Our Builder’s Club and National Junior Honor Society at Cawley Middle School are sponsoring this event. We have over 35 families signed up to have tables at the yard sale, and there will be a variety of items for sale.

The event will help with a donation to Make-A-Wish Foundation as well as to fundraise for the two sponsoring organizations.

Here is a chance to come and have some fun and begin your yard sale season. See you at Cawley Middle School on Saturday.

Builder’s Club
National Junior Honor Society
Cawley Middle School

OK, seriously, what does Hooksett want to become? I understand the council wanting to develop more of Hooksett in order to try to suppress a tax system that will always cause increases in taxes because of one revenue stream, but they will fail. Cabela’s wants to build in Hooksett because they get in at little to no cost and the council will even give them $4 million of our money for a stuffed animal museum. Why doesn’t this town seek out technology and software companies that will bring in much higher paying jobs and develop a community that enriches itself, rather than look for companies that that have multiple low-paying jobs.

Is Hooksett really a redneck village? I personally don’t think so. We have hard-working people that do hunt and fish (some in my backyard) and I don’t think they want their community to become one of gas stations, go-cart tracks and water parks. How will the people of Hooksett pay the tax burden when the value of homes go down because people will not want to live in this community? The taxes will start to climb exponentially.

Let’s build this town the right way and bring in highpaying jobs and a high school, and build a town with a strong sense of community. Not one of letting Cabela’s corporation control how they make money to appease the shareholders, and really not caring about the community in which they open a store. But if Hooksett really likes it, maybe we can add an adult entertainment bar to the mix as well.

Matthew Quiet
Hooksett

We as a town are very supportive to our children and their future as evidenced by the approval and passing of numerous school budget recommendations. We supported the TIF for the Target/Home Depot construction with the promise from administration that it would keep our taxes down and improve the town. Since that inception, our taxes have at least doubled, and in many cases, tripled over the last seven years.

We struggled through the reassessment, new school and the threat of possibility of supporting our own high school, supported the 4 percent raise for the town employees (which by the way is about double the aveerage raise that most workers are getting in this state), and what are we getting in return? Another reassessment and another request to support another TIF for $18 million for a company to build in the town that easily has the resources to support their own infrastructure and no reassessment of the existing businesses in the town (remember they are lessening our tax burden so we have been told).

If Cabela’s wants to be in Hooksett, then let them pay for it. The last thing this town needs is a museum, two hotels, more gas stations, six restaurants and of all things, a go-cart course.

There was a time that the administration took pride in keeping the town of Hooksett small and intimate and focused on our children’s welfare and future instead of trying to be the next thriving metropolis. If we wanted to be like Bedford, Manchester, Concord and Londonderry, we would have moved there. We instead have to return to our focus to what we value in Hooksett such as community and our children and be more like Auburn, Chester and Candia and be an intimate town that people want to live in instead of moving away from. The bigger the developments, the smaller the desire to live around resulting in decreasing the property values and the essence of the town.

Families move to Hooksett and New Hampshire to get away from the hustle and bustle and noise to reside in a small town with good values, trees, wildlife and quiet. If we keep letting in these major businesses, that will be all gone.

I ask the taxpayers to remember this when they vote for the TIF and just what kind of environment they want to live in and how much financial responsibility they want to have for that. People, return Hooksett to the small-town values and place we are proud to live in, not the next up and coming city.

Administration, I ask that you wake up and get the town’s priorities straight and stop the madness. We were asked by one of the representatives of the town to invest in Hooksett, and voting no would be the best investment we have done in a long time! You need to take control, slow down, listen to the taxpayers and stop trying to keep up with the mini cities and return to small town values and priorities such as family, community and pride. Be the next leader instead of a follower and rule from the front with the taxpayers, not from behind with the businesses.

Taxpayers take control and stop being pushed around and help return Hooksett to the town that people were proud to live in before it is all too late. All we ask is for the administration to advocate for the townspeople and not for their wallets.

Jeannie Clement
Hooksett

These officers that have left have taken drastic pay cuts to keep their sanity. Although Chief Agrafiotis has lied and told commissioners that it was for better paying jobs.

Hooksett police never had these problems under Chief Oliver. Under Chief Oliver, officers did not leave the department unless going to bigger agencies, which was why you had officers with 12-plus years’ experience in Hooksett.

I guess losing 17 people with multi-years’ experience was all right with the commission when Chief Agrafiotis told them he was going to come in and “clean house.” These were normal people like you or I that had families, children, mortgage payments and bills to pay that were forced out the door because Chief Agrafiotis wanted to “clean house.”

Have you ever worked for someone that outside of work appears to be the nicest guy, but then you hear his employees say that he is the worst boss ever? Well, that is what your police officers go through every day. It is time to stand up and support your police officers because they are going through some rough times.

I wonder if the citizens are aware that your local police officers wanted to start a Police Explorer program but were too afraid of getting into trouble for something they did on their own time.

I wonder if the citizens are aware that your local police officers wanted to start a police association but were told by the chief that he did not want them to raise enough money to get an attorney to go after the chief or the commission.

I wonder if Chief Agrafiotis knows that Commissioner Gagnon called officers at home asking them to attend the meeting armed when the chief was going to be relieved in case “he wigged out.”

I now have much more information that will be coming forward in the weeks to come.

D. Dunn (not Frank Gray)
Hooksett

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