Here are the minutes for Town committee meetings that took place in November 2012. Board of Selectmen: November 5 November 16 November 19 Planning Board: November 13 November 27 Zoning Board of Adjustment: November 20 Recreation Committee: November 13 Conservation Commission: November 14
Present: Selectmen Danforth, Mishcon, TA Marjorie Roy Road Agent’s Report-Jon Champagne Jon presented a quote from Dave Marceau and Sons for preparing and paving the apron at Route 4 and White Oak Road. The quote was $2,885. Selectman Mishcon will check to see if White Oak Road and Recyclable Drive need to be voted on […]
Present: Members Larry Chase, Tina Cotton, Sandra Graves, Jerry Hersey (chair), Nan Kaplan; guest Mario Ratzki, candidate for New Hampshire House of Representatives, District 1 Mr. Ratzki asked about Andover Conservation Commission (ACC) members’ concerns with regard to local conservation issues impacted by state government actions. Members discussed the Shoreland Water Quality Protection Act of […]
The job of the Trustees of Trust Funds is to maintain custody of the Town’s perpetual care funds, charitable trusts, private donations, and capital reserve/expendable trust funds. We facilitate the maintenance of these funds under the wishes of the donor or by law. Our first focus is to secure the funds from loss or theft; […]
After Andover’s successful first-ever Energy Awareness Day, hosted by the Andover Energy Group on November 3, some members of the Andover community participated in a Transition Training hosted by students from Colby-Sawyer College. These students are involved in a year-long project focused on the Transition Movement. This movement seeks to improve the well-being and resilience […]
Third-year students who are Environmental Science Studies majors at Colby-Sawyer College are hosting a talk by two college graduates, Mike Mooney and John Pelech, who are owners of Poly-Recovery. This talk will be about their work with the 100-Mile Model developed by Poly-Recovery for local recycling from waste pick up to new product manufacturing. The […]
The tax rates for Andover for 2012 have been finalized and the tax bills will be in our mailboxes shortly. These bills show a slight decrease over last year. The components of the tax rate are shown in the tables that accompany this article. The tax bill for a typical property assessed at $200,000 will […]
I want to take this opportunity to thank all the people who worked so hard at the election on November 6. It takes a lot of hands to make the process work smoothly. Our first shift of ballot clerks were Judy Perreault, Ellie George, Paul Currier, and Charles McCrave. In the second shift were Arch […]
This is the last article I will write as the East Andover Fire Chief. As of January 1, we will be one department in Andover, and my current position will retire. I must admit that after thirty years as chief in East Andover, I am a bit melancholy. Serving with the firemen for the people […]
This month was a busy month for the highway department. We made it through Hurricane Sandy with only minimal damage, thank God. However, the next week and a half we stayed busy with road work and cleaning ditches in preparation for winter. The rain washed a lot of leaves and debris into the catch basins […]