SEE Notices Below!

• VOTING DAY – NEXT TUESDAY, March 9, 2010 11am-7pm
• Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s Office Closed on Voting Day 3/9/10.
• Town Reports available
• Political Signage – State Law
• Road Weight Limit Posting NOW IN AFFECT
• Central Street Bridge - Recent Vandalism
• New Hampton Historical Society Program 3/25 7pm

WELCOME TO THE “NEW HAMPTON CONNECTION”

E-mail notices will be sent from this office with dates, locations and times of Town Meetings, special meetings, special events, and other important town events or information. We hope you will find these notices helpful. These e-mails will not provide notice of regular scheduled meetings, deadlines, holiday hours, general information, etc. For such scheduled information, please check the town web site www.new-hampton.nh.us or call the Town Office at 744-3559. All public meeting notices are posted at the Town Office and Fire Station. All town newspaper notices are placed in the Laconia Citizen.

Please talk with other New Hampton residents who may not have been contacted to see if they are interested in receiving these e-mails. I also would encourage you to get the “word out” about important information to those who may not have e-mail.

If at some future time you change your e-mail address or you wish to be removed from the list please send an e-mail to blucas@new-hampton.nh.us.

BOARD OF SELECTMEN: Paul J. Tierney, Charles Bartley & Kenneth A. Mertz

Barbara A. Lucas
Town Administrator
Town of New Hampton
6 Pinnacle Hill Road
Tel. 744-3559
Fax 744-5106


March 5, 2010

VOTING DAY – TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH
The Second Session of the 2010 Town Meeting, to vote by official ballot on the election of town officers, zoning amendments, and the warrant articles as they may have been amended at the First Session, to be held at the Town House, Town House Road, New Hampton on Tuesday, the 9th day of March next. Polls for voting by official ballot at the Town House will open at 11:00 a.m. and will close at 7:00 p.m. unless the town votes to keep the polls open to a later hour.

Sample ballot can be found on website: www.new-hampton.nh.us .

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TOWN CLERK/TAX COLLECTOR’S OFFICE
Will be closed for Election Day, Tuesday, March 9th.

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TOWN REPORTS NOW AVAILABLE
The New Hampton Town Reports are available at the Town Office, Post Office, Transfer Station and the Gordon Nash Library.

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Placement and Removal of Political Signs
RSA 664:17 Placement and Removal of Political Advertising.
No political advertising shall be placed on or affixed to any public property including highway rights-of-way or private property without the owner’s consent. All political advertising shall be removed by the candidate no later than the second Friday following the election unless the election is a primary and the advertising concerns a candidate who is a winner in the primary. Signs shall not be placed on or affixed to utility poles or highway signs. Political advertising may be placed within state-owned rights-of-way as long as the advertising does not obstruct the safe flow of traffic and the advertising is placed with the consent of the owner of the land over which the right-of-way passes. No person shall remove, deface, or knowingly destroy any political advertising which is placed on or affixed to public property or any private property except the owner of the property, persons authorized by the owner of the property, or a law enforcement officer removing improper advertising. Political advertising placed on or affixed to any public property may be removed by state, city, or town maintenance or law enforcement personnel. Political advertising removed prior to election day by state, city, or town maintenance or law enforcement personnel shall be kept for one week at a place designated by the state, city, or town so that the candidate may retrieve the items.

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ROAD WEIGHT LIMITS
Posting of Town Roads
Please be advised that the town’s roads within the Town of New Hampton have been posted, effective immediately, for a weight limit of 10 tons. It may be possible for you to receive a special permit to operate over posted roads for a job or operation for specific dates and times based on weather and road conditions. These permits are available from the Public Works Director, Jim Boucher. Call 744-8025 or 744-3559(message).

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Central Street Bridge Vandalism
Unfortunately, gaffitti painted on the concrete abutments of the New Central Street Bridge was discovered by our Police Department the week of February 15-24th . Please call the Police Department if you have any information or if you see suspicious activity in the future. Thank you.

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New Hampton Historical Society
Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m.
Gordon-Nash Library, Main St.
New Hampton, NH
The New Hampton Historical Society with financial support from the New Hampshire Humanities Council will present the program:
The Great Sheep Boom
and its Enduring Legacy on the New Hampshire Landscape
In a brief 30-year period in the early 19th century the New Hampshire countryside became home to hundreds of thousands of sheep. Production of wool became a lucrative business, generating fortunes and providing the only era of true agricultural prosperity in the state’s history. It left behind a legacy of fine architecture and thousands of miles of rugged stonewalls. Farmers overcame enormous challenges to make sheep husbandry succeed, but forces from beyond New Hampshire were to doom the industry, with social consequences that would last a century. This program is sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and presented by Steve Taylor, independent scholar and former NH Commissioner of Agriculture. Contact: Gordon DuBois, 279-0379 or forestpd@metrocast.net for more information. This program is free and open to the public.