Vacancy Emerges on Barnstead School Board Brown Steps Down Due to Possible Conflict of Interest
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Alton shooting justified: See page A5 THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017 COVERING ALTON, BARNSTEAD, & NEW DURHAM - WWW.SALMONPRESS.COM FREE Vacancy emerges on Barnstead School Board Brown steps down due to possible conflict of interest BY DAVID ALLEN her an employee of the board meeting began for with higher property Contributing Writer school under the law. with Cochrane chairing taxes. BARNSTEAD — De- She could continue her the meeting for the an- Other board members spite an election and a teaching, or serve on the nual reorganization of agreed with these con- recount in the month of board, but not both. the board following the cerns. One noted that March, the Barnstead Board Chair Eunice school elections. Eunice many private schools School Board now has Landry received a let- Landry was re-elected as screen out children with a vacancy. Two board ter from Brown resign- chair, and Diane Beijer the greatest learning positions were vacant ing her position on the as vice-chair. challenges. heading into the elec- board. Cochrane had Cochrane and new State Sen. John Gray tion. Michelle Brown researched the law and board member Henry who represents all three and Kevin Genest signed conferred with legal expressed significant Baysider towns in the up in January and were counsel on the process concern about a couple State Senate, voted in on the ballot. Jason Hen- for filling the vacancy. of bills currently under favor of Senate Bill (SB) COURTESY PHOTO ry decided after the end The vacancy will be post- consideration in the 193. The House has not Getting their kicks of the sign-up period and ed in town with a dead- state legislature. yet voted on SB 193 and Kim Tinkham, her husband Greg (not pictured) and their ran a write in campaign. line of 4 p.m., April 14 to Together the bills will neither body has voted daughter Isabelle, all of Alton, visited daughter, Kelsey The election night re- submit a letter of interest take a large chunk of the on House Bill (HB) 557. and her husband Phil Vercollone in Redondo Beach, Calif. sults were Brown at 132, to the Barnstead SAU of- state funds that are now The meeting started during April school vacation. On a bike trip along Venice Genest at 96 and Henry fice behind Blueberry supporting local pub- on a lighter note with Beach, they stopped at Santa Monica Pier to have their at 105. Genest requested Station. More informa- lic schools, and spend a presentation by fifth picture taken with The Baysider. If you have a photo of a recount. The results tion is available on the that money on private grade teacher Danielle you and The Baysider in a unique location, send the photo changed slightly, but not school web site at www. schools and homeschool- Roberts and tech coor- and pertinent information to [email protected]. in Genest’s favor. The re- mybes.org. Interested ing. The goal of both bills dinator Ed LaFlame. count showed Henry, 106 candidates should write is to make it easier for They have partnered to and Genest, 95. the board and explain some parents to choose help the fifth grade class Brown is a frequent their interest in serv- private schools for their understand more about Route 11 tops substitute teacher at ing and the experience children. what makes weather pat- Barnstead Elementary and qualifications they Both Cochrane and terns and how to predict School, often filling long would bring to the board. Henry said the side effect the next day’s weather. term substitute needs. The board will do a will be less money from Fair to say they came out planners’ After consultation with preliminary review of the state for local public with a significantly in- legal counsel, Superin- letters of interest and schools. Some of the lost creased level of empathy tendent Brian Cochrane then make a final de- revenue will be recouped for TV weather forecast- determined that the lev- cision at their April 18 by lower public school ers. considerations el of substitute teach- meeting. populations, and some of They used projectors ing she was doing made The March 28 BES it will have to be made up SEE BARNSTEAD, PAGE A14 SRPC officials help locals prioritize transportation needs BY MARK FOYNES for long-range consider- Going to the dogs, in a good way Contributing Writer ation in a 10-year plan. NEW DURHAM — Many involved improv- Father-daughter dogsled team achieves prominence in competitive sport How you get from one ing safety and traffic place to another is a topic flows along Route 11. BY MARK FOYNES at the age of five when thing,” Lara said with a was on a drive one day that’s at something of a Lentz agreed that the Contributing Writer she found a stuffie of a smile. and stopped into a book- crossroads here. highway corridor is a ALTON — It would be Siberian husky among When Lara was eight, store. When her parents Recently, staffers from priority from personal fair to say that Lara Ren- her father’s belongings. the Renners attended the bought her a book on the Strafford Regional experience, noting that ner and her father Steve He had owned it when Laconia sled dog race, dog care, she knew her Planning Commission it can be a “nightmare on are infatuated with Sibe- he was a child, and she where she watched the dream was about to come (SRPC) met with town weekends.” rian huskies. They own fell in love with it. At the junior races. She said true. officials to identify pri- Lentz cited conges- 14 of them and sled race time, the Renners didn’t seeing some racers not Storm and Anakin ority projects. The objec- tion and the difficulty of competitively in major own a dog, so for years, much older than her add- were the Renners’ origi- tive was to see how New crossing intersections events throughout the the stuffed toy had to play ed to her enthusiasm. nal two Siberian huskies. Durham might fit within during peak travel hours. region and beyond. And a surrogate role. “It was something I Since then, they’ve been a larger 10-year trans- He noted that the fact their common love of But, coupled with a knew I wanted to do but joined by other huskies portation plan that could Farmington is examin- their dogs has brought love of sled dog movies even then knew it was bearing names such as help leverage state and ing its section of Route them - and their whole such as Iron Will and going to be a lot of work,” Artoo, Chewie and Solo. federal funding. 11 makes any similar family closer together. Eight Below, Lara’s fond- she said. “We’re kind of into While safety concerns proposal more attractive The Renners began ness for huskies grew. Her persistence and Star Wars,” Lara joked. along the Route 11 corri- since it would fit within with two puppies that “Every birthday and patience would pay off as This is the origin sto- dor dominated the dis- a regional impact frame- were brothers. The sub- Christmas, I asked for a she was about to turn 10. ry of Team Snowspeeder, cussion at the March 30 work. sequent addition of a fe- puppy - it was an annual Lara recalled the family SEE DOGS, PAGE A10 meeting in the fire sta- “Anything you can do male resulted in a litter tion community room, to tie in to what’s being of six puppies that joined in-town matters such as a talked about regionally is the pack, which now con- long-discussed sidewalk huge - it lets them know sists of 13 mushing dogs from the school to the they’ll get more bang for and an additional husky ballfield were also talked the buck,” Lentz elabo- that was adopted from a about. rated. friend. Attendees included Lentz said that some “I’ve loved huskies for planning board mem- towns within the SRPC almost as long as I can re- bers, BOS liaison David footprint, such as Dover, member,” Lara said. Swenson, NDPD Chief Rochester and Somer- She said her fascina- Shawn Bernier and sworth are executing tion with the breed began NDFD Chief Peter Var- their own 10-year-plans ney. Rounding out the - so SRPC is focusing INDEX group were SRPC con- on smaller, more rural t sultants Colin Lentz and communities like New James Burdin. Durham. Volume 11 • Number 14 Lentz kicked off the SRPC serves 18 munic- session with some intro- ipalities, and outreach Business .......................A7 ductory remarks. He not- efforts like last week’s Churches ......................A8 ed the opportunity to im- meeting was one of per- Classifieds ..............B6–B9 plement a plan that could haps 14 being conducted bring outside funding to around the region. Editorial Page ..............A4 town. “A key goal for any- John Harrigan ............A15 “We’re looking to you thing we do is to bring a Letters ..........................A4 COURTESY PHOTO for feedback on which level of regional coordi- Obituaries ....................A8 Book with a bite projects are deemed crit- nation while also max- ical - the ones that are imizing local impacts,” Sports ...................B1 - B5 Cadie Proctor and her daughter Cayla consider the carrot shavings teeth sported by the a priority, versus those Lentz said. 26 pages in 2 sections New Durham Public Library's prototype (avocado head and zucchini and olive eyes) for the Edible Book Fair. The popular event is this Saturday at 1 p.m. and following the judging, that are important but While the focus of the ©2017, Salmon Press, LLC.