BRISTOL — Select-men are continuing to investigate the town’s options for recycling at the newly configured transfer station, but did not have enough information to make a decision at their Sept. 5 meeting.
Much of the meet-ing was devoted to proposed amendments to the transfer station rates. Town Admin-
istrator Nik Coates had worked with Su-perintendent Mark Bucklin to amend the regulations in order to accommodate the suggestions selectmen had made to better reg-ulate who can use the solid waste station and how much material can be dropped off.
Selectmen had been particularly interested in banning material from estate cleanouts after one resident had
brought several large loads for disposal on a busy Saturday, quick-ly filling the bin. That prohibition had not been addressed in the revised regulations aired on the 5th, but will be incorporated into the final docu-ment.
The new fee struc-ture limits how much businesses can bring to the transfer sta-tion in an attempt to
PLYMOUTH – State and local dignitaries, community partners and investors in the construction of a new veterans housing fa-cility in Plymouth gathered in front of the 30-unit residential building on Boulder Point Road last week for an official ribbon cutting.
Leading the ceremo-ny was Peter Kelleher the CEO of Harbor Homes/Par tnership for Successful Living. His company has been instrumental in the construction of simi-lar permanent housing facilities for veterans in the southern part of the state and he was pleased to now bring housing to homeless veterans in northern New Hampshire.
Kelleher began the morning by thanking
Alex Ray and Direc-tor Cathy Bentwood of Bridge House for see-ing the need for veteran housing and said he was pleased that the Town
of Plymouth was recep-tive to their idea. Not-ing that it was a “stead-fast and determined journey” of eight years to get the job done, he
was grateful to all who stuck with the project and saw it through to its completion.
“There were 150 Plymouth area com-munity members who put their heart and soul into this project,” Kelleher noted.
The added beauty of the location they acquired, he went on to say, was its proxim-ity to public transpor-tation, shopping and medical services.
“Thank you, part-ners, community stakeholders and vet-erans. Without them, we would not be here today,” he said. “With your help, we believe we can end veteran homelessness.”
Common Man own-er Alex Ray was away in the Bahamas taking part in hurricane relief efforts, but spokesper-son Lisa Muir deliv-
tax cap had exploited a provision of the Official Ballot Act, RSA 40:13, that stipulated that the school board could determine what constitutes a one-time expenditure. The school board endorsed the approach, determin-ing that a roof repair at the high school was part of ongoing maintenance, rather than a one-time expenditure, and there-fore the nearly $1 million expenditure would be guaranteed through the default budget if voters rejected it in the proposed budget.
Bristol resident and former school adminis-trator Archie Auger chal-lenged that approach, and angry residents showed up at several school board meetings to protest the maneuver.
Vincent Paul Miglio-re, then a school board member from Bridgewa-ter, attempted to strike a middle ground by seek-ing a policy that would allow residents to vote separately on capital improvement items, but Chair Jeff Levesque of Groton termed the effort a “temper tantrum,” and the school board ulti-mately determined that there was “no value” in allowing residents to vote on such items.
The school district budget committee, which provides a separate set of eyes to determine whether the spending is justified, agreed that cap-ital improvement items should remain within the operating budget, rath-er than being presented separately, with Hebron member Don Franklin arguing that voters might be more likely to reject the spending if they saw it in a separate warrant
side the hall where people could buy her children’s books, shop the craft ta-bles and stock up on great foods in the grange’s bake sale. There was a Dutch Auction that took place in the hall as well and a sneak peak at the eve-ning’s live auction could
also be found.Outside the grange, a
silent auction was set up and throughout the day people placed their bids on any of the 28 items up for auction. This year there were numerous gift cards to local businesses and restaurants along
with big ticket items such as season passes to near-by Ragged Mt. ski area, heating fuel, and even a private event for up to 10 guests at Haunted Whis-pers Vineyard & Spirits in Danbury.
Across the street at the American Legion Post 96 Hall, there were At-tic Treasures to browse through while outdoors a number of vendors were selling hand knit winter wear, jams, jewelry, home decorative items and more.
The Danbury Fire De-partment was the site of the annual agricultural competition where local gardeners brought floral displays, large gourds, canned goods and other agricultural-related en-tries to be judged. Fire-fighters, rescue person-nel and their supporters were also busy selling tickets for their upcom-
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DANBURY – Now in its 105th year, the Danbury Grange & Community Fair last weekend drew a large crowd of people who live in Danbury and neighboring towns, or were just visiting for the area and wanted to join them for a day of true down-home New Hamp-shire fun.
Starting with a tradi-tional pancake breakfast at Danbury Elementary School, the focus of the day then centered along North Road in front of the Blazing Star Grange Hall were there was much to see and do as everyone awaited the 11
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The Hillbilly Band float was one of several parade entries that boasted Danbury Has Talent in the 105th annual Danbury Grange and Community Fair last Saturday.
SEE FAIR, PAGE A12
School Board opts to keepcapital expenditures in budgetBY THOMAS P. CALDWELL
Contributing Writer
BRISTOL — With one voice, members of the Newfound Area School Board dismissed the voters’ directive to put large capital improve-ment items into separate warrant articles, argu-ing that doing so would complicate their efforts to improve the district’s schools.
Vice-Chair Jason Rob-ert of Hebron, a former school administrator, said allowing taxpay-ers to vote separately on capital improvement items would be a “giant hindrance” — a term Heidi Milbrand of Bris-tol echoed in arguing against placing expendi-tures greater than $24,999 into separate warrant articles for the annual school district meeting.
The directive came in a non-binding petitioned article that passed, 921-625, during the March School District Meeting.
Administrators look-ing for a way to catch up on long-neglected repairs and maintenance that could not be funded un-der the school district’s
SEE SCHOOL, PAGE A11 SEE RECYCLING, PAGE A10
SEE BOULDER POINT, PAGE A10
No decision yet on recycling
Displaced veteran finds a home at new Boulder Point facility
article.That led to two peti-
tioned warrant articles for March: one to ask the board to put those items in separate articles, and another — which was binding — that took the power to determine the default budget from the school board and vest it instead with the budget committee.
During the public com-ment period on Sept. 3, prior to the discussion on the article, Budget Com-mittee Chair Ruby Hill of Danbury expressed her concerns about the call for a new policy on large expenditures, saying she
a.m. parade start.Local author Mary
Lyn Ray was one of the many booths set up in-
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Sharon and retired U.S. Marine Paul Ash, along with their dog Roxy, are proud to be the first to call the new 30-unit Veterans Housing at Boulder Point in Plymouth their permanent home.
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What does investing mean to you? If the word makes you think of transactions – buying or selling stocks and bonds – you’re looking at just part of the picture. To work toward all your goals, such as a comfortable retirement, you need a comprehensive financial strate-gy. And for that, you might need to work with a personal financial advisor. But what, specifically, can this type of professional do for you?Here are some of the key services a financial advisor can provide:• Help you invest for your retire-ment – An experienced financial advisor can look at all the relevant factors – your current and project-ed income, age at which you’d like to retire, desired retirement life-style – to help you determine how much you need to invest, and in which investment vehicles, to help
you reach your retirement goals. To cite just one example, a financial advisor can review your employ-er-sponsored retirement plan and help you determine how to use it to your greatest advantage.• Help you save for college – High-er education is expensive, and costs are rising every year. If you’d like to help your children – or grand-children – go to college someday, you need to save and invest early and often. A financial advisor can suggest appropriate college savings vehicles and strategies.• Help make sure you’re well-pro-tected – If something were to happen to you, could your family maintain its standard of living? Or if you someday needed some type of long-term care, such as an extended stay in a nursing home, would you be able to maintain your
financial independence, or would you be forced to rely on your adult children for help? A financial advi-sor can recommend and possibly provide suitable protection prod-ucts and services for your needs.• Help you adjust your financial strat-egy – Not much will stay constant in your life – and that includes your financial strategy. Any number of events – a new child, a new job, a new retirement destination – can cause you to adjust your investment moves, as will some of the factors influenc-ing the financial markets – economic downturns, changing interest rates, new tax laws, and more. A financial advisor can help you change course as needed – and sometimes encour-age you not to change course, when, in his or her professional opinion, you might be tempted to overreact to some event or other.
While a financial advisor can help you in many ways, you’ll need, above all else, to feel comfortable with whomever you choose. Ulti-mately, you’ll want to pick someone who understands what’s important to you, and who will follow an es-tablished process to create person-alized strategies and recommend specific actions needed to help achieve your goals. And you’ll want someone who will be with you in the long run – someone who will revisit your objectives and risk tolerance and who can adjust your strategies in response to changes in your life.A financial advisor can make a big difference in your life. So, work diligently to find the right one – and take full advantage of the help you’ll receive as you move toward your important goals.
105th Danbury Grange FairALL PHOTOS BY DONNA RHODES
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At about this time of year, many birds of prey in the Far North begin their fall migrations southward, folding up their tents for another year. Some sail right on through and make their trips in a day or two. For others, it’s a far more gradual move as they hunt the snow-line, that fuzzy space across the map where rains turns to sleet and snow, a zone moving inexorably south-ward.
The availability of food is the big item for the slow movers. They hunt their way down, flying high on clear days and following the val-leys when the low-lying clouds roll in. Some hunt their way down the great rivers---the Connecticut, Androscoggin, Kenne-bec, Penobscot, St. John. If they’re used to hunt-ing estuaries and coast-
lines, they catch a bit of an open-water break and can fly late.
Birders wait and watch for this seasonal repositioning, and stake out the great notches and lesser-known high spots and defiles, just to see some of the great birds of prey pass by. I always watch for the seasonal notes.
The recent Moose
Mountain Regional Gre-enways newsletter car-ried a squib about the annual Hawk Watch at Birch Ridge Community Forest in New Durham, set for Saturday, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m. to early af-ternoon. These informal gatherings of like-mind-ed people are a lot of fun, even as they touch on the serious side of things, keeping track of feath-
ered friends that only a few generations ago were considered, by some peo-ple, worth only shooting out of the sky.
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This past Friday as I rounded a bend in the road I caught a flash of unusually patterned col-or and a familiar dipsy-do flight path, and sure enough, it was a pileated woodpecker, one of a pair we’ve been fortunate to have hanging out on the hill for the past several years.
Of course, seeing was not necessarily part of
BY SEN. BOB GIUDA
Warren
Several recent articles have discussed biomass and the veto of HB 183. I stand with my colleague, Senator Jeb Bradley and many others advocating for overriding this veto.
As consumers’ elec-tricity costs continue to rise, several legislative studies have confirmed that the real culprits in our ever-increasing electricity bills are the burgeoning cost of trans-mission and distribution. These costs come solely from the utilities that hold monopolies on these services, not from the competitive power gen-eration marketplace. The actual cost of producing energy has gone down be-cause it is subject to com-petitive market forces. In fact, those costs have gone so low that our local biomass generators can’t survive under current market conditions.
If these biomass plants
close, we lose base load ca-pacity, reduce the diversi-ty of our energy sourcing and eliminate significant economic activity, includ-ing 900 New Hampshire jobs. We become more de-pendent on a single ener-gy source (remember the oil embargo days…) And we lose a critical forest management tool used by many of our private and public landowners. HB 183 (and its predeces-sor SB 365 which passed but has been derailed by litigation filed by an out-of-state lobbying group) will preserve our bio-mass plants for 3 years, during which the study of micro-grids established by HB183 can develop the concept of localized power generation to elim-inate the skyrocketing charges imposed on rate-payers by the massive transmission/distribu-tion monopolies.
There is a slightly higher cost to ratepayers (roughly $2.30/month)
to maintain our biomass plants under SB365 and HB183; however, that ad-ditional cost ends after three years. If we lose our local biomass plants, the increased capacity cost (about $17 million a year – the same as keep-ing the plants open) is permanent and cannot be reduced or eliminated.
The most recent Op-Ed assails foreign-owned businesses despite a Plymouth State Univer-sity study last year show-ing that foreign-owned companies employ 44,000 New Hampshire work-ers. “Where” a business is owned is irrelevant to the economic activity it produces. In the case of biomass, the economic activity ($250 million/year) all takes place here in New Hampshire. The fuel (low-grade timber) is here in New Hampshire; the collection and pro-cessing of the fuel is done here in New Hampshire; the biomass plants are
here in New Hampshire; and the employees, their families, and all the sup-porting small businesses for the biomass industry are here in New Hamp-shire.
The legislature over-whelmingly supported HB183 because a short term investment in our biomass plants will main-tain homegrown capaci-ty, provide time to study localized electricity pro-duction and distribution (without exorbitant mo-nopolized transmission costs), sustain jobs and the economy, and assure the health of the forests and trail systems which generate $600 million in recreation and tourism business in the state ev-ery year.
Please contact your State Representatives and Senators and tell to override the veto on HB183. It’s one more step towards true energy in-dependence.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019Opinion
BY DEB NARO
Contributor
Adolescence is a pivotal period in the physical, mental and spiritual development of individuals, and presents a unique set of challenges when it comes to recovery. Granite Pathways Youth Treatment Cen-ter, located in Man-chester, is a 36-bed fa-cility that serves youth ages 12 through 17. The Center provides com-prehensive and evi-dence-based substance use treatment in a res-idential setting to help adolescents overcome the unique challenges they face. Adolescents have unique needs that differ from adults and the Center’s commit-ment to individualized treatment means that every youth is provid-ed comprehensive tai-lored support services to maximize his or her success.
Staff include li-censed clinicians and nurses, primary care medical providers, psychiatric provid-ers and experienced recovery support spe-cialists. Many of their certified recovery sup-port workers are in re-covery themselves and serve as peer coun-selors and mentors to help round out the Center’s holistic ap-proach.
There are many vi-able paths to recov-ery. Granite Pathways Youth Treatment Cen-ter emphasizes inno-vation in the devel-opment of individual treatment plans, sup-port for co-occurring conditions, education and health promotion through physical ac-tivity, and wellness teaching and explo-ration of enriching
life skills. From the moment a participant walks in the door, their family is also strongly encouraged to partic-ipate in everything including treatment planning, education, family counseling and other group activities.
Long-term success will depend on the con-nection with commu-nity supports and the work to build strong collaborative relation-ships with communi-ty partners to ensure a seamless transition for youth after treat-ment. To prepare par-ticipants for success after discharge, the Center engages fami-lies and other import-ant support systems including schools, healthcare providers, and their communities in the recovery pro-cess.
Recovery may be-gin in treatment, but hard work happens after discharge. It’s normal for youth and their families to feel a mixture of excitement and fear when it comes time to go home. Youth prepare for this by building the skills needed to remain so-ber and engage with local community part-ners to deliver a con-tinuum of care that re-flects the concern and resources available in treatment.
For more informa-tion about Granite Pathways Youth Treat-ment Center visit www.g ranite pathwaysnh.o r g / y o u t h - t r e a t -ment-center or call 1-877-426-7780. If you, or someone you know, struggles with sub-stance misuse or ad-diction, please call 2-1-1 or the Doorway at LRGHealthcare (934-8905) for help.
A new resource: Granite Pathways Youth
Treatment Center
Donna RhoDes
Picking timeKristen Bleiler and her son Nathan peak out from beneath the branches of one the many trees at Cardigan Mountain Orchard that are laden with apples, ripe and ready for the picking. The pick-your-own orchard in Alexandria also has a children’s play area and a few walking trails that offer beautiful views of the surrounding valleys and mountaintops. While pets are not permitted in the orchard for sanitation reasons, they are welcome to join their owners along the trails. Inside the farm stand there are also bags of fresh-picked apples for sale, jams, apple butter and other local products. Cardigan Mountain Orchard is open seven days a week from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. from now until Oct. 31. For directions and more information on the orchard, please visit their Web site, www.cardiganmtnorchard.com.
NORTH COUNTRY NOTEBOOKBy JOHN HARRIGAN
Biomass is important to New Hampshire
No way could that have been an armadillo in the ditch
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The Connecticut River valley is one of northern New England’s flyways for birds of prey repositioning themselves for the win-ter, like just so many commercial aircraft.
How are you liking these cooler evenings and mornings? I’m keeping thoughts of a balmy Indian Summer before Old Man Winter pays a visit.
TownBoard of Selectmen
Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 6 p.m. in the Mu-nicipal Building.
Planning Board Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building.
Budget Committee Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Mu-nicipal Building.
All meetings of Boards and Commit-tees are open to the public, unless other-wise noted.
Alexandria UMCSincerest condo-
lences to Steve Bleiler, and his family at the passing of Nancy. Known and loved by so many, and will greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Sunday, Sept. 15, services begin at 9 a.m. There will be a Trustees Meeting after worship, as well as the beginning of Baptism Class for those inter-ested.
Saturday, Sept. 21, The Little Corner Band will be perform-ing at the Bristol Bap-tist Church, beginning at 6::00 PM.
Sunday School will begin on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 10:15 a.m. Young, wizened and in be-tween are welcome to
join in.
If you have called Alexandria UMC, but have gotten no answer or message machine, please be advised we are having technical difficulties with the telephone line. Until the issue is resolved, please call or text Pas-tor Faith at 491-4028. You may also email her at [email protected]. If there is an emergency, please call Camp Sentinal at 539-4839 and ask for a message to be deliv-ered to her. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
I’m off to pick black-berries, and hopefully elderberries to make jelly. Have a wonderful week ahead.
I’m sure many of you have friends and relatives that were in the predicted path of Dorian. I feel so bad-ly for the folks of the Bahamas, as the storm was particularly de-structive there. It is so nice to hear from those acquaintances to let you know how they have fared. Joe Den-ning was one of those folks on some of our minds, and he let me know he was leaving to stay with his son in N. Carolina and did so, and returned home safely and to no dam-age where he lives in Florida. My relatives in Nova Scotia had many reports of dam-age and power out-ages, but nothing to compare with the de-struction in PEI! Pho-tos from there showed lots of water and wind
damage.On Saturday, Sept.
14, Newfound Path-ways gives you the choice of three oppor-tunities to get out and enjoy the day. All three are led by experienced hikers or bikers. Hike 1 will be a leisurely three mile walk on the Cockermouth Ledge trail in the Hebron Town Forest from 9 to 11 a.m. Highlights in-clude gorgeous views, wildlife signs, and a picnic if you bring wa-ter and a lunch. Hike 2 will be a 1.8 mile se-rene, intermediate lev-el walk on the Goose Pond Trail starting at the trail head across from Wellington. Bring water! A Fami-ly Bike Ride from Mill Stream to Newfound Lake on the Bristol Bike Path welcomes all ages. Bring your own bike and helmet and don’t forget the water!
The Bicentennial Committee is sponsor-ing a Community Pic-nic/BBQ at Wellington State Park on Sunday, September 15. TWO tickets need to be ob-tained in order to get in and for the food.
The food will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Hav-ing a ticket does not guarantee admission as the park may fill up early! The menu sounds yummy: BBQ hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, beans, Mac and cheese, chips, cole slaw and water-melon. Bring your own soft drinks and may-be bring a dessert to share!
The weather sure changed this past week! Let’s blame Dorian! The biggest change I’ve noticed is the temperature of the lake! I guess my last swim will occur a lot earlier this year.
The sunsets have been nothing short of spectacular of late, also. I’m hoping for the same with the sunris-es, but not many, yet.
This is the first year in a while that I have noticed such a dras-tic drop in the traffic right after Labor Day. It used to be like this way back, but I noticed it especially this year for some reason.
There is still time to get to a fair. There have been some great
GROTON — Lisa A. Girouard, 48, of Gro-ton passed away at her home on Sept. 3, 2019 after a long-term ill-ness.
Lisa was born in Ex-eter on Aug. 12, 1971 to Ralph and Betty Bart-lett.
A graduate from Newfound Regional High School, Lisa ex-celled as a decorated member of the New-found Ski Team.
An animal lover all of her life, she was an avid dogsledder from the age of 6 and the youngest member of the White Mountain Dogsledding Club. Lisa was always found with her loyal service dog and best friend, Nytis, a.k.a. “Fluffy.” He will greatly miss his Mommy.
Lisa was a member of the Hill Village Bi-ble Church, and fre-quently volunteered for different programs.
Lisa also enjoyed field trips with her homes-chool groups.
In Lisa’s early years, she found peace in hik-ing and fishing with her husband, George, and sons, Bo and Ed-ward. Lisa also en-joyed working along-side her mother, Betty and sister, Margaret as a cosmetologist.
Lisa is survived by her parents, Ralph and Betty Bartlett of Campton; husband, George Girouard of Groton; sons, Bo Dun-ham of Campton and Edward Girouard of Groton; sister, Marga-ret Hayden and fami-ly of Nottingham; and
brother, Ralph Bartlett and family of Keene, NH along with many other aunts, uncles and cousins.
Services for Lisa were as follows: A calling hour from 10-11 a.m., followed by a formal service from 11 a.m.-noon was held at Hill Village Bible Church at 36 Cresent St., Hill, on Monday, Sept. 9.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a dona-tion to Epilepsy Foun-dation New England in the name of “Lisa A. Girouard.” Please follow the link to make a donation: https://epilepsynewengland.org/.
The Mayhew Funer-al Home and Crema-torium, in Plymouth and Meredith, are as-sisting the family with their arrangements. www.mayhewfuneral-homes.com
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The Hebron Select Board will be holding a Public Hearing on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss accepting a boundary easement around the 8 and 10 Church Lane property (Tax Map 17 Lot 026) from Hugh and Nancy Sycamore. The hearing will be held in the upstairs meeting room of the Town Office Building located at 7 School Street. The public is encouraged to attend.
Hebron Select Board John W. Dunklee, Chair Paul S. Hazelton, Vice-Chair Patrick K. Moriarty, Selectman
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photos in various me-dia of late from fairs gone past. Many of our locals take part and compete in them and deserve your support.
The Sunday worship service at the South Danbury Church on Sept. 15 will be at 11 a.m., followed by re-freshments and con-versation.
Thanks to every-one who cheered the church’s “float” in the Danbury Grange Fair parade on Sept. 7! The parade theme was “Danbury’s Got Talent!” and our entry showcased the church members’ baking
skills.Their next event
is the Fourth Annual Pie and (Gently Used) Cookbooks Sale, on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come and re-stock your pie cupboard for the hol-idays, and take home cookbooks to try out some new-to-you rec-ipes.The South Dan-bury Church, an Open & Affirming Congre-gation of the United Church of Christ, is located at 1411 U.S. Route 4 in South Dan-bury. Anyone who needs a ride to attend worship or events can contact them by email or Facebook Messenger to make arrangements. For more about the South Danbury Church and its activities, follow “Friends of the South Danbury Christian Church” on Facebook, email [email protected], or call 603-491-3196.
Grange FairThe 105th Annu-
al Danbury Grange & Community Fair went off without a hitch! Free games and a bubble station gave the kids plenty of things to do, allow-ing the parents to en-joy the day and visit with neighbors. Wild-life Encounters was a popular spot from beginning until their last sign was folded. The parade featured floats, walkers, oxen, a chicken on a leash, fire trucks, lifted trucks and antique trucks. The weather was grand, the comrad-ery was grander with community being the grandest celebration of the day. People of-fered to help next year. Please reach out to the grange to let them know who you are and what you would like to do. The next event at the hall is the Fire-men’s turkey supper on Saturday of Colum-bus Day Weekend fol-lowed by the farmers
market which begins the first Saturday in November.
Legion BenefitOn Saturday, Sept.
14, the legion will hold a corn hole benefit at the park to raise funds for their post. Come out to support the re-vitalizing Lee Knapp Post. Drive by the le-gion hall, look up and see their beautiful sign.
The Select board, as a majority, voted to accept the terms of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program as pre-sented in the amount of $472,090.50 for the Sculptured Rocks Rd. culvert project. The Board acknowledges that the total project cost will be $629,454, of which the town will be responsible for a 25 percent match in the amount of $157,363.50. Work will be done in the next couple of weeks to Sculptured Rocks Road to bring it back to pre-storm condition then a level-ing course will be laid down. Edger Albert Rd. will be brought back to pre-storm con-dition and then grad-ed. With the winter just around the corner, it’s good to know these roads will be in main-tainable order.
We would like to thank all those who have worked so hard to start the flow of mon-ey for repairs from the State there have been countless hours of phone time and loads of paperwork to get this done. Thank you to Sara and Bubba and many others who have worked so hard for the Town.
William Jolley was present to request that the Select Board help him with to inter-
vene with FEMA for repairs to the Orange Roadway that is being regularly damaged by off road vehicles after the road was repaired by private funds. He will plan to present a petition article to the Town in March de-claring this a route for emergency vehicles to access for forest fire and his house as well.
There were also re-quests for a Health Inspection, a building permit and signing of two letters for the junkyard inspections.
There are 2020 cal-endars for sale at $5 each provided by the Groton Historical Society. These calen-dars display photos of the mines in Gro-ton and their workers from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. You can purchase one at the Clerk’s office.
Scheduled Meetings and Office ClosuresSelect Board Work
Sessions –Tuesdays, Sept. 17, Oct. 1 and Oct. 15 at 5 p.m. at the Town House.
Select Board Meet-ings Tuesdays, Sept. 17, Oct. 1 and Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Town House
Conservation Com-mission will meet Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Town House
The Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s Office will be closed Sept. 11-13 for a Conference.
Planning Board Meeting at the Town House, Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m.
Road Committee Meeting – Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m.
Building Committee Meeting – Thursday, Sept. 26 at 6 p.m.
Past taxes due: 159 overdue invoices; amount due $136,302.11
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NOTICE OF VACANCYCHIEF OF POLICE
TOWN OF GORHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Town of Gorham (population 2,607) located in the majestic White Mountains of New Hampshire, where recreation opportunities abound, is seeking a motivated law enforcement professional to command a department of five full-time officers, a staff of part-time officers and a 24-hour dispatch center. The Chief will be a working Chief and be responsible for the policy, development, control, supervision and program implementation within the department and has considerable operational independence subject to the oversight of the Town Manager.
QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should possess an Associates Degree from a recognized, accredited institution in Criminal Justice, and/or Police Administration. Applicants must possess all necessary State Certification as required by the Police Standards and Training Council, a proven track record of progressively responsible experience in law enforcement and crime prevention. CPR trained or NH Licensed EMT is desirable. The applicant should also possess strong leadership, communication and public relation skills.
SALARY RANGE: $65,000 - $71,000
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Send a cover letter and resume with three (3) work-related references on or before Monday, September 23, 2019 by 4:00 pm to:
Denise Vallee, Town ManagerTown of Gorham, 20 Park Street, Gorham, NH 03581
Attn: Police Chief PositionThe Town of Gorham is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Real Church. Real People. Real Simple.
Ashland Communi-ty Church is located at 55 Main St., on Route 3 in Ashland (across from Bob’s Shurfine Market). Parking is available next to and behind the church.
Pastor: Ernie MaddenWorship Pastor: Aar-
on StoutPhone: 968-9464Email: accernie@hot-
mail.comWebsite: ashlandcom-
munitychurch.com
Sundays:10 a.m. Worship –
Come as you are! Casual, welcoming atmosphere. Coffee and snacks are available in the back of the worship center.
Aug. 18 – September 15 Teaching Series: “I Love My Church!”
Toddler Zone (for in-fants – five years old) is led by Kara Hamill and Kid Zone (for K-6th grade) is led by Debbie Madden. Both programs are available during the entire worship service. Our greeters will be glad to direct you to and intro-duce you to our leaders.
Small groups: We also offer adult small groups that meet in various loca-tions on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-day evenings. Please contact our pastor, Ernie Madden, for more infor-mation about our small groups program.
New Women’s Min-istry: A women’s group will be starting this fall the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month beginning October 2019.
It is our desire to help you understand God’s incredible grace, mercy and love. We believe you will love Ashland Com-munity Church. We are a friendly, welcoming, lov-ing, and caring church.
You don’t have to dress up. You don’t have to be any particular age. And please don’t feel the need to pretend about any-
thing. Ashland Commu-nity church is a place where God meets seeking people who are far from perfect. That means ev-eryone is welcome, no matter where you are on your spiritual journey. We believe you’ll find what you are looking for here. You’ll learn how to relate to God. You’ll experience a Christian community. And here’s the big thing – you will change. Join us each week as we seek God to-gether. Just come as you are! (No perfect people allowed!)
If you have any ques-tions, please don’t hesi-tate to contact our pastor, Ernie Madden, at 968-9464 or [email protected].
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Bristol United Church of Christ (“the Church on the Hill”)
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We are handicapped accessible!
Our doors are always open wide to all those seeking to find a safe, but invigorating place for spiritual life, growth, fellowship and service. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here!
Sundays: Pastor: Rev. Andrew MacLeod
Intergenerational Service: 10 a.m.
Coffee Fellowship: Following service
Notes: Wheelchair accessibility can accom-modate up to 3 wheel-chairs in our Sanctuary!
Location: P.O. Box 424, 15 Church St., Bristol, NH 03222
Phone: 744-8132
Office Hours: Main Office – Monday through Friday - 9 a.m. to noon
Pastor’s hours: Mon-day through Thursday - 9 a.m. to noon and other times by appointment.
Intergenerational services and Sunday ser-vices have resumed at 10 a.m.
Weekly Events:
Mondays: A.A. Step meeting – 7:30 p.m.
Extra Uke practice, for those who can make it, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. every Monday!
Women’s Fellowship Craft Group – 11 a.m.
Bible Study resumes on Monday evenings starting Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.
Tuesdays: Bone Build-ers – 9:30 a.m. Senior Crafts: 9:30 a.m.
Senior Luncheon – Noon
AA Discussion – 8 p.m.
Choir rehearsals will resume on Sunday, Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. and Tues-day evenings, beginning Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesdays: Morn-ing Reflection is a won-derful spiritual and ful-filling experience that continues every Wednes-day morning at 7:30 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. Don Sorrie and/or Rev. An-drew are moderating the sessions with discussion throughout, by a lively and committed group!
Women’s Fellowship – Our next meeting will be held on Sept. 12 at 10 a.m. in Room 1.
T.E.A. Meetings are scheduled for every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m. Location varies.
Special Events:**NOTE: Sunday
school will resume on Sept. 15 at 10 a.m.
Women’s Fellowship has created a small li-brary in the church which is up and running with a wonderful collec-tion of spiritual and in-spirational books. If you have any in good condi-tion that you would like to donate, please leave them in a marked basket in Fellowship Hall.
Our Women’s Fellow-ship craft group will be meeting in Room 1 of the church every Monday, at 11 a.m. and continuing throughout the summer
and fall months, and continuing for the pur-pose of creating small and affordable crafts to be sold at our Christmas Bazaar! All are welcome, and bring your lunch!
Please note that the Fall Vesper Service and Pot Luck Supper will be held on Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m. on Ispiration Point. The pot luck supper will begin at 6 p.m.
Ongoing: Bristol Community Services Food Pantry needs ev-erything!
The need is big and supplies move very fast.
The ukelele band con-tinues to grow and be-come more proficient as the weeks go by! We’re having a ball!! If you are interested in joining, please contact Debbie Doe.
The band gets togeth-er twice a week on Mon-days at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., and Wednesdays at 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in Fellow-hip Hall for lessons and practice, and perform once a month during services. Their next performance will be an-nounced.
B.U.C.C. cooperates with other churches and community organiza-
tions to serve the needs of all people who live near us. Our reach ex-tends around the world through our work with other members of the United Church of Christ!
Episcopal Churches Holy Spirit & St. Mark’s, Plymouth & Ashland
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Episcopal Church Women Gather in NH
Four women from Holy Spirit and St Mark’s took part in the annual gathering of the Epis-copal Church Women of Province 1, on Aug. 17, in Londonderry. ECW members from every dio-cese in northern New En-gland—Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Con-necticut, Rhode Island, Western Massachusetts, and Massachusetts—were there. The speaker, Marge Burke, of Weare, has been active in the Episcopal Church at all levels, including a term as president of the Na-tional Episcopal Church Women. She is co-editor of Women’s Uncommon Prayers: Our Lives Re-vealed, Nurtured, Cel-ebrated, as well as two
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BY MARK PATTERSON
Any financial advi-sor, broker or invest-ment advisor will typ-ically try to assess the amount of risk that their client is willing to accept. There are of variety of methods and questionnaires used to attempt to accomplish the risk assessment as accurately as possible. Over time, I have found that what the client tells me in the calm of my office and how they feel during difficult markets can be very different. The typical negative reaction is two a half times great-er in a bad or declining market than client’s feelings in good, or up market. Current re-search states that up to 80% of people that have investment ac-counts carry far more risk than their true risk tolerance levels.
Ever since March 9, 2009, the fear lev-els of investors have been very low which drives complacency.
The benchmark S&P 500 index is used to determine” BETA” in a stock, mutual fund or exchange traded fund that primarily hold stocks. If a stock or fund has a number higher than one, it is more volatile than the benchmark S&P 500 index. If the number is lower than one it is less volatile, simple as that. Advisors like my-self that designed port-folios typically using stocks, ETF’s, bonds and options will try to match the objectives of the portfolio with the client’s risk toler-ance and needs. One of the most common cu-riosities that I see the portfolio, typically of mutual funds, is that a client needing income from their investments is in an accumula-tion vehicle such as a growth stock mutual fund.
There are all kinds of risk involved with investing money. Mar-ket risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, interest rate risk and the risk that is really not dis-cussed as much as it should be which is; se-quence of returns risk. Sequence of returns risk is critical for
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Alexandria Bog Road N/A $223,266 Brownlow S. Towie Donald T. Towle Camp TrustAlexandria Foster Pond Road Residential Open Land $24,000 Jacek A. and Maria H. Nechay Joseph W. MorrisonAlexandria 264 Karl Gordon Rd. Single-Family Residence $142,000 Ronald P. Tourangeau Estelle J. NaultAlexandria Moonlight Road N/A $10,000 Town of Alexandria Daniel F. Guinazzo and Deborah A. SmithAlexandria W. Shore Road N/A $11,533 Town of Alexandria Michael BroomeAshland River Street, Lot 69 N/A $59,200 NHNY Marina Development LLC Gary ChaikenBridgewater 2919 River Rd. Single-Family Residence $271,000 Kristen G. Badigan and Gregory C. Badigan Richard and Donna RisteenBridgewater 3421 River Rd. Single-Family Residence $159,000 Judith L. Ruhm Kaitlyn E. VachonBristol 43 Hemp Hill Rd. Single-Family Residence $251,000 Fredric C. Burton Ian T. DetamoreCampton 20 Campton Mountain Rd. Single-Family Residence $95,000 Leta P. Kniffin Jag RT LLCCampton 5 Overlook Condo Unit 18a Condominium $74,000 Maria Demarco Jamie L. ParentCampton 224 Owl St. N/A $75,000 Robert J. Digennaro Myron L. CroweCampton 85 Reservoir Rd. Single-Family Residence $212,000 Associates of SBLI LLC Jaclyn N. TomlinsonCampton 84 Richardson Trail, Unit 21 Condominium $160,000 Robert D. and Mary C. Lynch Roger A. and Diane F. PicardCampton N/A N/A $229,933 Sean P. and Terri L. Tole Joyce M. GrusmarkCampton N/A, Lot 3 N/A $314,800 Michael and Deborah Volpe James R. Reid and Jill M. FlemingHolderness 11 Mount Fayal Rd. Single-Family Residence $659,933 William J. and June E. Laprade Matthew R. Iovanni and Melissa G. FabbriHolderness 28 Trivett Lane Single-Family Residence $525,000 Susan M. Messigner Walter C. and Amy R. SchaefflerNew Hampton 29 Wolfe Den Dr. Single-Family Residence $185,000 Jason R. Stickney Nina KnowltonPlymouth 189 Highland St. Single-Family Residence $150,000 Rose A. Dubois Wayne F. Roark and Tori M. ClarkPlymouth 69 Pleasant St. Single-Family Residence $75,000 Michael P. Cummins Ann E. SchneiderRumney 143 School St. Single-Family Residence $300,000 Joshua A. and Tami M. Keyes Robin E. and Michael J. MacInnisWaterville Valley 98 Noon Peak Rd., Unit 2e Condominium $189,000 Mandalay IRT and Joyce C. Titus Michael F. and Lisa A. McChesneyWaterville Valley 26 Tyler Spring Way, Unit 28 Condominium $320,000 Donahue Fiscal Trust and James A. Donahue Benjamin A. Krass and Mary HolperWentworth 96 Cross Rd. Single-Family Residence $399,933 Glenna R. Rossi Shawn M. and Katie F. Leone
The Real RepoRTThe Real RepoRTThe Real RepoRTR E C E N T R E A L E S T A T E T R A N S A C T I O N S
Town Address Type Price Seller Buyer
ABOUT THE REAL REPORTHere are recent real estate transactions in Alton and
the surrounding areas. These sales summaries are informational only, not a legal record. Names shown are usually the first listed in the deed. Sales might in-
volve additional parties or locations. Prices are usually based on tax stamps and might be inaccurate for public agency sales. Refer to actual public documents before forming opinions or relying on this information. Ad-ditional publicly recorded information on these sales, prior sales and data from Department of Revenue Ad-ministration forms is available at www.real-data.com
or 669-3822. Copyright 2011. Real Data Corp. In the col-umn “Type”: land= land only; L/B= land and building; MH= mobile home; and COND=condominium. Trans-actions provided by The Warren Group, Boston Ma., publishers of The Registry Review and Bankers and Tradesman newspapers, Phone: 1-800-356-8805. Website: www.thewarrengroup.com
MARK ON THE MARKETSRisk and You
those approaching re-tirement. Market per-formance is key when you start subtracting assets as income from those assets if they are not designed for sus-tainability. What used to be the 4 percent rule, in other words taking out 4 percent of your assets per year to live on has now become the 1.6 percent rule part-ly because of the low interest rate environ-
ment.As stated earlier,
most people carry much more investment risk than they were aware of. Finding that true risk tolerance and matching it up to a portfolio that fits the needs of the client’s is paramount. But you as the client also must realize that if you have your advisor set up your portfolio for lim-ited risk, that will typ-
ically come with limit-ed growth conversely a lot of potential growth may come with a lot of risk.
For an honest and maybe enlightening risk assessment, go to my Web site, www.MHP-asset.com, go to tools and then risk analysis. The software” Riskalyze” will give you a risk number be-tween one and 99, one being the least amount
of risk that you’re will-ing to accept, 99 being the most. It asks about real dollar numbers versus percentages. You may be surprised what your true risk tol-erance is versus how you are invested.
Mark Patterson is an advisor with M HP asset management and can be reached at 447-1979 or [email protected].
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Lancaster Fair
Hopkinton State Fair
Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair
Deerfield Fair
Sandwich Fair
New Hampshire
August 29 to September 2, 2019Location: 516 Main Street, Lancaster
Tickets: $15 (including rides) on Thursday, Friday and Monday; $17 on Saturday and Sunday; seniors are free on Thursday and Monday and $10 on Friday-Sunday;
children under 36” are free with paying adultOnline: www.lancasterfair.com
August 30 to September 2, 2019Location: State Fairgrounds, Contoocook
Tickets: $12 for ages 13-59, $10 for seniors 60+, $8 for youth ages 5-12,
children 35 months and under free. Four day passes are also available.
Online: www.hsfair.org
September 6 to 8, 2019Location: 15 Hill Dale Lane, New BostonTickets: $10 for adults, children 6-12 and seniors are $5, children under 6 are free
Online: www.hcafair.com
September 12 to 22, 201972 Lafayette St., Rochester, NH 03867
Tickets: $9 general admin., children under 8 are freeOnline: www.rochesterfair.com
September 26 to 29, 2019Deerfield Fairgrounds
Route 43, DeerfieldTickets: $10 for ages 13+;
ages 12 and younger are freeOnline: www.deerfieldfair.com
October 12 to 14, 2019Sandwich Fairgrounds
Route 109 North, Center SandwichTickets: $10 for adults,
ages 8-12 are $3 and children under 7 are freeOnline: www.thesandwichfair.com
600 St. Johnsbury RdLittleton, NH603-444-9000littletonhealthcare.org
time to act,” said Doug McLane, Co-Chair of the Pemi Climate Emergency Coalition (PCEC). “And so, we are asking everyone in the Pemi Valley to
join us at the Pemi Cli-mate Strike on Sept. 20 on the Plymouth Town Common from noon to 3 p.m. to demand im-mediate government and citizen action to
save our planet.” The Pemi Climate Strike and Read-in is spon-sored by PCEC, a co-alition of more than 100 area residents and nearly a dozen groups
and organizations who are Coalition Partners.
On Sept. 20, peo-ple around the globe will walk out of their homes and business-
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PLYMOUTH — Pemi-Baker Litera-cy invites you to the Eighth Annual Com-munity Spelling Bee! The event returns to the PSU Ice Arena and Welcome Center in Holderness on Friday, Oct. 18. Dust off those dictionaries and bee antennae because the competition is fierce!
This is PBL's eighth Bee, and, as past par-ticipants can attest, it is a great time for all. “Each year is zanier than the last,” says the Bee’s longstanding host, A.J. Coppola. “It’s a fun community event supporting an import-ant cause. Get down there! It should be G-R-A-T-E!”
The Bee is a lively event for spellers and guests alike. Admission is only $20, and guests are welcome to come at 6 p.m. to enjoy hors d'oeuvres and desserts. A cash bar is available. The Bee begins prompt-ly at 7 p.m.
Teams really get into the spirit of the fundraiser, with plen-ty of bee-puns: “The Beenevolent Beeings,” “Spellicans,” and “Werd Nerds.” Last year’s winners (now, by tradition, this year’s judges), “CASAs Speak and Spell for Children” represent CASA of NH. Teams don team-themed threads to take a shot at winning the prize for best costumes. There are also the usu-al prizes awarded to the
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Pemi-Baker Literacy invites you to the Eighth Annual Community Spelling Bee! The event returns to the PSU Ice Arena and Welcome Center in Holderness on Friday, Oct. 18.
Community Spelling Bee returns for eighth year
team raising the most sponsorship money, and of course, the best spellers.
Early Bird Registra-tion at $45 per three person team is open through Sept. 27, so sign up now. If you miss that deadline, you can still sign up through Oct. 11 for $60 per team. The number of teams is limited, so be sure to visit PemiBakerLiter-acy.org as soon as pos-sible for registration information and mate-rials.
Teams will be look-ing for sponsors, so come support your favorite spellers! You can also search for Pemi-Baker Literacy on Gofundme.com to support a team. Raffle tickets ($5 each, 3 for $10) can also be pur-chased for such prizes as 100 gallons of home
heating oil from Dead River, a beautiful quilt handmade by Sarah Bunkley, and gift cer-tificates to local restau-rants, theaters, and ski areas. All proceeds benefit Pemi-Baker Lit-eracy. Raffle tickets and tickets to the Bee can be purchased from board members or at the door. Event tickets will be available at the UPS Store on Main Street, Plymouth.
The event is gra-ciously sponsored by Allstate – Sharon Thorne, Meredith Vil-lage Savings Bank, New Hampshire Electric Co-op, Off Campus Rent-als, Plymouth Rotary Club, and Sunset Grill.
Additional spon-sorship this year is provided by Bank of New Hampshire, The Common Man Family Construx, Inc., KPinC
Consulting, LLC, Little Red Schoolhouse, Noy-es Insurance, M'n’M Scoops, Minuteman Press - Plymouth, NH Adventure Bootcamp, Noyes Insurance, Pat-ty Stewart and Associ-ates, Plymouth General Dentistry, Rand’s Hard-ware, Six Burner Bis-tro, Woodsville Guar-anty Savings Bank, and Warren Bahr, CPA.
Pemi-Baker Literacy is a non-profit organi-zation dedicated to the improvement of indi-vidual literacy skills in the Plymouth, Bris-tol and Lincoln area. Free one-to-one tutor-ing and small classes are offered to adults in reading, writing, math, English as a second lan-guage, basic computer skills and preparation for the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET/GED).
PLYMOUTH — The Circle Program is pleased to announce that Jamie Capaul has joined the Circle Pro-gram on a year-round basis as the organiza-tion’s new Program Manager.
Capaul knows the Circle Program well, having been a Circle mentor since 2014, and she previously helped lead the Teen Adven-ture Program (TAP) during off-site hiking and kayaking trips as well as snowshoeing overnights. As the Pro-gram Manager, Jamie will assist with orga-nizing monthly group gatherings for both girls and teens includ-ing field trips, educa-tional workshops and community service projects and will work closely with the new Camp Manager, Lind-sey Collins, to create new curriculum for the camp and mentor-ing programs.
Jamie will inter-view all newly referred girls that are potential candidates for the pro-gram and will follow up with the family and referring agency on each applicant's sta-tus. She and Lindsey will partner and main-tain a working rapport with the schools and other agencies and act as a liaison for the Cir-cle Program through-out the school year.
During the summer residential camp ses-sion, Capaul served as Co-Camp Director for six weeks and led the Land Teen Adventure
Program (TAP), an off-site advanced camping and wilderness leader-ship adventure for girls in high school that involved a major hike and mountain climb in the White Mountains. She is uniquely suited for this project since she is an accomplished hiker that is proud to say she has complet-ed a Solo Presidential Traverse.
Capaul graduated from Bryant Universi-ty with a BS in Busi-ness Administration and is currently work-ing toward a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Ball State University. She worked at Campton Elementary School for the past few years as a para-educator and was an advisor for their Technology Student Association (TSA). She has also worked with at-risk youth in residential programs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and worked in Human Re-sources at Waterville Valley Resort for five years. She is certified in Wilderness First Aid and CPR and is a Red Cross certified lifeguard.
Capaul moved to Thornton nine years ago with her husband Andrew. She enjoys hiking, trail running, paddle boarding, camping, and playing with her new puppy, Harris. She current-ly serves as a Board Member on the Camp-ton-Thornton “Got Lunch” Program.
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Camp Manager Lindsey Collins and Program Manager Jamie Capaul, Co-Directors of Circle Camp, help the Circle girls toast their s’mores to perfection.
Take a stand for changeat Plymouth Climate Strike
PLYMOUTH — “Our house is on fire. There is no time for deny-
ing, delaying, pretend-ing or hiding – it’s an emergency and it’s
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Volunteers John Bentwood and Steve Rand install banner announcing the 9/20 Pemi Climate Strike and Read-In on the Common in Plymouth, part of a Global Climate Strike demanding world-wide Climate Action.
books on Alzheimer’s. She gave a moving and informative talk about her experiences as the caregiver for her late husband, during his struggle with that disease. The National ECW President, the Province 1 ECW pres-ident, and several na-tional board members from both the ECW and UTO, the United Thank Offering, were present. It was won-derful to reaffirm our ECW connections with the wider church!
Learning fromLondon: Generosity
and GrowthOn Wednesday, Sept.
25, at 6:30 pm, in the Community Room at the Pease Library in Plymouth, Rev. Kelly will give a presenta-tion about her Jan-uary 2019 study trip to the Church of En-gland’s Diocese of London. All are wel-come to this explora-tion of how, paradox-ically, churches grow when they “give away.” We expect guests from other Episcopal con-gregations in the re-gion—and the message isn’t for Episcopalians only. All welcome.
Ashland Community Breakfast
The next Ashland Community Breakfast will be from 8 to 9 a.m. in Sherrill Hall on Sat-urday, Sept. 28. Come join us and bring a friend!
Fall Series on the Psalms: Faith and Scripture
Plan to hold Wednes-day evenings from Oct. 16 through Nov. 20, for a series of hour-long, prayerful encounters with the psalms, part of our fall focus on faith and scripture.
National Congrega-tional Leadership In-stitute
A team of three from Holy Spirit & St. Mark’s has just returned from an in-tensive training pro-gram presented by the Episcopal Church
Foundation (ECF), in collaboration with the Church Pension Group (CPG). The Congrega-tional Leadership Ini-tiative (part of ECF’s Lilly Endowment Na-tional Initiative) took place at Camp Allen, in Texas.
The Congregational Leadership Initiative (CLI) provides clergy and their lay leaders with support to help their congregation col-laboratively address fi-nancial and leadership challenges. Rectors and congregations are nominated by their bishops to apply to ECF for CLI. The year-long program com-bines several elements including pre-work, a residential compo-nent, the development of a parish project, and eight months of team coaching. Rev. Kelly and Holy Spirit & St. Marks are one of only 25 congre-gational teams from throughout the Epis-copal Church chosen to participate in this program this year.
Support GroupsGuy Tillson, MDiv,
MA, Hospice Chap-lain and Bereavement Counselor, who facil-itates several local support groups, an-nounces the following updates related to be-reavement services:
A newly launched program, “Loss and Grief: Some of the Basics,” started on Wednesday, Sept. 11, from 12:30-2 p.m. Loca-tion is the Whole Vil-lage Family Resource Center, Plymouth. Dates for this group are: Sept. 11 & 18 and Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30.
A monthly drop-in Bereavement Support Group gathers on the last Wednesday of ev-ery month, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Pemi-Bak-er Community Health, 101 Boulder Point Dr., Suite 3 (access the conference room by the side door). Upcom-ing dates: Sept. 25, Oct. 30. No meetings on Thanksgiving Eve (Nov. 27) or Christmas Day (Dec. 5). Alterna-tive holiday season
gatherings will be an-nounced in October. These will include a “Blue Christmas/Lon-gest Night” service at St Marks, Ashland, late in December.
Weekly WorshipServices
Sundays: 8 a.m. at Griswold Hall, 263 Highland St., Plym-outh
9:30 a.m. St. Mark’s Church, 18 Highland St., Ashland
Thursdays, 11 a.m., with healing prayers, St Mark’s, Ashland
Office Hours at 263 Highland St., Plym-outh
Office hours in Plymouth are by ap-pointment . Phone/voicemail: 536-1321. Please email or leave a voicemail and we will return your call.
Greetings from Restoration Church Plymouth, located at 319 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH 03264. If you do not have a home church we in-vite you to come and join our warm and friendly family here at Restoration Church. Please feel free to con-tact us at [email protected].. Our church phone number is still the same, 536-1966. Our schedule has changed to the fol-lowing:
Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Morning Service
Monday: First and third Monday of the Month
Noon-2 p.m. Helping Hands Food Pantry
Friday: Second Fri-day of the month
6 p.m. Food, Fun, Fellowship
On Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, we officially launched as Restora-tion Church Plymouth. More details about this service will be in-cluded in the next ar-ticle. We also started a new series entitled,
Stories. We will be continuing this series this week as well. We have our own worship team during our ser-vices in our auditori-um and then we watch as a Pastor Nate Gagne preaches via video during our service.
Our MissionStatement:
Just One More!Everyone is wel-
come to all of our services. The church is handicapped acces-sible on the east en-trance.
Star King Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
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Starr King Uni-tarian Universalist Fellowship, 101 Fair-ground Rd., Plymouth, is a multigenerational, welcoming congrega-tion where different beliefs come together in common covenant. We work together in our fellowship, our community, and our world to nurture jus-tice, respect, and love.
This week atStarr King:
Sunday, Sept. 15
Living in the Age of Climate Crisis
Rev. Dr. Linda Barnes, Worship Lead-er
Sarah Dan Jones, Music Director, and Choir
How do we take care of ourselves, each oth-er, and our planet in these uncertain times? How do we express the best of our human na-ture as we address the climate crisis? Our service preceded the world-wide Climate Strike on September 20th. Join us to under-stand better what it means to be affected by the climate crisis and why what we do does matter.
For more details, visit our Web site
www.star rkingfel -lowship.org
536-8908
ered a message from him, thanking all who helped. Muir said he was grateful that Bent-wood, who is on the forefront of local veter-ans’ issues, knows how to make things happen.
“She gets an idea in her head about the right thing to do, then calls Alex,” she said.
Muir said their bell ringing for donations at Christmas one year helped raise some of the funds they needed to get the project going, but more importantly it also brought awareness to the issue of home-less veterans.
In closing, she said Alex wanted everyone to remember not only the veterans, but the men and women still serving the nation so Americans can have a beautiful life.
Among the other speakers that day were New Hampshire’s U.S. Senators, Jeanne Sha-
heen and Maggie Has-san. Hassan told the crowd that it was “a picture perfect day for doing something as perfect as it gets” as she and Shaheen praised all who helped build the housing complex and welcomed the veterans to their new home. A representative from Congresswoman Ann Kuster was on hand to express her congratula-tions as well for a proj-ect that serves the vet-erans who are near and dear to her heart.
Hearing that there were a few things yet to be done, such as so-lar panels and land-scaping, Will Nelson, co-founder and board member of REMIX Coffee Bar and Social Club of Claremont, of-fered some assistance. REMIX is a non-profit coffee bar and club for those seeking an alter-native to the typical bar setting for social outings. All profits are then donated back to local communities and
families. Nelson said REMIX was “a little late to the game” but still wanted to be a part of it all, so he presented a check for $1,000.
“Maybe this can help with some of the land-scaping or solar pan-els,” he said to a big round of applause.
The Veterans Hous-ing at Boulder Point is a 29,000-square-foot com-plex comprised of five two-bedroom and 25 single-bedroom apart-ments. The first veter-ans began moving in on Aug. 1 and the building is currently 50-percent occupied. Sharon and Paul Ash were the first occupants of the new facility and said they couldn’t be happier.
Paul is a retired Ma-rine who served in the Korean War. Not long ago the couple was liv-ing in St. Johnsbury, Vt. when financial circumstances caused them to be evicted from the rental home. Sha-ron said that while they
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get them to rent com-mercial bins for their refuse. It defines by truck and trailer size what the fees will be to dispose of material.
Coates said that, while many of the con-cerns were referenced in the existing regu-lations, they lacked specificity, so they in-corporated the more specific descriptions they found in the town of Ashland’s regula-tions.
Highlights of the new rate structure in-clude setting visitors’ permits at $20 for two weeks, compared to the $5 annual permit that residents obtain; charging a $20 fee for mattresses and up-holstered furniture, a fee that is waived if the items are stripped when they are dropped off; charging $5 per foot for the disposal of canoes and row-boats, as long as they
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are fiberglass or plas-tic and not metal; and charging $60 for the disposal of hot tubs.
As the group looked at recycling, Coates said the town had ob-tained a cost of $105 per ton from ecomaine [sic], a waste manage-ment company out of Portland, but the price does not include haul-ing the material to Maine.
Currently, the town is recycling only glass, with the rest of the re-cyclable material go-ing into the bins with regular solid waste, which costs $65 per ton to get rid of, plus $200 per “pull” — the cost of hauling it to a land-fill.
While recycling cur-rently is more expen-sive than throwing it away, the selectmen as well as several res-idents have said that recycling is the right thing to do for the en-vironment.
Selectman Rick Alp-ers, a strong advocate of recycling, said he’s willing to take a loss for that reason, “but a giant loss is hard to accept.”
He added, “If they haul it away, I want to make sure it gets recy-cled.”
The remark was in reference to recy-cling experts’ reve-lations that between 25 and 40 percent of the material handled through single-stream recycling ends up in landfills because of contamination. The town had been using single-stream recy-cling until the mar-ket bottomed out, and selectmen had con-sidered returning to single-stream because source separation re-quires a lot of space, something Bristol’s re-cycling center lacks.
Bucklin has suggest-ed ways to reconfigure some of the disposal areas to better accom-modate source sepa-ration, but he said it would take some time to set up. There also is the cost of necessary equipment, such as a
baler for cardboard, that the town would incur.
Resident Boake Morrison told the se-lectmen, “If you be-lieve in recycling and it won’t cost any more, go for it, but if you’re going to take money out of our pockets, I think that’s BS.” He suggested that the question of recycling should go to town meeting so the voters can decide which way to go.
Bucket truckSelectmen tenta-
tively authorized the purchase of a bucket truck that formerly belonged to the city of Portsmouth, to be used jointly by the fire de-partment and the high-way department.
Fire Lieutenant Rob Glassett said he and Bucklin would go to look at the 1993 Inter-national with 23,000 miles, now located in Litchfield, Maine, to make sure it was in the condition the cur-rent owner claims it to be. At $9,000, they felt it was a good buy for the town, which needs a bucket for main-taining the alarms on utility poles, and it would give the high-way department a lift for trimming trees, as well as providing the Bristol Decorating Committee a way to string lights and ban-ners.
Glassett noted that, currently, the fire de-partment has to use its ladder truck or a standing ladder to ac-cess the alarms, put-ting personnel in dan-ger of electrocution as they perch near live wires.
Selectmen also dis-cussed a solar proj-ect at the wastewater treatment plant that potentially would gen-erate enough excess electricity to help pow-er the new town hall. It would be designed to accommodate battery storage, but the cost of batteries remains cost-prohibitive at this time, they found.
es to join a world-wide cry for swift and broad-based action to save our planet from climate change.
“As Dorian decimat-ed the Bahamas, the Amazon burns, the ice caps melt, and we con-tinue to burn fossil fu-els at an unprecedent-ed rate, we are called to raise our voices. Here are the facts about cli-mate change: it’s real, it’s bad, and it’s up to us,” said Steve Rand, Co-Chair of the PCEC.
On the Plymouth Town Common, area citizens are expected to raise their voices. Scheduled speakers include children, sci-entists, clergy, pol-iticians, students, grandparents, parents, musicians and poets, and more.
According to a Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activ-ist who has sparked world-wide attention to Climate change and mobilized hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple world-wide, “We all have a choice. We can create transforma-tional action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.”
“It’s not easy. We’ll all have to change how we exist in this world. We’ll each need to stand up, speak out and demand Climate Ac-tion,” said Dick Hage, Co-Chair of PCEC, “but it is simple, we must do it for our kids and grandkids. I want to be sure they will in-herit a habitable plan-et. It is for them that I am standing up and speaking out. Please join us.”
People who would like to speak are in-vited to email pemi-cl i m at e @ g m a i l . c o m in order to request a place on the Speaker’s Schedule. For more information, con-tact the Pemi Climate Emergency Coalition on Facebook or at the email address above.
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believing, because the hammering a big pileated make knocking out its in-verted triangle holes can be heard far and wide. Still, it’s always fun to ac-tually see them.
Settlers and succeed-ing generations called these great birds Cock of the Woods. For some ro-mantic reason, I always think of what was for me a landmark book, “Deep Enough for Ivory Bills.”
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Skunks and armadil-los: what are these two creatures doing in the same sentence? For one thing, they would top most people’s list of what they’d lots rather not see digging around on the front lawn.
For some reason (I’m knocking on wood here), what few skunks I see are not looking for a place to winter, but are just sort of cruising by. They stay around for a day or two and dig up a few grubs, and are gone. That’s fine by me. I harbor no ill will for skunks, but the current dog (unlike past occupants) has never had an unfortunate encoun-ter, and I certainly don’t want one.
And that other thing…Armadillos are mov-
ing north, like many oth-er species, creeping their range northward just a bit more each year. Let’s not forget that ticks (ugh) were never seen in many parts of New Hamp-shire’s higher and north-
ern climes until a decade or so ago, and are now, as the old saying doesn’t go, as common as hen’s teeth.
The other day, I met a vehicle on a tight corner, and was necessarily pay-ing more attention to traf-fic than what was in the ditch. Still, I caught just a glimpse of a roundish sort of grey form along-side the road and thought “armadillo.”
No, please---not that. We’ve already been through enough. Let’s hope it was a Fig Newton of my imagination.
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Fish and Game’s pub-lication New Hampshire Wildlife Journal is some-
thing I watch for in the mail, a magazine I’ve been reading for years. From butterflies to rattle-snakes---you never know.
This issue carried an interesting piece by Lind-say Webb titled “Intelli-gent Corvids,” featuring, of course, ravens and crows. We’ve had a pair of ravens hanging around this summer, and it’s been the usual circus watch-ing the kids grow up and learn to fly. The crows are---well, crows, to me an always entertaining bird. People always seem to use “raucous” when they’re writing about crows. Okay, indeed, raucous.
When I was a kid, just a moment ago, crows were migratory, and first
showed up in the spring up around Pollard’s slaughterhouse, finding easy pickings off offal in the melting snow.
The ravens make great fun out of cruising by in the morning, setting off a chorus of startled and irritated faux-panic caw-ing by the half-dozen resident crows. The two species are cousins, in a distant sort of way, but close enough to carry out this little charade with no harm but to the early morning quiet.
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felt the $25,000 threshold was too low.
“I fear we’ll have five to 20 articles, and pit one town against another,” she said. “Voters can be given a choice without the low value this article would require.”
The petitioned article, while aiming to address only large capital expen-ditures, had broad lan-guage to give the school board great latitude in establishing a policy. In arguing against it, board members used that broad language to argue that it would require all budget items exceeding $25,000 to be placed into sepa-rate articles. Examples ranged from electricity and fuel usage to special education.
Business Adminis-trator Michael Limanni reminded the board that
one of the reasons the petitioned article was deemed advisory only is that the school district cannot disregard matters such as regulations for special education pro-grams. He also pointed out that, even without the policy, the board has the option of placing contro-versial expenditures on the warrant as separate articles.
Michael O’Malley, a former high school prin-cipal who was elected by write-in to succeed Mi-gliore as Bridgewater’s representative on the school board, said a new policy is “unnecessary and redundant,” and that it would create inefficien-cies.
Levesque, who has served as the board’s rep-resentative to the budget committee for the past two years, commented, “If you brought in 100 people and asked them
to sit down and look at the budget, you’d get 100 different ideas where that money should be spent. It’s not an easy process, and to further compli-cate it by making the de-cisions already made go to the voters for final ap-proval makes a difficult process impossible.”
Melissa Suckling of Danbury said, “We’re trying to be proactive rather than reactive, and maintain these buildings. We’ve come a long way in trying to change that mindset [of deferring maintenance] and this would put us backwards. We need to keep the kids in mind.”
Christine Davol of New Hampton said her concern is that the change would return to the days of pitting one town against another. In the past, projects at the New Hampton Commu-nity School or Danbury
Elementary School failed to gain support from the other towns, prompting the school board to make sure each budget includ-ed something for each of the schools.
Since adopting a cap-ital improvement plan, the district has the abil-ity to plan expenditures over a period of years, showing that improve-ments at one school will be following in a future year by improvements at another school. That has the potential of evening out expenditures over the years.
Some board members worried that, by allowing residents to vote directly on those capital expendi-tures, the smaller schools might suffer.
“We, as a policy com-mittee, went over this very deeply, and didn’t agree with it,” Davol said.
Board members said voters still have the op-
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board and budget com-mittee meetings to ex-press their opinions, and that they have the ability to amend the bottom line of the budget during the deliberative session.
The school board vot-ed to place $200,000 into the retained fund balance and to return $177,871 to the towns to reduce taxation. It also placed $350,000 of the year-end fund balance into the ex-pendable trust fund for building maintenance, replenishing the ac-count for money used in paving Newfound Road and the high school parking lot this summer.
Limanni explained that state law allows a school district to retain as much a 2.5 percent of its net assessment — money collected through state and local education taxation — as a buffer against unan-ticipated expenses. New-found’s net assessment
was $16,297,000, making $377,871 available. There are strict guidelines for using that money, including obtaining ap-proval from the budget committee and the New Hampshire Department of Education.
“My goal is to use your trusts so, when we have capital projects, we can budget for so much and use ‘x’ amount from reserves,” Limanni said. “We’ve just been doing repairs, not spending money for new things, and we can get there without killing the taxpayers at the same time.”
The school board authorized Limanni to enter into a multi-year agreement for the pur-chase of electricity. Li-manni said the district’s broker has recommend-ed a contract that would fall under 7 cents per KwH, which he said is one of the best prices he has seen in eight years.
was plenty of food and snacks to eat while they enjoyed the music.
Elsewhere in town,
there was a tractor pull in the field on Spa Road and a horseshoe tournament at Independence Park where many children enjoyed some time at the
playground and ball field as well. Over at the com-munity center there was free ice cream, sundaes and other great desserts as well.
Evening hours were filled with the annual Ham & Home-Baked Beans Dinner, music by Cardigan Mt Tradi-tion and finally, the live auction and 50/50 raffle drawing.
Lisa Windsor was one of this year’s organizers who was very pleased to present yet another suc-cessful grange fair to the community.
“What a great turnout we had today! What re-ally makes this all work so smoothly each year is that everyone knows what to do and every-one participates. It just doesn’t get any better than this,” said Windsor.
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Boulder Point
ing raffle and turkey din-ner, scheduled for Oct. 12.
Wildlife Encounters was at the fair once again with some friendly exot-ic animals for people to meet. A hedgehog, beard-ed dragon, chameleon, brown and white striped skunk and a beautiful Blue and Gold Macaw captured the hearts of many. The one creature that drew the most at-tention however was an Australian Jungle Car-pet Python that wrapped itself around Meaghan of Wildlife Encounters as she explained some of the interesting facts about him.
“This is one of the few snakes with a prehensile tail. They can hang from a tree limb by their tail, then strike out and grab a bird in midair,” she said.
At 11 a.m., everyone lined the street to watch the parade, for which the theme this year was “Danbury’s Got Talent.” From floats filled with future singers and musi-cians to youngsters per-forming tricks on horse-back or the little ones riding miniature mud buggies along the route, there was plenty of po-tential talent on display. Oxen, antique cars and trucks, the fire depart-ment, and a color guard
from Post 49 rounded out the event.
At 1 p.m., the action returned to North Rd. for the start of Danbury’s unique Bed Race. Teams lined up to compete one at a time in hopes of be-ing the fastest crew to push an antique metal bed from one end of the street to the other. Partic-ipants could have one or more riders aboard the bed, or use everyone on their team to help push it to the finish line. The top two times then compet-ed in the championship round where the Pellegri-no Pushers bested the Hippy Hillers with their winning time of 8.76 sec-onds.
Throughout the after-noon, Lindsey Schust and the Ragged Mtn. Band provided entertainment for the crowds and there
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Nora and Lacey brought their pet rooster, Cogburn, along with them to the Danbury Grange and Community Fair last Saturday so he wouldn’t miss out on any of the fun.
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The Pellegrino Pushers pushed themselves to all the way to victory when they posted a time of 8.76 seconds in this year’s Bed Race at the Danbury Grange and Community Fair.
were staying at a motel, Veterans Administra-tion Social Worker Rob Norris of the White River Junction VA Med-ical Center paid them a visit. He advised them to look into tempo-rary housing at Bridge House in Plymouth and that recommendation, she said, changed the course of their lives.
“The places in Ver-mont weren’t nearly as nice as Bridge House, and when we got here, we were met with open arms. I told Paul, ‘Wow…we finally land-ed in a safe place,’” Sha-
ron recalled.Things just got bet-
ter from there though when they were of-fered the opportunity to move into the new Boulder Point veter-ans’ housing.
The couple now has a two-bedroom apart-ment that looks out over the Baker River Valley at Stinson Mt. and she said every morning she marvels at the beauty.
“I look out the win-dow and I don’t even want to get out of bed,” Sharon said.
Their new apart-ment also has a dish-washer, icemaker, washer and dryer and other amenities that she isn’t use to having in her home. Walmart is also just a short
walk down the road, as are doctor’s offices and other places to shop, but it’s not just the appliances, stores and view that make it ideal though. For her hus-band Paul, it’s much more.
“He loves being here. He’s able to get out and talk with other veter-ans and that means a lot to him,” she said.
Not long after arriv-ing in Plymouth, the couple found a new friend when they adopt-ed a friendly dog named Roxy. Besides being a loving companion, Roxy keeps them active so they were grateful to learn pets are welcome at Boulder Point.
And while Sharon said she loves their new home, a part of her
still misses the caring people and environ-ment she first found when they came to New Hampshire.
“I miss the people at Bridge House, and go to visit them all the time. The people here in Plymouth are just wonderful. It’s so heart-warming to be here,” she said.
Adding to the excite-ment of the ceremony last Friday, Paul was asked to lead the crowd in the Pledge of Alle-giance. Then, when it came time to officially open the complex, he helped Kelleher cut the ribbon on the new Vet-erans Housing at Boul-der Point as the large crowd applauded.
“This has just been amazing,” he said.
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Peter Kelleher of Harbor Homes was assisted by Korean War veteran Paul Ash in cutting the ribbon on the new Veterans Housing at Boulder Point in Plymouth last Friday. Looking on are Senators Maggie Hassan (left) and Jeanne Shaheen (right), as well as many other local officials, community partners and investors in the project.
BY JOSHUA SPAULDING
Sports Editor
BRISTOL — Last year’s Newfound volley-ball team had just eight players and five of them graduated in June, so coach Amy Fairbank knew there would be some rebuilding needed coming into the new year.
“This was going to be a rebuilding year,” Fair-bank said. “I had three players returning and had to fill some pretty big shoes.”
The good news for Fairbank is that she has her setter, outside hitter and blocker still on the team from last year, so there is a good base to build off of going into the new year.
Junior Bailey Fair-bank returns as an out-side hitter and brings a strong defensive pres-ence as well, while se-nior Maura Geldermann returns as a blocker and
a right side hitter. Class-mate Riley Pierce is the team’s setter and the third returning player from last year’s team.
Fairbank added four more varsity players along with five addition-al swingers, bringing the varsity team to 12 ath-letes.
Sophomore Pauli-na Huckins, who was a strong presence on the basketball team last win-ter, will be a strong hitter and blocker in her first season.
“Just these last two months alone, I have seen her develop her block and strengthen her hit,” Fair-bank said.
Freshman Malina Bohlmann has a lot of drive for the game and is learning her role as a hit-ter with quick feet and a competitive nature.
Sophomores Jamie Norton and Emalie Ruit-er are developing into
very versatile players. Ruiter is comfortable in the front and the back and Norton is working toward becoming a valu-able blocker and hitter.
The month of Septem-ber continues with a full slate of games for the lo-cal high school teams.
The Newfound and Plymouth cross country teams are both compet-ing today, Sept. 12, at Newfound at 4:30 p.m. and at Laconia on Satur-day, Sept. 14, at 10 a.m. The Bobcats will run on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Merrimack Valley and the Bears will run on Thursday, Sept. 19, at home at 4:30 p.m.
The Newfound soc-cer boys will be hosting Mascoma at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, will be hosting Hillsboro-Deer-ing at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, and will be host-ing Berlin at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19.
The Bear field hock-ey team will be hosting Mascoma on Friday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m. and will be at White Moun-tains at 4 p.m. on Mon-day, Sept. 16.
The Newfound vol-leyball team will be at Mascenic on Friday, Sept. 13, at 6:15 p.m. and will be hosting Epping at 6:15 p.m. on Wednes-day, Sept. 18.
BRISTOL —The New-found field hockey team took care of business on Friday, Sept. 6, knock-ing off a shorthanded Franklin squad by a 9-0 score.
“Our focus during preseason was to pass the ball and not con-sistently be in one vs. one situations,” said coach Kammi Williams. “By doing this, we con-trolled the field. We didn’t allow any shots on goal.”
The Golden Tor-nadoes were playing shorthanded due to in-juries and Williams was impressed with their hustle and persever-ance despite the short-handedness.
Caroline Marchand scored three goals to lead the way for the Bears while Tiffany Doan came up with two goals and three assists. Sophomore Cassie Zick
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Hayse Broome sends the ball in during Newfound’s game against Franklin on Friday.scored a goal and add-ed an assist. Freshman Paige Fischer scored her first two varsity goals while sweeper Lindsey Lacasse added one and freshman Des-
tiny Bony picked up her first assist.
The Bears will be in action on Friday, Sept. 13, at home against Mas-coma at 4 p.m. and will be at White Mountains
at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16.
Sports Editor Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
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Eye on a winKeeper Jack Gosson prepares to make a save during his team’s 1-0 win over Conant last Friday afternoon. The Bears finished the first week 1-1 and will be in action on Friday, Sept. 13, at home against Mascoma, will be hosting Hillsboro-Deering on Tuesday, Sept. 17, and will be hosting Berlin on Thursday, Sept. 19, all with 4 p.m. starts.
Bears looking to overcome big graduation losses
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Bailey Fairbank is one of three returning players for the Newfound volleyball team.
Boyd helped to clear a John Stark corner. The Bobcats also had a cor-ner but it was cleared away by the John Stark defense.
With 28:58 to go in the game, the Generals scored on a shot that went off the post and was poked in on the rebound for the 5-1 lead.
After solid defense from Billin and another save by Flaherty, Johan-na Dapuhinee took over in the net. Moments lat-er, Derosier went down with an apparent arm injury.
“Hopefully it’s a quick recovery,” Reed said of his senior captain’s inju-ry. “She does very well for us.”
The Generals contin-ued to attack, sending
a couple of shots wide, another off the crossbar and another that Dau-phinee stopped. Sham-berger made a nice cross to Boyd, who drilled a shot off the post. Ashley Deruvo helped clear a John Stark corner and Boyd sent a shot wide on a Plymouth corner as the clock ticked down on the 5-1 win for the Generals.
“We did well moving the ball, possession-wise through the midfield,” Reed said. “And we got nice runs up to our out-side midfielders.
“But our backs seemed to have a bit of a discon-nect today,” the Bobcat coach added.
“This team is pretty skilled, they know what they want to do with the ball,” Reed said. “It’s just getting used to playing as a team together.”
The Bobcats opened the season with a game at Pembroke on Aug. 31 and dropped a 3-2 decision to the Spartans.
The hosts scored the first goal in the 12th minute and the game re-mained 1-0 through the end of the first half. The hosts then scored their second goal early in the second half but Plymouth came back.
Shamberger scored Plymouth’s first goal to cut the lead to 2-1 before the Spartans scored their third goal.
Tara Smoker round-ed out the scoring with a one-on-one shot past the Pembroke keeper for the 3-2 final.
“It was a great show-ing by PRHS,” said Reed, praising the play of Fla-herty in net, Billin, Boyd, Meier, Levesque and Shamberger.
The Bobcats fell 4-0 on the road at Hollis-Brook-line on Friday. The hosts scored once in the first half and Plymouth bat-tled back in the second half but could not find the back of the net and the hosts added three more goals. Reed praised the play of Meier, Billin and Boyd in the loss.
Plymouth will be in action on Friday, Sept. 13, hosting Pelham at 4 p.m. On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the Bobcats will be at Sanborn at 4:30 p.m.
Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
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PLYMOUTH — Bob Mallard is the author of many fishing articles and a few books on fly fishing. He decided to write a book about one fish, the brook trout. Squaretail is about the most iconic freshwater fish, North America’s “first” native fish. Mal-lard explains why spe-cial interests, habitat degradation and bad stewardship science have slaughtered most of the brook trout. Mal-lard is a Maine fly fish-ing guide, a former fly shop owner and master fly tyer.
The Pemigewasset Chapter of Trout Un-limited will meet on
Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Common Man Inn in Plymouth. Come early and meet Mallard and fellow anglers. The win-ner of the chapter’s gun raffle will be drawn, plus a raffle to support sending a lucky boy or girl to the Barry Fish Camp at the meeting. Meetings are free and open to the public.
Trout Unlimited is a non-profit organization with a mission dedi-cated to conserve, pro-tect and restore North America’s cold-water fisheries and their wa-tersheds. Visit www.pemigewasset.tu.org and like the group on Facebook.
Author to speak at Tuesday Trout
Unlimited meeting
Generals battle past Bobcat girlsBY JOSHUA SPAULDING
Sports Editor
PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth soccer girls found themselves in a 1-0 hole less than four min-utes into their game with John Stark on Wednes-day, Sept. 4.
When the Bobcats answered that goal just more than a minute later, it seemed like they were going to match the visi-tors stroke for stroke.
However, John Stark scored four unanswered goals and went on to take a 5-1 win over the Bob-cats, who also lost one of their key senior captains to an injury in the second half.
“They had two girls up top that were extremely skilled,” said Plymouth coach Kyle Reed. “At the half, we talked about how we had to close the door quickly, we can’t give them space.
“They did a better job of it in the second half,” the Bobcat coach added.
Plymouth keeper Jen-na Flaherty was busy ear-ly, turning away a couple of chances from the Gen-erals while freshman Maggie Boyd just missed connecting with junior Jordan Levesque on a bid. Levesque then sent a nice cross into the middle of the box but just missed Taylor Shamberger.
The visitors were able to get on the board with 3:50 gone, scoring on a cross in front that was tapped past Flaherty for a 1-0 lead.
The Bobcats didn’t back down, as just more than a minute later they were able to tie the score. Lily Derosier sent the ball into the box where Sam Meier went airborne and headed the ball into the net, tying the score at one.
Plymouth kept attack-ing, with Derosier send-ing Shamberger in with a good bid that was denied and then firing a shot on net herself that was stopped. Flaherty had an-other save and Sumaj Bil-
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Lily Derosier controls the ball during the Bobcats’ home opener on Sept. 4.
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Sam Meier keeps her eye on the ball during action Sept. 4 against John Stark.
lin helped out with a good defensive clear.
However, with 27:15 to go in the first half, the Generals were able to take the lead, this time firing a direct kick from the top of the box to the top of the net for the 2-1 lead.
Derosier just missed connecting with Megan Metivier on a couple of chances and Derosier also had a shot go wide of
the net.With 10:28 to go in the
half, Flaherty was able to make a save on a shot but the rebound was poked past her and into the net for the 3-1 lead.
The Generals had a di-rect kick go off the cross bar and Flaherty also had another save. Derosier and Levesque each had chances that didn’t find the back of the net.
With two minutes to
go in the half, the Gener-als struck again, this time with a strike from the top of the box for a 4-1 lead.
Levesque and Der-osier had late chances that were stopped by the John Stark keeper and the game went to the half with the visitors up by a 4-1 score.
Derosier, Levesque and Shamberger had ear-ly chances in the second half for the Bobcats and
BY JOSHUA SPAULDING
Sports Editor
PLYMOUTH — The soccer season officially kicked off for the Ken-nett and Plymouth boys on Friday, Aug. 30, as the Eagles made the trek to Plymouth to take on the Bobcats.
Plymouth got two goals from Pete Wingsted on the way to the 3-1 win to open the season.
“You know you need to win, but you also need to see character,” said Plymouth coach Jesse El-derkin. “And I think they showed that.”
“I thought the game was even, but we were on our heels for the first 20 minutes,” said Kennett coach Dave Hart. “But we stuck with it and made a few adjustments.”
Out of the gate, Ken-nett’s Cole Bradley had the first shot, which Plymouth keeper Elliot Miller easily handled and Plymouth came back with a good deal of pres-sure. Will Fogarty sent a nice ball through to Wing-sted and Darren Pratt and the Bobcats also had a couple of corners in a row, but Kennett keeper Reilly Murphy made the save. He also made the save on a direct kick from Jake Bussolari. Fogarty made another run in that defender Matt Nordwick cleared and then Nor-dwick blocked another shot by Jarod Girouard.
Murphy made anoth-er save on a direct kick by Doug Cassarino and then Santiago Ciro made a nice centering pass for the Eagles that was cleared away. Bussolari came back with a shot for the Bobcats that went wide and then Cassarino sent a nice cross to Con-nor Greene, but his shot went wide of the net.
Nick Aprilliano had a bid denied for the Cats and Cassarino had a bid that Murphy stopped. Murphy also turned away a header from Gi-rouard and then made a huge save on a bid from Bussolari.
Jackson Gordon worked his way through the Plymouth defense for a shot but his bid went wide of the net and then Ethan Clay-Storm had a direct kick for the Eagles
but Miller stood tall and made the save.
Plymouth came back with more chances, with Greene sending a long shot on net and Girouard ripping a shot off the cross bar and Anton Smith just missed connecting with Wingsted in front.
Clay-Storm went the other way with a good ball up to Bryce Hill, but his run into the zone was stopped by a good defen-sive stop from Greene. Girouard came back with a couple of bids, but Nord-wick helped keep the ball away from the net.
The Bobcats were able to get on the board with 14:53 to go in the first half, as Wingsted picked up the first goal of the season for the 1-0 lead.
Gordon came back with a bid for Kennett that Miller made a strong save on while Wingst-ed, Pratt, Cassarino and Quinn Twomey came back with chances for Plymouth that came up short. Riley Hayes had a late bid for Kennett but the half came to a close with the Bobcats clinging to the 1-0 lead.
Wingsted had a couple of early chances in the second half for the hosts and Murphy also made a save on a Plymouth cor-ner kick. The Bobcats also got a nice defensive
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PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth field hockey team kicked off the sea-son with a solid win on the road in Pembroke on Sept. 3.
The Spartans got the scoring started with a goal off a corner in the first half, but the Bob-cats were able to bounce back, scoring eight min-utes later on a goal from senior Olivia Eastman on an assist from junior Emma Webster, also on a corner.
The game went to the half tied at one and Plymouth scored two more goals in the second half.
Eastman scored her second goal of the game off a rebound to give the Bobcats the 2-1 lead and
then senior Gabby Karn-takosol put home the third goal of the game from classmate Stella Smith to round out the scoring.
Coach Ashley Laufen-berg praised the play of Smith on the offensive side of things, Katie Lambert in the midfield and fellow senior Han-nah Olmstead on the de-fensive side of things.
“(We) had many shots on goal in the first half but could not capitalize,” the veteran head coach said. “In the second half, the offense worked to find each other better.”
The Bobcats hosted Bow on Friday and came away with a 1-0 overtime victory.
Junior Holly Hoyt put in the game winning goal on an assist from
Lambert 11 minutes into the overtime period to give the Bobcats the win.
“(We) had many op-portunities to score in regulation but were shut down defensively,” Laufenberg said.
The Bobcat coach praised the work of Hol-ly Phillips and Kartna-kosol up front, Olmstead on defense and keeper Molly Edmark.
The Bobcats will be at home on Friday, Sept. 13, as Goffstown visits and then Merrimack Valley visits on Monday, Sept. 16, before the Bob-cats head to John Stark on Wednesday, Sept. 18, all with 4 p.m. start times.
Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
Field hockey Bobcats open with two wins
Wingsted’s two goals lift Bobcats to opening win
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KENNETT’S Santiago Ciro and Plymouth’s Jake Bussolari work for the ball in action Aug. 31 in Plymouth.
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PLYMOUTH’S Pete Wingsted steps in front of Kennett’s Colby Eastwood as they battle for the ball in action on Aug. 31.stop from Nate Hixon and then Tommy Carpenter cleared away a Kennett corner kick chance. Cas-sarino, Carpenter and Pratt also had bids for the Bobcats but they didn’t connect. Gordon came back with a chance for the Eagles but the Bobcat defense turned the bid away.
Clay-Storm had a cou-ple of good chances for the Eagles, just missing connecting with Jimmy McCarthy on one bid and then having a shot stopped by Miller on another chance. McCa-rthy and Matt Synnott teamed up on another bid for Kennett, as did Clay-
Storm and Hayes.Mamush Tighe sent
a nice feed through to Smith as the Bobcats at-tempted to up the lead to 2-0 and Cassarino also had a shot in close that was denied.
The Eagles were able to tie the game with six minutes to go. Hayes made a run down the right side of the field and cut into the box, firing a shot past Miller to make it 1-1.
The Bobcats did not back down, instead tak-ing the lead just a minute later, as Girouard sent a nice centering pass in to Wingsted, who slipped the ball past Murphy to make it 2-1.
Plymouth kept attack-
ing, as Carpenter ripped a shot off the cross bar on an indirect kick. Howev-er, the ball bounced back to Carpenter and he put home the rebound with 3:18 to go for the 3-1 lead.
Kennett had a couple of late chances, with Hayes and Ciro getting looks, while Smith, Wingsted and Girouard all had bids for the Bob-cats as the game closed with the 3-1 win.
“That’s the charac-ter I’m looking for,” Elderkin said of the immediate rally after Kennett tied the game. “They came togeth-er as a bunch of guys who wouldn’t fail, they wouldn’t accept it.
Elderkin praised the
work of Wingsted as a senior captain scoring the first goal and the game-winning goal.
“Character comes from the seniors,” the Bobcat coach said. “Those are the guys that wanted it.”
“When you score, there’s a little bit of a mental letdown and you’re vulnerable at that time,” Hart said. “But that’s something that’s easily fixable, I’m pretty proud of the guys for the first time out.
“I don’t think the score was indicative of the game,” the Eagle coach continued. “Reilly made some huge saves and he kept us in it.”
The Plymouth boys returned to action on Tuesday, Sept. 3, and came away with a 3-0 win over Stevens.
Girouard scored the first goal of the game in the first half with an as-sist from Wingsted for the 1-0 lead at the half.
Cassarino came through with a goal four minutes into the second half and then with four minutes to go, Ricardo Munoz scored on an as-sist from Matt Lorrey for the final three goals.
“On a day that we didn’t have good footing, to go 3-0, that was great even when we didn’t have our best game,” El-derkin said.
Miller finished with five saves to earn the shutout against what Elderkin termed a “well-prepared, well-coached” Cardinal side.
“They stifled us a while,” the Bobcat coach said.
The Eagles dropped a 6-0 decision to Oys-ter River in the second game of the season.
The Eagles will be in action today, Sept. 12, at Pembroke at 4 p.m., they will be at Coe-Brown on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. and will be hosting Lebanon at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The Bobcats will be at Pelham for a 4:30 p.m. game on Friday, Sept. 13 and will be hosting Coe-Brown on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4 p.m.
Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
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GILFORD — The Newfound cross country team traveled to Gun-stock on Thursday, Sept. 5, for the Gilford Early Bird Invitational.
“The girls’ team ran well with a number of personal achievements,” said coach Amy Yeakel. “The boys’ team per-formed well for a sixth place team finish over-all out of 14 competing schools.”
In the boys’ race, Nich-olas Comeau led the way for the Bears, finishing in a time of 20:54 for 24th
place overall.Joe Sullivan was next
for the Bears, finishing
in 32nd place in a time of 21:18 and Jeffrey Huck-ins finished in 40th place
with a time of 22:09.Luke Gordon contin-
ued the scoring for the
Bears, finishing in a time of 22:18 for 41st place overall while Connor Downes ran to 53rd place in a time of 23:13.
Wyatt Day was right behind in 54th place in 23:14 and Benjamin LaPlume placed 63rd overall in a time of 23:41. Ryder Downes finished in 66th place in a time of 23:45, Kyle Rosendahl finished in 76th place in a time of 24:19 and Romeo Dokus finished in a time of 25:00 for 85th place.
Leah Deuso led the way for the Newfound girls, finishing in a time of 29:26 for 62nd place.
Sophia Pettit fin-ished in a time of 24:11 for 80th place, Gretchen McGowan was 81st over-all in a time of 34:19 and Sadira Dukette finished in 39:43 for 93rd place overall.
The Bears will be host-ing a meet today, Sept. 12, at 4:30 p.m. and will be at Laconia for a 10 a.m. meet on Saturday, Sept. 14. The team returns home for a meet on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m.
Sports Editor Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
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PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth cross country team raced three times in the opening week of the season, finishing the week up with a trip to Gunstock on Thurs-day, Sept. 5, and a trip to Pinkham Notch on Satur-day, Sept. 7.
For the girls in the Gilford Early Bird Invita-tional, Appal Kunz led the way, finishing in a time of 24:29.
Kaylie Sampson ran to 23rd place overall in a time of 24:49 and Corin-na Flynn finished as the third scorer with a time of 26:18 for 36th place.
Valerie Johnston fin-ished in 45th place overall in a time of 27:22 and Bri-anna Therrien rounded out the scoring for Plym-outh with her time of 27:25 for 47th place overall.
Lydia Marunowski finished in 50th place in
27:51, with Natalie Boy-er in 30:20 for 67th place, Caitlyn Bourret in 68th place in 30:28 and Me-gan Ebner in 69th place in 30:35. Madison Marsh
placed 82nd in a time of 34:45, Alex Dunstan ran to 84th place in 35:57, Merrick Wolfley was 86th in 36:12, Liana Francis placed 87th in 36:54 and
Connie Kim was 90th in 37:39.
For the boys, Achius Wolfley led the way for Plymouth with a time of 21:31 for 34th place over-all.
Michael Kulig was 39th overall in 22:05 with Hunter McLeod finish-ing in 23:14 for 55th place to finish third among the Bobcats.
Samson Deruvo ran to 59th place in 23:28 and James Philbin rounded out the scoring for Plym-outh, finishing in 24:27 for 79th place overall.
Kyle Dimick finished in 100th place in 27:45, Mason Earick was 101st in 27:46, John Ulricson was 103rd in 28:09, Cade Earick finished in 104th in a time of 28:09, Sam Smith finished in 107th place in 28:42, Garrett Dion was 110th in 29:28 and Ethan Girouard fin-ished in 114th place in 31:45.
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The football Bears will be hosting Raymond at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14.
The Newfound unified soccer team will be host-ing Gilford at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16.
The Plymouth volley-ball team will be at John Stark today, Sept. 12, at 5:45 p.m. and will be hosting Oyster River at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
The Plymouth soc-cer boys are at Pel-ham on Friday, Sept. 13, and will be hosting
Coe-Brown at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19.
The Bobcat girls’ soc-cer team will be hosting Pelham on Friday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m. and is at San-born at 4 p.m. on Wednes-day, Sept. 18.
The field hockey Bob-cats will be hosting Goff-stown on Friday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m., will be hosting Merrimack Valley at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16, and will be at John Stark at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
The Plymouth foot-ball team will be at John Stark for a 2 p.m. game on Saturday, Sept. 14.
FROM PAGE B1On Tap
mour and Marisa Staf-ford are the five players who will swing between varsity and JV.
“We used the presea-son and three jamborees to fit everyone into the right positions and I was very pleased with the po-tential I saw,” Fairbank
said. “This group of girls is dedicated to taking their skills to the next lev-el and are working very well together.
“I am looking forward to a very competitive year,” the Bear coach pointed out.
The Bears finished last year at 11-5 and fin-ished in sixth place in Di-vision III. The team won its opening round playoff
game over Nute before falling to Inter-Lakes in the quarterfinals.
The Bears will feature two games each with Ma-scenic and Moultonbor-ough and single games with Inter-Lakes, Epping, Portsmouth Christian, Winnisquam, Kennett, Belmont, Prospect Moun-tain, Sunapee, Mascoma, Franklin, Farmington and Campbell.
The season kicked off on Friday, Sept. 6, at In-ter-Lakes and continues on Friday, Sept. 13, at Ma-scenic at 6:15 p.m. and the home opener is Wednes-day, Sept. 18, against Ep-ping at 6:15 p.m.
Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
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Volleyball
The idea of spending a few weeks next summer in Japan is a little daunt-ing, but so was the pros-pect of spending a few weeks in Russia in the winter of 2014 and a few weeks in South Korea last year.
But as things rolled along during those pre-vious Olympic experi-ences, they got better. The second trip to the Olympics was much eas-ier than the first, since things run pretty much the same way no matter where the Olympics take place. While the signs were in Russian in Sochi and in Korean in Pyeong-Chang, they were also in English, which obvious-ly makes things easier on those of us who speak En-glish. But the buses run the same, the venues op-erate basically the same and the media center is much the same.
The difference this time is that the Olympics I’ll be going to are not go-ing to feature any snow or cold weather. I’ve grown “accustomed” to the way the Winter Olym-pics go over the last few
years but I imagine the Summer Olympics are going to be much differ-ent. There are a lot more sports, a lot more venues and with that, there is a lot more journalists cov-ering the Games. And as I’ve mentioned be-fore, the Olympics are in a huge city, which means not only will we be amongst lots of oth-er media members but also among a lot of oth-er regular residents of Tokyo.
So, what brings this up?
Well, last week I re-ceived the first invoice for the accommoda-tions for my trip to To-kyo, which is coming in July of next year. As mentioned before, this time around the media members will be staying in existing hotels around the city of Tokyo as op-posed to newly-built me-dia housing that I had in
Russia and Korea. When I first received
my approval for the Sum-mer Olympic credentials, I went through the media housing availability and chose a couple of differ-ent hotels. The hotel lists included their location, the distance away from the different venues and the media center plus a whole list of amenities. But my main priority was the price. Since the trip is financed privately and by generous people from the community, I made the choice to find the hotels with the best prices.
The grand total was a little more than $1,600 for the entire 18 nights that I have reserved in Tokyo. This is a fairly reasonable price in my mind, at $90 a night. And when the reservations came in, I received my first choice of hotel.
On Friday, after I fin-ished my weekly laun-dry trip, I stopped at the TD Bank in Wolfeboro, where I have had an ac-count set up for my Olym-pic expenses since before the Sochi Games. Tammi
Rogers was a huge help in helping me get a wire transfer to the bank in Tokyo and with that, the trip to Tokyo is pretty much official, at least on my end. Once the money has been sent, I figure there is no looking back.
So, Tokyo 2020 is offi-cially a thing. One way or another, the trip will hap-pen and I’m looking for-ward to another Olympic experience, this time in the heat of the summer. And I promise to take ev-eryone along with blog posts and social media updates.
Finally, have a great day, Deb Gagne.
Joshua Spaulding is the Sports Editor for the Granite State News, Car-roll County Independent, Meredith News, Gilford Steamer, Winnisquam Echo, Plymouth Re-cord-Enterprise, Littleton Courier, Newfound Land-ing, Coos County Demo-crat, Berlin Reporter and The Baysider. He can be reached at [email protected] at 279-4516, or PO Box 729, Meredith, NH 03253.
SPORTING CHANCE
By JOSHUA SPAULDING
And now it’s actually official
Busy first week for Bobcat runners
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Appal Kunz finished second for the Bobcats on Saturday in Pinkham Notch.
Bears kick off the season in Gilford
BOB MARTIN – GILFORD STEAMER
Joe Sullivan runs in the Early Bird Invitational in Gilford last week.
At Great Glen on Sat-urday, Wolfley was again the top Bobcat, finishing in 45th place in a time of 19:33.
Kulig crossed in a time of 20:36 for 61st place over-all to place second for the Bobcats, with Deruvo in 86th place in a time of 22:25.
MacLeod ran to 88th overall in a time of 22:40 and Philbin rounded out the scoring for Plymouth with a time of 22:47 for 91st place.
Dimick finished in 98th place in a time of 25:23 and Ulricson fin-ished in 99th place in 25:43 to finish out the boys in the varsity race.
In the varsity girls’ race, Amanda Daugherty ran to 16th place overall with a time of 22:16 to lead the way for the Bobcats.
Kunz was next in for Plymouth, finishing in 23rd place overall in a time of 22:58 and Flynn finished in 29th place with a time of 23:51.
Sampson ran to 33rd place in 24:09 and Ther-rien finished out the scor-
ing for Plymouth with a time of 24:23 for 35th place.
Emily Barker was 41st overall in 25:21 and Johnston finished in 42nd place with a time of 25:26.
In the JV boys’ race, Smith was 65th overall in 26:04, Dion finished in 71st place in 28:13, Sam Tredo was 72nd in a time of 28:18 and Girouard was 74th in 28:51.
Bourret was tops for the girls in the JV race, finishing in 27:53 for 21st place. Ebner finished in 22nd place in 27:55, Abby Park was 33rd in 32:47, Francis was 34th in 33:37, Kim placed 41st in 37:30 and Merrick Wolfley was 42nd in 37:59.
Plymouth will be back in action today, Sept. 12, at Newfound at 4:30 p.m., will be at Laconia on Sat-urday, Sept. 14, at 10 a.m. and will be at Merrimack Valley on Monday, Sept. 16, at 4 p.m.
Sports Editor Joshua Spaulding can be reached at 279-4516, ext. 155 or [email protected].
