Gilmanton Youth
Organization is having Baseball /Softball Sign-Ups. We are also in need of
coaches. Please email John at
[email protected] for more information.
Sign-ups will be on February 23rd in the school lobby from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
and in the gym on March 2nd from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Letter
Gilmanton Voters:
A $75,000 petition will be presented at Town Meeting by the Year Round
Library Association. This tax increase must be defeated!
Al Blake, in his recent letters, has eloquently exposed the broken promises
underlying this request.
$75,000 represents an increase of $40 in the tax bill of an average
Gilmanton household. At 16 cents per thousand, figure your own tax increase.
Any increase in our tax burden is not appropriate when the icy fingers of
tough economic times grip our citizens. Please vote no!
We are fortunate to have three library resources available in town. The
heated Gilmanton Corner Public Library, staffed by volunteers, is open
Wednesday 3 to 5 and Saturday 10 to noon during the winter. In spring,
summer and fall, the Gilmanton Corner Public Library is open daily and two
evenings a week. The Gilmanton Iron Works Library is open May through
October. The full resources of the Gilford or Belmont libraries are
available for an annual out-of-town fee of $20.
These are reasons to defeat this petition at Town Meeting!
William Angevine
Gilmanton
Letter
To The Editor:
Ok, I confess, I love libraries. In fact, I have no less than three library
cards. The first, I think, I received when I was thirteen. For me,
libraries, with their welcomed quiet and comforting purpose, are sanctuaries
away from the push of, well, just about everything that wants to push
against me. I walk into a library, and I can leave myself at the door. I
become lost in the books, the warmth, in an overstuffed chair ... in the
welcomed solitude. Yes, I confess, I love libraries.... but -
On the second Saturday of March, at the Gilmanton Town Meeting, I will not
raise my hand in support of the petitioned article to fund the Gilmanton
Year Round Library. I will raise my hand against it. Yet, my vote will not
be a vote against the library itself or against the many who worked so hard
to put it together, but a vote against those who would allow so many to be
misled, misled into believing something — something, it turned out, that was
never true.
And - in response to Ann Kirby’s cleverly turning my last letter inside out
.... I loved It! I agree with you, Ann, there are a lot of dedicated people
involved over there, and they’ve accomplished much ... but, and I notice you
didn’t deny it, someone led the community to believe it would all be funded
with private funds and not taxes. You make it sound so benign: “they just
need our help” - but there’s nothing benign about people being misled, and
then trying to shove one’s ambitions down the throats of taxpayers with a
petitioned warrant article.
Al Blake
Gilmanton
