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Riverwalk moves closer to completionBERLIN — The long-awaited multi-use Riv-

erwalk project moved one step closer to fruition Tuesday night during the Berlin City Council work session, when Community Development Director

Pamela Lafl amme told council members that the city has received fi nal design approval from the N.H.

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Construction equipment is seen at Nansen Ski Jump July 1. Work got underway last month on reprofi ling the landing hill for the historic Nansen Ski Jump and is expected to continue for the next six weeks. Once work on the big landing hill is complete, the Friends of Big Nansen Ski Jump hope to work on two smaller hills on the site to allow the development of a youth jumping program. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)

MILAN — Work on reprofi ling the landing hill on the Big Nansen Ski Jump is underway. When that work is

fi nished, the Friends of the Big Nansen, a committee of the Nansen Ski Club, have plans to build one “high school” sized jumping hill and a smaller beginner hill on

Work ski jump hill taking offBY BARBARA TETREAULT

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Teenager leads police on chase in stolen truck

BY BARBARA TETREAULTTHE BERLIN SUN

BERLIN — A 17-year old girl led law enforcement on a wild chase into Maine after allegedly stealing a truck from the Big Apple Convenience Store lot Monday. The chase ended when Maine State Police forced the vehicle to stop. Along the way, the teen drove through a back yard, crashed a fence, struck two vehicles and managed to avoid three sets of spike mats.

Berlin Police Capt. Jeff Lemoine said police received a call at 4:39 p.m. on July 5 that a 2001 Chevrolet pickup truck, belonging to Steven Bolduc of Dummer, had been stolen from the convenience store lot at 120 East Mason St. The name of the suspect is being withheld because she is a minor.

According to a release from Maine State Police, the truck was spotted early Monday evening traveling east through a construc-tion zone on Route 2 in Bethel, Maine, where it struck a barrier and another vehicle.

The driver continued to Rumford, Maine, avoiding three sets of spike mats along the way. Once in Rumford, the driver turned onto a dead-end street and escaped author-ities by driving through a resident’s yard and crashing through a fence, striking a parked vehicle. Making it back onto Route 2, the driver headed west, back towards Bethel.

At the intersection of Route 2 and Whippoorwill Road, the truck ran over a set of spike mats put out by Maine State

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As foreign governments struggled to assess the situation, millions of Haitians anxiously huddled around radios and televisions, stay-ing off the streets as they tried to understand what the coming days might bring.

Moïse’s wife, Martine Moïse, was also shot in the attack, the interim prime min-ister, Claude Joseph, said in a statement. Her condition was not immediately clear.

“A group of unidentifi ed individuals, some of them speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus fatally wounded the

head of state,” the prime minister said, but there was little solid information about who might have carried out the assassination.

In an interview with The New York Times, Joseph said that he was the one running the country at the moment. Still, it was unclear how much control he had, or how long it might last. A new prime min-ister had been scheduled to replace Joseph this week, and the head of the nation’s highest court, who might also have helped establish order, died of COVID-19 in June.

Later Wednesday, in a televised broad-cast to the nation, Joseph presented himself as head of the government and announced that he and his fellow minis-ters had declared a “state of siege.”

Joseph called for calm. He also vowed that the commando unit that had carried out the assassination would be brought to justice.

The news of Moïse’s assassination rocked

the Caribbean nation 675 miles southeast of Miami. But it had already been in turmoil.

In recent months, protesters had taken to the streets to demand Moïse’s removal. He had clung to power, ruling by decree for more than a year, even as many — including constitutional scholars and legal experts — argued that his term had expired. Others, including the United States, backed his position that his term did not end until next year.

Armed gangs control many streets and have taken to kidnapping even schoolchil-dren and church pastors in the middle of their services. Poverty and hunger are on the rise, and the government has been accused of enriching itself while not pro-viding even the most basic services.

Now, the political vacuum left by Moïse’s killing could fuel a cycle of violence, experts warned.

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Williamson, 86, was rushed from a Florida jail to a hospital last July. Within two weeks, he had died of COVID-19.

Hours after Cameron Melius, 26, was released from a Virginia jail in October, he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died. The coronavirus, the authorities said, was a contributing factor.In New York City, Juan Cruz, 57, who fell ill with COVID-19 while in jail, was moved from a hospital’s jail ward into its reg-ular unit before dying.

None of these deaths has been included in offi cial COVID mortality tolls of the jails where the men had been detained. And these cases are not unique. The New York Times identifi ed dozens of people around the coun-try who died under similar circumstances but were not included in offi cial counts.

In some cases, in places, including Texas, Ohio and California, deaths were added to facilities’ virus tolls after The Times brought missing names to the atten-tion of offi cials. In other cases, people who were infected with the coronavi-rus while incarcerated — but granted legal releases because of the severity of their illnesses — were not included in the death tal-lies of the jails where they got sick. Still other inmates’ deaths were left off facilities’ virus tolls for reasons that are unexplained.

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385 vaccinated people contracted COVID in N.H. since February

CONCORD — There have been 385 people who contracted COVID-19 and seven who have died after being fully vaccinated in New Hampshire between Feb. 1 and July 1, accord-ing to Health and Human Services spokesman Laura Montenegro.

“While the vaccines are very safe and effective, breakthrough cases are to be expected, as no vaccine is 100 percent effective at preventing ill-ness,” Montenegro said in an email.

There have been a total of 33,882 cases of COVID-19 since Feb. 1 and 243 total deaths related to COVID-19 during that timeframe, she said.

New Hampshire is ranked seventh in the country for the percentage of the population that has been fully vaccinated at 56 percent by Becker’s Hospital Review. The Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention’s latest data said 55 percent of the state’s pop-ulation has been fully vaccinated.

The state Department of Health and Human Services dashboard also said as of July 1, 55 percent of the pop-ulation has been fully vaccinated.

All other New England states and Maryland had higher percentages of their populations fully vaccinated. Vermont ranked highest in the coun-try with 66 percent of its population fully vaccinated.

Because the data on breakthrough infections is minimal, the state would not provide town-level data to protect the privacy of the individuals, Mon-tenegro said. “Vaccine breakthrough infections have occurred in people of all ages 12 and up, across all parts of the state, and in vaccine recipients of all types of vaccines (e.g. Pfi zer, Mod-erna, and J&J),” Montenegro said.

Montenegro also said a hospitaliza-tions comparison is not possible as the

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This cat’s out of 4,000-footers to bagCONWAY — Floki the cat and her human, Melissa

Elam, recently succeeded in climbing all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot-plus mountains by summit-ing Mount Washington, a milestone that Elam of North Conway called “bittersweet.”

They will now be climbing smaller but still scenic mountains to raise funds for the Mt. Washington Observatory and Conway Area Humane Society.

Elam, 36, who is originally from Boston, came to the Mount Washington Valley in 2009, living fi rst in Tamworth before moving to North Conway.

Elam has four children: Vincent, 15, Elijah, 13, Shiloh, 9, and Maia, 5. She works as a surgical tech-nologist at Memorial Hospital.

After the passing of her original hiking partner, a chocolate Lab named Leia, and a senior male cat named Darth, Elam went to the Conway Area Humane Society last September to fi nd a companion for her other cat, Tula.

She was searching for a small black kitten, not a 10-month-old gray striped domestic shorthair. But it was a match. And since then, Elam and Floki have been climbing New Hampshire’s mountains. Floki either rides in Elam’s pack or take a stroll on a leash, and seems to enjoy every minute.

Elam named Floki after a character on the His-tory Channel show “Vikings” who she described as a mischievous boat builder. She thought she’d be get-

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Floki sits over a scenic view while on a hike of North and South Baldface with Mel Elam earlier this week. (MEL ELAM PHOTO)see FLOKI page 15

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“Vaccine breakthrough infections have occurred in people of all ages 12 and up, across all parts of the state, and in vaccine recipients of all types

of vaccines.” — Laura Montenegro, DHHS


Most people think of the Department of Employment Security as the place you go to either look for a job or to collect unemploy-ment when you do not have one.

The department also collects data and gener-ates statistics through its Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau that is a treasure chest of information for anyone patient enough to read through its reports mapping where the state’s economy has been and where it needs to go. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic the statistics and data helps to put a face on the rhetoric about the state’s economic recovery.

The public has constantly been told the state has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, when it has one of the lowest along with Vermont.

Vermont, like New Hampshire, had a quick recovery from the low points in the Spring of 2020 when New Hampshire’s unemploy-ment rate hit 16 percent and Vermont’s was nearly 15 percent, while Connecticut and Maine’s peaked at about 9 percent.

But only New Hampshire and Vermont’s unemployment rates have returned to near pre pandemic levels, while the other New England states have lagged somewhat behind with Connecticut’s rate improving only 1 percent since that time.

The pandemic job losses were some of the worst in decades for most states including New Hampshire which lost 16.9 percent of its jobs when 131,000 people lost their livelihoods.

“This job loss was larger than seen in any recession over the past 50 years,” according to the department’s “Reviving New Hampshire’s Workforce: 2021 Economic Analysis Report.”

One of the reasons Vermont and New Hampshire rebounded as quickly as they did, was a secondary effect from the virus spreading rapidly in the nearby urban areas of New York City and Boston.

The large number of second homes in the two states not only helps to lower the property taxes for full-time residents, they also provided a rural refuge for their urban owners and their families from the virus’s spread.

Coupled with remote working, and there was a mass exodus to small towns spurring local economic activity and swelling school enrollment in some districts.

“The increase in demand for services due to a population surge resulted in a rela-tively quick return to a pre-pandemic labor market,” according to the report.

But the rebound has been uneven and while the unemployment rate may be about the same as it was before the pandemic, the number of people in the workforce is not.

Many people have not returned to the workforce, some retired, others left to care

for children or other family members and others suffered burnout or want to avoid the risk of infection.

According to the report, the proportion of the population in the workforce now is lower than it was during the Great Recession.

The employment to population ratio offers insight into how much slack there is in the labor market, according to the report.

“In contrast to the relatively strong recov-ery the unemployment rate indicates, the employment to population ratio provides a broader perspective on the condition of the labor market,” the report notes.

Many of the reasons workers left the job market, like child care or helping children with remote learning or fear of infection, have been mitigated and the waiver of having to seek work to collect unemployment benefi ts has ended.

But the ratio has not returned to its pre-pandemic level.

The report notes at the height of the job loss, in April 2020, the ratio bottomed out at 54.7 percent, a low not seen since 1976.

While the ratio has rebounded since that time to about 67 percent it has not yet reached pre pandemic levels.

The report’s main author, economist Annette Nielsen, notes the same is true for the other New England states as well.

The job loss in New Hampshire in April 2020, showed an employed workforce of 617,340, down 2.5 percent from before the pandemic.

The state began adding jobs back but has not fully recovered all the lost jobs.

‘The current status of the labor market, approximately two percentage points below the pre-recession peak, is still below the trough of earlier recessions in New Hamp-shire, with the exception of recessions in 1990 and 2007-2009,” according to the report.

Using past recoveries as indication, fully replacing all the lost jobs will take some time. And some industries continue to struggle to return to prior levels and some are hampered by the diffi culty in fi nding workers.

New Hampshire has long had a problem retaining its young people, particularly those who are well educated.

The pandemic has been a learning expe-rience. It has taught us the need to upgrade broadband infrastructure, that telemedi-cine is the wave of the future and you can work remotely from anywhere.

Whether it teaches us we need to pay more attention to the workforce and how to retain the best and the brightest, remains an open question.

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FRANKLIN — The city of Franklin has been struggling to redefi ne itself since the last of the mills that drove the local economy closed a half-century ago. Twenty-fi ve years later, leaders were looking to the past as a way of revitalizing the city: Passenger rail and a renovated opera house were supposed to provide the catalyst for Franklin’s rebirth. Today, it is a vision of the future that fi nally promises to pull the Three Rivers City out of its doldrums.

A groundbreaking ceremony on July 12 will kick off the construction of a surf wave for kay-akers, part of an ambitious Mill City Park project that will make the Winnipesaukee River — the water body that fi rst attracted millers to the area — the focus of Franklin’s identity.

The project already is creating a splash. A June fundraiser known as Winni River Days attracted an estimated 2,000 people, includ-ing visitors from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and other New England states. The event featured three live bands, a beer garden featuring Kettlehead and Vulgar brewing companies, and some 40 vendors.

“It was interesting to see,” said Marty Parichand, the man who has led the effort to create Mill City Park. “You have kind of all the paddlers coming for the whitewater release, but then there’s so much to do for everybody else.”

That is exactly what Mill City Park is intended to do. In Parichand’s words, the whitewater park can be “the centerpiece of the largest adaptive reuse effort in Franklin’s history, turning the downtown into a vibrant micro-urban center-piece.” He is working with the city to refurbish the train trestle that spans the river, create a multi-use trail on the eastern side of the river as a complement to the existing Winnipesau-kee River Trail, build a park pavilion and public bathrooms, create additional off-street parking, picnic areas, and community gardens, and pro-vide other amenities to promote hiking, climbing, mountain biking, and camping.

Plans also call for improvements to the city’s unique sulphite bridge — known as the “upside-down bridge” — as part of an educational com-ponent of the park that explains the history of the mills that once used the river for power and whose remnants still exist.

The section of river between the Cross Mill bridge and Franklin’s railroad trestle has a steep descent averaging 77 feet per mile, which is what attracted the factories and, in recent years, has brought whitewater kayakers to the river. It is those Class IV rapids that attracted Parichand, owner of the Central Street business Outdoor New England.

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WASHINGTON — The Small Business Council of America presented its 38th annual Congressio-nal Awards.

The SBCA is a national non-partisan, non-profi t organization which has represented the interests of more than 100,000 privately-held and fami-ly-owned organizations on federal tax, employee benefi t and health-care issues for more than 40 years.

The Congressional Awards are presented on

a bipartisan basis to members of the Senate and House in recognition of their efforts in support of small business.

The presentation of the awards in Washington has long been the highlight of the SBCA’s annual calendar. This year, due to COVID-19, the SBCA presented the Congressional Awards in a virtual awards ceremony.

Small Business Council honors Hassan with Congressional Award

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Parichand looked to Salida, Colo-rado, for inspiration. Salida’s business district had developed around its rail-road depot at the side of the Arkansas River, but had been languishing since the trains stopped running in 1997. The community got together to create a whitewater park along 1,200 feet of the waterway in downtown Salida, leading to an economic renaissance as businesses grew up around the river-front activities.

City offi cials and the Franklin busi-ness community quickly embraced Parichand’s idea of creating the fi rst whitewater park in the Northeast on the Winnipesaukee River, and they hired Mike Harvey, the man who designed Salida’s attraction, to design the Franklin project. Peter Walker of VHB in Bedford assisted in project planning, which included reconfi gur-ing portions of the river to provide a better fl ow for recreational use and the designing of surf wave “features” in the riverbed.

Parichand explained that man-made features on the riverbed utilize river currents to provide stationary waves that allow a paddler or surfer to work out while remaining at one section of the river.

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services frowns upon the alteration of rivers, but it has sup-

ported Mill City Park’s plans to create the man-made features, in part because the project includes removing debris left over from the old mills. Parichand pointed out that, with remnants of the mills’ demolition or collapse strewn along the Winnipesaukee, “There’s nothing natural about that river.”Permaculture

Parichand’s proposal might not have been embraced as quickly without the groundwork laid by another Franklin visionary, Todd Workman. The founder of PermaCityLife, Workman had been purchasing downtown properties that had suffered from deferred mainte-nance — or no maintenance at all — with the aim of refurbishing them. His idea was to make Franklin a model city for permaculture — self-sustaining practices that focus on safe drinking water, renewable energy, and locally sourced foods.

As a nonprofi t entity, PermaCityLife’s premise was to create public-private partnerships that could lead to a down-town renaissance. Entities such as Franklin Savings Bank, the Franklin Business and Industrial Development Corporation, and Franklin Develop-ments kicked in money to support the ventures, leading to additional support from the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority. The Franklin City Council also was sup-portive of his efforts.

Seeing those buildings renovated

and new tenants become interested in establishing businesses in the city began to give Franklin a more positive image outside the city.

Among the new businesses was Out-door New England, and Parichand quickly established himself as another visionary with an eye toward the future, rather than the past. He admits that people in the Northeast still have trouble understanding what a whitewater park is — they envision a Whale’s Tale-type water park — but

the word is getting out.City Manager Judie Milner said

there has been an increased interest in residential property, as well as new housing projects. Workman’s renova-tion of the Odd Fellows building on Central Street into high-end condo-miniums is well underway, and Chin-burg Builders plans to convert the former J.P. Stevens Mill into 142 mar-ket-rate units — studios and one-bed-room apartments — beginning this fall.

MILL from page 6

Outdoor New England sells kayaks from its Central Street storefront in Franklin. Its owner, Marty Parichand, has spearheaded the Mill City Park project, part of a larger effort at revitalization of the city. (THOMAS CALDWELL PHOTO)


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U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) was pre-sented with the Congressional Award in rec-ognition of her bipartisan efforts to extend and expand the employee retention tax credit and to help relieve small businesses of the burdens imposed on them by the Supreme Court’s ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.

“Small businesses are the engines of our econ-omy, helping drive economic growth and create good-paying jobs,” said Hassan. “The past year was particularly tough on small businesses, but even in the face of unprecedented circum-stances, business owners did all that they could to stay afl oat, keep workers employed, and serve their customers.

“Small businesses across the country spoke out about what they needed during the pan-demic, and that feedback was immensely valuable as we worked on a bipartisan basis to support programs that have provided busi-nesses with relief. It is an honor to receive this award, and I look forward to continuing to work on policies to help our small businesses thrive.”

SBCA CEO and Vice President/Legislation Matthew F. Kadish, who presented the award, said: “The SBCA salutes Sen. Hassan’s efforts at bipartisanship, including as a key negotia-tor in the recently announced Bipartisan Infra-structure deal. She is able to see things from both sides of the aisle, and has a demonstrated commitment to small businesses and entrepre-neurship. In particular, with this award we rec-ognize the senator as a top leader and ally in providing small businesses the critical lifelines to help them survive in the pandemic economy.”

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DURHAM — New Hampshire PBS recently received a Boston/New England Emmy Award for its historical/cultural program, “Mt. Washington Auto Road, Road to the Sky.”

“New Hampshire PBS was honored to create this timeless production that highlights the story of this New England landmark,” said Peter Frid, president and CEO. “Storytelling is what we do and to capture an Emmy validates all of our hard work.”

The production team fi lmed the Auto Road during all four seasons and fi nished the fi nal edit at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program can be viewed online, anytime at nhpbs.org/autoroad.

The 44th annual New England Emmy Award cere-mony took place online on Saturday, June 26.

The Mt. Washington Auto Road program won for his-

torical/cultural-long form content: honored were Steve Giordani, producer/editor; Paul Lally, writer; Adam Goodine, videographer; Schuyler Scribner, graphics; Ben Sparling, managing producer; and Dawn DeAnge-lis, executive producer.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sci-ences is the premier and most recognized non-profi t organization dedicated to the advancement of excel-lence in television. The academy awards the Emmy, the most prestigious, peer-judged honor in television for outstanding creative achievement. The Boston/New England Chapter is dedicated to the advance-ment of the arts and sciences of television, the foster-ing of creative leadership in the television industry, and the encouragement of excellence in artistic, edu-cational, cultural and technical progress.

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BERLIN — Several properties contain-ing single family homes will be put out for bid following Tuesday night’s Berlin City Council meeting.

The council voted unanimously to approve submitting six properties for sale, with fi ve properties being sold as-is and a sixth being sold for the purpose of demoli-tion.

The property recommended for demoli-tion is located at 212 Glen Ave. The prop-erty had previously been put out to bid in 2020 in the amount of $1, but the city did not receive any bids.

Berlin Community Development Direc-tor Pamela Lafl amme said the Glen Avenue property is in very poor condition, which was why the city was recommend-ing demolition. The minimum bid price for the property was again set at $1.

The other properties listed for bid are 153 Church St., 827 and 851 Western Ave., 399 Champlain St. and 293 Burgess St.

Lafl amme suggested to the council that 293 Burgess St. could be put out for bid with the adjacent property, 291 Burgess St., which is also owned by the city, as the second lot would give a new owner land to use for parking and other accessory uses.

She noted that the current confi guration of the lot at 291 Burgess consists of a house built on the back edge of the right of way and the property has a steep drop off in the rear of the parcel.

During dis-cussions on what to set for the minimum bids for the parcels, Mayor Paul Grenier suggested that the council set the minimum at 75 percent of the current amount owed to the city in back taxes on the various

parcels.Council members also said that bidders

would have to make their own arrange-ments to pay any amounts owed to Berlin Water Works.

The council voted unanimously to put the properties out for bid with 75 percent of the amount owed as the minimum bid.Problem with debris on sidewalks

During the council’s meeting Tuesday, Grenier said that he had recently taken a drive around Berlin and he noticed a major problem throughout the city, namely that residents were putting a variety of refuse items on the sidewalks that were creating a public nuisance.

Grenier said he saw furniture, tires, appliances and other similar items being placed on sidewalks and he wanted the public to be aware that the city does not

pick up furniture and appliances.“I’d like to have it dealt with,” Grenier

said of the items. “We need to get these things off the public right-of-way.”

Grenier noted that the accumulation of such items creates an eyesore for the com-munity that hurts the overall appearance of the community and the ability of the community to attract investors.

Grenier suggested taking a more aggres-sive enforcement approach to such debris being placed on city sidewalks up to and including possible police action.

City Manager James Wheeler said that the city’s public works department could generate a list of such properties for enforcement action.

Council Member Lucie Remillard also wanted to make sure that residents are placing their trash out the morning of pick up, not the night before.

Council Member Michael Rozek said that residents should not be placing their trash out the night before pick up as bears are attracted to trash that is left out for a long period of time.Resident addresses roads

During the public comment portion of Tuesday night’s council meeting, Berlin resident Leonard Gallagher said he was aware the city recently passed its budget, but he wanted to know what was being done about the condition of the streets. Gallagher said the streets in Berlin are in really bad condition and that they have been neglected for quite a few years.

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THE BERLIN SUN

Police, which was assisting the Oxford County Sheriff ’s Department in the pursuit.

A short distance later, a state police trooper forced the vehicle to stop.

The driver was uninjured and was transported to the state line where she

was taken into custody by Berlin police.Lemoine said Berlin police are con-

sidering charges of theft of a motor vehicle and/or unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He said the investiga-tion is continuing and anyone with information is asked to contact Berlin Police Detective Eric Benjamin at (603) 752-3131.

CHASE from page one

Maine State Police check a truck that was stolen in Berlin, allegedly by a 17-year old girl, and taken on a wild chase on Route 2 into Maine. (MAINE STATE POLICE)

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Department of Transportation for the project.Lafl amme said in reviewing the approval paper-

work, city offi cials noted the budget appeared to be higher than earlier projections.

They went back to the Department of Transpor-tation and discovered that DOT actually had more money available for the project than the city had been told.

Lafl amme said the DOT was willing to put more money into the project if the city would fund another $27,300 as part of its 20 percent contribution. She said the additional funds would allow the city to complete all of the alternate items on the project that had been removed due to costs.

Those items included pathway and security light-ing, as well as a few other smaller items.

Following the meeting, Lafl amme said that the total participating cost for the project is now $1,089,712, with DOT covering $871,770 and the city paying $217,943.

She said the city will be able to receive full fund-ing for the DOT portion of the project.

Two funding entities are involved in the project, DOT and the Northern Borders Regional Commission.

The project extends north from the Service Credit Union Heritage Park to the Twelfth Street Bridge. DOT is funding the northern part of the project, while Northern Borders is funding the southern portion.

The two parts are separated by a pedestrian bridge over the Androscoggin River just north of the Heritage Park.

Lafl amme said the entire project cost is about $1.4 million. During the meeting, Council Member Lucie Remillard said the proposal sounded like a good idea to allow the city to complete the Riverwalk the way it wanted to. She made a motion to approve the additional expenditure of $27,300, which was unan-imously approved.

Lafl amme said it made the most sense to put the project out for bid around the holidays with the bulk of the work to be done in 2022 instead of trying to bid it out in August or September.

If they put the project out for bids in August or September, Lafl amme said it might just get started

The park area by the Androscoggin River in Berlin that is planned to be part of a Riverwalk trail is seen Tuesday. (WILLIAM CARROLL PHOTO)

RIVERLAND from page one

before it had to shut down for the winter months, making a later bid period a better choice for com-pleting of the whole project at once.

The city has previously hired HEB Engineers and landscape architect Jeff Hyland of Ironwood Design Group to do the design work on the approximately 4,000-foot trail. Several public meetings and an online survey were held to gather public comments.

The design recognizes the river’s importance to Berlin’s industrial growth while providing a focal point for seasonal activities and festivals.

Fishing, kayaking and jogging are some of the activ-ities that will be encouraged along the Riverwalk and there will be places to sit and picnic as well.

A majority of the cost of the project is covered by grants from the DOT’s Transportation Alternatives Program and the Northern Border Regional Com-mission.

The city fi rst proposed a river walk in 2003, work-ing with the Northern Forest Heritage Park which owned the land then.

The initial application for federal funding was not successful and the project languished until six years ago when the city revisited the idea. By that time, Berlin had acquired the park and was in the process of reconstructing that section of Route 16. The city had hoped to go out to bid in 2020 but the project got pushed back.

the same site before the end of summer.Contractor Lee T. Corrigan of Gorham began work at

the end of June clearing the big hill and over the next six weeks will reprofi le the hill based on a design pre-pared by the country’s pre-eminent ski jump designer, Matt Gundry of CBS Squared Inc.

At last week’s Friends meeting, member Jay Poulin said the new landing hill will closely match the exist-ing slope but will be smoother providing a softer land-ing. Part of the work includes a concrete retaining wall, right below the jump take-off, to accommodate a false knoll to be built later.

While the work on the big hill is underway, the Friends will seek for bids to restore an abandoned 40-meter hill and build a new 20-meter hill on the same site. The Friends hope to get the small hills done this summer right after the work on the big hill so they will be ready to use next year.

Recognizing that renovating the historic 80-meter jump will be a longer and more expensive project than originally thought, the Friends have shifted their pri-mary focus to these small hills.

Getting the smaller jumps built this year will allow a high school-age jumping competition to take place there next year. The goal is to attract young jumpers to re-establish the sport on the site and to start a youth

jumping program.“Ski jumping is a strong part of the club’s legacy and

creating our new ‘small’ hills will attract youth and par-ents — locally and statewide — to experience this unique and wholesome activity. As these hills sit in the shadow of the Big Nansen ski jump, they will complement and pro-vide a boost to the area economically as well as infusing signifi cant community pride,” said Halvorson.

The committee successfully applied for a $40,000 Northern Forest Outdoor Recreation grant to do the small hill work. The grant requires a 20 percent match, which Treasurer Scott Halvorson said the Friends have in donations and in-kind contributions.

Poulin said Matt Gundry of CBS Squared was hired to do the design for the small hills and those drawings are done.

“We’ve got a good set of drawings done by a profes-sional,” he said.

Joining the meeting by Zoom was Kennett High Ski Jumping Coach Chip Henry. Henry reviewed the plans for the small hills and is working with the group on a high school jumping event there next year.

The Friends continue to seek funding for the big jump. The cost of the work of the landing hill work, including engineering, comes to over $300,000. The bulk of the funding comes from a $250,000 Northern Border Regional Commission grant plus a match by the Friends and $35,000 appropriation by the state.

But the money was not enough to cover all the work originally outlined and so the defl ection system work was removed from the scope to be done at a later date.

The combination of required design features for safety and the spike in building materials because of COVID-19 has pushed up the cost of reinforcing the steel jump tower structure to accommodate the pro-posed renovations to over $500,000.

Halvorson said a $1 million grant proposal through U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s offi ce turned out to require a one-on-one match, meaning the group would have to raise $500,000. He has also applied for a $20,000 Bank of America grant for the small hills, as the total cost will not be known until the bids are opened, and it is expected there will be unknown costs as well.

Poulin said he has had contact with a Canadian company possibly interested in the steel work on the jump at a competitive price.

Friends President Shawn Costello said a small group of the committee met last month with the Milan Community Forest Committee and received permis-sion to use the access road to the ski jump. The access road is now part of the Milan Community Forest as is the land outside the state-owned ski jump property. Costello said the two groups discussed in the future linking the site to the Nansen Ski Club’s Nordic ski trail system at Milan Hill State Park.

NANSEN from page one


BERLIN — In a brief Berlin City Council meet-ing June 28, the council voted to approve a bid of $13,828 from Corrosion Products & Equipment Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., to rebuild Watson Street Pump Station Pump No. 1.

Berlin Wastewater Department Superintendent Jon Goodreau said CPE's bid was the lowest and contained the most detailed specifi cations of three bids submitted for the project.

Goodreau said companies generally don’t like to give quotes for parts, preferring to take pumps and disman-tle them to determine what is wrong with the pump before giving a defi nitive quote.

He said the other bids, one for $13,950 from Atlantic Pump and Engineering Inc. in Maine and another for about $16,000 from an undisclosed bidder, were simply to examine the pump and determine what needed to be done.

The quote from CPE included specifi cations for the replacement of bearings and seals and installa-tion of the pump, Goodreau said.

He added that CPE anticipated that the project will take about three weeks, which was why he wanted to bring the bid before the council during the summer. He said July and August are low-fl ow months during which the system could sustain the pump being offl ine for a month.

The council voted unanimously to approve the CPE bid.

The council also voted unanimously to approve a $5,000 contract with Wright-Pierce engineering fi rm for the scope of work required for the replace-ment of the Berlin Pollution Control facility’s boiler.

Goodreau said due to the complexity of the cur-rent boiler system, the vendors he contacted didn’t want to proceed without engineered specifi cations for the project.

He said that the estimated project cost to replace the boiler is $90,000, although he said he believes the project can be completed for much less.

The current boiler is 21-22 years old, with a life expectancy of 20 years.

Goodreau said the boiler is still in good shape, but that if it were to be replaced, the summer would be the best time to do so.

Council approves bid to fix Watson Street pump No. 1

The Berlin City Council approved a $13,828 from Corrosion Products & Equipment Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., to rebuild Pump No. 1 at the Watson Street Pump Station (above). (WILLIAM CARROLL PHOTO)

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NHDOT inspector Roger Caron of Shelburne kept an eye on night-time paving operations June 24, while a tri-axle dump truck (left) dumps its load of 3/8-inch high-strength-asphalt into one of Pike Industry’s material transfer vehicles for transfer to the Caterpillar AP1055D Paver (right), which is laying down 1.25- inch compacted asphalt. (EDITH TUCKER PHOTO)

Gorham paving project nearly completeGORHAM — Pike Industries has almost com-

pleted a 2-mile paving project from the intersection of Routes 2 and 16 at the north end of town, past the comparable intersection at the other end of town, to end near the Shelburne town line.

In the world of highways and transportation, that’s known as 4 lane-miles, based on the number of lanes multiplied by the number of miles.

Pike was the successful bidder for the three-sec-tion state resurfacing project No. 42778 that went before Gov. Chris Sununu and the Executive Coun-cil for approval. It totaled over $1 million — of $1,068,630.85 — with the bulk of the work done in Gorham and another 1.6 miles of paving in Cam-bridge and Errol with far fewer extra amenities.

“The Gorham section accounted for some $800,000 of the total contract,” Pike project manager Jody Pel-letier estimated.

Pike removed 4,491 square yards of millings from cold planing and installed 3,700 tons of hot-mix asphalt pavement.

Pike used a tri-axle dump truck and material transfer vehicle to move asphalt into its Caterpil-lar paving vehicle, providing continuous paving as it lays down the asphalt. With this system, the paver doesn’t have to stop every time a dump truck drops in hot asphalt.

The material transfer vehicle is the only piece of equipment with which the dump truck comes in con-tact, helping to make sure that the pavement will have a very good overall riding quality, according to Pike Industries offi cials.

Throughout the three-section project, Larry Major, Pike’s government relations manager, said “We adjusted 83 catch basins, 33 manholes, and 48

water shut-offs in the Gorham section.“We also installed 55 Americans with Disabilities

Act-compliant concrete sidewalk tip downs to aid those with vision diffi culties, wheelchairs and other mobility devices.”

Pelletier said, “Roadwork began in the third week

of May when the tip downs started to be installed, and, if the weather cooperates, we could fi nish the line striping and thermoplastic markings, including crosswalks, within the next week.”

“That would be 63 days, equating to 45 work days,” he said.

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“Since then, we’ve known if someone was hospitalized at the time the case was reported to us, but we aren’t able to determine if they required hospital-ization after the initial case investiga-tion was completed. As a result, DHHS is not able to provide the number of non-vaccinated individuals requiring hospitalizations. However, hospitals report all breakthrough hospitaliza-tions and to date, there have been 20 hospitalizations involving fully vacci-nated individuals,” Montenegro said.

The timeframe for breakthrough cases — meaning individuals who got COVID after being fully vaccinated — would approximately be the begin-ning of February, which is when the fi rst residents were fully vaccinated, she said.

“Our online dashboard provides the most up-to-date data on those who have had at least one dose and those fully vaccinated,” she said.

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CONCORD — Good-government groups in New Hampshire are keeping an eye on several bills expected to come back next legislative session, arguing the bills would restrict voting rights, from requiring voter ID to expanding voter roll purges.

Last week, the state Supreme Court struck down a Republican-backed 2017 voter registration law, which would have created new forms voters would have to fi ll

out to prove residency if they register within 30 days of an election.

Liz Tentarelli, president of the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, said the requirements would be burdensome to many voters.

“This was a bill that through its complexity alone would discourage voting,” Tentarelli asserted. “This ruling fi nally said that the state needs to make its

CASA offers training program for volunteer child advocates

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Groups work to maintain voting access after N.H. court rejects restrictive law

MANCHESTER — Throughout the summer, CASA of New Hampshire will offer learning and training opportunities to those interested in becom-ing volunteer advocates.

These information sessions and trainings will pre-pare new volunteers to begin providing support this fall, when the rate of reported abused and neglected children could increase substantially as students return to school.

“Over the past 16 months, CASA staff has been concerned about the impact the pandemic has had on children who’ve experienced abuse and neglect, shielded from the watchful eyes of teachers and other caregivers,” said Carolyn Cote, CASA’s com-munications director. “We’ve seen many instances where the stressors that challenge families, includ-ing substance misuse, mental health and domes-tic violence, have been amplifi ed during the past year. We frequently see an infl ux of cases after the summer break, but we are bracing for the possibility of a surge in cases, as students who’ve been out of the classroom full-time for so many months return

for the school year.”Virtual information sessions are being held twice

a month over the summer on Wednesdays, July 14 and 21, and Aug. 11 at 5:30 p.m. and on Aug. 25 at 12:30 p.m.

New volunteer training sessions are still being held virtually. The summer training session is a combination of daytime and evening hours, and it runs for six weeks beginning July 14. The fi rst fall training session is daytime hours only, and it runs twice a week for fi ve weeks beginning Sept. 13. Applications should be submitted two weeks before the fi rst day of training to allow adequate time for the interview and acceptance process.

Those interested in learning more or becoming a volunteer can go to the volunteer menu on the CASA of New Hampshire website at casanh.org.

For 32 years, CASA of New Hampshire has provided a voice for children in New Hampshire who’ve expe-rienced abuse or neglect by empowering a statewide network of trained volunteers to advocate on their behalf so they can thrive in safe, permanent homes.

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ting a male kitten but said she kept the name “even though she’s female.”

According to Conway Area Humane Society Executive Director Tim West-wig, the cat was a stray who was brought into a Fort Lauderdale shelter with a sibling who was ill and didn’t survive. She was brought to Conway from Florida along with 20 other cats.

Word started getting out about Floki after their fi rst 4,000-foot moun-tain climb on Mount Moosilauke last September. A woman shot a candid photo of Elam cuddling Floki and posted the photo on Facebook, and a star was born.

When the Sun last checked in on the duo in February, they had hiked 26 of the 48.

Floki and Elam wrapped up their 4,000-footers quest late last month, bagging three peaks in one day.

On June 26, starting at 7:30 a.m., they reached the summit of Mount Washington — at 6,288 feet, New England’s tallest peak — at about 4:45 p.m.

Joining them was a group of six friends — Anthony Forshay, Mark Burke, Ashley Cyr, Mark Vojtko, Michaela Marshall and Eric Sweet — and a dog named Finris. They rode the Mount Washington Cog Railway back down.

“We did a modifi ed Northern Presi-dential traverse,” Elam explained. “So we started off of Route 2, and we sum-mited Mount Madison fi rst, because (Floki) needed Madison, Jefferson and Washington.”

Floki and Elam could skip Mount Adams because they had already climbed it.

“It was a very bittersweet day,” said Elam, who said wrapping up the 48 made her think “of all the experiences that got me to where I was that day.”

Floki’s climbing all 48 4,000-foot-ers has turned her into a world-class

celebrity. Stories about her and Elam have appeared in USA Today. Elam said that news outlets in Mexico and Austria have also reached out to her.

During the last climb, safety was a concern, and they prepared for rain and wind, as Mount Washington is famously “home to the world’s worst weather.”

“Just after Jefferson is when the winds started really picking up,” said Elam. “They were probably 60 miles an hour with gusts up to 70. I think there was one record around the time that we summited.”

Because of the nasty weather, Floki didn’t get out of the pack at the summit, but she did some of the jour-ney on the way to Mount Washington under her own power.

“She did keep trying to peek her head out to experience the weather, but we were really careful about making sure that she wasn’t exposed,” said Elam, who added they went inside the Observatory and were rec-ognized by the staff members there.

Floki will have another crack at Mount Washington soon as she and Elam plan to participate in “Seek the Peak,” a major fundraiser for the Obs on July 16-17 in which participants need to raise at least $200.

Elam says she and Floki also want to help the Conway Area Humane Society with its Trails and Tails event in September, though “nothing is etched in stone yet,” said Elam.

Floki and Elam are also working on the list of the “52 with a view” — a group of scenic mountains. She and Floki climbed the Baldfaces in Cha-tham on Tuesday.

“There were a handful of people out there that did recognize her,” said Elam of her feline celebrity companion.

To see photos and videos of Floki tackling the 4,000-footers, fi nd “Adventures with Floki” on Facebook or go to Instagram, where the profi le tag is adventureswithfl okicat.

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Mel Elam and her cat Floki stand in the Elam’s home in North Conway. Together they have now climbed New Hampshire’s 48 tallest mountains. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)


Gorham Public Library’s Artist of the Month, Robin Ross, will have her paintings on display for the month of July. (COURTESY PHOTO)

New art gallery opens in Gorham

Ross’ artwork on display in Gorham

GORHAM — Working artist Deidre Blair has opened The Three Sisters Art Gallery & Studio in the White Mountains. The gal-lery will highlight local artists, have gal-lery openings every other month, and offer classes and events. The grand opening is Friday, July 9, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

The 3 Sisters Gallery is nestled on Exchange Street in Gorham between the Medallion Opera House and around the corner from Dermody Road Coffeehouse and Gallery and Libby’s Bistro on Main Street. Blair is incredibly excited to share storefront with deSigns and Framing, a new sign and frame shop owned by Dee Handy,

Deidre Blair moved to Northern New Hampshire seven years ago, from Port-land Oregon. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Her work is primarily in oils, and her shortlist of infl uences includes the nat-ural world, folk art, iconography, and many other working artists. Blair has set up her studio in the back of the Gallery, creating a working artist’s space that allows visitors to see her process and have an insider’s view of one artist’s life.

The Three Sisters Gallery pays homage to the welcoming and supportive commu-nity Blair has found in New Hampshire’s North Country. She named the Gallery in a nod to Three Sisters Garden, a garden-ing practice of planting three sister crops (corn, beans, and squash) side by side. Sown together, these crops provide support, nutri-ents, and a perfect environment for growth. As each of these crops sustains the other; the arts, the artist, and the community are Three Sisters as well, each contributing to and nourishing the other.

As in any working artist studio gallery, the real magic is not about the space but the people, the stories, and the art it con-tains. Community art spaces celebrate the voice of a place and the hard work and creative diligence that each artist gives to their practice.

“I feel incredibly fortunate to not only have a place to create and share my work but to share the work of artists whose work I admire and who I count as friends is truly a dream come true,” said Blair.

For information, connect online at the-3sistersgallery.com or on social media.

Weeks Park to start summer programs LANCASTER — Weeks State Park plans to hold most

of its seasonal programs on-site at the park this year.The exceptions are for fi eld trips and for the “Owls

of New Hampshire” presentation, which will be done over the internet (Zoom), all other evening programs will be held in the great room at the summit lodge at 7 p.m.

Wearing a mask, both indoors and outdoors, is optional.

Under the COVID-19 guidelines, collection of infor-mation is required for possible contact tracing.

Therefore, those attending must arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the evening presen-tation so this information can be obtained.

The program kicks off July 22, at 7 p.m., with “Cruis-ing New Hampshire History,” presented by author Mike Bruno.

On his website, cruisingnewhampshirehistory.com, Bruno said the idea of “Cruising New Hampshire His-tory: A Guide to New Hampshire’s Roadside Histori-cal Markers,” began in the fall of 2015 while he was discussing the lack of a user-friendly, interactive state website, or a previously published book on the state’s historical markers.

“For nearly three years, I had devoted my efforts to not only visit, photograph, collect GPS coordinates,

and research each of the 255 markers installed; but to include the back story and detail other points of interest in the Granite State,” he said. “Cruising New Hampshire History was published in 2018.

This year’s program schedule also includes:• July 29, 7 p.m., “White Mountains Waterfalls,”

presented by Bruce Bolnick. Bolnick is the author of “Waterfalls of the White Mountains: 30 Hikes to 100 Waterfalls.” Bolnick will also lead a waterfalls fi eld trip at 9 a.m. July 30.

• Aug. 5, 7 p.m. (via Zoom), “Owls of New Hamp-shire,” presented by Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. Squam Lakes Natural Science Center animal outreach programs feature live animals and are led by the center’s own expert naturalists. The Virtual Live Animal Outreach programs are 45 minutes in length, taught by our expert naturalists, and feature two live animal ambassadors.

• Aug. 12, 7 p.m., “Garland Mill — Water-powered for 164 years,” presented by Dana Southworth.

• Aug. 13, 4 p.m., fi eld trip to Garland Mill, lead by Dana Southworth.

• Aug. 19, 7 p.m., concert by Islay Mist Ceilidh after the WSPA annual meeting.

• Sept. 12, 1-4 p.m., autumn fl ower walk led by Matt Peters.


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Tourism officials encourage visitors to ‘Leave No Trace’CONCORD — The New Hampshire Division of

Travel and Tourism Development has partnered with the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics — a national organization that promotes sustainable tourism practices – to launch a statewide “Leave No Trace” campaign. This collaborative educational effort encourages visitors to practice sustainable tourism through seven principles that provide a road map of things to do to venture into the state’s great outdoors more consciously.

An expected 3.45 million visitors will enter the Gran-ite State this summer, with many travelers drawn to the state’s natural attributes that include the White Mountains National Forest; a scenic stretch of the Appalachian Trail; and state parks that offer thou-sands of miles of recreation from the Seacoast to the Great North Woods, including biking, hiking, fi shing, ATVing, and more.

“The state’s tourism industry has been incredibly resil-ient over the last year and a half, and we are expecting to see close to $1.8 billion in summer travel spending,” said Taylor Caswell, Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs. “This is great news for our state, but we need to make sure that all travelers are educated on ways to stay safe, as well as protect and respect the natural resources for which New Hampshire is famous.”

In recent years, an increasing interest in hiking and outdoor adventures has led to issues with overcrowd-ing not only in New Hampshire, but in outdoor rec-reation destinations nationwide. In addition to Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, DTTD engaged federal, state, local and regional partners to further enhance the program.

Providing visitors and residents with knowledge to safely enjoy and protect the state’s spectacular natu-ral landscapes and destinations, the “Leave No Trace” program includes:

• Plan Ahead and Prepare: Pre-planning goes a long way to ensure a safe and more enjoyable adventure.

• Trash Your Trash: Litter can spoil even the most beautiful areas of New Hampshire’s wide-open spaces and crystal-clear waters.

• Be Careful with Campfi res: Preventing wildfi res and stopping the spread of invasive bug species today keeps campfi re traditions alive for years to come.

• Keep NH’s Wildlife Wild: Stay safe and respect wildlife that call New Hampshire home, including black bears, moose, and wild turkeys.

• Stick to the Trails and Camp Overnight Right: Sometimes the path well-traveled is the best path to follow to prevent injury and reduce damage to plants, trails, and the landscape.

• Leave it as you fi nd it: To preserve the state’s mil-

lions of acres of pristine wilderness and incredible historical landmarks, refrain from picking or taking items.

• Share the Outdoors: Everyone deserves to have a great time outside and to not be bothered by others.

New Hampshire Commissioner of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Sarah Stewart said, “We certainly recognize the need to strike a balance of responsible and sustainable tourism, and believe it is a shared responsibility. ‘Leave No Trace’ provides all of us the steps we can take to ensure what we love about New Hampshire is here for future generations to enjoy.”

“We are fortunate enough to be the stewardship education partner for Visit New Hampshire, and to all the visitors and residents who recreate outdoors in the Granite State,” said Andrew Leary, National Outreach Manager at the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics. “Avoidable impacts happen when we recre-ate outdoors, but with your help, everyone who loves spending time outside can be the solution to protecting New Hampshire’s wonderful outdoor experiences.”

To learn more about the “Leave No Trace” program, go to visitnh.gov/leavenotrace.

COLEBROOK — On Aug. 27 and 28, the North Country will play host to the 30th annual Moose Festival.

This North Country tradition is expected to draw thousands of people from the North Country as well as from southern New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Canada.

The event takes place on Friday, Aug. 27, from 3-8 p.m. on Main Street in downtown Colebrook, and on Saturday, Aug. 28, from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in Canaan, Vt. at the Recreational Park.

The Moose Festival is an open, non-juried event that welcomes artisans, crafters, non-profi ts and food vendors of all types.

The registration deadline is Friday, Aug. 6. Space is limited on Friday, so reserve early. To reserve a space, go to moosefestival.com and download the vendor application form or call (603) 237-8939.

“The Moose Festival is a wonderful, family friendly

event,” said Jodi Gilbert, event co-director. “We are thrilled to provide attendees with access to dozens of talented artisans and crafters. This event truly represents life in the North Country.”

An event of this size and scope would not be pos-sible without the generous support of sponsors and countless volunteers.

The Moose Festival is a fundraiser for the North Country Chamber of Commerce which strives to serve its members by way of business advocacy, pro-motion of regional attractions and involvement in initiatives to foster economic growth.

To learn more about the chamber visit: chamberof-thenorthcountry.com.

The chamber offi ce is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and is in the Citizen’s Bank build-ing in downtown Colebrook.

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She added voters already have to live in New Hampshire. If they don’t have photo ID, they are required to sign an affidavit attesting to their identity and domicile. She pointed out the additional requirement the court struck down would have brought unnecessary confusion, especially for college students.

The ruling came days after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld two voting laws in Arizona that oppo-nents said harm access to voting in primarily Black, brown and Indigenous communities.

Tentarelli noted the League is preparing to testify against multi-ple bills next session, including one that would require applications for absentee ballots to be notarized.

“There’s no evidence that people who voted absentee were doing so fraudulently,” Tentarelli confi rmed. “So why do we sud-denly need a signature notarized in order to get an absentee ballot? The only reason is to hinder people from voting.”

She contended New Hamp-shire’s current voting laws make the process secure, and added access to voting is not a partisan issue, and should be protected by

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N.H. State Parks License Plate Program reaches new milestone

CONCORD — In 2010, HB 1620 was passed and signed into law establishing a special registration plate to benefi t visitors and the New Hampshire State Park System.

The “park plate,” sporting the N.H. State Division of Parks and Recre-ation logo, reached total revenues of $1 million on April 30, with over 14,000 license plates in circulation. The pro-ceeds from the park plates have pro-vided additional revenue to operate and improve the 93 parks in the New Hampshire state parks system and is a popular item with many N.H. State Park supporters.

“We have been overwhelmed by the success of the Parks License Plate pro-gram,” said Philip Bryce, director N.H. State Division of Parks and Recreation. “We are the only parks system in the nation that is operationally self-funded. Programs like the parks plate offer our visitors a great way to explore our parks and support the park system.”

The State Park License Plate Pro-gram has seen continued growth since

inception in 2010, toping 10,000 plates in May 2019 and has continued to grow in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The holder of a N.H. State Parks license plate receives free admission for the registered vehicle and its pas-sengers to 26 day-use parks. The list of N.H. State Park’s day-use parks that accept the park plates can be found at, nhstateparks.org/planning/schedule-and-fees/license-plate.

The annual fee for the N.H. State Parks license plate is $85 in addition to normal registration fees. Of the $85, $5 is retained by the Department of Safety to produce the plate and $80

goes to the N.H. Department of Natu-ral and Cultural Resources to support N.H. State Parks. The N.H. State Parks license plate is available at the Division of Motor Vehicles and its sub-stations. Town clerk offi ces also have the plate available for purchase by state resi-dents.

The Park License Plate does not include parking meters along state park seacoast beaches, camping, his-toric sites, Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway and Flume Gorge. N.H. state parks also offers a variety of season passes at nhstateparks.org/planning/schedule-and-fees/passes-promotions.

The Division of Parks and Recreation is comprised of the Bureau of Park Operations, Bureau of Historic Sites, Bureau of Trails and Cannon Moun-tain. The Division manages 93 prop-erties, including state parks, beaches, campgrounds, historic sites, trails, way-sides and natural areas. The Division of Parks and Recreation is one of fi ve divisions of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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To say that Trish Herr and her daughters Alex, 18, and Sage, 16, are accomplished hikers is an understatement.

Last week, they fi nished the White Mountains Grid, which

is all 48 4,000ers every month of the year. That is 576 summits. Those who attempt it experience the changing weather and conditions in the mountains, and know that no two hikes are the same.

Completing this list is a culmination of steady weekly hiking since the girls were young. Soon, they go off to college. Alex will be going this fall.

“We accidentally got into hiking,” said Trish. “When Alex was 5, I let her run off some energy on the trail up Mount Tecumseh near where we live. She did great. We got into it, hiking once a week. From June, 2008 to August 2009 we did the New Hampshire 4,000 footers.”

Trish wrote a blog about hiking this list with her daughter Alex. Later, she turned this into a book called “Up: A Mother and Daughter‘s Peak Bagging Adventure.” It was published by Broadway Books, a division of Random House.

A few years later, 3-year-old Sage joined them hiking. As the daughters grew, their hiking grew more adventurous with their mother, and they fi n-ished the N.H. Winter 48, and more recently earned the patch for the Trailwrights 72 Summits Club.

Originating with the volunteer trail work group Trailwrights, this list has 72 4,000 foot peaks, each with a 100-foot col (saddle) from all other 4,000 foot peaks. This includes sub-peaks of the regular 4,000 footers, thus adding 24 to the list of 48.

Also, Trailwrights requires 72 hours of volunteer trail work. For fi ve years, Trish and her daughters have adopted the Alpine Garden Trail on Mount Washington.

The GRID was not a goal for the trio, but hiking every week, they realized that they had a lot of it done, and it became their goal. With a lot of other activities going on in their lives, it was a matter of fi tting in hiking once or twice a week. The girls were home schooled. They were advanced in karate, were in Girl Scouts, worked at Waterville Valley Ski Area, plus had their own personal interests.

The past fi ve years they worked on completing the Grid. With such a profusion of hiking adventures some epics were inevitable. In those cases it was very helpful that they had gained a greater famil-iarity of the trails on the 4,000 footers.

One winter day, they did the Bond traverse, start-

ing on the Zealand Road, past Zealand Hut and Mount Zealand. It was snowing. By the time they reached tundra on Mount Guyot, the wind was blow-ing fi ercely and snow was accumulating.

The trail toward the Bonds was completely obscured in deep snow and a whiteout. Map and compass came out and they made their way in the right direction, fi nally seeing the turnoff for Guyot Shelter.

They had enough gear for overnight, but decided to continue on over the Bonds to complete the tra-verse. Everyone else who had tried the traverse that day had turned back.

Another epic is striking. One September day, they decided to hike Mounts Adams and Madison at night. It was supposed to be a full moon and the weather looked good, and their familiarity of the ter-rain and trails was complete. Still, they brought full winter clothing for safety, extra food and batteries for their headlamps.

The weather report was wrong. While climbing the Airline Trail and nearing the summit of Mount Adams in a brisk breeze, it clouded in and started raining. Visibility dropped. The light from their headlamps refl ected off the rain, obscuring forward

motion. Not lingering on the summit they headed down the east side on the Star Lake Trail. There was some protection from the rain and wind but still a brisk side wind.

Map and compass skills proved vital for this hike, with the obscured visibility. They utilized their full winter gear. Descending the trail, Trish mentioned that this was the trail Kate Matrosova had died of hyopthermina near, and that having the right equip-ment for each situation was vital.

Reaching Madison Hut, the rain had stopped and they had it together enough to do a quick hike up and down Mount Madison.

For safety, they hiked in the winter together yet sometimes in warmer seasons each did solo trips.

Mother and daughters conquer the Grid

From left: Alex, Trish, and Sage Herr on the summit of Owl’s Head, on their fi nal hike achieving the Grid (COURTESY OF TRISH HERR) BERLIN — The Berlin-Gorham 12U Cal Ripken

all-star baseball team remains in the hunt for a state championship as they currently stand at 2-1 in the double elimination tournament held in Epping over the weekend and continuing into the week.

Things started out on a positive note with a 6-2 win over Belmont, (no details at present time) fol-lowed by a loss to Kingswood 13-8. In that game Kingswood took a very early 11-0 lead, thanks in part to numerous hits and key errors, to stun the locals. Berlin-Gorham did bounce back to outscore their opponents 8-2 the rest of the way but it was just too little too late in the loss. Cooper and Evan Ladd had two hits apiece, and Brooklyn Gagne, Nolan Lavigne, Jaxson and Brody Croteau contrib-uted with one hit each.

In the 4-0 whitewashing of Lebanon, Nolan Lavi-gne pitched a masterful game, allowing only two hits and striking out nine in four innings of work. Owen Lapointe closed things out with two innings of no run pitching to preserve the win and the shutout. Lavigne was exceptional at the plate too, going 3 for 3 with two RBI, with Jaxson and Brody Croteau con-tributing two hits each.

Berlin-Gorham was scheduled to play again last night in the loser’s bracket with a rematch with Bel-mont at 6:30 p.m.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If you spread yourself thin, there will be a little of you on every sandwich, though maybe not enough to impact

no to three things so you can give a more concentrated yes.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). As it was with the royals in days of old, the luxuries you share in your "castle" will really pay off. Entertainment wins battles without raising swords. Diplomacy

invest in your home. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). While attempting to

balance the professional, personal, creative and

communal aspects of your life, you'll come to the inevitable conclusion that something's got to give. If you don't choose what, the universe will choose for you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The work is tricky and new to you, though there are people around who have been doing this for decades. While trying your best to do things right, you may bring smiles to the lips of experts. They will be smiles of compassion. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Society will readily present you with an entire chart of what you must do to be virtuous and deserving of

entirely unwarranted. It's all too much, right? Retreat; recharge; and regroup. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Before you

complete the task, make sure it's worth doing. The big-picture view is invaluable. Step back;

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Communication isn't always talk. In fact, too

communication. The point gets made best when

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Everything

or another. Some will pay off immediately and others years from now. It will be lucky to thank them in advance for the dividends. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It's taking a while to master a subject. Maybe it doesn't come naturally to you, or perhaps you're so interested in it that you want to absorb it wholly and deeply. Either way, embrace this pacing. It's perfect! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You're a diligent, reliable worker, a friend to be counted on, a go-to member of the family -- and, in a related story, you're tired. How does the "inside-

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (July 8). Nothing will

develop skills and sharpen your intellect with an ongoing competitive challenge; advancement is certain. You'll come to new understandings as you experiment and learn how to succeed among diverse personalities. Libra and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 32, 14, 4 and 17.

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DEAR ABBY: Several months after we met, my partner asked me to move into her home. That was three years ago. She told me she had a son who was living with her, but that he would soon be moving into his own place. I have never loved anyone the way I do her, but her son

What she didn’t tell me before I moved in was that he is 37 years old and hasn’t worked more than three weeks in his life. He is not physical-

He is totally dependent on his mother to pay for everything, including his car. He buys nothing.

She gives him a hefty “allowance” for doing her yardwork. He has no shame about being a slacker, and she keeps saying she wants him out on his own, but she sets no deadlines. I want her to set a departure date. Her son has to grow up, get a job and move out six months after that, just as my daughter and son both did. They now have families and are economically sound.

I want my partner and me to have our own home together. She’s pushing marriage, and I’m thinking I should use my head and move back to Florida. I have no security here and I do not want any respon-sibility for him. Any advice? -- SMARTER WOMAN

DEAR SMARTER WOMAN: Your partner may be pressing for mar-riage, but you absolutely shouldn’t do it under these circumstances. Set a departure date at which time either her son moves out, or you do. I agree that the man (37!) needs to move out and accept responsibility for himself, but it won’t happen as long as Mama is his enabler.

DEAR ABBY: At family gatherings, I can’t get a word in edgewise. When I try to join the conversation, invariably someone -- usually my

me down. It is extremely disrespectful and I feel humiliated and em-barrassed by her comments. My silence does not mean consent. She and the family live by the rule that the one who speaks loudest speaks best. I have complained privately to her to no avail. She won’t admit there’s a problem. She says these verbal free-for-alls are a part of her “culture.” I love her and the family, but have begun to withdraw as much as I can from these gatherings. For what it’s worth, I’m fairly well-educated, stay reasonably well-informed, have traveled quite a bit and believe I could add worthwhile and valid input to our gatherings, if I had the chance. Please advise. -- UNHEARD MAN OF THE FAM-ILY DEAR UNHEARD: You may be the “man of the family,” but your

-spectful family, but what has been going on is a part of no “culture” I have heard of. Nothing will change until you either insist that she be sensitive to your feelings, treat you with respect and refuse to attend gatherings if you are not allowed to fully participate.

— • —Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

MOTHER CONTINUES TO TREAT GROWN SON LIKE A CHILD

DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren

Action Figures by Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen

ACROSS 1 Faux pas 6 Tollbooth feature10 Fictional pursuer of a

white whale14 Place for a white whale15 “The ___ for home lives

in all of us” (Angelou)16 Teeming (with)17 Tenderizer?19 Site of the Taj Mahal20 Small dish21 Cross off22 Inapt rhyme for “adore”23 Some have lattice

crusts25 “Groundhog Day”

director Harold27 Organizer?32 What to give to a giver?33 Extra NBA periods34 Fashion style inspired

by a music genre35 People may drop them

subtly36 Verbal facepalm

39 Word after an Oxford

comma 40 Joined up with 41 Actress Fawcett whose

name is alliterative 42 Digitizer? 46 Cheesy Mexican

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“visual” 48 Unremarkable 50 What a rolling stone

eventually comes to 52 Tough 56 Over yonder, at sea 57 Itemizer? 59 ___-me (small clone) 60 Flour for naan and

chapati 61 Flared dress style 62 Valuable metal

container? 63 Darling

websiteDOWN 1 Tons 2 Berry in a rain forest 3 Ward (off) 4 Tricky fourth-down play 5 Doc treating laryngitis

6 Half a wet-weather pair 7 Rights advocacy org.

10 Language with no capital letters

11 MacOS version named for a California mountain range

out 13 Withstand 18 Cream of the corp.? 22 French friend 24 Really gets to 26 Stubborn animal 27 Asian country where ice

cream was invented, many say

28 How a parent and child may walk

29 Foot “insertion point,” at times

30 Capital of Jordan 31 Eat between meals 32 Better ___ (superior to) 36 Confer a Medal of

Honor upon, say

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actor Colin 43 Metcalf of “Lady Bird” 44 “31 Days of Oscar”

network 45 Daytona 500 org. 48 Website code

51 James with six Grammys

53 Related (to) 54 Artist Magritte 55 Doodled 57 Outraged 58 Ding or scratch

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