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Town Attorney Recommends
Impact Fee Suspension
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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own attorney Mike
Ramsdell advised
the planning board
that it recommend suspension of all impact fees
to the town council, pending the outcome of an
audit currently being conducted of the town’s
impact fees by court
order.
After discussion, the
board voted 9-0 to follow
Ramsdell’s advice.
In a Rockingham County Superior Court decision
dated Dec. 31, 2012, the
court found that the
town’s impact fee program, in place since 1994,
has at times been illegal
and that refunds are due
to parties who paid the
illegal fees. The decision
also said that, “The court
sees that a full accounting
of the impact fee program
to be the only solution to
the town’s widespread
misfeasance.”
The court then ruled
T
Gods
& Goddesses Katie LaCerda is dressed as Demeter,
goddess of the harvest, at South Elementary School’s Mythology Night, featuring fifth grade KEY students. The March 6 evening event included a mythological guessing game, and the students displayed the projects they have
been working on recently. See more photos page 15.
Photo by Chris Paul
Planning Board Adopts
Updated Master Plan
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Planning Board
has adopted an updated master plan
that the Master Plan Steering Committee has spent
nearly two years crafting.
Master Plan Steering
Committee Chairman Lei-
T
tha Reilly and committee
member Mike Speltz spoke
to the Planning Board on
Wednesday, March 6, at a
continued public hearing
on the document. The
town’s master plan by state
law must be updated every
10 years.
Planning Board mem-
ber Chris Davies asked Reilly, who left her seat as a
member of the Planning
Board to present the document, if “the general feeling
from the populace in Londonderry wanted to preserve things as they are. Is
that a correct and accurate
continued on page 7
that the town employ an
independent auditor to
fully audit the town’s
impact fee collections and
expenditures since the
program’s creation in
1994.
Acting Town Manager
William Hart chose Melanson-Heath, the auditing
firm that has been the
town’s auditing accountant, to undertake the impact fee audit. The auditors looking at the impact
fees are from a different
branch of the firm and not
the same ones who do the
annual fiscal audit.
Town Planner Cynthia
May passed along to the
board the recommendation of Ramsdell at the
board’s meeting Wednesday, March 6.
“His recommendation
is that the town immediately suspend all implementation and collection
of all impact fees until the
audit that is currently taking place be completed
pursuant to the court
order, and therefore staff
recommends that the
planning board table the
public hearing on the
school impact fee update
until after the audit is
complete. At that time the
public hearing will be renoticed,” May said.
Planning Board member Laura El-Azem made a
motion to table the hearing until after the audit,
seconded by Lynn Wiles.
The vote was 9-0 to table
the hearing.
May then requested
that traffic and all other
impact fees be suspended.
She said planning staff
requested a recommendation to the town council
that the impact fee system
be immediately suspended until after the audit has
been completed.
Planning Board member John Laferriere asked
what would happen if any
projects were to come
before the board in the
interim. Ramsdell spoke
continued on page 10
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Mitigation Plan in Works
for Proposed Exit 4A
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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lans are continuing
to move along for
the controversial
proposed Exit 4A off Interstate 93, with cooperation
from the Woodmont Commons developers as part
of the next stage.
Derry Town Administrator John Anderson reported on the progress at
the March 5 Derry Town
Council meeting.
P
The towns – Derry and "mitigation package."
Anderson explained,
Londonderry - and agencies are currently working "When you build a highon the Federal Environcontinued on page 8
mental Impact Statement,
or FEIS, Anderson said.
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Londonderry Police Department Loses One of Its Own
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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T
he Londonderry Police Department has
lost one of its own.
Sgt. Russell L. “Russ” Goodnow, 63, of Londonderry
died March 7, 2013 in the
Elliot Hospital, Manchester,
following a brief illness.
Goodnow, who was
born in Brockton, Mass.,
was a resident of Londonderry for most of his life
and was employed as a
Sergeant with the Londonderry Police Department,
where he worked for 34
years.
Goodnow was a valued
and involved police officer
and his chief, Bill Hart, said,
“Russ Goodnow was a good
man and a great friend. He
was the longest serving
Police Department employee in (its) history. For more
than two decades he managed the LPD police fleet; in
doing so he made LPD the
envy of other agencies in
the state.
“Many times I and Chief
Ryan before me received a
call from other PDs asking
how did you do it,” said
Hart, who is also Londonderry’s Acting Town Manager. “He made the lease
program work so well for
taxpayers that the PD fleet
is cheaper today in
absolute dollars than it was
in 1994. Russ was honest
and graceful every day in
dealings with everyone: coworkers, vendors, friends.
He drove a hard bargain,
stopped every day to see
how his fleet and his police
department was doing, and
was a good friend.
“He made more of a difference with his life of service than most people I
know,” Hart concluded.
“I am better for having
known him.”
Goodnow managed the
Town’s police fleet for over
two decades, and kept it at
a peak of readiness and
effectiveness. In addition to
that, he mentored the new
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Indeed, I would tell every
Captain Gerald Dussault
young police officer that if
said, “Sad that he has
they can do half as well as
passed, but happy that I
Russ did as far as their loycan give you my thoughts
alty, dedication, and comon a very good man. We
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will miss him dearly. Know
twice as good as we could
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ever hope them to be!”
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Dussault added that on
heavy heart; I have lost a
a personal note, “I have lost
dear friend, and the Lona man who had become
donderry Police Departone of the fixtures of my
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that I will never again see
him in the dispatch center
early on a weekend morning, sipping a coffee. When
asked why he was in early
on his day off, he would
typically reply, ‘I just
stopped in to make sure
everything was all set.’
Always dedicated and
eager to serve!”
Among the other achievements of Goodnow
over his years of service
to Londonderry and its
police department was to
found what is now known
as the Sgt. Russell Goodnow Firing Range in Londonderry.
Burial will be in the
spring in Pleasant View
Cemetery, Londonderry. Donations in his memory may
be made to the American
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Town Council Suggests Same Day Deliberative Session with School
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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own Council chair
John Farrell has
asked Acting Town
Manager William Hart to
look into the possibility of
having the town deliberative session and the school
district deliberative session on the same day.
“The credit actually
belongs to (Town Councilor) Tom Freda,” Farrell
said. “He asked me if it
T
were possible to have the
two deliberative sessions
one after another to possibly have a greater turnout.”
Farrell made his request at the Monday,
March 4, Town Council
meeting. He asked the
council to direct Hart to
contact Superintendent of
Schools Nathan Greenberg to see if the school
district would be amenable to the idea.
OBITUARY
Sgt. Russell Goodnow
Sgt. Russell L. “Russ”
Goodnow, 63, of Londonderry
died March 7, 2013 in the
Elliot Hospital, Manchester,
following a brief illness.
He was born in Brockton,
Mass., on Feb. 9, 1950, a son of
the late Arthur E. and Arlene
(Dickerman) Goodnow.
He was a resident of Londonderry for most of his life
and was employed as a Sergeant with the Londonderry Police Department, where he worked for 34 years.
His work with Londonderry Police was broad: he
managed the Town’s police fleet for over two
decades; he acted as a mentor to every young police
officer who came aboard; and he was an example of
police service to community every day he served.
He was the founder of the Sgt. Russell Goodnow
Firing Range in Londonderry.
He loved to fish. He was a member of the Southern New Hampshire Flying Tigers R/C plane club.
He is survived by his wife, Mary (Foley) Goodnow
of Londonderry; two sons, Shaun Goodnow of Londonderry and Christopher Goodnow and his wife,
Nicole Ledoux, of Manchester; one daughter,
Michelle Goodnow of Manchester; three grandchildren, Cody Goodnow, Taylor Goodnow and Cale
Goodnow; three siblings, Joan Ayube of Middleboro,
Mass., Jan Sniger of Worcester, Mass., and James
Goodnow of Epsom; his mother-in-law, Olga Foley of
Londonderry; family member, Kristen Gore of Litchfield; and several nieces and nephews.
Calling hours were held March 12 in the Peabody
Funeral Homes and Crematorium, Londonderry.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 13, at
11 a.m. in the funeral home, 290 Mammoth Road, Londonderry. Burial will be in the spring in Pleasant View
Cemetery, Londonderry. Donations in his memory
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“A long time ago in the
‘90s, there would be a
joint deliberative session
and we’d have hundreds
of people turn out,” Farrell said. “Back then we’d
fill up the old gym at the
high school and even
have people in class-
rooms,” Farrell said.
Contacted
Friday,
Freda said he thinks it
would be good to see
both the school and town
articles and the complete
tax rate at the same time,
and that with them being
together, it would be
OBITUARY
more convenient for residents and could possibly
increase attendance at
the session.
Greenberg said Friday
that Hart had contacted
him about the idea.
“That’s not a decision
that I would make,”
Greenberg said. “When
the school board meets
again on the 19th of
March, we will discuss it
then,” he said.
OBITUARY
Eugene LaPlante
Annabel LaPlante
Annabel E. LaPlante, 72, of Derry died March 8,
2013 in Villa Crest Retirement Community in Manchester.
She was born in Chicago, Ill., on April 27, 1940, a
daughter of Verne and Mary Jane (Schaefer) Smith.
Mrs. LaPlante had been a resident of Derry for
the past 8 1/2 years, formerly living in Traverse City,
Mich.
She was a graduate of Creighton University,
Omaha, Neb.
She was an avid reader and loved to travel. She
enjoyed attending her grandchildren’s sporting and
dance events. She was a communicant of St. Jude
Parish in Londonderry.
Her husband of 48 years, Eugene B. LaPlante,
died the following day on March 9, 2013. She is survived by one son, Ryan LaPlante and his wife, Tracy,
of Londonderry; one daughter, Megan Seleny and
her husband, Paul, of Derry; four grandchildren, Jessica LaPlante, Alexander LaPlante, Conor Seleny,
and Caitlin Seleny; and two brothers, Rusty Smith of
Des Plaines, Ill., and Steve Smith of Clarendon Hills,
Ill.
Calling hours were held Wednesday, March 13,
from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Peabody Funeral Homes and
Crematorium, 290 Mammoth Road, Londonderry. A
Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated on
Thursday, March 14, at 9 a.m. in St. Jude Parish, 435
Mammoth Road, Londonderry. A memorial celebration is being planned for August in Charlevoix, Mich.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be
made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501
St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105. To send a condolence or for more information, visit www.peabodyfuneralhome.com.
Eugene B. LaPlante, 76, of Derry died March 9,
2013 in the Elliot Hospital in Manchester.
He was born in Chicago, Ill., on Nov. 28, 1936, a
son of the late Edward (Ted) and Rita (O'Brien)
LaPlante.
Mr. LaPlante had been a resident of Derry for the
past 8 1/2 years, formerly living in Traverse City,
Mich.
He attended Marquette University in Milwaukee,
Wis., and was a U.S. Army veteran serving during
the post-Korean Conflict era.
He frequently attended his grandchildren’s
sporting events. He was a communicant of St. Jude
Parish in Londonderry.
His wife of 48 years, Annabel E. LaPlante, died
one day before him on March 8, 2013. He is survived
by one son, Ryan LaPlante and his wife, Tracy, of
Londonderry; one daughter, Megan Seleny and her
husband, Paul, of Derry; four grandchildren, Jessica
LaPlante, Alexander LaPlante, Conor Seleny, and
Caitlin Seleny; and four siblings, Catherine Maravetz
of Westfield, N.J., Greg LaPlante of Kankakee, Ill.,
Colette Maravetz of Columbia, Md., and Jeff
LaPlante of Westville, Ind. He was pre-deceased by
his brother William LaPlante of San Jose, Calif.
Calling hours were Wednesday, March 13, from 5
to 8 p.m. in the Peabody Funeral Homes and Crematorium, 290 Mammoth Road, Londonderry. A Liturgy
of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday,
March 14, at 9 a.m. in St. Jude Parish, 435 Mammoth
Road, Londonderry. A memorial celebration is being
planned for August in Charlevoix, Mich. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude
Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105. To send a condolence
or for more information, visit: www.peabodyfuneralhome.com.
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Letters
Editorial
No Dinosaurs Here
Whenever a daily newspaper
goes up for sale – the Boston Globe
is a case in point –words of gloom
and doom about the future of newspapers are sure to follow. And when
people talk about the death of newspapers, they tend to lump all of
them together.
Big mistake.
Most of us, even the most diehard
print readers, turn to the computer
or Smartphone or iPad when we
want up-to-the-minute international
or national news. Where else are you
going to get current news, not a
story that was out of date 24 hours
ago when the daily went to press.
The world of news has indeed
changed, and the internet is the
change agent.
But try to find the menu for the
monthly Knights of Columbus dinner
or the details of the new Spanish
Club fundraiser. Look for what daily
editors sneeringly call the “minutiae” of planning or zoning board
meetings, something they say no one
is interested in – forgetting the people whose investment in their homes
could be sorely impacted by a planning or zoning decision.
Where do you go to get that kind
of news? To your community newspaper, which more often than not is a
weekly, often is free – such as the
Nutfield Publishing papers - and in
the best of cases – again as in the
case of this paper - has owners with
a direct stake in the community. And
is published in newsprint.
You can see your children in photos from varsity games or in school –
and cut them out. You can find out
your neighbors’ opinions on the letters page. And you can check the
police log to see what the ruckus
was all about.
And yet we hear all the time that
people don’t have the time to read
newspapers.
Tell that to the readers who call
to ask us to include a notice in the
calendar at the last minute. Tell that
to proud parents announcing their
baby or their child’s engagement.
Tell that to someone who would
love to have something kept out of
the police log. Those things matter
because people do indeed read the
newspaper.
For consistent reporting of local
events, week in and week out, your
hometown newspaper fills the bill.
And we know it gets read.
We won’t go the way of the
dinosaur. There’s far too much going
on in town to keep us busy for years
to come.
The Londonderry Times is a weekly publication. It is mailed to every home in Londonderry
free of charge and is available at a number of drop-off locations throughout the town.
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Sequestration
To the editor:
Let’s set the record
straight on those who
place the blame of sequestration on Wall Street for
not paying their fair share
and being the cause of all
our economic problems.
Cognizant readers should
understand that this is as
far from the truth as you
can get.
First of all, the sequestration was President
Obama’s idea and he
approved it. Second, he
should be happy. But
instead of leading, he’s
campaigning on how bad
it’s going to be, that is
until he realized that it
wasn’t getting much traction so he stopped.
Well, how bad is it?
Let’s see - less than a 2
percent cut across the
board this fiscal year, and
a total of 2.4 percent for
this and the next fiscal
year combined.
Does anyone logically
believe that there is less
than 2.4 percent waste in
the government? Can you
believe that a 2.4 percent
reduction, still leaving
more in the Treasury than
just one year ago, is
enough to cause this “catastrophic” chaos?
There was no need to
furlough people, to shut
down White House tours,
to threaten to close National Parks, to reduce
entitlement program office hours, etc. This is the
low hanging fruit, the
decisions that make headlines; in other words, it
was purely political because it’s what the media
will print and what the
administration wants you
to believe.
The effects of sequestration could have been
humanely managed by Executive Order or the President could have accepted the House’s offer to
give him the power to
decide where to make the
cuts (instead of across
the board), where it
wouldn’t hurt people or
cause unnecessary closures, but he refused. He
could have led, but he
didn’t.
Don’t let the rhetoric
and headlines mask the
truth – the President could
easily have managed a 2.4
percent cut spread over
two fiscal years without
missing a step – if only it
were applied to the waste
and duplication and not to
the areas that hurt the
people.
Doug Thomas
Londonderry
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North Korea Threatens
U.S.
To the editor:
General Kang Pyo
Yong of North Korea
recently said, “When we
shell (the missiles), Washington, which is the
stronghold of evils, will be
engulfed in a sea of fire.”
The North Korean National Defense Commission
stated, “In the new phase
of our century-long struggle against the United
States, we do not hide the
fact that various satellites, long-range missiles
that we will continue to
launch and high-level
nuclear tests we will conduct will target our sworn
enemy, the United States.”
North Korean intransigence on the discontinuation of its nuclear weapons and missile development programs has fostered the current volatile
situation with the United
States. It has conducted
three nuclear weapons
tests and long-range missile tests in recent years.
The missiles could possibly reach Hawaii, Alaska
and the West Coast of the
U.S.
We need to ensure our
early warning detection
systems can shoot down
their missiles and we need
to review our contingency
plans targeting their missile and nuclear sites. We
need adequate deterrent
forces in the region,
including a robust South
Korean military. We might
want to consider encouraging Japan, an ally,
to enlarge and strengthen
its military capabilities.
Donald A. Moskowitz
Londonderry
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Bipartisan Effort
To the editor:
On Wednesday, March
6, the New Hampshire
House voted to accept a
bipartisan solution to a
problem faced by 77 communities across our state.
With a vote of 302-34, we
accepted a solution to a
promise made by the state
and about to be broken.
When the state budget
estimates were being considered, there was an
error in the process that
told towns that they
could expect the same
level of Stabilization
Grant as in the prior year.
School budgets were presented and voted on at
school district annual
meetings and deliberative
sessions all over the state
based on this misunderstanding. Without quick
action, school districts
would have been forced
to cut back or ask the voters for more money.
When the error was
discovered, it took very
little time for Senator
Molly Kelly to step forward to address the issue;
Senator Sharon Carson
and I signed on to cosponsor the effort, which created the funds to keep the
promise made to our
community and 76 others.
continued on page 5
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Stantec Chosen as Londonderry’s Third Party Reviewer
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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own Planner Cynthia May has announced that Acting
Town Manager William
Hart “has made the determination that the planning
board process that had
occurred in the fall of
selecting the third party
engineer consultant was
conducted in accordance
with policy, and staff recommends that the planning
board refer to the decision
of Nov. 7, 2012 to retain
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Stantec as the third party
engineer and review consultant to the Town Council
for approval of a contract
that has yet to be written.”
May made the announcement at the Planning Board’s Wednesday,
March 6, meeting.
Planning Board member Laura El-Azem moved
the motion and Lynn
Wiles seconded. The vote
was 8-1, with Tom Freda
casting the sole no vote.
The review process last
fall included three other
firms. The candidates –
CMA Engineers with RSG
and Ironwood Design
Group, Dubois and King
with ORW Landscape
Architects and Planners,
Destefano Architects and
transportation specialist
Lucy Gibson and Stantec –
were interviewed. Following each interview, subcommittee members and
town staff were asked to fill
out interview evaluation
scorecards, and were
ranked using a score of
zero, five or 10. Zero means
“does not meet expectations,” five is “meets expec-
tations, “and 10 is “exceeds
expectations.” The scores
were submitted without discussion and Stantec was
chosen as the third party
consultant to review land
development applications.
Stantec has been the town’s
long-time consultant, and
concerns were noted last
fall about its longevity and
the cost for people to do
business in town because of
Stantec.
In other business
March 6:
• Liberty Utilities, a
utility company that will
be taking over the New
Hampshire business of
National Grid and has
chosen the former Blue
Seal Feeds corporate headquarters in town to house
its own New Hampshire
headquarters, received
the approval of the planning board for its site plan
on a 9-0 vote.
• The Stonehenge subdivision approved in 2009
received an additional
one-year extension also
on a 9-0 vote.
• Woodmont Commons, the 600-plus acre
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Planned Unit Development that is conducting
numerous meetings to
discuss various aspects
of its proposed master
plan in order to “keep it
more manageable,” according to developer Pillsbury Realty LLC, asked
for a continuance from
March 13 to March 27 to
hold the next installment
of its meetings. Because
the March 13 meeting was
to hear Woodmont only,
that meeting will not take
place. The extension was
granted 9-0.
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Continued from page 4
As a result, Londonderry will be receiving the
more than $300,000 it was
told it could expect from
the State of New Hampshire. Londonderry Superintendent of Schools Nate
Greenberg said, “Passage
of SB 40 is of significant
importance, as failure to
do so would require us to
curtail purchases of supplies, equipment, materials and, in all likelihood,
significantly limit the hiring of substitutes during
the remainder of the
school year.”
Instead of wasting
time making political
points, the New Hampshire Senate and House
moved quickly to come to
agreement across the
aisle to provide the necessary funding to make this
right. There were no misleading statements, no
finger-pointing; the legislature simply recognized
the problem, and worked
together to find a common sense New Hampshire solution.
I hope that this might
serve as a model for other
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issues facing our state:
how to present a responsible balanced budget,
how to deal with damaged
bridges and roads, how to
fund the promise of an
adequate education for
our young people in an
age of intense international competition.
These are not easy
problems to solve. They
require thoughtful discussion and a refusal to add
empty rhetoric to serious
potential solutions.
When we can face
squarely and honestly the
difficult fiscal issues facing us, and focus on finding New Hampshire solutions to New Hampshire
problems, then we do our
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leadership.
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St. Peter’s Chili Cookoff Aids Habitat for Humanity
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ore than 100 people participated in
the St. Peter’s
Episcopal Church Chili
Cook-off on Saturday,
March 9, sampling and
voting on the 22 chili
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entrants in the contest.
The event was a fund
raiser for Greater Manchester Habitat for Humanity, which is in the process of restoring and renovating a three-family
dwelling at 50 Hosley St.
Three celebrity judges
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church was a busy place late
Saturday afternoon, with more than 100 people tasting and voting on the 22 chili dishes entered in a
Chili Cook-off, a fund raiser for the Greater Manchester Habitat for Humanity. Photo by Penny Williams
sampled the chili: State
Senator Sharon Carson, RLondonderry; Londonderry Firefighter Lt. Jonathan
Cares; and Dan Mancini,
owner of Derry’s Halligan
Tavern. Everyone who
purchased a ticket was
free to sample the 22 chili
offerings and was also
asked to vote on their
favorite. Children could
vote as well.
The Celebrity Judges
Award went to the chili
cooked by Brian Smith.
The People’s Choice chili
was cooked by John
Roller, and the Kids’
Choice went to chili prepared by Peter Hall.
According to organizer
Lee O’Connor, the event
raised more than $1,000,
all of which will go to the
Greater Manchester Habitat for Humanity and its
Hosley Street project.
“That’s about twice
what we expected,” O’Connor said.
St. Peter’s congregants are involved with
the Habitat for Humanity
project and Liz Rakich,
representing the Greater
Manchester Habitat for
Humanity organization,
said the chili cookoff
would be a big boost to
the project’s efforts to
complete the Hosley
Street dwelling. The
building was damaged by
fire in 2007 and sat empty
and untouched until
Greater Manchester Habitat for Humanity, with the
help of the City of Manchester, using Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds from Housing
and Urban Development
(HUD) and HUD Community Development Block
Grant funds, began work
on the building.
Rakich said, “We are
renovating it to meet
Energy Star standards
and when it is finished,
we will sell it to three low
income families as condos. This fund raiser is a
big help. Not only will the
funds help us to finish the
project, but will also help
us to raise awareness in
the community about
Habitat for Humanity and
what we do.”
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LHS Musicians at Jazz Festival
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry High
School A ssistant
Music Director Serge Beaulieu took more
than 50 students from the
jazz ensemble, jazz combo and jazz lab band to
the University of New
Hampshire for the annual
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Clark Terry Jazz Festival
on March 9.
Terry, according to
Beaulieu, is an acclaimed
jazz trumpeter.
“The festival is an
adjudicated event but not
a competition,” Beaulieu
said. “The concerts are
given throughout the day,
but there are no rankings.
There are awards to the
top three performances
and an honorable mention given to the fourth.”
This year six musicians from the jazz combo, 26 musicians from the
jazz lab band and 21 musicians in the jazz ensemble
attended the event.
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Plan
Continued from page 1
read of what you heard?
Was that a dominant
theme?”
“I wouldn’t say it was a
dominant theme, it was one
of many,” Reilly responded.
Speltz said it was more
accurate to say the town is
“bifurcated.
“There are those as you
say that would like to see
the town remain just as it
is, and those that would
like to see changes in the
direction of more housing
options, better transit, better ways to get around
town without an automobile, more things to create a
more holistic community,”
Speltz said.
Speltz said the plan
“rather cleverly” addressed
that split in attitude by saying 80 percent of the town
would be untouched and
the remaining 20 percent
would be planned.
Davies said he liked that
part that had targeted
areas and asked if those
areas would fall under
form-based zoning, “where
we would say this is what is
permitted and this is what
is not permitted?”
Reilly said “activity centers” are mentioned in the
revised plan, and those
areas “kind of take on their
own character, where they
are what surrounds them
and the attributes that they
have.”
Reilly said when it
comes to the execution,
“form-based code is one
tool that could be used.”
According to the master
plan, form-based coding
“shifts the emphasis from
use and instead looks to
form and character as the
primary organizing principles.”
“The plan isn’t saying
that it has to be form-based
code, it’s simply saying that
the ordinances we have
now in place, in those
areas, would not permit
you to do the things that
we’ve envisioned for those
areas,” Reilly said.
Reilly said the pictures
were meant to illustrate
what could be done and
not necessarily what would
be done because some people will look at the picture
and say, ‘that’s not what I
think it should look like.’
“The language supports
the idea of what we were
trying to encapsulate,” Reilly said.
Davies said he still
“couldn’t get my head
around that Londonderry
isn’t a place where folks
with an average income
can come to, there are still
opportunities in town.”
Davies said Woodmont
Commons could bring
opportunities for average
income housing to town
and the plan didn’t address
that.
“We wanted to ensure
throughout the process
that there was something
for everyone in Londonderry, so there are diversity of
housing choices in the
plan, and if that is achieved
through Woodmont, great.
At the end of the day, the
planning board is the one
who is going to say ‘yes’ or
‘no, we already have
enough of that,’” said Reilly.
Planning Board member John Laferriere, refer-
ring to a chart in the plan
that breaks down land use,
said that Woodmont, at
600-plus acres, was significant “to say the least” and
asked how much of Woodmont was incorporated in
the chart and if it not, how
much would the chart
change if it were incorporated.
Reilly said Woodmont
was in the 20 percent available development section
of the chart and Laferriere
asked, “then of that 20 percent, how much of it is
Woodmont?”
Speltz replied that the
20 percent represented
about 4,000 acres, so it
would be 600 acres out of
4,000 or about an eighth.
Laferriere asked if
Woodmont fell under the
new plan and Town Planner Cynthia May said that
Woodmont fell under the
old plan and current zoning
ordinance. As a Planned
Unit Development or PUD,
Woodmont has its own
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master plan.
Laferriere asked the
percentage of residents
who had input in the Master Plan process, and Reilly
said 400 people attended
meetings over the course
of the process and through
a survey conducted by the
University of New Hampshire, 500 were surveyed
about the plan.
Board member Laura
El-Azem said she think Londonderry has a terrific
opportunity to draw on the
young professional demographic and that there was
no other place in southern
New Hampshire that can
draw on that demographic,
with its disposable income.
Board member Maria
Newman said she keeps
hearing statistics that the
population is aging and
that young people are leaving, and she thinks there
needs to be a way to draw
them back.
“It’s one thing when
they leave to go to college
and that’s expected, but
wouldn’t it be nice that we
would have some of these
activity centers that would
give them a reason to want
to come back,” Newman
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said.
Laferriere said the
“implementation committee” mentioned at the end
of the master plan should
be amended to read “planning board,” and resident
Edward Combes asked why
the board wanted to do
away with the implementation committee. He was
told that wasn’t meant to
do away with implementation, but that the implementation would be handled by the planning board.
The board accepted the
plan 9-0.
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he Londonderry Police advise residents
of a phone scam
that is occurring.
Police said that in the
past week, people have
been receiving calls from
603-732-0338 and 347-6889985. The male caller states
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he is looking for information about an “education or
military experience” survey that had been filled out
online, and states it will
take only a minute for him
to ask a few quick questions to see if the recipient
is a match for the survey.
Police say the caller is
persistent in his inquiries.
Anyone receiving a
call from either of these
numbers is asked to contact the Londonderry
Police Department at 4321118 and ask to speak
with an officer.
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L O N D O N D E R RY T I M E S
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Keno Could Be Education Funding Source for New Hampshire
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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tate Representative
Al Baldasaro, R-Londonderry said that
he is “very pleased” that
the State House is looking
into the possibility of the
game of chance called
Keno coming to New
Hampshire.
According to Baldasaro, Keno is similar to
the lottery numbers that
are drawn weekly on tele-
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vision.
“Players can choose
four to 16 numbers and
the machine can pull 20
different numbers up to
80,” he explained. “The
player matches the numbers they’ve chosen
against the numbers chosen at random by the
machine and if they
match, the player wins
and is paid out immediately. The machine pulls
numbers every five min-
utes.”
Keno is popular in
Massachusetts and is
found in gas stations, convenience stores and other
venues.
“It’s a way to bring
money to our education
system, as our state constitution requires all lottery money to go to education,” Baldasaro said.
Baldasaro is House Bill
520’s prime sponsor and
said the House passed the
bill last week. The Senate
is expected to vote on it
within a month.
“This game could
bring $60 million to $80
million in additional revenue to the state education system. It could
increase rooms and meals
tax revenue as people
come out to their favorite
restaurant and play, it
could boost Whippersnapper’s business and
Legion halls and other
places,” Baldasaro said.
According to Baldasaro, House Bill 520 is
supported by the Lottery
Commission and would
have five members of the
legislature study the idea
- three from the House,
appointed by the Speaker
of the House - and two
from the Senate, appointed by the President of the
Senate.
The committee would
be directed to study if and
how to implement Keno in
the state.
The bill also states the
“committee shall report
its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, the Senate President the House
Clerk, the Senate Clerk,
the Governor, and the
State Library on or before
Nov. 1, 2013.
Contacted Thursday,
March 7, Acting Town
Manager William Hart said
he had not been formally
made aware of the action
taken by the board regarding the fee suspension and
that when he was, he
would make the appropriate recommendations. He
said he had indeed met
with the auditors that day
and he expected them to
prepare a report.
Ramsdell said that by
the time the board meets
later this month, he would
have more information.
“We’re really talking
about a short window of
time. I think given the
number of issues that
exist, it’s prudent for you
to stay things at the
moment and we’ll be able
to make a decision in a few
weeks,” Ramsdell said.
Laferriere still sought
to determine what would
happen for people coming
in with projects until then.
“It depends on whether
the board and the town
decide to re-implement
the impact fee program,”
Ramsdell said. “The board
doesn’t meet again until
the 27th, so I don’t think
anything can happen in
the three-week period
where you’d have to make
some sort of retroactive
decision,” he concluded.
Ramsdell said he didn’t
think the fees could be
retroactively applied to
projects that come for-
ward during the fee suspension.
“So I guess they’ll get a
free ride until after the
decision,” board member
Chris Davies said of any
such projects.
“Yes,” Ramsdell replied.
Board member Lynn
Wiles asked what would
happen if the board did
nothing, and Ramsdell said
the impact fees would
remain in place as they are
now, but because of the lit-
igation, he thought the
potential was greater, if
there turns out to be a significant problem, for
things to be exacerbated
than there is to miss out
on an impact fee over the
next three weeks.
Wiles made the motion
for the planning board to
recommend to the town
council the suspension of
all impact fees. Laferriere
seconded the motion and
it passed 9-0.
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Impact Fee
Continued from page 1
to the issue, saying he and
the acting town manager
were meeting with the
auditors on Thursday,
March 7, and would have a
better idea as to the situation after the meeting.
“I’ll have a better idea
after the meeting as to
how things are going and
where we stand and what
the issues are,” Ramsdell
said.
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David Day
David Day, 63, of Manchester
died March 8, 2013 at the Elliot
Hospital, Manchester after a
brief illness.
He was born on Aug. 11, 1949
in Boston, Mass., a son of the
late David (Gladstone) and
Donna Shirley (Pyne) (Wyman)
Day.
He was educated in Greater Boston schools
and graduated from Chelsea High School.
He had a sales and management career spanning nearly 45 years, most recently retiring from
Bob’s Discount Furniture as manager of its Lowell, Mass., store.
He previously lived in Londonderry.
He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Helena
(Lozowski) Day of Manchester; three children
and their spouses, Lisa (Day) (Przybyla) Cochran
and her husband, Patrick, of Manchester, Karen
(Day) Baldasaro and her husband, Jason, of Manchester, and David Alan Day and his wife, Sarah,
of Raymond; seven grandchildren, Haleigh Przybyla, Liam Cochran, Zachary Baldasaro, Hannah
Baldasaro, Kaylyn Day, Lillian Day and Olivia Day;
one brother, Alan Day of Rocklin, Calif.; one sister,
Patty (Day) Cook of Salem, NH; and many nieces
and nephews. He was predeceased by one sister,
Joyce Day, and a nephew, SPC Michael B. Cook Jr.
A Celebration of Mr. Day’s life will be held Friday, March 15, at 11 a.m. in the Peabody Funeral
Homes and Crematorium, 290 Mammoth Road,
Londonderry, with an hour of visitation from 10
to 11 a.m. Memorial contributions may be made
to a charity of one’s choice. To send a condolence
or for more information, visit www.peabodyfuneralhome.com.
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PA G E 9
South School Teacher Creates Exercise Video
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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outh Elementar y
School fifth grade
teacher Jodi Daron
has created an exercise
video for and with her
students, and the video
can be found online for
anyone who wants to join
in and get or keep fit.
“I’m very much into fitness myself, I’ve been
exercising forever, and I
used to teach aerobics at
the Workout Club,” Daron
said. “I’m on the Wellness
Committee and we decided to do this program for
kids where they would
record their exercises.
“At the all-school meeting, some of the teachers
were demonstrating some
of the exercises you could
do, like riding your bike,
and my demonstration
was different things that
you could do in front of
the TV, like squats and
lunges and jumping jacks,”
Daron said. “After that,
several people said to me
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that I should do a fitness
video, so that weekend I
made one with my own
children and I showed it
to (Principal) Mrs. (Linda)
Boyd, and she thought it
was great.
“I decided to put out a
monthly video,” Daron
added.
Daron said that in January, she invited kids from
her homeroom to join her
during recess to make a
video. That video is on the
South School website at
www.londonderry.org/sou
th/ under the “video” tab.
“I wanted to show
everybody that anyone
could do it, and so I asked
my young kids to take part,”
Daron said of the video. Her
children are in first and
third grade at South.
Daron said she and the
students practiced different exercises for a cardiovascular program in the
classroom. She plans to
have a different format
every month.
Her most recent video
has cardiovascular elements and muscle conditioning, and uses squats
and “floor work.” Next
month the video will feature
a guest yoga instructor.
“The kids love doing it
and in my classes I always
incorporate movement
and exercise breaks and
yoga,” she said. “(The
kids) bought into it because they see me and
they see how excited I am
and I talk a lot about
health - eating well and
having a healthy lifestyle.
They love it and they’re
really good at it.”
Daron said the kids
also love being on TV and
representing their school.
“I invited whoever wanted to come, so these kids
that are in the video willingly gave up their recesses to practice,” she said. “I
practice once a week, but
in the first video we practiced whenever we could.”
Daron and her student
volunteers make a new
video the first Wednesday
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way, public road or private project, it will impact
wetlands and wildlife
habitats. You need to
come up with a mitigation
plan" to replace the land
that has been affected.”
These can take various forms, Anderson said:
"land for land," giving
L ONDONDERRY T IMES
money to the resource
agencies so they can purchase land and other
options.
"They prefer a 'one to
one' situation," Anderson
said of the resource agencies. "If you're impacting
vernal pools, they want
you to purchase and protect other vernal pools. If
you're affecting deer wintering grounds, they want
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you to purchase land for
deer wintering grounds."
In April 2012, according to a letter from
Christopher Bean, project
manager, DES, the Corps,
and the project team visited several sites suggested
by the two towns' Conservation Commissions. At
first the Sawyer property,
a parcel in South Derry,
was identified by the
agencies as being suitable. But they are also
looking at the Caras property off Windham Road,
which is bordered by
Frost Road and Windham
Road and abuts conservation property.
Bean wrote in a memo,
"Work on finalizing the
FEIS document is currently on hold pending development of the finalized
mitigation package."
The agencies and proj-
ect team are looking for
mitigation for the Hyrax
and Associates property,
also part of Pillsbury
Realty Development, the
developers of Woodmont
Commons. Bean wrote,
"The FEIS cannot be
processed
without
accounting for the HP
(Hyrax/Pillsbury) development...HP is currently
coordinating with the
Resource Agencies to
finalize their mitigation
package." A field meeting
with resource agency officials to review a potential
mitigation site in Londonderry is being set up,
Bean wrote.
The money is there for
the engineering studies,
Anderson said: Gov. Maggie Hassan and the Executive Council have authorized the funds. Now they
are waiting on the mitigation from Hyrax/Pillsbury
before proceeding.
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Locals Elected to Democratic Party Office
he New Hampshire
Democratic Party
held its State Committee Meeting and elected six officers and five
members of the Rules
Committee.
Pam Jorgensen of Londonderry was elected as
one of six members of the
T
NHDP Rules Committee.
Attorney Dan McKenna of Derry was elected to
his first term as Legal
Counsel for the New
Hampshire Democratic
Party (NHDP). McKenna
is an attorney at the firm
of Maureen Raiche Manning PLLC. He served one
term in the New Hampshire House, currently
serves as a member of the
Derry School Board and is
on the Board of Directors
for Southern New Hampshire Services. McKenna
was a member of the 2012
Democratic Voter Protection Legal Team.
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