Impact Fee Amendment Passes First Reading
The Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to accept the first reading of a new impact fee ordinance, as recommended by the Planning Board to make the ordinance more in compliance with state statute.
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Transit Program Faces Questions from Elder Affairs Committee
Annette Stoller, executive director of CART – the Cooperative Alliance for Regional Transportation – joined Rockingham Planning Commission Transportation Planner Scott Bogle and Londonderry CART Board member Bob Ramsay at the Londonderry Elder Affairs Committee to answer questions and complaints…
Council Unanimously Approves TIF District for Pettengill Area
The Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to establish a Development Program and Tax Increment Finance (TIF) district plan for about 1,000 acres south of the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. The area includes what has come to be known as the…
Planning Board Decides Against Reading Letters in Public
There will be no public readings of emails and letters received by the planning board. In a conversation between board member Maria Newman and Chairman Arthur Rugg during the last Planning Board meeting, Rugg told Newman that emails and letters…
Several Urgent Projects Will Be Looking For Funding
Projects considered to be “urgent” will likely go before voters in March under the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). A public hearing was held at the Wednesday, Oct. 9 Planning Board meeting on the 2015 to 2020 CIP. Geographic Information Systems…
Concussion Policy Reviewed Again at School Board
Superintendent of Schools Nathan Greenberg answered questions that school board members had raised when the official policy presentation on concussions was made by Athletic Director Howard Sobolov and Athletic Trainer Michelle Hart-Miller the previous month.
Harvest Fest Set For Oct. 19 at Historical Society
Londonderry-based Nutfield Publishing, which owns the Londonderry Times, and the Greater Derry Londonderry Chamber of Commerce present a community-wide Harvest Fest on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Historical Society’s Morrison House on Pillsbury Road.
Governor, Executive Council Pay Visit to Londonderry
Governor Maggie Hassan and the Executive Council brought their regular meeting to Londonderry last week. Town Manager Kevin Smith introduced the Londonderry High School a capella group Rising Harmony, composed of Erin Conti, Rachel Hansen, Stephanie Conti and Cailey Blatchford,…
Resident Suggests Charter Change to Require Hearings on Contracts
Resident Mike Speltz went before the Town Council Monday night to express his disappointment that the Council had accepted the 600-plus-acre Woodmont Commons Planned Unit Development (PUD) Development Agreement without holding a public hearing on the matter. “I am profoundly…
Cost To Town of Impact Fee Audit in Six Figures
The forensic audit of impact fees on the town’s books since 1994, the result of an order issued by Superior Court Judge Marguerite L. Wageling in a December 2012 ruling, will cost $209,385.27. The audit was ordered because the court…