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Waiting for court to rule on motions

Posted on Mon, Mar 31, 2014 by overeasy

While the court ruled on the easy motions late Friday, there are some big issues to decide now.  Wolfeboro continues to press their total-loss theory and all but cemented it in with Friday’s ruling excluding for the third time the … Continue reading →

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Late action

Posted on Fri, Mar 28, 2014 by overeasy

The court is moving through this stuff and has already issued some rulings. WPs motions to strike the Gross Negligence claim and Breach of Warranty were ruled moot and the claims were stricken as requested by Wolfeboro. WP’s motion to … Continue reading →

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Wolfeboro’s Objections

Posted on Fri, Mar 28, 2014 by overeasy

As of Midnight on the 27th, Wolfeboro had not produced the bulk of their objections.  This morning, they were available on the court’s electronic filing website.  There must be some latency in the system. So here are the raw filings: … Continue reading →

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WP files their objections – and reveals a new element

Posted on Thu, Mar 27, 2014 by overeasy

Wolfeboro has two more hours to file it’s objections to WP’s pretrial motions.  WP has filed 8 so far: 116 WP objection to plaintiff pretrial statement 117 WP objective to plaintiff list of trial exhibits 118 wp objection to plaintiff … Continue reading →

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Drilling down into the details

Posted on Thu, Mar 27, 2014 by overeasy

We probably wont get a barrage of objections to motions until late today, so for those of you who seem to be following the day to day, and there seem to be a lot of you, I’m going to go … Continue reading →

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And now comes Wolfeboro

Posted on Wed, Mar 26, 2014 by overeasy

Wolfeboro also has filed a number of pretrial motions to exclude various theories of defense and specific testimony from WPs expert witnesses.  As you might expect, they take a completely different view of the situation. Wolfeboro has filed five pretrial … Continue reading →

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Remediation

Posted on Tue, Mar 25, 2014 by overeasy

If you’ve been following along with the RIB lawsuit events, you know that this is the crux of the matter.  Is it possible, as WP maintains, to fix the RIB site and get a reasonable service life from it, or … Continue reading →

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Recount results

Posted on Sun, Mar 23, 2014 by overeasy

I received some unofficial results of the Article 7 (Brewster Hall) recount: Yes 1084 (63%) No 645 (37%)

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Damages

Posted on Sat, Mar 22, 2014 by overeasy

The recent motions by Wright-Pierce in the RIB lawsuit calls into question the validity of the $10,326,883 damages claimed by Wolfeboro.  That is the amount of damages claimed by our experts, Fuss & O’Neill, in their initial expert report dated … Continue reading →

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Facing off on the RIB lawsuit

Posted on Fri, Mar 21, 2014 by overeasy

Last night, I spent a few hours reading over the dozen or so new motions that were just filed along with the pre-trial documents such as proposed jury instructions and witness lists.  The twists and turns of this lawsuit are … Continue reading →

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Deadlines

Posted on Tue, Mar 18, 2014 by overeasy

As the RIB lawsuit careens down the tracks toward trial, the deadlines established as much as a year ago are starting to kick in.  You would think that with a suit already delayed six months, the ducks would be in … Continue reading →

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Hey Facebook Visitor!

Posted on Thu, Mar 13, 2014 by overeasy

This blog went viral yesterday, with more than three times the previous all time high in hit counts, and more than five times the previous unique visitor count.  The traffic appears to have been generated by one or more Facebook … Continue reading →

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Rib lawsuit moving toward trial

Posted on Wed, Mar 12, 2014 by overeasy

This week saw a couple of events related to the RIB lawsuit.  As expected, the court granted Wolfeboro it’s costs in defending a motion to compel Wolfeboro to allow a site visit by Wright Pierce’s wetlands expert.  Wright Pierce had … Continue reading →

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End of an Era

Posted on Wed, Mar 12, 2014 by overeasy

With the results of Tuesday’s election, we end the era of standoff on restoration of Brewster Hall.  The Friends of Town Hall, to their credit, prevailed by 45 votes to secure a 62.5% approval of their $4 million restoration plan. … Continue reading →

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Town Meeting 2014 results

Posted on Wed, Mar 12, 2014 by overeasy

1777 Votes were cast – 36% of 4995 registered voters. Special Election results: Joe Kenney 969 Mike Cryans 697 Article 1: Election of Town Officials Town Clerk Pat Waterman 1628 Moderator Randy Walker 1548 Selectmen Dave Senecal 1356 Linda Murray … Continue reading →

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Unofficial result

Posted on Tue, Mar 11, 2014 by overeasy

I’m pretty sure article 7 passed.  Will have the numbers tomorrow.

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Election day coverage

Posted on Mon, Mar 10, 2014 by overeasy

Something came up and I don’t think I’m going to be able to get the results when the polls close at 7.  If anyone else does, please forward to me, otherwise, I’ll get them in the morning and post. ************************************************************************************ … Continue reading →

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A promise based on a promise

Posted on Sun, Mar 9, 2014 by overeasy

The quite convoluted Article 7 goes to great lengths to impress us with the Friends intention to donate $750,000 to the project.  I have no doubt as to the sincerity of  the donors who pledged funds to the Friends, and … Continue reading →

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Priming the pump

Posted on Thu, Mar 6, 2014 by overeasy

Years ago, when I was a scout at summer camp, I can recall going down to the well to get a bucket of water.  The well had an old hand pump and a small bucket beside it containing a couple … Continue reading →

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Another opinion

Posted on Wed, Mar 5, 2014 by overeasy

The other morning as I was getting my mail downtown, and a woman handed me a flyer concerning the town hall issue: Ms. Amatuci has advanced alternative plans in the past, and the last one featured the Library campus as … Continue reading →

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The big picture

Posted on Sun, Mar 2, 2014 by overeasy

In the interest of being perfectly clear on this Brewster Hall roof issue, I want to point out that the warnings about the integrity of the roof come first hand from credentialed professionals who were hired by the town and … Continue reading →

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The sky is falling

Posted on Thu, Feb 27, 2014 by overeasy

Well, not the whole sky, but if a couple of professionals are to be believed, the roof of Brewster Hall is about to fall. I’ve resisted sensationalizing this issue, instead making discrete inquiries to the town, asking that they get … Continue reading →

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Arguing about the lunch check

Posted on Wed, Feb 26, 2014 by overeasy

The latest standoff in the RIB lawsuit concerns who is going to pick up the tab for a court appearance in early February.  WP filed a motion to compel the town to allow their wetlands expert to examine the RIB … Continue reading →

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Rejecting the premise – Part 2

Posted on Sat, Feb 15, 2014 by overeasy

In order to justify the $4 million approach to fixing town offices, the newspaper seems to be fixated on the lack of a central heating system .  I know a little about heating systems, and couldn’t disagree more. The failed … Continue reading →

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Rejecting the premise – Part 1

Posted on Thu, Feb 13, 2014 by overeasy

The paper and others make much of the argument that nothing more can be done with Brewster Hall without evacuating the place.  At least two Selectmen seem to feel otherwise. Lets look at the situation.  The offices are currently housed … Continue reading →

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Think no?

Posted on Fri, Feb 7, 2014 by overeasy

Here in the middle of a February cold snap, with the Olympics set to start today, you may wonder if I mean THINK SNOW!.  Well, that too, but I really want to emphasize how you can’t just think no, you … Continue reading →

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Where can I park my Red Herring?

Posted on Thu, Feb 6, 2014 by overeasy

As expected, the discourse surrounding the Friends latest boondoggle has gravitated back to the “parking” issue.  You’ll recall that when the previous article failed three years ago, the newspaper declared, without offering a shred of evidence, that it was due … Continue reading →

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Hobson’s Choice

Posted on Wed, Feb 5, 2014 by overeasy

A couple of years ago, our Parks and Rec department was trying to get some traction with an idea for a combination community center/senior center on the site of the current community center. It would have walked out to the … Continue reading →

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Big win for Wolfeboro in RIB lawsuit

Posted on Thu, Jan 23, 2014 by overeasy

Today, the court finally ruled on Wright-Pierce’s motion to reconsider the court’s refusal to extend the period to supplement expert testimony. That’s a mouthful, but what it boils down to is that Wright Pierce’s experts, Haley and Aldrich, inc., had … Continue reading →

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Another big RIB lawsuit moment

Posted on Wed, Jan 1, 2014 by overeasy

The last big event was the motion to amend the lawsuit to include allegations of fraud.  This was a big deal for Wolfeboro because it upped the ante considerably by opening the door for treble damages.  With a claim of … Continue reading →

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Mr. Murray’s ambush

Posted on Fri, Dec 20, 2013 by overeasy

All the ducks were in a row at the BOS public hearing Wednesday.  All the active members of the Friends were there with well rehearsed and choreographed presentations.  One talked about the tourist expectations, another their version of past referendums, … Continue reading →

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Cumbaya at the BOS

Posted on Thu, Dec 19, 2013 by overeasy

Last night’s BOS meeting was dominated by the roll-out of the Friends’ plan to finally git ‘er done at Brewster Hall in the form of a public hearing that is required by law for bonded projects over $100K.  They started … Continue reading →

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Changes at Metrocast

Posted on Fri, Dec 6, 2013 by overeasy

Update Dec 18, 2013.  Things are being switched around, but it’s hard to keep up.  I recently got the two free DTAs from Metrocast and they work fine on my older analog sets.  The channel numbers are automatically mapped. For … Continue reading →

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Winepesaukee Drive a dead end

Posted on Fri, Dec 6, 2013 by overeasy

At least for now.  At the last BOS meeting, we got an update on the effort to fix the road and get it accepted as a town road. The current residents of this 20 something year old development had petitioned … Continue reading →

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Another side of the RIB story

Posted on Tue, Dec 3, 2013 by overeasy

Today, WP filed a new motion asking the court to reconsider it’s denial of their request to extend the deadline to supplement expert witness testimony.  The legal arguments for reconsideration and extending are obscure and based on case law establishing … Continue reading →

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SRO at the Selectman’s Meeting

Posted on Thu, Nov 21, 2013 by overeasy

They were packin’ em’ in at the library last night, and the meeting was delayed at the start as the Selectmen were meeting elsewhere with their town-council before the meeting. The big crowd was caused by a confluence of two … Continue reading →

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Tax Rate posted – up 1.5%

Posted on Mon, Nov 18, 2013 by overeasy

The Department of Revenue Administration posted Wolfeboro’s 2013 tax rate today.  $12.83 – up 1.5% from last year’s $12.64. Here’s the breakdown: Town School State Ed County Total 2012 4.71 4.48 2.40 1.05 $12.64 2013 4.73 4.53 2.46 1.11 $12.83 … Continue reading →

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Yet another crappy building

Posted on Fri, Nov 15, 2013 by overeasy

I’ve been keeping my nose out of the new Public Works building that is going up to replace the barn that burned down last winter.  Mostly, I’m just disgusted with the bunker mentality that the town has with regard to … Continue reading →

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Back to basics

Posted on Wed, Nov 13, 2013 by overeasy

I see that the Grunter has published the URL for this blog as part of their coverage of the last Selectman’s meeting.  For anyone looking to read the arbitration/mediation mia-culpa, you can find it here.  But hopefully there will be … Continue reading →

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The object of the objection

Posted on Tue, Nov 12, 2013 by overeasy

So today Wolfeboro filed their objection  to WP’s motion to continue and extend deadlines.  They’re not opposed to extending the deadlines for discovery and the trial, after all, it’s critical that some of this work be moved to the next … Continue reading →

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