Despite heavy snow the night before, the Sunapee Seniors last Monday shoveled out and hosted a forum on town meeting issues and for candidates running for the board of selectmen. Joe Internicola, vice president for the Seniors, chaired the meeting. Town Clerk Betty Ramspott, Town Manager Donna Nashawaty, selectmen candidates Charlotte Brown and William “Bill” [...]
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Sunapee school board will meet on Thursday, March 5 at the Middle High School media room starting at 7 p.m. Agenda items include an update on the Blodgett property, record of retention decisions for video/audio of school board meetings and email records, approval of the French Exchange Student Project and approval of a proposed 2009-10 [...]
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Sunapee Green Up is coming…May 2nd, the first Saturday of the month, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. This will be a town wide event, a clean up along the roads and across the community, similar to the Hanover (NH) clean up. A community picnic scheduled immediately after the clean up is also being discussed, [...]
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Sunapee will post the roads effective March 1 through April 30 restricting all Class V roads to a maximum of 6 tons for vehicle and load. All Class VI roads will be closed to wheeled vehicles. Written permission may be obtained from the Sunapee Highway Department.
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“We are seeing that call volumes are down, and customers are reporting that they are getting through to Internet technical support and are getting their issues resolved,” according to Fairpoint spokesperson Jill Healey Wurm, manager for Corporate Communications, in an email today to Sunapee News. “The vast majority of our @myFairPoint.net customers have successfully made [...]
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The superintendent of Sunapee schools Dr. Brendan Minnihan recently attended the National Conference on Education held Feb. 19 -21 in San Francisco. The conference is sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators. Prior to coming to Sunapee in 2008 when the town created a new administrative unit (SAU 85), Minnihan was an Assistant Principal [...]
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Email problems for former Verizon customers shifting over to myfairpoint.net continues to frustrate users. “I lost my ability to email out last Saturday,” said a Sunapee Fairpoint customer today. “My mother in Claremont lost her email, as well.” Both customers still can not email out, although emails were working after the transition at the start [...]
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In this week’s Capital Comments, Sen. Bob Odell (R-Lempster) reports on the federal stimulus package: “Our weekly Senate session on Wednesday ran late as Senators cobbled together an amendment to allow towns and school districts to hold special meetings on short notice to accept stimulus money. That might sound easy but towns which operate with [...]
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Al Carruth will emcee Open Mic at the Sunapee Community Coffeehouse Friday, February 27. Music starts at 7 p.m. at the Community United Methodist of Church, Lower Main Street, Sunapee. Open mic is traditionally the last Friday of the month. Stop by to listen or join in. Musicians and storytellers are welcome. Light refreshments are [...]
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NH Gov. John Lynch and Environmental Services Commissioner Thomas Burack on Friday urged local communities looking to upgrade drinking water or wastewater systems to apply for federal stimulus funding through state Department of Environmental Services. “Local communities should be in contact with the Department of Environmental Services about their drinking water and wastewater system needs, [...]
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“Perhaps nothing exemplifies New Hampshire so much as the local town meeting. However, as of 2007, only one-third of the state’s residents lived in a town with a ‘traditional’ town meeting; one-third live in municipalities where a city council has governing authority and one-third live in communities that have adopted SB2 or another form of [...]
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All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt! – Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz The Chocolate Fest is April 4. Mark you calendar! This year,the Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce and Colby-Sawyer College are the co-sponsors. This delicious event will be held at [...]
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Executive Director Rob Bryant of the Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce recenlty announced an upcoming networking event sponsored by Micro Credit-NH for self-employed and small businesses. It will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Candlelite Inn in Bradford. RSVP to Janet Cote at Micro Credit-NH, 603-620-0319 or [...]
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From the nearly $787 billion federal recovery package, NH expects to get $860 million: $250 in Medicaid funding. $295 million for education. $315 for other programs. $59 million is marked for ready-to-go infrastructure handled by NH Dept. of Environmental Services for projects to do with drinking water, waste water and the cleanup of contaminated brownfield [...]
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The Lake Sunapee Protective Association and NH Dept. of Environmental Services are co-sponsoring a NH Water Plan Information Session to be held on Thursday, February 26 starting at 7 p.m. at LSPA headquarters, the Knowlton House at Sunapee Harbor. The public is invited to attend. The meeting is part of the state’s follow-up to the [...]
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