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 NEWS AND HAPPENINGS ...
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Friday,
February 10, 2012
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Durham dog Cynder
Stevens
Courtesy Craig &
Ilese Stevens
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With the Superbowl behind us, Durham
residents can now turn their attention to the
136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show which
runs on February 13 and 14 in New York.
Three cheers for the Standard
Poodle!
In addition, if you value the weekly
"Friday Updates," please pass them along to
others who you think may find them of
interest. Subscribers typically learn
of it through word of mouth.
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THE 2011
ANNUAL TOWN REPORTS ARE
HERE!
The 2011 Annual Town
Reports have been delivered from the printer
and are available at the Town Clerk-Tax
Collector's Office and the Durham Public
Library. Copies will be placed on the table
in the foyer at Town Hall. The Town Report
will also be available for viewing
soon on the Town's web site, www.ci.durham.nh.us.
Thank you to Durham
resident Diane Gallant who provided the
beautiful photograph of Adams Point featured
on this year's
cover.
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FACILITY AUDIT REPORT FOR OYSTER RIVER
HIGH SCHOOL – ADDENDUM ISSUED BY
CONSULTING ENGINEERING
FIRM
AEC Engineers has prepared an Addendum
to their original facilities report to
clarify findings associated with the issues
presented in the Facility Audit Report for
the Oyster River High School (ORHS) dated
January 2012; and to present information
discovered subsequent to the final
report.
Several potential code compliance
issues are presented in the original report;
the following clarifications are
provided:
- No
egregious code compliance issues warranting
an imminent life safety concern were
identified in the ORHS.
- Some of the noted code issues relate
to current standards not in effect at the
time of construction, however, they are
recommended for a K-12 facility based on
modern building standards and technologies.
Examples include demand control ventilation
and lighting system
controls.
- The
facility design completed by the
Owner-commissioned
Architectural-Engineering (A-E) firm is
presumed to comply with minimum building
code standards in effect at the time of
design. The effective code adopted by the
Town of Durham at the time of ORHS design
was the 1990 BOCA National Building Code.
The NH State Building Codes had not yet
been adopted.
- To
ensure that the ORHS design complied with
effective code standards, the Town of
Durham obtained an independent third-party
code compliance review by the International
Code Council (ICC).
- Because local (Town) building
authorities do not have adequate resources
required to provide total inspection of
large commercial facilities, they rely upon
the Owner’s CQM organization.
Consistent with standard industry practice,
the local building authority: 1) ensures
that an Owner commissioned CQM program is
in place; and, 2) completes review and
inspection of approximately 10% of the
facility systems.
- The
level of inspections provided by the Town
of Durham building authority was consistent
with industry
standards. This
included assistance from the Town of Durham
Fire Prevention and State inspectors from
the NH Electrical Board, the NH
Plumbing Board, the NH Elevator Division,
and the NH Boiler
Division.
- Many of the code compliance issues
noted in the report are attributable to
post-construction facilities management.
For example, an above-ceiling lighting
junction box was found to have no cover
with wires hanging from the box.
Presumably, this occurred during a
maintenance / repair event after the
2003-2004 construction was
completed.
- Based on accounts by ORCSD personnel
referred to in the January report; and upon
AEC's further investigation with the Town
of Durham since the January report, the
Construction Quality Management (CQM)
organization for the 2003-2004 construction
was limited to a single representative
(Clerk-of-the-Works) working directly for
the ORCSD.
- A
Commissioning Agent was not employed by
ORCSD for the project to optomize the
building's mechanical, energy, and HVAC
system efficiencies.
- The
level of workmanship and internal quality
control provided by the General Contractor
was below industry
standards.
- The
CQM organization for the ORHS 2003-2004
construction did not have adequate
resources.
- The
implementation of an adequate facilities
operations and maintenance program at the
Oyster River High School will: 1) correct
minor issues associated with design and/or
construction; 2) reduce energy consumption;
3) reduce equipment
repair costs; 4)
improve building performance; and, 5)
significantly reduce current FOM
costs.
To view the February AEC Addendum,
click HERE. To view the
original January AEC Facility Audit Report
for the ORHS, click HERE.
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DURHAM BUSINESSES SUPPORTING THE NEW
LIBRARY
CAMPAIGN
A number of Durham businesses are
supporting the New Library Campaign. For more
details, click HERE.
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COLLEGE TOWNS ACROSS THE U.S.
STRUGGLE WITH THE IMPACT OF STUDENT HOUSING
WITHIN TRADITIONAL RESIDENTIAL
NEIGHBORHOODS
Durham
resident Mike Carter from Willey Road sent
along an interesting article from MSNBC that
may be of interest to Durham residents
dealing with the impact of student housing
upon Durham’s numerous single family
neighborhoods in and around the downtown
core.
Mr. Carter writes, “we're
fortunate that a succession of Durham town
councils have put us ahead of the curve on
the issue of student rental housing in family
neighborhoods.”
Many of the zoning and trash
restrictions described in the article for the
host community of Oklahoma State University
were adopted by Durham years ago.To view the
article, go to:
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/01/10251752-neighborhood-wins-against-off-campus-wildness.
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Mixed use
student housing development such as that
located on Jenkins Court offers a
variety of
non-residential uses for residents including
hair salon, What a Crock,
restaurant
space, the Idea Greenhouse, and
more.
Courtesy
Todd I. Selig
WHY IS THERE SUCH INTENSE
STUDENT HOUSING INTEREST IN DURHAM AT THIS
TIME?
The April
2011 Durham Town-Wide Market Analysis
concluded that as many as 30% of all UNH
students (4,332 students) live outside of
Durham. 2,662 students were estimated to live
in off-campus housing in
Durham.
The
Town-Wide Market Analysis also concluded that
given the appropriate circumstances, there
may be an opportunity to attract some of
these students into town via new and/or
updated housing offerings.
Quite
simply, when new investors look at Durham
they see high demand for student housing, low
supply available, and high rent prices
charged. Investors also see that the
off campus student housing supply that does
exist in Durham is largely outdated, not
meeting the desires of the modern day college
student who want a private room and upscale
amenities.
This
situation offers much opportunity for the
community in fueling new mixed use
development in the downtown core, such as the
new mixed use project on Jenkins Court, with
student housing serving as the economic
catalyst that makes new construction
possible, incentivizes owners of older
housing stock to invest in or redevelop their
properties, broadens the tax base, and is
expected to relieve the pressure of student
housing within Durham’s numerous
traditional single-family neighborhoods
surrounding the downtown
core.
This last assumption is supported by
the fact that when the Durham Police
Department vetted the Capstone project two
years ago, college communities where Capstone
and other new large student housing complexes
had been operating indicated that the
infusion of modern, professionally managed
student housing had served to relieve the
student housing pressure experienced by
traditional family
neighborhoods.
Two items that follow this overview
dealing with Varsity properties and Peak
Campus Development are testament to the
intense interest investors have in Durham at
this time.
To view the 2011 Town-wide Market
Analysis, go to:
http://www.ci.durham.nh.us/generalpdfs/Town-Wide%20Market%20Study%20FINAL.pdf.
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Varsity Place
buildings located at 25, 29, and 35 Main
Street.
Courtesy
Todd I. Selig
VARSITY PLACE PROPERTIES SOLD
TO ORION STUDENT
HOUSING
Orion
Student Housing is acquiring and will
reportedly selectively redevelop the existing
portfolio of 17 class B multi-unit properties
currently leased to students attending UNH in
Durham. The portfolio reportedly
consists of 296 units with 656 beds of
student housing proximate to the UNH core
campus. Orion is therefore the largest
student housing company operating in
Durham.
Orion’s promotional materials
state: “The student housing
market [in Durham] serving UNH consists of
traditional class B market rate housing . .
.. There are high occupancy rates
throughout housing options in Durham.
The [Varsity] portfolio is currently 100%
leased (by the unit) and 40% pre-leased for
fall 2012. Only one purpose-built class
A community serves the student
populations. It [Capstone] is opening
fall 2012 and is currently 100%
pre-leased.
Orion indicates as well that it hopes
to redevelop 25, 29, and 35 Main Street (the
old tri-colored buildings across from the
Post Office within the Historic District
pictured above) into a 200 bed “class A
purpose-build
community.”
The total acquisition cost according to
Orion as part of a distressed sale by Varsity
was $22,000,000.
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PEAK CAMPUS COMPANY SECURES
PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT FOR TECCE LAND ON
MAST ROAD
A
purchase and sale agreement has reportedly
been entered by Peak Campus Company (www.peakcampus.com) on property
owned by the Tecce family farm on Mast
Road. The exact location is somewhat
opposite the Perry Bryant Apartments in the
orchard area that abuts the UNH West Edge
parking lot (between Art and Dee
Grant’s former homestead and the Moore
Fields).
The Peak Company is exploring the
potential construction of large apartment
complexes more similar to Rivers Edge than
the cottage style of Capstone. In
looking at the website, Peak appears to be
very similar to a Capstone and has locations
across the US. The envisioned Durham
complex would house some 450+/- students and
would add $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 to the
Durham tax base.
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The UNH C-Lot
across from the Mill Plaza is one of four
possible locations
for a new
Center for the Arts being considered as part
of the ongoing UNH
Master Plan Update. Other
possible sites include B-Lot, Hamilton
Smith
Hall, and the Lower Quad.
UNH MASTER PLAN UPDATE
PROCESS
With the
2010 adoption of a University Strategic Plan
focused on curriculum and teaching with
subsequent impact on campus facilities, it
became clear that the 2004 UNH Master Plan
should be updated to reflect new
priorities.
In particular, the Strategic Plan calls
for the development of a Center for the Arts.
Determining the scope and location of what
would potentially be a large footprint and
highly-visible building has to be done in the
context of overall campus development needs,
as well as the needs of the greater Durham
community and beyond.
As part of the the "new normal" post
the Great Recession, projects such as a new
Center for the Arts must transcend the
boundaries of the core campus and look
outwards, not exclusively inwards as had
traditionally been the case.
I am pleased to report that UNH is
giving serious consideration to
non-traditional approaches which challenge
traditional assumptions about the role of
public universities and their host
communities.
This week, the University Master Plan
Committee was given an update on evolving
ideas to date to include:
- A
new Center for the Arts is envisioned
as a phased development with Phase 1
having elements for all of the
arts.
Twelve different sites
have been studied
and there are now
four under consideration -- B-Lot, Hamilton
Smith Hall, C-Lot, the Lower
Quad;
- Interest in the possibility of
Public-Private
Ventures (private
development on University
land or
University development partnerships
with private property owners in
Durham);
- New
graduate student and family
housing
would be developed by UNH in
a public-private
partnership
proximate to core
campus.
For good information and illustrative
site plans, go to http://www.unh.edu/cmp/.
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ALTERNATE NEEDED FOR THE
PLANNING BOARD -- IS THERE A UNH
PROFESSOR/STAFF MEMBER, RESIDENT WHO MAY BE
INTERESTED IN SERVING? A GREAT
OPPORTUNITY TO BRIDGE BOUNDARIES AND INCREASE
COLLABORATIVE
PLANNING
The
Planning Board has an alternate position
available and would like to fill the position
as soon as possible. To find out more
about the position, please feel free to
contact Jim Campbell, Director of Planning
and Community Development, at jcampbell@ci.durham.nh.us or
603-868-8064. You may also want to speak
to a current member of the Board to gain
further insight on the
position.
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CONSERVATION
CORNER/TREES AND STORMS: GIVE TREES A
CHANCE!
We are fortunate in Durham to have
access to special places like Great Bay, the
Oyster River, Long Marsh Trail, and natural
areas in our own neighborhoods. With this
note, the Conservation Commission introduces
a periodic series on ways to protect and
enjoy these natural assets. If you have
questions or comments about conservation
issues, please email us at:
dcc@durham.ci.nh.us
Trees add value to our town and homes:
they lower energy consumption in buildings,
reduce stormwater runoff, provide privacy,
and increase property values by up to 15%.
However, even long-lived trees eventually
decline in health and the likelihood of
failure increases. Any tree can fail in
extreme storms, but most often trees fail due
to the presence of defects, such as severe
decay or branches that are weakly attached.
Downed trees and limbs can cause property
damage, injury, power outages and road
closures. Home owners should be proactive in
identifying trees that pose a high risk to
their property and to the
public.
Remove or prune these trees before
storms occur. Keeping your trees healthy can
also make them more storm tolerant. Plant
hardy species away from utility lines,
protect trees from damage and periodically
prune dead and poorly attached
branches.
Following a natural disaster, many
people overreact and remove safe, healthy and
valuable trees. After a storm, make careful
decisions, prune broken branches, treat
wounds and remove only dangerous trees. Give
trees with less damage a chance to recover.
Healthy, vigorous trees can often come back
from significant damage, even with the loss
of more than 50% of the
crown.
Most of us don’t have the skills
and equipment to do tree work safely and
correctly. Hire an experienced, professional
arborist to provide these services. Look for
arborists from an established company, with
proper insurance and professional
certification. For more information on tree
care before and after storm damage, visit
these
websites:
http://extension.unh.edu/FWT/trees.htm
http://nharborists.org/
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/urban/inforesources/index.shtm
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Courtesy
Priscilla Keene Nickerson
MYSTICAL MERRIMENT DOLL STUDIO -
THIS WEEK'S FEATURED
BUSINESS
This week's featured business is
MYSTICAL MERRIMENT DOLL STUDIO located at 228
Piscataqua Road (Route 4), Durham. Priscilla
Keene Nickerson is the owner and operator
where she teaches weekly beginner to advanced
porcelain dollmaking classes.
After
five years of training in the Doll Artisan
Guild School of Dollmaking, Ms.
Nickerson achieved the prestigious Doll
Artisan Guild Grand Master of Dollmaking
title in both antique and modern
dollmaking. Opening her own studio, she
has enjoyed teaching these skills for over 18
years.
For more information, contact Ms.
Nickerson at 603-740-4567,
mysticalmerriment@yahoo.com.
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BUTTON UP NH
COMES TO DURHAM ON FEBRUARY 23 -
FREE!
Feeling the drafts in your home? Need
to lower your heating bills? Want to help
make our region more sustainable and
resilient? Join your neighbors in two free
Button Up NH workshops to be held on
Thursday, February 23rd (snow date Tuesday,
March 6th), starting at 6:30 P.M., in the
Multipurpose Room at Durham's Oyster River
High School. Local energy experts, renewable
energy installers, and residents with energy
efficiency experience will be available for
questions and discussion. Get information and
a bit of hands-on experience with
weatherization techniques. For more specific
information, click HERE for the
flyer or go
to http://www.sustainable-durham.info/2012/01/27/button-up-durham/.
To help us plan refreshments and
seating, please pre-register.
Pre-registered guests will be entered in a
drawing for weatherization related door
prizes! Pre-register at http://buttonupdurham.eventbrite.com/.
For more information on these workshops
in general, go to the Button Up, New
Hampshire site at
http://myenergyplan.net/buttonup/.
If you have questions about this
particular Durham event, please contact
Energy Committee member Charles Forcey
at cforcey@historicusinc.com or
603-868-9900.
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TOWN AND SCHOOL ELECTIONS
- MARCH 13,
2012
The 2012 Town and
School Elections will be held on Tuesday,
March 13, 2012 at the Oyster River High
School. Polling hours are from 7:00 AM to
7:00 PM. Voters will park in reserved spaces
along the front of the school and use the
Multipurpose Room entrance. To view the
Election Warrant, click HERE.
The following is a
list of citizens that have filed for
Durham elected
offices:
Town Council, 3
positions (3-year terms): Diana Carroll, Robin Mower, David
Howland, Leslie
Schwartz
Library Board of
Trustees, 2 positions (3-year
terms): Robin Balducci, Douglas
Bencks
Library Board of
Trustee, 1 position (2-year
term): Ann
Windsor
Moderator, 1 position
(2-year term): Christopher
Regan
Supervisors of the
Checklist, 1 position (6-year term):
Roni Pekins
Trustees of the Trust
Funds, 1 position (3-year term): George
Frick
The following is a
list of individuals that have filed for the
ORCSD elected
offices:
Moderator - Richard
Laughton
School Board, 3 positions, one each
from Durham, Lee, and Madbury (3-year terms)
and 1 At Large position (1-year term): Maria
S. Barth and Henry Brackett (Lee opening);
Peter Macdonald and Tom Newkirk (At Large
opening); Allan Howland (Durham opening);
Edwin Charle and James Kach (Madbury
opening).
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OYSTER RIVER COOPERATIVE SCHOOL
DISTRICT -- IMPORTANT DATES TO
REMEMBER
February 21st Candidates' Night (ORHS
Location TBD 7 PM)
Snow Date: February
22nd
March 13th Voting Day -- Session II --
Vote in Town of Residence
For more information contact the SAU
Office at 868-5100 X2002.
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PUBLIC
MEETINGS: SCHEDULE AND VIDEO ON
DEMAND
The following public
meetings are scheduled for the coming
week All meetings begin at 7:00 PM and
are held in the Council chambers at the
Durham Town Hall unless otherwise indicated
below. To view the agenda for the meetings
listed below, please click HERE.
Economic
Development Committee
- Monday, February 13,
2012
Planning
Board - Wednesday, February 15,
2012
Integrated Waste Management
Advisory Committee -
Thursday, February 16,
2012
All meetings recorded
on DCAT are available on DVD at the Durham
Public Library for checkout and
viewing.
VIDEO ON
DEMAND: Meetings can also be viewed via
Video on Demand. Interested viewers can
access the streaming site from the
Town’s website at http://ci.durham.nh.us/ by
clicking the DCAT on demand logo, or directly
at http://dcat.pegcentral.com/.
Oyster River School Board meeting
schedule, please click HERE.
Durham Public Library Board of Trustees
meeting schedule, please click HERE.
DCAT Programming Schedule, please click
HERE.
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DURHAM PARKS & RECREATION
PROGRAMS AND
EVENTS
Spring is
just around the corner! The Annual Egg
Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 7, 2012
beginning at 10:00 AM at Durham's Town
Landing by the pedestrian
bridge.
For more information contact Parks
& Recreation Director Sandy Devins at
recreation@ci.durham.nh.us,
817-4074.
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COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AND
EVENTS
Moharimet
Elementary School Winter
Carnival,
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 11:00 AM -
2:00 PM. For more information, visit http://www.mohpto.org/index.html.
Active Retirement Association
(ARA) Spring General Meeting,
Monday, February 13, 2012, 1:30 PM, Durham
Evangelical Church. Featured speaker is Chris
Sterndale, Executive Director, Cross Roads in
Portsmouth, NH. For more information, click
HERE.
Museum of Art, UNH,
presents a slide lecture by eco-artist and
photographer Tim Gaudreau (UNH '92), Wed.,
February 15, 2012, 12:00 noon in Room A218,
Paul Creative Arts Center. For more
information, call 603-862-3712 or visit
http://www.unh.edu/moa/.
ORMS Drama Presents Unwrapped
by Charlie Lovett, Thursday &
Friday, February 16 &17, 2012, ORHS
Auditorium. A send-up of 1930s Hollywood
populated with zany characters as they try to
unravel the mystery of a string of murders on
the set. Adults $5, Children $3, Family(4 or
more) $12, Children under 5 years of age
FREE. All proceeds benefit ORMS
Drama.
Durham Historic Association
Museum - The Durham Historic
Association Museum will be open Sunday,
February 19, 2012 from 12:00 noon to 4:00 PM.
Come and learn about early Durham. Call
603-868-2579 for more
information.
Lamprey Rivers Film
Festival, Sunday, February 26, 2012,
3:00-5:00 PM, Durham Recreation Department
Community Room. Free to the public. Films
include: The Lamprey River Through History,
Connecting Lives on the Lamprey River, Spring
Into Vernal Pools, and Wiswall's Mill.
Co-sponsored by the Lamprey River Advisory
Committee, Lamprey River Watershed
Association, and the Durham Historical
Association.
On Belay Outdoor Winter
Program, Sunday, March 4, 2012, 9:00
AM - 3:00 PM, Plymouth State University. On
Belay provides unique adventure-based
programs that build community among children
9-19 with Cancer. Programs are free for
participants. For more information and to
register, click HERE.
"Best Friends/Worst Enemies:
Friendship Development, Popularity and Social
Cruelty in Childhood", Tuesday,
March 6, 2012, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, ORHS
Auditorium. Presented by Dr. Michael
Thompson, consultant, author, and
psychologist specializing in children and
families. Hosted by Mast Way PTO, Moharimet
PTO, ORMS PTO, ORHS PTO, The Alliance for
Better Childcare, Oyster River Parents and
Preschoolers.
Movement Heals for On
Belay, Saturday, March 10, 2012,
9:00 AM-1:30 PM, The Gables Apts B Community
Center, UNH. Classes taught by Durham
resident Ruth Abelmann as well as Kathy
Kerrigan and guest instructors. For more
information, click HERE.
ECHO Community Thrift
Shop - Durham Community Church, 17
Main Street, Durham. The economical and
environmentally friendly way to shop. Hours:
Wednesday 10 am-5 pm, Thursday 10 am-5 pm,
Friday 10 am-5 pm, Saturday 10 am-2 pm.
Offering clothing, accessories, small
household items, and vintage. Gladly
accepting donations of clean and gently used
items during hours of operation. For more
information contact: 603-868-1230 or office@durhamcommunitychurch.org.
The Thrift Shop entrance is at the back of
the Church in the lower parking
lot.
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DURHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY PROGRAMS AND
EVENTS
Wonderful news:
We have surpassed our fund-raising goal of
$900,000. As of February 5, 2012, we
have raised $1,054,545.00 for the new
library. A great big THANK YOU to all
of our donors! All told, the Trustees
and donors will contribute at least $2.2
million as the private portion of the project
costs. The Library’s Board of Trustees
and campaign volunteers are still continuing
to fund-raise with the intent of surpassing
the goal and bringing down the bond as much
possible!
Storytimes, Tues. Feb. 14th
and Thurs. Feb. 16th at 10:30 a.m. This
week: Valentines/Mail! We
read stories, sing songs, do fingerplays
feltboard and make a craft. All are
welcome!
Irish Balladeer Paul Carroll
Performs, Tues. Feb. 14th, 6:30
-8:00 p.m. We’ve got love for Ireland
on Valentine's Day at the library! Join us
for an evening of Irish music, stories, and
song. Renowned Dublin minstrel Paul Carroll
will recall the lush green fields of Ireland
to banish the wintry blues. Don't miss this
special performance!
Bookeaters, Middle School Book
Group, Weds. Feb. 15th, 2:45-4:00
p.m. - Join us for this Middle School Book
Group. Ruth Wharton McDonald is the
facilitator. Pizza is served!
This month's book is "The Westing Game" by
Ellen Raskin. Books are available at
the library.
Build Your Own Website for the
Technically Literate! Week
4: Weds. Jan. 25th, 6:15-8:00 p.m.
Dates Beginning Consecutive Wednesdays from
Jan. 25 to Feb. 29. Interested in designing
your own website for your business or blog?
Not sure how to start? This free 6-week
course will focus on everything you need to
know, including Web Server Basics, HTML
Basics, Formatting & Styles, JavaScript,
and Guided Development. This course is
limited to 8 to 10 participants. David Sietz
has been an IT software developer for 11
years.
Lego Club meets this
Thursday, Feb. 16th from 3:45-4:45 p.m. -
Like to build with Legos? Join the
library's Lego Club for 1st - 5th
graders. We will meet for 6
Thursdays. Dates are Feb. 9, Feb. 16,
Feb. 23 (no meeting March 1st due to Oyster
River Vacation Week), March 8 (no
meeting March 15 due to UNH Spring Break),
March 22 and March 29.
Registration for Tales for
Tails. Have a young reader who could
use some non-judgmental encouragement for
reading aloud? A Delta Therapy dog is waiting
for your child. Sign up at the
library.
Need a reading
buddy? UNH tutors are
available through Seacoast Reads at the
library for your child in 1st through 3rd
grade. Sign up for the second
semester!
Join the Patch Program, our
reading incentive program for children aged
2-12 years. Children earn patches for minutes
read or being read to as well as a Durham
Library book bag. If new to the program, stop
by and register. Thanks to the Friends
of the Durham Public Library for their
continued support of this
program.
Need tax forms? Durham
Public Library will receive one complete set
of forms and instructions, which should be
available in late February; these can be
copied here for 10 cents a page. Need
them now? Go to http://www.irs.gov/. All forms
are available for download.
Attention Museum of Fine Arts pass
users. Museum of Fine Arts passes
are now available
again!
Check out the library's website,
www.durhampubliclibrary.org,
for more
information.
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FROM
“DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE A HISTORY
–
1900-1985”
Business (1960-1985): "In 1976 a
new building for the Durham Trust Company was
built at the west end of the former Alpha Tau
Omega lawn on the north side of Main Street.
Ballard's, to the west of the bank, was
enlarged and renamed The Tin Palace, in
recognition of the first restaurant on the
site (1912). The Durham Clinic now provides
patient care in the remodeled Durham Trust's
old quarters on Madbury Road."
Published
in 1985 by the Durham Historic
Association.
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Although there is not much snow on the
ground, the skiing is still quite good at
NH’s ski areas. If you have the
time and the inclination, you may want to hit
the slopes. Have a good
weekend!
Todd
Todd I. Selig,
Administrator
Town of Durham, New
Hampshire
T:
603-868-5571 F:
603-868-5572
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