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NEW HAMPSHIRE'S
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Bid to dismiss assault is denied
Case against ex-Seabrook
officer proceeds: Constitutional
DISCOVERY
rights weren’t violated and prosecutors
had no advantage, a judge ruled.
Fun with
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Union Leader Correspondent
SPEAKER BATTLE
Jasper confident
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EARTHQUAKE
Exeter residents
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Vol. 152, No. 218 t 36 Pages
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
police officer accused of slamming a
suspect’s head into a concrete wall at
the police station.
The decision allows state prosecutors
to move forward with the case against
the former officer, Mark Richardson, 39,
of West Newbury, Mass.
Richardson was indicted on a single
count of simple assault by an on-duty
Seabrook police officer
Mark Richardson
was fired and faces
an assault charge for
allegedly slamming
the head of prisoner
Michael Bergeron into
a concrete wall in the
police station in 2009.
+See Assault, Page A8
BRENTWOOD — A judge refused to dismiss charges against an ex-Seabrook
FROM YOUTUBE
Making way for Wal-Mart
DONATIONS
+Taking a hit: Donations
Demolition
of the former
Associated
Grocers
warehouse on
Gold Street in
Manchester,
making way
for a new
Wal-Mart
Supercenter
planned
to open in
2016 after
years of legal
wrangling.
collected at the Salvation
Army red kettles in the
Manchester are down nearly
$19,000 from the same time
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Planned Parenthood
DAVID LANE/
UNION LEADER
+Funding jumps: Direct state
funding to Planned Parenthood
jumped more than three-fold over
the last two years, an anti-abortion
group claimed this week after obtaining access to financial records of
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No arrest in tot’s death
+Investigation continues:
Two weeks after 3-year-old Brielle
Gage was killed at a Nashua residence, officials said several other
children from the same household
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Sewer and water
+Bedford residents question
move: Some residents expressed
disapproval of the town’s proposed
sewer and water extension along
Route 101 at a Town Council meeting, but supporters say it’ll be good
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Medical marijuana
Retailer begins long-delayed Gold Street project
After years of legal challenges: The 188,000-squarefoot Supercenter is expected to open in 2016.
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — Wal-Mart has
started tearing down the Associated Grocers warehouse site
in south Manchester, and the
company plans to have its longdelayed Supercenter open on
the site in early 2016, the retail
giant said Wednesday.
Wal-Mart received a building permit in early November, a
little more than a year after the
state Supreme Court rejected
the final challenge that had held
up a massive 188,000-squarefoot store at the Gold Street site.
Christopher Buchanan, director of public affairs and government relations for Wal-Mart,
said work on the site started in
October. It should be completed
in January 2016, and the store
should open about a month
later, he wrote in an email.
Buchanan said the Pike Company is the general contractor
handling the project. He would
not discuss the construction
costs, but building permits
filed with the city put the cost at
nearly $16.2 million, based on
The view looking east down Gold Street in Manchester. The popular shortcut
permit fees.
between South Beech and South Willow streets will be gated as part of the city’s
DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER
+See Store, Page A4 agreement with Wal-Mart.
+Don’t light up yet: A proposal
to open a medical marijuana operation and dispensary in Epping has
been but on hold until the state
has issued its request for applications from those seeking to open
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Today’s Letters:
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Business ...........B3-4
Classified ....... C4,6-8
Comics / TV .......D8-9
Crosswords ...........D7
Editorial Page .......A6
Lifestyles ..............B7
Lotteries ............... A4
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A Small Prayer
Today’s Chuckle
Our harmony,
Lord, requires faith
in You. Amen
Experience is the
best teacher, but
you still ought to
read the instructions first.
New Hampshire Union Leader
©2014 Union Leader Corp.,
Manchester, N.H.
Volunteers share joy of adaptive skiing
BENNINGTON
VOLUNTEERING is fun,
easy and rewarding at the
Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center’s Adaptive Recreation and Sports
program.
The program, which goes
by the acronym CMARS,
held its first weekend of
volunteer training recently,
and the message was loud
and clear: The volunteers
have a passion for skiing
and want to give back to
others.
The volunteers were eager
to get on the snow to learn
how to work with people
with disabilities and help
them experience a fun
winter activity. The training
includes giving the volunteers a feel for how people
with disabilities use the dif-
Slopeside
Kathleen Baglio Humphreys
brought to you by
ferent pieces of equipment
and for the environmental
challenges they face.
“I liked how we got to feel
what it was like to be one of
the students,” said first-year
+See Slopeside, Page A4
At an adaptive-skiing training session at
Crotched Mountain, volunteer Matthew
Colby rides on the bi-ski while Jennifer
Wilcox handles the tether and Peter
Spain, background, works as a blocker.
KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS
Single dad
asks for help
MANCHESTER — Molly expects that
Santa Claus will bring her presents Christmas morning. Thanks
to members of the community who
contribute to the Union Leader
Santa fund for
the
Salvation
Army, there will
be presents.
Her
father,
who has been
out of work for
four years, this
year asked for
assistance and
will be able to
select toys for
Molly at the one-day Toy Shop that
is filled not only with toys purchased
by the Santa Fund, but also with special toys donated by participants in
+See Santa, Page A4
Slopeside
Continued from Page A1
volunteer Isabelle Leo, 13,
of Merrimack. “We did a
blindfold activity and experienced what it was like to
be visually impaired. It was
interesting to know what
they feel like when they are
participating. It helped me
when they told me how far
away things were or on the
right or left side of me.”
For some, working with
disabled people is a step
outside their comfort zone.
But lead instructor Mick
Brown, an eight-season
veteran, advised the newcomers, “Don’t be intimidated.”
“When I first came to
the program I didn’t have
any involvement in working with the handicapped
before and it was an
environment I was a little
uncomfortable in,” he said.
“Put all those worries aside.
There was enough support
within the program to help
me get through this. If you
have a mind to do it, just
do it.”
CMARS offers two-hour
on-snow lessons. Last
season they worked with 80
participants with disabilities.
Fifth-year volunteer Peter
Spain said the program
“gives me an opportunity
to share what I really enjoy
about being outdoors, skiing, and to be able to have
other folks experience that
is a great opportunity for
me, as well as them.”
Many participants with
mobility issues use a bi-ski,
a high-tech seat on skis.
When the participant is
taking a lesson or skiing, he
is accompanied by a lead
instructor and two volunteers.
The instructor can use a
tether to control the bi-ski.
“The biggest challenge to
learn to tether a bi-ski,” said
third-year volunteer Jennifer Wilcox, “is positioning behind the ski, speed
control, make sure the
students are comfortable
and adapting to their needs
and the snow conditions.
Everything plays a factor.”
Store
The volunteers serve as
“blockers.” “Blockers are a
huge part of bi-skiing,” said
Wilcox. “They are like body
guards and keep an eye out
for other skiers.”
Newer volunteers can
help with stand-up lessons
or as alternate instructors
in situations where skiing
skills are not as critical.
“If you have the desire to
volunteer and minimal skiing skills, sure, bring it on
— we’ll find some place for
you, no doubt,” said Brown.
The time spent with the
students makes the volunteer time special, Brown
said. “What draws us here
is the magic that happens
with the students and it’s
great seeing the reaction of
the parents, students and
caregivers. You can’t put a
price tag on that.”
For more information
on CMARS, contact Kristin Harris, 603-547-3311
ext. 1664 or email cmars@
crotchedmountain.org.
Continued from Page A1
In 2009, city planners approved a Wal-Mart for the
site, overruling objections
from residents of nearby
neighborhoods, who feared
an increase in traffic. WalMart then had to wait four
years as Hannaford Supermarkets, which is located
on nearby John E. Devine
Drive, and other businesses
challenged the city approval in court.
People who live in neighborhoods west of the site
still don’t want it built, said
Alderman Barbara Shaw,
whose Ward 9 includes the
Wal-Mart site.
“I think this is one of the
biggest blunders Man-
chester has ever pulled on
a neighborhood,” Shaw
said. She predicted that
Wal-Mart will initially draw
crowds, but the shoppers
will soon tire of the traffic
jams.
“When people start fighting traffic, they’ll say the
heck with it and go someplace else,” she said.
According to the Planning Department, no signficant changes have been
made to the 2009 plans. The
plans call for a traffic light
at South Beech Street and
Brown Avenue, sychronization of South Willow Street
traffic lights, and gates that
will block through-traffic
on residential portions of
Gold and Sewall streets.
President Road will remain open and will likely
become the link between
South Beech Street and
Wal-Mart.
Pamela Goucher, deputy
director of planning and
community development,
said Wal-Mart must install
the Gold Street and Sewall
Street gates before it can
open the store.
Shaw said Wal-Mart has
agreed to review its traffic
plan a year after the store
opens.
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Earthquake rattles nerves in Exeter area
By JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
EXETER — Brentwood police Officer Brett Wells had
just arrived back at the police station after patrolling
the streets when he heard
what sounded like a loud
explosion a little before 3
a.m. Thursday.
“It was a boom, like a
transformer blew up. It was
really close to the vicinity of
the PD,” Wells said.
The startling boom was
followed by a rumble in the
ground that lasted for a few
seconds.
Convinced
something
had
exploded,
Wells
jumped into his cruiser and
began searching for the
source of the mysterious
boom while thinking, “This
is going to create some paperwork.”
Turns out, the paperwork
was at the Weston Observatory at Boston College,
which measured a 1.6-magnitude earthquake at 2:53
a.m. It was located about
four miles to the westsouthwest of Exeter.
While the quake was
small and not an uncommon occurrence in New
Hampshire, Alan Kafka, director of the Weston Observatory, said he wouldn’t be
surprised if it was actually a
little stronger based on the
reports from so many people who felt and heard the
tremor.
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Quakes can be felt starting at a magnitude of about
1.5, but Kafka said most
aren’t widely felt until they
reach a 3.0 on the Richter
scale.
According to Kafka, the
boom sound is caused by
waves from the earthquake
inside the earth that reach
the surface and shake it like
a big loudspeaker, generating low frequency waves.
“It sounds like a boom
because it is on the low end
of the frequency band that
our ears can sense. Something like the deep bass of
musical notes,” he said.
Many residents in the Exeter, Brentwood and Kingston area said they were
awakened by the sound, but
few people thought it was
caused by an earthquake.
Because of the sound,
most said they figured it
must have been an explosion, or maybe a sonic
boom.
Lani Clark, who lives on
Northrup Drive in Brentwood, said she and her husband awoke from a sound
sleep.
“It sounded to me that
something crashed onto
our home. Things shook.
My husband got up and
looked all around the house
but saw nothing,” she said.
Exeter resident David
O’Hearn and his wife heard
the boom and felt their
house shake.
Jayne Veilleux, who lives
on Louisburg Circle in Exeter, said the boom “definitely sounded like a large
explosion from nearby, and
probably within a mile or
two from Louisburg Circle.”
Susan Baillargeon, office
manager at the Exeter Fire
Department, heard it as
well at her house on Watson
Road.
Baillargeon said she was
awake at the time, but that
the noise woke up her husband.
“I said to my husband,
‘What was that? It sounded
like an explosion,’” she said.
Baillargeon looked out
the windows at her house
and didn’t see anything.
Other residents who live
on Newfields Road also reported hearing it.
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