,El!
Number 29
residents
plan
Thetford
Commission is
questionnaire
to comment
residential and
growth, en-
matters, and to
and community
res are
with tax bills and
John Melquist
i that when
bills they'll
the time
will he used in
ew town plan
to be completed
1982 when the
Sally
resigned as a
and clerk of
School
recommended
as her
Stephen T.
y B.
as tern-
until
replacement is
the next board
S,
said she was
the board
her husband
enroll their
fire that
ng
July 14 is
caused
N. Haverhill,
Wood-
River
control in
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July 22, 1981
q r :*Bradford's new policeman quits
,dispute after one week on job
, BRADFORD--The village of "If you stop just a couple of the regular August 12 trustees pass did not involve firearms.
cars, you're talking about
Bradford's new policeman has
quit after just one week on the
job in a dispute that both sides
agree centered on mileage
payments.
"I told them no way could I
cover the village the way it
should he covered without a
car," Arthur Greer told the
Journal Opinion after
resigning and handing in his
uniform and badge to Village
Administrator Susan
Spaulding last week.
"I told him it seemed to be a
misunderstanding and to let
me call the trustees together
to settle it right there, but he
said no, he was going to
resign," Spaulding com-
mented.
"I don't want the job. I
wouldn't take it today," Greer
said in an interview.
FIRE VICTIM--Home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon George in Ely after fire gutted it.
Village officials said there
was no plan to try to settle the
disagreement and that a new
candidate for policeman
would be sought.
Greer, a former New
three or four miles. I go down
and check the golf course. To
leave the car parked at the
police station and walk down
to the laundromat to check the
doors is quite a way from the
car and there was no way to
communicate with anybody
when I was out on the street.
On the street was where they
wanted me," Greer said.
"Deputies have been beaten
up when there was more than
one of them and they expect
me to go out alone on the job
.by myself. If I wanted to
protect my person, I would
have to spend in the vicinity of
$1,800 for a radio to carry on
my person," he added.
Greer, who is recovering
from an arm injury, said "I
am not certified until I can use
a firearm. They (trustees)
were aware of this. The cast
comes off in two weeks. I took
the-FBI training course in
Gilford and the New Hamp-
shire Police Academy at
Concord and have attended
many seminars on drugs,
fires, arson, and took night
courses in college on criminal
psychology," he said.
Fire destroys Th6tford home Hampshire policeman, said
that in addition to the mileage
disagreement, he wanted
ELY--A fire that started with fixing breakfast when the the barn but all they could do He said he assumes his liability insurance paid for by
ashort circuit in a stove cord stove cord shorted out, wasgetout. He banged up one father will rebuilt the home. the village for use of his car as
destroyed the 150-year-old starting a flame," said knee and had a little hair Firefighters from Fairlee, a police vehicle, and wantedto
home of Gordon George on the Stewart George, a son from singed and my mother had Thetford and Lyme responded be officially sworn in to
Fairford Farm on Rte. 5 White River Jet. who came up some hair singed," Stewart to the alarm, protect himself and the village
Monday. to help out after the blaze. George told the Journal The home of another son, against any possibility of a
"My mother got up and was "My father came up from Opinion. Everett George, next door was lawsuit that might grow out of
not damaged, an arrest.
The matter came to a head
~
Campers help conservation
FAIRLEE--Boys and girls in and White River Junction.
Vermont's summer camps are The project helps the camps
becoming active con- to do their part in conserving
servationists through a unique natural resources and to
recycling project sponsored educate campers and coun-
by the Vermont Camping selors in conservation prac-
Association. tices, as well as the Vermont
Over 25 Vermont camps community as a whole.
representing several thousand Local camps participating
youngsters are participating in VCA Recycling Day in-
by collecting cans, bottles, cluded Camp Lanakila, Aloha
cardboard and newspapers. Camp, Aloha Hive, Camp
meeting. Consideration was
being given to having the
village policeman work fewer
hours than Martin, but to be on
call other times. Martin lived
across the river in Piermont,
while Greer lives in Bradford.
"We were working it out to
make a good police depart-
ment," Spaulding said.
She added that Greer had
not been sworn in because" He
didn't pass one of his courses"
at the police school in Pitt-
sford. "Everybody assumed
he would go back and pass it,"
she said, adding that Greer
had been accepted for a longer
additional police course. She
said the course Greer did not
"I asked if I was going to be
sworn in. I have never known
a police officer who wasn't
sworn in," Greet said. "I
wanted a list of standard
operating procedure to protect
all of us."
Greer said working without
a car or personal radio to call
for help was dangerous for a
lone policeman. The State
Police have only one man
covering Newbury to Thetford
and "You can wait an hour
and a half for a trooper;
sometimes you can wait until
the next day."
"We're back at square one,"
Spaulding said of the effort to
find a village policeman.
Lightning jolts two
S. Ryegate families
(Editors' note: Michelle asking what had happened.
Arnosky, a student at Blue
Mountain Union School who
intends to follow a career in
journalism, wrote the
"They proposed to pay me a following eye-witness ac-
lesser salary until I was count).
certified. In order to support by MICHELLE ARNOSKY
my family Have to make $300 S. RYEGATE--While a
aweek, but if so I would not do thunderstorm happened
things like hiring somebody outside on July 9th, Betty and
else ffor extra help) and Diane Chassey played double
billing the police depart- solitaire. Diane was about to
ment,"Greercontinued, put an ace of spades down
"I said, 'Do you prefer the when she was flung across the
salary, car expenses and room. Pictures and clocks fell
extras that you paid to the ex- off the wall. The kitchen table
department and have nothing moved. Boxes full of books
to the
how he should go about ap-
plying for reimbursement for
18 miles of driving at 25 cents
per mile for his first week on
the job. He said he was told his
mileage expenses had to come done, or pay $300 a week and and ornaments {eli
out of his $300 per week salary, have a man o te street d6mg ioor. The qbasse
HOSING IT DOWN--Firemen handles hose to help
douse house fire in Ely.
okayed the mileage payments,
However, Welch told the
Journal Opinion that the
matter of paying mileage
expenses had not yet been
formally approved by the
village trustees.
"He (Greer) came up to me
on the street and discussed
mileage and I told him
something had to be worked
out satisfactorily on the
mileage and that so far things
had worked out satisfactorily
and I assumed the mileage
would be too," Welch said.
But at the time Greer
presented his first mileage bill
to Spaulding, she had no
authority to authorize
payment, Welch added.
"I told him (Greer) that
anything that was ad-
ministered had to go through
the trustees and then it would
go through the administrator,
but that the trustees were
July 20 was designated as Farnsworth, Challenge
the first Annual VCA Wilderness Camp, Camp
Recycling Day when Lochearn Camp, Camp
truckloads of material were Farwell, Downer 4-H Camp,
delivered to three recycling Camp Norway.
centers in Burlington, Rutland
FIGHTING FIRE--Truck from Thetford, one of
several departments that answered call, sprouts hoses
in effort to contain Ely house fire.
year in minimum wage feet away at our house, we felt
salary, car expenses and the lightning bolt. My father
liability insurance to Brad- went around the house
ford's longtime village police checking for any damages
officer, the late Remem-
brance Martin who died June
26. Martin was paid a fiat $40
per week for mileage,
Spaulding said.
Martin's duties had been
reduced for some weeks
before his death and the
village hired Orange County
deputies for Friday night and
Saturday night duty at $42 per
night per deputy plus 25 cents
mileage expenses, Spaulding
said.
The village will continue to
utilize the deputies until a
replacement village
policeman is hired, she added.
"Basically, the trustees are
a little taken aback by the
whole thing," Spaulding said
of Greer's resignation.
She said village officials
while my mother, my sister,
and I sat in the middle room
getting over the jolt.
My father went to check on
the neighbors and when he
returned, Diane Chassey
came running down to our
house. She said they had been
hit. Will Chassey contacted
the electric company and the
fire station.
Soon firemen, electricians,
repairmen, and neighbors
crowded the Chassey
driveway. Everyone was
-The firemen concluded that
the lightning had struck a
dead pine tree in front of the
Chassey's cabin and traveled
up to the cabin.
On the way, it uprooted
some boulders and melted the
wheelbalancers on the
Chassey's car. The lightning
went into the cabin and blew
two electrical circuits,
wrecking everything on them.
The lightning had such force
that it shifted the cabin on its
foundation slightly and flew
two basement windows out.
My father checked ur
basement tn find a [ourby,
lout 4o. gr ake slab, ,nb,c s
.... the foundation,
came to our house to take
pictures of the damage done,
the excitement had died down
up at Chassey's. Everyone
was stopping at our house to
see the basement wall and the
telephone fuse box, which had
also been destroyed also.
After everyone left, Will and
Betty Chassey came down to
our house and we discussed
the mishap. Finally we were
all relaxed and the pressure
was gone. Will Chassey
brought something up that
was very interesting. Three
years ago on the very same
day, lightning had struck his
well.
N.H. legislator calls
for property tax cuts
running the police force,"
Welch added.
Welch said the trustees
essentially wanted the
presence of the village
policeman on the street.
were still in the process of
working out how Greer would BRETTON WOODS-- Michael
operate, including pending Hanson, chairman of the New
decisions on mileage and Hampshire House
insurance, and that a policy Appropriations Committee,
was to have been taken up at has called for a "revenue
reform package which is tied
to specific goals and also tied
to reducing local property
From this.., to this ... in less than an hour
less than an hour, the Chaloux
Knox Inn) in West Topaham
"1: Tri'ViUage Fire Depart-
exercise, was aided by the
Berlin Fire Department, Barre Town Fire Depart-
ment, Willlamstown Fire Department, Groton Fire
Department, East MoatpeUer Fire Department, and
Goddard College Fire Department, all members of the
taxes."
He spoke at the 8th annual
meeting of the North Country
Council July 8 at the Mt.
Washington Hotel in Bretton
Woods.
Hansen said there was need
for controlled revenue growth
and long range fiscal planning
at the state level, He men-
tioned the risk the state took in
, " the form of expensive legal-
court cases if conditions at
certain state institutions were
not improved.
In other business, Frederick
King of Colebrook was elected
the new council president,
Joan McGoldrick of Wood-
stock was elected ,ice
president, Mark Okrant of
Plymouth was elected
secretary and Dwight K
f Taylor of Franeonia,
treasurer.
()liver W. Nelson, retiring
president, received the
Distinguished Service Award
for his three years as the
council president and two as
secretary.
The Conway Planning
Board received the NCC
i " Award for Achievement in
Planning "for its very hard
and diligent work in the
Capital Fire Mutual Aid System. Fire Chief Wmlam region's fastest growing area
Caughey was in charge of the operation. Caughey said which has resulted in
1800 feet of 4 inch hose drew water from the Waits significant accomplishments
to institutionalize the planning
River with three pumpers on line. (See picture process in the town "
sequence of fire on page 5). The Carroll County
Independent received the
Council's Media Award. The
Council's Media Award was
"for excellent coverage of
municipal, regional, and
statewide activities in com-
munity planning, land use,
transportation, and economic
development during the past
several years."
It was also noted that other
news media in the Mr.
Washington Valley provide a
very good service in reporting
planning related activities.
Executive Director Gerald
Coogan reviewed NCC's ac-
complishments during the last
year and the need to redefine
priority issues in light of
declining resources, tie also
discussed ways to generate
additional revenue. The
council also adopted a
legislative policy.
Michael Donovan, Berlin
City Manager; Edward
Oleson, president of Berlin
Vocational Tech; Jim Jordan,
Forest Supervisor of White
Mountain National Forest:
Dick Marshall, advance
planning engineer, for the
State Department of Public
Works and Highways; and
John Cassidy, superintendent
of the Littleton Water and
Light Co., participated in a
panel discussion entitled
"'Future Development Per-
spectives in the North
Country."
The North Country Council
is the regional planning
commission and economic
development district serving
northern New Hampshire.
Approximately 90 persons
at tended the meeting.
,El!
Number 29
residents
plan
Thetford
Commission is
questionnaire
to comment
residential and
growth, en-
matters, and to
and community
res are
with tax bills and
John Melquist
i that when
bills they'll
the time
will he used in
ew town plan
to be completed
1982 when the
Sally
resigned as a
and clerk of
School
recommended
as her
Stephen T.
y B.
as tern-
until
replacement is
the next board
S,
said she was
the board
her husband
enroll their
fire that
ng
July 14 is
caused
N. Haverhill,
Wood-
River
control in
The blaze
t
eet se t
,, •
,rdrl
,5/!t thlJl Y-A bee
'ion office in
f 3tt nnversity of
ifle Ilm[ oigh illbe held at
Y0fWL
llq,. 'aJOsviile, who
! e,,. e business
)Ker p^_. ,.
trY;! " will
re
:1 0 o:ta on honey
,_r indicate
quW k_ a
, -as taken
torrid*- w ks, the
Serwng Over 48 Communities in Northern New Hampshire and Vermont
i
I 'KPS
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July 22, 1981
q r :*Bradford's new policeman quits
,dispute after one week on job
, BRADFORD--The village of "If you stop just a couple of the regular August 12 trustees pass did not involve firearms.
cars, you're talking about
Bradford's new policeman has
quit after just one week on the
job in a dispute that both sides
agree centered on mileage
payments.
"I told them no way could I
cover the village the way it
should he covered without a
car," Arthur Greer told the
Journal Opinion after
resigning and handing in his
uniform and badge to Village
Administrator Susan
Spaulding last week.
"I told him it seemed to be a
misunderstanding and to let
me call the trustees together
to settle it right there, but he
said no, he was going to
resign," Spaulding com-
mented.
"I don't want the job. I
wouldn't take it today," Greer
said in an interview.
FIRE VICTIM--Home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon George in Ely after fire gutted it.
Village officials said there
was no plan to try to settle the
disagreement and that a new
candidate for policeman
would be sought.
Greer, a former New
three or four miles. I go down
and check the golf course. To
leave the car parked at the
police station and walk down
to the laundromat to check the
doors is quite a way from the
car and there was no way to
communicate with anybody
when I was out on the street.
On the street was where they
wanted me," Greer said.
"Deputies have been beaten
up when there was more than
one of them and they expect
me to go out alone on the job
.by myself. If I wanted to
protect my person, I would
have to spend in the vicinity of
$1,800 for a radio to carry on
my person," he added.
Greer, who is recovering
from an arm injury, said "I
am not certified until I can use
a firearm. They (trustees)
were aware of this. The cast
comes off in two weeks. I took
the-FBI training course in
Gilford and the New Hamp-
shire Police Academy at
Concord and have attended
many seminars on drugs,
fires, arson, and took night
courses in college on criminal
psychology," he said.
Fire destroys Th6tford home Hampshire policeman, said
that in addition to the mileage
disagreement, he wanted
ELY--A fire that started with fixing breakfast when the the barn but all they could do He said he assumes his liability insurance paid for by
ashort circuit in a stove cord stove cord shorted out, wasgetout. He banged up one father will rebuilt the home. the village for use of his car as
destroyed the 150-year-old starting a flame," said knee and had a little hair Firefighters from Fairlee, a police vehicle, and wantedto
home of Gordon George on the Stewart George, a son from singed and my mother had Thetford and Lyme responded be officially sworn in to
Fairford Farm on Rte. 5 White River Jet. who came up some hair singed," Stewart to the alarm, protect himself and the village
Monday. to help out after the blaze. George told the Journal The home of another son, against any possibility of a
"My mother got up and was "My father came up from Opinion. Everett George, next door was lawsuit that might grow out of
not damaged, an arrest.
The matter came to a head
~
Campers help conservation
FAIRLEE--Boys and girls in and White River Junction.
Vermont's summer camps are The project helps the camps
becoming active con- to do their part in conserving
servationists through a unique natural resources and to
recycling project sponsored educate campers and coun-
by the Vermont Camping selors in conservation prac-
Association. tices, as well as the Vermont
Over 25 Vermont camps community as a whole.
representing several thousand Local camps participating
youngsters are participating in VCA Recycling Day in-
by collecting cans, bottles, cluded Camp Lanakila, Aloha
cardboard and newspapers. Camp, Aloha Hive, Camp
meeting. Consideration was
being given to having the
village policeman work fewer
hours than Martin, but to be on
call other times. Martin lived
across the river in Piermont,
while Greer lives in Bradford.
"We were working it out to
make a good police depart-
ment," Spaulding said.
She added that Greer had
not been sworn in because" He
didn't pass one of his courses"
at the police school in Pitt-
sford. "Everybody assumed
he would go back and pass it,"
she said, adding that Greer
had been accepted for a longer
additional police course. She
said the course Greer did not
"I asked if I was going to be
sworn in. I have never known
a police officer who wasn't
sworn in," Greet said. "I
wanted a list of standard
operating procedure to protect
all of us."
Greer said working without
a car or personal radio to call
for help was dangerous for a
lone policeman. The State
Police have only one man
covering Newbury to Thetford
and "You can wait an hour
and a half for a trooper;
sometimes you can wait until
the next day."
"We're back at square one,"
Spaulding said of the effort to
find a village policeman.
Lightning jolts two
S. Ryegate families
(Editors' note: Michelle asking what had happened.
Arnosky, a student at Blue
Mountain Union School who
intends to follow a career in
journalism, wrote the
"They proposed to pay me a following eye-witness ac-
lesser salary until I was count).
certified. In order to support by MICHELLE ARNOSKY
my family Have to make $300 S. RYEGATE--While a
aweek, but if so I would not do thunderstorm happened
things like hiring somebody outside on July 9th, Betty and
else ffor extra help) and Diane Chassey played double
billing the police depart- solitaire. Diane was about to
ment,"Greercontinued, put an ace of spades down
"I said, 'Do you prefer the when she was flung across the
salary, car expenses and room. Pictures and clocks fell
extras that you paid to the ex- off the wall. The kitchen table
department and have nothing moved. Boxes full of books
to the
how he should go about ap-
plying for reimbursement for
18 miles of driving at 25 cents
per mile for his first week on
the job. He said he was told his
mileage expenses had to come done, or pay $300 a week and and ornaments {eli
out of his $300 per week salary, have a man o te street d6mg ioor. The qbasse
HOSING IT DOWN--Firemen handles hose to help
douse house fire in Ely.
okayed the mileage payments,
However, Welch told the
Journal Opinion that the
matter of paying mileage
expenses had not yet been
formally approved by the
village trustees.
"He (Greer) came up to me
on the street and discussed
mileage and I told him
something had to be worked
out satisfactorily on the
mileage and that so far things
had worked out satisfactorily
and I assumed the mileage
would be too," Welch said.
But at the time Greer
presented his first mileage bill
to Spaulding, she had no
authority to authorize
payment, Welch added.
"I told him (Greer) that
anything that was ad-
ministered had to go through
the trustees and then it would
go through the administrator,
but that the trustees were
July 20 was designated as Farnsworth, Challenge
the first Annual VCA Wilderness Camp, Camp
Recycling Day when Lochearn Camp, Camp
truckloads of material were Farwell, Downer 4-H Camp,
delivered to three recycling Camp Norway.
centers in Burlington, Rutland
FIGHTING FIRE--Truck from Thetford, one of
several departments that answered call, sprouts hoses
in effort to contain Ely house fire.
year in minimum wage feet away at our house, we felt
salary, car expenses and the lightning bolt. My father
liability insurance to Brad- went around the house
ford's longtime village police checking for any damages
officer, the late Remem-
brance Martin who died June
26. Martin was paid a fiat $40
per week for mileage,
Spaulding said.
Martin's duties had been
reduced for some weeks
before his death and the
village hired Orange County
deputies for Friday night and
Saturday night duty at $42 per
night per deputy plus 25 cents
mileage expenses, Spaulding
said.
The village will continue to
utilize the deputies until a
replacement village
policeman is hired, she added.
"Basically, the trustees are
a little taken aback by the
whole thing," Spaulding said
of Greer's resignation.
She said village officials
while my mother, my sister,
and I sat in the middle room
getting over the jolt.
My father went to check on
the neighbors and when he
returned, Diane Chassey
came running down to our
house. She said they had been
hit. Will Chassey contacted
the electric company and the
fire station.
Soon firemen, electricians,
repairmen, and neighbors
crowded the Chassey
driveway. Everyone was
-The firemen concluded that
the lightning had struck a
dead pine tree in front of the
Chassey's cabin and traveled
up to the cabin.
On the way, it uprooted
some boulders and melted the
wheelbalancers on the
Chassey's car. The lightning
went into the cabin and blew
two electrical circuits,
wrecking everything on them.
The lightning had such force
that it shifted the cabin on its
foundation slightly and flew
two basement windows out.
My father checked ur
basement tn find a [ourby,
lout 4o. gr ake slab, ,nb,c s
.... the foundation,
came to our house to take
pictures of the damage done,
the excitement had died down
up at Chassey's. Everyone
was stopping at our house to
see the basement wall and the
telephone fuse box, which had
also been destroyed also.
After everyone left, Will and
Betty Chassey came down to
our house and we discussed
the mishap. Finally we were
all relaxed and the pressure
was gone. Will Chassey
brought something up that
was very interesting. Three
years ago on the very same
day, lightning had struck his
well.
N.H. legislator calls
for property tax cuts
running the police force,"
Welch added.
Welch said the trustees
essentially wanted the
presence of the village
policeman on the street.
were still in the process of
working out how Greer would BRETTON WOODS-- Michael
operate, including pending Hanson, chairman of the New
decisions on mileage and Hampshire House
insurance, and that a policy Appropriations Committee,
was to have been taken up at has called for a "revenue
reform package which is tied
to specific goals and also tied
to reducing local property
From this.., to this ... in less than an hour
less than an hour, the Chaloux
Knox Inn) in West Topaham
"1: Tri'ViUage Fire Depart-
exercise, was aided by the
Berlin Fire Department, Barre Town Fire Depart-
ment, Willlamstown Fire Department, Groton Fire
Department, East MoatpeUer Fire Department, and
Goddard College Fire Department, all members of the
taxes."
He spoke at the 8th annual
meeting of the North Country
Council July 8 at the Mt.
Washington Hotel in Bretton
Woods.
Hansen said there was need
for controlled revenue growth
and long range fiscal planning
at the state level, He men-
tioned the risk the state took in
, " the form of expensive legal-
court cases if conditions at
certain state institutions were
not improved.
In other business, Frederick
King of Colebrook was elected
the new council president,
Joan McGoldrick of Wood-
stock was elected ,ice
president, Mark Okrant of
Plymouth was elected
secretary and Dwight K
f Taylor of Franeonia,
treasurer.
()liver W. Nelson, retiring
president, received the
Distinguished Service Award
for his three years as the
council president and two as
secretary.
The Conway Planning
Board received the NCC
i " Award for Achievement in
Planning "for its very hard
and diligent work in the
Capital Fire Mutual Aid System. Fire Chief Wmlam region's fastest growing area
Caughey was in charge of the operation. Caughey said which has resulted in
1800 feet of 4 inch hose drew water from the Waits significant accomplishments
to institutionalize the planning
River with three pumpers on line. (See picture process in the town "
sequence of fire on page 5). The Carroll County
Independent received the
Council's Media Award. The
Council's Media Award was
"for excellent coverage of
municipal, regional, and
statewide activities in com-
munity planning, land use,
transportation, and economic
development during the past
several years."
It was also noted that other
news media in the Mr.
Washington Valley provide a
very good service in reporting
planning related activities.
Executive Director Gerald
Coogan reviewed NCC's ac-
complishments during the last
year and the need to redefine
priority issues in light of
declining resources, tie also
discussed ways to generate
additional revenue. The
council also adopted a
legislative policy.
Michael Donovan, Berlin
City Manager; Edward
Oleson, president of Berlin
Vocational Tech; Jim Jordan,
Forest Supervisor of White
Mountain National Forest:
Dick Marshall, advance
planning engineer, for the
State Department of Public
Works and Highways; and
John Cassidy, superintendent
of the Littleton Water and
Light Co., participated in a
panel discussion entitled
"'Future Development Per-
spectives in the North
Country."
The North Country Council
is the regional planning
commission and economic
development district serving
northern New Hampshire.
Approximately 90 persons
at tended the meeting.
