Monthly Archives: January 2025

Selectboard Meeting Agenda – 1/9/25

TOWN OF WALPOLE 

SELECTBOARD MEETING AGENDA 

January 9, 2025 

Starting at 6:30 PM in the Town Hall 

SELECTBOARD MEETING 

NON-PUBLIC BUSINESS: RSA 91-A:3 II (a) (b) 

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 

• Accounts Payable Check Register in the total amount of $1,757,021.60 for checks issued 1/10/2025. PAYROLL 

• Payroll Register totaling $33,185.48 dated 1/10/2025 and the 941 Payroll Tax Transfer of $6,725.46.

SELECTBOARD MEETING MINUTES 

• Selectboard Meeting – December 31, 2024 

• Selectboard Non-Public Session – December 31, 2024 

REFUNDS 

• Map and Lot# 017-012-000 

ABATEMENTS 

• Map and Lot# 028-105-000 

• Map and Lot# 014-005-000 

• Map and Lot# 025-005-000 

SOLAR EXEMPTION 

• Map and Lot# 003-068-000 

• Map and Lot# 019-039-000 

CURRENT USE 

• Map and Lot# 011-013-000 and 001 

BUILDING PERMIT 

• 2025-01, Map and Lot# 011-007-003 

OLD BUSINESS 

Pending Further Actions: Parking Policy, Generators, Old North Main and High Streets Bridges/Culverts,  Houghton Brook Bridge 

• Reservoir Dam Update 

• 2025 Warrant Articles 

• Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations at Town Parking Lot 

NEW BUSINESS 

• Total Noice Agreement 

• Purchase Order for 4-Station Voting Booth 

• Letter to Sec. of State Office re: New Voting Machine 

• Selectboard Recap for 2024 Town Report 

• Old Home Days – Save the Dates 

HOOPER TRUSTEES MEETING 

HOOPER TRUSTEES MINUTES 

• Hooper Trustees Meeting – December 19, 2024 

HOOPER TRUSTEES PUBLIC BUSINESS 

• Hooper Maintenance Trust 

• Hooper Institute Annual Draw 

HOOPER TRUSTEES NON-PUBLIC BUSINESS: RSA 91-A:3 II (a) (c)

**Any recording, audio or visual, and/or other devices must be declared at the beginning of the  meeting**

Walpole Town Election: Positions Up for Election

NOTICE to WALPOLE RESIDENTS

Walpole Town Election 

March 11, 2025 


Positions up for Election

1 SelectmanThree-year term
1 Trustee of Trust FundThree-year term
2 Planning BoardThree-year term
2 Zoning BoardThree-year term
1 Cemetery TrusteeThree-year term
3 Library TrusteesThree-year term


See the Town Clerk to file for candidacy January 22nd through January 30th during regular office hours or between 3 and 5 pm on January 31st.

Cancelled: Zoning Board Meeting – 1/15/25

PUBLIC NOTICE

Zoning Board of Adjustment

Regular Wednesday meeting – January 15,
2025 at 7 pm – has been canceled.

Walpole Players Annual Meeting Today

Walpole Players Annual Meeting

Sunday, January 5th

5:30pm in the Helen Miller Theater

We have 2 open positions on our Board of Directors.
Anyone not on the board is considered a ‘Friend’ of the Walpole Players and is welcome to attend the meetings and be involved in non-voting discussions. 
Thank you for supporting our community theater for over 38 years!

-Walpole Players Board of Directors

Revised: Planning Board Agenda – 1/14/25

Walpole Planning Board Agenda

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

7 pm

Town Hall 

Roll Call: Appointment of alternates if needed.

Call to order: 

Minutes: Review minutes of the December 2024 meeting.

New Business:

Voluntary Merger: Larry Britton won the sealed bid for a small landlocked lot that abuts the Britton Farm. He wants to merge the new lot with one of his lots.

Fieldstone Land Consultants

Contact is Jim Acton.

Blue Seal (former Agway) subdivision: one lot into two, Commercial District. Request a public hearing. 

Public Hearing No. 1: Recommendation of Planning Board for a petition to be placed on the March 2025 warrant.

To see if the Town will vote to Amend (Article VI, Section B, 3) of Zoning Ordinances.

“Shops, restaurant and other retail building not exceeding 40,000 square feet in gross floor area, except to protect the welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of Walpole with respect to traffic, pollution, health, and safety, and to preserve the unique and distinctive appeal of the Town’s character and commercial development, drive-up window service shall not be allowed.”

By petition: 31 signatures.

Doug Palmer, 308 Main St., Tax Map 24, Lot 14, commercial district, new business.

Walpole Veterinary Hospital, Simon Gascoyne, 6 Walker Road, Tax Map 18, Lot 2, additional space.

Next meeting: February 11, 2025.

Workshop: ?

Luca Paris to Run Restaurant and Grocery

According to an article in today’s Keene Sentinel, Luca Paris, founder of Luca’s Mediterranean Café in Keene, will take on a new role as general manager of The Restaurant at Burdick’s and the Walpole Grocery later this month.

The Sentinel reports that Paris has served as the president and CEO of the Greater Monadnock Collaborative Regional Chamber of Commerce since 2021, and that he will be stepping down from that position, effective January 10, 2025. The article also states that Paris is no longer involved in the direct operations of his namesake restaurant.

“Paris said he’s excited for how he can strengthen how the restaurant and grocery are involved with the Walpole community,” writes Sentinel reporter James Rinker, who also notes that ” . . . [Paris] does plan on introducing new initiatives at both establishments . . . However, he said he primarily wants to learn from staff and work closely with Executive Chef Wesley Babb to build on the restaurant’s roughly 20-year legacy.”

by Kelli Wilson

Planning Board Agenda – 1/14/25

Walpole Planning Board Agenda

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

7 pm

Town Hall 

Roll Call: Appointment of alternates if needed.

Call to order: 

Minutes: Review minutes of the December 2024 meeting.

New Business:

Voluntary Merger: Larry Britton won the sealed bid for a small landlocked lot that abuts the Britton Farm. He wants to merge the new lot with one of his lots.

Fieldstone Land Consultants

Contact is Jim Acton.

Blue Seal (former Agway) subdivision: one lot into two. Request a public hearing. 

Public Hearing No. 1: Recommendation of Planning Board for a petition to be placed on the March 2025 warrant.

To see if the Town will vote to Amend (Article VI, Section B, 3) of Zoning Ordinances.

“Shops, restaurant and other retail building not exceeding 40,000 square feet in gross floor area, except to protect the welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of Walpole with respect to traffic, pollution, health, and safety, and to preserve the unique and distinctive appeal of the Town’s character and commercial development, drive-up window service shall not be allowed.”

By petition: 31 signatures.

Next meeting: February 11, 2025.