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www.newhampshirelakesandmountains.com SERVING THE NORTH COUNTRY SINCE 1889 [email protected] 124TH YEAR, 37TH ISSUE LITTLETON, N.H., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 75¢ (USPS 315-760) Mt Eustis lease discussed at first public hearing By DARIN WIPPERMAN property, pay utilities, and Harkless added that a [email protected] oversee skiing operations crucial part of future skiing on the hill. is the re-location of the LITTLETON — The The organization is pur- existing snow machine trail lease to return skiing to suing federal tax exempt on Mount Eustis. With a Mount Eustis was dis- status, which is required grant to help fund that cussed at Monday’s meet- under terms of the lease. project, Harkless said he ing of the selectmen. With Harkless presented a will work with the snow- overwhelming support, the site map to the selectmen. mobile group on complet- town authorized agree- He said some clearing ing the work. ment negotiations in could create more varied Tentative hours for ski March, but required two skiing opportunities for operations were discussed. public hearings on the visitors. The group hopes Open skiing is planned lease terms. to install lighting on the Thursday through Sunday, An organization known main slope, Harkless Harkless said, with ski as Mount Eustis Ski Hill added. teams able to use the hill negotiated the lease with A rope tow, which earlier in the week. the town. Dave Harkless Harkless said would be To take advantage of spoke for the organization 1,300 feet long, will take state liability laws, skiing PHOTO BY DUANE CROSS at Monday’s hearing. skiers up the hill. He would be on “a donation- A nice sized bull moose watches me from behind a patch of goldenrod in Sugar Hill Saturday morn- The three-year lease added that noise from the only basis,” Harkless said. ing. Watch for moose crossing roads especially at night as the beginning of the moose mating sea- would cover the term from gas-powered apparatus The suggested donation for son will have the animals moving around during low light periods. Oct. 1, 2013 through would be minimized a day will be $5, but people September 2016. The ski thanks to insulation inside would not be turned away hill group would be the structure that will Selectmen receive responsible to insure the house the engine. HEARING, PAGE A11 Parker Village update Anthem responds to North By DARIN WIPPERMAN four calls per unit that year, Village has instituted vari- [email protected] the number has fallen to ous steps to improve the Country concerns, adds below three per unit so far living experience for resi- LITTLETON — Police this year. dents. She said, “Parker statistics regarding Parker Pauline Dinatale, Parker Village is a community.” AVH & LRH to network Village were presented to Village property manager, Residents, Dinatale contin- By Edith Tucker tors — worked quickly to key issue was the lack of [email protected] the selectmen on Monday. said that not all calls for ued, “all consider it their overturn the insurance com- obstetrics at Weeks, which The numbers show a service result in a police home.” pany’s oversight in failing to left women far from needed reduction in calls for serv- investigation. She said Dinatale added that sev- NORTH COUNTRY — include an easily reachable services,” he said. ice at the property, as well problems at the complex eral positive experiences Last week North Country hospital that offers obstetrics Woodburn’s wife Kelly as other affordable housing are “reviewed very careful- have created a good envi- residents from the Canadian and maternity care. works as an obstetrical nurse communities in town. ly,” with action taken, as ronment at Parker Village. border at Pittsburg south to On Thursday, Sept. 5, at LRH. A debate about the com- appropriate. These events included a northern Grafton County Anthem decided to expand Neither Weeks nor UCVH plex’s future began late last The property receives bullying discussion for were startled to learn that its network of hospital offer birthing or associated year when attorney Brien weekly information from young residents, a commu- Anthem Blue Cross Blue providers to three by adding services. Ward said the selectmen the police department. nity car wash in May, and a Shield of New Hampshire two facilities: the Under the original plan, a should declare Parker Dinatale said three leases pizza party at the start of was only including one hos- Androscoggin Valley pregnant woman in Village a public nuisance. have been terminated due summer. That June event pital — Weeks Medical Hospital in Berlin and the Pittsburg would have had to The selectmen rejected that to the property’s review of attracted 50 people, Center in Lancaster — in its Littleton Regional drive (or be driven) over idea. incidents. She added that a Dinatale said. Pathway network of hospital Healthcare (LRH) in three hours to Dartmouth Town Manager Fred no trespass order against a Three younger residents providers for individual and Littleton, which both offer Medical Center in Lebanon Moody went over the sta- non-resident has also been have participated in a small business policies obstetrical-maternity servic- or Memorial Hospital in tistical information the implemented. Dinatale Parker Village mentoring under the Affordable Care es, reported Sen. Jeff Conway, Woodburn pointed selectmen received. “The noted that Parker Village is program, Dinatale said. Act’s exchange or market- Woodburn of Dalton. out. “This is not an issue of management of Parker “addressing any incident The students work at the place, set to go into effect on “This is a coup for the inconvenience, but rather Village has been working as it occurs.” property office after Jan. 1, 2014. Small businesses North Country, leaving us impossibility,” he said. diligently,” Moody report- As stated at previous school. will be able to buy insurance with better and more com- “While Colebrook’s Upper ed. meetings, Dinatale said “We are pleased with through the Small Business prehensive health care cover- Connecticut Valley Hospital The numbers show a background checks are a the decline in police activi- Health Options Program age than many (network (UCVH) is not included in general decline in calls for part of the resident appli- ty,” Dinatale concluded. (SHOP) exchange. dependent residents in the network, I will continue police service at Parker cation process. A number of leaders — other) areas of the state,” Village, starting in 2008. At Dinatale said Parker SELECTMEN, PAGE A11 hospital CEOs and legisla- Woodburn explained. “The ANTHEM, PAGE A11 Officials, residents discuss transportation planning By DARIN WIPPERMAN priority list, Doolan sug- from state coffers. gested that any new gas tax [email protected] gested that some communi- Thus, the problem. funds can be restricted to ties may get more trans- Schutt said that the section improving roads and LITTLETON — Four portation projects funded of Route 135 in question is bridges. members of the State House than others. “The squeaky slated for work later this Nancy Martland, known joined Executive Councilor wheel gets the grease,” he year. However, funding for her opposition to Ray Burton at the said. In response, William limitations may mean the Northern Pass, said that Community House on Watson of DOT said, “Not work does not get done. DOT could raise more rev- Monday afternoon. The all of the communities step “We’ll just continue to pave enue by renting state trans- hearing on the state DOT forward as proactively as until we run out of money,” portation rights of way for Ten-Year plan was the rea- others.” Schutt said. energy transmission proj- son for the meeting. Commenters at the meet- As he discussed in ects. Linda Massimilla, Ralph ing were most interested in Littleton earlier this sum- The Ten-Year plan covers Doolan, Sue Ford, and the condition of North mer, Schutt’s large district all transportation modes. A Country roads. Mitch only has enough money to part of the discussion Linda Lauer were the repre- DARIN WIPPERMAN/LITTLETON COURIER DARIN WIPPERMAN/LITTLETON COURIER sentatives in attendance. Ziemba, of Monroe, pointed pave 25 miles of road this included the state’s recre- Grafton-3 Representative Sue During Monday’s DOT hearing at Jeff Hayes and Mary Poesse out that Route 135 from the year. ational rail trail network. Ford, an Easton Democrat, spoke the Community House’s Heald of the North Country Monroe-Littleton line to I-93 Ford, a proponent of a Whitefield planning board in favor of a gas tax increase on Room, Grafton-1 Republican Council, as well as state was in dire need of help. gas tax increase, used the member Ed Betz suggested Monday in Littleton. Her com- Ralph Doolan wondered how DOT officials, were also at Ziemba described Route discussion to support her the complete trail would ments came during a DOT hear- project priorities are decided. the meeting. 135 as “a safety and liability view. “As a state,” she said, improve regional tourism. ing on the state’s ten-year trans- “The squeaky wheel gets the The NCC, along with issue.” He continued, “Our “we owe the Department of “We feel that this is really an portation plan. grease,” Doolan suggested. other state regional plan- cars are taking a beating. Transportation more important project,” he said. ning organizations, has It’s a terrible road.” money.” Betz suggested a tained to handle freight rail General Court then exam- received town input on District One DOT engi- Even with his concern Haverhill to Pittsburg trail is traffic, but the company’s ines what by then is a piece transportation needs. This neer Brian Schutt said that about Route 135, Ziemba the ideal, but added that lease on the tracks does not of legislation.

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