NORTH HAVERHILL—At a hearing in Grafton County Superior Court on Oct. 6, former Warren Town Administrator Judith Tautenhan of Rumney pleaded guilty to four charges of theft from the town and one count of theft from Warren’s South Main Street Water District.
All charges are class A felonies.
Tautenhan was town administrator from May 2014 to May 2018 and later worked at the water district as well.
NORTH HAVERHILL—A 29-year-old North Haverhill woman died after a car crash was discovered on Sunday morning.
Krystal Brown was found dead at the scene after police responded to Route 10 at 10:45 a.m. near Blueberry Fields self-storage south of the village.
According to a news release from Haverhill Police Department, Brown was traveling north in a 2017 Dodge Journey when her car left the roadway, struck an embankment, and went down the embankment into several trees after traveling approximately 100 feet.
WELLS RIVER—The pandemic’s impact threaded nearly every topic covered by the Blue Mountain Union School board meeting on Oct. 6.
In a budget review of the academic year that ended June 30, business manager Linda Metcalf said unaudited financial statements revealed a hefty surplus despite decreased revenue.
Despite being short about $350,000 in revenue for the year, Metcalf said on Oct. 6 that expenses also were significantly down due to COVID-19. She noted a decrease in spending on services, supplies, and activities, all of which resulted in a bottom line of $800,000 less in budgeted expenses. The net result was a surplus of about $465,000 going into the current fiscal year, which began July 1.
BATH—This is the fourth season of the Collins Farm Corn Maze on Route 302 in Bath, but this year there is a new twist. In addition to the corn maze, a second attraction, the Collins Farm Adventure Trail, blends escape room with obstacle course.
“It’s an artistic gift,” said creator Corey Collins with a chuckle. “I have walked through corn mazes where the only objective is finding the exit. I knew I could make one that would be more fun.”
NEWBURY—If there is support for the state’s proposed juvenile detention center in Newbury, there was little to be found inside the Newbury Elementary School gymnasium on Saturday.
Nearly 100 people turned out for the Newbury Development Review Board hearing on the Covered Bridge Treatment Center. As many as 56 people were on Zoom.
After more than five hours of presentations, questions, answers, comments, the hearing was continued to Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. The plan, DRB members said, is to hold the meeting at the same location or outside on the village common.
WOODSVILLE—New Hampshire’s Divisive Concepts law and efforts to increase diversity and multicultural offerings in the curriculum will be on the agenda next month after discussion on the subjects was largely tabled on Monday night.
The Haverhill Cooperative School Board will also hold a public hearing on Nov. 15 in advance of voting on how to use $315,000 in relief aid and state adequacy funds.
BRADFORD—A downtown Bradford artery will be temporarily blocked next week when the Route 5 bridge over the Waits River undergoes repairs.
The bridge is scheduled to be closed on Oct. 11. Shauna Clifford of the Vermont Agency of Transportation said they want to reopen the bridge sometime on Oct. 13.
It could reopen sooner and it’s possible it might not reopen until Oct. 14, although she was skeptical it would remain closed beyond that.
BRADFORD—The Devil’s Den Ultra is back and promises to be another exciting yet stamina-challenging race on Wright’s Mountain this weekend.
The DD Ultra is a fundraiser for the Josh Pallotta Fund, Inc., a nonprofit named in honor of the U.S. Marine who died by suicide September 23, 2014.
WOODSVILLE—After a lengthy public hearing on Monday night, Haverhill Selectboard members ruled out shortening or lengthening the runway at Dean Memorial Airport in North Haverhill.
Now, board members will take two weeks to consider whether to relocate a portion of Airport Road or discontinue the road near the runway as part of a package of safety upgrades that the airport needs per the findings of an FAA-sanctioned study.
BRADFORD—Calling it a model for future public transit centers in rural Vermont and beyond, officials opened the Upper Valley Community Transportation Center with fanfare on the afternoon of Sept. 22.
The facility will be the base for Tri Valley Transit’s fleet of buses serving the Connecticut River corridor of the Upper Valley. It replaces the so-called “bus barn” behind Bradford Vet Clinic that TVT had been using since its predecessor, Stagecoach, first started serving the area.