NH court hears dispute over Lebanon golf course, housing development
Modified: 5/27/2021 10:16:04 PM
CONCORD Justices on the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday pressed an attorney for the Carter Community Building Association on why they should overturn a Superior Court ruling that could allow the Carter Country Club to be developed into housing.
At issue is a decades-old deed for the Lebanon land, now owned by New London developer Doug Homan, but which the CCBA says protects the golf course from development.
The case, an appeal of a 2020 Grafton Superior Court decision, largely hinges on what type of protections the late Meriden developer Edmond “Peanie” Goodwin inserted into Carter Country Club’s deed when he sold the 47-acre golf course in 1986.
School funding – a problem no one wants to fix
Published: 4/10/2021 10:00:07 AM
On March 23, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, in a 14-page unanimous decision authored by Justice Patrick Donovan, sent the latest school funding lawsuit back to the trial court for further proceedings.
No property taxpayer in New Hampshire is ignorant of the fact that our state has under funded our public schools for decades. No property taxpayer in property poor towns is unaware that to fund their schools, their tax rate must be much higher than towns rich in property value.
The property tax inequities are staggering, an utter and bi-partisan failure of state governance. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in the 1993 Claremont case and again in the 2006 Londonderry case, ordered that the state must define an adequate education and fund it with constitutional taxes.