitol,
the band will assemble at
the staging area of the
parade and march in the
parade, then board buses
and head to New York.
In New York they will
board a sightseeing vessel for a cruise on the
Hudson River. “The kids
are in for a treat by seeing
New York City all lit up at
night,” Soucy said.
The next morning the
band marches in the St.
Patrick’s Day parade.
When the parade is over,
they will head home.
“It really is a full itinerary and the kids will be
tired when they get
home,”
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PA G E 13
Talent Abounds at South School
Just before leaving on winter break, about 15 fourth and fifth grade
students at South Elementary School perfomed in the annual Student
Council-run Talent Show. Dancing, singing, gymnastics, jump roping
and musical performances captivated the entire school. In a tie for
first were Gabrielle Tringali, top left, with her rendition of “Somewhere Over the Raindow,” and, second from top left, Greggory
Lindquist and Ricky Nadeau, with a singing and dancing “What Does
the Fox Say” routine. Riley Wolk, bottom left, was voted second place
with a hula hoop routine, and Freedom James snagged third place
with a drum solo. Taking fourth place was Ava Ruppel, second from
right at top. Also pictured are Caroline Leone, top right; Grace Holland, second from right at bottom, and Quinn Brown, bottom right,
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Craig O’Neill Oils Featured at Leach Library Exhibit
LESLIE O’DONNELL
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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arch brings the latest show for Londonderry resident
Craig O’Neill, with nine of
his oils featured in the
Leach Library’s Artist of
the Month exhibit.
While O’Neill has become something of a regular at the library’s art exhibits, each show highlights his latest developments, and this year is no
exception.
O’Neill is exhibiting four
paintings of people, and
five landscapes. Several
reflect a new development
– painted as larger versions
of a previously painted
12x12 canvas. His work in
12x12 was included in the
“Small Wonders” show at
the Stove Factory Gallery in
Charlestown, Mass., and
for the library show, he
decided to expand on the
smaller pieces.
“Book of Memories 2” is
one such larger work on
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display at the library. He
used the same model featured on the smaller canvas
as reference. “For this
painting, I had the model
reading a book and added
people from my mind,” he
said. “The model has a very
intense look – she’s looking
inward, but all the figures
around her are relating to
the memories going on in
her head.”
Another recent theme is
the Teddy bear. In one of the
figure painting sessions he
attended, the live model
held a Teddy bear as a prop.
“I painted that as a 12x12
and then repainted it at
24x30,” he said. That larger
painting, “Favored Bear,” is
in the library show, including not one but three Teddy
bears, as well as O’Neill’s
two cats, along with plenty
of detail ranging from an
Oriental rug to the woman’s
clothing to decorative
accessories, and then to the
woods outside.
“I like to add figures in
my paintings, whether I
make them up or use real
people,” O’Neill said. “Then
it becomes a question of
how they benefit the composition, how I catch and
direct the viewer’s eye
through the painting before
they leave it.”
He calls it liberating to
paint from a live model. “Figure painting – painting from a
model – is very important to
me,” he said. “I don’t take photographs to paint from. I need
to use my mind to create.”
His 24x30 painting “Christmas Corner” poses his wife
reading by a Christmas tree.
“I wanted to paint the tree
and the interplay of the
snowy light from outside –
white daylight – and the incandescent, yellowish light
inside,” he explained. “I’m
fascinated by how the two
different types of light meet.”
And in “Winter Vacation,” a 24x20 canvas, the
model is turned into a billboard image. “I made it look
like a tropical beach scene
“Small Barn,” oil, Craig O’Neill
on the billboard, which I put
on a brick building, and
down below are older people looking at her as the
snow falls,” he said. O’Neill
contrasted the exaggerated
colors of the billboard with
the drabness of the passersby. Using a billboard as part
of the image is an added
twist – O’Neill sells billboard
advertising for a living.
Locations for his landscapes range from an old
favorite spot – the Codman
Estate in Lincoln, Mass., to
heavy machinery seen off
Route 28 between Londonderry and Manchester, the
site for his 36x24 painting
“Genie and Cat.” Combining
landscape and machinery is
a favorite subject for O’Neill.
“Sunflower Cluster” reprises another favorite
theme. “I love painting sunflowers,” he said. This 24x30
painting was done at summer’s end, when the sunflowers were almost gone.
“What interested me
was that the more you look
through the flowers at the
ground, the more it seems
like you might fall through,“
he said. “It can almost give
you vertigo. One thing
about most of my paintings
is that there is a lot of energy and movement through
them. Movement is implied
in the painting, so you may
not feel secure standing
there and looking at it.”
Another painting at the
library, “Two Dorries,” is his
first work done in Gloucester, Mass. And he describes
“Babson Quarry,” painted in
Rockport, Mass., as gritty,
inspired by the style of
Marsden Hartley, an American Modernist painter influenced by the writings of
Walt Whitman, Henry David
Thoreau and Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and who focused
primarily in his later years
on images of Maine. Hartley’s influence on O’Neill is
new this year, and seen in
his most recent works.
Color is always a crucial
consideration in O’Neill’s
paintings. While he uses
some colors regularly, his
palette is varied. He used a
limited selection of color in
“Two Dorries” and “Small
Barn,” whereas “Favored
Bear” and “Winter Vacation”
employ a larger palette.
“I try to use both warm
and cool colors, as they
tend to give more depth and
interest to a painting,”
O’Neill explained. “I know
that some artists strive to
have ‘a look’ that is identifiable, but I think that if you
produce enough work without worrying about such
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M ARCH 6, 2014
PA G E 15
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LONDONDERRY SPORTS
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Lancer Wrestlers Had a Fine Time at Meet of Champions
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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eteran Londonderry High wrestling
coach Jim Marron
had every reason in the
world to exit the Pinkerton Academy gymnasium
with a smile on his face
and his chest pushed out
proudly last Saturday,
March 1, after watching
his Lancers put forth impressive performances at
the state Meet of Champions (MOC).
The LHS crew finished
a strong second to that
wrestling juggernaut from
Timberlane Regional High
in Plaistow where team
scores were concerned as expected - but Londonderry’s sources of pride
were many and included
undefeated state champions Jean-Luc Lemieux and
Will Bean as well as several other Lancer medalists.
Lemieux, Bean, Tyler
Byrd, Ryan Cabezas,
Mitch Rose, and Richard
Bilodeau all qualified for
the New England Championship Meet in Providence, R.I. this coming
weekend by all claiming
top-three finishes at the
MOC. Senior stalwart Jon
Young also went top-six at
the Granite State event for
his Lancers.
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Tyler Byrd
Mitch Rose
“It was the kind of day
we expected to have, and
I’m extremely happy with
our performances,” said
Marron, who has let his
athletes know that he is
leaving his coaching post.
Lemieux pushed his exceptional season record
to a glittering 44-0 by defeating Timberlane’s Derek Bohle by the lopsided
tally of 11-2 in the 132pound championship bout.
Bohle was the same skilled opponent whom Lemieux bested in the title
round at the Division I
championships a week
earlier in Concord.
“As I went through the
season I didn’t think about
being undefeated. But
over the last few weeks I
have thought about it, and
I’ve realized, ‘Hey, this is
really the dream.’ And now
I want to keep it going next
week,” said junior Lemieux, a transfer from Pinkerton who has won MOC
titles in each of his three
high school wrestling campaigns.
Senior co-captain Bean
put together another memorable day at the MOC
after winning his 160pound weight class crown
at the D-I championships
a week earlier. The intense
veteran downed Timberlane’s Brian Lonergan
in both the D-I finals and
the Meet of Champs’
finals, dusting off the
Owls’ grappler by a 7-3
tally in their MOC bout. In
Jean-Luc Lemieux
doing so, Bean pushed his
2013-14 record to a sterling 47-4.
“I’m just ecstatic for
Will Bean,” said Marron.
“Now he gets to go to New
Englands and wrestle with
no pressure at all.”
But the senior stalwart
made it plain that while
he has already achieved
more than was expected
of him this winter, he is
intent on showing what
he can do this weekend.
“There’s no pressure
on me at the New Englands, but I definitely want
to place. I’m not just going
for the ride,” he said.
Youngster Byrd began
the dramatic final round
of grappling at the MOC’s
by dropping a decision to
top-ranked Tristan Stetson of Keene and placing
second.
Cabezas then collected a strong third place in
his 113-pound weight
class, and Rose dropped a
7-2 decision to Tyler Fitzpatrick in the championship match of the 120pound class.
Young was victorious
Will Bean
in his bout for fifth place
in the 152-pound class,
and Bilodeau collected a
great 4-0 victory over
Pinkerton’s Joey Lydick in
the 195-pound division’s
bout for third place and
qualification for the New
Englands.
LHS wrestling had a
scare in the period prior
to the MOC’s when freshman heavyweight Tim
Wilson had to be hospitalized twice with MRSA, a
staph infection, and he
couldn’t compete. But he
has recovered.
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M ARCH 6, 2014
LHS Boys’ Hoop Finishes With a Big Overtime Victory
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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here’s nothing better than preparing
for a playoff game
with a game that has a
raging playoff atmosphere. And the Londonderry High boys’ basketball squad can tell you all
about the concept.
Coach Nate Stanton’s
Londonderry High boys’
basketball squad had
dropped two consecutive
games going into its Division I regular season-ending game against the
pesky Nashua South High
Purple Panthers in the
Gate City last Friday
night, Feb. 22. And though
the Panthers were struggling, Stanton and his
squad had every reason
to expect a real battle
from South. And that’s
precisely
what
the
Lancers got.
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It took two overtime
periods to decide the matter, with Londonderry
finally escaping from the
Elm Street Junior High
School gymnasium with
an 87-80 decision in its
Londonderry forward
Marc Corey gets past a
Nashua South defender
during the Lancers’
overtime victory.
grasp after four regular
quarters of play and two
overtime stanzas.
Overtime was required when South junior forward Mike Osgood nailed
a three-point shot with
just two seconds left in
regulation time to knot
the score at 66-66.
And after one, fourminute overtime had
been played, the two
teams were still knotted
up at 73-73.
But the Lancers doubled their opponent’s
scoring output (14-7) during the second OT stanza
to collect the uplifting 8780 win.
The victorious locals
received 29 big points
from freshman point
guard Caleb Green, 22
from junior sharp-shooter
Cody Ball, 14 from steady
senior Drew Coveney, and
13 from junior big man
Marc Corey in claiming
the fine win, which enabled them to end the regular season with a 14-4
record. South finished up
at 9-9 and as loser of five
of its final six regular season contests.
“I knew (South) would
battle us hard. And what I
liked best was that our
guys just kept battling
too,” said coach Stanton.
“This wasn’t our best
game, but we just kept
battling and got the win.”
The game was played
in the dungeon-like Elm
Street Junior High School
gymnasium, whose prime
had to have been in the
1960’s, because Nashua
High South was hosting a
robotics fair.
Londonderry led by
just a single point at 17-16
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he
Londonderry
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basketball squad
didn’t get much of a test
in its final regular season
game of the 2013-14 Division I campaign, facing a
Nashua South contingent
that had lost nine straight
games and not won at all
in more than a month.
The Lady Lancers
thumped the 1-17 Gate
City team by a 69-14 tally
in their meeting at LHS
last Friday night, Feb. 28,
to close out their own regular season with a sterling
15-3 divisional record and
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a 2-0 mark since the
return of star guard Aliza
Simpson from a hairline
fracture of the right knee.
The only team with a
better record than the
Lady Lancers was the
Bedford Lady Bulldogs’
contingent, which closed
out its regular season
with an unblemished, 18-0
mark. In collecting the
blowout of South, the LHS
bunch assured itself of
the second seed in the
Division I tournament behind Bedford.
Londonderry and the
Lady Bulldogs met on
Feb. 19 in Bedford and the
hosts won 50-36. But the
Lady Lancers didn’t have
University of New Hampshire-bound leader Simpson, who was still relegated to the sidelines.
With Simpson back in
the team’s flow and serving as its catalyst once
again, and the Lady
Lancers knowing full well
that coach John Fagula is
closing out his coaching
career this winter, the
Londonderry crew has
the incentive to shoot for
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with the Lancers missing
out on a chance to snare a
two-point lead with less
than 20 seconds to go
when Coveney’s nice
drive to the hoop got him
hammered from multiple
directions by defenders,
but no foul call was forthcoming. And it was on to a
second OT with the score
deadlocked at 73-73.
Green and Ball were
nothing less than exceptional in that decisive
final period, while South
suffered from cold hands
where shooting was concerned. And Stanton and
his charges had every reason to be pleased with
and proud of themselves
in getting a hard-fought
win in preparation for the
Division I tournament.
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after one quarter, but the
second period was a big
one for the locals as they
outscored their hosts by
an 18-5 margin and carried a 35-21 lead into the
second half.
Play was extremely
tight in the third quarter,
with Londonderry lucky
to exit that stanza with a
five-point advantage of 5348.
And the Purple Panthers exhibited tremendous intensity in the
fourth quarter - working
to stifle the Lancers with
tactics like half-court
traps - and managed to
get the score knotted up
at 66-66 as the buzzer
sounded, ending regulation time, because Osgood sank his huge trey.
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M ARCH 6, 2014
PA G E 17
LHS Icemen Close Out Regular Season with OT Stunner
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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t was a victory the Londonderry High School
ice hockey squad wanted desperately. And once
achieved, the Lancer icemen were left to count the
many ways in which their
2-1 overtime win over the
top-ranked Salem High
Blue Devils last Saturday
night in Salem was both
inspiring and headlinemaking.
Senior forward Mike
Donlan became the Lancers’ big hero in the overtime win when - with 5:44
remaining in the eightminute extra stanza - he
redirected defenseman
Mark Leach’s wrist shot
from the point in the
Salem zone over the left
shoulder of Devils’ junior
I
goalie Sam MacDonald.
Pandemonium then
ensued on the ice surface
that both the Lancers and
Blue Devils call their
home rink at the Salem
Icenter, with the “visiting”
Londonderry players doing the celebrating and
the “host” Salem skaters
gliding about stunned.
Snaring the victory
enabled coach Peter Bedford’s bunch to end a
brief but frustrating twogame losing skid, finish
the 2013-14 regular season with a momentumgaining victory, push the
locals’ Division I record to
a fine 14-4, and make
major news in New Hampshire high school hockey
circles by bringing the talented Blue Devils’ 11game undefeated streak
(10-0-1) to an abrupt and
stunning end.
“I don’t think the guys
were playing poorly in the
two losses, they just
weren’t finishing or doing
the little things,” said
Bedford. “But tonight was
a playoff game and a good
momentum-builder that
showed that we can win
against a big opponent.”
The Blue Devils appeared to have busted out
to a 1-0 lead a mere 45
seconds after the opening
faceoff, but their goal was
disallowed by the officials, who insisted that
they had blown the play
dead before the puck skittered over the goal line
inside the LHS net. And
the first stanza wound up
being scoreless despite
the fact that Salem zipped
11 shots on Lancer keeper
Joe McGrath and Londonderry thumped seven on
MacDonald.
The Lancers claimed
the contest’s first official
goal with just 3:46 left in
the hotly-contested second period when sophomore forward Nick Donnelly made a great individual effort pay off.
After taking a pass
from defenseman Frank
Wynters, Donnelly drove
down the right wing of the
Salem zone and thumped
a shot that Devils’ goalie
MacDonald stopped. But
Donnelly kept going to the
net and put home his own
rebound.
The Blue Devils eventually knotted the score at
1-1 with a power-play goal
with 9:01 remaining in the
third period, and the con◆ test ended up being
forced to overtime.
Salem enjoyed a 30-28
advantage in shots on net
during regulation time,
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Young Londonderry Gymnast
Excels at Winter Challenge
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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outhful Londonderry gymnast Sophia
Fonseca wasn’t taking any prisoners at the
recent Winter Challenge
event at the Chelsea Piers
Sports Complex in Stamford, Conn.
The 10-year-old Level
4 standout - who attends
Londonderry South Elementary and competes
for Phantom Gymnastics
in Hampstead - collected
three first places and a
Y
Sophia Fonseca
couple of thirds to boot at
that major competition.
She registered the winning all-around score of
37.825, and firsts on the
balance beam (9.80) and
the uneven bars as well
(9.650). Fonseca’s thirds
were nabbed on vault and
floor, and those superb
performances helped her
Phantoms’ team to a first
place score of 190.50 as
well.
“My wife, Sonya, and I
are very proud of Sophia,”
said her dad, Carlos.
Londonderry High senior forward Mike Donlan potted
the overtime goal in his hockey team’s dramatic victory over the Salem High Blue Devils last weekend.
but Londonderry had a 31 advantage in OT, and
the third of those LHS
blasts brought an end to
play on Donlan’s success-
ful tip of the Leach shot.
Londonderry goalie
McGrath finished the big
night with 30 saves and a
rock-solid performance.
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M ARCH 6, 2014
Badminton Bragging Rights
Londonderry High held a roundrobin doubles badminton tournament at the end of freshman and
sophomore gym classes recently, as
those groups reached the conclusions to their badminton units. The
tournament took place during the
week leading up to vacation break
and ended on the final day with some
special guests, including LHS principal Jay Parent and assistant principal
Katie Sullivan, facing off against
determined ninth graders and 10th
graders.
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M ARCH 6, 2014
PA G E 19
Local Judo Practitioners Fare Well at Wildcat Event
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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oreau’s Training
Center in Londonderry had a crew
of eight of its judo practitioners attend the ninth
annual University of New
Hampshire Wildcat Invitational Judo Tournament
recently and do both
themselves and their
instructors more than a
little proud.
The day full of competition brought forth approximately 30 schools
from across the Northeast,
with competitors ranging
from first-timers to national champions and
even Olympic hopefuls.
The Londonderr y
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school’s first competitors
of the day were competitive newcomers Sharunas
Fritschy and Matt Soucy,
who engaged in action in
the lightweight division
for 5- and 6-year-olds.
Both youngsters performed well, but Soucy
was bumped out of medal
contention by his teammate Fritschy. And the latter judo athlete bagged
his first medal - a bronze after that.
Next up for Moreau’s
were 7- and 8-year-old
level competitors Jack
Nadeau and Anthony
Picarello.
“Both Anthony and
Jack had a division filled
with active veterans of
the sport, and they had to
prove their grit,” said
their head coach, Tom
Moreau.
Picarello wound up
claiming a bronze medal,
while Nadeau finished
just out of medal contention in fourth.
Eight-year-old Sophie
Rench showed her mettle
by competing in a pair of
divisions - the girls’ 7-8
class and the 9-10 division
as well - driving her way
to some flawless victories
and, in the end, walking
away with a bronze
medallion.
The final junior team
competitor from the local
school was Tommy Moreau, who did his work in
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the advanced boys’ 11-12
open weight division. And
the younger Moreau battled his way to a silver
medal before the day was
done.
“Tommy had hardfought, tactical matches
on the day,” said his
proud dad and coach.
“His only loss was to the
gold medal winner.”
Chris Plourde was
then the first Moreau’s
adult student to compete,
which he did in the men’s
advanced 178-pound division. Plourde drove his
way to a superb, 5-1 day
in six matches, losing
only to gold medalist
Aaron Kumihiro.
And last up for the
local training center was
coach Tom Moreau, who
at 190 pounds found himself giving up anywhere
from 20 to 70 pounds to
opponents in the men’s
advanced open weight category.
Setting a fine example
for his students, Moreau
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Casey Evans, Junior,
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This talented and
poised 11th grader scored
in double figures in the
Lady Lancers’ final regular season game against
Nashua South, capping off
another strong regular
season for herself.
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LHS Hoop and Hockey Teams Get Tourney Pairings
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry High
School’s boys’ and
girls’ basketball and
ice hockey contingents
got the news on their initial Division I tournament
seedings and pairings
from the New Hampshire
Interscholastic Athletic
Association on March 3.
And the Lancer basketball contingents already
put in tourney action.
First-year varsity boys’
hoop coach Nate Stanton’s fourth-seeded LHS
squad was paired up with
the 13th-ranked Salem
High Blue Devils - Stanton’s own former high
school team - in a first-
L
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round contest at LHS on
Tuesday, March 4, after
Londonderry Times press
time. The winner of that
game will go on to face
the winner of the Tuesday
prelim between number
five Bishop Guertin of
Nashua and number 12
Manchester Memorial on
the court of the higher
seed on Friday night at 7
p.m.
Retiring veteran coach
John Fagula’s secondseeded Lady Lancers
were lined up with the
number 15 Exeter High
Lady Blue Hawks at LHS
on Wednesday night,
March 5, in prelim play
after Londonderry Times
press time, with the win-
ner slated to play the winner of that day’s prelim
between number seven
Winnacunnet of Hampton
and number 10 Alvirne.
That quarterfinal game
will be played at the home
of the higher seed this
coming Saturday at 7 p.m.
And after receiving a
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drove through the tough
ranks of competitors but
in the end had to settle
for the silver medal
behind national champion Aaron Hardy, against
whom the local training
center instructor faced off
several times.
Will Bean, Senior,
Wrestling
After four years of
hard work and determination on varsity, this seasoned grappler capped
off his Granite State
wrestling career by winning his weight class at
both the D-I championships and the Meet of
Champs.
first-round bye, the thirdranked Londonderry High
hockey squad of coach
Peter Bedford will face off
against the sixth-seeded
Bishop Guertin Cardinals
in quarterfinal play at the
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M ARCH 6, 2014
Londonderry Man Boosts Awareness of Multiple Sclerosis
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ade Anderson of
Londonderry
wants the public
to be aware of the need
for Multiple Sclerosis
(MS) research to improve
the future for the 2.3 million people with the disease of the central nerv-
W
ous system. It has no
known cause or cure.
Using his interest in fitness and his large circle
of friends, Anderson rallied a small team in 2007
to support the Cape Cod
Getaway, a bike ride from
Quincy, Mass., to Provincetown on the Cape. Anderson named the fund-
raising team “The Ring
Warriors” after the business In the Ring Fitness,
which he and his wife,
Hollie, own in Londonderry, and where the team
trains for fundraising events.
Those events include
the MuckFest in April, a
5K run and obstacle mud
pit course held at Devens-
Willard Field in Devens,
Mass. New this year, a
team of 25 will take on the
Plane Pull, attempting to
pull a 127,520-pound
FedEx 757 aircraft 12 feet
while tethered to a rope.
The team will again
bike the Cape Cod Getaway 175 miles in June,
the Great Maine Getaway
at 175 miles and the Seacoast Escape 60 miles in
August.
“I was diagnosed with
MS back in 1998 just a few
months after my first son
was born,” Anderson
said. “At the time I was 30
to 40 pounds heavier than
I am now, I was a smoker,
and I was really out of
shape. I was having
headaches often enough
that they were concerned,
and it turned out, believe
it or not, that they
thought I was allergic to
cigarette smoke. So, they
found the lesions on my
brain and found the MS,
all as a result of checking
for something that had
nothing to do with MS.
“When they told me I
had MS, my wife got
behind me and said,
‘you’re going to get in
shape and you’re going to
make sure that if this
thing does anything terrible to you, you’re going to
be in the best condition
you could ever be in to
beat it,’” Anderson added.
Anderson said that he
owns a boxing gym, is a
certified personal trainer,
takes part in MS bike
teams and works his day
job as an insurance
adjuster.
While Anderson has
From left, Eric Morrow of Windham, and Wade
Anderson and Michael Marks of Londonderry are
three friends hoping to bring Multiple Sclerosis
awareness to people by lighting Boston landmarks
and taking part in physical activities this spring.
Courtesy photo
worked hard to build a
team and raise funding
support, he has also
enjoyed personal benefits
through his efforts. His
friendships have grown,
he said, and one of those
friends is Michael Marks.
Marks has arranged
for several public venues
to light up the Multiple
Sclerosis Society color of
orange this spring. Boston’s
Prudential Tower, the TD
Garden and the Leonard
P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
will be among those that
brighten the night in
March with orange lighting to represent the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s
logo color.
Marks wants as many
people as possible to see
the orange lights and ask
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why there are new colors
on those very public landmarks.
“Every time someone
sees the orange color, I
hope they’ll ask why it’s
there, or be reminded of
the need for MS research,”
Marks said. “Every person
who knows more about
Multiple Sclerosis, the
Multiple Sclerosis Society
and the fundraising events,
increases the likelihood
that we’ll make an impact
on this disease.”
The schedule of lightings is: Monday through
Sunday, March 3-9, Boston’s Leonard P. Zakim
Bunker Hill Bridge; and
same dates, Carpenter’s
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Celtics Performance
The Londonderry High School Marching Lancer Drum Line performed at the
Celtics game vs. the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26, at the TD Garden.
The drumline received a welcoming response from the crowd at the game. This is the
eighth year the drummers performed at halftime for a Celtics game. Courtesy photos
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Transportation Service Panned at Elder Affairs Meeting
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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n October 2013, CART the Cooperative Alliance for Regional Transportation - Executive
Director Annette Stoller,
Rockingham Planning Commission Transportation
Planner Scott Bogle and
Londonderry CART board
representative Bob Ramsay met with the Londonderry Elder Affairs Committee to answer questions and address concerns regarding CART
service in town.
And according to Bon-
I
nie Ritvo of the Elderly
Affairs Committee, Stoller
has not contacted her
since that meeting, even
though Stoller said she
would.
“She took my number
and said, ‘I’m going to call
you.’ Nothing. Never
heard a word,” Ritvo
claimed at the Tuesday,
Feb. 25 meeting. “So now I
book (a ride on CART) for
one day to come home
from the (Senior) Center. I
called three days in
advance and they said
they’d call me back never, nothing. They
never called back to tell
me I have it (a ride) or I
don’t have it. I don’t know
what the city pays for the
service but the only part
of this service that is any
good is the part that
works through the Rockingham Nutrition because
they bring them (to the
meal site) and bring them
home after a meal.”
Ritvo said that outside
of the meal site transports, she does not think
the service is working.
Contacted by the Londonderry Times after
Ritvo’s allegations last
week, Stoller said via
email that she had called
Ritvo after the October
meeting and left a message. Stoller said she was
unaware of additional
complaints and would
check with the dispatchers to see if there were
any.
“I am concerned if
there was a problem in
Londonderry,” she wrote.
“I’ve been to the Senior
Center, I went to the Elder
Affairs meeting (in October) and after that meeting, the phone numbers I
had of people that I could
call back, I called back.
Somebody contacted a
member of our board and
said that ‘these things
need to be fixed,’ but
what are they?”
According to Londonderry Finance Director
Susan Hickey, the town
paid CART $26,397 for FY
13 and the Town Council
approved another $26,397
for FY 14.
Elder Affairs Committee Vice Chair Susan
Haussler suggested a subcommittee be formed to
look into CART.
“Are you documenting
the times and everything
on the people, because
we have to have proof
when we sit down with
them,” Chairman Al Baldasaro said.
Ritvo said she will document dates, times and
instances.
“The town gives money
to them and if it’s not
working, maybe it would
be better for the town to
give money for vouchers
for taxis,” Baldasaro added.
The subcommittee
hopes to look into how
many people use the service in town.
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Teen Directors Guide Kids Coop’s ‘Little Mermaid Jr.’
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he upcoming Kids
Coop Theatre production of “The Little Mermaid Jr.” is this
year’s annual Young
Directors Show. Three of
the group’s older teen
members have been given
the opportunity to take
charge of the creative
process while being mentored in their director
roles by professionals.
“The Little Mermaid
Jr.” is the story of Ariel
and friends in a magical
underwater world. Ariel
longs to leave her ocean
home and her fins to live
in the world above the
waves, which would
involve defying her father,
handling the evil sea
witch Ursula, and convincing Prince Eric she’s
the girl for him.
The teen play director
is Claire Neville, 17, of
Londonderry, a senior at
Holy Family Academy in
Manchester.
“I’ll admit, the thought
of such a big responsibility - being essentially in
control of a full-scale musical production - has been
pretty intimidating from
the start,” she said. “But
T
everyone involved, both
the kids and adults doing
backstage work, have
been nothing but wonderful, and I look forward to
seeing the end result of all
our hard work. My main
strength has been drawing
on all my past experiences
in acting and behind-thescenes work, as well as on
my natural creativity to
make this life under the
sea believable to the audience. I don’t plan on pursuing acting as a career,
but I would still like to continue doing it for as long as
I can for enjoyment.”
Sarah Rodgers, 16, of
Derry is the play’s musical director. She is a sophomore at Pinkerton Academy.
“My role as the music
director is to teach the
kids how to sing and keep
in time with the music,”
she said. “The harmonies
in some of the songs such
as ‘Kiss the Girl’ sound
fantastic and I’m very
proud of this cast. When I
graduate, I am thinking
about being more involved in the technical aspects of theater, such as
costume and makeup
design.”
The play’s choreogra-
pher is 18-year-old Pinkerton senior Brenna Morgan
from Derry.
“My role is to teach
the cast the dances to
each
number,”
she
explained. “This involves
many different styles of
dances and things like
rhythm and matching
movement to words, staying in character and good
technique. My strengths
for this role are that I
have taken dance for
eight years and have a lot
of dance knowledge and
experience in performing.
Along with this, I also
know a lot about teaching
good technique and
rhythm. I can completely
see myself involved in
theater for years to come
whether that be as an
actor, choreographer or a
director.”
Their mentor, Jude
Bascom, has more than 30
years of experience in all
areas of the performing
arts. Bascom provides
guidance and support to
the teenage directors.
“All three of the young
directors have a positive
and enthusiastic attitude
about this production and
with the cast,” she said.
“All three are very re-
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Exhibit
things, you will show
similarities but still have the
freedom to have different
works. I compare it to typecasting of actors: it may
work for a while and make
them more marketable, but
after a time they get stuck in
the same mold.”
The intense colors in the
flowers in the foreground
and the brilliant sunlight of
“Small Barn” are vibrant,
drawing the viewer in immediately. “You get the interplay of the stillness in the
air and the organic forms of
the flowers,” he said.
O’Neill, who has been
painting since he was 8, will
exhibit his work at three
other libraries this year – in
Stoneham, Mass., and in
Derry and Plaistow.
The paintings at the
Leach Library are displayed
on easels; the exhibit continues through March 31.
Pictured are cast members from the upcoming Kids Coop Theatre production of “The
Little Mermaid Jr.” From left are Emily Thomas of Londonderry, Emily DeWolf of Derry,
Danielle Kuhl of Hampstead, and Ryan Geary of Derry. Photo by Penny Williams
sponsible young women
who have taken their
directing roles seriously.
Each of them has their
very distinct strengths
but are working very cooperatively as a team, and
the show will benefit from
their combined creativity.
They are a pleasure to
mentor.”
The cast enjoys the
play as well. Danielle Kuhl
of Hampstead said, “This
is my second year with
Kids Coop. Even though
I’ve been involved with
theatre for a long time
before, the experience
with KCT is the best. You
get to meet lots of people
who love to do what you
love to do, and the directors are great. Plus, it’s an
excuse to wear drastic
makeup, even the guys!”
Local members of the
cast are:
Derry: Emily DeWolf,
Ryan Geary, Robbie Chubbuck, Morgane Vigroux,
Grace Cass, Hailey Laskiewicz, Tyler Vinson, Zoie
Laskiewicz, Elora Chase,
Ruthie Vinson, Sam Boyle,
Madeline Chase, Rachel
Wood, Alexis Webber,
Madeleine Tveter, Brenna
Kimball, Braeden Tremain
and Alexander Tveter.
Londonderry cast members are Emily Thomas,
Zelda Howard-Martin, Julia
Turk, Alyssa Beaulieu, Amanda Battaglia, Evie Brunette, and Maya Lincoln.
From Hampstead are
Danielle Kuhl and Isabella
Charlebois, and from
Sandown is Logan Young.
Other cast members
are from Windham, Litchfield, Pelham, Salem, and
Groveland, Mass.
The Kids Coop Theatre is a 501©3 education-
al charity founded in 1997
with a mission to provide
children ages 8 through
18 a fun, safe, non-competitive environment in
which to develop talent,
self-esteem, learn teamwork and leadership skills
and make life-long friends
through acting, music,
and dance. The programs
are open to area children.
With the exception of the
hired professional artistic
directors everything relating to the productions
is performed and handled
by dedicated parent volunteers.
The play takes the
stage March 7 at 7 p.m.,
March 8 at 1 and 7 p.m.,
and March 9 at 1 p.m. at
the Derry Opera House on
West Broadway in Derry.
All tickets are $12 and are
available at www.kidscoop-theatre.org.
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VA Hospital Bingo
American Legion Post
27, 6 Sargent Road, runs
bingo for patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Manchester from 7 to
8:30 p.m. March 24. Pizza
and diet soda are served,
and $150 in prize money is
provided. Donations are
appreciated or stop by and
help out. EXP320
Legionnaires Sought
American Legion Post
27, 6 Sargent Road, is seeking new Legionnaires who
have the appropriate military service dates. The post
also welcomes men whose
fathers or grandfathers are
eligible for membership as
well as women related to
qualified members. These
two groups can join the
Sons of the American Legion
and Ladies Auxiliary, respectively. The mission is to
provide assistance to veterans, children and the community. For more information about Post 27, visit
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<http://www.alpost27.com
or the Greeley Parmenter
Harrington Facebook page.
8, 5 to 7 p.m., St. Patrick’s
Day dinner at Church of the
Transfiguration; March 9,
noon, lunch, Seventh Day
Adventist Church; March
15, 5 to 6:30 p.m., dinner, St.
Luke’s United Methodist
Church; March 16, noon,
lunch, Seventh Day Adventist Church; March 16, 5 to
6:30 p.m., dinner, Etz Hayim
Synagogue; March 20, 5 to
6:30 p.m., dinner, West Running Brook Middle School;
March 23, noon, lunch, SevEXP320
enth Day Adventist Church;
March 28, 5 to 6:30 p.m.,
Free Meals
spaghetti supper, First
The Community Meals Parish Church; March 30,
Network offers free, family- noon, lunch, Seventh Day
friendly meals at the follow- Adventist Church.
ing Derry locations: March
Pediatric Asthma
Training
Theater Enrichment Program
AUDITIONS: On Sunday March 23rd the Specialized Theater
Enrichment Program (STEPs), will hold auditions for "Fame
Jr." which is open to actors in grades 8 through 12. Deadline
to sign up is Sunday March 16th. Performances will be at the
Derry Opera House on June 6th and 7th.
STEPs: Founded by Nicole Aubert Murray and Yvonne
Aubert Sarafinas, offers voice, dance and acting classes to
students of all ability levels, to provide a well-rounded education and to help them build the confidence needed to be
successful in the world of musical theater.
Phone: 978-482-7733, Email: info@stepsnh.org, Website:
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Parkland Medical Center
offers a free Pediatric Asthma Training on Saturday,
March 22, from 10 a.m. to
noon at the Nutfield Medical
Office Building, Suite 203,
Entrance A, 44 Birch St.,
Derry. The Make a P.A.C.T
(Pediatric Asthma Care and
Training) class provides an
opportunity to learn about
children’s asthma and how
to manage this chronic illness. Led by a certified asthma educator, the program
discusses asthma attacks,
devices to monitor asthma
and administer medication,
triggers, action plans, and
emergencies. Question and
answer time is included.
Registration is required: call
Consult a Nurse at 1-877642-2362 or visit www.park-
landmedicalcenter.com/cal- from 8 to 10:30 a.m. as a misendar. EXP320
sion of Calvary Bible
Church, 145 Hampstead
Birdwatching
Road, Derry, with arrival
On Thursday, March 20, required by 10 a.m. Gentlyat 7 p.m., the Leach Library used clothing is given away
will host master birder and free. Each household is limauthor Eric Masterson with ited to 20 of the newest
“Birdwatching in New Hamp- items, plus unlimited older
shire.” This audiovisual items. Enter at Calvary Bible
presentation will focus on Church marquee sign;
New Hampshire birding, Renew is at right. Donations
with photos and anecdotes of good condition, modern
taken from Masterson’s clothing may be placed in
book, “Birdwatching in New the donations bin by the
Hampshire.” The event is door at any time. No
free and will be held in the receipts are provided.
library’s lower-level meeting Search for “Renew Derry”
room. Light refreshments on Facebook, email renewwill be served. EXP320
clothing@yahoo.com or call
the church secretary at 434Avian Adventures
1516 for details.
The New Hampshire
Audubon’s McLane Center Town Report
will be at the Leach Library
The 2013 Town of Lonon Monday, March 10, from donderry Annual Report is
4 to 5 p.m. with its Avian available for the public to
Adventures program for pick up at Leach Library.
children. Participants will
learn about birds through Young Athletes
props such as mounts,
Special Olympics New
wings, beaks and eggs. A Hampshire will host a winlive raptor such as a barred ter term of the Young Athowl, peregrine falcon or red- letes Program (YAP) for the
tailed hawk may make an Londonderry community.
appearance at the end of the YAP is a weekly sports play
program. Advance registra- program for children with
tion is required. To register, and without disabilities,
call 432-1127 or stop by the ages 2 through 7, designed
Children’s Room. EXP36
to introduce them to the
foundations of sports and
Crocodile Rock
skills. Practice sessions are
Children are invited to one hour and the program is
celebrate all things crocodil- free. It takes place at the
ian at the Leach Library on Matthew Thornton ElemenMonday, March 24, from 4 to tary School cafeteria Mon5 p.m. Stories of alligators days from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m.
and crocodiles, and a To register, call the practice
chance to learn about key coach, Lisa Gertz, at 505differences between the 6708 or email at lgertz@easttwo, will be offered, along ersealsnh.org to complete
with a chance to dance to an application. EXP3-6
the “crocodile rock” and
bring home a foam alligator Garden Club
visor. Advance registration
The March program for
is required and begins at 9 the Derry Garden Club will
a.m. Monday, March 17. To be “My Cutting Garden” by
register, call 432-1127 or Audrey Vargish, Master Garstop by the Children’s dener and Sandown Garden
Room. EXP320
Club president. She will
have a PowerPoint presenRenew
tation focusing on planning,
Renew clothing give- planting and enjoying a cutaway is offered March 8 ting garden. The public is
welcome to attend this
meeting, set for March 7 at
10 a.m. at the Boys and Girls
HAIR
Club of Greater Derry, 40
Hampstead Road, Derry. For
more information, view derrygardenclub.org or call
434-0578. The club is a member of the New Hampshire
Federation of Garden Clubs
(District IV) New England
Region and of the National
Garden Clubs, Inc. EXP3-6
Library Art
Leach Library hosts a
show of oil paintings by
Craig O’Neill of Londonderry from March 1-31. EXP313
Purim
Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1
1/2 Hood Road, Derry celebrates Purim on Saturday,
March 15, at 8 p.m. Purim
commemorates a time when
the Jews in ancient Persia
were saved from extermination, as recounted in the
Biblical Book of Esther. At
this carnival-like celebration, adults will dress in costumes, eat, drink, and make
merry. Congregants will perform the story of Purim, and
a contest for the most creative “hamantashen” (Purim
pastry) is planned. The synagogue also hosts a Purim
children’s carnival Sunday,
March 16, from 10 a.m. to
noon. For details, see
www.etzhayim.org or contact Rabbi Bryna Milkow at
432-0004. EXP313
Special Ed Partnership
The Londonderry Special Education Partnership
holds a general meeting
Tuesday, March 25, in the
Moose Hill Conference
Room at Town Hall at 7 p.m.
Parents, guardians, advocates, teachers, school staff
and administrators are invited to attend. The partnership’s mission is to provide
a district-wide family-school
partnership to support the
special education community from preschool through
high school in workshops,
activities, communication,
collaboration and education. For more information,
visit
www.LondonderrySEP.org or email londonderrysep@gmail.com. Exp320
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Going Green in Londonderry - Freecycling: Trash to Treasure
eady to get rid of
something that can
still function? We
usually donate unwanted
items to Goodwill or the
Salvation Army, but what
if they won’t accept it?
You’ve heard of recycling; now try freecycling.
It’s as simple as e-mailing
friends or family, posting
notes on bulletin boards
at work, or listing them on
online sources such as
Craigslist or Freecycle.org.
Freecycle.org was created in 2003 to “keep
good stuff out of landfills,” and has since
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spread to over 85 countries with thousands of
local groups and millions
of users. The Freecycle
Network claims it diverts
nearly 500 tons a day out
of landfills.
Got some clothes your
kids have outgrown? Old
but serviceable school
supplies? An extra mattress? Old tools from your
workshop? A used VCR or
DVD player? A ping pong
table or exercise equipment that’s just collecting
dust? The list is endless.
You’ll be surprised
what has value for people:
trophies, kiddy swimming
pools, wooden shelves,
Christmas decorations,
old push mowers, comic
books, pieces of furniture,
arts and crafts, gelatin
molds, hamster supplies,
crutches, laundry baskets, a pile of bricks…you
never know until you ask.
Freecycling even works
in reverse: tell the online
community what you
need and chances are
there’s someone out there
trying to get rid of exactly
what you’re looking for.
Best of all, it’s all free!
Perhaps your daugh-
ter danced ballet last year
but now she wants to try
soccer; see if you can find
someone to trade their
cleats for her old ballet
slippers. Even if you can’t
barter a trade, don’t toss
those old tutus. Freecycling isn’t just about getting new (old) stuff; it’s
about reducing the amount of waste we burden the earth with each
time we drag our trashcans to the curb.
One practice that’s
becoming more popular is
freecycling paint. Say you
have leftover paint from
renovating your kitchen
and you want to tackle
the bedrooms next;
maybe your neighbor
could use your paint, or
has a color you’re looking
for.
It’s easy to get started.
Just Google “Freecycle
NH” and you’ll find local
groups in Derry, Manchester and many other towns
that you can join instantly
– no approval is needed.
The only requirement is
that anything you list
must be legal and free.
So next time you go to
throw something out,
remember that just because the garbage truck
took it away, it doesn’t
mean it’s gone. Instead,
it’s sitting in a landfill,
along with the other millions of tons of garbage
we generate. Before tossing it, try freecycling it.
And you’ll probably make
somebody else very
happy with the deal, too.
Courtesy of Londonderry’s Solid Waste and Environment Committee and
New Hampshire Department of Environmental
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Spending Freeze
budgeted for FY 14. Last
year that budget stood at
$613,086.
“That said, the overall
fire department budget is
only running about 0.3
percent higher as of right
now than it was in FY 13.
So the chief has made
adjustments in other
areas to try to mitigate
the overage in the overtime,” Smith said.
The police department
is 0.1 percent above
where it was at this time
last year.
“Legal is running about 36 percent higher this
year than it was last year we’re currently at about
150.6 percent of our budget,” Smith said.
Smith said that as for
the bottom line, the town
should be at about 66.6
percent at this time. Last
year it was running at
about 64 percent. This
year that figure stands at
71 percent.
Smith added, “every
department head knows
that they need to do what
needs to be done within
their department to make
sure they continue to mitigate the problem we
have right now.”
Resident Reed Clark
said a lot of things needed
to be done and noted that
people were calling him
about adding firefighters
and other issues.
Resident Pauline Caron said the overages in
the Legal budget related
to what has happened in
town this year and last.
“The fire department has
been running overtime
and as they say, replacement time, since 2008/
2009, when they went
from a 48 hour week to a
42 hour week,” she said.
“On Jan. 26, the Town
Manager gave an analysis
of the fire department, I
checked the minutes on
the town web site. It
refers to reports attached, which aren’t
attached to the minutes,
but I was watching that
night.”
She said that since
2008-09 the town has
spent over $1 million on
the fire department because of overtime.
“So the overtime is
broken,” she told the
Council. “It has to be
fixed, yet additional firefighters are not going to
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2:58 p.m. Londonderry
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3:14 p.m. Caller reports
hearing gunshots on
Lantern Lane.
8 p.m. Jason Michael
Jarvis, 38, 63 Emerald St.,
Keene in custody at
Cheshire County House of
Corrections on Londonderry warrant for Stalking. He was held on $1,000
cash bail, with Derry District Court date of March
3.
Sunday, March 2
8:21 p.m. Alfred Joseph
Colon, 28, Rockingham
Road, Londonderry arrested for Criminal Mischief (vandalism) and
Simple Assault. Bail set at
$2,500 cash, with Derry
Circuit Court date of
March 3. Caller reported
Colon, her boyfriend,
threw an air conditioner
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TOWN OF LONDONDERRY
LEGAL NOTICE
The Londonderry Town Council will hold a PUBLIC
HEARING on the following item:
1. Walking Trail Easement - Request to release the Town's
rights to the Walking Trail Easement by Quitclaim
Release Deed to The Nevins Retirement Cooperative
Association. (Public Hearing tabled on October 7, 2013)
The Public Hearing is scheduled for Monday, March 17,
2014 at 7:00 PM at the Londonderry Town Hall, 268B
Mammoth Road, Londonderry, NH 03053. Copies of the
proposed amendment for the Walking Trail Easement may
be viewed at the Town Manager's office during regular
business hours and online at www.londonderrynh.org.
Londonderry Town Council
M ARCH 6, 2014
help the situation, it’s just
going to compound it and
add extra overtime.”
She said the Council
should consider having
the fire department go
back to a 48-hour work
week and have enough
firefighters working to
cover the shifts. She also
said the battalions should
be cut back from four
members to three.
Town Council Chair
John Farrell said the
Council was open to all
ideas and that during collective bargaining, her
suggestion “or something
similar to it” was discussed.
Councilor Tom Freda
said an analysis had been
done with reference to
hiring additional firefighters or staying with overtime replacement costs.
Pinkerton Academy
Derry, NH
Londonderry Police Log
Monday, Feb. 24
8:59 a.m. Criminal mischief to Mountain Home
Estates Clubhouse, Fieldstone Drive.
Tuesday, Feb. 25
8:38 a.m. Caller reported
holes drilled in gas tanks
on company vehicles at
Mushfield Company Inc.,
Rocker Avenue.
Wednesday, Feb. 26
10:02 p.m. Criminal mischief to vehicle on Wyndmere Drive.
Saturday, March 1
1:53 p.m. Car keyed last
evening on Stonehenge
Road.
2:20 p.m. Burglary to residence reported on Old
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He said that adding firefighters cost $9,000 more
per firefighter due to fixed
costs.
Smith noted that cutting the number of firefighters per battalion is
not an ideal situation, but
they were trying to strike
the right balance.
Caron asked why she
sees so many ambulances
going by her house on
Mammoth Road. Fire
Chief Darren O’Brien
responded that the department is busy answering calls and the closest
ambulance to a call
responds.
TOWN OF LONDONDERRY
LEGAL NOTICE
The Zoning Board of Adjustment for the Town of Londonderry, NH
will meet Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 7:00 P.M. in the Moose
Hill Council Chambers, 268B Mammoth Road. Please note: The
Board reserves the right to continue presentations, deliberations,
and/or discussion to April 3, 2014 if the need arises.
Minutes (December 18, 2013) 7:00 P.M.
Case No. 3/19/2014-1 7:01 P.M.
New England Industrial Properties, Inc. requests a variance to
allow a subdivision to create two lots in the C-II zone without full
perimeter green space as required by Section 2.4.3.2.1. 3 Garden Lane; 10-54; C-II.
Case No. 3/19/2014-2 7:10 P.M.
Charles Evans requests a variance to allow an existing building
to remain within the front 60-foot structure setback as required
by Section 2.4.3.1.1; to allow a parking area within the front 30foot green space as required by Section 2.4.3.2.1; and to allow a
parking area to be unpaved as prohibited by Section 3.10.13.2.1.
199 Rockingham Road; 15-67; C-II, within the Rte. 28 Performance Overlay District.
Case No. 3/19/2014-3 7:20 P.M.
Ballinger Properties and Five N Associates General Partnership
requests a variance to allow a subdivision to create a lot with no
frontage on a Class V or better road, contrary to Section 2.7.2.2.
51 Pettengill Road; 14-45; GB.
Case No. 3/19/2014-4 7:30 P.M.
Team Business Development Corporation requests a variance to
allow an elderly housing development on a 7.96 acre parcel
where 15 acres is required by Section 3.6.4.1; and to allow an
elderly housing development with 56% open space where 70%
is required under Section 3.6.4.8.1. 5 Button Drive, 4 Golen
Drive, 6 Golen Drive, 8 Golen Drive, 12 Golen Drive, 1 Reed
Street & 3 Reed Street; 7-132-8, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, and 20; C-I,
within the Rte. 102 Performance Overlay District.
Case No. 3/19/2014-5 7:30 P.M.
allow an increase in the number of dwelling units in a single
building of an elderly housing development to 36 units and 42
units where 16 is the maximum number of units allowed by Section 3.6.4.7; and to allow an increase in density in an elderly
housing development to 15.8 units per acre where only 6 units
per acre is allowed by Section 3.6.4.14.2.1. 5 Button Drive, 4
Golen Drive, 6 Golen Drive, 8 Golen Drive, 12 Golen Drive, 1
Reed Street & 3 Reed Street; 7-132-8, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, and 20;
C-I, within the Rte. 102 Performance Overlay District.
Case No. 3/19/2014-6 7:30 P.M.
allow an elderly housing development with separation between
buildings of 20 feet where 60 feet is required by Section 3.6.4.2;
and to allow an elderly housing development with a mix of 1bedroom and 2-bedroom units where the standard 2-bedroom
unit is required by Section 3.6.4.7.1. 5 Button Drive, 4 Golen
Drive, 6 Golen Drive, 8 Golen Drive, 12 Golen Drive, 1 Reed
Street & 3 Reed Street; 7-132-8, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, and 20; C-I,
within the Rte. 102 Performance Overlay District
This agenda was created with reference to the Londonderry
zoning ordinance dated December, 2013
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