1. By ARCHIE MOUNTAIN
NEWPORT – Jaclyn
Goddette never forgot the
advice her father shared
with her as she made her
way through Newport
Middle and High School
and Colby-Sawyer Col-
lege.
“It’s the student that
makes the school, not the
school that makes the stu-
dent.”
That bit of encourage-
ment from John Goddette
came just as Jaclyn was
starting classes at New-
port Middle School fol-
lowing a move by her
family from Lebanon to
Newport.
Jaclyn complained to her
father that Newport did
not have as many opportu-
nities as Lebanon.
With her father’s advice
as a starter and Jaclyn’s
willingness to take chal-
lenging courses, she
did her part at Newport
where she was the Class
Essayist (third honors) in
the graduating Class of
2012.
“Math and science
weren’t my strongest
courses,” she related.
It only got better at Col-
by-Sawyer College in New
London where she ranked
highest in scholarship in
the graduating class of
264 students who received
their degrees on Saturday,
May 7.
As a commuting student
from Newport to New
London for four years,
Jaclyn had a lot of faith in
her 2003 Focus. “It broke
down a couple of times
but friends brought me
back and forth while it was
being fixed,” Goddette re-
ported.
She was quick to praise
two of her high school
teachers at Newport for
helping to prepare her for
the college experience. “I
would credit specifically
Michelle Caccavaro and
Kayleigh Durkin with pre-
paring me for college.
“If students sought out
to take their courses such
as AP English and AP US
History, or even just Hon-
ors English with those two
teachers, they’d be set up
for school just fine,” God-
dette said.
“I think my time at New-
port was a good combina-
tion of me pushing myself
to take challenging courses
and finding the support I
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NEWPORT – Despite
being thrashed 488-189 at
the voting session of New-
port’s annual town meet-
ing May 10, the $5 motor
vehicle registration fee
isn’t quite dead yet.
Jeff Kessler, the new
chairman of the Board of
Selectmen, said it is his in-
tention to make sure that
request gets a second shot
in another year.
We need to do a better job
educating the public, Kes-
sler said at a meeting of the
board Monday night. Todd
Fratzel, a fellow board mem-
ber and vice chairman of the
board, was in agreement.
“We need to frame it a
little differently. Basically
people would be giving up
three gallons of gas,” Kes-
sler noted. “People would
also know exactly where
that money would be go-
ing,” Fratzel stated.
The goal of Article 11 on
the 2016 ballot was to es-
tablish a Municipal Trans-
portation Capital Reserve
Fund by adding a $5 charge
to the motor vehicle reg-
istration fee estimated to
raise $37,500 the first year
to be used exclusively for
road and bridge repairs.
The Emergency Medical
Services study by an outside
consulting firm is still in the
discussion phase. Town
Manager Shane O’Keefe
said three out-of-state firms
submitted bids ranging
from $25,000 to $29,000.
One more company will
be contacted and asked to
come up with an estimate
to do the work. According
to Selectman David Hoyt,
that firm recently complet-
ed a comprehensive EMS
study in Bow at a price
that was much lower than
the three estimates now in
Newport’s hands.
The selectmen were unan-
imous in their vote to accept
personal property in an
amount up to $25,000 gifted
by Sturm, Ruger and Com-
pany Inc., specifically for
new firearms and associated
accessories for the Newport
Police Department.
A public hearing was
scheduled on the request
but only one member of
the public was present and
he had no comment.
The Newport Police and
members of the Drug Task
Force Unit received 25 of
the new Ruger American
9mm guns along with hol-
sters from the Ruger fac-
tory in Newport.
Police Chief Jim Bur-
roughs said the Town of
Newport has been receiving
free Ruger guns for its po-
lice department for at least
50 years with new ones sup-
plied every 10 years. The
weapons being replaced
will be sold as surplus
equipment, Burroughs said.
The words Newport Po-
lice Department will be en-
graved on the guns New-
port receives, the police
chief said. “That was one
more example of Sturm,
NEWPORT – Newport
High School senior Eric
Bailey has one more stop
to make before heading
off to college in the fall at
Franklin Pierce University.
However, before he
leaves for Australia this
summer for the Down
Under Sports Gold Coast
Marathon where he will
spend 12 days training and
running in two internation-
al meets, he needs to close
out his $6,000 fundraising
campaign with additional
donations by May 31st
.
Eric was selected as one
of a handful of athletes from
New Hampshire to repre-
sent the U.S. Cross Country
team at the event and had to
raise $6,000 to attend.
An honor roll student,
Eric has been very active
during his school years
at NHS and in the New-
port community. He is the
youngest of four children
of Tracey and Lary Bailey,
with three older sisters.
Bailey has served as
treasurer for the Class of
2016 for two years, is a
member of the Leader-
ship Committee, the Prom
Committee and is a mem-
ber of the Life of an Athlete
Student Leadership Com-
mittee. He was selected as
Student of the Month ear-
lier in the school year.
This year Bailey institut-
ed “See You at the Pole,” a
By ARCHIE MOUNTAIN
NEWPORT – The New-
port School District is in
the process of fast-tracking
plans to deal with the po-
tential of overcrowding at
the Richards Elementary
School parking lot once
the fifth grade class moves
back into the building at
the start of the 2016-17
school year.
According to SAU 43
Business Administrator
Terry Wiggin, a prelimi-
nary engineering study is
in the works that will de-
termine the estimated price
tag for the project that will
involve potential parking
adjustments for school per-
sonnel and new bus routes
through and out of the
school’s parking lot.
Wiggin estimated the
overall cost could range
from a low end of $50,000
to $75,000.
“We’re looking to find
funds in this year’s budg-
et,” Wiggin stated. “Out of
adversity you sometimes
get solutions to long-term
problems.”
Newport Police Chief
Jim Burroughs said the
conceptual idea for chang-
es has been well received
by District 2 State Engineer
Doug King. “Now they
will need an engineer’s
drawing along with a file
of appropriate paperwork
with the state.”
Burroughs said the
conceptual plan calls for
overflow staff parking
along the southerly side of
School Street with parents
dropping off and picking
up students in the park-
ing lot along with one-way
bus flow.
NEWPORT – The busiest
time of the school year for
the Class of 2016 at Newport
High School has arrived.
The graduation season
kicks off with the Senior
Prom in the Newport Opera
House on Saturday, May 21.
That evening event usually
attracts up to 500 spectators
who line both sides of the
northbound lane of Main
Street to get a glimpse of
participants as they arrive.
The Honors Banquet
hosted by the Newport
Teachers Association is
scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
on Tuesday, May 24 in
the Opera House. The top
academic seniors in the
graduating class will be
announced that night.
Senior final exams will
be held from 7:30-11 a.m.
on Thursday and Fri-
day, May 26 and 27 with
marching practice in the
school gymnasium set for
11:45 a.m. both days.
There will be no school
on Tuesday, May 31. The
Senior Banquet is set for
6:30 p.m. that evening at
Loon Lake Campground.
On Wednesday and
Thursday, June 1 and 2,
members of the Class of
2016 will be able to relax as
they take their senior trip
top Great Escape in New
York State. Then its back
to senior final exam make-
ups on Friday, June 3 and
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Jaclyn Goddette, NHS grad,
has No. 1 scholastic average
among Colby-Sawyer grads
NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL graduate Jaclyn Goddette,
received the David H. Winton Baccalaureate Award
for having the highest scholastic average among
the 264 graduating seniors at Colby-Sawyer
College Commencement on Saturday.
A busy three weeks
for Newport seniors
Richards School parking lot
upgrade in engineering phase
See BUSY - Page 3See BAILEY - Page 3
See PARKING - Page 3
See JACLYN - Page 3
$5 motor vehicle registration
fee likely to resurface in 2017
County
budget
tax bite
is smallFundraiser in home stretch
for Bailey’s trip to Australia
See FEE - Page 3
John Hooper II
New Selectman
Jeff Kessler
New Chairman
NEWPORT – The im-
pact of the Board of Com-
missioners proposed Fis-
cal Year 2017 budget on
property taxes is $110,079,
which is less than a 1 per-
cent increase in property
taxes for Sullivan County
communities.
This is about two cents
on the tax rate, according
to Sullivan County Man-
ager Jessie Levine.
For a home in Sullivan
County valued at $150,000
this budget would increase
the annual property tax
bill by about $3.
The Fiscal Year 2017
budget calls for appropria-
tions of $31,637,510, which
represents a $502,518 de-
crease from the approved
See BUDGET - Page 6

2. Ruger going up and be-
yond to give us specially
marked firearms.”
At Kessler’s request
supporting documents re-
lating to agenda items to
be discussed at meetings
of the board of selectmen
will soon be available on
the town web site.
“We want to make as
much information as pos-
sible available on the web
so citizens can be aware of
what is coming up,” Kessler
stated. “The moment this
information is distributed to
board members it becomes
public,” O’Keefe revealed.
Bert Spaulding Sr., a
regular attendee at meet-
ings of the board, care-
fully recapped his ongoing
concerns with the way the
Newport Planning Board is
operating, especially when
it comes to free speech
at meetings and holding
meetings once monthly
even if there are no sched-
uled agenda items.
“How far do we as
a community want to
go? I hold all the cards,”
Spaulding said. “The First
Amendment allows me as
a citizen to bring my gov-
ernment to task. You have
an oath of office to perform
your duty and obey your
oath,” he told the five se-
lectmen.
“One meeting I gave you
a petition to remove How-
ard Dunn (Planning Board
chairman) and kick him
off the board. If nothing is
going to be done I have to
apply pressure and decide
what to do. I’m asking for
action. If you don’t do it I
intend to go through with
it absent change,” Spauld-
ing told the board.
“I am not going to let
that man or board step on
my rights,” he said.
Selectman David Hoyt
said at the last meeting
of the Planning Board the
majority of its members
voted to allow only abut-
ters the right to speak at
Planning Board meetings
As a result of discussion
at Monday’s meeting, the
Board of Selectmen and
Planning Board will hold
a joint meeting at the next
scheduled meeting of the se-
lectmen on Monday, June 6.
O’Keefe said he will also
have a list at that meeting
of what streets and roads
will be repaved in the com-
ing months.
The board will hold its
annual retreat on either
June 13 or 27.
John Hooper II, New-
port’s newest selectman,
attended his first meeting
since being elected on May
10.
The summer meeting
schedule was also ap-
proved. Meetings will be
June 6 and 20, July 11, and
Aug. 1, 15 and 29. Select-
men will return to their reg-
ular schedule on Sept. 19.
Selectmen also volun-
teered for various town
committees on which they
will serve in the coming
year.
Airport Advisory
Board—Bill Wilmot Jr.
Budget Advisory Com-
mittee—Jeff Kessler, Todd
Fratzel, alternate.
Economic Corporation
of Newport—Todd Fratzel.
Heritage Commission—
John Hooper II.
Planning Board—David
Hoyt, John Hooper II, al-
ternate.
Recreation Advisory
Council—Bill Wilmot Jr.,
John Hooper II, alternate.
Upper Valley Lake Su-
napee Regional Planning
Commission—Bill Wilmot
Jr., Jeff Kessler.
Zoning Board of Adjust-
ment—Jeff Kessler, Todd
Fratzel, alternate.
Newport Community
Television—Jeff Kessler.
Capital Improvements
Program—David Hoyt.
Recreation/School Field
Study Committee—Todd
Fratzel.
another marching session
at 11:45 a.m., in the gym.
A Baccalaureate service
will be held at 7 p.m. on
Sunday, June 5 in the South
Congregational Church.
More marching practice
is scheduled at 11:45 a.m.
on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday in the gym.
Class Night is on tap at 6
p.m. on Wednesday, June 8
in the Opera House.
That gets the Class of
2016 to its final day on
Thursday, June 9. The day
will start at 8 a.m. with a
breakfast at Towle School
hosted by staff members
at the school. The final
marching practice in the
gym and dress rehearsal is
scheduled for 9:30 a.m.
The busy three-week
period will come to an
end at 6 p.m. with gradu-
ation on the Newport
Common or in the Opera
House in the event of un-
cooperative weather.
BUSY - FROM PAGE 1
BAILEY - FROM PAGE 1
FEE - FROM PAGE 1
Finally, it’s warming up,
at least the afternoon tem-
peratures indicate that.
On Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 10 and
11, the mornings started
out on the frosty side.
Rooftops were frost-bitten
and car windshields had a
frosty coating.
While it was cool in the
morning with a low of 32
degrees on Wednesday,
once the sun came out the
temperature shot up to
71, all in a matter of a few
hours. And everyone prob-
ably forgot about the morn-
ing frost and chill in the air.
By Thursday it hadn’t
stopped warming up with
a summertime high of 80.
There was a little frost on
rooftops at daybreak on
Thursday with a low of 38
degrees.
A rainy afternoon
spoiled Friday and caused
the postponement of
high school baseball and
softball games. With the
regular-season schedules
closing in fast, rained-
out games tend to jam up
schedules at this time of
the season.
A couple of things are
clearly obvious, however,
with that warm spell fol-
lowed by rain. Lawns are
growing and leaves are
popping to life. And gar-
dens are being planted,
and that will be on the in-
crease once the full moon
passes through on Satur-
day, May 21.
In the meantime, how-
ever, a cool front moved in
during the day on Sunday
bringing along the wind.
It was a chilly Monday
morning with a low of 36.
Okemo Mountain in Lud-
low sported a coating of
fresh snow on its ski slopes
Monday morning.
A chilling return
Local Weather Report
Date High Low Precip.
May 9 57 37 0.02
May 10 57 37 0.00
May 11 71 32 0.00
May 12 80 38 0.00
May 13 67 49 0.38
May 14 74 49 0.21
May 15 55 45 0.11
Thursday, May 19, 2016
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JACLYN - FROM PAGE 1
PARKING - FROM PAGE 1
student-led prayer on the
fourth Wednesday of the
month around the flagpole
where participants pray
for their peers, teachers
and administration. “This
was truly a leap of faith for
me, but it has been warm-
ly received by those who
wish to take part,” Bailey
stated.
He has been an active
member of the South Con-
gregational Church where
he serves on the Board of
Christian Education, teach-
es Sunday School once a
month to the 3-6-year-olds
and is also a member of the
youth group. “I have even
preached a few sermons,”
Bailey revealed.
At Franklin Pierce Uni-
versity Bailey plans to
study to became a teacher
and hopefully go on to be-
come a guidance counse-
lor. “I truly enjoy being a
mentor and role model to
younger children,” he said.
At Newport High School
he participates in track
and field, winter track and
cross country.
In his sponsorship letter,
Bailey said a major source
of funds comes through
voluntary contributions of
family, friends, and busi-
ness sponsors. “These do-
nations will help me fulfill
a once-in-a-lifetime oppor-
tunity,” Bailey said.
Information on how to
donate to help Bailey cover
the expense of his 12-day
visit to Australia for the
Down Under Sports tour-
naments is available by
calling Bailey at 843-5225.
Presently, parents drop
off students on the south-
erly side of School Street
at the same time other ve-
hicles could be traveling
down School Street. “This
is a safety issue,” Bur-
roughs noted.
When the fifth grade
moves to Richards from its
present location at Towle
School, Burroughs predict-
ed there would be between
seven and 12 additional ve-
hicles also making the move
from Towle to Richards.
Grade 6 is also currently
housed at Towle and will
be moving to Newport
Middle School, allowing
Towle Elementary School
to be closed at the end of
the current school year
resulting in a savings
pegged at $200,000 annu-
ally. There are no parking
issues at Newport Middle
High School.
Under the proposed
Richards School plan, par-
ents would drop off their
children in the parking lot
next to the school building.
The conceptual plan
calls for a new bus route
within the school land.
School buses would en-
ter the school grounds as
they do now, from Beech
Street. However, instead
of circling around parked
cars and dropping off stu-
dents next to the old sec-
tion of Richards School,
they would take a new
route with the drop-off
point at the entrance to the
new school addition, ac-
cording to Burroughs.
“The playground would
have to be moved a small
sliver to make room for
this adjustment,” Bur-
roughs said.
Buses would then exit
through a new, wider open-
ing onto Sunapee Street,
making an easy right turn
only, to prevent crossing
over the westbound lane
of the street. One bus that
normally heads out to the
Guild area would also make
a right turn onto Sunapee
Street and travel down
around the traffic circle and
back up Sunapee Street on
its way east to Guild.
“This would be a small
adjustment for the larger
safety benefit,” Burroughs
said.
There will be no changes
to parent drop-off, staff
parkingorbusrouteswhile
these changes undergo
planning and engineering
review, Burrough.s said.
needed with the teachers
who taught them.”
During her college years.
Goddette said in addi-
tion to all the students she
graduated with from high
school whom she sees com-
plaining about how New-
port didn’t prepare them,
a lot of people she has met
at Colby-Sawyer also said
they were not prepared, to
the point where they never
learned how to write es-
says in high school.
“I know for certain that
Mrs. Caccavaro definitely
made sure we all knew
how to write a standard
essay before leaving her
classroom.”
Goddette discovered
the path that worked for
her at Newport. “I think
my time at Newport was
a good combination of me
pushing myself to take
challenging courses and
finding the support I need-
ed with the teachers who
taught them.”
She graduated Summa
Cum Laude from Colby-
Sawyer College’s Wesson
Honors Program with a
B.A. in English and was
presented with The David
H. Winton Baccalaureate
Award for being highest
in scholarship during the
Commencement exercise
Saturday morning.
The daughter of John
and Jill Goddette, Jaclyn
posted a perfect 4.0 aver-
age during her college ca-
reer. Her numerical grades
for all those A’s were be-
tween 93 and 100.
Toward the end of her
final semester this spring
Goddette said she thought
she might have to take anA-
minus in one of her courses,
which could have possibly
placed her in a two-way tie
with another student for
the No. 1 scholastic rating.
However,sheworriedneed-
lessly as she came through
with an A in the end.
Although she earned
all A’s, Goddette never
learned her actual numeri-
cal average.
In addition to her aca-
demic writing, Goddette
contributed to the college’s
literary magazine Solidus.
As an intern and student
employee in the Office of
College Communications,
Goddette produced numer-
ous pieces for media outlets
across New England and for
Colby-Sawyer Magazine.
Goddette spent recent
summers as a camp coun-
selor working with teen-
agers with behavioral and
cognitive issues. Now 22,
she is entertaining a future
in law with a focus on non-
profits and education.
At the 2016 Scholars
and Leaders Awards Cer-
emony, Goddette earned
the Carl M. Cochran Eng-
lish Baccalaureate Award
and the English Capstone
Award for her work on
“Body Language: How
Morrison and Carter Over-
turn Ideologies embedded
in Literary Representa-
tions of the Body.”
She was twice recog-
nized with the Squires
Book Award for academic
performance above and
beyond expectations, and,
in 2014, with the Gula
Graves Plummer Award
for her moral leadership
in the college community.
Goddette was heavily in-
volved in Colby-Sawyer’s
Interfaith and Spiritual
Life Group, which was
dedicated to encouraging
religious diversity and ac-
ceptance on campus
As a member of the Wes-
son Honors Program, she
traveled to Nepal to vol-
unteer at Maya Universe
Academy, a two-week
service trip, funded by the
Wesson Idea Fund, a grant
to which honor students
can apply.
“After gathering clay in
Kathmandu so that Pro-
fessor of the Fine and Per-
forming Arts Jon Keenan
could teach pottery les-
sons, we traveled 125
miles west to the Tanahun
district, where Maya Uni-
verse Academy is located,”
Goddette stated.
“The four other students
and I helped paint the in-
terior of their new library,
constructed bookshelves
and built benches. I gifted
about 50 books donated
from Cinnamon Street Ear-
ly Education and Child-
care Center in Newport
and Ge Huang ’15 of Nan-
chong, China, and I taught
four English classes.”
Goddette said the stu-
dents at the Nepal school
are very serious about ed-
ucation.
A Colby-Sawyer College
press release described
Jaclyn as “a devotee of lan-
guage, voracious reader,
sophisticated analyst and
talented writer.”
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