Conservation Law Foundation Sues Murray`s Auto

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Multiple Variances Sought
for 55-and-over Rental Project
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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eam Business Development Corp. is
seeking to build a
110-unit, 55-and-older age
restricted rental complex
in the Button Drive, Golen
Drive and Reed Street
area, but is requesting
several variances from
the Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) to do so.
Variance requests include:
• Constructing the complex of three connected
buildings on 7.96 acres,
where 15 acres are
required;
• Allowing 56 percent
open space, where 70 per-
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cent is required;
• Being allowed to
have 36 and 42 units in
the buildings, where 16
units are the maximum;
• Being allowed to
have an increase in density of 15.8 units per acre,
where six units per acre
are the maximum allowed;
• Allowing 20 feet of
separation between buildings, where 60 feet is
required;
• Having a mix of one
and two bedroom units,
where only two bedroom
units are required; and
• Having .95 parking
spaces per unit, where 1.2
parking spaces per bedroom are required.
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In March, Atty. Patricia
Panciocco brought the
variance requests before
the ZBA; at that time, they
were continued without
any rulings until the April
meeting.
At the April meeting,
Panciocco requested a
continuance until the May
meeting, saying there were
items from the Planning
Board that Team Business
Development Corp. wanted to include in its presentation.
At the Wednesday, May
21 meeting, Panciocco
and Jocelyn Bos of Team
Development brought the
parking variance request
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Conservation Law Foundation
Sues Murray’s Auto Recycling
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
Town Salute
Members of American Legion Post 27 give a 21-gun
salute during the Memorial Day service at the Greeley gravesite in the Glenwood Cemetery on Monday morning. See additional photos on page 9.
Photo by Chris Paul
UPS Distribution Center for Pratt &
Whitney Coming to Londonderry
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ratt & Whitney, a
unit of United Technologies Corp., announced the expansion of
its third-party logistics
relationship with UPS, and
as part of the agreement,
UPS will open a 600,000square-foot Northeast Log-
P
istics Center (NELC) in
Londonderry.
Town Planner Cynthia
May said the facility will
be located on Pettengill
Road (see related story
page 5).
The facility will serve
as a centralized distribution center for Pratt &
Whitney parts, tooling
and supplies.
“This logistics center
will support Pratt & Whitney's manufacturing and
global engine assembly
and test sites, the press
release, dated May 20,
stated. “Set to open in
June 2015, UPS will operate the NELC and provide
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he Conservation Law
Foundation (CLF)
has filed a civil suit in
U.S. District Court under
the citizen suit enforcement provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act against Murray’s
Auto Recycling of Londonderry.
The suit was filed April
30 and seeks declaratory
judgment, injunctive relief,
and “other relief the Court
deems appropriate” to correct Murray’s alleged violations of the federal Clean
Water Act.
According to CLF, those
violations “include continuous and ongoing unauthorized discharges of polluted stormwater runoff”
from Edward J. Dudek’s
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Murray’s Auto Recycling,
Inc.’s automobile salvage
yard facility at 55 Hall
Road, as well as his alleged
failure to comply with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated With
Industrial Activity (MSGP).
The suit alleges that
Dudek violated Section
301(a) of the Clean Water
Act, which prohibits the
discharge of any pollutant
into waters of the United
States from a “point
source,” unless the discharge complies with various sections of the Clean
Water Act. Among other
things, that Section prohibits discharges not
authorized by, or in violation of, the terms of a valid
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) permit issued
pursuant to the Clean
Water Act.
The suit alleges Dudek
is allowing rainwater to
trickle off the cars in his
auto recycle yard and
enter surface water without a permit.
The suit also alleges
that Dudek does not have
the necessary permit and
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M AY 29, 2014
School Board Awards Bid for Matthew Thornton Paving
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he school board has
awarded American
Excavating the bid
of $582,920 to pave the
Matthew Thornton Elementary School parking
lot.
School District Director of Buildings and
Grounds Chuck Zappala
said that Phase 1 of the
Matthew Thornton parking lot paving project was
done two years ago.
“We knew from the
beginning that it was a
very expensive project
and the total amount of
work would take 12 to 15
weeks to complete, so we
really couldn’t do it in one
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year,” he said. “We decided to divide it up into two
parts and completed part
one two years ago.”
Zappala said that in the
meantime they did not
receive funding for part
two, but this year, as part
of the maintenance bond,
funding for completion
was included and approved.
“Stantec did the bid
documents and specifications and advertised in
construction trade journals and made contact
with some of the local
companies,” he said. “We
had four companies that
picked up bid packets and
a couple of weeks ago
there was a pre-bid confer-
ence and had three companies attend, and last
week we had the bid opening.”
Zappala said the district received two bids,
American Excavating for
$582,920 and Busby Construction for $588,158. He
said Continental Paving
and Advanced Excavating
took out bid packets but
did not submit bids.
“Continental Paving decided not to bid and did
not want to be the general
contractor, and will be
working with American
Excavating as a subcontractor,” Zappala said,
adding that $600,000 was
budgeted for the project.
American Excavating
had worked on South
School and the high
school in the past.
Board member Dan
Lekas wanted to know the
complete cost of the project. Zappala said a little
over $400,000 was spent
two years ago and just
under $600,000 will be
spent this year, totaling
about $1 million.
He said the project
would start June 23, with
substantial completion
around Aug. 1 and completion in mid August. He said
that with most of the preliminary work done, he
didn’t foresee any cost
overruns.
The board approved
the bid unanimously at its
May 20 meeting, pending
final approval of the Maintenance Bond.
In other business:
• Londonderry High
School science teacher
Dan Grant and Londonderry Middle School math
teacher Trudy Morris
were recognized for being
chosen at the spring pep
rally as Dollars for Scholars Teachers of the Year.
• Matthew Thornton
student Tommy Martin
was recognized for his
quick action when he saw
smoke in the hallway and
notified a teacher, which
prompted the safe evacuation of the school. He had
already been given the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lifesaver Award.
• LHS Principal Jason
Parent introduced Maureen O’Dea to the school
board. She will be taking
over as Guidance Director
at the high school with the
retirement of Mike Dolphin. She begins July 1.
• LMS Principal Richard Zacchilli invited the
school board to join the
sixth grade Tsunami team
members as they showcase their many accomplishments from the
school year on Tuesday,
June 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. at
the LMS cafeteria.
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Rausch Transportation Bill Includes Exit 4-A Off I-93
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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wo Derry-based public officials have differing views on the
transportation bill recently signed by Gov. Maggie
Hassan.
State Sen. Jim Rausch,
R-Derry, the bill’s prime
sponsor, believes that the
expansion of Interstate 93
to Manchester, fueled by a
4.2-cent increase in the
gas tax, will also fuel
Derry’s economic engine.
But Town Councilor Thomas Cardon isn’t sure his
town will see that much
benefit from the building
of Exit 4-A, a part of the
transportation package.
Hassan signed SB 367
on May 20. The bipartisan
legislation will fund the
expansion of I-93 from
Salem to Manchester,
passing Derry and Londonderry on the way; provide for the long-discussed Exit 4-A; and
improve other roads and
bridges throughout the
state. Forty-two percent of
the revenue is expected to
go toward the expansion.
At the time of signing
Hassan said, “Our bipartisan transportation funding bill is the most significant state-level investment in transportation
infrastructure in 23 years.
This legislation is an
important step toward
addressing our transportation needs, keeping
New Hampshire’s economy moving forward by
advancing critical road
and bridge projects, finishing the long-overdue
expansion of I-93 and
improving commutes for
our workers and vendors.”
The bill was supported
by the New Hampshire
Business and Industry
Association, the New
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Hampshire Lodging and
Restaurant Association,
and various local Chambers of Commerce.
In a phone interview
May 22, Rausch said the
gas tax is projected to
generate $33 million a
year and will be cut back
after the bond is paid in 20
years.
Rausch said he’s been
working on legislation to
increase transportation
funding since 2000, and
the state has been looking
at expanding I-93 since the
1980s. The highway, built
as part of President
Dwight
Eisenhower’s
Interstate Highway system in the 1950s, is “way
over capacity,” Rausch
said. “It’s handling three
to four times its capacity.”
The project is expected to be completed by
2020, he said.
The highway expansion includes Exit 4-A,
which will come off I-93 in
Londonderry and empty
into Derry. This is good,
Rausch said, because it
will give his hometown
another access point off
93. It will relieve congestion in downtown Derry,
he said, and also provide
access and egress to residents of Hampstead, Sandown and other towns
with no other access to
the major highway.
In a tax revenue sense
the exit will benefit Londonderry more than Derry, Rausch said. But development is development,
and he expects to see an
economic benefit to the
entire region from the
expansion and the additional exit.
Cardon studied 4-A
and its impact for years
before he became a Councilor in 2013. He said in a
phone interview that he
thinks building the exit is
a “waste of money,” especially for Derry. People are
going to use it as a cutthrough to Chester, Sandown and Raymond, but
they won’t necessarily
stop to do business in
Derry.
Cardon agreed with
Rausch that there won’t
be a lot of tax revenue.
Most of Derry’s property
near the proposed 4-A has
already been developed,
he said. “But it greatly
benefits Londonderry,” he
added. A portion of the
planned Woodmont Commons development in
Londonderry is based on
the presence of 4-A.
In 1997, the town of
Derry committed to raising $5 million as its share
of the project, Cardon
said. He was at the meeting as a private citizen and
had his doubts even then,
he said. “I told our thenTown Manager that it was
going to end up costing
$12 million, and he
laughed,” Cardon recalled.
The town has authority to bond for the $5 million but has never bonded
it, Cardon said.
He’s never been able to
locate the contract town
officials signed to authorize the bond, but he continues to ask about it.
“If any funding questions come up to the
Council, I am opposed to
it,” Cardon said.
The gas tax goes into
effect July 1.
For more information
on specific projects, visit
www.nh.gov/dot/road-toll.
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Adult Education Grant Request OK’d
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry Director
of Adult Education
Gregg Warren requested permission from
the school board to allow
submission of an application to the state Department of Education for a
grant totaling $59,000.
“The grant is based on
the enrollment of our program. Out of the 30 Adult
Ed programs, we were the
fifth most amount of money,”
Warren said.
He said the $59,000 includes: training and staff
development at $2,000; one
on-site ODYSSEYWARE train-
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ing session at $2,000; technology at $26,310 that
includes 14 laptop computers at $1,000 or $14,000
total, laptop locks and wire
at $310, and 15 one Year
ODYSSEYWARE licenses at
$800 each, equaling $12,000;
instruction at $28,090,
which includes five Adult
Education teachers for a
total of 600 hours at
$19,200 ($32 per hour for
30 weeks), one Career/
Guidance Counselor for
120 hours at $3,840 ($32
per hour for 30 hours) and
benefits of FICA and New
Hampshire Retirement at
$5,050; instructional materials at $1,500 (books, note-
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go into the military and
others are working.
Board member Dan
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money for a program that
is already in place. He
made the motion to
approve the grant application and it was approved
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M AY 29, 2014
Letters
Editorial
Invaders in Our Midst
Are your neighbors’ plants making a home in your shrubbery? Are
your trees getting strangled by
greenery you never bought? Are
leaves from unknown aquatic greens
traveling on your boat to find a home
in your favorite lake?
Conservation officials remind us
that invasive plants are a local problem. And they’re a problem in our
waterways as well.
According to the state’s invasive
species coordinator, invasive plants
impact endangered or threatened
species, reduce diversity and wildlife
habitat, affect water quality, damage
property and lead to starvation of birds.
Japanese knotweed, bittersweet,
purple loosestrife, multiflora rose,
and burning bush thrive locally, and
literally have a stranglehold on portions of our woodlands and roadsides.
But we don’t have to leave our
yards to encounter invasives. All it
takes is ignoring an invasive’s presence in one location, and soon it has
taken over the neighborhood.
What invasives do is simple –
they take over, crowding out native
plants. It’s a battle we may be losing,
and we can’t wait for someone else
to take care of it – if the plants have
arrived, they’ll be in your yard soon.
Homeowners can help control
these invaders by learning to identify them, joining in volunteer efforts
to control them, and following professionals’ instructions about disposing of any soil and plant matter
that gets on clothes, shoes or tires
during the eradication.
Meanwhile, if you think the water
is safe from unwelcome visitors,
think again.
State officials regularly issue
warnings to boaters to pay attention
to what they might be putting in the
water. Summers in New Hampshire
now demand a new way to look at
hitchhiking and littering – boats,
trailers, motors, fishing equipment,
bait buckets, and diving gear can
carry aquatic weeds, leaving an
infested lake in their wake.
With no natural predators, the
plants quickly dominate native plants,
fish, and aquatic life. That translates
into impaired water quality and
reduced shorefront property values.
If you enjoy a kayak or canoe
ride, pay attention to the plants in
the water as well as to the scenery
and birdlife you are paddling out to
enjoy. If you’ve had your boat in
another body of water, examine it
carefully before returning to your
home lake. Encourage fellow boaters
to do the same.
Prevention is the name of the
game, and it’s the job of each one of
us to preserve the quality of the
lakes we love.
And back on land? Contact your
local conservation commission,
Extension Service or the state for
advice on getting rid of invasive
plants. This battle won’t be won
unless each of us does our share.
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A Place to Call Home
To the editor:
As my senior year is
coming to a close I found
that I have been thinking
about all the things Londonderry has given me in
my lifetime. OK, that’s a
lie. I have to attempt to
get something published
for my English class; and I
thought that I would use
this opportunity to write
to everyone in Londonderry thanking them for
the past 18 years.
A couple months ago a
young couple came into
where I work and started
asking about Londonderry and how I liked it.
Before I even knew it I was
off talking about how I
loved it here. I spoke
about the school district
and how the music
department has truly
changed my life. I told
them about how I have
always felt safe here and
how time and time again
the people of Londonderry come together and
help each other. Either
through fundraisers or
just offering support, if
something bad happens
in Londonderry it feels as
if the whole town rallies
around to help out.
I spent a good 10-15
minutes just talking. I
think I may have overwhelmed them a little bit
but that’s OK! They needed to know how awesome
Londonderry is!
It was after that day
that I realized, “Hey, I really like it here. It’s going to
be hard to leave.” As
much as I am looking forward to college, I am sad
to leave this place I have
called home for so long.
So here it is. Thank
you, Londonderry. Thank
you for giving me a place
that I can call home and
be proud of. Thank you
for allowing me to grow
up in a safe place where I
have been able to accom-
plish so many things. Even
though I am leaving soon
to start my life anew, I will
always consider this town
my home; and I will always
have a special place in my
heart for Londonderry
and the people who live
here. I will treasure my
time spent here and will
always know I have a
home I can return to.
With much love and
gratitude,
Naomi Phillips
Londonderry
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Garden Club Thanks
To the editor:
The Derry Garden
Club, member of New
Hampshire Federation of
Garden Clubs, Inc. (District IV), would like to
thank the community for
a successful annual Plant
Sale. The morning weather was terrible, but in the
end, it turned out to be
bright and sunny.
We want to thank all
the different people that
allowed us to go to their
homes and dig from their
gardens. As always, Dr.
Copeland let us post our
sign announcing our sale,
which is very helpful to
our Club.
This year we had
many donations from our
local businesses and we
thank them for their generosity. They were: Benson’s Lumber and Hardware of Londonderry;
Shady Hill Greenhouses
and Nursery, Londonderry; Lake Street Garden
Center, Salem; Derry Feed
and Grain, and Chakarian’s Nursery, Derry.
Thank you!
A big thank you also
for the publicity we
received from our area
newspapers. Also, to Debbie Roy, from Channel 17;
she does a great job every
year. Also, thank you to
the Londonderry TV.
The Derry Masons
have been wonderful to
us over the years, allowing us to have our Plant
Sale at the Masonic Temple.
Another thank you
goes out to Maria (Catlady) for taking all our
plants at the end of the
sale, for the Manchester
Animal Shelter’s Plant
Sale and Raffle on Saturday, May 31, from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. (severe weather
date, Sunday, June 1), 400
Dunbarton Road, Manchester. Please help support the animals.
We want to remind the
community that our
“Recycle Your Pots Day”
will be Saturday, May 31,
rain or shine, from 10 a.m.
to noon at the Marion
Gerrish Community Center, 39 West Broadway,
Derry. We need your pots
for our next sale!
Pat Mulone
Derry Garden Club
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Congratulations,
Class of 2014
To the editor:
Being part of the Londonderry community has
truly been a blessing.
Everyone is so friendly
and considerate of others.
It has been such a
privilege to be a part of
Lancer Nation as well.
The high school has given
me the chance to get to
know everyone that’s part
of the Class of 2014. Now
that our high school
careers are coming to an
end, everyone has come
together to make the
most of our senior year.
The past 12 to 13 years
have flown by so fast and
now everyone is moving
on to do great things. I’m
so happy to say that I am
part of such a great class.
I just want to say thank
you to all my teachers for
giving me the best high
continued on page 5
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Developer Outlines Plans For UPS Center Near Airport
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Heritage Commission heard that
Pettengill Road will
soon have a UPS Distribution Center that will serve
as the distribution site for
Pratt & Whitney (see
related story page 1).
The site on the as yet
unbuilt portion of Pettengill Road will require
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building about 1,500 feet
of the road, joining the
Raymond Wieczorek Drive
at Roundstone Drive and
ending in a round-about
that will accommodate
future road expansion.
“The building is going
to be 41 feet in total height,
is a steel frame and precast concrete building,
with a firewall separating
the two halves of the build-
ing. There is a raised center ridge running the
length of the building with
a slope on either side,”
Dennis McCarthy of PDA
Architects in Natick, Mass.,
told the Heritage Commission on Thursday, May 22.
McCarthy said the
building will be mostly hidden from Wieczorek Drive
by existing vegetation.
Commissioner Jim But-
ler asked if the building
would have a color, as the
rendering provided showed it to be white. McCarthy said it will have a
textured finish, with a
color as yet to be determined, “probably beige.
The white is too glaring
so it will be toned down,”
McCarthy said.
“We like earth tones,”
Chairman Arthur Rugg
said.
Commissioner Martin
Srugis said he was happy
to see the project coming
to Londonderry.
Commission member
Jim Schwalbe asked about
signage, and McCarthy
said they hadn’t developed a signage package
for the building as yet.
“My guess is that there
will be a monument sign
that gets you into the site
and maybe one buildingmounted sign, but I need
to check to see what the
standards are here,”
McCarthy said.
Greydon Sargent, vice
president and development manager of Prologis,
the developer, said that
initially there will be 125
jobs; when finished, it
would have 250 jobs.
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Exit 5 Sunoco Outlines Plan Changes To Heritage Commission
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ranosian Oil Company is proposing
the building of a
travel center at its current
Sunoco gas station site at
exit 5 off Interstate 93.
The plan is to raze the
existing building, leaving
the canopy in place and
creating a larger travel
center.
When the builders
went before the Heritage
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school experience and for
challenging me to do my
best. And thank you to
the Class of 2014 for all
the memories that I will
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Commission in November
of 2013, the plan called for
the use of EFIS (Exterior
Finished Insulating System) for the façade of the
building. According to
Dennis Stevens of Stevens-Marquis, the planned use of the material
has changed to a concrete
block product that is textured.
“The site is a dilapidated truck stop that we
want to remodel into a
travel center. Back in
November we received
your recommendation and
support for this particular design for the renovations of the property. This
is a raze and rebuild project,” said Floyd Hayes,
owner of the property.
Hayes said they were
asking the Commission to
accept a materials change
to the building to allow
them to substitute what
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could have asked for.
“What we are doing is
I just want to wish
everyone good luck as we further reducing the
approach graduation and amount of EFIS on the
move forward with our building. We were asked
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to add more texture and
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more clapboard and siding and we felt that wasn’t
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got some recommendations from our architect,”
Hayes said.
Hayes said the choice
was the architectural
block with clapboard.
“The only EFIS that
will remain is for architectural accents and over the
doorways,” Hayes said.
“First is durability,
concrete versus stucco,”
Stevens said. “The concrete is colorfast, the
color runs through the
entire 8-inch concrete
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block, where the EFIS has
a painted surface and any
scratches or dents will
show as a scar. The block
is a building material,
where the EFIS is a
veneer, and the block is
very durable. The maintenance would have to be
painted or repaired when
dented or gouged, and
the EFIS is subject to
moisture damage when
scratched, dented or
gouged.”
Stevens said the block
was non-combustible, a
plus for the fire department. He also said that
geographically more EFIS
is used in the South,
whereas it is not used as
much in the Northeast
except for decoration.
The commissioners
were supportive of the
use of the block, with
Commissioner
Martin
Srugis stating that he
liked the look.
Butler asked if the
downcast lighting would
still be used and Hayes
said it would.
Commission member
Jim Schwalbe said he was
supportive of the change
and thought that it was an
improvement.
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Arthur Rugg asked each
commissioner what they
thought and everyone
was supportive.
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PA G E 6
L O N D O N D E R RY T I M E S
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M AY 29, 2014
South School Holds Annual Memorial Day Ceremony
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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multipurpose room playing
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Noah Sekula played the
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“Thank you, South
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The assembled students then sang “You’re A
Grand Old Flag” and “This
Land is Your Land” before
veteran Steve Costa spoke.
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young audience that
although Memorial Day
was started to honor war
dead, with the U.S. in a war
in Afghanistan, people
should take time to honor
not only those who gave
the ultimate sacrifice but
living soldiers as well.
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Shane Dillon introduced his
daughter, Larissa Dillon,
and his wife, Heather, who
is a South School teacher.
“How many of you know
someone who is overseas
serving in the military?” he
asked, as several hands
were raised. “See all those
hands? Everyone has a connection to a military member in some way, so you all
can share in this day.”
U.S. Air Force Second Lt.
Steven Marchegiani thanked
the military personnel in
attendance for their service
and shared with the students that his heritage
included several generations of military service.
“My great-grandfather
was in World War I, my
grandfather served in
World War II, I had an uncle
who served in Vietnam and
my dad is a 27-year veteran
and is sitting right over
there,” he said. “I currently
serve with my brother, my
sister, my brother-in-law in
the military.”
He noted how important it is to honor those
who sacrificed and commended the students for
marking the day.
Students who had a
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middle of the gym floor
and their military family
member stood behind
them, as each was given a
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“for outstanding support.”
The ceremony closed
with Taps played by Londonderry High School student Vicky Stubbs.
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PA G E 8
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M AY 29, 2014
Hickory Woods Granted Variance for Foundation Error
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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oe Maynard of Benchmark Engineering and
Rick Welch of Hickory
Woods LLC explained to
the Zoning Board of
Adjustment (ZBA) their
need for a variance because a mistake had been
made during construction
of a foundation. Hickory
Woods is a 98-unit 55-andover, age restricted condominium project in the
area of West and Nashua
Roads (Route 102).
Maynard said unit 7,
which was one of the first
foundations put in on the
new road and is across the
street from a proposed
clubhouse, is 4 feet too
close to the right of way.
He said they make
three visits to the site for
stake-out of the property.
“The first time we go out
it’s so they can cut trees,
we go back a second time
and we establish baselines, and a lot of times
what the baseline entails
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is we set magnetic nails in
the street and paint them
so we know what the offset is at,” he told the ZBA
at its meeting Wednesday,
May 21. “We also do the
rear, so they get an established line. At the same
time there are other contractors like Continental
Paving that are doing a lot
of the initial excavation.
As part of Continental’s
work, they establish their
own system through the
site so they can lay out
when they are doing the
road. Similar to us they
use magnetic nails.
“In the case of this
foundation, we went back
for the third visit and we
noticed that there was a
discrepancy,” he said.
Maynard said the foundation supervisor used the
wrong “control points” and
as a result, installed the
foundation 4 feet too close.
That was discovered three
days after the foundation
was constructed.
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the right of way. The project has a 30-foot setback
from the right of way from
the previous variances
that were granted,” Maynard said.
Maynard added that
the driveway is 31.8 feet
long and is well outside of
the right of way.
“This mistake does not
affect any of the other
aspects of the design for
the unit, the septic, the
grades, the sight distance,
all of those things are
proper and in accordance
with what the original
approval was,” Maynard
said.
Board member Neil
Dunn asked how many
units were poured and
Maynard said 12 had been
poured and were all in
accordance with the plan.
Welch said the contractor had done about 130
houses for them and had
never made a mistake.
“This is human error
and we feel badly about
it,” Welch said.
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Dunn asked Building
Inspector Richard Canuel
if his department did any
footing inspection and
Canuel said its first visit
to the site is when the
foundation is completed.
Chairman Jim Smith
asked Canuel when the
measurements were supposed to be checked and
Canuel said the ordinance
said after the footings
were completed.
Smith asked Maynard
if they did that. “I’ve been
working for 30 years here
in town and historically
we’ve always done that
when the walls were completed,” Maynard said.
In deliberations, board
member David Paquette
said it was a contractor
error, and board member
Annette Stoller said her
understanding was that it
was a subcontractor error.
Dunn said the contractor
is still responsible.
Dunn made a motion
to grant the variance, and
the board voted unanimously to do so.
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M AY 29, 2014
PA G E 9
Memorial Day Observed at Nevins Community
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
————––––––————–◆
he Nevins over-55
community clubhouse was filled
with veterans and their
families, as Master of Ceremonies Sergeant First
Class William Graser
(retired), a resident of
Nevins, officiated at the
housing development’s
Memorial Day ceremony
Sunday, May 25.
The ceremony honored the dead of all American wars and paid tribute
to those veterans who
lived at the Nevins and
died in the past year:
Engineer Petty Officer 1st
Class Frank Doherty, U.S.
Coast Guard, who died
Jan. 18, 2014; Radioman
Petty Officer 2nd Class
Charles “Chip” Horwath
Jr., USCG, who died March
1, 2014; and Storekeeper
Petty Officer 3rd Class
Cliff Hughes, U.S. Navy,
who died April 26, 2014.
“No matter your philosophy, religious convictions or lack thereof, or
your political affiliation, it
is the veterans who have
been willing to pay the
price for us to be able to
express our beliefs freely not a lawyer, activist,
politician or community
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organizer,” Graser said.
“Without the over 200
years of veterans standing up to evil and oppression, the lawyer, the
activist and community
leader would not be free
to what they do.”
Graser noted a difference between the men
and women in the armed
services and the men and
women who are just as
brave but wear the uniform of civilian first
responders.
“What makes veterans different from police
or firefighters?” Graser
asked. “Certainly no one
would ever doubt the
courage of all our first
responders. However,
one principle separates
the military from all professions: When anyone
joins the military, they
take an oath that they
will follow all orders,
even if it leads to their
death. There is no other
profession, no matter
how dangerous, where
the person joining that
profession agrees to die
if asked to do so ... and
could face criminal
charges if they refuse.”
who
John
Perez,
served as an Airman 2nd
Class in the U.S. Air Force,
described the meaning of
the traditional table set
for one and bearing an
overturned glass, set in a
place of honor.
“This table symbolizes
the fact that that there are
American service members missing from World
War II, the Korean War,
the Vietnam War, the Cold
War and the Gulf War
1991, “Perez said. “They
are commonly called
POW/MIAs. They are
unable to be with us
today, so we remember
them because of their circumstance.”
POW/MIA stands for
Prisoner Of War/Missing
In Action.
The table is small,
symbolizing the frailty of
one prisoner, alone against his or her oppressors, Perez explained,
adding, the tablecloth is
white, symbolizing the
purity of their intentions
to respond to their country’s call to arms. A single
rose in a vase serves as a
remembrance of comrades-in-arms, who keep
the faith awaiting their
return, while a red ribbon
tied on the vase is reminiscent of the witness to
the determination to demand a proper account-
ing of America’s missing.
A slice of lemon on the
plate is a reminder of the
missing’s bitter fate, while
salt on the plate is symbolic of the family’s tears
as they wait. The glass is
inverted, so there can be
no toast. And the chair is
empty.
Joe Byron, a former
Manchester law enforcement officer who is
founder of Honor Flight
New England, based in
Hooksett, presented a
video featuring what the
flight has meant to veterans of World War II who
are given the opportunity
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PA G E 10
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MAY 29, 2014
Londonderry School District Lunch Prices To Rise Next Year
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he school board
voted to raise the
price of a school
lunch next year by 10
cents, bringing the cost
next year to $2.20 at the
high school, $2.10 at
the middle school and
$1.80 at the elementary
schools.
“This year we are still
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Tuesday, May 20 meeting.
“The real reason is the cost
of two capital lease projects and the double ovens
at the middle school. The
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program is nowhere near
financial stability, so the
federal requirement of
incremental increases is
still in effect.”
Curro said there had
been a suggestion by a
board member to institute a large increase so as
to keep the pricing flat for
the next couple of years.
“We would ask the
board to hold off on that,”
Curro said. “Every five
years the national school
lunch program is up for
review and this is the fifth
year, so there may be
changes that might happen and we may not need
large increases this year.
They may relax restrictions.”
Curro also noted a
suggestion, as previously
reported in the Londonderry Times, that the high
school be pulled out of
the federal lunch program.
“We have a fairly good
idea how much it would
cost, should the board
decide to pull the high
school from the lunch
program,” Curro said.
“This is preliminary, but
the best guess is that it
will probably cost the district somewhere between
$350,000 to $400,000 to
move the high school out
of the program.”
Curro said $281,000 of
the money would come
from adequacy grant losses, as part of the adequacy grant calculations
includes free and reduced
lunches.
“Given the fact that
there’s probably some
changes coming this year,
the 10 cent (increase)
gets us so we’re still in the
black next year, and then
a year from now we can
make any adjustments,”
Curro said.
He noted that Food
Services Director Nancy
Faucon said there was
talk of relaxing restrictions on the reimbursable
meal.
Faucon had told the
board that if a student
does not take a protein,
vegetable and fruit in his
or her meal, the district
does not get reimbursed.
“But there’s talk that
if the student takes two
of the three, it’s a reimbursable meal,” he said.
“From the revenue side,
that may help revenues
too.”
Board member Nancy
Hendricks asked how
many price increases
there have been, and
Curro said prices have
gone up for the last four
years.
Hendricks asked how
long it had been before
that, and Curro said the
previous increase was in
2003. He said in 2008, the
fund balance was over
$100,000.
Board Chairman Leitha Reilly asked if the district would still be one of
the lowest priced lunch
programs even with the
10 cent increase, and
Curro said the district
was still below the average price. He said that
Timberlane and Salem
were looking at increases
as well.
“I don’t know of a
school district lunch program that hasn’t been in
the red in the last two
years,” Curro said, but he
noted Bedford was in the
black, and charged $3 for
meals.
On a motion by Hendricks and a second by
Dan Lekas, the board
voted unanimously to
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Global Gas Station Remodel Discussed at Heritage Commission
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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useyin Sevincgil of
MHF Design Consultants brought to
the Heritage Commission
conceptual designs for a
complete remodel of the
Global gas station on
Nashua Road (Route 102)
near exit 4.
The plan is to raze the
existing building, remove
and replace the underground gas tanks and
reconfigure the property
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to include a Dunkin’
Donuts,
with
drivethrough window and lane
for the donut shop.
“Currently there’s a
convenience store on the
property with eight fueling pumps in front and
two behind the store, for
a total of 10,” he told the
Heritage Commission at
its meeting Thursday,
May 22. “The proposal is
to have eight pumps in
front, eliminate the two
behind the store, and
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reorient the fuel dispensers so they are parallel to Nashua Road, where
currently they are perpendicular to Route 102. The
two existing driveways
will be maintained. We
will be coming in with a
new building.”
He said the new structure, which was previously closer to Hampton
Drive, is now further
away, and the trash
Dumpster was moved as
well. The existing underground fuel tanks will be
replaced with two new
“state of the art” double-
wall Fiberglas tanks, and
the convenience store will
be 2,100 square feet in
size.
“The existing open
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feet currently. With this
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increase of 840 square
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He said they would be
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is no interior landscaping.
Sevincgil said the
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would be refaced, while
the new building would
have white clapboard siding with a hip roof. The
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shingles.
On the rendering provided to the commission,
Commissioner David Colglazier asked whether the
lettering would be backlit.
“It will have LED lighting to illuminate the
prices of the gas,”
Sevincgil said.
Comprehensive Planner John Vogl noted that
the lighted portion of the
sign would not be moving
or flashing.
Commissioner
Jim
Schwalbe said he buys his
gas at the Global station
and asked how long it
would be shut down.
Alliance Energy construction manager Daniel
Berry said that would last
90 days at least.
The Commission viewed the plan favorably and
a Design Review Committee meeting was scheduled for the Commission’s
June 26 meeting.
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PA G E 11
Heritage Commission Wants Conservation to Address Invasives
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Town Forest,
the Town Common,
which of those
areas involve the Conservation Commission, and a
proposed plan for multiple housing units across
from the Common led to
plenty of discussion at
the Heritage Commission.
Commissioner Martin
Srugis asked which group
has control over the Town
Forest.
“I saw the thing going
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the Town Manager and
the Conservation Commission and I know it’s
town property,” Srugis
said at the Thursday, May
22 meeting.
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Chairman Art Rugg
said the 1984 Town Meeting granted the Conservation Commission authority
to manage all town forests.
“At the recent Town Meeting, others submitted a
plan to transfer authority
to the Town Manager, as
the Common is right now,”
he said. “Basically by our
Charter, the Town Manager has responsibility over
all town-owned land, but
that failed.”
That leaves the Town
Forest under the Conservation Commission’s management.
Rugg said he had sent
an e-mail to Conservation
Commission Chairman Deb
Lievens, asking when the
eradication of invasive
species in the Town Forest
would take place. “Basically they have to wait until
full leafing takes place, then
they can make arrangements to have it done,” he
said. “So I’ll be pressing her
for a timeline.”
Meanwhile, commissioner Janet Cichocki asked if Town Manager Kevin
Smith had done anything
about the invasive burning bushes on the Town
Common. The Common is
under his management.
Councilor Jim Butler
said Town Manager Kevin
Smith had “asked the Conservation Commission for
some plan as to how they
were going to attack it.
Quite frankly, as far as I’m
concerned, they haven’t
fulfilled that. Whether we
have the funding or not,
I’d like to know that when
we do have the funding,
there is a plan in place.”
“I’m trying to get a time
frame and I’ve been getting some curt responses,”
Rugg added.
“There’s a clash right
now,” Srugis said. “The
Conservation Commission
wants to leave it the way it
is.”
But Comprehensive
Planner John Vogl reminded the group that the invasive burning bush plants
on the Common were a
Town Manager issue, not
under the purview of the
Conservation Commission.
“I’d like them (the Conservation Commission) to
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do their thing so we can
do our thing with clearing
and trails and so forth,”
Rugg said.
Vogl said “there’s a war
going on” and that what
the Town Council directed
Smith to do at an earlier
time was to come up “with
a vision and some direction and report back to
the Council. As far as the
Master Plan is concerned,
we will keep moving forward and see if we can
provide some direction.”
Butler said the Town
Common/Town Forest was
a hot and sensitive issue,
as it is an historic area.
Referring to a proposal for multiple housing
units on a parcel of land
between the two church-
es on Pillsbury road, Butler said that once a decision is made on one plot
of land, it would snowball
and be difficult to “say no
to some people if the concept is the same.”
Rugg said the town
needed to be careful in
establishing a precedent.
“If you take a look at
the definitions of some of
that zoning, once you pull
the trigger on it, they
could put in a gamut of
things,” Butler said.
Rugg said something
also could take place on
Andy Mack’s property
behind the Grange.
“This isn’t (Route) 102
or the airport, this is the
historic fabric of our community,” Butler said.
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Liberty Utilities Outlines Sign Designs to Heritage Commission
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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iberty Utilities’ Stephen Szczechura told
the Heritage Commison that work had been
done to the lighting in the
parking lot so that each
pole could be independently adjusted for light
output. Liberty Utilities is
in the former Blue Seal
building.
“We just completed
parking lot LED lighting
with individual controls,”
he said. “Those controls
are for each individual
pole, and what I’ve been
doing is dropping the
light level. As the evening
progresses the light level
drops, where there is only
20 percent output at the
furthest points around
the periphery. It’s a
$40,000 addition.”
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“Will it pay off over the
long run?” Commissioner
Jim Butler asked.
“No,” Szczechura said.
“I could have done it in
clusters and done it
cheaper, but I want to
make sure our neighbors
are happy.”
Szczechura said he
previously worked in the
energy efficiency field.
The sign designs he
presented to the commission at its Thursday, May
22 meeting, will be facing
Buttrick Road and Nashua
Road (Route 102).
“Right now there was a
temporary sign for the
construction phase,” he
said. “Blue Seal had a
domed sign - we just
pulled the existing piece
out and put in one with
our logo, and took out the
lighting so it wouldn’t be
backlit. I know that was
something the town was
adamant about.”
He said the signs on
Buttrick and Nashua
roads are angled; a
straight sign would not be
visible because of the way
the road approaches.
The signs will be New
Hampshire granite with
granite posts and will not
have a polished surface
but will be burnished
instead.
“They will be front lit
with LED lighting and
they are approximately
three and a half feet wide
by two feet high and will
probably go into a planter
bed,” Szczechura said.
The lighting will shine
directly on the face of the
sign.
Commission Chairman
Arthur Rugg asked where
the source of the lights
would be located.
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“They don’t show.
They will be on the
ground shining at the
sign. I’m very big into
dark sky,” Szczechura
neighbors happy.
said.
The commissioners
He said that he is
aware the building is in a were all favorable to the
residential neighborhood signs.
and he wants to keep the
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L ONDONDERRY T IMES
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M AY 29, 2014
Londonderry Police Officers, Employees Honored
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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own Manager Kevin
Smith said incidents
like the one that
took the life of Brentwood
Police Officer Stephen
Arkell give the public an
idea of how dangerous
the job of police officer is.
At an awards ceremony held last week for Londonderry police officers,
Smith said he expressed
“sincere gratitude and
appreciation for the men
and women who wear the
uniform for the town of
Londonderry, (and) to the
families as well for the
sacrifices you make.”
Officer Randy Duguay
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was named Officer of the
Year. According to Capt.
Gerald Dussault, Duguay
is “consistent, dependable and reliable. He’s
everything we want in a
patrol officer.”
Captain Robert Michaud recognized Building
Maintenance Supervisor
Michael Simpson as Civilian of the Year for the
work that Simpson does
around the station. “I was
dumbfounded when I realized all the things he does
around here. He knows
this building like the back
of his hand. He never
complains, he never
refuses work. I’m lucky to
know him,” Michaud said.
Sgt. Glenn Aprile explained the Critical Incident Management Team.
The team consists of Officer Thomas Olsen, Officer
Narciso Garcia, Officer
Raphael Ribeiro and Dispatcher Amelia McKeever.
Aprile said that over
the course of his career
he has seen some horrific
incidents and deaths, and
a peer-based Critical Incident Management Team
can help officers and their
families with stress-filled
incidents to cope and to
know that there is someone to help and to talk to.
“I can’t emphasize
enough the importance of
peer support,” Aprile
said.
Sgt. David Carver, Officer Daniel Perry, and Officer Andre Uy were recognized with Commendations for Lifesaving.
Master of Ceremonies
Detective Chris Olson
said that on Dec. 6, 2013,
Carver, Perry and Uy
responded to a call of an
unresponsive male. “Officer Perry was there within seconds and immediately began life saving
efforts,” he recalled. “Officer Uy and Carver responded and assisted
Perry until paramedics
could get there.”
Olson said that the
man died several days
later but because of the
actions of the officers,
family members were able
to say goodbye.
Olson said Sgt. Adam
Dyer, Officer Thomas
Olsen, Det. Sean Doyle
and Det. Daniel Hurley III
were called to a home for
a possibly suicidal person.
He said police discovered the electricity was
off to the building, and
several attempts were
made to contact the person. The officers entered
the building and conducted a search, and eventually found the victim unconscious under some cardboard in the basement.
They were able to bring
the man to safety.
“Without their efforts,
this man would not have
survived the night,” Olson
said.
For their efforts, the
officers received the Life
Saving With Valor commendation.
Gumshoe of the Year
was presented by Lt. Timothy Jones to Det. Sean
Doyle, who said Doyle
was a tenacious bulldog.
“This is a detective
that’s been determined
and consistent with all of
his cases, even on ones
with very few leads,”
Jones said.
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Londonderry artist Barbara Scott’s pastel portrait
painting titled "Oversized
Love" was chosen to be in
the Pastel Painters of Maine
15th annual International
Juried "For Pastels Only"
Exhibition. This is Scott’s
first international show. Her
painting will hang in the
Saco Museum, 371 Main St.,
Saco, Maine through June
14. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Thursdays
from noon to 4 p.m., Fridays
from noon to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. For museum details,
call 207-283-3861.
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Refuge to learn about bird species and songs. The boys spent time with an
avid birder with more than 20 years of experience, and saw 26 different
species while visiting the Atlantic coast. From left are: back row, Mike Donovan, David Kichler, Nick Shapleigh, Ryan Leo, Justin Jolicoeur, and Anthony
Iovino; and front row, Louis Turcotte, Billy Flagg, Matthew Nutt and birder
Lynette Leka.
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M AY 29, 2014
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PA G E 13
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LONDONDERRY SPORTS
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LHS Lancer Baseball Squad Wins Twice, Falls Once
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ictories over Timberlane and Nashua
South followed by a
loss to Bedford last week
left coach Brent Demas
and his Londonderry
High baseball team contemplating their 11-6
record as the 2014 Division I tournament nears.
The Lancers jumped
all over the struggling
Timberlane Regional Owls
in Plaistow on Wednesday, May 21, handing that
host its eighth consecutive loss in a 9-0 drubbing.
The Lancers advanced
to 10-5 by scoring three
times in the top of the
third inning and then six
more times in the top of
the fourth. Londonderry
rapped out 10 hits, with
Colby Joncas collecting
three (home run, double,
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single) and Geoff Kayo
and Jonny Meskell each
slapping two. Joncas was
also responsible for driving in three runs, and
Kayo and Rob Del Signore
each notched two RBI.
Kayo also did himself
proud on the pitcher’s
mound,
hurling
six
innings, striking out 11
batters, and allowing just
four hits and two walks.
“Geoff made some
slight adjustments to his
pitching mechanics and
they paid off in spades,”
said Demas. “He had all
his pitches going and
gave us the opportunity
to get the victory.”
Two days later at
home during the team’s
Senior Night, in damp
weather conditions, the
Lancers snared another
victory but it took an
extra inning to hand the
visiting Nashua South
Purple Panthers a 4-3
defeat.
Londonderry overcame several deficits to
collect its 11th win of the
spring, rebounding out of
a 2-0 hole by scoring two
markers of its own in the
latter half of the third
inning.
South reclaimed the
upper hand with a run in
the top of a rain-soaked
fourth, and the game was
delayed at that point due
to the weather.
The hosts knotted the
score at 3-3 in the bottom
of the seventh frame
when Kayo thumped a
triple and Matt Nolan
came in to run for him.
And Nolan scored moments later on a double
by Joncas.
And then in the bottom of the eighth inning
with the score at 3-3,
aggressive base-running
by Ben Byerly (3-for-4 batting) and a nice sacrifice
bunt by Jordan Tutt (two
hits) pushed the Lancers
to the win. Tommy Corey
collected the pitching victory for his side.
“The defense was very
solid to support an overall strong perfomance
from the pitching staff,”
said Demas.
But the locals came up
on the down side of a 3-0
tally against the struggling Bedford High Bulldogs in Londonderry the
next day.
The 7-9 Bedford bunch
came into the game having lost four games in a
row, but it got past the
Lancers and lowered Lon- Londonderry High sophomore pitcher Noah Tavano
donderry’s record to the rifles a pitch toward home plate during the Lancers'
still-impressive 11-6.
game against Nashua South last week.
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M AY 29, 2014
Londonderry Boy Racketeers Finish With Big Victories
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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irst-year coach Janice Tracey saw her
Londonderry High
School boys’ tennis team
close out its 2014 regular
season in exceptional
style last week by blanking one opponent and
beating another by a decisive, 7-2 count.
The Lancers - who
wound up the regular season with a superb 11-3
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LHS tennis stalwart Cam Letalien bops a backhand
back at his opponent during his match against
Nashua North. Photo by Chris Paul
record - shut out the winless Merrimack High Tomahawks in Londonderry
on a special day for the
LHS seniors on Wednesday, May 21.
“Today was senior day
for us, and our seniors did
us proud,” said Tracey.
“We took all nine (singles
and doubles match-ups),
with our seniors leaving
their marks.”
Twelfth grade stalwarts Ryan Broderick,
Tim Court, Matt McKinney and Vinee Annu all
bagged shutouts in their
singles matches, and
Court, McKinney, and
Broderick also worked
well with their doubles
partners and got shutouts
there are well.
Also in doubles play,
the first-time pairing of
seniors Nate Peabody and
Justin Mayer ended up
featuring big net play and
smashing returns as that
duo brought home its first
varsity win with a dominant, 8-2 showing.
Tracey’s troop then
handed the much tougher
Nashua North Titans’
contingent (8-6 record) a
7-2 humbling in Londonderry this past Saturday,
May 24, to claim its seventh win in its final eight
regular season matches
and that superb 11-3
record.
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Surging Lancer Spikers Get Split with Two Opponents
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry High
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began the 2014 campaign
with precious-little experience - have turned into a
formidable team.
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Plaistow and the Souhegan High Sabers from
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four matches and upped
its season record to 6-8.
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19, Londonderry was
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Timberlane on Thursday,
May 22.
Despite the fact that
the decision didn’t go the
hosts’ way, they still
received strong play from
Spenser Flood (17 assists), Matt Gendron (11
assists), Nick Winn (13
kills), Nick Stevens (12
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Peters (three blocks),
Alex Champa (11 digs),
Ben Parker (six kills), and
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And then the next day
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shutout of 3-10 Souhegan
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The Lancers snared
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wins of 25-11, 25-12, and
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managing seven kills,
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M AY 29, 2014
PA G E 15
LHS Tracksters Perform Well at Their Own Invitational
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he host Londonderry High boys’ and
girls’ track and field
teams had some noteworthy performances during
their third annual Londonderry Invitational at
LHS last Saturday, May 24.
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The Lancer guys had
junior star Starlin Ortiz
bag first place in the 110meter hurles (time of
15.19 seconds), and he
also snagged top-six finishes in the high jump and
the 200-meter dash.
The hosts also had
Trevor Guay, Damon Kil-
gore, Grant McAuliffe,
Eric Fairweather, Kyle
Foden, and their 4x400
relay quartet snare topsix finishes.
The LHS Lady Lancers,
meanwhile, received winning efforts from Kristen
Bourque in the 200
(25.45), Patty Driscoll in
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the shot put (34 feet, 5 1/2
inches), and Natalie
Howes in the javelin
(108’5”).
Bourque also teamed
with Jackie Luckhardt,
Hannah Brownstein, and
Yorgelis Ortiz on the
4x100 team, which finished first (49.95).
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LHS Softball Places Blowouts Around a Loss
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he
Londonderry
High softball squad
book-ended blowout wins over Bedford and
Nashua South around a
tough, slim loss to the
Timberlane Lady Owls
last week to roll toward
the Division I tournament
with a solid, 8-7 record.
The Lady Lancers had
no trouble with the Bedford High Lady Bulldogs
on that opponent’s home
diamond on Tuesday, May
20, in a 12-1 thumping of
that host that featured
grand-slam home runs off
of the bats of both Sam
Harris and Julie Hamilton.
Veteran coach Wayne
MacDougall’s crew scored
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four times in the top of the
first inning, single runs in
the second and third, five
times in the fifth, and once
more in the seventh.
All in all, the Lady
Lancers - who moved to 76 with the pleasing victory
- smacked out 16 hits with
Hamilton and Summer
Vose each collecting three
hits, and Cassidy Litch,
Brooke Tulley and Melissa
Sprague each driving two.
Leah Hunt snagged the
pitching victory.
The next day back at
home at LHS, the Lady
Lancers wound up dropping a 5-4 loss to Timberlane in a contest which
took nine innings to
decide.
Both teams scored sin-
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and both sides plated two
runs in the third frame to
end up tied at 3-3 after
three full frames.
The Lancers snagged a
single run in the bottom
of the fourth to collect a 43 lead, but the Lady Owls
tied things back up in the
top of the sixth and won
the game with a single
marker in the top of the
ninth.
Londonderry smacked
out eight hits to Timberlane’s 14, with Litch, Vose,
and Harris each whacking
two.
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headed back out onto the
road and snared another
lopsided victory of 9-0 at
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M AY 29, 2014
Londonderry High Laxmen Lose Big, But Then Win Big
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Londonderry
High boys’ lacrosse
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The academy team
grasped solid leads of 6-1,
9-2, and 13-4 after the first
three periods of play, and
the score would have
been even more lopsided
were it not for the goaltending work of Erik Kenison (18 saves).
Nick Yennaco scored
two goals and assisted on
two others for the hosts,
Eric Coburn was good for
a goal and a helper, and
Lewis Carroll and Shayne
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LHS Girls’ Tennis Mobs Merrimack
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Londonderry
High girls’ tennis
team drove itself
closer to the Division I
tournament with a success on the road at Merrimack High School on
Wednesday, May 21.
Veteran coach Tom
Meighan’s talented Lady
T
Lancers drubbed the host
Merrimack Lady Tomahawks by a 6-3 tally in the
match, pushing their season record to an excellent
10-3 while lowering Merrimack’s to 4-9.
That outcome left
Meighan’s mob with one
final regular season
match - against Nashua
North in the Gate City -
left on its docket.
Londonderry entered
into the Division 1 playoffs as the number six
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Lady Lancer Laxers
Lose Big in Amherst
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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significant Division
I test didn’t go too
well for the Londonderry High girls’ lacrosse squad in Amherst
last week.
The Lady Lancers
found themselves facing
off against the sizzling-hot
Souhegan High Lady
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May 21, and the hosts
wound up bagging their
10th consecutive win with
a 16-4 throttling of coach
Mike Boyle’s LHS ladies.
The Souhegan side
saw its season record
advance to 13-2 with that
win, while Londonderry
landed back at the .500
mark at 7-7 as a result of
the decision.
Holland each scored once.
But the Londonderry
squad’s short road trip to
Salem last Saturday, May
24, wound up being productive for the locals,
who handed the 4-12 host
Blue Devils their sixth
consecutive loss with a
12-1 drubbing.
The Lancers led by the
modest count of 2-1 after
one quarter, but they then
outscored their host by a
10-0 tally during the final
three periods.
Max Hastings led the
formidable Londonderry
charge by potting four
goals and assisting on two
others. Yennaco added
two of each for a fourpoint output, Dave Wiedenfeld was also good for
four points (1-3-4), Dillan
McKay scored twice, and
single goals were notched
by Andrew Mitchell, Brendan Wall, and Coburn.
Goalie Kenison made
five saves his contribution
to the win that made the
Lancers 9-6 on the season.
Athletes of the Week
Week of May 19
Yorgelis Ortiz,
Sophomore, Girls'
Track and Field
At the LHS Invitational, this multi-event
star notched personal
bests in the 200-meter
dash and the high jump,
and she was a part of
the LHS quartet that ran
the fastest 4x100m relay
time this spring.
Jared Kane,
Sophomore, Boys'
Track and Field
This skilled young
stalwart improved his
personal record by over
five seconds in the 1600
at the Londonderry
Invitational, and his
4:41.1 qualifies him for
the Division I Championships.
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LHS Musician To Compete in Bagpipes in Scotland
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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o many teenagers,
the idea of playing
in a band other than
the school marching band
usually involves a garage,
drums, electric guitars
and loud music.
For Londonderry High
School junior Eryk Bean,
17, son of Glenn and
Helen Bean, the loud
music is still a factor but
the drum kit and electric
guitars are not.
Bean plays the bagpipes and will be traveling to Scotland for the
month of August with the
band he plays with, the
Stuart Highlanders of
Wilmington, Mass., to
T
compete in the World
Pipe
Band
Championship.
He is paying for the
trip himself, with help
from his parents and the
band.
“I started playing the
bagpipes when I was 5, so
I’ve been playing for 12
years,” he said. “They
have smaller pipes but
I’ve been playing the big
pipes since I started. My
grandfather used to play
and when he died, I started playing when my dad
started playing again.”
Although it looks hard
and requires a lot of multi
tasking, between keeping
the air bag filled and
squeezing the bag to send
air to the various parts of
the instrument, Bean said
he’s used to it now.
Bean, who is part Scottish and part Greek, said
he was taught at age 5 and
is still taught bagpipes by
professional pipers Leslie
and Gordon Webster in
Concord.
Bean also plays the
snare drum in Manchester’s New Hampshire
Pipes and Drums.
“I get hired to play at
weddings, funerals, and
all kinds of events in the
New England area, whether
by myself or with a couple
other pipers,” he said. “I
also volunteer to play for
some veterans’ events,
including the New Hamp-
shire Freedom Cup. I play
at many Highland Games
in the eastern U.S. where
there are competitions,
and I will sometimes go to
competitions that are further away.”
And in winter, when
he’s not playing the bagpipes, he’s a member of
the LHS Ski Team.
The Stuart Highlanders will be in Scotland for
two weeks, and the World
Pipe Band Championship
will take place the weekend of Aug. 17.
Bean said he and a
friend will be staying for
an additional two weeks
to participate in individual competitions.
Eryk Bean travels to Scotland this summer to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships.
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STEPs To Perform ‘Fame Jr.’ June 6, 7 at Derry Opera House
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he play “Fame Jr.”
about a group of
students who commit to four years of “grueling artistic and academic
work” during the last
years of a New York City
High School for the Arts
before its merger with
LaGuardia High School in
the 1980s, will be performed June 6 and 7 at the
Derry Opera House in
Derry.
According to producer
Mark Berglund, “Fame Jr.”
is the first full production
play of STEPS – Specialized Theater Enrichment
Program, founded by sisters Nicole Murray and
Yvonne Sarafinas in 2012.
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Prior to this production
the performers have presented recitals.
Murray is active in the
theater program at the
Middle
Londonderry
School Drama Club, the
Abbey Players at Saint
Anselm’s College and The
Acting Loft. She majored in
psychology and minored
in music at Saint Anselm.
Sarafinas has been performing for 15 years as a
professional musician and
has a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Classical Piano
Performance and Music
History from the University of New Hampshire.
The play features a
cast of 28 “very talented
teen actors from Londonderry, Derry and Hudson,”
Berglund said. He noted
the cast is energetic and
committed at rehearsal,
with questions asking for
advice as Murray puts
them through their paces.
“We’ve been rehearsing for the past seven
weeks and we’ve got a real
talented group of performers,” Berglund said last
weekend.
That talent shines
through as the students
performed a nearly flawless dance routine with
outstretched arms and
quick moves, executed in
near perfect unison.
Abigail Palmer, 13, said
she began acting in Londonderry Middle School
plays and fell in love with
it. “Mrs. Murray is the
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asked me if I wanted to
join and I did. I like theater
a lot,” Palmer said.
“I pretty much did the
same thing as Abby. We
were in the same play,
‘Into the Woods Jr.,’ and
Mrs. Murray asked me if I
wanted to join. I did one of
the theater nights and I
just fell in love with it from
there,” Ellen Kester, 13,
said.
Meredith Byerly, 17,
said she had a friend who
attended a Palace Theatre
camp and she brought her
to it one year. She loved it.
“It’s the adrenaline rush of
performing in front of people,” Byerly said.
“I have done every single play that Yvonne and
Niki have directed and
since I’m 18, this is the
last one I’ll get to do with
them,” Rachel Hansen
said.
Steph Conti, 18, who is
also doing her last play
with STEPs, will remain in
contact with Murray, as
she will be going to Saint
Anselm College, where
Murray is still involved
with theater.
The actors agree that
stage fright does show up
before they go on stage,
but each said they draw
off each other and it doesn’t last.
“Once you start performing and you know
your lines and know the
songs and routines, you’re
working together and
everything works out,”
Byerly said.
Tickets are $15 for
adults and $10 for students and seniors. They
can be purchased online
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the door.
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The Londonderry High
School Class of 2015’s second annual Kids Night Out
takes place Friday, May 30,
from 4 to 7 p.m. on the Town
Common, and features
games and prizes geared to
elementary school-age children. Rain date is Friday,
June 6.
Supervisors of Checklist
Tuesday, June 3, is the
last day for voters to change
their party affiliation before
the September Primary. The
Supervisors of the Voter
Checklist will be at the
Town Clerk’s Office from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. that
evening for party affiliation
changes and to register new Kindergarten
Registration for the 2014voters. New voters should
bring proof of citizenship, 2015 school year is open for
Moose Hill School. Any Lonidentity and residency.
donderry resident with a
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12:30 to 3:05 p.m. The session assigned is determined
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lunch at Seventh Day
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June 21, 5 to 6:30 p.m., dinner at St. Luke’s United
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5 to 6:30 p.m., dinner at Etz
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A member of the staff of
U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte, RNH, will hold office hours on
Friday, May 30, at the Londonderry Town Office, 268B
Mammoth Road, from 3 to 4
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evening meetings and movie
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drive less and have fewer
cars; therefore fewer
parking spaces would be
sufficient.
Board member Neil
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The issue arose that
because of the economy, a
widow or widower or others may choose to share
an apartment, with each
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“Your complex is 55
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and have a few years left
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number of bedrooms in
the complex or the number of units, or on how
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“We have seven waiver
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waiver request, where they
asked to go from 15 acres
to 8 acres, should the
board not grant that waiver, it would solve quite a
few of the other ones.
There would then be room
enough to meet the open
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how many acres were
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the board grants that waiver, but if it chooses not to
grant that waiver, it solves
a lot of other problems.”
The board took Speltz’s
advice and turned to the
waiver requesting 7.96
acres, where 15 acres are
required.
Panciocco said that
while in the past more
acreage was required for
septic, leach fields and
wells, the area had municipal water and sewer, so
smaller parcels could be
developed and the larger
requirement was unnecessary.
During deliberations,
board member David
Paquette raised the fact
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that the company owned
the seven acres in question, and also owned about
13 more acres of adjoining
land.
“They own all of this
land,” Paquette said, pointing to a handout rendering.
“So your premise is
that they own enough land
to meet the 15 acres,”
Chairman James Smith
said.
“Yes,” Paquette responded.
Paquette, referring to
Panciocco’s statement that
the ordinance was 24 years
old, said that in spite of its
age, it was still an active
ordinance.
At that point Panciocco
interrupted the delibera-
tions and asked if the
requests could be tabled.
“I’m getting new information,” she said.
Smith asked Building
Inspector Richard Canuel
whether tabling was something the board could do.
“You can do that,
you’re the board, but you
have to agree to table the
deliberations and reopen
the public hearing and the
applicant has to request a
continuance,” Canuel said.
The board tabled its
deliberations and Panciocco
asked for a continuance
until the next meeting in
June. The board voted unanimously to continue the
proceedings until June 18.
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male on property of Convenience Plus Londonderry, Rockingham Road,
asking for money.
6:26 p.m. Theft that occurred Friday, May 16, at
Global, Hampton Drive.
Monday, May 19
10:22 p.m. Shane Ryan
Hirth, 24, Dale Street,
Nashua arrested at Aeroflex/Micrometrics, Grenier Field Road for Resisting Arrest or Detention.
Bail set at $10,500 cash,
with Derry Circuit Court
date of May 20. Caller
reported male in parking
lot with firearm, threatening to shoot another male
who arrived at the business in the same vehicle.
One of the men knew one
of the employees there
and upon entering the
building, pulled fire alarm. Caller reported
another employee saw a
firearm, maybe a pistol.
Tuesday, May 20
9:49 a.m. Employee of
Convenience Plus Londonderry, Rockingham
Road, reports panhandler
dropped off at location.
3:53 p.m. Panhandler in
median at Market Basket,
Garden Lane.
7:36 p.m. Wires down on
Litchfield Road.
Wednesday, May 21
11:20 a.m. Burglary reported in house on Beacon Street.
Thursday, May 22
10:26 a.m. Complainant
on Windsor Boulevard
said subject intentionally
backed up onto his lawn
half way, then spun tires,
ectly associated with the
auto salvage site at 55 Hall
Road...to the waters of the
United States with a permit.” It also alleges Dudek
Auto failed to obtain coverage under any Clean
Water Act permit. It
explains that stormwater
comes from “precipitation
events” and flows across
the ground and pavement.
“Stormwater from industrial facilities, contaminated with pollutants, is then
conveyed into nearby
waterbodies,” the letter
states, adding that Dudek’s business is required
to apply for coverage
under a Clean Water Act
discharge permit “in order
to discharge lawfully.”
The letter notes that
each day the facility is
operated without permit
coverage or discharges
stormwater without a permit is a separate violation
of the Clean Water Act.,
and can result in a penalty
of up to $32,500 per day
for each violation between
March 15, 2004 and Jan.
12, 2009, and up to $37,500
per day for each violation
occurring after Jan. 12,
2009. CLF intends to seek
the full penalties allowed.
CLF stated its willingness during the 60-day
notice period to discuss
remedies. The letter was
signed by Attorney Zachary Griefen of the CLF in
Montpelier, Vt. He also
filed the lawsuit.
Storm water leaving
the auto junkyard is
alleged to be polluting Little Cohas Swamp, Little
Cohas Brook, and the Merrimack River, all of which
are protected by the Clean
Water Act, according to
Londonderry Conservation Commission member
Mike Speltz.
But according to Dudek, it’s all about money.
“They’re going after
junkyards all over the
country looking for money,” he claimed on Tuesday, May 27. “It’s just not
me, it’s all over the place.
There’s actually two other
junkyards in New Hampshire and I know of at least
three others in Massachusetts that they just settled
with. I was speaking with
somebody from American
Metals Market, a trade
magazine from around the
country, and they were on
the phone with me today
and she says they’re all
Londonderry Police Log
Selections from the Londonderry Police Logs
Sunday, May 18
8:49 a.m. Mary E. Anderson, 67, Coolidge Avenue,
Peabody, Mass., was arrested for Conduct After
an Accident. Bail was set
at $1,500 personal recognizance, with Derry Circuit Court date of June 16.
10:50 a.m. Criminal mischief at Londonderry Flea
Market, Avery Road.
11:09 a.m. Gunshots
heard on Coteville Road.
4:32 p.m. Caller reporting
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causing damage.
3:46 p.m. Londonderry
Fire responded to Hunter
Mill Way for outside gas
leak.
Friday, May 23
12:09 a.m. Destiny Doyon, 30, Kendall Pond Road,
Londonderry arrested for
Criminal Mischief (vandalism), Resisting Arrest
or Detention, and Driving
While Intoxicated (second offense). Bail set at
$2,500 personal recognizance, with Derry Circuit
Court date of June 2.
Friday, May 23
9:09 a.m. Theft of digital
camera from shed on
Kendall Pond Road.
6 p.m. Stephanie Durand,
19, 31 Stonehenge Road,
Apt. 6, Londonderry turned herself in on warrant
for Simple Assault. Bail
set at $2,500 personal
recognizance plus $40
bail commissioner fee,
with Derry District Court
date of June 16.
Saturday, May 24
4:35 p.m. Burglary reported at house on Eglin
Boulevard.
Sunday, May 25
1:38 p.m. Burglary reported on Grenier Boulevard.
over the place suing
everybody. It’s not just
junkyards - my attorney
also represents a sand and
gravel company and they
got the same exact lawsuit, only they changed
the words from auto recycling to sand and gravel.”
Dudek said that if any
water runs off a business
property to a U.S. waterway, the company could
be subject to this lawsuit.
He questioned why he
never received a letter
asking where his “water
runoff” permit was from
the EPA. “If they was so
concerned that this was a
problem that we didn’t
send in our permits, why
didn’t they send us a letter?” he said of the EPA. “If
they had sent us a simple
letter saying, ‘Hey, where’s
your water runoff permit?’
I would have got right on
it. We have the DES (state
Department of Environmental Services) on our
property all the time,
doing test wells, checking
our wells, and making sure
everything’s good, and
then we get this. We try to
do everything the right
way here. It’s very aggravating, very frustrating.”
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Murray’s
notes that industrial dischargers are required to
file a complete and accurate Notice of Intent to be
covered by the MSGP.
The suit states that
industrial
dischargers
must also develop and
implement a Stormwater
Pollution Prevention Plan
prior to filing a Notice of
Intent. The plan must identify and evaluate sources
of pollutants associated
with industrial discharges
from the facility, and identify and implement effective Best Management
Practices to control pollutants in stormwater discharges in a manner that
achieves the substantive
requirements of the permit.
CLF had provided Dudek with a 60-day notice of
intent to take legal action
on Jan. 27. The notice,
sent by certified mail, is
labeled a “Notice of Violations and Intent to File
Suit.”
That letter alleges that
Dudek’s business is discharging stormwater “dir-
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