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(Ok.,... PHOTO (C) 2003 DAVID JESCAVAGE Bean Cemetery Historic NEWBUR UTY Y BEA PHOTO COURTESY SHELLY CANDIDUS Autumn Ramblewood In Annual Report of the Selectmen, Treasurer, and Other Town Officers for the N Town wbury of c w N H amp ' c shire for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31 2003 , with the VitalStatistics for the Year 2003 Jim Powell Will Willis Selectmen Chair Transfer Station Operator HOL THE IDA Y PARTY Ed Candidus Shelly Candidus Beverly Wolf Pump Administrative Library Technician Assistant Trustee Mary Bachelder Gary Budd Cemetery Trustees Chair Selectman THEHOLIDA Y PARTY Betsy Soper Barbara Freeman Wei Bill Zoning Board Planning Board Conservation Chair Chair Commission Chair Contents Town Warrant 85 Newbury Service Directory 161 Dedication 5 General Government Officers 8 Selectmen's Report 13 Town Clerk 16 Treasurer's Report 17 Investment Accounts 18 Trustees' Report 19 Tax Collector's Report 20 Summary Inventory ofValuation 24 Newbury Public Library 27 Historical Society 32 Transfer Station 35 Recycling Committee 36 Information Booth 38 Parks and Recreation 39 Bradford/Newbury/Sutton Youth Sports 42 The Fells, John Hay National Wildhfe Refuge 44 Kearsarge Regional School Board 47 Cemetery Trustees' Report 50 Planning Board 52 Zoning Board ofAdjustment 57 UNH Cooperative Extension 59 Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission 61 Public Safety NewburyPolice Department 67 Police Calls - 2003 69 NewburyFire Department 73 Bradford Rescue Squad 76 Forest Fire Warden 77 State Forest Ranger 79 Well Water Testing 81 Code Enforcement 82 Office ofEmergency Management 83 Revenue Budget for the Town ofNewbury, NH 93 Independent Auditor's Report 100 Public Works Highway Department 101 Sanitation Blodgett Sewer Treatment Facility 103 Health Lake Sunapee Region Visiting Nurse Association 104 The New London Hospital 107 Welfare Community Action Program 110 Family Services 113 Kearsarge Area Council on Aging 14 1 Conservation Conservation Commission 117 Minutes Town Meeting - March 12, 2003 118 Summer Town Meeting 144 Statistics Your Tax Dollars 2003 157 Births 158 Marriages 159 Deaths 160 4 u'«ffi^&m(XS§iSi^((im^S^fmt<irM^&VimXfCi Del Harris PERAMBULATOR PHOTO COURTESY SHELLY CANOIOUS In Recognition: Del Harris It's a pleasure to honor Del Harris for his many years of Bom tireless work on behalfofthe town ofNewbury. in Massachusetts, Del moved to Bradford as a small child, attended school there, and grew up with a love ofthe area. As ayoungman,hewentwestto SanFrancisco inthe early 1950s to serve intheNavy duringthe Korean conflict. Del . served as an E-5 Quartermaster 2"^ Class on the aircraft carriers Wasp and Antietam, withports ofcall throughout the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, including Hawaii, China, Formosa, England and Italy. Del returned to the Newbury area and pursued his many interests and skills, working as a carpenter, stonemason, greenskeeper,mechanicand logger. Hedidcarpentrywork at Pat's Peak and has built many homes in the area, hi 1985, he and his wife, Charlene, moved to their present home on Gillingham Drive, on the site ofthe oldNewbury Poor Farm. The property today is a shining example of Del's skill as acarpenterand stoneworker. It is also agreat - location for pursuing his favorite outdoor challenge the annual deer hunt. An avid outdoorsman, Del found a great outlet forhis love ofthe woods and interest in localhistorywhenhebeganto NH perambulate the town lines in 1989. law stipulates that tovm lines be perambulated and the marks and bounds be renewed, once in every 7 years, forever. Thejob includes research into old perambulation reports, topo maps, and talkingwithotherperambulators andtownhistorians. Then Del will set off on a crisp autumn day with his tool kit containing a wire brush to clean off old stone markers, chisels, safety glasses, hatchet, red paint to mark the current year, surveyor ribbon, and notebook and pencil to record his trek. Del adds his fmished reports to others in the Town Office which date back to 1793 Delhas servedonNewbury'sZoningBoardofAdjustment 6