Katherine Shamel and Carol Egan have a common goal in Chichester: quiet the noise coming from a neighbor’s noisy construction business – which the town say he’s been running illegally since he split his land and no longer lives on his propertyAcross.
If you’re scoring at home, the ball is in the business owner’s court.The residents – Carol Egan and Katherine Shamel – took their shot at a recent Chichester Select Board meeting. They read their statements after staying silent for maybe two years,.
Board dispute boils over after Chichester town meeting
Published: 5/15/2021 4:48:29 PM
Officials in Chichester breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday, thankful that their annual town meeting, full of potential for fireworks because of recent infighting on the select board, wrapped up after two-hours of civil discourse.
Then, minutes after the meeting had ended, a heated, demonstrative face-off occurred between Select Board members Richard Bouchard and Jason Weir, causing the issue over Weir’s eligibility to serve on the board to resurface.
Most of the residents had filed out of Chichester Elementary School by the time the two board members revisited an old feud that’s been bubbling for months. The scene overshadowed the $2.78 million budget that had just been approved, with some spirited yet reasonable debates over taxes and their connection to capital reserve funds, highway and rescue equipment, and a purchase and sales agreement.
Chichester is the next site for a medical marijuana facility in NH
The parking lot and main building at the former Price Auto on Dover Road in Chichester on Friday. The building will soon be home to a new marijuana dispensary, which is expected to open around April 1. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
The sign from the former Price Auto on Dover Road in Chichester on Friday, February 19, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
These days, pot simply doesn’t create the buzz it once did.
That’s certainly been the case in Chichester, which will soon be home to the state’s sixth therapeutic cannabis dispensary, at 349 Dover Road, on or around April 1.