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|W7 ANNUAL REPORTS 1997 Town & School of HAMPTON FALLS New Hampshire EMERGENCYNUMBERS Police 772-4716 Fire&Ambulance 926-3377 Police,Fire,Ambulance 911 TOWN & LIBRARYNUMBERS Selectmen'sOffice 926-7101 RoadAgent 926-3735 TownClerk 926-4618 Mondays 8:30a.m.- 12noon 1 p.m.- 4p.m. 6:30p.m.- 7:30p.m. Tues.,Thurs. 9a.m.- 12noon 1 p.m.- 4p.m. TaxCollector 929-0828 Mon.,Tues.,Thurs. 9a.m. - 12noon 1 p.m.- 4p.m. Mondays(June,July,Nov, 6:30p.m.- 7:30p.m. Dec) BuildingInspector 926-5269 Thursday 12:30p.m.-4:30p.m. HamptonFallsLibrary 926-3682 Monday 1 -5p.m./6-8p.m. Tuesday 1 -5p.m. Wednesday 1 -5p.m./6-8p.m. Thursday 10am- 12noon/1 -5p.m Saturday 9- 12noon RubbishDisposalforExtensiveRemoval Astro,DivisionofRepublic,Brentwood,NH 778-1425 Cover: ElectionDayattheTownHall,March12,1946 PhotobyRalphSanborn ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE TOWN & SCHOOL OF HAMPTON FALLS NEW HAMPSHIRE Fortheyearending December31, 1997 AsCompiledbytheTown&SchoolOfficials INMEMORIUM CharlesI.Akerman,Jr. 1922-1997 CharliewasanativesonofHamptonFalls. Hewas wasyoungandplayedintheNewburyportTwilight bornonMay12, 1922,thesonofCharlesI. &Mary LeagueandfortheHamptonTownTeam. Hewas M. (McConnell) Akerman. He was a resident of an avid New York Yankee fan and was secretary HamptonFallsforthefirst23 yearsandthelast 26 andtreasureroftheExeterBowlingLeague for23 years ofhis life. He attended Hampton Falls and years. NewburyportschoolsandgraduatedfromHampton Academyin 1942. Charlie was loyal to Hampton Falls and its organizations. HejoinedtheHamptonFallsGrange CharliewasaU.S. ArmyveteranofWorldWarII, No. 171 in 1948 and served as its treasurerfor 19 serving in Africa, Italy, France and Germany. In years. He was also a member ofthe First Baptist 1944, he married M. Helen Poole and they raised ChurchofHamptonFallsand servedthetownasa oneson,CharlesI AkermanIII. supervisor of the checklist, town auditor, library trustee and custodian ofthe town hall and town Hewasknownforhispitchingabilitieswhenhe clock. INMEMORIUM ArnoldH.Rasmussen 1923-1997 Arnold was born on January 3, 1924 in Santa Arnold served his working career in Shop 02 at Cruz, California. His family moved to thePortsmouthNaval Shipyardandworkedfora Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he lived timeatApplecrestFarms. Afterhisretirementhe most of his childhood. He graduated from worked part time at Stop & Shop in Hampton, PortsmouthHigh School in 1942 andinthesame Bailey'sinSeabrookandattheExeterHospital yearenlistedintheUnitedStatesArmy. He was also involved in community activities. In 1948, he married Mary Sworobowicz, and in Hewas leaderofthe Hampton Falls Boy Scouts 1951 they moved into their new home which he Troop 107, was master of the Hampton Falls builtonLafayetteRoadinHamptonFalls. There GrangeandservedaschairmanoftheSupervisors theyraisedtwochildren,JoAnnandKarl. oftheChecklist 1996-97. TABLK ()l ( ONTKINTS TOWN REPORT Ambulance 32 Selectmen 15 AmericanLegion 41 SERegionalRefuseDisposalDistrict 34 Audit 46 Statistics-Town 1 BoardofAdjustment 20 TaxCollector 94 Budget Center TaxRatio 84 BrushDump 35 TownClerk 94 BuildingInspector 23 TownMeetingMinutes 1798 4 CapitalImprovementProgram 23 TownMeetingMinutes 1898 5 CemeteryTrustees 31 TownMeetingMinutes 1997 6 CodeEnforcement 23 TownOfficers 2 ComparativeStatementof TownOfficeHours BackofCover Appropriations&Expenses 87 TownOwnedLand 86 ConservationCommission 41 TownWarrant Center DebtServiceSchedule 103 Treasurer 88 EmergencyManagement 33 TrusteesofTrustFund 102 ExpenditureReport 96 VitalStatistics 123 FinancialReport 85 Wages 103 FireDepartment 32 Welfare 39 HealthAgencies 36 SCHOOL REPORT HighwayDepartment 33 Attendance 120 HistoricalSociety 42 Audit 114 InventoryofValuation 85 Budget Center LibraryTreasurer 41 DebtService 120 LibraryTrustees 40 DistrictOfficers 106 Ordinances 43 Enrollment 122 PlanningBoard 15 FinancialReport 113 PoliceDepartment 31 ProfessionalStaff 121 RecreationCommission 39 SchoolBoard 111 BandstandontheCommon 40 SchoolElection 109 GovernorWearePark 40 SchoolMeetingMinutes 106 RCeocmymciltitnege&SolidWaste i« SchoolWarrant Center Statistics 112 RockinghamPlanningCommission 31 Superintendent 110 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportofto1997hamp3 STATISTICS TownoillampionFalls Incorporated- 1722 Population- 1723 ParcelsofLand- 1083 LandArea- 145sq.miles Milesoftown-ownedroads- 19 TypeofGovernment-TownMeeting Registeredvoters(April 1997)- 1,433 TownElection-SecondTuesdayinMarch TownMeeting-SaturdayfollowingTownElection PropertyTaxStatistics TaxRatePer TotalValuation Year 1,000Valuation include, non-profit 1989 13.47 168,991,577 1990 13.95 172,032,284 1991 13.60 176,679,987 1992 12.95 186,243,984 1993 17.00 164,491,800 1994 16.80 167,875,700 1995 18.10 173,529,200 1996 19.60 182,994,700 1997 19.20 192,572,600 TOWNOFFICERS SELECTMEN BOARDOFADJUSTMENT FrancisJ.FerreiraJr.,Chairman ElliottR.Berkowitz Termexpires1999 JonE.Cade,(ViceChmn) Termexpires1998 NathanielC.Lyon ThomasT.Beeler Selectmen'sRep. RalphE.Foster(Alt) Termexpires1998 ThomasT.Beeler KayleneR.Graham Termexpires1998 TOWNADMINISTRATOR ThomasW.Parker,(Ch) Termexpires1999 LoriA.Ruest Secretary LillianA.Walker(Alt) Termexpires1999 EricN.Small CEMETERYTRUSTEES MODERATOR ShermanP.Brickett Termexpires1998 J.TimothySamway GFoorredsotnC.A.BrJaonwvnrin Termexpirreessi2g0n0e0d TOWNCLERK Richard0.Bohm appointed CODEENFORCEMENTOFFICER HollyE.Knowles DavidR.Everett DEPUTYTOWNCLERK CONSERVATIONCOMMISSION BonnieJ.Sheets-Keller DoRnaaylmdoHn.dCEh.aBsaeg(lAilnt) TAXCOLLECTOR DanielW.DeWitt RobertG.Gale LisaB.Wenger,ViceChairperson RussellE.Milliken RobertK.Wiener,Chairperson DEPUTYTAXCOLLECTOR EMERGENCYMANAGEMENT GayH.Brown(resigned) RobertG.Gale FIREDEPARTMENT JanetE.Gordon(appointed) ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT& RobertH.Woodes,Chief BOOKKEEPER MarkD.Wooles,DeputyChief HEALTHOFFICER LoriA.Ruest MarkJ.Coellner TREASURER HIGHWAYAGENT LindaV.Champagne RichardB.Merrill,Sr. DEPUTYTREASURER HIGHWAYSAFETYCOMMITTEE FrederickE.Wilde AndrewChristie,Jr. DeanR.Glover,Chairperson BUILDINGINSPECTOR WilliamF.Kenney RichardB.Merrill DanielW.DeWitt LindaR.Pandolfi RobertH.Woodes