Local hotels sold to Massachusetts-based company
BAR HARBOR Three name-brand hotels have been sold to a hotel management company with an expanding portfolio in New England.
Witham Family Hotels sold two of its Bar Harbor hotels – the Quality Inn and Best Western – and its Ramada in Ellsworth to Giri Properties last month, said CEO David Witham.
“The hospitality industry is starting to rebound after COVID,” he said. “It’s an opportunistic time to both buy and sell.”
These three properties are what the industry calls “flag” hotels, complete with the recognizable brand name and a certain way to run things. Giri appears to specialize in such hotels, owning Holiday Inns, Hampton Inns, other Best Westerns, Comfort Inns, Howard Johnsons and other hotels spanning four states in the region.
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Somersworth City Council allows school district to keep surplus
SOMERSWORTH – The City Council voted to allow the Somersworth School Board to keep $419,671 of its more than $432,000 surplus of fiscal year 2021 appropriated funds.
Typically, any unused funds go back to the city s general fund and the school district would have to request a special supplemental appropriation. Pre-COVID, there was little surplus typically left at the end of the year. The challenges faced in both this fiscal year and last due to the pandemic, have led to this unprecedented surplus. What this is allowing them to do, which we ve never done before, is to allow the school department to anticipate what the unspent funds unanticipated revenues will be in advance of their final budget preparation and show that as revenue on their ledger, City Councilor and Deputy Mayor David Witham told the council.
SOMERSWORTH The City Council has unanimously approved an extension and several amendments to City Manager Robert Belmore s contract.
Belmore was first appointed as city manger in 2005 and in that time, he has overseen numerous major projects and community enhancements over the years.
The one-year extension brings Belmore s contract term to the fiscal year 2023, with that year s salary increased to $139,900, which is roughly a $5,000 increase from what he will earn in FY 2022, according to the contract. We have a lot of very large projects underway or just beginning, such as the more than $13 million upgrade to the waste water treatment facility and the construction of a new $7.7 million fire station, said David Witham, deputy mayor. We felt that solidifying city leadership as we move through these large projects was important.
Somersworth to acquire armory as National Guard leaves city
By Megan Fernandes
SOMERSWORTH The New Hampshire National Guard plans to vacate its armory property in Somersworth and hand it back over to the city by the end of June.
The 65-year-old armory at 15 Blackwater Road sits on 4 acres of land that was deeded to the New Hampshire National Guard in 1950. The original parcel was roughly 11.5 acres, but some of that land has been turned over to the city over the years, including what is now a baseball field. In the deed, the National Guard agreed that if the armory no longer suited its needs, that the property and buildings would be given back to the city at no cost.
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