The Sunapee School Board (SAU 85) will hold a regular meeting Wednesday, April 1 at the Sunapee Middle High School (media room) starting at 7 p.m. (Minutes for the February 2009 meeting is available on the SAU85 eboards; the draft minutes for the March meeting is not yet online.) The members of the school board [...]
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Image via Wikipedia The NH Department of Environmental Services has joined others around the state in bringing attention to Earth Hour 2009. “Make a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m,” urges NHDES. Earth Hour is an event that was created [...]
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SunapeeNews.com celebrates NH Maple Weekend with info and a new banner by Paul Howe Photography. This weekend, over 65 sugar houses across New Hampshire, including many in the Lake Sunapee region, will be offering free samples and tours. March 28 and 29 is NH Maple Weekend. Gov. John Lynch is urging citizens to recognize the [...]
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Spring Ledge Farm, New London, offers an on-line newsletter and today’s email from owner Greg Berger spoke of a surprise! It also included a link to a video on YouTube…of two newborn lambs, Snowy and Ashes. “Already up and about, the lambs wobbled a few feet and plopped back down,” Berger wrote. “Mom, being a [...]
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This Week on on Local TV: The Life Show # 15: “Infinite Passion” Gordon Weinberger’s, Infinite Persistence Life Show (see local listings in this week’s Intertown Record for days and times the Life Show airs in your town) is taking off with public enthusiasm and support! Viewership and in-studio audience participation is doubling each week. [...]
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Sunapee State Representative Suzanne “Sue” Gottling says safety in and on the water is the issue when it comes to HB224, a bill she sponsored this year in the NH legislature. Other sponsors of the bill are David Kidder, R-New London, and Patricia “Ricia” McMahon, D-Sutton/Newbury. Laconia Citizen John Koziol reports March 25, 2009: A [...]
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On Election Day, March 10, Sunapee voters elected by write-in: David Cain and David Montambeault, water and sewer commissioners Gerald Patnode, cemetery commissioner Daniel Schneider, planning board member To date, all except Patnode have accepted the positions. The Sunapee planning board nominated at its March 5 meeting Nick Contos to serve as an alternate on [...]
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Since 1993, the NH Department of Environmental Services Pollution Prevention Program (NHPPP) has partnered with the University of NH and the US Environmental Protection Agency in a win-win-win situation: A highly successful, student internship program for businesses and municipalities. Applications for summer interns are now being accepted. The Pollution Prevention Internship program or P2I, as [...]
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Two proposed wastewater projects in Sunapee are listed on the draft priority list to Clean Water funds from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). However, neither are amongst the top-30. The proposed Perkins Pond Sewer Project ($4.37 million) was ranked at 190 out of 207 prioritized applicants. The Waster Water Treatment Facility proposal [...]
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Image via Wikipedia OPINION By Catherine Bushueff As the snow melts away, green shoots can be found sprouting in the warmest and sunniest spots around the Sunapee area. Also, other “green” buds are developing, activities that revolve around: Community, sustainability and food. This parallels what is happening across the country. Recently (March 15), Sixty Minutes [...]
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State Senator Bob Odell (R-Lempster), in this week’s Capital Comments, writes about a proposed Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolution (CACR 9) “to have governors elected to four-year terms beginning with the 2012 general election. New Hampshire is one of only two states still with two-year terms for Governors. The other state is Vermont.” Read more by [...]
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It’s coming….Sunapee GreenUp Day. And the organizing committee is launching a GreenUp clean up website, too! When is it? The first Saturday in May. That’s May 2. Want to learn more about GreenUp Day and how you can help? Contact Rhonda Gurney or Sunapee Road Agent Tony Bergeron.
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This week is national Sunshine Week…”a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.” Freedom to access public information is at the core of open [...]
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Gov. John Lynch this week encouraged businesses, nonprofits and municipalities to apply for $2.9 million in youth summer jobs grants being made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The NH Workforce Opportunity Council has begun accepting requests for proposals from businesses, nonprofits and local communities. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis [...]
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Capital Comments: NH Courts Suffer Under Budget Constraints
“Chief Justice John Broderick reminded legislators that the state courts in New Hampshire are suffering under the budget constraints in state government,” reports State Senator Bob Odell (R-Lempster). “The Chief Justice addressed a Joint Convention of the legislature to present his every other year State of the Judiciary speech.” The judiciary is the third co-equal [...]
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