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VOL. 20 NO. 45
BERLIN, N.H.
Larry Kelly steps down after 27 years at CAP BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN -- After 27 years, Larry Kelly is stepping down this Friday as executive director of Tri-County Community Action Program. When he arrived, CAP was a $3.5 million organization employing less than 100 people. Today, he leaves an operation with a $24.5 million budget and approximately 360 employees. The private non-profit agency administers 66 programs, maintains 58 service centers around the three counties, mobilizes more than 1,100 volunteers and, most importantly, provides assistance to more than 44,000 New Hampshire residents annually. Kelly listed some of his proudest achievements as head of Tri-County CAP. One is the development of an alcohol and drug program. When he first came aboard, CAP was operating an in-patient treatment program and it was struggling to survive. Now, CAP has the Friendship House Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Program in Bethlehem, Step see KELLY page 9
Larry Kelly is stepping down Friday after 27 years as head of Tri-County Community Action Program (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO).
Edwards, Laidlaw reach agreement: Coos County Edwards withdraws opposition Democratics holds annual Truman Dinner BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
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By Carl Rod GORHAM -- Saturday evening, May 21, saw an enthusiastic group of people meet for dinner at the Town and Country Inn in Gorham. The event was the 23rd Annual Harry S. Truman dinner. Attendees came from all over the state as well as the county. The Truman dinner is sponsored by the Coos County Democratic Committee. It provides a forum to candidates for public office to greet and meet North Country people and to share concerns and ideas of where the state and the country should be going from the perspective north of the Notches. Among the speakers at the dinner were Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Mike Brunelle, executive director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Sen. Jackie Cilley and see DINNER page 6
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BERLIN -- One of Laidlaw Berlin BioPower/Berlin Station’s toughest critics has reached an agreement with the company and will withdraw his opposition to the biomass plant. For its part, the developer said Jonathan Edwards raised valid concerns and his diligence made it a better project. The two parties released the following joint statement yesterday: “Laidlaw Berlin BioPower and Jonathan Edwards, d/b/a/ Edrest Properties,
have announced that Edrest Properties will withdraw its request for rehearing with the N.H. Public Utilities Commission, and terminate its intervener status with the N.H. Site Evaluation Commission. Laidlaw Berlin BioPower acknowledges that Mr. Edwards, a businessman in Berlin, has raised valid concerns during the course of the project’s development. Mt. Edwards now feels that in light of recent amendments and changes, it is a better project and ultimately in the best interest of the city of Berlin. Edrest Propsee EDWARDS page 8
Shaheen published letter about prison in NYT BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN -- U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen continues to draw national attention to the vacant federal prison in Berlin. This week, New Hampshire’s senior senator published a letter in the New York Times warning her colleagues that the federal prison system is overcrowded
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and pointing to a May 24 Times article about a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a California. Shaheen noted the court ruled 5-4 that California must reduce overcrowding in its prison system by 30,000. While not as overcrowded as California, Shaheen said the federal prison system is 35 percent over capacity and that figure see SHAHEEN page 8
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