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  • Robert (Wednesday, April 23 25 03:21 am EDT)

    The councils firing of the city manager was long overdue but still a knee-jerk reaction because the councilors admit that they have no plan to replace him. The police chief and the finance director as a team will not solve the problem. Both are disastrous managers as both of their departments are a wreck. Crime is high in Claremont and the chief cannot even get the bathrooms fixed. The finance director and her staff cannot even balance the books every month on time. Extra staff and consultation from the auditors is necessary to fix all the errors in the city's books and catch up on the monthly balancing. Both in my opinion are failed managers of their departments so putting them in charge of the entire city is not a reason to cheer. The councilors are the problem. Koloski and O'Hearne have hired three city managers who have been total failures. Other councilors hired some of these disastrous city managers too. Now they will try again. How is this anything to cheer? The city government is a mess and the people who helped turn it into a mess are still here in the city government. Councilors and department managers alike. With the city manager gone has anything really changed?

  • Jose (Tuesday, April 22 25 09:45 pm EDT)

    Hola, me acaba de detener el Servicio de Inmigración y esperaba que Jim y sus miembros honorarios pudieran defenderme. Crucé la frontera en 2012 y desde entonces vivo en Pearl Street. Por favor, ayúdenme. Voy a extrañar trabajar en Burger King. Gracias, José.

  • NoFluff (Tuesday, April 22 25 07:56 pm EDT)

    Goodbye fluff!

  • Tom (Tuesday, April 22 25 07:00 pm EDT)

    He can't even handle the Police Department. He would make a terrible city manager.

  • Norm (Tuesday, April 22 25 06:36 pm EDT)

    Appoint Brent Wilmot to permanent City Manager. Hometown boy who can handle the job.

  • Jeff Goff (Tuesday, April 22 25 05:36 pm EDT)

    Seems like the revolving door at City Hall keeps spinning. There has not been stability or consistency since Guy retired. Like him or not (I obviously did) he gave the city a sense of stability and in turn gave others confidence to invest in Claremont. I am pleasantly surprised at the level of transparency the Council has shown in dismissing Manale. I do wonder however if the constant turnover and the very public termination of the manager will dissuade competent candidates from coming forward. It is not an attractive job right now and the turnover ultimately falls on the council. They have either hired bad or done a very poor job of attracting top tier talent. I still have a love for Claremont, and I hope the council can get it right this time.

  • Jim Sullivan (Tuesday, April 22 25 04:47 pm EDT)

    Special Report!

    Claremont City Council Terminates City Manager Yoshi Manale!

    Full details can be found on the News Flashes page of this website.

  • Gary (Tuesday, April 22 25 01:58 pm EDT)

    Is Nick retiring because He thinks He Cannot yet anymor out of the taxpayers After his road is paved Or does Nick realize he cannot get re elected?

  • Jim Sullivan (Tuesday, April 22 25 01:04 pm EDT)

    No articles this weekend as I have a confused boner that will last several days. Between the Pope's death and Yoshi being fired, I am honestly not sure why I am hard right now.

  • Jonas (Tuesday, April 22 25 12:57 pm EDT)

    @Dennis Yoshi has been terminated/fired by the city council. Jim should have more on it.

  • Dennis (Tuesday, April 22 25 12:55 pm EDT)

    What is the Yoshi story?

  • Jonas (Tuesday, April 22 25 12:45 pm EDT)

    What’s this about the whitewater brook dam being in bad shape? Are all the people who live on Redwater Brook rd at risk of flooding/evacuations if the dam breaks?

  • Jim's regurgitated news (Tuesday, April 22 25 12:06 pm EDT)

    Typical Jim asleep for the yoshi story.

  • Jake (Tuesday, April 22 25 11:25 am EDT)

    Yes, I am. Same story in this echo chamber for the last decade. You should pick up a phone and ask around. He plans on retiring so hopefully others put their names in. You can claim what you like. You are still in the minority. Hope to see a guy named Rick on the ballot. Step on up bud. I don't have the time to give up to be shit on by fake commenter's so maybe you do. Volunteer your time bud. You got this.

  • Rick (Tuesday, April 22 25 10:28 am EDT)

    Jake are you sure about this? People my friends and I spoke to from Claremont are all sick and tired of Nick Koloski. I think his run on the council is almost over.

  • Jake (Tuesday, April 22 25 08:56 am EDT)

    "Rick" you are in the minority so it doesn't matter what you think on the topic. Your intelligence level is showing. Clearly Koloski voted for himself with every single winning vote. Logically he would be the only person to speak out against something so moronic when people don't step up and give of their time. I don't recall a Rick running for anything. Step up keyboard warrior.

  • Jim Sullivan (Tuesday, April 22 25 05:51 am EDT)

    The morning after I published an article with damning pictures of the horrendous condition of East Green Mountain Rd. the Claremont Highway Department fixed the road. This is the fourth time in a row that this has happened; I publish an article with pictures of terrible road conditions on a Sunday and the first thing Monday morning the Claremont Highway Department repairs the road. This happened four out of four times. As I said before the work crews are not to blame for the road conditions it is the management, Manale, Gleeson & Wadleigh that are not doing their jobs by properly managing staff, equipment & other resources! Just look at what the three of them are doing with the "Road Maintenance Matrix", ignoring the life-threatening condition of the White Water Brook Dam and according to official NH DES documentation neglecting to keep the Drinking Water Storage Tanks in good condition allowing them to have high levels of rust and mold on those Tanks and allowing years to go by without doing a damn thing about it. That's just the short list but you get the idea that all three of these men should be terminated from their respective positions with the City of Claremont. What the hell is the Council waiting for in regards to Yoshi Manale? How much more evidence do they need to stiffen their backbones and do the job that they were elected to and protect the best interests of everyone here in Claremont?

    Yesterday, residents of Claremont took pictures of the road repairs and emailed them to me. I will be publishing them with an article on Sunday. Till then.

  • Rick (Tuesday, April 22 25 01:03 am EDT)

    I think Jake a.k.a. Nick Koloski is getting nervous about the possibility of term limits for city councilors. Maybe the charter amendment should make term limits retroactive so if the voters say yes then Nick would be in his final term as a councilor. That sounds good to me.

  • Jake (Monday, April 21 25 08:25 pm EDT)

    You fake commenters are funny. Term limits. You know what term limits mean to those of us who vote for candidates we want? They mean you didn't vote for a person and they win so want to limit the rest of the citizens ability to vote for their choice of candidate and get your own way. The longest serving council member consistently gets the highest vote count. This would tell me the 3 fake posts which in this forum are typically the same person over and over mean you are trying to make an issue when clearly given voters decisions there is not one. Nice attempt to circumvent the community decision to back they folks they want to represent them. If you have never reached out to a council member for a question or concern then you clearly would have no idea one why in particular wins again and again. Response. You should post the last 5 plus election results. You'd see a trend. That would not fit your fake narrative though.

  • Bobby (Monday, April 21 25 06:08 pm EDT)

    Jim take a swift drive up east green mountain but make sure you tighten your seal belt. It’s insane.

  • Jim Sullivan (Monday, April 21 25 04:57 pm EDT)

    Sarah, Term Limits would be a good thing for Claremont Voters to consider in regards to the City Councilors. It would require a City Charter change.

    Sara, I published all that I have regarding the Matrix Paving Formula because that is all that the Morris Administration released to the public when this Matrix first came out. I have no idea if City Officials have anything more to release and if they consider it "work product" then they do not have to release it. If it is something that you want you could always file a request with the City Manager's Office.

  • Sarah (Monday, April 21 25 04:48 pm EDT)

    Jon, you are correct. TERM LIMITS! No one should be allowed to be on the city council for two decades.

  • Bill (Monday, April 21 25 01:30 pm EDT)

    They took the time to drive all the way up east green mountain and graded one tiny section and left most of the rest of the pot holes. The pavement is also insane.

  • SARA TYKER (Monday, April 21 25 06:34 am EDT)

    GOOD MORNING JIM,
    I LOOKED THROUGH YOUR DOCUMENTS TO SEE IF I COULD FIND THE "MATRIX PAVING DOCUMENTS" I DID NOT SEE THEM. HAVE YOU REQUESTED THEM? IF YOU HAVE COULD YOU PUBLISH THEM OR ADVISE ME WHERE I COULD FIND THEM? THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR THIS REQUEST



















    "

  • Washington Street (Monday, April 21 25 05:09 am EDT)

    Blah, blah blah blah blah. Keyboard warrior. Let that sink in. Nobody gives a shit bro.

  • Ryan (Monday, April 21 25 03:43 am EDT)

    There is 126 miles of paved road and 20 miles of gravel road in Claremont. The matrix has been used for only five years and during those five years the matrix has chosen the roads of where eight city officials have their homes over the roads of all the other people in Claremont. The fire chief lives on a corner lot with two roads next to his house and in those five years both roads will be paved. One paving job started right at his properties intersection. That was not by chance. Let that sink in.

  • Taxpayer (Sunday, April 20 25 09:16 pm EDT)

    Wonderful deflection by the same person. Yes, a learning disability I must have. Is that like not reading to understand the totality of one's writing? You perhaps miss the entire point. The deflection about the fake Topstone scandal is certainly one that we all need to hear about yet again. Odd the Peterson Mill tax abatement, Walmart, or Claremont Savings Banks building has never been brought up. All had the same occur as well as a large list of others. You would actually have to research those facts on your own and not beat the same ineffective drum. I take it no one will 91a request the petition we signed as residents and taxpayers to get not only our neighborhood paved but the completion of what the city started. You are not changing my opinion that Mr. Koloski had nothing to do with his road being paved. The property owners of his neighborhood, My wife, I and my neighbors did. If someone wants something bad enough they take action. Perhaps you should try it. I'd battle wits here but clearly there are none in this forum.

  • Alex (Sunday, April 20 25 08:47 pm EDT)

    I think the person who wrote the long paragraph under the name taxpayer is Nicholas J Koloski. When the truth came out about the Topstone property with the big amount of unpaid property taxes that was written off by the city manager and the large reduction of the property valuation Nicholas J Koloski said that he had nothing to do with it. Now we learn about Nicholas J Koloski's neighborhood fully being paved with some infrastructure work over the last few years finishing up this summer I am sure that Nicholas J Koloski will again say that he had nothing to do with it. Nicholas J Koloski is a career politician in Claremont and career politicians will say anything even when it's a lie because they rely on their constituents being dumb enough to believe them just like they were dumb enough to elect them in the first place.

  • Steve (Sunday, April 20 25 08:35 pm EDT)

    Taxpayer you must have a learning disability. Jim Sullivan's article reports that Nick Koloski's street will be paved later this year.

  • Bill (Sunday, April 20 25 06:11 pm EDT)

    Yeah drive east green mtn rd, you’ll only do it once. It is obscene, from the horrendous paving creating huge humps in the road to the insane potholes in the pavement and dirt section. Then you have a demolished building with junk all over the yard, debris from demolition and an unfilled open foundation and three full time campers living in the same area. The planning department inspectors drove up the road last week way above the speed limit cranking their music joyriding and turned around and right back down. Easy way to hide on a nice day, but hard on that brand new fancy Bronco.

  • Taxpayer (Sunday, April 20 25 04:42 pm EDT)

    I don't normally weight in here but I do have to say I wonder why you need to indicate you have many friends within the community that are willing to send you photos? I am curious why you can't name Mr. Norman Blouin or Francis and Arlene Gauthier by name and just call it what it is. Not very transparent of you sir. Looking at your paving information you had me going for a moment until you starting ranting about certain roads being paved given political status. At first I was following along until you hit a neighborhood I have lived in for 44 years. It has not been paved since I purchased my home. Moody Avenue got a partial paving as well as a few of the other college streets by my home. My wife and I were very displeased that sections of Moody were skipped. This was this past summer for your information. In reading what you write you are trying to convince everyone that somehow Councilor Koloski got his road paved. You should note that every road in our neighbor was paved except for the one Mr. Kolosk lives on. Councilor Hemingway was reached out to about the half ass job done on Moody and questioned as to why they would skip the entire street and not complete the neighborhood. We started a neighborhood petition which you are aware of as Councilor Hemingway delivered it signed to the city last year. Every single neighbor signed the petition except Mr. Koloski. We did ask. He said it would not be appropriate for him to do so being the elected council member that he is. If you plan to mix fact with fiction you should be sure to have some of your facts correct. This comes across as yet just another attack on someone who had nothing to do with it. Why don't you 91a request the petition presented to the city by council member Hemingway? You would prove yourself wrong that's why.

  • Ted (Sunday, April 20 25 04:27 pm EDT)

    The councilors are there to serve their interests and help a few friends that's all. Look at what they are doing and they are not helping any of us regular folk.

  • Mike (Sunday, April 20 25 02:13 pm EDT)

    Why am I worried about a dead end dirt road on the very outskirts of town? Shouldn’t that be the last priority of the DPW? Take care of the neighborhoods and the main roads first.

  • Jon (Sunday, April 20 25 01:59 pm EDT)

    The personnel of the city gets good pay and benefits and in exchange the city councilors get their roads paved, tax breaks if you're the Mayor and if your Koloski the guys who own the building where his businesses are gets a huge tax break and tax forgiveness of a quarter of a million dollars. In Claremont that is how things are run because the city leaders are all corrupt.

  • Brian (Sunday, April 20 25 01:02 pm EDT)

    The city councilors are scum so what do you expect.Why do you think they still want Yoshi to stay here?

  • Rick (Sunday, April 20 25 01:00 pm EDT)

    Tyler you are missing the point. Almost all of the roads in Claremont haven't been repaved in decades. There are other roads that needed the work more. This matrix has only been around for a few years and the roads where the city councilors live continue to be chosen over so many other roads all over Claremont. If you cannot see that this matrix is designed to benefit the city douncilors over everyone else then you do not want to see it even though it is right in front of you. The taxpayers are being swindled out of their tax dollars to increase the value of the property belonging to the city councilors.

  • Tyler (Sunday, April 20 25 12:46 pm EDT)

    Anyone who thinks the Bluff neighborhood didn’t desperately need paving is either naive or looking for a conspiracy that doesn’t exist. Claremont councilors and officials live scattered all over town. Of course they will hit the “paving jackpot” at some point or another. The Bluff area hadn’t been repaved in decades.

  • Gina (Sunday, April 20 25 11:37 am EDT)

    My money is on the Assistant Mayor winning this years “paving” bingo.

  • Jim Sullivan (Sunday, April 20 25 10:55 am EDT)

    Four new articles published on the News Flashes page today.

    1) Ribbon-Cutting for Community Center Pool Slide.

    2) Claremont School Board takes no action regarding crises!

    3) Claremont Ratepayers face DES Fine due to gross incompetence & neglect of top Manale Administration Officials!

    4) Your Tax Dollars at work?

  • Todd (Sunday, April 20 25 10:51 am EDT)

    I think Nick needs a hug. I guess the stuffed Emu isn't doing it for him anymore.

  • Nick (Sunday, April 20 25 08:21 am EDT)

    Obviously Jim wouldn't lift a finger in effort to improve Claremont. Keyboard warriors don't attend meetings, volunteer time or get hands dirty.

    Can't wait for todays smear campaign.

  • Jim Sullivan (Saturday, April 19 25 02:09 pm EDT)

    Someone posing as me apparently doesn't know how to read a calendar as I usually publish articles on Sunday. There will be three articles tomorrow and one public notice. One article will be about the Claremont School District and the other two articles will be about some shocking things regarding the Department of Public Works. Till tomorrow.

  • Jim Sullivan (Saturday, April 19 25 01:02 pm EDT)

    No articles today. I'm dedicating my weekend to public service. Doing things in the community to make Claremont a better place.

  • Inside (Friday, April 18 25 04:32 pm EDT)

    Three words for McNutt:
    Eat my pudding

  • Gary (Friday, April 18 25 02:13 pm EDT)

    Three words say it all for Jim Sullivan.
    Huge Fuckin Turd

  • Gary (Friday, April 18 25 11:34 am EDT)

    Three words says it all for Yoshi.
    Freaking Huge Dong!

  • Gary (Friday, April 18 25 10:25 am EDT)

    Three words says it all about McMutt. Topstone Property Scandal.

  • Mike (Friday, April 18 25 08:11 am EDT)

    Roads are finally getting paved. That’s all Claremonters care about. Doubt Yoshi gets fired.

  • Insider (Friday, April 18 25 05:29 am EDT)

    I vote for bringing back McNutt to clean house and Make Claremont Great Again!

    The only reason he left was his spat with Lovett so no reason to not come back.

  • John J. O’Connor (Friday, April 18 25 05:25 am EDT)

    I can understand our elected officials being scared to fire Yosi, it would be a major embarrassment. For a few on the Council it will be the 3rd manager they have hired and fired but that’s no reason to keep an incompetent person in charge.
    It’s time for Yosi to go and the difficult process of hiring his replacement must start.
    This time, hopefully, those in charge will hire a local, someone with skin in the game and not another “carpetbagger”.

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