More regionalization talk in B’stead See Page A2 THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011 COVERING ALTON, BARNSTEAD, & NEW DURHAM - WWW.NEWHAMPSHIRELAKESANDMOUNTAINS.COM FREE Busy Monday night for selectmen in Alton BY TIM CROES Hammond family, and the 1870s. The barn needs a good and barns are monitored. barn without raising the The first case involved Staff Writer board granted a 10-year ease- amount of work done inside, The board added a require- base tax rate of the property. property owned by North- ALTON — The Alton ment for the maximum val- as many of the support ment to tour the barn annu- Chair David Hussey an- east Developers. The case in- Board of Selectmen met on ue of 75 percent, which in- beams are rotted through ally to the approval of the nounced that the town will volves a new house that is us- Monday, June 6, and they cluded 10 feet around the and part of the floor has col- easement. be holding fireworks on July ing the required innovative held a public hearing for a barn in every direction. lapsed. Member Peter Bolster 3 at 9:20 p.m. in Alton Bay to technology.It was found that discretionary preservation The barn is historic and Member Loring Carr pointed out that the point of celebrate 4th of July. the neighbors well was only easement for a barn. has been in possession of the brought up a concern re- the easement is to allow im- Steve Parker made a re- three feet away from the The barn is owned by the Hammond family since the garding how the easements provements to the historic quest that the town look into property. The plans were re- where the fireworks are done to move the septic tank launched. He claimed that 30 feet from the well and the raft launching the fire- move the leech field 50 feet works could be brought clos- from the well, and board ap- er to Alton Bay,and town ad- proved the waiver. ministrator Russ Bailey said The second waiver in- he would look into this. volved a property on Alton The selectmen convened Shores Road, where the sys- as the board of health to hear tem is in failure. The waiver three waiver requests pre- is only affecting the owner’s sented by building inspector well, the board approved the John Dever. SEE ALTON, PAGE A9 Meeting on ACS renovation is Wednesday ALTON — The Alton School Board and the Building and Grounds Committee would like to invite members of the Alton community to a public forum to discuss the conceptual designs for the restoration, rebuilding and renovations that will be proposed for Alton Central School. Please join in, as the community’s input and comments are welcome and desired. The meeting will take place on June 15 at 6 p.m. at the Alton Central School Music Room. Leaving Alton Central ‘incredibly difficult decision’ for Kuras BY TIM CROES Kuras made the decision JOSHUA SPAULDING Staff Writer to step down as principal at Through the fence ALTON — Alton Central Alton Central School and School Principal Bonnie will be taking a job as prin- Viewed through the slats on the fence, a couple of horses and a donkey enjoy a beautiful Monday afternoon in a yellow-coated field between Old Wolfeboro Road and Route 28 in Alton. Jean Kuras has been in her cipal in the Winnisquam Re- position for four years, and gional School District. the miles have added up. Kuras and her husband Kuras has been commut- plan on moving closer to Ply- ing 140 miles a day from her mouth in the future and tak- Board gets update on enrichment program home in the Peterborough ing the job at Winnisquam area. will make the move easier. BY TIM CROES ment, Phelps said that the would complete a total of 36 out the year and some of the With her husband work- Even with the long com- Staff Writer children work on real world projects. upcoming projects are very ing at Plymouth State Uni- mute, Kuras said the deci- BARNSTEAD — The problem solving, work at a Nelson said that favorite time consuming. She said versity also commuting 140 sion to leave ACS wasn’t Barnstead School Board met faster pace and work collabo- books tend to get passed one student is planning on miles a day and a teenager easy. on Tuesday, May 31, and a ratively and independently around throughout the stu- building a model of Troy and that has started to drive, “It was an incredibly dif- presentation on the math throughout the year. dents enrolled in the enrich- one is planning on building a Kuras wanted to be closer to ficult decision to make,” and reading enrichment pro- Children enrolled in the ment program and that stu- model of Hogwarts. home. Kuras said. grams was given. enrichment program com- dents start to write like their Principal Tim Rice talked “It was time to come a lit- She recalled walking into Judi Phelps, the math en- plete additional problems favorite authors. about a Literacy Night that tle big closer to home,” the building for her second richment teacher, and Linda and lesson work and com- Member Kathy Preston SEE BARNSTEAD, PAGE A16 Kuras said. SEE KURAS, PAGE A16 Nelson, the reading enrich- plete a project each trimester. asked if students in the en- ment teacher, gave a detailed Phelps is continuing to de- richment program share presentation of each pro- velop, revise and implement books with other students gram. new materials into the en- who aren’t enrolled in the Phelps said she has been richment program. program, and Nelson wasn’t impressed with the environ- Nelson broke down the sure if that occurs. ment in the district with the reading enrichment pro- Member Shawn White use of the every day math gram by each grade. asked what the ratio of fe- program. Through enrich- In fourth grade, students male to male students in each work with picture books and program and was told that created a final project in there are more females in INDEX which they practice speak- each grade in the reading ▼ ing to an audience. They program, but the numbers Volume 7 • Number 23 complete novel studies and are more even in math pro- create a project after each gram. Business......................A7, A11 book is completed, and they Students are invited into Churches.............................A8 begin to study to the ele- the enrichment programs af- Classifieds.....................B6–B9 ments of literacy. ter their test scores from the Editorial Page......................A4 In fifth grade, students NECAPs and the STAR test- continue to study the ele- ing are looked at and the John Harrigan ...................A12 ments of literacy and contin- teachers submit recommen- Letters ..........................A4–A5 ue novel studies. Students al- dations. Obituaries ...........................A8 so create a journal and work White asked about teach- Public Notices .....................B7 on “Best of the Bears” arti- ers recommending students cles for inclusion in this who don’t have the test Sports ...........................B1–B5 newspaper. scores, and Nelson said some RUTH ARSENAULT – COURTESY PHOTO 28 pages in 2 sections Nelson said that students of the students work out and On a clear day ©2011, Salmon Press, LLC. who are enrolled in the read- some do not. Call us at (603) 569-3126 ing enrichment program in Nelson said some students Reader Ruth Arsenault sent this photo, taken from the top of Pine Mountain after a hike with her fami- email: [email protected] grades fourth through sixth read larger books through- ly. The clear skies and beautiful weather made for a great view of Lake Winnipesaukee. www.salmonpress.com A2 THE BAYSIDER, THURSDAY, JUNE 9,2011 Biodiesel fuel business plans scrapped BY TIM CROES ment benefits the town in allow additional information the year. ing with the biodiesel fuel stead Town Hall. Staff Writer many ways. on a separate page, and the Murley asked Evans to production plan. BARNSTEAD — The Murley said that there are board approved the docu- look into the disposal of The Barnstead Planning Tim Croes can be reached Barnstead Planning Board many problems in town that ment. waste products into septic Board is scheduled to have a at [email protected] met on Thursday,June 2, and have been fixed with Murley talked about SB- systems, an issue that was work session on Thursday, or 569-3126 was scheduled to review site “bandaids” and that a bond 91, a bill that was passed that brought forward when deal- June 16, at 7 p.m. at the Barn- plans for biodiesel fuel pro- could established to fix the is- prevents towns from requir- duction on North Barnstead sues. ing the installation of sprin- Road. Member Kathy Preston is- klers. But Chairman David Mur- n’t sure if the town would ap- Murley is concerned with Selectmen get update on police ley said that Darlene Forshee prove a bond to fix the prob- the bill and how it will effect has withdrawn her applica- lems. agreements between tion to open up the business. The board reviewed a doc- builders and towns involving regionalization possibility Murley said that Forshee ument that will be used to col- sprinklers. Murley said that plans to open up a similar lect information on individu- the Local Government Cen- BY STUART RINSCHLER with a value of what we there are bigger issues that business in Grafton. als who are interested in join- ter should be able to give the Contributing Writer would be giving away,”Glass- need to be addressed.