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June 6, 2012
Atkinson audit shows need to separate funds
By Cara Hogan
chogan@eagletribune.com The Eagle Tribune Wed Jun 06, 2012, 01:50 AM EDT
ATKINSON — An audit of the town's books turned up a problem in the financial reporting of two different nonprofit funds.
The town's yearly audit report, conducted by Tim Greene, partner at accounting firm Roberts and Greene, came out this week.
Greene said the audit found the Police Detail Fund and Recreation Revolving Fund were not separated correctly in the town's financial reports.
"It has to do with internal reporting," he said. "They report both in one fund. I'm recommending that they track the funds separately. It's two separate activities, so you want to keep them separate."
He said the finances of the two funds are not mixed up, but it's an internal issue that needs to be fixed so there is no mix-up in the future.
Selectmen's Chairman Fred Childs said the board plans to fix the issue.
"We'll change it; it's very simple," he said. "That will be done right away."
This is not the first time Atkinson has had an issue with two different town funds being connected in some way. The state Attorney General's Charitable Trust Unit investigated the joint accounting between the Elderly Affairs Department and the Police Department in 2008. The state ruled the two groups had to separate their funding because of a conflict of interest.
Childs said the past issues make the board eager to alter the finances of the two funds now.
"This is sort of similar to the Elderly Affairs and the Police Department," Childs said. "It's two different accounts, so they can be looked at separately."
Police Chief Philip Consentino said he was concerned to hear there was any confusion in that fund, but glad to hear it will be quickly resolved.
"It's classified under one fund, where there could be 10 or 12 individual funds," he said. "They want the police department separate from everything, which is absolutely fantastic. It will be rectified and nothing has gone astray. My money is safe."
The Police Detail Fund is money that comes from every officer who works an outside detail job, he said.
"Every time an officer goes out on detail, X number of dollars from each hourly wage goes to the special fund," Consentino said. "So ,whenever a cruiser is used, $10 goes into the account. That special account can only be used for capital expenses for the police department. It has nothing to do with recreation."
Otherwise, the town had no financial problems, according to Greene.
"We had no other significant comments," he said.
NOTE TO PHIL: IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY! IT IS THE TAXPAYERS, YOU ARROGANT.........
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Why do we always have to settle? For an incompetent Police Chief for example.
Why? We could be the best town around, but no, blocked by the corrupt townies who have slid by in life because of who they know, not what they know.
Oh, and we get nothing for our low tax rate. It might as well be ZERO.
Nothing? Does your trash get picked up? Do you have access to a library? How about police and fire protection? Are your roads plowed in the winter and paved in the summer? As for the tax rate being lower, you do realize that the town portion is only a small part don't you? So where do you propose these massive cuts in the town operating budget come from? You're grasping at straws. Do some research and come back with concrete answers.
Hahaha. Not enough of the trash is picked up. Phil and Barbie are still here. So are their spouses (go figure).
Ted is doing a great job though, but I will say AGAIN that we could be the best Town around if we got rid of the incompetents, the corrupt and the boobs that make this Town the laughing stock of NH.
BTW, have you read the lawsuits? Go read and come back when you have a come back. (Todd?)
Police and Fire protection what a joke. Big ears and a big ego that is all we get for our lousy tax rate.
You get what you pay for......
So now you're going from tax rate to lawsuits. Keep moving the target. You haven't told us where the cuts are coming from.
Hello....more than one person blogging. Have you met the internet?
Why do we get stuck with selectmen that do nothing election after election? Because we have electioneering and you would think that men would like to know they won fair and square. Not in Atkinshame. The winners are the losers in the town.
Leon Artus says:
If this town were assessed properly the tax rate would be over twice the currant rate. If certain properties were assessed properly certain people would be paying twice what they are paying now.
Everyone should check their property tax card and contact me if you want to know if you are paying too much.
Thanks Mr. Artus. We will be coming down to fix our tax card because we are not being charged for our finished basement and second floor. We believe we should be paying our fair share. The Rosemary O'Leary's. RIP Rich.
My did my tax assessment go up? The rate went up too.
what happends to people who are cheating the others
When wrongs are put on the people, everyone pays the price as it sucks away people's sense of safety.
11:57, I do not want to have to pay ,minimal or not, any of any N.h. town or cities blunders. I have to help to pay for your stupid law suits via state taxation and I do not like doing it. - 12:04 , You said a mouthful re. other out of town people responding. It just make your BOS wake up and get rid of your towns problem - The chief aka. the Conman. - 12:30, Your tax rate could be lower if you hadn't the to many law suits brought about by the Conman and your Osborn's town and individuals involved stupidity and their foolishly committed actions. As for your last paragraph , I am looking at looking at the facts and I can only see that I'm helping to pay for it all as you and all the Atkinson taxpayers are. - 1:45 , Grasping at straws? The services you describe are what is expected of every taxpayers contribution except for the injust and inept police service up to now from way back when. Have you not heard or read of the over looking of the crime situation ? The drug and other certain violations of law are enough to say how unfortunate you are to have not noticed them. You'd have to be a newly johnny come lately in the town not to have knowledge of the police dept. criminal committing oversights and that is to say that mildly.- 2:16/2:18, You couldn't have said it better! - 2:31, The two are related to one another. Are you the chief or a family member of your chief or one or more of the Bos who are sitting on their,well, fingers? - 3:09, A true saying when you say Atkinshame instead of [proudly] Atkinson. - 3:59, The right to know law allows you and others to look into what you've said here . Get a few more people to look into it with you. You may be surprised at what you uncover and who they are that are getting away with it. Your towns people might be shocked with what is revealed.- 4:09m, You have to be a person of guilty conscience to admit of wrong doing or just an jerk making dumb statements. Why don't you reveal your address so the Building Inspector[s] and the assessors can come in to see if your being truthful? - 5:20, In your town presently the answer is nothing to a violator. All you have to do is look back at the Osborn and others to see what they have gotten away with. It appears that who you are to be given the right to and of screwing the towns residents and taxpayers. Enough for now and 7:30m I couldn't agree with you more and I'm not a townie.
Everyone knows what is going on here but we have to wait for the Selectmen to do something about it. They look like fools to me. No way would I ever sit there and just put up with this. Once he is gone, it's over. Who cares if one last lawsuit is required to do it?
Well, I've been serving on a Grand Jury this week. It's the 3rd time. How the **** do they select jurors? I run into folks all the time that would love to serve, but have never been selected. I can't tell you how much I wanted to see an indictment against Consentino appear on the overhead projector. Unfortunately, when Conman bends the rules they're usually civil matters or misdemeanors. Wonder if the AG's or Sheriff's Office could go after the BOS for allowing Conman to impersonate a police officer.
I apologize in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.
Impersonation , hello!!, when was he last a state or town appointed or accredited as a police officer or as chief? That in of itself is the BOS right to not appoint him in any town law enforcement position. The dumb bell is well into retirement age and has heart problems that gives him the lawful right to retire because of his health issues. The BOS aren't doing their jobs and there can be no doubt they are stalling in taking any action to get the Conman out with the tools they have before them. One tool is their right to force retire him in two areas. 1. His past costs civilly to the town . 2. Their right to force him out because of his past heart and any other health issues that the Conman feels he alone has corrected. The risk of the town for allowing him to continue in his position is a detriment to the town. The BOS should insist and make him have his doctors appear before them in public session to ask them if he is capable of doing his duties and also ask them if they would take responsibility if he were to die on the job or if his passing were to be declared job related. The BOS would be neglecting their duties to the town if they can't or wont do what they should to get him out one way or another.
I actually hoped that Todd would do something about the Con man. Or at least have a spine. What was I thinking????
You cannot force someone to discuss their medical problems in public, it's private information and is none of our business. What IS our business is that he is not qualified and has been using his position to hurt people for 30 years.
Why don't they do something? Your guess is as good as mine. I had a thought today, maybe he has a secret contract that allows him to stay until death us do part. It occurred to me that possibly one of the cronnies he had elected thru electioneering, wrote up an agreement to guarantee his employment and his wife's employment.
We know they have no retirement benefits because they are part time workers so what is their incentive to retire?
The elderly affairs provides perks too. After all, they are seniors and are entitled to free utilities, medical equipment, free prescriptions and free rides - not to mention they are employed by the donation "company". They "could" take ALL the assets from this "company", could they not?
This elderly program seems wonderful on the surface but let me go on record saying that the entire thing should be eliminated because it is a breeding ground for corruption and thievery, not to mention it is being used to hurt those they doesn't like.
Atkinson is a rich little town and the feeding frenzy is fierce. Watch your wallet as they will tax you to death to pay for whatever luxury they can think up. Be looking for a big new town hall. Big government in a small town.
The crazy part is that the ones running it are not rich, they are average. Something is going on under the coevers here.
5:12 am , I have no way of what you were thinking ,however,do give Todd to the chance to do what is right. If not then he is a goner in the next election because he has not done what he has and was supposed to.It does take time to adjust to what the other BOS are thinking. You can not assume that they are on the same page as you, me and Todd are . It takes time to see the what and the who are under the thumb of the Conman person. - 9:14, Your right in what you've written here but the bos can and should send a letter of invite to them and a cc to the chief of that letter. You can not say what their answer would be can you? Their response would say enough to further proceed to the and any next step to be taken. There are many steps to take and I'm sure by then there will be a ,if not mutually agreed to, retirement or resignation by the Conman. The taxpayers can play his and/or his supporters game as well if not better than he and his so called supporters. Time to go chief before you have any more embarrassment to yourself or the town, state or nation wide as has already happened before.
Who is they? The ones you want to invite, and to what. You lost me...
Fred is the only one who is trying to reign him in lately.
10:54, They are the BOS asking his doctors to come before them and answer the question of the chiefs abilities to stay on the job. The chief is well into the time of retirement and should make way for some body else to become the chief of police. Read what was said in the person who wrote at 10:29 and you will have a better understanding of your "they, who to invite, and to wha t questions.
They can't do that. If the doctor releases him back to work, nothing more is needed. The BOS would be out of line to ask such a thing.
BTW, I wrote at 10:29 so I understand what I wrote, you were not clear in your comment about inviting 'them'.
8:38, The BOS has the right to ask the doctors in person or by writing them if they advised the chief of the consequences of his conditions of health in returning to the job as chief. To put this answer on the record is of value to the town. If they told him of the risk then it would appear he is going against the orders of the doctors . He then would be considered a detriment to the town and that would give the BOS the right of his termination via forced retirement or even firing him for his failure and deception to the town of his well being . BTW sir or madam you did not write at 10:29 . A mistake is a mistake and if you correct it I'll ever be of appreciation to your doing so. I wrote at that time ,not you.
The doctor signed him back into work and that's all they have a right to know.
He was given permission to go back to work there is nothing else to disuss. The details are protected information by law so it's none of our or their business.
I meant to say I wrote what you responded to at 10:29. You stated that I said they had a right to invite them to answer questions. I never said this or insinuated this.
Obviously your the chief or one of his supporters. Your not any where interested in taking care of the sites majority in the removal of the chief and the towns welfare. Sorry to say this but you do seem to be very selfish self serving person only. Change your selfishness and then follow the majority of those here in opposition to the Conman as Atkinson police head. JMHO
I am not the Chief or one of his supporters and I actually live in Town, unlike you.
Calling people selfish because YOU do not understand the laws regarding the disclosure of personal confidential information is ignorant.
Read about HIPAA then come back and apologize.
What makes you the answer to it all? Are you a lawyer or another person who thinks they are right? There are the courts that decide who is right or wrong. Besides that , the BOS has the right of inquiry ,do they not? I may be an outsider but it is my right to oppose the spending of my tax dollars for your towns stupid failings of getting rid of its tormenting costly chief. You forget that we, and that includes you, pay the freight via the state no matter how insignificant the cost to the towns and cities are. I'm tired of having to do that. Get my drift or mare you one of the wealthy that just doesn't care where your dollar goes?
It's my right to correct you when you are being stupid AND wrong.
I don't "forget" anything so don't try to tell me what I am thinking because you evidently won't comprehend mt thoughts anyway.
If you are feeling so persecuted and inferior that you continually go on the defensive when you are corrected for being WRONG, have it you way and pretend you get the drift.
Being wealthy and being stupid are not mutually exclusive. Each has numbers in their camp.
Attributed to Mark Twain:
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Please be quiet, both of you.
He admits he'n not even from Atkinson and pays $.06 toward our Chief problem thru the State. Can someone block him?
Why block him when he says is the truth. How can you say he only pays $.06 in what the state gives its cities and towns. I think your being misled by your saying that no matter what your or any other tax bill says it does. If you add up all the towns and cities in our state the $.06 does add up when you multiply them to the $.06. You can say its only pennies but it is a cost that is the thing that bothers people when it comes out of their pockets. You do have to remember that the elderly and disabled are on fixed incomes that seems to be the case here by this person. JMHO
It's not the truth that the BOS gets to cross examine anyone's doctor. Just my $.02.
Then why do they have town lawyers that are well paid to do the BOS and town boards bidding? If the BOS have no right of inquiry , according to you that is , then the lawyers being paid or are on town retainer do ,but only, if they were to be asked by the BOS to inquire. If I'm wrong then I apologize in advance if not then the legal advisers aren't doing their jobs and should be let go if asked to inquire and advise. It seems to me the BOS are the towns appointing authority and have some if not all the records of fitness of all its police and fire appointed permanent officers,do they not? The states physical and mental health standards results are passed on to the appointing authority in order for them to consider appointments. It is time to not further the towns and chiefs foolishness and to make the BOS aware of their rights of action in the matter by asking the towns legal people for an opinion to rid the town of its very questionable chief of police.
Fourth line after words inquire and advise should say and they refuse or have no valid reason to give an answer .
Passing a company physical is sometimes required before a job is offered or employment is continued. At least in the private sector. Pre-employment drug screening is a good example. Why doesn't the BOS just hire a doctor as needed and insist that all the Firemen and their Chief and all the Policemen and their Chief pass a physical? And where the H*LL is the town's insurance carrier, fast asleep? HIPAA-SCHMIPAA. It's all a fairytale. The government and insurance companies already maintain databases on us all. There is no privacy.
jmho
To 6:38 - Can you please knock off the gibberish? Use sentences that convey meaningful thoughts or stop wasting cyberspace.
When was the last time any of you went for a physical to get a job and the doctor was interviewed by the prospective employer? Never. They only get a pass/fail, even for drug testing. Pass/ Fail, no other info is provided.
How would you know? Have you ever been in a BOS Executive session on personnel issues? Problem in Atkinson is you can't FAIL a physical, especially if you're Phil Consentino. He must have a Get-Out-Of-Hospital-Free card.
Here's how nosey the nurse was with me on my last company physical. "What's that bump on your back?"
"How did you get that scar on your face?" And on and on about drug use, alcohol use and mental problems.
Jmho
This has nthing to do with Atkinson, it's Federal law.
BTW, the nurse can be nosey, but she can't tell your boss about the bump on your back.
Understand yet?
Read this:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/legal-topics/patient-physician-relationship-topics/patient-confidentiality.page
You can cite all the laws you want but in the real world people gossip and bend and break rules. Even the government breaks its own laws if it see fit. Get it?
By the way, did the BOS ask Chief Consentino to bring in a note from HIS doctor saying it was OK to return to work after his heart operation or did he have to appear before the TOWN'S Doctor or the TOWN'S Insurance Carrier's Doctor? It makes a difference.
I also think Consentino gave up any right to privacy when he agreed to do the story in the Eagle Tribune about his medical condition. The grandstander outed himself.
jmho
10:20 , Executive sessions may be out of the public eye for privacy matters,etc. The BOS in Ex. session have lawyer[s], employees, etc. ,if it is required ,to attend and give comment on any subject before them. They have to be invited or called in to address any subject if needed. In this case it is needed to finally put the question of the chiefs capabilities to do the job of chief. I can assume the nurse,in your case, was asking to tell the doctor to make the visit time shorter and more efficient in any problem that may be about your health status. - 5:43, You bring up a great question of a return note or if he had to appear before a town doctor and or insurance doctor. In any case it has to be assumed your questions had to be done before a BOS closed door Ex. session. The problem are the rules of such a session. They aren't always what the public would like to be kept out of in their want of any given sessions knowledge but the rules are the rules. Your last sentence says it all about this chest thumping grandstander.
To 5:43 and 7:11 - Let it go. You don't know what you are talking about.
I hope your not referring to me after all I'm human. If I weren't, then I wouldn't be able to write or have the tendency to understand what you and the other know it alls have written on the town site. 8:32, I do know the more of what I talk and write about here than you do as it were and is obvious to the many other readers that respond on this site. One is 9:01 a.m. and they're right .11:12 am , Where do have the right to call me or any other person a pig? Your the pig for your attempt at insulting me and/or others that post here. You have to be the chief responding to a truth knowing you are a liar who has some conscience of the wrongs you have and are responsible for. Instead of waiting for more critical remarks to respond to why not spend the time to reflect and give thought to retiring?
On a different note:
US unemployment is trending up again... LET'S LAY OBAMA OFF IN NOVEMBER.
Sir /Madam, I must have missed the sucking thing that you say was posted here. Can you point it out by date and time for me ,please? If it be true then you have the wrong person to accuse of that terrible written thought. I might be old and had many sexual encounters but that doesn't make me any more worse off than you . I do not have that kind of personal/ public expression of thought for writing . Therefor, I'm not your "pig" ,however, you are for having to accuse me as being one. Your last sentence is wrong again when you say these incorrect things directed to me. Do I think your the chief- you bet I do . Why not ask the other readers what they think about you not being the chief? I don't think you have guts to do that. If you do it still wouldn't prove your not him writing your trashy attempts to avoid being found out as the Conman,chief who is writing in your defense would it? You can go away now because we know who you are. Nice try though!
I all most forgot , re. town site wording. My apology for YOUR NOT understanding that my reference intent was it being Atkinson not another of locations in the state or our country. Stop trying to make more out of things that are obvious to most everyone else-except,of course, you.
See today at 9:01 AM.
It is fairly obvious that I directed the remark at the person who wrote it.
"Stop trying to make more out of things that are obvious to most everyone else-except,of course, you."
ps - I really don't care whether the others readers think I am the Chief or not. I suspect you might be since he can't spell or write intelligently either.
4:39 are you len mullen?
Ha Ha Ha
Boy someone is all bent out of shape by the word "teats". Isn't it odd that person isn't equally bent out of shape by some of the antics of Chief Consentino like following residents around town in his police SUV like they were the enemy and confronting folks at their businesses and homes for exercising their civil right to advocate for or against a warrant article at Town Meeting. Wanna bet a 5 lb. box of Sanborn's candies it's Chief Consentino himself?
Well, I'm soooooo insulted. You just called me a body part, "an ass". Now who's being crass? I don't remember ever calling you a body part. I could, but unlike you, Chief, I'm taking the higher road. Or maybe not, you boob.
Calling someone an ass doesn't even compare to what you said, and you think you are on a high road? You do not have high standards for yourself.
fred needs a mental doctor to look at him
friel running for state rep who will vote for the crook after he wanted to renumber the town
Nice! Light that fuse.
watch it explode
Let's hope it doesn't blow up in your face.
Don't you mean it should in 7:07's face after what " HE " wrote?
Will someone please get something new into the Eagle Tribune so it works it's way here. This note has played itself out. May I suggest accidentally driving an SUV into the Police Station. Or how about those Osborns. Did the court hearing ever take place?
And keep your eyes on Congress. The "Audit the Federal Reserve" vote comes up next Tuesday. The FED is supposed to maximize employment and minimize inflation. My Grandmother could do a better job! They're supposed to be working for us, but aren't a branch of government. They're a private syndicate of banks. We need to know what they're doing to our currency and country, but they refuse to open their
books.
I agree but I wondered why he took that position. (no pun intended). I guess he likes the back door AND has no class.
Refuse to open their books. Lots of that going around. We can't even get the local gov't to be transparent without a fight. Transparency is supposed to be automatic.
The Fed. Reserve reminds me of the Health Care/Insurance Company parnership. They expect to control health care cost and quality, taxpayers foot the bill and the insurance companies are corporations. This can't ever work. Insurance costs and hospital costs are too high, doctors charge alot. But sure, we will all get affordable health care. In what dream? You can't control an external entity.
I live at the lake and we are having a terrible time with fireworks. We call the police and they shut them down but it's a temporary fix. Has anyone had an effective solution?
My lawyer son-in-law says fireworks are illegal in NH except for the small types such as sparklers and snaps.
Is there another agency that controls this so we don't have to waste our time with the police? Can we call the state police?
I don't mind fireworks but not at 10PM. Get a bunch of guys and sit in the dark with a case of stink bombs or set off a cherry bomb in their truck.
Local cops are collecting a paycheck they don't care about you so get your own revenge.
We hear explosions all night long on Sawmill. They don't sound like cherry bombs, more like shotguns.
I live on the lake too. Fireworks late at night are wake me up and I am so angry
You can call the NH Fire Marshal and complain to them.
How about we put some addresses on here?
fireworks....that reminds me. Stat tuned.
Hey 1:40 PM. No one is going to add their address to the record here. That would open one up to abuses from MEOW-MAN and the rest of his ilk in town or worse. Does our town have a noise ordinance? Are folks supposed to quiet down after 10:00 or is it 11:00 PM?
I could be wrong but I think the address of each person lighting them off late at night should be published. That should stop the nuts that care less about who they cause disruption to.
Well of course we meant to publish the address of those who are shooting them off.
1. Sawmill
5:01 is threatening to shoot off fireworks
Jordan Shallow at 5:01
Add 21 Meditation Lane to the list
Woodlawn Ave.
chase island road
Stickney Rd.
"My lawyer son-in-law says fireworks are illegal in NH except for the small types such as sparklers and snaps"
Fireworks in NH are regulated under RSAs 160-B Fireworks and 160-C Permissible Fireworks. 160-B covers the big stuff that is used by towns and can't be displayed without a permit. 160-C covers Class C fireworks. These are the consumer fireworks that you can buy at the beach.
Anyone over 21 who has the consent of the property owner can legally display Class C fireworks. Basically, if you can buy it at your friendly neighborhood seacoast fireworks shack, you can set it off.
The police have nothing to enforce now except disturbing the peace. But NH towns have the option under RSA 160-C:6 to ban the display of Class C fireworks by either town meeting vote or selectmen's vote. So if you want some peace and quiet, call the selectmen and ask them to vote on this.
I have to ask this. If our state allows only class c fireworks as being legal in our state then how is it the state allows selling fireworks above class c to any one that wants to purchase them? Shouldn't the distributing "legal" stores be told to sell no more fireworks above class c ? May be the state should tell the legal store distributors to ask for ID'S of its buyers. Do we have to always look for the out of state dollar of the non residents to help with paying for state and local taxes? This unreasonable buying and setting off fire works has to be looked into before we all go crazy with late hours noise and the selling of fireworks that are above class c. JMHO
Wrong Tim. Bottle rockets can be bought at the beach but they are still illegal. This is part of the problem, you can get them but you can't always use them.
I don't mind fireworks but I do not want to hear them all night long. Why don't the police monitor this problem? Pass out some citations and it will get quiet fast.
http://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/firesafety/fireworks/faq.html#F3
There's a list here and it's interesting that cherry bombs are illegal everywhere. Can these be purchased in NH? I hear them alot.
The website says to call the NH State Fire Marshal's Office at 223-4289 with questions.
What about the liability? If you burn someone's house down or hurt someone and they will own your house and your life. I don't think it's worth the risk.
report them. when they hurt someone or damage a house the town and the stupid erpson with the match will be liable.
All of the above comments haven't answered the question of where any person can buy any fireworks above class "c". I do not think they are not bought outside N.H. do you? I know that they can be . It is obvious that they are bought here in the states legal stores . Doesn't that make them illegal sellers of the fireworks above class "c" by state law? If so then the authorities ,local and state, should do their duty and enforce the laws even if makes the owners shut down their fireworks stores to make them comply with the laws. If they can lobby the state to "adjust" the fireworks laws then fine let them try in order to sell above class "c" explosives. JMHO
They are legal to sell, not legal to use, and people will continue to use them until they get hurt or fined. It is unlikely the police will do anything without pressure.
Bill Friel and Todd Barbera talk about the seniors always writing to them in support of the Chief.
People who are disatisfied cannot report this to them because of repercussions that are sure to follow if they do so.
ANYONE reports of not getting Town services should trump all the calls from those who are. Even one resident denied fair dealings is enough to fire the man. We've had many negative reports and they are violating our civil rights by not replacing him. I will never support either of them again.
Good article here on what you can and can't do with fireworks.
http://www.vnews.com/07012011/7897842.htm
Good for the birdcage. This is news not fact. Someone posted the link to the NH Dept of Safety website and it shows you pictures and descriptions of what is legal to USE. We have a Noise Ordinance to protect us from this at night, but it's not being enforced. Why aren't they collecting fines to offset the tax rate?
I can't agree more with both 11:57 and 6:13 . Why is there a double standard that enables the fireworks sellers to sell to anyone in or out of the state and then the state says fireworks are illegal beyond class "c" for N.H. residents to use? I guess it is true that we must need the out of state income in our economy even if it hurts our residents in any way possible. Time to ask the legislators to bring these questions up asap to make things right for all concerned. Safety and greed do not make things right but they are what is wrong in our state on this issue of fireworks. Lets make up our minds which of the two we want most -SAFETY OR GREED- .
It sounds like you wrote both comments, 11:57 and 6:13.
When my crazy neighbor starts with the fireworks, I crank up the central A/C and ignore him.
Then you have to be freezing your tail off to only not hear the noise of the fireworks.
What about the poor cats? They must be frozen!
Cats or no cats the last subject of great importance was about getting rid of the chief and getting the BOS to do its job .
I heard Friel bombed at the Republican party meeting at the Community Center. He announced he's running for state rep and got all nervous stumblin and bumblin through his speech. Some BS about him making tough decisions as a Selectman. What'd he brag about? Beating down atkinson baseball? Keeping corrupt people in power? Manipulating town contracts? Ya, them good ole tough decisions you make.
ROTFLMAO
just my humble opinion
'beloved' consentino is a false statement in itself. I'll bet he is behind the cat comments.
You are stupid to make comments like this on the internet. Don't you realize everything you write can be traced? Ask Frank Polito, he'll tell you how he got sued for libel.
Mrs. Lafrance must care a lot about Atkinson to put up with the abuse that she takes here and she does not quit the Conflict Committee Chairman position.
Really? SO where is this alleged AGO report published Mr. Shallow (no pun intended).
CAN YOU PEOPLE SPEAK ENGLISH?
I don't normally buy into the PD conspiracy theories in town but I will throw this out there. Jordan Shallow was a guest at APD Officer Nick Fiset's recent wedding so if you are looking for a reason why he gets away with so much in your neighborhood, you might start with the PD connection.
If your so foolish to talk about cats go to a pet site. If you care about the town stay on the subjects that concern the town, mainly the Conman and his buddies that are the shame in all of the wrongfultowns doings.
This is just part of the harassment of residents that is allowed to continue year after year. Atkinson is an embarassment. I was hoping some of the new officers would bring some class to the town. There are some good ones that do not buy into the corruption.
They are new and know nothing about the corruption but they will in time. How can so many people who write here and are heard to say things in town be so wrong about the corruption? BOS get on to the job your supposed to be doing in correcting the situation of corruption alleged or not.
I see improvements since last summer when we hired some Plaistow cops. My neighborhood is much more peaceful and the cops I have met are professional and impartial. I truly hope this continues and rubs off on others. We still need to get a new Chief.
I agree that the BOS are not doing their job by not firing a few enablers. They can't be so dumb as to not see the emperor for what he is. There could be other influences, but it's not justified. Been going on too long and is widely known about.
If you ask them why they don't do something about him, they say the elderly love him and support him, I say who cares? We are talking about the Police Department not Elderly Affairs here. Even the Selectmen cannot keep the two seperate.
Love or no love what the elderly do not seem to realize is that the program will exist with or without the Conman. Since when do the elderly alone have the say what is/has to go on in the town? It seems to me the younger of the town are the majority of the tax base and they too will be old at some point in time. These same younger people wouldn't want the elderly to suffer any loss of the so called free cost of mobility or any of the other services they receive from any source . Young , old,and the BOS should wake up and get the Conman out of the picture once and for all. The town will not lose any elderly things by doing so and it will become a better community for having done so.
It wasn't just the elderly who voted, not that I am defending anyone. I did not vote to keep the depts. together. I just think that it is presumptuous of you to say that the elderly don't realize what is going on. They may and they may not care.
It weakens your argument to include this type of bias statements.
I don't think it weakens my argument at all. And to be sure ,I'm not arguing but what I am saying is or should be obvious to everyone in my earlier message. Granted it was not just the elderly who voted and I'm not saying they aren't of sound mind or not when they do vote. They fear they may lose the "freebies" and you can bet the Conman has his way of saying how to vote in that regard. Hasn't that been said before by some one else? To say the elderly may or not care is a false type of statement for any one to make. Do remember that the elderly are of every mental and health situation there is and that they are more than some times swayed by those who they come in contact with and listen to that are "helping" them to make decisions on their personal doings. If most every one who speaks on the subject says that the elderly programs will never be eliminated then why is it the elderly can't understand that? You need not answer that question as you'll never convince me that the Conman hasn't put fear in their minds. Again, it is time for the BOS to act on the Conman and the young and old to make their votes be known by electing people with guts to do what has to done to make Atkinson the town it should be.
Who are you to say what is a false statement? You can't, because you don't know their minds, collectively or individually.
Uh oh looks like someone went to far with a recent post. Theres a storm coming You and your friends better batten down the hatches.
Could this storm be another legal action? So who's gonna sue whom this time?
Get rid of Consentino. End of problem.
Some people always go to far with posts here and should be sued.
5:48 P.M.,As I said I'm not looking to argue however who are you to say you know the elderly have no problems health wise. Because they get out to socially function and ,yes, they vote. My message was saying they are swayed by the Conman and his cronies that if they do not vote a certain way they will lose their "freebies". If you remember some time ago the Conman was taken to task over the influence he was trying to use in regards to telling the elderly what and how to vote. To me that is a conflict of interest because of his elderly affairs and police positions. You do realize that he runs both out of the police station do you not? The selectmen and the existing COI members need a push to get rid of the Conman so they will be honesty and peace once and for all in the town . That is some thing that the town hasn't been in years and it is time for the change for the better.
I never said they don't have health problems so don't misquote me.
They are not all swayed by him but some are.
The COI has no power unless someone puts in a petition. They cannot push anyone for anything.
We've been over this topic before.
Yes we have been over this topic before and it will continue until the Conman is gone from the official political scene and the APD. I'm sorry if you took it to heart about some of the elderly being less than healthy in all respects. You have to agree that those who use the transporting elderly service ,for the most part, are not in the best of shape due to the normal process of aging. Those who aren't swayed by the Conmans influences apparently aren't voting as they should. By that I mean they must be staying away from the polls or are voting as he wants them to. The COI can push as individuals just as each person can by speaking out to others. Because a COI person has to follow the rules doesn't mean as an individual that they can not speak their mind when it comes to their personal opinion outside of the COI. I didn't misquote you nor did I try to. You must have read into my message what you appear to have and thought I did misquote you. Again, I am not arguing with you and I do believe we have more in common than you seem to think when it comes to the Conman saga. Lets see if we can hear from the other concerned readers here for their opinions on the subject at hand.
I don't "agree" that those who use the transport are not in the best shape. I see the transport going to the mall regularly and able bodied people emerge.
I also do not agree that the COI can push as individuals, that would make them biased. I think it's about time you actually read the ordinance before making these incorrect statements.
I also do not like people calling others names, Conman, cat woman, Maggot. It merely proves your lack of manners.
How does someone go about submitting an article on this blog?
You forget the transporting to doctors ,medical facilities and dropping off and picking up for other shopping experiences. I do agree with you about not all are unhealthy and are able to do the things that are open to them including the "freebies" . What gets me is that the elderly are and have been bs'd with the Conmans fearful story of losing the EA transporting them to their destinations. The COI individuals haven'y lost their right to express their thoughts as individuals. There is nothing in the COI rules that says they can't have opinions to express on any given matter. If there were then it would be a violation of their rights . They are not town elected or appointed puppets held to any restrictive self thinking. As for name calling I'm not the one who calls the peoples names that of cat lady,maggot,etc. I do refer to the Conman name only as it is apropreate as it was when someone else dubbed the troublesome official called the chief and elderly affairs head. After all he has done and has been responsible for I see no reason not to refer to him any differently. He is what he is and that name,Conman, is just as many others see it well before my use of the name. If you look at the name and relate it to the common use in all you read in the news it isn't any different in use here. - I was in hopes that the many who read here would jump in and have their say as I stated earlier. You can't tell me they aren't at all concerned now out of fear from what has happened to the many in town in the past or that they may end up in a court of law because of their right of free expression and their giving of opinions publicly. I get the feeling your baiting me and I'm smart enough not to let you do that . I rather you take that attempt and put it else where to catch your "fish". JMHO
Submit it as a post and they usually make an article of it.
COI have individual rights but you are asking them to initiate something of interest to YOU. YOU do it. Why expect others to do your bidding? What part of this aren't you grasping?
You are a hypocrit if you think it's ok to call one names and not another. Seriously?
I don't bait anyone but you are talking like you are in the bottom 3%.
And of course you should talk about being one 12:57 ! I did say and have mentioned that I use the Conman name because I have read it so many times here by others who post here. I know the name is what it is and it being truthful. Again! and for the last time I did not invent the name CONMAN ,some one else did. Now do you get my message or are you that dumb as to not comprehend it? Don't answer the question just go away and stop trying to bait me. Oh!! and yes its a great day for you to go to a spot to do your fishing. Try using worms or plugs and lures. That should take up some of your time rather than being as you are -a phoney .
12:55 Why don't you do it or are you in fear that the Conman will get to you like he has ,allegedly, others in town ?
Why are you looking for others to do your bidding? Are you afraid the Conman will get to you? I am getting tired of you whining about him and asking why others aren't doing something about him. You want it done? Do it yourself.
BTW, you admit you do not live in Atkinson so YOU go away.
And your sooooo smart. Did I hit a nerve and a sore spot on your very being. Now who is the dumb one ? I got the response I wanted from you .
I though that the COI was disassembled because it was corrupt? Remember the post that said everyone was quitting. must be curruption right? "oh but im not from atkinson" remember.
COI weren't corrupted. They lost members because no one were making complaints about the corrupt officials in town. Why stay on if there isn't any thing to do knowing it is a waste of their time as members. If there was any in fighting its some thing I'm not aware of.
"Remember the post that said everyone was quitting. must be curruption right?"
Do you believe everything you read on a blog? If you can't follow what is ACTAULLY going on, why post garbage?
yeah pay attention! The same people who are against the elderly and want to get rid of a program that assists them are the same people who are becoming scared of what there writing! HAHAHA
There is a serious problem with iliteracy in Atkinson. I am never afraid of people who are dumb.
your going to need lawyer guns and money!!!
That should be 'you're' as in, you're down on your luck.
I'm only afraid of Philipus Baldus Headus Consentinous. When the he** is he and his species going to be extinct?
And his hair was perfect
Not at all. You realize that this is just another form of bullying on your part.
What ever has happened to the posters that were hurt by the Conman with his following them ,false personal and business accusations ,destroying of property and on and on? I haven't seen them on the site lately. Are they in fear and why are they now if that is so? Just asking is all. Remember this saying,no guts no glory.
It's summertime! We DO have lives and few people blog at this time of year, mainly just the lifeless and those with OCD. See you in September.
It may be summer time but you can't tell me they don't look to see what is going on. It may be less frequent with their responses than any other season but they do read the site . If I were any one of them who were given a hard time[s] I'd be sure to read this sites blogs . The ones who should be doing what you've said are the ones who should take the time off for the summer and longer. With out being aware during the summer could be just what the towns corrupt people would take advantage of. There is nothing better than to be aware of ones surroundings especially when it comes to ones pocketbook.
August 3 @ 3:37, You just did include your self in your message of being ocd and lifeless. Hahahahahahahahehe!!!! Your another of the towns dumbells after all!!!! Hohohohohohohohohahahahehe!!!!
Oh!!!!! Did I hit a nerve and hurt your feelings? Is that all you could come up with?
For the amount of time for you to have created your poem you could have put it to better use. You could have written and sent a complaint to the BOS and COI to remove the crazy and much to old a coot that runs the APD and elderly affairs . What are you thinking when you insult this cat person? Does it help any to remedy the town being in the political shape it is and as the laughing stock of N.H.? Get a life and leave the cat thing alone. At least she takes care of them where you apparently ignore the whole of Gods gifts to our world.
Vote for Kay for State Rep! We have a very successful library thanks to her efforts.
I'm not an fan of the cats but I am tired of hearing of them here with the cruel insults to the lady by the nut who keeps it ongoing. At least she takes them in and takes care of them. At least twice a week in the papers and on television you see commercial advertisements pleading for animal care and donations for them. As it was and were already said the poem maker should devote their time to getting rid of the towns problems instead .
I thought it was a nice poem
How can it be nice if was directed at a lady to harass and hurt her? Especially if she hasn't the brood of cats the "nut" says she has.This has gone on long enough so why doesn't the "nut" just [anon. of course] state why he has such a dislike for the woman and,yes, cats. That should be reasonable a request even for some one like the "nut" to do.Lets get on with the towns problems. Ex. The BOS and the chief, Valcat lane and the Osborns, town insurance rates and on and on.
It was plagiarism. He copies poems and rhymes from the internet without noting the author. It's like stealing without the car.
It still takes time to do that can be put to better use than the way he wastes his time here. I'd say more but I have an early appointment to keep.
that's a threat, correct?
8/10@ 5:51 pm , Is that you chief?
Is that you meow?
Then you admit it is you after all. Way to go !! No it isn't the cat lady answering your admission. Now go to your Sunday service and be the hypocrite you are while your there.
Who the he!! Is this mysterious "cat lady" everyone blogs about?
The trope of the “cat lady,” essentially a woman who has failed in all attempts to acquire human companions is one associated with loneliness and depression, but a new study has actually linked the idea of a “crazy cat lady” to increased risked of suicide.
I'm rooting for your imaginary cat lady. You seem like a mean and dysfunctional obsessed person with mental problems. Go do some volunteer work or get a girlfriend - if you can. Bullying others here says more about you lack of social development than anything else.
does this person see how ironic his cat comments are? he cant have any life if he's always here blogging about cats and how depressing is that for him to be.
If we all ignore the cat writing nut may be he will stop because he has no audience to see his comments. The lady he "cats" to seems to be the only one ignoring the nut case. If she can do it we can too.
I agree and say that the blog should return to talking about isssues and the blog owner should remove mr cats call comments somehow. The man is beyond help so can we escort him to the door? I never liked bullys and cowards and think him as both of these things and less.
According to the Atkinson Reporter, a unnamed man complained in his divorce docs that the hundreds of kitties hindered his home life at every turn: they blocked the entrance to the bathroom, swarmed the kitchen, and stalked him at mealtime by stealing his food off the table.
And though the couple reportedly gave reconciliation a shot at the behest of the therapist, the wife ultimately choose the cats over her husband, and the pair decided to go their separate ways.
Whah whah whah your crying because your husband left you. Its because your crazy! You know that right?
If you know so much about the divorce proceedings why don't you name the people involved . May be the lady will take the so called man to court and we can all get down to business on this sites real purpose. Its well known locally and in our state that the courts are a way of life here so there wont be any problem with exposing the so called man. -- 10:26, You may be right about the husband leaving but then it isn't her crying that is writing the cat messages, its the crazy husband. She isn't the nut case he is. It should be obvious to even you that he is crazy mad and she doesn't want him back in her life.
Can't imagine being with this cat crazed man. He has nothing better to do than blog about this woman and must be obsessed with her if he can't leave her alone. Pathetic.
Last night in a secret meeting, the selectmen gave the Conman a $7.00 an hour raise.
What a shame. After all the harm this man has done, what could possibly be so great that he should get this raise?
Can they vote him a raise in private? He caused much grief for the residents who pay him. Shame on the BOS.
that's about $8000 a year, about 30% raise. When did you ever get this from your boss?
If what you said is true then it is not a secret. A secret is between two people and that's not to say it is a true secret when more than one person has the secret. My understanding is that an executive session is held the information discussed is a secret among the BOS members and not to be revealed unless it is agreed upon by the members to be released for public notification. How did you come upon this information under this condition of executive session is beyond me? Where is the leak is another question for us all to see and comment on? Could this be a way of getting rid of the Conman with a soon to be announced increase of his bennies for retirement. If that is so then what has he on the BOS that makes them give him such an increase of pay? $7.00 an hour is definitely an outrageous pay increase to say the least. Are you sure of what you heard as a secret? Even the private sector doesn't give such an outrageous pay raise to its employees.
Based on a forty hour week it comes to $280.00 a week . You have to mean $7.00 a week an that would be more in line with a raise. I do not think he deserves that after what he has cost the town. GET RID OF HIM!!!!
They can vote not to release the minutes or vote to keep them private. The fact that they gave him a raise in a non-public is wrong.
Remember that he works at the PD hald time, not 40 hours and his pay for EA is voted on to be $100.00 per year. This means his $7.00 raise equates to %30 or so.
The secret is out but not the answer to how it got out if it is true. A raise of 140 dollars [ $7.00 per hour ] for being on the job for half time work is still to much a raise. Where are the BOS brains especially when they know there are more people in town who want the chief to retire or to have them fire him for his past costly actions. When did you or any one get a raise of such a percentage as is said in the message before this one? Time for a taxpayers revolt and a new full time chief.
Unless they voted to seal the minutes, the pay raise is public information. Anyone could get the info now. Why they did this is the eternal question.
I am bringing up my old idea that there is an agreement in place with old pal Sumner and they cannot get rid of him. Someone signed something in the past that prevents them from acting. As much as I don't trust the BOS of now and years past, they are not that stupid and this makes THEM look so. There's a reason this continues on and on and on. I think they should leak the info and put us at ease.
If the raise was given the Conman and if there is openness and a RTK law then we are entitled to that information . Even under the executive session rules we are/should be informed of a raise and other happenings that affect and effect the tax rate . Where is there truth in what the BOS does? They are accountable to the taxpayer and voters are they not? I agree with 8:04 A.M. that a leak is in order here.
I still laugh at the picture of "the pleasure vehicle on patrol" in the front of this blog. I wish I had my camera with me last nite when I observed the new "pleasure patrol vehicle" at the Comfort Inn in Haverhill> Hmmmmm, could someone check the log on that one
The Comfort Inn!! Wow!!!!!! Are we fronting a ,well, sexual happening place? Does the "pleasure patrol vehicle" deliver its 'product " to its purchaser for a "commission" on the taxpayers dollar? Who is the driver and if it is the ,do I have to tell you who, is the driver? Could it be the driver is told what to do or be fired? Oh well!!
sexual rendivove
Crazy cat woman:
Similar to a crazy woman, but with cats. It's easy to spot a crazy cat woman, she has frizzy hair, bad fashion sense, and is normally surrounded by cats that worship her. They choose to moan and growl instead of talking, and hang out in dark alleys.
I want to know who you call cat woman so that she can bury your sorry ass in a lawsuit. Come on Mr. Bully Cat, name her. I think sooner or later the blog will come down on the abusers and we'll be watching the fireworks.
What does the pleasure vehicle look like because on Tuesday night, I saw the new black Atkinson PD SUV with lights on, driving down 121 thru Atkinson and Plaistow, and into Haverhill and he disappeared!!!!
What business does he have that requires blue lights at 7PM?
Crazy abused woman.
Similar to a normal woman but she can't tell when she's with a loser because she has most likely never finished high school, works a blue collar job, has a history of poor choices and is superficial. She is awed by the draw of money, believes her price charming is a wealthy man and that he is good for her. She most likely prefers the man who got away and she is substituting the real for the lacking. She has periods of embarassment when he reveals his true self and shatters her dreams - in front of her friends no less. She tries to prove she's the protector since she has been abandoned by her parents. Her family history is a line of failed marriages and half siblings and she is playing house with a person who may not really understand the concept of family. The ramifications of such a situation when deviating from socially accepted norms and trying to apply the rejected norms is cataclysmic and results in more antisocial and pyschopathic issues that result in life changing situations such as moving away, jail time, loss of income, loss of respect, loss of family, loss of friends, isolation, suicide, drug use, denial, poor manners, introversion, abuse, neglect and a host of other negative reactions that start with narcissicm and end with self destruction.
Why didn't you go home get a camera and wait for them to come out of the hotel?
This means two investigations by our BOS are in order. Find out who had these vehicles - certainly you must log them out to each driver. To not log cars in and out would be putting the town at risk of the liability.
Isn't the new pleasure vehicle the black suv? I think they are the same car.
What we have is a small handfull of cry babies that try to make a lot of noise because they did not get their way. If the majority of the population thought as you do then changes would have taken place a long tme ago. You small group have the freedom of speech to say what you think and feel, but we also have the freedom to vote to make things happen as a group. If you truly had the support of the town behind your conspiracy thinking then you would have run and been voted in to the BOS on the platform that you would do as you cry about on this dying blog.
A long time ago? Who are you kidding,the Haverhill hotel thing just happened. What with this happening being published here, a true accusation or not, it may be a legal happening being there . You'd think there would be a response by now in defense of the use of the m/v. Its just another reason why there should be an accountable full time chief and not a part time Disney character that is some where in a Disney Land of his own.
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