Category Archives: Brewster Hall/Town Office

In the regular monthly scheduled teleconference today, the court was advised of a settlement.  The wheels are turning again. All pending motions were dropped, and the parties have a month to file a joint motion to either enter an agreed … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the court granted Donovan Hatem’s motion for leave to file withdrawal, which they did shortly thereafter.  At the same time, the new firm’s motion to extent time to reply to Wolfeboro’s outstanding motions was granted. Today’s Grunter reports that … Continue reading →

As expected, the town has filed motions with the court for costs and treble damages.  That will bring the total award to something north of $25 million dollars.  On the surface this appears to be an absurd overkill, but perhaps … Continue reading →

There are a lot of new readers these days, and you may not be aware of the blog policy on comments.  I’ve had to discard some anonymous comments.  There was nothing otherwise problematic, so if you resubmit with your name, … Continue reading →

As expected, Wright-Pierce has filed a motion for judgement as a matter of law.  This motion asks the court to rule in their favor because the evidence presented by Wolfeboro is insufficient, or in some cases because the alleged violation … Continue reading →

Most of the remaining motions were filed with a follow up date for objections of Friday the 4th.  A couple had Monday the 7th.  So I guess it will be a quiet week while the parties work to craft their … Continue reading →

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Not much going on publicly with Brewster Hall.  The Friends are continuing their pledge campaign and are making a final push with a deadline of Oct 15.  Last I heard they were at slightly over half-million in pledges against a … Continue reading →

Bucky Melanson submitted a brief letter to the paper this week asking several good questions concerning the disposition and future plans for Brewster Hall. In typical fashion, the Editor used the power of his editorial column to marginalize and discredit … Continue reading →

Five years ago, as part of the half-million restoration extravaganza, the town received a professional estimate of the heating cost of a renovated Brewster Hall. The official figure was about 9,000 gallons of oil. The engineer suggested two boilers and … Continue reading →

Someone sent me this report on the Brewster Hall upstairs usage forum held on Nov 13.  I’m going to renew my objection to this line of inquiry by the Friends and Selectmen when dealing with millions of dollars of the taxpayer’s … Continue reading →