Top of the front page, spanning the center of today's March 4, 2008 Laconia Daily Sun, in large bold letters:
Shaker board accused of trying to suppress SB-2 vote
Proponents wonder why polls will only be open for 1 hour and why Official Ballot vote is mixed in with articles that will be voted on at the annual meeting itself; the board says state law dictates the order(sub headline)
By Ray Carbone, The Laconia Daily Sun
Belmont - Two Planning Board members are criticizing the way the Shaker Regional School Board has set up the warrant for the annual district meeting set for Friday night, saying it's rigged to mislead voters about how they can vote on the official ballot (or, "SB-2") article.
Ward Peterson and Claude Patten have both written letters to The Daily Sun and taken out advertisements in the newspaper this week to let voters know they won't have to sit through the entire annual district meeting before they can vote on whether or not to adopt SB-2 for the Belmont-Canterbury school district.
"I took my ad because I wanted to make sure people know it's a ballot vote and the polls are open from 7 to 8 p.m.," Peterson said last night.
Peterson said the school board has taken the unusual measure of placing the SB-2 article on the warrant after a $500,000 bond issue article aimed at addressing several safety-related issues at the district's four schools, including installing a bus loop at Canterbury Elementary School, putting a sprinkler system into Belmont Elementary School and improving security at all four buildings. The bond-issue vote will take place durng the meeting itself.
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by Ray Carbone, Laconia Daily Sun
oopsie doopsie...posted this in the wrong thread....meant to post in the SB-2 thread.....SB-2 fatigue is setting in here