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“Our taxes don’t go to public schools, our money doesn’t pay for the roads here; we do not truly consider ourselves Grafton County-ites. When people ask where you go to school, you say Dartmouth. You never say you’re from Hanover, but some far-off place you call “home.” And by voting for one of our carpet-bagging compatriots, we’ve done Grafton a great disservice.” ~ Zachary Gottlieb, Dartmouth College Newspaper on the election of a non-resident to the office of Grafton County Treasurer
BOW Defeats GSFTC Warrant to Reject Pledge
For Immediate Release Bow Citizens Coalition www.bowcitizenscoalition.org May 28, 2008 BOW Defeats GSFTC Warrant to Reject Pledge At Bow’s Annual Town Meeting on May 28, Bow residents rejected Granite State Fair Tax Coalition’s non-binding petitioned warrant article...
Parents Vow to Sue Hillsboro-Deering if Son Kept in School
From the The Villager Disabled student, parents vie with H-D, Department of Education to keep him at Crotched Mountain by Michael Pon The Hillsboro-Deering school board voted three to two on Monday against ruling on the decision by Superintendent Dr. Baker and her...
Parents Question Hillsboro-Deering to Place Disabled Son In-District
From The Villager Cynthia and Joel Durham wonder why the Hillsboro-Deering (H-D) school district insists on keeping their son, Joel, 17, who is severely disabled, in the district, rather than supporting him out of district at the Crotched Mountain facility. The...
Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem
City Journal Barack Obama complains that he’s been unfairly attacked for a casual political and social relationship with his neighbor, former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Obama has a point. In the ultraliberal Hyde Park community where the presidential candidate first...
State Orders Audit of Windsor’s Town Books
WINDSOR – The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration has ordered the town of Windsor to hire an accountant to perform a full audit of the town's books. For the past year, members of the Windsor Coalition of Taxpayers has been pushing for a review of the...
Cold Math of Tax Leniency Chills a Tiny N.H. Town
Boston Globe WINDSOR, N.H. - This triangle-shaped town, wedged into the woods well west of Concord, has no store, no post office, no police force of its own. It counts 250 residents, but fewer live here year round. On the dead-end road that runs through the heart of...