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VOL. 21 NO. 9
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Mt. Jasper subcommittee working on management plan for site BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN – A subcommittee formed to look at protecting Mt. Jasper has moved away from placing an easement on the city-owned mountain and is now working on a management plan for the historic property. Last spring, Sally Manikian, then with Tri-County Community Action Program, approached the city about putting a conservation easement on the property to prevent any further development of the
summit area. Manikian had successfully applied for a grant from the Tillotson Fund to protect the 2,068 mountain. The council was mixed on the concept of putting an easement on the property and decided it wanted to see a copy of the final easement before making any commitment. It asked the planning board to work with a subcommittee on a draft easement that the council could review. The planning board suggested a first step for the subcommittee was to get a detailed map of the property. Manikian hired GIS specialist Peg Heaney to
prepare a set of maps for the 203-acre parcel. Those maps revealed there are already three layers of protection on the property. There is an overlay zone that that the city approved three years ago. That zone, measuring 91 acres, requires that any development proposed within the zone must first come before the planning board for review. Approximately 41 acres of the property is listed on the National Register of Historic places as the Mt. Jasper Lithic Source, offering some limited protection to the famous Jasper see PLAN page 8
Destination ImagiNation team qualifies for state contest BY MELISSA GRIMA THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
The Berlin High School Destination ImagiNation team readied themselves last week for the state competition held over the weekend at Winnacunnet High School. Pictured from left are: Amanda Shute, Kathryn Record, Kelly Stock, Reilly Wood and Kienan Wood. (MELISSA GRIMA PHOTO)
BERLIN — Critical thinking, creative problem solving, and teamwork — those are the skills local students say they learn from participating in Destination ImagiNation, better known simply as “D.I.” The team from Berlin High School, recently scored well in one of the handful of regional competitions and this past weekend traveled to Winnacunnet High School to compete in a state contest that tested those key skills as well as their ability to collaborate and improvise against other top teams in the state. The BHS team of Kelly Stock, Kathryn Record, Amanda Shute, Kienan Wood and Reilly Wood, placed second at the regional competition on Saturday March 10, competing in the fine arts category, where they were tasked with creating see QUALIFIES page 11
Community survey on consolidating schools or services is “next step’ BY MELISSA GRIMA THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY — The issue of what should happen next with the local schools and administration is ready to be put to the public at large and organizers hope many community members will share their opinions. An Androscoggin Valley Citizen Input survey has been created using the “Survey Monkey” application,
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and is available online. A link is already active on the SAU 20 website (www.sau20.org) and will soon be available on the SAU 3 website (www.sau3.org) according to SAU 20 Superintendent Paul Bousquet. The survey, listed on SAU 20’s site as the “Next Steps Questionnaire” has just five questions and looks to gauge public sentiment on the streamlined issues discussed at the community forums on education held throughout the region last fall.
At the meetings where the information gathered from the forums was shared, the community was told that a committee would be formed consisting of one representative from each community as well as the superintendents of both SAUs. That committee met in November and identified their next step, which was to more broadly gauge the feelings of the public, which is what they hope to do with this
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