BY NICHOLAS BROWNA state Superior Court judge ruled that Epsom selectmen can’t fire Road Agent Gordon Ellis until the court decides on Ellis’ claims that he was unjustly fired by selectmen last year. At a Thursday, May 10, hearing, Judge Carol Ann Conboy also ordered Ellis and selectmen to meet for a mediation, and urged both sides ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNEpsom 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 firing of popular road agent Gordon Ellis. Ellis, meanwhile, was overwhelmingly elected ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNFor 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 discuss a proposed amendment – submitted by petition – that would reduce membership ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNEPSOM – 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 town. Several residents backed the beleaguered volunteer board and suggested personality ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNEpsom’s fired road agent, Gordon Ellis, is firing back with a lawsuit alleging selectmen, “with a predetermined plan and with malice,” contrived the four charges that led to his firing. The suit, filed in Superior Court in mid-January by Ellis’ attorney, Lee Nyquist, also claims selectmen had no right to ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWN EPSOM – Epsom selectmen shut the public out of deliberations on the fate of fired road agent Gordon Ellis, much to the dismay of Ellis and about 100 of his supporters who spilled out of the town hall on Monday, Dec. 18. After about an hour and a half behind closed doors, selectmen made a decision on Ellis’ appeal of ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWN Supporters of Epsom’s fired road agent, Gordon Ellis, showed up at the latest selectmen’s meeting sporting bright yellow and orange sweatshirts emblazoned with the words, “Bring Gordon Back Now: Not in 2007.” The front of the shirts, worn by at about 12 people at the Monday, Dec. 11, meeting, read, ...

Crowd comes out in support of Gordon Ellis; selectmen say hearing is strictly to find factsBY NICHOLAS BROWNEPSOM – Gordon Ellis walked into the packed upper level of the Epsom Fire Station and was greeted by a standing ovation from more than 150 supporters. “First time that’s ever happened,” Ellis leaned over and told ...