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• Roads, police/fire staff top 2008 warrants

  BY SUSAN CLARK A growing population, failing roads and maintaining experienced police and rescue workers have some voters and selectmen eager to get Epsom back on track. About 55 voters turned out to the Feb. 3 deliberative session of Town Meeting. Some Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:22 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, town meeting, Merrimack Valley, police, roads, budget, fire

• Split on size of Epsom board

  BY JENN McDOWELL A recent public hearing on a petitioned warrant article to bring Epsom’s Board of Selectmen back to five seats revealed that many residents who voted to decrease the number of seats to three at last year’s Town Meeting have Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, town meeting, Merrimack Valley, Board of Selectmen

• Five or three selectmen?

  BY JENN McDOWELL As Epsom’s Town Meeting and elections approach, residents will have to decide whether a three-member or five-member Board of Selectmen is the way to go. Last year, voters passed a petitioned warrant article to cut two seats off Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:56 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, town meeting, Merrimack Valley, selectmen

• New Blood Wanted in Epsom - Vote is in favor of removing selectmen, board is reduced to three, road agent Ellis is restored

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN Epsom residents conveyed some serious discontent on Election Day, Tuesday, March 13, by soundly approving several warrant articles asking to limit the authority of selectmen, who’ve been embroiled in controversy since last fall’s Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:08 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Road Agent, town meeting, selectmen

• Historic Epsom meeting house saved - Epsom votes 353-284 in special meeting to take ownership of former Bible Church

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN EPSOM – The Civil War-era church that’s helped visually define Epsom for generations has been spared, at least temporarily, from the crueler side of development. On Tuesday, Feb. 13, at the second leg of a special Town Meeting, Read More... Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:37 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, history, town meeting, meeting house, Political, historic

• An interlude of agreement in Epsom

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN For at least an hour and 50 minutes, most everything was peaceful with Epsom’s embattled selectmen and some of their most vocal critics. On Monday, Feb. 5, about 30 people gathered at the upper level of the Epsom Fire Station to Read More... Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:43 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Road Agent, town meeting, selectman, Epsom

• Epsom residents voice mistrust

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN EPSOM – Mistrust of the board of selectmen was a running theme of Epsom’s deliberative session of Town Meeting, and several warrant articles up for vote on Election Day will prove whether such mistrust pervades the small Read More... Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:49 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Road Agent, town meeting