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Albany man guilty on 10 charges related to boy's beatingBy LARISSA MULKERN
Union Leader Correspondent
February 04. 2013 10:49AM
OSSIPEE — A jury of seven men and five women found Justin Roy guilty on all 10 charges related to the Dec. 19, 2011, severe beating of a two-and-half year old boy and lesser assault charges on his brothers.
The jury deliberated at Carroll County Superior Court Monday for approximately two and a half hours before returning the verdicts before Associate Justice Steven Houran.
Roy, 34, of Albany, has been held on $50,000 cash bail at Carroll County Jail since his arrest in April 2012.
On Friday, Judge Houran dismissed one simple assault charge and one count of criminal restraint due to lack of evidence. The remaining charges include first-degree assault, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of second-degree assault, one count of criminal restraint, one count of simple assault against the victim's baby brother, and two counts of simple assault against his older brother.
Deputy County Attorney Susan Boone prosecuted the case. Defense attorneys Wade Harwood and Howard Clayman of the N.H. Public Defender's office in Laconia represented Roy during the seven day trial.
Carroll County Attorney Robin Gordon said Monday she was pleased with the outcome and credited Boone for presenting a solid case.
"I'm delighted," said Gordon, "Susan Boone did an outstanding job preparing the case and getting this case up and running. I thought her closing argument was outstanding," Gordon said.
Roy faces a "considerable" jail sentence, according to Gordon. Since the charges involve a young child, Roy could face an extended sentence.
Judge Houran ordered a pre-sentencing investigation prior to setting a sentencing date. The prosecution presented evidence that Roy took the boy, Strider Downs Skidgel, to a shed in the middle of the night on Dec. 19, 2011, and caused life-threatening injuries to his abdomen. Strider, his mother, Heather Downs, 33, and his two brothers, Zander, 7, and Gallagher, 11 months, lived with Roy in the Golden Oaks mobile home park for about two months until the morning of the alleged attacks.
Strider, whom doctors' testified almost died, survived three surgeries, several weeks in the hospital, and has since regained his health in the care of other relatives.
Boone was not available for comment Monday. She began prosecuting yet another criminal case right after lunch.
Downs, the boys' mother, who was charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of felony witness tampering, was offered immunity for her testimony in the Roy trial. Gordon said she wasn't certain where Downs' case stands and that there has been no decision to drop the charges.
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OSSIPEE - The case against an Albany man accused of seriously injuring the two and a half year old son of his former girlfriend is now in the hands of a Carroll County Superior Court jury.
Attorneys on both sides presented closing arguments in the State v. Justin Roy case in court Friday before Associate Justice Steven Houran and a jury of eight men and six women. Roy, 34, an unemployed logger, faces felony and simple assault charges, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of criminal restraint.
The charges allege that Roy took the boy, Strider Downs Skidgel, to a shed in the middle of the night on Dec. 19, 2011, and caused life-threatening injuries to his abdomen. Strider, his mother, Heather Downs, 33, and his two brothers, Zander, 7 and Gallagher, 11 months, lived with Roy in the Golden Oaks mobile home park for about two months until the morning of the alleged attacks.
Strider, whom doctors' testified almost died, survived three surgeries, several weeks in the hospital, and has since regained his health in the care of other relatives. He lives with his brother Gallagher, grandparents and his biological father. Brother Zander is living with Downs' mother and stepfather.
Two counts of simple assault allege that Roy injured Zander by jumping on his legs and pushing him, and a third charge alleges that he squirted milk from a baby bottle over Gallagher.
Prior to closing arguments, Judge Houran granted defense motions to dismiss two of the lesser charges: one count of simple assault for allegedly pushing Downs away from the shed, and one count of criminal restraint for placing Strider outdoors on a dog crate in cold weather. The judge agreed there was not enough evidence presented to sustain those two charges.
The remaining charges include first-degree assault, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of second-degree assault, one count of criminal restraint, one could of simple assault against the baby and two counts of simple assault against Zander.
Roy has maintained his innocence. He did not take the stand in his own defense Friday as his attorney previously indicated. The defense rested after calling several witnesses that in the defense's view presented holes and inconsistencies in what Downs told police and hospital officials.
In closing arguments, Public Defender Wade Harwood faced the jury and told them his client was innocent.
"Justin is not guilty," said Harwood, repeating the phrase for almost each count against him. "The evidence the state has given you is Heather's story - there is no physical evidence that Justin is the one who caused Strider's injuries. All you have is Heather's story, and Heather has something to hide," said Harwood.
He said the proof is that she told Zander not to tell anyone what happened before she took Strider to the hospital. He attacked Downs' credibility on many fronts, including reference to a witness who said she couldn't be trusted to tell the truth.
Harwood asked jurors to consider Zander's testimony that he had heard a thud coming from the bedroom when he was in the living room with Roy. He said another witness said when Strider awoke in the hospital, he was afraid of his mother.
He said Downs' had a motive to lie - to "cover up her tracks for what she did."
"Justin is not guilty. He did not kidnap Strider. He did not cause Strider's injuries. Heather did. That is why you will find Justin not guilty on each and every charge," said Harwood.
Deputy County Attorney Susan Boone could not have disagreed more.
In her closing arguments, Boone laid out a scenario that Roy, depressed over missing his own children, whom he hadn't seen in a year, was drunk after drinking a six-pack of 16-ounce beers and two cocktails, and he was out of medication he took to curb his temper. He took his rage out on a two-and-a-half year old boy, she said.
"This trial is not about Heather Downs as a mother . this trial is about two little boys who got a piece of Justin's rage," she said, adding that it was Strider who suffered the brunt of Roy's rage, almost paying with his life.
She pointed to several angry and profane text messages he sent to Heather Downs about the boys. Boone said the messages provide insight as to what the defendant was thinking in the days "leading up to the brutal pummeling of Strider."
She said Roy was "an emotional wreck" in the days leading up to the attacks. She said he lied to a police officer on Dec. 19, 2011, when he told him he hadn't been drinking.
"Why lie about something like that unless he's covering his tracks?" she said to the jury. Roy's behavior, hiding in his trailer from the police when they arrived that day, indicates guilt, she said.
"This man knew what he had done and he was scared," Boone said. "I ask you now to hold him accountable for each charge."


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MONTREAL – Letting a two-goal lead get away didn't deflate the Canadiens.
Andrei Markov scored 4:22 into overtime on a power play as Montreal recovered to defeat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Sunday night.
Markov was at the edge of the crease and lifted the rebound of Rene Bourque's shot off the end boards into an open side for his fourth goal. The Canadiens went on the man advantage after Andy Greene took down Erik Cole at 4:01.
Brendan Gallagher scored his first NHL goal and linemate Brandon Prust got his first with the Canadiens. Ryan White also scored for Montreal.
"We played against a good hockey team that hadn't lost and that went to the Stanley Cup final last season, so it was a good measuring stick for us," said Montreal coach Michel Therrien. "We showed a lot of resilience."
The Canadiens took a 3-1 lead early in the third period, but David Clarkson scored on a power play and Dainius Zubrus tied the game at 13:02. Patrick Elias scored and had two assists to reach 900 career points.
"Considering we didn't play 60 minutes ... we'll take the point," Devils coach Peter DeBoer said. "And, thank Marty Brodeur."
The Canadiens posted a rare win over veteran goalie Brodeur, who is 43-19-5 against Montreal in his career.
Montreal had a 32-25 shots advantage, including 16-7 in the opening period when they took a 2-0 lead.
The Canadiens were first on the puck from the outset and scored 2:25 into the game when Alexei Emelin's shot was tipped by Travis Moen and went off Brodeur to White for his first of the season.
Emelin flipped the puck to the far blue line where Greene lost it to Galchenyuk, who slipped a pass into the slot for the onrushing Gallagher to fire into an open side at 13:35. It was a first goal in three NHL games for the 20-year-old.
"To get that first one is something you remember," Gallagher said. "Alex made a great pass. He looked off the D-man and put it right where it had to be. I just had to put it on the net."
The roles reversed in the second period as New Jersey camped out in Montreal's end and got a goal at 3:26 when Elias tipped a Mark Fayne pint shot past Carey Price after some strong work in the corner by Clarkson.
Galchenyuk intercepted a clearing attempt and slipped the puck ahead to Prust to bat in two minutes into the third period.
"We've got to keep doing the same thing — keeping it simple out there, moving pucks and hunting down pucks," Prust said. "That's what made us successful."
But Galchenyuk and Prust were both off for high-sticking when Clarkson banged in an Elias feed during a two-man advantage at 5:23.
Zubrus tied it at 13:02 on a feed from behind the net by Elias.
Notes: Montreal was without left winger Max Pacioretty, who was released from hospital Sunday after an appendectomy. He will be out 3-4 weeks. Lars Eller moved into his spot. . . Galchenyuk for Montreal and Stefan Matteau for New Jersey each played a fourth game. They can play one more before their teams must decide whether to send them back to junior


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Calling Deep Throat: Where is Obama's Mark Felt?
The resignation of President Richard Nixon on Aug. 9, 1974, never would have happened without a whistleblower feeding information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.
Deep Throat, the source that kept Woodward and fellow reporter Carl Bernstein on track to eventually reveal the Nixon administration's misdeeds to the nation, turned out to be FBI official Mark Felt. No one but Woodward, Bernstein and their editor would know Felt's identity until 2005, when he stepped forward to reveal himself.
Today, there is a need for a Deep Throat again, this time to reveal the truth about the Obama administration's IRS and how it chose to target conservative groups and keep them from organizing before the 2012 general election.
While Obama supporters mock such "conspiracy" talk, consider this: Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and conservative spokesperson, criticized President Obama's health care overhaul during a prayer breakfast speech in February 2013 while Obama sat on the dais, captive to Carson's words. It was a critical take on what the President wanted to do to health care coverage in America. Some Democrats called the speech disrespectful; Obama's detractors called it bold. Either way, Carson's criticism apparently didn't go over well with somebody with some clout.
By May 2013, the IRS was all over Carson, doing a full-court review of his finances. It was an examination so thorough, it would have made a proctologist wince. Carson said the IRS found nothing, so the agents moved on to his family, friends and the charitable organizations he helps. Think that's a coincidence?


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Carl M. Towne, 75, passed away March 13, 2013.
Memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church, 5701 E. Mt. Vernon, Wichita.
He was born April 13, 1937 to Earl and Bertha (McCrary) Towne in Nettleton, Mo. Carl retired as an electrical contractor, and was a member of the IBEW for over 50 years. He was an instructor in the WJATC Electrical Apprenticeship Program for 12 years.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and daughter, Melissa Schild.
Carl is survived by: his wife of 56 years, Charlene; children, Greg (Vicki) Towne, Tim (Ruth) Towne, Daryl Towne, and Melinda (Eric) Craft; 11 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; and a large extended family.
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Ted Siefer's City Hall: 'From silly to absurd,' charter panel seen spinning its wheelsBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 10. 2013 12:44AM
The Charter Commision is the vehicle by which citizens can alter the city's basic governing document, but judging by its meeting Wednesday, the wheels may be falling off.
Since they were voted into office in November, the commissioners have heard from a panel of mayors past and present, the school superintendent, passionate parents, city officials and their own legal counsel.
With an April 25 deadline to submit proposed Charter changes to the Secretary of State's Office, it's about time to get down to business, at least this seemed to be the consensus at the start of the meeting.
Commissioner Nick Pappas made the initially modest sounding motion to vote on whether to move forward in considering a list of education-related changes. Next came a series of confusing counter motions and amendments, during which Pappas would withdraw his initial motion.
In the end, the commission voted to have further discussion of four changes, including moving up the timeline for establishing a school budget, diminishing the mayor's role on the school board, and lowering the number of votes needed to override the tax cap - all priorities for the public education advocates on the panel.
The vote was 5-4, and it may have been the first case of the slim Democratic majority on the panel flexing its muscle.
But did the vote mean that some of the changes backed by the commission's more conservative members were now off the table, such as making the school district a city department?
"It sounds like we voted not to have any discussion on the topic," said Rich Girard, the commission's vice chairman. "I think we have gone from silly to absurd."
Chairman Jerome Duval had earlier sought to reassure the panel. "There will be plenty of opportunity, folks, to revisit this until the last point we have," he said.
The session also exposed tensions between Duval, who has assumed the role of amiable moderator among the panel's factions, and Girard, the wonkish conservative and stickler for parliamentary procedure.
True to form, at the end of the metting Girard offered a list that he drew up with Commissioner Mike Lopez, outlining recommended procedures for upcoming meetings. The goal, according to the document he submitted, would be to "address expressed concerns with the commission's proceedings and progress and to provide greater clarity and structure to our work."
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On Wednesday, the Executive Council approved a $3.6 million study to examine the feasibility of the so-called Capitol Corridor, a train line that would run from Concord to Nashua - and then connect to Boston's commuter rail system.
While Nashua's mayor has long been an enthusiastic supporter of the idea, it's safe to say the mayor of the state's largest city, which would be the central stop along the route, is not on board just yet.
"The study is going on," Mayor Ted Gatsas said. "It's supposed to tell us what the cost will be and how we'll pay for it. I'll be interested to see that."
Several options for the rail line are expected to be considered in the study, including locating stops at the Manchester airport and making the Queen City, rather than Concord, the terminus for the line.
Gatsas isn't sold just yet that the economic benefits from the project would justify its cost to build and operate. "It's like anything else. There are wants, and there are needs," he said.
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Speaking of economic development, the mayor and his staff will likely be pretty busy tending to such matters over the coming weeks.
The city's Economic Development Office is losing Chris Wellington, who had been the man in charge after the abrupt resignation of the office's former chief, Jay Minkarah, late last year.
Wellington tendered his resignation last week, but will stick around for a few weeks to ease the transition. He's taking a job with the state Department of Resources and Economic Development as "business retention specialist" in the western part of the state.
He said the ongoing debate about the future of the office had little to do with his decision. "The fact is, a better opportunity came," he said.
Mayor Gatsas has advocated reassessing the city's approach to economic development and has questioned whether the office needs a full-time director.
In the meantime, Gatsas said, his office can handle taking on additional responsibilities of the economic development office.
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Things can get pretty prickly at aldermanic meetings, so it's worth noting that Mayor Gatsas took a little time at Tuesday's session to acknowledge the nuptial news the board's two young Democrats, Aldermen Garth Corriveau, who is newly engaged, and Patrick Arnold, who recently married Kathleen Kelly, the former school board member. Still, it's unlikely that Gatsas, who is Patrick's rival for mayor, was on the guest list.
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Last week, when the mayor relaunched a newsletter for city employees with the stated goal of fostering greater communication among the departments, he said he could scarcely remember the last time the city put out such a publication.
The memory of Mike Roche, head of the United Steelworkers local, is not so hazy.
The last issue of "City Chatter" went out in July 2011, Roche said - and he was quick to provide me with a copy.
Roche had been the union representative on the Quality Council, the group of department heads and community representatives that had been responsible for the quarterly, which ran about 12 pages.
The last issue was laid out by a city librarian, and by her recollection, it ceased publication due to budget cuts.
Roche and Gatsas aren't exactly on great terms these days.
As the representative for Water Works employees, Roche has been trying to get the aldermen to consider concessions before formal negotiations open on their contract, due to expire June 30. Recall that the steelworkers and the police support staff union were the only two city unions that did not agree to concessions last year.
"It's ironic the mayor thinks it's so important to communicate with the department heads, when it was the Mayor's Office that did away with the funding," Roche said, referring to the earlier newsletter. "I guess it is election time."
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The British are coming. On Monday, a delegation of business leaders and government officials from northwest England will be at City Hall at 9:15 a.m. to discuss potential trade and cultural partnerships with Manchester. It is the Queen City after all.
Ted Siefer may be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @tbsreporter.


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Investigation continues into officer-involved shooting that claimed life of Grafton manBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 30. 2013 7:56PM
A Grafton man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Walpole Friday died from gunshot wounds to the head, chest and abdomen, authorities said Saturday.
Authorities identified the man as Larry Albert Bohannon, who was born in 1961, making him 51 or 52 years old.
Dr. Thomas Andrew, the state's chief medical examiner, performed an autopsy on Bohannon's body Saturday, according to the Attorney General's Office.
"The investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death is continuing, and no further information is expected to be released until early next week," the AG's office said in a statement.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Janice Rundles earlier said the man was involved in an armed robbery in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Friday. The man "was said to have worn a ski mask and carried a handgun," she said. The man fled to New Hampshire, and officers from Walpole and Alstead pursued his vehicle.
"At the end of the pursuit, shots were fired, and the suspect was killed at the scene," Rundles said.
She said she couldn't comment on whether the man fired at police or whether authorities recovered a handgun. She said the man failed to comply with orders from police.
David Tuttle, who lives next door to the crime scene, said he could hear a chase.
"I could hear sirens. Right here, I heard a screech and then a thud, and a few seconds later some shots, and a little bit after that some shots," Tuttle told the New Hampshire Sunday News.
"I'm going to guess there were two groups, each with three or four (shots)," he said.
Bellows Falls police said the robbery took place about 4:15 p.m. Friday at the Snow and Lear Newton, a local business. A man wearing a dark ski mask entered the store and displayed a firearm to the store clerk and demanded money. The man fled the store in a dark-colored truck parked nearby. The robber escaped with cash, and no one was injured.
The man sped away from the downtown area and was later seen in New Hampshire by responding police, according to the Vermont authorities.
Walpole resident Betty Prentiss said she saw dozens of emergency vehicles with flashing lights parked by her house at 248 Upper Walpole Road.
"We came home and first wondered if our house was on fire," she said. She saw a pickup truck on its side in her yard.
"We lived here 40 years; there have been a lot of accidents ... over the years, but nothing like this," she said. "Most everybody (living in town) knew where it happened, and a lot of them called us to see what was going on."
Tracy Aumand, who lives across the street from Prentiss, said she came home after the shooting happened.
"It's very frightening to have it right across the street," she said. "Luckily, we have very good law (enforcement) officials, and they took care of it and did what they needed to make all the families in the neighborhood safe."


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(Newser) – Nineteen more current and past US military service members have filed suit over rapes they say were ignored by the military, the Daily Beast reports. After a lawsuit in March by eight women—and the conviction of an Air Force instructor this summer—these plaintiffs are suing past and present secretaries of defense for allegedly allowing a system to continue that violated the civil rights of sex assault victims. The main issue: allowing "a single officer to prevent a victim from accessing the military's judicial system," says the lawsuit.
"The reality is that this officer may well be a sexual predator himself." Adding fuel to the fire are sex assault charges filed yesterday against a brigadier general: "He's exactly the kind of person that was the intermediary between victims and the justice system," says Susan Burke, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit. "How many rape investigations did he pass on?" Two of the suit's plaintiffs have won convictions against their attackers in civilian court, but say the military violated their civil rights by ignoring their cases.


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Emma_85 wrote:I personally don't think it's right. Why should I be at least partly responsible for the sometimes terrible conditions in which some animals are kept, for the food industries abuse of drugs, unhealthy breeds, cruel transport and handling of animals if I can just not eat meat and so show that I don't think it's right to eat animals. Yeah, some animals are kept in good conditions, but most aren't I think. So do I eat fish because they can swim in wide ocean? Well, we all know that over fishing is a huge problem, so if I did eat fish I'd actually try and buy the farmed fish and not the ocean fish.
Plus, how would you feel if some highly advanced alien race found earth and though that they had the right to kill and eat us because of us being so much below their intelligence? Our lives might seem dumb and silly to them. Or a later race of super chickens eating you great, great, great, great.... grand children? :wink: Seriously - how do you justify it, when humans have the choice? Because I don't believe you can say just because they can't think like humans can is a good one, as mentioned above, that same rule could theoretically apply to humans too and justify the slaughter of humans.
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The difference is that we are sentient creatures. I do not eat other sentient creatures.
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The difference is that we are sentient creatures. I do not eat other sentient creatures. :)
Maybe I misunderstand the way you use sentient (it is not a word that I use in a complete sentence very often :) ) but if you mean 'having feelings' than I think you ARE eating sentient creatures.
mingshey wrote:What kind of heaven is it if it has no animal? No bird in the forest to sing, no fish in the lake, no cat in the sunlight, no dog to lick your hands, etc? And what about the lions to feed on the straw?
It's not actually necessarily in the interest of the human race that so much beef is being produced or generally that places like Mc Donalds exist, or am I totally wrong there?
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Over the weekend, I linked to a National Football Post report that said Steve Spagnuolo's decision came down to the Eagles and the Saints.
And he chose New Orleans in large part because Drew Brees provided a better chance than Michael Vick and the Birds to win the Super Bowl.
But there were other factors involved as well.
SI.com's Peter King says one of them was Jim Washburn:
Someone Who Knows told me a major roadblock to Steve Spagnuolo taking the defensive coordinator job in Philadelphia was the presence of very strong personality Jim Washburn on the defensive line.
King's note is interesting because he mentions Washburn's personality, not his system.
Last offseason, Andy Reid hired Washburn to coach the defensive line before appointing a defensive coordinator. By all accounts, the Eagles' pass rush was among the best in the NFL under Washburn. The Birds finished with 50 sacks (tied for a league-high), and 46 of them came from defensive linemen. If you look at which defensive players met or exceeded expectations, almost all played on the defensive line. (Jason Babin, Trent Cole, Cullen Jenkins, Mike Patterson).
During the past several weeks, there's been a lot of talk about whether the wide-9 could co-exist with a system that relied on blitzing and dropping linemen back into coverage. Paul Domowitch of the Daily News wrote a good piece for SportsWeek saying yes, the two aspects could co-exist.
But apparently, Spagnuolo's reluctance had more to do with Washburn's strong personality than his system. During the Eagles' loss to the Patriots last season, Washburn and Marty Mornhinweg had to be separated after a heated exchange on the sideline.
King also reports that Sean Payton emphasized three things during his pursuit of Spagnuolo: winning, Brees and total autonomy. Obviously, his recruiting pitch worked.
As for the Eagles, Les Bowen of the Daily News and Jeff McLane of the Inquirer are reporting from the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., where Juan Castillo isn't saying much.
It seems clear now that the Eagles were interested in Spagnuolo, but no one knows for sure in what capacity. Plan B could either be to fall back on Castillo or pursue another coach.
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It was their dream home - for about 24 hours. A charmer it seemed. But after the first day of taking possession of the one-and-a-half-storey house located beside quiet parkland on the northern fringe of Niagara-on-the-Lake, things went south for Peter Millard and Gabrielle Jones.
"I discovered that 13 of the 14 exterior windowsills were rotted out and rot had penetrated the exterior sheathing into the insulation in the walls," sighs Mr. Millard, an actor in his 26th season at the Shaw Festival, who is appearing in productions of Ragtime and His Girl Friday. "All the windows had to be replaced."
Then they found that entire staircases had to be removed due to inconsistent rises. "That was dangerous and needed to be addressed," says Ms. Jones, an actor who is currently in the musicals 42nd Street and The Pirates of Penzance at the Stratford Festival. "The banisters were too low, head-height clearance too low and the base of the staircase was unsupported. It was a nightmare in a house just 16 years old."
Shocks mounted. They discovered there was not enough structural support in the ceiling above the family/dining/kitchen area, which had been configured incorrectly. Studs and double top plates in one of the walls had been cut through in several places and were no longer supporting the upper floor, wall and roof.
A gas fireplace attached to a flexible chimney was in contact with wood sheathing and pink fibreglass insulation - a fire hazard. When the fireplace was removed, they saw that electrical circuits were not wired to code.
The chimney had never been properly flashed and water had been running inside the structure for years, flooding closets, seeping through the attic and upper floor, destroying the dining room ceiling and furniture below. Doors at the back of the house were installed backwards, creating a funnelling effect for water into the house.
"We were hit by a host of problems that grew and grew until we found there were at least 38 building code violations," Mr. Millard says, shaking his head in disbelief that a home could be this neglected.
Estimates for repairs ranged from $170,000 to $225,000. "Every contractor, insurance agent and building inspector told us we had two choices - tear it down or keep it as a training exhibit for building inspectors on how not to build a house," Ms. Jones says wryly. But since they adored the property, they choose to totally re-build it.
To ensure control over construction, Mr. Millard, an adept carpenter in his own right, took the reins as general contractor. He hired the trades, created work schedules and he and Ms. Jones hired an interior designer to help with the finishes and accents.
"It was scary at first," Ms. Jones says. "There are a million decisions to make when building a home from the ground up. But we saw this as a challenge we wanted to tackle."
The results of many months of planning, designing and refining the blueprint speak for themselves.
Trimmed in earthy clay-coloured vinyl siding, the house emerged as a full two storeys, replete with beautiful new windows. "We chose a cleaner look which allows us, from inside, a clearer picture of the outside world and, from the outside, hopefully a more welcoming aspect," Mr. Millard observes.
The original 1,840-square-foot structure has been replaced by a 2,500-sq.-ft., sunny, south-facing Georgian Colonial with deep baseboards, wide casings around the windows and doors and inside window ledges ideal to display candles and other small items. There's also paw space galore for Darcy, the family's 15-year-old cat. "She has her way with the sofa and armchair," says Ms. Jones with a smile.
A rear alcove was added, which leads outside through double French doors crowned by transoms. Here is the piano conservatory. Its 13-foothigh vaulted ceiling and adjoining open-concept kitchen and dining room with nine-foot ceilings, bring a bright, airy feel to the space. "And the acoustics for the piano and singing are heightened with this configuration," says Mr. Millard, who often tickles the ivories.
The kitchen is now functional. "Peter and I love cooking, so we need loads of elbow and leg room and countertops with lots of prep area," Ms. Jones says. Hence, the central island topped in desert-pearl granite with smooth-gliding drawers so Ms. Jones can easily find her spatulas.
But it's the master bedroom the couple loves most. The side tables and the pine fireplace mantel were hewn by her husband using a 12-inch combination sliding mitre saw, his favourite tool. Ms. Jones describes the bedroom as "our pride and joy, our luxurious refuge."
And luxuriate they do. The ensuite bathroom has heated floors in a classic black-and-white hexagonal tile pattern. A glass shower stall with rainshower head is next to a glossy Victoria & Albert brand slipper bathtub with clawed feet of glinting chrome. Made of English cast materials blending finely ground volcanic limestone and resin, the ergonomic tub is as durable as porcelain, but not as heavy as cast iron.
Though the journey to their dream home could make for a good disaster flick, the thespian couple are proud of their survival through the struggles of construction. "It's a story of perseverance and a labour of love," Mr. Millard says.
He notes he learned a valuable lesson: It's important to have title insurance. "Had we not, our life savings would have been completely lost," he says Mr. Millard, wincing. "I encourage those thinking of buying a resale to get title insurance and have a full title search performed by your real estate lawyer. That may avoid some of the risks."
It will take some time yet for all the pictures to be hung and the carpets to be put in place. Says Ms. Jones: "It's a work in progress, but we're lucky to have this place and live here."


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Dave Campbell: As a biker, I have loud pipes, so what?
June 12. 2013 8:55PM
I like loud pipes. I have loud pipes. Do they save lives? I don't know. I know they have woken up many a distracted driver, maybe saved their lives. It doesn't matter, I like them. I think it is an American right, like guns, hot rods, apple pie and all that.
I think it is totally hypocritical for the weekend squire who starts his rickety old lawnmower at six in the morning or the disconnected mother who allows her screaming children to free range all over creation while she dries her nails to complain about the noise of motorcycles, or anything else for that matter. (One of my peeves is motorcycles being a scapegoat, with nary a mention of those utterly annoying tuner cars, but more on that later.)
First we need to understand something. Noise is everywhere. I used some examples already, but there is so much more. We can be tolerant of one another within reason, or we can place all kinds of regulations against each other in a constant battle of "You're offending me!" vs. "You're stepping on my rights!"
No one wants that. We all like our freedom too much, and as well we should! We are Granite Staters. We had our constitution first. We are part of the cradle of the revolution, but are we not also the nation of respect of neighbors, of civility? Are we not the respecters of boundaries?
No one should have to endure some idiot doing burn- outs in the neighborhood at 11 p.m. There is no reason other than to make noise for keeping your bike in first gear at 6,000 rpm. If you have to keep blipping your throttle, maybe you should get that thing to a shop for a good tuneup or something.
We have laws against abuse of power, street racing, stunting. These are the things that annoy people. Most sensible folks don't care if your pipes aren't stock; many appreciate that for its hotrod roots. They just want a little respect, the same as you want from them.
Now, to the unspoken problem: tuner cars. These are, to me, worse, and not because I hate them (which I freely admit). Yeah, they annoy me, but I still appreciate the dedication to building them. However, the gatherings are something else. I have seen up to 40 gather in city parking lots late at night, doing burnouts, doughnuts, the works.
Which leads me to ask, where are the police? I don't want to scapegoat them; they do have their hands full, kind of. The question really is: Why aren't the police being effectively used? Some would say it is because of the usage of road blocks, which ties them up. Given the poor return vs. the manpower roadblocks take, maybe it's time to use a few cruisers in the trouble areas that have been overlooked or ignored (like, say, the Mill area). Think of the revenue possibilities: park curfew violations, parking violations, abuse of power violations, maybe a drunken driver or two, or five. That is a better haul than a road block.
The sad thing is that all it takes is common sense. How many laws could we remove if we just used more of it?
I love loud pipes; I don't want to see bikers being pulled over simply because their pipes are loud, to be singled out even if they are proved to be within legal limits. It's a hassle, and it's a hassle we can avoid by showing a little respect, everybody.
Oh, and newspapers and TV stations might also help by shedding the light on things with a little reporting of their own.
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September 18. 2013 9:42PM
Manchester mayoral candidate Arnold brings in the bucks
By TED SIEFER
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— Mayoral candidate Patrick Arnold has raised $64,529 in his bid to defeat Mayor Ted Gatsas, according to his campaign disclosure report.
The form was made publicly available on the day of the primary Tuesday, when Patrick won 41 percent of the vote. It was a better showing than many predicted for the 30-year-old, two-term alderman, who is challenging one of the state's best known political leaders.
Arnold released his disclosure form right at the deadline under the city charter, while Gatsas has been forthcoming in releasing his campaign tallies over the year. Gatsas had raised more than $200,000 before the primary.
Arnold's total at the primary is considerably larger than previous mayoral challengers and raises the likelihood that he will be able to mount a multi-media campaign against Gatsas in the weeks ahead of the general election Nov. 5.
Since January, Arnold's campaign has taken in more than 350 contributions. Public employee unions were the largest single source of donations. The Manchester Professional Fire Fighters contributed $3,500 in four checks between February and September; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2320 contributed $1,300; the Manchester Police Patrolman's Association donated $750; the Manchester Education Association, the teachers union, contributed $750. All together, there were $10,000 in donations from organized labor groups.
Arnold stressed that the majority of his donors were individuals who made modest donations.
"I'd say it shows we have strong grass-roots support. The vast majority are low-dollar contributions from a wide variety of individuals," he said.
Arnold said that the donations from unions wouldn't make him beholden to them in contract negotiations. "I'm proud to have the support of working men and women. I'd say my record speaks for itself. I believe in fair negotiations, unlike Mayor Gatsas," he said.
Arnold's campaign form shows he spent $48,595 since early this year. The largest single expenditures were for rent for his campaign headquarters and for his campaign consultant, Huck Montgomery. According to the form, Arnold has been paying $700-$1,000 rent at 1117 Elm St. since January, and the campaign has been paying Montgomery about $2,000 a month since February. Both are also listed as campaign contributors. The rent, Arnold said, was an in-kind contribution.
Arnold said he'll continue to raise more money in the coming weeks. "We'll be having more events, absolutely," he said, adding that he wasn't concerned about lacking cash in the final stage of the campaign, "particularly after our performance yesterday."
Gatsas, who has raised most of his campaign funds from wealthy individuals and businesses, said he'll continue to mount a positive campaign. "We'll stay on the street corner waving, putting up more signs, and we'll be on the phone calling people," he said.


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STOCKTON - Police have arrested two of the three people they believe carried out a crime spree Friday morning in Stockton, authorities said.
STOCKTON - Police have arrested two of the three people they believe carried out a crime spree Friday morning in Stockton, authorities said.
Sean Lobosco, 32, and Daniel Francis, 25, were arrested on suspicion of numerous crimes, including robbery, carjacking, assault with a firearm, gun possession, drug possession, and conspiracy to commit a crime, authorities said.
Police believe Lobosco and Francis were responsible for a home invasion robbery, a carjacking, a shooting and a drug heist, all of which occurred Friday over a span of about 45 minutes.
The home invasion robbery and carjacking occurred at about 9:15 a.m. in the 4500 block of Tortuga Court. The shooting occurred about 10 a.m. in the 4500 block of West March Lane.
TRACY - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office was called to the 30000 block of South Highway 33 in an unincorporated area of Tracy about 2:30 p.m. Friday to investigate the alleged sexual abuse of a child, authorities said.
Deputies detained 68-year-old Robert Burke, who was accused of sexually abusing a child on multiple occasions, officials said. Burke was later arrested on suspicion of lewd acts upon a child, continued sexual abuse of a child, rape by foreign object and molestation, authorities said.
Burke is a relative of his victim, officials said, though they did not disclose the nature of their relationship. The investigation is ongoing, authorities said.
STOCKTON - A man was walking in central Stockton shortly after midnight Saturday when he was robbed, police said.
The man told authorities he was struck and knocked to the ground. The robber took the victim's wallet and a necklace with a diamond pendant before fleeing on foot.
The robber was described as a black male about 25 years old with short black hair, a black beanie, a black jacket and black pants.
STOCKTON - A man entered a business in the 1700 block of East Hammer Lane about 2:05 p.m. Saturday and robbed a 40-year-old woman at gunpoint, police said.
The robber stole the women's purse, a Louis Vuitton wallet, cash, an iPhone, credit cards and identification, authorities said. He then grabbed her by the throat and shoved her before leaving the business.
The robber was described as a Latino male, 20 to 25 years old, standing 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 210 pounds with a green hooded sweatshirt and white gloves.
STOCKTON - A 61-year-old man was walking his dog Saturday when someone approached him from behind, pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot the dog if the man didn't hand over his money, police said.
The robbery occurred about 10:45 a.m. near Hempstead and Richland ways. The robber took the victim's money and fled on foot. He was described as a Latino male in his 20s standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds with a mustache and a green hooded sweatshirt.


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Corn demand has been very weak. The most striking evidence can be found in the U.S. export market. Even as prices have fallen from mid-August right through the harvest period, nobody has been buying.
The USDA finally stopped slashing its forecast for 2012-13 U.S. exports in the November crop report, maintaining the 29.2-million-tonne October forecast, which would amount to only 74% of 2011-12 final sales of 39.2 million tonnes. A glance at the progress of sales, however, shows that even this estimate – for the moment anyway – seems wildly optimistic.
Since the Sept. 1 start of the 2012-13 marketing year, weekly commitments have averaged an absolutely anemic 135,000 tonnes, compared with 885,000 tonnes last year during the same period. Commitments to-date, which include outstanding unshipped sales from the previous marketing year, stand at 11.2 million tonnes, only 52% of the 21.5 million tonnes registered last year at this juncture of the season.
The situation, though, is not quite as bleak as it appears. Eastern European and South American origins have been available at discounts to U.S. prices. With prices trading at record levels, foreign buyers have been shopping for bargains, meeting their needs outside the U.S.
The aggressive buying from U.S. competitors, however, has its limitations. The discounts have disappeared and, more significantly – particularly in Brazil and Argentina – supplies available for export have been run down. Eventually we should start to see the return of traditional U.S. customers.
There are other factors that will ultimately spur demand for U.S. corn. Since 2008-09, EU corn imports have averaged about 3.3 million tonnes per annum. However, the estimates for 2012-13 EU corn crops have fallen precipitously over the past few months – from a high of 65 million tonnes in the summer, to the current estimate of 54.65 million tonnes. The USDA has tried to keep pace, with commensurate increases in the amount the member countries will have to import. The November crop report raised the import estimate by 1.5 million tonnes from the October estimate, to 6.5 million tonnes. But that estimate is seriously outdated. Several analysts have raised their forecasts for EU to imports to as high as 12 million tonnes.


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Cliff dwelling: The economy and the sequester
January 30. 2013 6:18PM
It seems that the fear of going over the fiscal cliff caused the economy to shrink by one tenth of one percent in the last quarter of last year. What would happen, then, if we actually went over it?
As The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, the decline in Gross Domestic Product "reflects worries about the so-called fiscal cliff. The economy reversed from a 3.1% pace of growth in the third quarter largely because federal government spending fell by 15% and private business, likely fearing slack in demand, let inventories dwindle."
If a reduction in federal spending helped cause a contraction, why don't we just spend more? Because we don't have the money, and because some spending is beneficial, some harmful. Spending on necessary constitutional functions that enable the private economy to operate smoothly (such as national defense) is a positive. Transferring money from productive uses to unproductive ones, or from politically unfavored groups to politically favored ones, is a net negative,
So are tax hikes. Yet the Senate and the White House insist that unless the Republicans agree to even more tax increases than the ones we got this month, they will let the sequester happen. What completely irresponsible brinksmanship.
Once again, Obama and Senate Democrats are holding the economy at ransom, and the ransom they demand is a huge tax increase. It ought to be obvious by now that their primary concern is to raise government revenue, not create jobs. We are getting the economy that results from such priorities.


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100 Years Ago
"Two hundred and forty-four couples were married in Audrain County during 1912, according to the record of County Recorder A.H. Whitney, who issues marriage licenses and works with Dan Cupid for the happiness of mankind. According to the record the ladies are not as free with their proposals as the men, for during the leap year just passed, the marriage licenses fell 49 short of 293, the number issued during 1911."
50 Years Ago
"A gasoline transport trailer-truck unit was damaged when it sideswiped a bridge on Highway 15 three miles north of Mexico, at 6:10 a.m. today, the state highway reported. Kenneth Ray Jones, 36, of Centralia, driver of the truck owned by Transport Delivery of Mexico, said he was meeting another truck when he hit the side of the bridge, sideswiping the length of it. There were no injuries and no arrests. Damage to the truck was about $250 and it was repaired at the scene."
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"A cross section of area citizens will be given the chance next week to play a more active role in Mexico's growth and development. Sometime within the next few days 400 households in and around Mexico will receive copies of a new Community Attitude Survey, developed and distributed as a joint effort of the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce and the Community Betterment Council. Residents may not know it, but survey sponsors say the results of previous surveys have made a real difference in the way Mexicoans live, work and play. "That's where many of (the ideas for) our community betterment projects come from," said Barb Pickering executive president of the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce."
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"Individuals elected to county office Nov. 6 were given the oath of office at a ceremony held Monday morning in the County Commission room, Audrain County Courthouse. Taking the oath were Associate Circuit Judge Linda Hamlett, Treasurer Doris Schutte, Recorder of Deeds Virginia Pehle, County Clerk Shelley Harvey, Prosecuting Attorney Jason Lamb, Presiding Commissioner Richard Webber and Clerk of the Circuit County Penny J. Creed. New terms of office officially begin Wednesday."
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STOCKTON - County officials will apply for state grant money to possibly build a corrections facility that operates much like a halfway house for non-dangerous inmates, an alternative they hope will help alleviate jail overcrowding if the project moves forward.
STOCKTON - County officials will apply for state grant money to possibly build a corrections facility that operates much like a halfway house for non-dangerous inmates, an alternative they hope will help alleviate jail overcrowding if the project moves forward.
A potential $40 million might be available in state funding to develop the 400- to 500-bed community corrections center, where inmates would be allowed to come and go under supervision.
"Nothing is yet set in stone," said San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore.
Although he believes the proposal will qualify for the new stream of construction money through SB1022, Moore said, "we're not sure at this point."
San Joaquin County has seen an estimated 400 more inmates in the local jail on any given day since the enactment of AB109, California's prison realignment law, which shifted responsibility of certain lawbreakers from state prisons to county corrections more than one year ago.
Making room for those AB109ers means an increasing number of local offenders are getting released early so the jail can continue meeting a court cap on jail population.
"Right now, many people are capped out (of jail) on a daily basis," said county Chief Probation Officer Stephanie James. "This will be one tool we'll be able to use to alleviate jail space for those who need to remain in custody."
The county has more than $100 million set aside to build a 1,280-bed expansion, but construction has been stalled because there are no funds to operate it.
Moore said a new jail is still needed, but looking at a community corrections center is one way to address the capacity problem.
Like the halted jail project, there are hurdles to work out with the center, too.
"SB1022 will give us the money to build the facility, but there is no money to run it," Moore said. But he did say that it would be more feasible to find operating funds for this facility than for the jail expansion.
A group of city and county leaders recently visited the Washington County Community Corrections Center in Hillsboro, Ore., for an idea of how such a facility functions.
Officials are in the process of sketching out details of how the program will work in San Joaquin County.
That encompasses visiting other similar centers that have comparable demographics to San Joaquin County, since Hillsboro has a lower crime rate.
Preliminary plans are that the Probation Department would operate the center, Moore said.
The idea is that not only would the center free up jail beds for riskier inmates, but it also would help inmates transition back into society with programs that include job readiness, James said.
Qualifying inmates would be transferred to the center 30 to 60 days from their scheduled release date, provided they meet good behavior standards and other criteria, James said. And the plan is to partner with other agencies for services, such as gang intervention, mental health programs and substance abuse treatment.
"I view this as the potential for doing re-entry at the local level," Moore said.
James said the county is waiting for the state to announce its opening for SB1022 bids. She said up to $40 million might be available for a county the size of San Joaquin.
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Arrested at 75, charged with blocking plow, Merrimack man says he was just shoveling his driveBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 19. 2014 9:25PM
MERRIMACK — A 75-year-old man arrested Tuesday and charged with blocking a town snow plow said he was merely shoveling out the end of his driveway when police came and arrested him.
Menahem Lowy said the driver had already deposited 2 feet of plowed snow at the end of his driveway and was coming around for another sweep. He said the plow stopped in the street in front of his 13 Mountain View Drive home as Lowy shoveled the end of his driveway.
Twenty minutes later, police came and arrested Lowy, he said.
"It's not I who didn't let him do his job. It's he who didn't let me clean my driveway," a flustered Lowy said Wednesday.
Police said that the driver of the Merrimack Public Works Department plow reported that Lowy was blocking the roadway. Police said in a statement that Lowy complained to police about the driver plowing snow across the end of his driveway.
The driver told police Lowy stood in front of the plow and would not move. Police handcuffed Lowy, charged him with disorderly conduct, and released him on his own recognizance. He is scheduled to appear in Merrimack District Court March 11, where Lowy said he wants to tell a judge his side of the story.
Lowy said the plow seemed finished with the street when he arrived home and parked his car in his driveway but the plow reversed and made a second sweep, funneling the plowed snow onto the end of his driveway.
Lowy once taught electrical engineering at the University of Texas and later worked at BAE Systems, he said. He said he wasn't angry about the snow at the end of his driveway. He just started shoveling the snow from his driveway and mailbox.
Police, he said, never asked him for his side of the story.
"With my age and the cold, there is no purpose for me to stand there for 20 minutes," Lowy said. "I just wanted to clean my driveway and go home."
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March 15. 2013 10:26PM
Londonderry project called an economic engine
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Adjacent to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Pettingill Road ends at a baracade near Industrial Drive. A proposal is in the works to connect the road with Raymond Wieczorek Drive, the main airport access road. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
Right now, it's a road to nowhere. But if Pettingill Road in Londonderry can be extended to intersect the new access road to the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, it could become an economic engine to rival the Pease International Tradeport in the Seacoast or the Centerra Resource Park near Dartmouth Hitchcock in Hanover.
That would create thousands of new jobs and millions in new tax revenue, according to Russ Thibeault, president of Applied Economic Research in Laconia.
Thibeault, who just completed a year-long analysis of the project, presented his findings on Tuesday to a regional economic development group, Access Greater Manchester, in a meeting at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce offices.
State and local officials have known for years that extending the road and utilities at a cost of $12.5 million presents great potential for developing nearly 1,000 acres of buildable land in Londonderry near the airport. Thibeault told the group of city officials, planners and business owners that the time is now.
"The next steps are really in Londonderry's lap," he said. "This study has created some momentum. This is going to happen. It is only a question of when."
That question of "when" has been floating for the past decade. Earlier studies by the state Department of Transportation in 2003 predicted that development of the land would create 5,000 to 6,000 jobs.
Little action was taken on the concept, however, until the new access road, Raymond Wieczorek Drive, was completed in 2011. Pettingill Road is now fully permitted and engineered, but the clock is ticking, with permits beginning to expire in July 2014, Thibeault said.
He told the group that the land around Pettingill Road presents a unique development opportunity, given the excellent access to the interstate highway system and the airport. "There is essentially no competition for its large, flat sites serviced by sewer and water elsewhere in the state," he said.
The town would install utilities along the road, and tenants would pay for extensions to individual properties in a development that could mimic Pease with its diversity of tenants and economic impact.
Thibeault outlined a variety of funding options, including economic development grants, general obligation bonds, private-public partnerships and impact fees.
The original Pettingill Road in Londonderry, at the south end of the airport's Runway 17/35, ends in a dirt road at the intersection of Industrial Drive. Planners envision the new extension as a tree-lined boulevard running from that intersection to Wieczorek Drive at the intersection of Roundstone Drive, the road connecting Wieczorek to Route 3A.
The 1,000 acres that would then be open for development is about equal to the buildable space at Pease, which is now at capacity, and much more than Centerra - the two sites Thibeault focused on in his study, paid for by the Londonderry Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
"The charge was to develop an objective analysis of market support for the development, and to evaluate the financial benefits and costs to the town, given the pace of development that I believe would occur once the road is built," he said.
Based on the experience of Pease and Centerra, and current improvements in market conditions, Thibeault projected that 150,000-square-feet of construction would occur each year on land surrounding the road, creating 10,000 to 15,000 new jobs over time, and generating $200 million to $300 million in new property value the town could tax.
The best bet for the town, he said, would be to line up a major tenant before the road construction begins. He said a 500,000-square-foot tenant would give Londonderry an immediate break-even on its investment.
Ownership of the land around the road varies, with some parcels owned by the airport, and others held by private investors like the Tamposi-Nash Real Estate Group Inc.
"Market conditions have been weak, but are gradually improving, and despite the current weakness are adequate to justify the town's investment," he said. "Overall, there is no more attractive, tax-generating investment Londonderry can make in itself than the Pettingill Road infrastructure."


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April 03. 2013 8:01PM
Had the City of Manchester decreed in 2001 that every bar and restaurant in the city had to sell food and beverages for exactly the same price as every other bar and restaurant, and then fixed that price at its 2001 level - forever - the revival of downtown Manchester never would have happened. The city's civic arena opened in November of 2001, followed by the opening of numerous bars and restaurants hoping to cater to the newcomers. That also is the year when aldermen set city cab fares.
In Manchester, most industries compete on price, service and quality - except the taxi cab industry. That is for one simple and little-known reason. The city sets all cab fares by ordinance. Every cab in the city must charge exactly the same price, set a dozen years ago. In 2008, aldermen allowed for a temporary fare hike after gasoline hit $4 a gallon. But in 2009, when the average price of gas dropped to $1.83 a gallon, the hike was rescinded, and cab companies were forced to return to the rates set in 2001.
Looking back, the point at which aldermen lowered fares in 2009 happened to be near the five-year low for gas prices in New Hampshire. Prices now average $3.59 a gallon. But city taxi companies are barred by ordinance from covering that expense by raising their rates.
If you owned a cab company and you were put in that same position, what would you do? You can't pay your drivers less than the minimum wage. You cannot raise prices - or lower them to generate more business. Any fare discounts must be approved by the city, and if they are not approved the company must wait six months before trying again. One of your only options would be to defer maintenance on your vehicles.
So the news this week that every city cab was pulled off the road for inspection violations comes as no surprise. City policy virtually guarantees that cab companies will invest as little as possible in their cabs.
If aldermen want better and safer cab service in their city, they will have to free the cab companies to compete with each other. If we keep these Soviet-style price decrees, we will continue to get Soviet-style cab service.


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'Duck' lawyer blasts AG over prioritiesBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
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April 25. 2014 9:05PM
The attorney for Nashua state Rep. David Campbell, who ran over and killed five ducks last December, questioned why the state Attorney General's Office spent so much time and energy on this case while 115 murders in New Hampshire remain unsolved.
"This report regarding my client, consumed over a hundred hours of the state's limited investigative resources and thousands of taxpayers' dollars and calls into question the priorities of the Attorney General's Office," Nashua attorney Gerald Prunier said in a statement.
Prunier said the AG's investigation "turned into an exhaustive and unproductive fishing expedition into Mr. Campbell's personal life."
The Attorney General's Office on Thursday released a 14-page report saying Campbell and former Nashua police commissioner Thomas Pappas would face no new charges after Campbell ran over and killed five ducks on Dec. 23 while driving away from the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua and later sought the help of his friend, Pappas, then a police commissioner.
Associate Attorney General Jane Young, who oversaw the investigaion, said the probe was important to determine "whether a sitting police commissioner who was appointed by the governor and confirmed by the (Executive) Council committed a crime involving their office."
She said Campbell is to blame for making the investigation take longer.
"What I would note is there was certainly a number of hours devoted to this investigation because Mr. Campbell decided not to cooperate with this investigation and that failure led us to take other investigative avenues that could have been shortened if he, like everybody else, had cooperated," Young said.
Prunier said Campbell's chief accuser, James Murphy, an out-of-state Southwest pilot staying at the hotel, "continually yelled, harassed and followed my client."
Prunier said Murphy allegedly said, "I am going to make you hurt like the ducks."
The AG's report said Campbell told a police officer that "Murphy threatened to make Campbell feel how the ducks felt."
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Campbell this week announced he would not seek reelection to the House after serving 14 years. Pappas also resigned from the Nashua Police Commission in February, citing deep regret over his role in the incident.
Campbell, who said he had two drinks and dinner at the hotel, called Pappas to pick him up after killing the ducks, and Pappas later called the Nashua police and arranged for Campbell to come in the next day, rather than that night.
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Manchester school superintendent chided on auditBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 28. 2013 10:40PM
MANCHESTER — Members of the school board expressed concerns Monday that the administration has been slow in pursuing reforms recommended in a highly critical audit presented in the summer.
Superintendent Debra Livingston told the Board of School Committee that she expected to have specific recommendations in line with the audit, which would be referred to the relevant subcommittees, "very soon."
Ward 3 board member Chris Stewart said he expected there to be a time-line for moving forward on the recommendations outlined in the nearly 300-page report produced last spring by Curriculum Management Systems, an Iowa-based education consulting company.
"This is nice, but we spent $40,000 on this," he said. "There are really no dates attached to this. It's unclear to me what the plan is moving forward. I'd like to see more detail shortly."
The audit found that city schools lag well behind the state average in test scores and have made little or no improvement over the past four years.
It outlined a set of recommendations, in particular developing unified policies and curriculum across the district.
Livingston, who became the school chief in July, said she has moved quickly in response to the issues she has been presented with. She pointed to the recent outcry over the Common Core State Standards and her decision to have the district develop its own Manchester Academic Standards
"This process has moved slower than I thought it would," she said, referring to the audit recommendations. "There have been a lot of things, like the Manchester Academic Standards that I will say have slowed down this process."
Ward 9 board member Art Beaudry said he expected to use the audit recommendations as a basis for evaluating Livingston. "I think under the contract, we have to evaluate you by January 1. I was hoping some of these topics could be used to show how things are getting accomplished and how quickly," he said."
Mayor Ted Gatsas was more supportive of Livingston's efforts. "In the four months, you've probably stepped into more uncharted waters than I've ever seen before," he said.
At its last meeting, the school board voted to back Livingston's proposal for Manchester Academic Standards that would go beyond Common Core, the controversial national education benchmarks that are being pushed by the Obama administration.
Livingston said that in the coming weeks committees of teachers would be formed to plan the standards at all grade levels. The board rejected a proposal from Beaudry to have the administration make materials that would be reviewed by the committees available to the public two weeks before its meetings.
The district audit released in June also found fault with the school board, noting a tendency "to blur governance and administrative functions."


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Another View -- Ross Gittell: The tale of the two New HampshiresROSS GITTELL
October 19. 2013 2:07AM
THERE HAS BEEN significant mention in studies and reports of "two New Hampshires," differing in demographic characteristics and economic indicators. New Hampshire's southeastern counties are economically linked to the Boston metropolitan area because of the proximity to Boston, shared labor market and industry connections and clusters. The more rural northern and western New Hampshire counties differ significantly and have their own set of economic indicators. The "two New Hampshires" present challenges and also opportunities to strategically and appropriately focus efforts to support a strong, economically vibrant state.
Rural and metro New Hampshire counties differ significantly from one another by age (percent of residents of working age and percent over 65); by levels of educational attainment; by income, which correlates strongly to education; and by population density; to name some key factors. The data that show important differences between rural and metro New Hampshire suggest that different approaches to economic development and education in the two regions are needed.
Rural New Hampshire, if measured as a separate state, would have the second highest percentage of residents over age 65 (only behind Florida), while metro New Hampshire would be in the bottom third of U.S. states with the percentage of residents over age 65.
If rural New Hampshire were a separate state, it would have the lowest percentage of residents age 25-44 among U.S. states. In contrast, metro New Hampshire would rank among the median U.S. states on this same measure. This age 25-44 population is the entry-level workforce critical for many businesses; the workforce that businesses rely on for jobs requiring middle and high skills and the latest technical training.
Residents of metro New Hampshire are more highly educated than those in rural New Hampshire, although both New Hampshires would as separate states rank at or above the U.S. median for levels of higher education.
Correlated strongly to educational attainment is income. There are again significant differences between rural and metro New Hampshire when considering per capita income. As a separate state, metro New Hampshire would rank 5th among all U.S. states in per capita income, only trailing Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts (each of which also lead metro New Hampshire in education levels) and 1st among all 50 states with the lowest poverty rate (7.2 percent). Rural New Hampshire as a separate state would rank 20th in per capita income and 7th in poverty.
Across New Hampshire, education and pathways to careers are critical. With a younger population that is more highly educated, particularly in the skilled trades and digital and information technology, the state will be much better positioned to retain and attract high-tech innovating firms and fast growing firms. In metro New Hampshire this will require building on the strong base and variety of educational institutions, with a focus on strengthening economic connections with industry.
Efforts in rural New Hampshire should focus on investing in existing educational institutions, including community colleges, as affordable pathways to economic advancement. Part of this focus should be improved educational alignment and partnerships with industries that have strong rural prospects, such as outdoor recreation, leisure and hospitality, energy and environmental products and services, and certain advanced manufacturing sectors.
A focus on placing local area youth on pathways for educational success through college and then to the workforce is essential, as every young person is a highly important labor market/economic resource in short supply in this region. Moreover, educational delivery methods that meet the needs of a dispersed population is a critical factor for colleges operating in rural New Hampshire.
The differing factors of rural and metro New Hampshire are suggestive to those concerned with economic development and the role of postsecondary institutions in the state. They are of particular importance within the Community College System of New Hampshire as we focus our efforts on the role our institutions must play to best support the economic development of their regions.
Ross Gittell is an economist and chancellor of the Community College System of New Hampshire. For more detailed data and analysis, see the complete White Paper entitled "The Two New Hampshires - What Does it Mean?" at ccsnh.edu/whitepaper.


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Manchester aldermen to take on two school budgets tonightBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 17. 2013 11:10PM
MANCHESTER - Superintendent Thomas Brennan is set to present two budgets this evening to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, which is responsible for setting the final appropriation for the district.
The two spending plans for the 2014 fiscal year are a "tax cap" budget of $155.7 million and a "school approval" budget of $159.5 million. The Board of School Committee voted last week to send the two budgets to the aldermen.
Brennan said he will try to make a case for the larger budget, which he said he devised specifically to make sure that the district has enough teachers to keep class sizes below 30, the state standard. The sending towns of Hooksett and Candia have taken steps to pull their high school students from the district, largely on the grounds that the class size standard is being violated.
The $159.5 million budget would allow the district to hire 41 additional teachers, and it would fill the positions of the 23 teachers leaving or retiring this year, Brennan said. The tax cap budget would allow the district to fill only nine of those vacancies, with no new teacher hires.
"I believe we will not have the number of teachers I believe we need," Brennan said in reference to the $155.7 million budget. "I think we can only have this level of staffing for so long before more problems (with teachers) surface. We saw that in the last year, and I wouldn't be surprised if that continues if class sizes stay the same."
Still, Brennan conceded that the district would still face many challenges even with the larger budget.
"I believe there can always be progress with more teachers, because they're committed to getting the job done," he said. "But will there be more of the same problems? Yes, there will."
After considerable debate last week, the school board voted to send two budgets to the aldermen. Supporters of the tax cap budget include Mayor Ted Gatsas.
Gatsas has argued that the $155.7 million budget would preserve existing staffing levels in the schools, while his proposed $2.8 million bond would allow the district to make needed investments in technology and staff development.
The school board last week voted to approve the bond, along with both budgets. At the same time, the board voted to take two components of the mayor's proposed budget - computer purchases that would be funded through the bond and a deferment of the book loan - and remove them from Brennan's original budget of slightly more than $160 million. The moves allowed the board to reduce the maximum requested appropriation by $834,000.
The mayor's proposed $155.7 million budget is the maximum appropriation under the city's tax cap, which limits the budget increase to 2.17 percent over last year.
If the aldermen want to spend more than this, they will have to either override the tax cap - with a super-majority of 10 votes - or they may have to come up with ways to send additional money to the district outside of the 2014 appropriation.
For his part, Brennan said the tax cap isn't his primary concern.
"I'm going to approach this as the superintendent, responsible for ensuring adequate schools for the kids," he said. "The tax cap has become a political question that needs to be answered, not by me, but by political officials."
A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for April 1 at Memorial High School.