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Shurtleff: Upsetting the Education Mafia

July 9, 2025June 19, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

My late friend and mentor, Sam Blumenfeld, once remarked that the government school system is a “sick, obsolete dinosaur being propped up by powerful lobbyists like the National Education Association and government officials.” The truth of that statement was on full display recently at the Wolfeboro Library. On June 10th, New Hampshire Education Options held … Read more

More on Wolfeboro’s Rino, Brodie “If It Gets Me a Vote, I’ll Wear a Mask!” Deshaies

March 7, 2022 Skip

I got beat to the story about Zandra Rice-Hawkin’s Granite State Progress endorsement of RINO Brodie Deshaies (Wolfeboro – anything to get a vote) for School Board tomorrow:

Granite State Progress Endorses a Republican?

March 6, 2022 Op-Ed

Voters across New Hampshire are receiving letters, purportedly from local “neighbors,” urging them to vote in school-board elections next week, but they’re actually a form letter from a leftist group named Granite State Progress.

Wolfeboro – Band Members Should Wear a Mask While Performing at an Outdoor Event – And Other Stupidness

June 19, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, is a bit of a mess. I won’t get into details, you can go here for that, but the result of that decline in culture is this. An email from a conductor for the Cate Park Band. He’s vaccinated but promises to wear a mask, even though he’ll be outdoors.

Wednesday Overnight Thread – Principal Says, “Your Consent Is Not Required,” Edition

June 9, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, wants this parent to know who runs the show when it comes to rules and COVID and masks. In a letter dated June 9th, the Principal made this as clear as vodka, Comrade.

It’s Time to Take the Masks off of Our Kids

May 9, 2021 Op-Ed

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 – 8 PM Kingswood Arts Center. Pre-meeting for parents, concerned citizens, and taxpayers at 6 PM @29 Union Street, Wolfeboro (adjacent to Town Hall and Carpenter School).

Wolfeboro NH PD: On the Matter of ‘Ratting-Out!’ Your Neighbors

April 25, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Have you seen any stories about non-compliance? Masks, Glove, Shopping, eek! Politicians asking residents to turn in their neighbors. Candidates (in NH) asking you to send them pictures of maskless residents. Well, the Wolfeboro PD have a non-compliance ‘crime wave’ if the phone calls are to be believed.

For Good Measure Police Tack on a Violation of the Stay-at-Home Order to Multiple Offender

April 16, 2020 Steve MacDonald

If you plan on leaving your state-recommended confinement to break the law in New Hampshire, you should expect to get an bonus charge added to your other offenses. That’s what happened to a woman in Wolfeboro.

Budget Secrets: Pet Vendor License

October 1, 2019

Senate Bill 161, Relative to definition of a pet vendor, was laid on the table in the Senate on March 21 this year, despite having 13 Senators as sponsors. It also received an “Ought to Pass” recommendation from not one, but two Senate Committees. The Senate even adopted the bill. Not once, but twice. It … Read more

NH World War II Museum Declares Itself a Gun-Free Zone

July 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

For many reasons these days, members of The Greatest Generation are likely rolling in their graves. Over the past few decades, the Left has infected our country with a blight of Socialism, Marxism and absolute anti-Americanism not seen since the early 1900s. WWII veterans gave their youth, their health and their lives to free us … Read more