The Kennedy House
Gift Baskets and More
90 Shackford Corner Road
Center Barnstead, NH
Open House
Friday, November 25th thru Monday, November 28th
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Nancy Boyd Kennedy
269-3421
Monday Movie Matinee at the Library Barn will be on
Monday, November 28th at 1:30 pm.
The November Monday Movie Matinee at the Library
Barn is "Secondhand Lions." When a 14 year-old spends an eventful
summer with his great-uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on
their vast Texas farmland, he soon discovers they’ve lived lives
full of adventure, excitement, passion and mystery. Light
refreshments served. Please join in on this fun afternoon event.
New Hours At The Gilmanton Corner Library!
The Gilmanton Corner Library is proud to announce we
will be open one more day during the week! Our new hours will be
Mondays 3:00 - 5:00, Wednesdays 3:00-5:00, Saturdays 10:00-12:00.
The Corner library would like to invite you to use this extra day to
peruse our new collection of the latest best selling books over the
holidays:
Adult: The Christmas Cookie Club by Anne Pearlman,
Trading Christmas by Debbie Macomber, Killing the Blues by Robert
Parker, The Lady of the River by Phillippa Gregory, Zero Day by
David Baldacci, The Litigators by John Grisham, Shock Wave by John
Sanford, The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks, The Lost Hours by Karen
White, Jacqueline Kennedy: Book and CDs by Beschloss, The Brilliant
Disaster by Rasenberger, The Affair by Lee Child, Night Circus by
Morganstern.
Young Adult: Witch & Wizard: The Gift by James
Patterson, Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand.
Young Reader: Dogs in the Dead of Night, Moonlight
on the Magic Flute, Crazy Day With Cobras by Mary Pope Osborne,
Adventures of TinTin by Alex Irvine, Jane and the Dragon, Jane and
the Magician, Threes’s a Crowd by Martin Baynton.
DVDs: Toy Story 3, Cars, Caillou’s Holidays,
Caillou’s Winter Wonders, Caillou’s World of Wonder, Goosebumps: Go
Eat Worms.
CDs: Moscow Rules, Secret Servant by Daniel Silva,
Promise Me by Harlan Corben.
Computer Games: Harry Potter’s Sorcerer’s Stone,
Stellaluna.
Many Christmas books made popular by these authors:
Baldacci, Mary Higgins Clark and Debbie Macomber as well as
children’s holidays favorites and celebrations from around the world
will be on the library display table.
Look for our celebration of the "Berenstain Bears
50th Anniversary" with new books and DVDs in January!
Happy Holidays from the Gilmanton Corner Library
Staff of Volunteers and Trustees!
Letter
Conflict of interest? It may be a grey area of RSA
669, but what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong!
On November 14th I attended the Gilmanton
Selectmen’s meeting to raise a concern regarding conflict of
interest. In a 2002 article "Knowing the territory – A survey of
Municipal Law for NH Local Officials" it states the following:
B. Common Law Incompatibility. Two positions might
be incompatible even though they are not listed in RSA 669:7 or any
other statute. Whenever two positions bear a special relationship to
each other, one being subordinate to and interfering with the other,
with inconsistent "loyalties" or responsibilities, then the person
cannot legally hold both positions.
The concern is over a member of our Board of
Selectmen who is married to the Chairperson on the School Board,
works as the Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent, takes
minutes for the School Board and also the Budget Committee. Does
that raise a conflict in your mind?
Cindy L. Houghton
Gilmanton Iron Works
Letter
Follow-up to Gilmanton Town/School Issues:
In reading the meeting minutes of both the Gilmanton
Selectmen and the Gilmanton School Board, it is now clear that many
missteps were made in their recent conflict. At the time that the
School Administration was requesting funds, their own report showed
that their daily account balance averaged over $1 million and that
they earned $8900 in interest on money they were holding even though
they are not allowed to have a fund balance.
As of September 15, 2011, the School Administration
acknowledges that it will be returning $521,000 of our money. This
amount was determined by an audit. All this information is public
record. Any citizen can get copies of any public record by going to
the appropriate office with the form "Right to Know" Request
pursuant to RSA 91A.
Again, where are your elected School Board members
while the School Administration speaks for them?
Thank you,
Douglas Isleib
Gilmanton I.W.
Gilmanton Year-Round Library Announces New Library
Director
Elizabeth Ahearn, of Pittsfield, is welcomed as the
New Director of the Gilmanton Year-Round Library.
The Gilmanton Year-Round Library is pleased to
announce Elizabeth Ahearn as the new Library Director.
Elizabeth, a resident of Pittsfield, grew up in
Midcoast Maine and holds an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin
College, and a Masters in Library and Information Studies degree
from McGill University (Montreal, Canada.) She got her start in
libraries while a student at Bowdoin, and later worked in the
libraries of MIT, Harvard, and McGill, before moving to New
Hampshire four years ago and accepting a position as Collection
Development Librarian at Phillips Exeter Academy. After 14 years in
academia, she is very excited to switch gears and have a chance to
work with the general public.
Gilmanton residents have given Elizabeth a warm
welcome, and she feels honored to have the opportunity to be a part
of a young library built from the ground up by residents who
identified the need for year-round library services in their
community. She finds the enthusiasm of the patrons for their new
library to be contagious. Elizabeth has an avocational interest in
historic preservation, so she is also thrilled to be able to work in
such an artfully repurposed 18th century barn.
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