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Gilford Town Culvert Issue – the Damage to Private Property Can Be Seen Now That The Snow Is Gone

April 26, 2023April 26, 2023 Skip

I wrote a while ago about the damage to my neighbor across the street when the culvert at our corner failed during the large rain storm a few months now. Little could be done due to the large snow storms that dumped too much “stuff” to even work on the road damage that so ripped … Read more

Does a Town Have the Right to Determine Its Own “Character”?

January 12, 2023 Skip

Last night I went to the Selectmen’s meeting at the urging of a couple of friends. We live in a “resort” town on Lake Winnipesaukee and it seems that our village has, these last two years, been overrun by out-of-town corporations buying up homes by the dozens.

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So, About Those Porno Books in Public School Libraries…

June 5, 2026December 15, 2022 Skip

As loyal readers know, I have been sending out Right To Know demands to various School Districts around the State for the card catalog for their Schools’ libraries. I considered this small effort to be a “test case” to see how the targeted districts would respond.

Concord Monitor’s David Brooks Ga-Ga over Gilford’s Edifice to Economic Illiteracy – Forgets Most Important Question

January 19, 2022January 10, 2022 Skip

I’ve held onto this since Thanksgiving as it just was an example of ideological favoritism of how to spend other peoples’ money to satisfy one’s own ideological stupidity.

COVID Nazis Want to Rule Our Lives So Bad, That I Had to Defend the School Board I’m Suing????

December 15, 2021 Skip

Sheesh. Week ago Monday was the Gilford School Board meeting where they were going to revisit Masking on a District basis given the rise of infection in our local area. Both sides were well represented – certainly, I was on the side that it is the PARENTS’ decision even if the kids are “in the care” of the school system while on school grounds.

Right to Know Demand – Your Ethics Policy Outlines a Number of Items That a School Board Shall Comply With…”

August 5, 2021 Skip

I may well be a strange bird at times (as we all can be), but lately, and for obvious reasons, I’m reading School Board Policies. You know, those documents that describe how a School District is to operate in its entirety.

More on the Arrest of the Gilford School Superintendent

August 4, 2021 Norm Silber

Coming on the heels of the recent arrest of the Gilford school superintendent in Concord for assault and domestic violence assault, I appeared at the meeting of the Gilford School Board this past Monday evening, and the following are somewhat modified excerpts from my public remarks:

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The Current State of Leadership in the Gilford Schools

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Norm Silber

Gilford School Superintendent Kirk Beitler
(Concord Police mug shot via Concord Patch)

In our legal system and under our constitutional republic, an individual charged with any crime is presumed innocent unless and until convicted under a finding that the charged offense occurred beyond a reasonable doubt.

“When I See the Collective Individually Take Responsibility for Their Own Lives I’ll Care”

June 9, 2021 Skip

This plays into last night’s School Board meeting where the big topic was getting the School Board to vote to rescind the Mask Mandate on their little ones. Especially in this heat and specifically in our Elementary School where there is no air conditioning.

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FB Doodlings: BLM and Gilford – How One BLM Person Turned the Whole Town Inside Out

June 6, 2021 Skip

I’m trying to clear my desktop of all kinds of saved files, and in this case, we can thank Samm JaCrispy Johnson (who later dropped the JaCrispy bit), a line cook at the Rt 93 Hookset rest stop at the time (didn’t even live in town).

Event for Registered Republicans and Liberty-Loving Undeclareds

October 19, 2020 Norm Silber

Close to the upcoming General Election on Nov. 3, Gilford and Meredith voters will have an opportunity to meet and greet many of the Republican candidates running in the Lakes Region at a house party at my home on Sunday, October 25, from 1 p.m to 5 p.m.

Right To Know Request – Same Day Registrations From Tuesday’s NH Primary Election

September 12, 2020 Skip

Tuesday had a pretty good turnout. Statewide here in NH: Previous record 228,432 votes cast in the September primary just two years ago New record this year on Tuesday: 304,671 (33% increase) Absentee ballots: 90,322 (30%) Democrat voters: 156,976 Republican voters: 147,695 (a difference of 9,281) Number of registered NH voters: 1,002,012 so a … Read more

NORM Silber for the NH House- Meredith & Gilford

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Norm Silber

I STAND FOR:• No personal income tax- now or ever!• No personal capital gains tax- now or ever!• No broad-based sales tax- now or ever!• Repeal the tax on interest & dividends that falls hardest on our seniors and savers- it is nothing less than an income tax in our state in which we claim … Read more

Angelo Farruggia for Gilford Selectman: Because you love where we live

March 9, 2020 Skip

Note: I plan on voting for Angelo Farruggia over Kevin Hayes for Gilford Selectman. Please add your vote to mine! -Skip *************** Hello Friends and Neighbors of Gilford. My name is Angelo Farruggia and I am running for the open Selectman seat in the Tuesday March 10th election. Many of you know me from spending … Read more

Fraud on Gilford Voters at Election Time

February 27, 2020 Norm Silber

What is fraud anyhow? We hear the terms “fraud” and “fraudulent” thrown around a lot, but it is likely that many, if not most, people do not really understand the full meanings of the terms. In the law, fraud is (1) the intentional misstatement of; (2) a material fact; (3) with the intention that the … Read more

Recycling trash? It doesn’t pay at all as advertised; it’s just another form of religion

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 Skip

Scott Dunn’s monument to economic illiteracy (the Gilford Recycling Center) will lose close to $7million over the next 10 years.

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Now a vote for Monarchical diktat

January 2, 2020 Skip

Sigh, this feels like its going to be a bit of a slog. While some may be saying “Skip, just do it – find the bags, find the time, wash everything, take more time to sort…just do it. Stop rocking the boat”. They don’t realize that is isn’t necessarily that I’m against doing all that, … Read more

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Part 2

January 1, 2020 Skip

I did my initial rant here. Did you know that our new Recycling Center is now going to have a firing range (supposed to be for law enforcement but why stop there – if the taxpayers are paying for the facility, why not the rest of us?), and a boat storage area (probably for the … Read more

Tales from the Selectboard – “sure, ve haff der Power to make you verk for free fer der Recyling Center”

December 31, 2019 Skip

So last night was the Selectboard’s Public Meeting on the Recycling Center / Transfer Station: Rules, Regulations, and Fines. And what fine Fines they are! Here’s the paperwork / package that was prepped for the meeting. Again, to set the stage, twice the Selectboard put in warrants for the money to build out this place: … Read more

Waste-to-energy is the solution to the trash problem

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Doug

Regarding the recycling center in Gilford, this whole project has been a boondoggle of the highest degree. As the entire recycling industry crashes and burns, Gilford dives in headfirst … to an EMPTY pool. Once again, government is a day late and a dollar short in providing a “solution” to a “problem” that doesn’t exist, … Read more