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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
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• 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”.

• Claremontwatch (Friday, April 18 25 05:14 am EDT)

  Yoshi prefers anonymity so no ine knows him or what he is up to:
  
  https://vtdigger.org/2022/05/20/brattleboro-town-manager-abruptly-resigns-just-five-months-into-the-job/
  
  He needs to go! Goodbye Yoshi fluff manale!

• Insideher (Thursday, April 17 25 09:38 pm EDT)

  Screw you damn idiot

• Popular opinion (Thursday, April 17 25 09:32 pm EDT)

  Yoshi is the best city manager in the last 30 years

• Inside Attitudal Analytics (Thursday, April 17 25 07:32 pm EDT)

  "Quotes are stupid" (Insider, 2025).

• Insider (Thursday, April 17 25 04:01 pm EDT)

  Shut up horny badger
  Quotes are stupid

• Loser group let loser lead them (Thursday, April 17 25 08:04 am EDT)

  The PATHETIC weak council hasn't walked YOSHI !

• domestic hunny badger (Wednesday, April 16 25 09:27 pm EDT)

  "Passive, submissive imitation does exist, but hatred of conformity and extreme individualism are no less imitative. Today they constitute a negative conformism that is more formidable than the positive version. More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he professes to love but more often despises."
  
  René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes

• Martha (Wednesday, April 16 25 07:14 pm EDT)

  Let Yoshi cook.

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, April 16 25 03:24 pm EDT)

  I didn’t write any of those posts and think Yoshi Manale needs more time to cook.

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, April 16 25 12:21 pm EDT)

  I didn’t write the last post but I completely agree.

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, April 16 25 06:56 am EDT)

  I didn't write the posting at 5:33 AM but I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment.

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, April 16 25 05:33 am EDT)

  It’s time for Yosi to go .

• Laura ⚧️ (Wednesday, April 16 25 01:05 am EDT)

  Hello, my name is "Laura" my name used to be Thomas. I was born male but now I identify as a female. I was raised by a single mother who happens to be a man hating feminist that wanted a girl, instead she had a boy, so she raised me as a girl anyways. I'm here to tell you I'm 100% woman even though I have male genitalia. I suffer from gender dysphoria from years of mental abuse from my leftist mother. Years of brainwashing and thorough indoctrination from my education to mainstream media and the use of social media has made me an obedient useful idiot. I'm upset with the public health system that keeps trying to push their sex change operations onto me all because it makes them a lot of money! I'm sick and tired of being used by politicians for their own political agendas which has left me feeling used and abused. All of this has caused me to have a large amount of stress which causes me to be triggered. I'm here to tell you that I need my safe place and the school's need to conform their entire existence around ME! I don't give a damn if it sends the residents of Claremont into the poor house. My virtue signaling and my FEELINGS matter to me more than people being taxed out of their homes, it's about ME! I hate the fact Trump doesn't realize it's all about ME! My victimhood status provides me with ample amount of inflated sense of superiority and worth, why? I'm not going to lie I don't mind the attention. The power I feel from knowing that I have the ability to bamboozle a few school board members who have Trump Derangement Syndrome is amazing! The very fact the school board believes in my mental delusions fills me with euphoria! I don't care if people are on the verge of losing their home's, it's not about them it's about ME! I know I'm a narcissist who suffers from psychosis brought on by years of pharmaceutical drugs that was prescribed to me as a child by big pharma on the behalf of my insane liberal mother. I'm proud of my pride, pride in being proud or whatever that means, you know what I mean because I believe in whatever the current thing is. I'm also pissed that people can't read my mind when they misgender me, how dare you! My life sucks, yours should too!

• Tradezie (Tuesday, April 15 25 09:03 pm EDT)

  Inside is pissed no invitation to swing was pass they're direction

• Inside (Tuesday, April 15 25 08:14 pm EDT)

  Big upside down pineapple community around here…
  This is the cause of the resignation

• Shadow government (Tuesday, April 15 25 05:01 pm EDT)

  Fake insider who gives a shit. There is a collective of morons in key positions. Chris Glock the project manager should show himself the door. Tim Hernon is lazy pos. Ted makes excuses for everything. Dpw is autonomous and Yoshi is out by his own doing or someone else's. Enough is enough. Decisions need to be made. Anyone resiginb at this point is because there lazy days are numbered. Thanks for the fake bullshit post.

• Inside (Tuesday, April 15 25 09:34 am EDT)

  Big resignation coming this week

• Cindy (Tuesday, April 15 25 07:40 am EDT)

  School Board meeting Wednesday. Will federal funding be saved?

• Gravedigger (Monday, April 14 25 09:42 am EDT)

  Interesting times indeed, a few observations on Jim's post.
  
  Yes this manager needs to go, outright lying about signing the contract and other acts of deception, and not just once but a number of times to the council. When will they wise up? There just seems to be a lot of chaos and weird decisions being made within city hall. He is in way over his head apparently, and hasn't delivered on the promises made. He's been given ample opportunity to put his leadership to good use and has failed to make it happen. His standards are apparently low. Give him the option to do it the easy way of the hard way, resign or be terminated outright. Moving on, the 1.4 mil for upgrading a park would be much better suited for improving infrastructure. Roads. You can never go wrong with improving the roads. Just make sure you don't have to dig it up again in a couple years because the sewers and water lines were scheduled for replacing! As for firing of the current leadership in DPW...I think their lack of experience and leadership is a direct result of having a bad example to follow. I know Ted and he was a good and competent worker from my personal interactions with him. Whether he is a good leader and has the knowledge for the responsibilities he now has, that's not for me to judge. Maybe actually having a competent city manager will make all boats rise. Real accountability can be a wonderful and motivating thing. I am sure everyone in city department leadership is doing the best with what they know. I won't get into the schools too much, but they really need to get onboard with the DEI business or the taxpayers will pay dearly. This small city has such a magnificent historic past and so much potential, it just kills me to see such incompetence. The rest of 2025 could see changes for the better or a continuing downward spiral. What will it be? And Jim, edit your posts before posting!

• Keyboard thumping (Monday, April 14 25 09:37 am EDT)

  Jim, you would be insulted by Walkers statements. He essentially said stop bitch'n from the comfort of your keyboard, get off your ass and do something. This would only offend you amd others with your disease.

• Dennis (Monday, April 14 25 09:31 am EDT)

  We need lower taxes. The councilors need to do what Jim said to do.

• Rick (Monday, April 14 25 05:33 am EDT)

  I love the idea of a tax cut. Jim Sullivan showed everyone how easy it would be for the city councilors to give the taxpayers a big one. They should do it. Mr. Manale needs to be given his walking papers without any severance money as Jim Sullivan has shown us that it can be done without paying that money. I never thought of how the top directors are making things worse for the city. I always thought the city manager was at fault and he is but some of the directors are too. I think removing the bad directors would help the new city manager make Claremont better for everyone.

• Tyler (Sunday, April 13 25 07:37 pm EDT)

  What would the citizens of Claremont prefer…a $1.4M project to create a silly little riverfront park that very few would use, or the same money being spent to re-pave some major roads that are currently falling apart such as Charlestown Rd, Maple Ave, and much of downtown Pleasant St? I’m fine with city departments cutting waste but the elephant in the room is the school district. SAU 6 went from managing 3 districts to just one, and enrollment is declining yet somehow the budget goes up every year. I suspect far more waste occurs here.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, April 13 25 05:15 pm EDT)

  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Washington Street Paving Preparation Work beginning Sunday, April 13!
  
  2) Road Postings Lifted.
  
  3) The Claremont School District is rapidly running out of time to comply with the DEI Certification Requirement or lose all of its Federal Funding!
  
  4) City Manager Yoshi Manale is taken to the woodshed during the Claremont City Council's April 9, 2025 meeting!

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, April 13 25 02:00 pm EDT)

  Articles are ready, I’m just waiting for Yosi to approve them before I publish them.

• Watchdog (Saturday, April 12 25 10:47 am EDT)

  Yoshi Fluff Manale…we will forever be a watchdog on any budgets you are involved in…I always suspected that there was a lot of tomfoolery around Claremont budgets and now we know.

• Ryan (Saturday, April 12 25 09:04 am EDT)

  Insider how can Jim investigate anything if you do not tell him what to investigate?

• Nick (Saturday, April 12 25 07:12 am EDT)

  You fools, we already wrote the severance check for the manager.
  No one person will ever dare to make decisions in this city without my approval again.

• Insider (Saturday, April 12 25 06:43 am EDT)

  Shocking news that is neither news nor shocking. Jim, big changes coming and this little stunt choreographed by Manale, Girard and Koloski was the set up. You can choose to ignore me again, or you can follow my track record and actually look into this for once.

• Jim Sullivan (Friday, April 11 25 08:12 pm EDT)

  The person who posted the comments under the moniker of Double Exposure certainly has a very active imagination that is clearly not grounded in reality. I am not blackmailing anyone! I also do not want progress to be stopped. I want our great community of Claremont to thrive and reach its fullest potential and I will state what I think needs to be done in order to get our municipal government on that right path in my article regarding this week’s City Council meeting that will be published on Sunday. There will also be an article regarding the Claremont School District. Both articles will contain shocking news that the general public is not yet aware of. Till then.

• Inside (Friday, April 11 25 10:24 am EDT)

  The Mayor is smart but didn’t ask for enough. The city and school should both be looking for 25-50% reduction in spending. It is time to make drastic changes and root out all optional cost and inefficiency. It’s funny that the assistant mayor is asking for cuts and at the same time disappointed that the admin isn’t spending all the budget. Check the spending at the end of the fiscal year, the employees go into emergency spending mode so they don’t lose their budget for the following year of spurious and frivolous expenses.

• Double exposure (Friday, April 11 25 07:21 am EDT)

  Dirty little games.
  Mayor is being blackmailed by Jim Sullivan.
  He Must politically slay others to save his own political skin.
  Jim want progress stopped before the sheep see green pastures.

• No Property Tax (Friday, April 11 25 05:49 am EDT)

  Marc and Greg to lead DOGE Claremont

• roirraw wobniar (Thursday, April 10 25 10:05 pm EDT)

  Did somebody mention a cult? https://nhjournal.com/leader-of-trans-vegan-cult-linked-to-vt-border-patrol-murder-arrested/

• NickAtNight (Thursday, April 10 25 09:11 pm EDT)

  Ok Koloski…no one wants to pain you trust me😭

• DOGE Claremont (Thursday, April 10 25 04:58 pm EDT)

  Cut 20%
  Cut the whole visitor center. Move the lower paid inspector under the fire department. Give the state the health inspections, our guys aren’t qualified anyway.
  The director becomes an economic development position, low paid in city hall. Fire is bloated, make cuts. Use the community center as city hall and shutter the old inefficient brick building, it’s unsafe anyway.

• Strap on warrior (Thursday, April 10 25 04:11 pm EDT)

  Tuck your strap on in your panties you idiot

• Rainbow warrior (Thursday, April 10 25 03:57 pm EDT)

  To Jill ( from APRIL 7TH) Why do you HATE kids? Your comment shows how bigoted of a person you are!! Why don't you try to understand that not everybody is the same.. it doesn't mean you are a better person cause you don't agree with "a person" who thinks differently than you! Talk about indoctrination.. you are in a cult lady!!

• Shadow (Thursday, April 10 25 10:25 am EDT)

  Koloski was involved in the meeting you dumb fuck. There are more of us citizens that watch meetings than Koloskk. Don't paint me with that brush.

• NickAtNight (Thursday, April 10 25 08:39 am EDT)

  Shadow equals Koloski.

• Shadow (Thursday, April 10 25 08:35 am EDT)

  Jim's asleep at the wheel and takes a week to put together random though.
  
  Breaking news. City Manager gets ass handed to him at meeting. Good to see questions actually asked.
  
  Interesting name attached to Zoning Board request. Is this someone's retirement project or do they have tons of free time?

• Chip (Thursday, April 10 25 08:29 am EDT)

  Yoshi’s time is short…that was the best council meeting I have witnessed in a long time.

• Gregory (Thursday, April 10 25 06:58 am EDT)

  I will go in the closet

• Matt (Wednesday, April 09 25 02:14 pm EDT)

  I will actually come out of the closet

• Butthead Police (Tuesday, April 08 25 08:19 pm EDT)

  For a small place there sure are a lot of buttheads

• Tammy (Tuesday, April 08 25 08:01 pm EDT)

  I agree, raises of atleast $15,000 per teacher would help retention and make a better environment in the school. We must stand together. Fight the oligarchy. Claremont taxpayers should pay their fair share.

• School insider (Tuesday, April 08 25 07:58 pm EDT)

  Try it yourself moron. I’m in those hall every day. You hate educators because they make educated voters who vote for the correct party.

• Tammy (Tuesday, April 08 25 06:34 pm EDT)

  Raises for what! you mean getting a raise for allowing our entire school population to have an ELA proficiency of 36% or have a science and math proficiency of only 20%, maybe you should spend more time on education than Indoctrinating!

• Tara (Tuesday, April 08 25 06:30 pm EDT)

  Admin should get raises too.

• Matt (Tuesday, April 08 25 04:44 pm EDT)

  Teachers unite! Demand raises

• Softball anyone (Tuesday, April 08 25 11:51 am EDT)

  I want to play softball although I'm a boy but baseball the ball is smaller

• Indoctrinating or education (Tuesday, April 08 25 07:51 am EDT)

  Who was the teacher that did this i work to pay taxes and keep my house can't be around for meetings of these mindless loosers

• Rachel (Monday, April 07 25 10:26 pm EDT)

  "You all are uneducated" thanks for admitting the schools are the problem!

• Jill (Monday, April 07 25 08:47 pm EDT)

  Mr. Hemingway may not be perfect, but his character demonstrates why he was elected. He says what many citizens are afraid to say in public because of retaliation by the rainbow people. I was disgusted to see a teacher from the Disnard School speaking in support transgender students. All of those teachers who spoke should be fired! Education over indoctrination.

• Frank (Monday, April 07 25 06:02 pm EDT)

  You all are uneducated. Hands off our schools

• Not-Ernest (Monday, April 07 25 03:52 pm EDT)

  I think Wayne Hemingway should apologize for being an idiot

• Kevin (Monday, April 07 25 01:25 pm EDT)

  Very refreshing to Jim covering the school issues.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, April 06 25 01:09 pm EDT)

  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Fiscal Year 2025 Claremont School District Budget has $1.4 Million Deficit!
  
  
  2) What Manale Administration Officials did not tell you about the DES Violation regarding Turbidity Levels of Claremont's Drinking Water!
  
  3) A Dam Update.
  
  4) City Council accomplishes hardly anything during March 26, 2025 meeting!

• Jim Sullivan (Saturday, April 05 25 05:53 pm EDT)

  Needless to say I did not write the comments attributed to me at 7:59 AM today. I have been busy writing the articles that I will publish for tomorrow. Till then.

• Jim Sullivan (Saturday, April 05 25 07:59 am EDT)

  For the record.
  I have been a loyal member of PETA for over 3 decades and do not indulge in the sexual exploitation of rodents.
  Further more, I do not insert a plastic tube up my rectum for sexual satisfaction and have a hamster run around.
  I hope this puts this evil rumor to rest.

• Breaking News (Wednesday, April 02 25 09:26 pm EDT)

  So much shit is about to be exposed. Where is Jim? Playing with a hamster and plastic tube in apartment on Factory Street.

• NoMikey (Wednesday, April 02 25 06:34 pm EDT)

  No Mikey Petrin for second school board meeting in a row…please put out an apb for him. Will he be impeached?

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, April 02 25 05:34 am EDT)

  Correction regarding Claremont School Board Vote is published on the News Flashes page of this website.

• J Boobs (Tuesday, April 01 25 08:26 pm EDT)

  Is the press nh YouTuber the retarded grandson if Mr Sullivan?

• S.A.U. 666 (Tuesday, April 01 25 07:35 pm EDT)

  You shouldn't pick on Jim. Dudes fuckin retarded.

• J (Tuesday, April 01 25 07:06 pm EDT)

  Press n h now areessted today
  Watch on you tube. Now

• If I was your wife I would cheat also (Tuesday, April 01 25 12:33 pm EDT)

  Gary and Richard stopped suckling Jim's teat long enough to poke at the keyboad with intention of insulting a big gubment insider like me.
  
  The only thing I'm inside is your wives.
  
  BTW.

• Gary (Tuesday, April 01 25 10:03 am EDT)

  Faithful reader needs to go and stroke his emu.

• Richard (Tuesday, April 01 25 07:41 am EDT)

  Someone from the city government is upset that Jim Sullivan is revealing truths the city leaders want to keep hidden.

• Faithful reader and huge fan (Tuesday, April 01 25 07:14 am EDT)

  If you actually attended meetings and participated from a location besides your desk you might be able to provide actual facts, details and real insight.
  Just like most of your "reporting" the reader is getting, half truths, unchecked, regurgitated, biased, spun load of self serving horse shit.

• Jim Sullivan (Monday, March 31 25 03:51 pm EDT)

  I just got home from work and see that someone posted under my name regarding the Claremont School Board Vote about the Transgender Policy.
  
  I do not know who did it but I am appreciative because now I am uncertain as to whether an error occurred or not regarding my article.
  
  In regards to the following motion made during the March 19, 2025 Claremont School Board Meeting,
  
  "To table any action on the policy until it can be reviewed by the policy committee and legal counsel within 3 months."
  
  The Valley News reported that Frank Sprague voted in favor and William Madden voted against. Just like I did. However, the draft meeting minutes state the exact opposite. Both cannot be right so I have sent an email inquiry to the Superintendent of Schools asking him to clarify how each of those School Board Members voted on that motion. If it ends up that I did make a mistake then I will most certainly publish a correction and I will also send an email apology to Mister Sprague

• Jim Sullivan (Monday, March 31 25 08:00 am EDT)

  Madden, Howard, and Crawford voted in favor of the friendly amendment. Whitney and Sprague voted against.

• Curious (Monday, March 31 25 06:24 am EDT)

  I’m not sure if anyone else noticed but the major junkyard in town has grown outside its confines. Doing a little research it appears that there are specific laws regulating this. You shouldn’t be able to see the junk from the highway. Jim, why does the Yoshi admin look the other way? It’s getting worse and worse.

• Ryan (Monday, March 31 25 05:28 am EDT)

  Drive around Claremont. You will see how terrible the roads are. Visit the community center. You will see uncleanliness and a swimming pool that is likely closed. The unmaintained and unclean drinking water tanks and the dangerous condition of the dam are other examples of the negligence of the city manager and directors of city departments. The city councilors are unconcerned about public safety and the general state of the city. They are the reason why our city is failing.

• Eric (Sunday, March 30 25 09:24 pm EDT)

  Mike, read the DES letters. They say the condition of the dam is bad, the water tanks have rust and mold, staff members are uncertified, etc. Are you saying that DES employees do not know what they are talking about? I think you are a city employee trying to save your job or a city councilor trying to fool the public with lies.

• John J. O’Connor (Sunday, March 30 25 09:01 pm EDT)

  Mike,
  I could care less if our current Councilors are voted out, it’s always been this way and I’m sure the incompetence will continue in the future.
  What concerns me and should concern you is the condition of the Dam. There are 3 sides to every story, Jim’s side, the City’s side and the “true” side, we need the truth.
  If, in a worst case scenario, the dam breaches, the devastation will be enormous so maybe the city should do its due diligence and do an extensive examination so people don’t die and roads aren’t washed away.

• Mike (Sunday, March 30 25 06:21 pm EDT)

  I’ll be honest. It seems like every article Jim writes calls for incumbent councilors to be voted out in the next election and the city manager and 2/3 of city staff to be fired including just about every department head. So forgive me if I’m just not going to take this that seriously. And just because 4 first names who all write in a style eerily similar to Jim Sullivan happen to comment on this forum doesn’t sway my mind. Sorry but I think the boy has cried wolf far too many times.

• Dave (Sunday, March 30 25 06:00 pm EDT)

  Heads need to roll over this. Manale, Gleeson and Wadleigh all checked out a long time ago but they continue to get paychecks from the taxpayers. If the councilors do not step up and deal with these bad employees and the problems with the dam, water tanks, etc. then they will show where their loyalties lie and it will not be with us. With lives at stake and public health on the line to just sit back and do nothing and let years pass by with the dam and the other problems becoming worse there is no coming back from that violation of trust. Now that the councilors know the truth they have no excuse if they do not take quick action. They may need to go too.

• Mike (Sunday, March 30 25 03:46 pm EDT)

  The appalling condition of the dam, determined to be high risk with possible loss of life if the dam were to burst should have been repaired two years ago after the inspection. The dam was allowed to get in that condition because of neglect. The maintenance of the drinking water tanks with the rust and the uncleanliness with the mold is more neglect. Uncertified staff members is management negligence. This went on for years and the negligence would have continued on if Mr. Sullivan had not uncovered the truth and exposed the neglect on his website by publishing the proof. There is no guarantee that the city councilors will take any decisive action as it may be up to we the people to raise our voices and demand action. I believe nothing less than quickly fixing all of these problems and terminating the city manager will do. It will be up to the next city manager to terminate the two DPW directors. Or as Kevin said we may need to fire the city councilors at the next election and demand change from the newly elected.

• Kevin (Sunday, March 30 25 03:10 pm EDT)

  Those of us with jobs have to show up every workday on time and perform our jobs to the satisfaction of our superiors. Why should city employees be held to a lower standard? I thought they were working for the taxpayers. City employees performing their jobs as poorly as the city manager and the two DPW heads should be fired. There should not even be a discussion about it. If the city councilors will not fire the city manager then it will be up to the voters to fire the city councilors this November.

• Lori (Sunday, March 30 25 02:45 pm EDT)

  The dam sounds to be in really bad shape with big cracks at the base and throughout with splits, pieces missing and vegetation growing inside. How can the city manager and the two DPW director's just ignore those problems for two years when it is a public safety threat. The water tanks need work and a good cleaning to get rid of the mold. Imagine mold and rest so near the drinking water and nothing is done about it. The city has been operating the drinking water distribution with untrained staff members. The councilors have been either clueless or hiding these conditions from everyone. Thank you Jim Sullivan for informing us with the truth. You may not be on the city council anymore but at least you care about the people. I wish I could say the same about the city councilors we have today but I do not believe it to be true. I just came back from the supermarket with some bottled water for my family. Everyone should begin drinking bottled water because the city employees are not taking care of our drinking water.

• Catherine (Sunday, March 30 25 02:29 pm EDT)

  The DES letters are startling. The city manager and the DPW managers are not doing their jobs. Public safety is a joke to all of them. In any other community they would all be fired. The mayor and the other city councilors will silence anyone who tries to ask questions at any meeting and broom sweep this all under the carpet and act like nothing is wrong. The city manager will see another large raise in his paycheck with a glowing review by the councilors and that will be that. I have lost all faith with our city government and our city councilors. Raising taxes and spending Claremont into poverty is all they care about. Look at the new building they bought on Water Street with money the city does not have.

• Hammy (Sunday, March 30 25 12:29 pm EDT)

  Mr Sullivan, I hope your rectum is better! The dehamsterification processz is not an east one from what I hear!

• John J. O’Connor (Sunday, March 30 25 12:23 pm EDT)

  Ok.. if only half of what Jim is saying is true, it’s very concerning.
  Time for the Mayor to come clean and tell the public the truth about their drinking water.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 30 25 08:56 am EDT)

  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) The Manale Administration's intentional neglect to maintain the Whitewater Brook Dam & Claremont's Drinking Water System endangers the entire community!
  
  2) Three Claremont School Board Members put everyone in Claremont in financial jeopardy!
  
  3) Unity Voters overwhelmingly approve proposed withdrawal from SAU #6!
  
  4) Traffic Notice. North Street Project.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 30 25 07:44 am EDT)

  No articles today, I’m still not feeling well.

• Concerned (Saturday, March 29 25 05:43 am EDT)

  Is J Dubs ok?

• Breaking News (Friday, March 28 25 11:20 am EDT)

  Republicans protect children from Democrats' radical transgender ideology!
  
  Republicans just passed HB377 and HB712, which bans puberty blockers and transgender surgeries for minors.
  
  Democrats want to impose a radical transgender ideology on your kids. Republicans will not let them.

• Everyone in Claremont (Thursday, March 27 25 09:04 pm EDT)

  Jim, spend your time in a more productive way. Send a letter to DES IN OPPOSITION

• Jim Sullivan (Thursday, March 27 25 03:37 pm EDT)

  I just got home and I see that the Internet Trolls are at it again. I am not in the hospital and I never was in the hospital in regards to this illness and as I stated before I am not a pet owner.
  
  I have been working on the DES article and it is going to take me more time to finish than I thought so I have made a decision. This Sunday, March 30, 2025 I will be publishing the articles that I intended to publish last Sunday but was unable to due to my illness. I am doing this because the DES article is highly important as it contains vital information that all Claremont residents and anyone else who frequents Claremont should know about. I will be publishing the March 26, 2025 Claremont City Council meeting article on April 6, 2025 and then move on from there. Thank you all for your understanding.

• Francis Guathier (Thursday, March 27 25 02:56 pm EDT)

  Jim is in the hospital, the hamster never got out of his rectum and it’s now causing a minor blockage.
  There will be no articles until further notice.

• Desperately wanting (Thursday, March 27 25 06:38 am EDT)

  I’m looking for a Sadistic Narcissist. He cares only for himself, and finds amusement in the downfall of others. Charming and suave, but his smile never reaches his eyes.

• Asking for a friend (Wednesday, March 26 25 06:50 pm EDT)

  “Out about with the public from many different communities” what does this mean? Is Jim a prostitute? A social worker? Batman?

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, March 26 25 06:14 am EDT)

  I have been enjoying reading the postings about what may have happened to me, some were quite imaginative. I especially liked the one with the hamster even though I am not a pet owner, (real, stuffed, imaginary or otherwise). I assure everyone that I am not at death's door knocking loudly and Colonel Mustard did not try to do me in with a lead pipe in the kitchen. The truth is far more mundane, I am simply under the weather, nothing more. With all of the flu that is going around it really should come as no surprise to anyone as I am out and about with the public from many different communities all day. We all got sick from time to time and it is simply my turn and I have to wait and be patient until it runs its course. Thank you all for your continued understanding.

• Where is Jim (Tuesday, March 25 25 10:44 pm EDT)

  Jim?
  Jim you there?
  Jim Sullivan?
  Has anyone seen Jim?
  Yoshi what did you do Jim?

• Concerned (Tuesday, March 25 25 06:09 pm EDT)

  Jim, request all health inspections from the Liberal Beef

• Norm (Tuesday, March 25 25 02:38 pm EDT)

  Word on the street is Yoshi got sick of Jim's shit and took him out.

• Matt (Tuesday, March 25 25 01:51 pm EDT)

  Jim get well. We’ve all been there.

• Bill (Tuesday, March 25 25 11:32 am EDT)

  Thank you Francis. Get well soon Jim

• Francis Guathier (Tuesday, March 25 25 06:47 am EDT)

  Jim had an accident with a hollow plastic tube and his pet hamster. So obviously there will be no articles this week.
  I will personally be monitoring the situation and applying restoring creams hourly.

• Anyone Seen Jim (Monday, March 24 25 09:14 pm EDT)

  Where is Jim?

• Gary (Monday, March 24 25 04:14 pm EDT)

  Angry House Democrats unleashed public attacks on a member of their own caucus Thursday over his support for legislation protecting women-only spaces like locker rooms and bathrooms. One Democrat even invoked ‘Jim Crow’ in his remarks targeting progressive Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D-Peterborough), who is Black.
  
  The bill (HB 148) that would allow the separation of locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms for males and females that align with their sex — revived this session by Republicans after Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed similar legislation last summer — advanced 201-166. Two Democrats, Wheeler and Rep. Peter Leishman, both of Peterborough, joined the GOP in support.
  
  Immediately after the final tally was announced, several cries of “Shame on you!” and “Shame!” could be heard throughout the chamber. The bill now heads to the Senate where it is expected to pass.
  
  Wheeler, who earlier in the day broke with his party and to support the parental bill of rights legislation, attempted to explain his stance on the legislation to the members of his caucus.
  
  “These conversations can be nuanced,” Wheeler said. “Putting in place policies that say women who were born women deserve a space to themselves is not transphobic.”
  
  Democrats responded by filing out of the chamber in protest.
  
  “My colleagues are walking out as I give this speech,” he observed. “I think that illustrates exactly why I got up here today.
  
  “I could have quietly voted my conscience and followed the party line, but again, the consent of one person cannot stand for the consent of another.”
  
  Wheeler noted that a fellow Democrat in his hometown, a woman, recently told him she left the party over the issue.
  
  He also said several fellow Democrats called him “a Nazi for having given this speech.”
  
  Added Wheeler, “The orthodoxy of the Democratic Party on this issue has left us to where we cannot have nuanced discussions, and women are being silenced in this conversation. As much as people don’t want to hear that, that is what is happening.
  
  “When I talked to people on this side of the issue, and on that side of the issue, I heard, ‘I don’t want any violence to happen against me; I don’t want to be disrespected or unheard.’”
  
  “I don’t think that your position or side benefits from calling the other a Nazi when they are trying to ask genuine questions about women’s spaces and the protection of women inside those spaces.”
  
  In response, Rep. Heath Howard (D-Strafford) posed a question comparing keeping women’s spaces female only to the “Whites Only” restrooms of the Jim Crow era.
  
  “With White-passing African Americans being free from discrimination during Jim Crow-era laws, do you think that it is fair that we can compare this situation directly to the bathroom bans that African Americans were given, and told that they were dangerous to White people?”
  
  Given that Wheeler is one of the few Black representatives in the 400-member House, tension in the room immediately rose. Wheeler, however, remained calm.
  
  “Representative, race and what happened in the Jim Crow era is, yes, significantly different than sex and talking about women in their private spaces.”
  
  After the vote, Rep. Alissandra Murray, who identifies as a “queer, non-binary, first-generation Nicaraguan-American,” took to Twitter/X to public attack Wheeler, accusing him of lying about his true position on the issue.
  
  “I have never been more disappointed in a friend and colleague than I am by @jonahowheeler. It’s really sad what people will do to gain political power.”
  
  “He’s doing this for press coverage and to improve his relationship with your caucus, and it’s working,” Murray added in later posts… “I was close friends with Jonah in our first session and I know this isn’t in line with his actual values.”
  
  Contacted by NHJournal for evidence that Wheeler, an outspoken progressive, is lying about his values, Murray declined to respond.
  
  Ironically, the bipartisan Ethics Committee ruled that Murray’s votes on some abortion bills ran afoul of House conflict of interest rules and ordered the Manchester Democrat to recuse in the future. The issue was raised when NHJournal reported Murray was being paid to serve in the House by a pro-abortion nonprofit to advocate for the organization (which receives taxpayer-funded grants) and its cause.
  
  Wheeler has faced harsh, though less public, attacks from his fellow Democrats in the past. Last year, he voted in favor of a ban on sex-change surgeries for minor children. He was beset by outraged Democrats in the House anteroom. Their attacks were so loud and intense that several Republicans went to the room out of concern for Wheeler.
  
  The next day, the House Democratic caucus held a meeting in hopes of cooling passions and building unity. Instead, members of the House Sergeants-at-Arms overheard comments that concerned them so much they reached out to the State House Security Unit of the State Police.
  
  After Thursday’s Democratic attacks on Wheeler, House Republicans again rallied on his behalf.
  
  “Democrats need to take a long, hard look in the mirror before they accuse anyone of lacking integrity,” said Rep. Joe Sweeney (R-Salem). “Democrats’ callousness in comparing the plight of African Americans fighting for their rights to the Democrat fight to putting men in girl’s locker rooms is abhorrent.”
  
  And House Majority Leader Jason Osborne offered Wheeler perhaps the highest praise.
  
  “I hope other Democrats don’t start listening to Rep. Wheeler. It would make it harder for us to beat them if they ever decided to adopt the common sense positions of normal, everyday people.”

• Dan (Monday, March 24 25 09:51 am EDT)

  Jim will be exposing the local pedos who attended the last school board meeting.

• Gary (Monday, March 24 25 08:59 am EDT)

  Questions are not answered at council meetings. There is no dialog with the public at all. It is now a closed off government.

• Mike (Monday, March 24 25 06:19 am EDT)

  Another embarrassing moment for Jim Sullivan. This community deserves better than a lazy, spineless incompetent, narcissist. Someone who can step out from behind his own shadow and show face at public meeting to present his accusations and insults in person.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 23 25 07:31 pm EDT)

  I see the trolls are at it again, even sneakier than usual! Of course the last post is false, I’m working on finishing the articles and should have them published before tomorrow morning.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 23 25 05:25 pm EDT)

  This is really me not a fake poster. I am feeling under the weather and I will not be finishing or publishing articles today. I have been working on them throughout the day but I am only able to work on them for a short time before needing to take a break and the day is quickly elapsing. These articles are far too important to do a half ass rush job with and call it good enough. I was raised with a much better work ethic than that. I will continue to work on these articles throughout the next week and publish them once they are completed to my satisfaction because you all deserve my best effort. Thank you for your understanding.

• Mayor McCheese (Saturday, March 22 25 03:06 pm EDT)

  Jim, you are slower than city government and responding. WTF!!!
  Don't give me some excuse about your job commitment or website host bullshit...I demand your transparency with an answer why you choose muck-raking over making a difference.

• Evan (Saturday, March 22 25 01:06 pm EDT)

  https://nhjournal.com/nhdems-invoke-jim-crow-in-attack-on-black-progressive-over-bathroom-bill-vote/

• Mayor McCheese (Friday, March 21 25 07:05 am EDT)

  Jim, I have a question for ya.
  Why not spend your time doing something good for the city?
  Rather than acting as a Faultfinder and judging decisions and actions after the fact, why not get involved with the process? (Join boards, go to meetings, run for that ward 1 seat)
  
  Watching you on social media try to cock block the sale of waterstreet to investors so you can have a "told you so" moment is disgusting.
  It appears You'll hurt all to prove a point.
  We understand how superior you are to any of those who volinteer or are on payroll with the city of Claremont. We get it.
  You can be so much more than a Carper.

• Larry S. (Thursday, March 20 25 07:12 pm EDT)

  I saw Koloski and Girard at Rumuntos having lunch and laughing. Seem like a really hostile relationship. Solid reporting him Jim. Keep up the stellar work. Censure should happen in no time flat.

• Nomaga is a Pedo (Thursday, March 20 25 07:36 am EDT)

  What went on last night at the school board meeting is exactly why Trump was elected. The mental illness of Claremont was on full display. Nomaga is another freak who continues to think boys should be in girls rooms, a true Pedo.

• Nomaga (Thursday, March 20 25 06:42 am EDT)

  Chair Whitney was in rare form last night…She’s MAGA and dud not get her way.

• Jake (Wednesday, March 19 25 08:42 am EDT)

  A fake Jim and fake Nick post yet again. This certainly highlights the value of this page and it's contributing to the community. Pretty sure Jim is never going to venture in public and Nick would know the accurate name of his own place probably. So dumb.

• Nick (Wednesday, March 19 25 06:53 am EDT)

  Good on you Jim!
  You will bring new meaning to "escape room"
  Looking forward to the crowds you draw in.

• James Sullivan (Wednesday, March 19 25 06:48 am EDT)

  **Important announcement **
  The Sullivan Report is changing format. No longer will I be posting on this website as it has become apparent this method is not effective.
  I have made the decision to attend city meetings in person. In addition to this I have made arangements for public presentations with a open citizen forum, bi-weekly. I have arranged space at time out bar and grill, the first floor function room of Arrowhead and on hot days the pool deck at the CSBCC. I will rotate location as to not conflict with other scheduled activities at each one of my favorite places in Claremont.
  
  Thank you for supporting this next step in my mission.

• Gary (Monday, March 17 25 11:04 am EDT)

  Nick time to take your meds again.

• Shadow (Monday, March 17 25 08:26 am EDT)

  "Steve" you are a dumb on many levels. It super fun watching the page have a conversation with a person who doesn't even look at it. That meany, did Nicky hurt your feelings. A Censure for laughter would be highly advised. Would love to see that lawsuit. The only person that would think this page is credible and act upon it is Wayne Hemingway. He has not seemed to figure out anything else that is a council members responsibility yet. Jim plays the reverse psychology game calling for action and if they don't they are weak. Word to the wise Jim don't expect any action from a group you insult even if something was warranted. This is not. You pretending the bully cop Ohearne is some victim is really laughable. Oh those poor grown men. Jim, was the bullying asking if the person that applied to the planning board was Ohearnes business associate but failed to list that on his application? Is that the same person the council appointed and then removed? That's pretty harsh bullying. Also known as due diligence in court. Must be rough simmering on advertising videos all week and thinking someone is having fun and didn't invite Jim. According to google Let me highlight a promo video for a product that bars worldwide are asked to send in videos and photos with for prizes and support. You already know that though as you use Google. I was curious so looked it up. You going to attack the other businesses that are doing the same? The tavern has been doing funny videos for marketing. Let's rip them a new one. I hope you get sued for harboring this type of actual bullying and torte.

• Steve (Sunday, March 16 25 08:00 pm EDT)

  Jake or should we call you Nicholas J Koloski? Are you afraid you might be censured for your bad behavior? I watched the meetings and Nicholas Koloski's behavior is not poking fun at the Mayor but disrespectful and meanspirited. Nicholas is trying to embarrass and bully the Mayor as he bullied Councilor O'Hearne before. There is no confusion about what Nicholas Koloski is doing.

• Jake (Sunday, March 16 25 06:09 pm EDT)

  Jim, we realize you may not know this because you have not had any friends in your life but Girard and Koloski are friends and despite any differences they have poke at each other. I have seen several meetings where he jabs at Nick about future agenda items etc. You really are a sad man trying to pretend their is something more than 2 guys that laugh on occasion during what is volunteer board time and a ton of meetings. If you can't have fun stay home. Fran, you left out 1 topic. Jim skipped parts of the meeting. You tried to raise issue with Koloski framing a copy of the mayors notes at his ribbon cutting. Stuff other places or the city might trash. You really are sad. This is what you do. Try to raise issue with 2 friends. Try getting some on your own and you'd know the difference between disrespect and respect.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 16 25 04:24 pm EDT)

  New article just published on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  Another embarrassing performance by the Claremont City Council!

• Rick (Sunday, March 16 25 03:49 pm EDT)

  Someone is off their medication.

• Fran (Sunday, March 16 25 02:42 pm EDT)

  Article 1: The councils a bunch of idiots and insert assorted names being called.
  
  Article 2: I misread Financials and call into questions people's integrity even though I am no financial wizard nor have the balls to call the attorney generals office to report all the fraud I think I uncover.
  
  Article 3: Koloski hurt my feelings.
  
  Article 4: Topstone, topstone, topsones.
  
  Article 5: Reposts someone else's calendar announcements.
  
  Article 6: I am a narcissist but will be calling someone else narcissist.
  
  Article 7: I over use Alfred E. Neman graphics and What me worry?

• Tax payer (Sunday, March 16 25 12:17 pm EDT)

  Geat another Sullivan report, now my butt hole hurts.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 16 25 08:39 am EDT)

  A for originality; F for accuracy. I am still working on it and publication is set for later today.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 16 25 08:14 am EDT)

  No articles today, I had a colonoscopy on Friday and haven’t been able to sit down to write.

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, March 12 25 05:55 am EDT)

  Claremont School District voting results for March 11, 2025 are published on the News Flashes page of this website.

• Brett (Tuesday, March 11 25 05:55 pm EDT)

  Oh Gary. Come on. Jealous of other people's fun and not having the emotional intelligence to interact or understand society. We feel for you.

• Gary (Tuesday, March 11 25 05:46 pm EDT)

  Nicholas Koloski can call that video whatever he wants. Only an idiot would believe anything he says or writes. It really is a video of an over age man child playing with his giant stuffed emu acting like the emu is alive. I think it is Nicholas Koloski's imaginary friend. Maybe Nicholas Koloski's only friend. Sad.

• Bill (Tuesday, March 11 25 02:42 pm EDT)

  Hard no vote for Transgender Loren

• Santos (Tuesday, March 11 25 02:26 pm EDT)

  I have it on good authority that Koloski will be dressing up as the Easter Bunny in a costume at a children's hospital event. The balls on this city councilman. Impeach now! Thank you Gary. Someone else finally gets the danger to society. Impersonating the Easter Bunny should be crime. Call the A.G. Jim.

• Shadow (Tuesday, March 11 25 02:03 pm EDT)

  Right. Off his meds and so bothered by commentary of anonymous losers who sit behind a keyboard. How do I know? I can just tell based on a comedic satire video in conjuction with a national brand and their first product placement in NH. (The actual posts explain) Right here in Claremont by the way. The entire community is so bothered by this you are so right in posting it here anonymously for others to be alerted to this dangerous red flag behavior. Truth be said the bothersome part is some nut thinking a promotion video that follows a brand and their worldwide marketing is someone actually thinking an advertising video is real life. Speaking of meds try taking some before posting dumb shit like this. Google might help you understand marketing. We must assume you have never heard of TikTok. Odd that even the state of NH has turned to this type of parody marketing to grab the attention of people. They seem to have missed old crumungoens. Seems to work for the rest of us You must think Liberty Mutual really has an Emu working in their front office manning the phones. Meanwhile low voter turnout today and you are ranting about things you clearly don't comprehend. We are so much better off that you are out there watching out for comedic posts. Thank the lord for you "Gary" .

• Matt (Tuesday, March 11 25 12:16 pm EDT)

  Vote for Loren

• Gary (Tuesday, March 11 25 10:31 am EDT)

  Nick Koloski is off his medication again. You can tell by his whacco comments here and his crazy videos on his Time Out Americanna Facebook site. One of the latest ones with a stuffed emu is totally crazy. Koloski treats it like it's alive and his best friend. Maybe it is. This lunatic is a city councilor. What does that say about Claremont?

• Special K (Monday, March 10 25 01:49 pm EDT)

  Kiloski when reached for comment said "What me worry?" Properly crediting Alfred E. Newman, Jim's mentor.

• Shadow (Monday, March 10 25 01:46 pm EDT)

  Sure it is Dennis. Makes you feel better thinking only 1 single man stands in opposition of some douchebag who writes the same crap over and over. He is terribly troubled by this page and all the years of things coming to fruition just like the rest of us taxpayers. Thanks Dennis. Who da fuck uses cohorts anymore you dinosaur. Sullivan so stuck on a timeline of a subsidiary the taxpayers demand be capped that he misses the illegal zoning board meeting content. Valuable "reporting". Koloski is so concerned about this page. It's totally held him back in every way shape and form. Just asked him and the full parking lot every week. Poor guy. Hope he is sleeping.

• James (Monday, March 10 25 01:16 pm EDT)

  How many people will be out to vote for school board tomorrow?

• Dennis (Monday, March 10 25 12:43 pm EDT)

  Nick Koloski is Mike. He and his cohorts cannot stand a free press they cannot control.

• Mike (Monday, March 10 25 11:42 am EDT)

  *yawn* if you call the fire department every week and tell them your house is on fire, eventually they’ll stop coming. Even I, a longtime reader and former commenter, have to admit this site has gotten repetitive and boring and I forget to check it for weeks at a time. It’s all hysteria and opinion off the same 4-5 facts mined for endless content and engagement like a headless Facebook AI content creator. I get it, it’s fun to call people names behind a keyboard and get a rise out of them. But at this point it’s been multiple years of the same insults, the same one-liners, the same articles written with slightly different characters. Lazy Yoshi, Arrogant Nick, spineless councilors and of course the irrefutably honest Jim…

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 09 25 08:32 pm EDT)

  Six new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Traffic Notice.
  
  2) Reminder Claremont School Election Day.
  
  3) Claremont Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously denies request to rehear Slaughterhouse Appeal!
  
  4) Citizens give DES Representatives an earful regarding their opposition to the Acuity Management Permit Application.
  
  5) Is the Claremont Savings Bank Community Center going the way of the Goodwin Community Center & the Claremont Outdoor Pool because of poor maintenance & bad management?
  
  6) Claremont Development Authority's problems appear to be mounting!

• Trashy (Sunday, March 09 25 08:00 pm EDT)

  If acuity can move forward we promise to put Jim on a train car to Ohio with the rest of the toxic trash

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 09 25 04:05 pm EDT)

  Very sleepy. Stayed up late fapping. No articles. Not sorry.

• Mayor McCheese (Saturday, March 08 25 06:38 pm EST)

  Shadow its time you take over the report. I like your style.

• Shadow (Saturday, March 08 25 01:16 pm EST)

  Good one Jennifer. One who creates and mistakenly deciphers publicly available documents is absolutely a reliable source. Seems to have worked out just great. Just as you think I am one of those people and not just the average meeting watcher who owns 16 rental units and pays a large tax bill you must be one of those individuals who can't do their owne research and needs someone to break it down for them in conspiracy theory terms. I understand. Sounds like you are one of the many that grew up around here qith lead paint and lead exposure in water lines. There are grants for that. It's not to late to think for yourself. "Jennifer " also Jimmy looking in the mirror like the guy from Silence of the Lambs. I'd fuck me too.

• Jennifer (Saturday, March 08 25 08:44 am EST)

  I have been a reader of Jim's articles for years and he does a wonderful job reporting the news. Because he has a website he includes documents or portions of documents that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that what he is reporting is the absolute truth. The powers that be here in Claremont do their darndest to cover up what they are doing because they do not want the people to know the truth that Jim regularly exposes.The shadow must definitely be one of those people taking advantage of all of us.

• Shadow (Saturday, March 08 25 08:21 am EST)

  Fake user name "Tom", right. Because the resident self expert who has never been married, had a girlfriend, owned property, paid tax, had a real friend or held office for more than 1 term has certainly hit the mark on all his hard hitting articles. All that life experience he has makes him resident expert. This page is equivalent to the guy in school who only wants to be a cop to show everyone who wrong him up. Just like Andrew Ohearne. Jim was a hall monitor rat then and is now. It is all his twist on things and not factual information. He has contributed nothing to the actual
  growing of the community. Not a single person has been investigated by the attorney general. Nobody has been fired or taken away in cuffs. Volunteers that do more than Jim, he just drags them down in speculation instead of being a man and attending a single meeting. Picking up a phone and actually asking. All it takes is watching 1 actual meeting to realize he leaves out details and only posts the negative which is 90% embellished. Such a valuable contribution that he will never win any award, see praise and will be remembered after his end days as nothing more that a local pos which trashed his fellow citizens. Nice spin though fake user named "Tom" I have actual things to do now but it's been lovely pointing out you are a dope.

• Tom (Saturday, March 08 25 07:23 am EST)

  The people who are unhappy with Jim Sullivan and his website the Sullivan Report are government officials doing things that they should not be doing whom Jim Sullivan regularly exposes on the Sullivan Report and the special interests who benefit from the status quo of high taxes and no government services to show for it.

• Toxic Avenger aka captain LD (Saturday, March 08 25 07:15 am EST)

  Public meeting for proposed change of use had a huge turn out. Didn't see Mr.Jim Sullivan.
  
  No visible effort from Jim on this issue. Did he use his keyboard warrior skills and submit a letter to DES?
  
  Should we hold a public meeting at the opera house about the Toxicity of the Sullivan report and the effects on our city?
  
  Probably not a good idea, Claremont would make headlines for reinstatement of public stoning.

• Fake Names (Friday, March 07 25 08:15 pm EST)

  Gary aka Jimmy. So you are just willfully ignorant and spreading false narratives to fit your agenda and paint everyone with the same brush. You can pretend I am Nicholas if that helps you sleep at night. You got me bro. Logically the only person that would correct false statements in general would be the person you claim has a frail ego. Ironic statement isn't it Gary. The longest serving person in city history certainly would be bothered by this page and not living his best life knowing it amounts to a dog turd in the wind. You got me Gerty.

• Jim (Friday, March 07 25 05:17 pm EST)

  Gerry you’re a twat

• Gerry (Friday, March 07 25 10:07 am EST)

  Gerry is my real name Ted or should I call you Nicholas Koloski. Gary is somebody else. Jim Sullivan did report that 2 councilors voted against the property purchase I just didn't write it in my last post. Nicholas you really have a fragile ego. Seek professional help.

• Ted (Friday, March 07 25 08:20 am EST)

  You mispelled your fake name Gary. I think you are nuts for not watching the meeting for yourself and assuming or taking Jimmy Sullivan's word for it. 2 councilors voted no. 1 had no reason why and the other couldn't get answers on parking, carrying costs, loan repayment if the holding term was longer than expected and something else that escapes me currently. I had a conversation with the same councilman who expressed concern over draining the sprinkler system which apparently they were going to do. According to what he said it causes rapid oxidation of the pipes with sediment. Sometimes you just have to pick up the phone and call your elected representatives.

• Gerry (Friday, March 07 25 07:25 am EST)

  What do people think about the councilors buying DMV building on Water Street? $700K no clue how to pay for the loan not enough parking building study over 1,000 pages thick that did not check anything important. I think Yoshi Manale and the councilors are all nuts.

• Chong (Thursday, March 06 25 08:42 pm EST)

  I get drugged out and swim in the pool. Last week when the pool had an issue i was forced to be drugged out and use a spin bike.

• Indy-Anna (Thursday, March 06 25 08:08 pm EST)

  Yeah there’s no way in HELL I would let my kids go there with the freaks drugged out sleeping on the tables in the lobby

• John J. O’Connor (Thursday, March 06 25 03:15 pm EST)

  The real question , is the CSBCC a community center or a health club?
  If it’s a Health Club they should immediately double the membership fee.
  If it’s a Community Center, it should be free and completely subsidized by tax payer.
  As for a Homeless Shelter, as an Emergency Warming Station, it’s only available during working hours . A shelter would require 24 hours supervision. If the City won’t do that during a weather emergency, I seriously doubt they would do it on an every day basis.
  They don’t care enough about the people to ever do something like that .

• Paul (Thursday, March 06 25 02:57 pm EST)

  The community center was designed to be a money pit from its conception.

• Wendy (Thursday, March 06 25 02:33 pm EST)

  Turning a building assessed at $13,308,300 into homeless shelter sounds like a bad idea!

• Shminsider (Thursday, March 06 25 01:07 pm EST)

  I prefer homeless shelter, personally. This would explain why so many families refuse to drop their kids off at that center.

• Susan (Wednesday, March 05 25 10:00 pm EST)

  Do you want a fitness center, a community center or a homeless shelter? Seriously. Choose one.

• Goth Person (Wednesday, March 05 25 02:07 pm EST)

  I know what’s leaking and it’s not the pool…goth people need to swim too! They should make the community center a planet fitness…I’d like a massage chair to lounge in all day because I don’t work just get benefits from the government (thanks everyone!)

• Insider (Wednesday, March 05 25 01:13 pm EST)

  The state has one guy that looks at all the pools in the state. You’d be luck to see him even once a year at the community center

• John J. O’Connor (Wednesday, March 05 25 12:51 pm EST)

  I could be wrong but I’d like think the indoor pool is the biggest selling factor the Community Center has and they would go above and beyond to make sure it’s pristine.
  If they shut down the pool, what would that do to membership numbers?

• Insider (Wednesday, March 05 25 12:05 pm EST)

  The indoor pool also looks like someone smeared feces on the walls. It’s disgusting looking.
  
  I saw a couple of homely looking dingey goth people all over each other in the pool the other day like a love session gone wrong. You couldn’t pay me to go in that filth water.

• John J. O’Connor (Wednesday, March 05 25 08:33 am EST)

  Jim,
  Here’s a little heads up… the Indoor pool is leaking… again
  There are major problems with the pool and the public is being kept in the dark about them.
  I know funds have been set aside to update the workout equipment but has any money been put aside for pool maintenance?
  Is the city heading down the same road like it did with the Outdoor pool ?
  The closing of that Outdoor pool was justified because the powers that be said it was “leaking”.. sound familiar…

• Linda (Tuesday, March 04 25 06:04 pm EST)

  Jim, you are as wacked as she is. Take 3 minutes and stop by the restaurant. 4 days after Jacks tantrum at the podium I was a customer at his restaurant. He sits with his laptop at the last bar seat next to the kitchen. Low and behold as soon as I mentioned it he was able to show a call log and email to Mrs. Hurley and her lack of response to any outgoing messages. It's easier for both of you to pretend someone is in the wrong when they are not. Proof is in the pudding. The fact you seek out Meg and her information is says all we need to know. That is the thing about your elected officials. Simply interact face to face or pick up a phone and ask. He couldn't have been any more open about it short of letting me take his laptop home. While there I got to hear about upcoming paving schedules and the worry of state downshifting. Be a little more cautious of spending time trashing people falsely. Thanks

• Intel (Tuesday, March 04 25 05:19 pm EST)

  Who’s this woke ass fool Lauren? Anyone know any intel?

• Insider (Tuesday, March 04 25 05:19 pm EST)

  Hurley is a far fringe extreme activist

• Jim Sullivan (Tuesday, March 04 25 03:48 pm EST)

  I spoke with Margaret Hurley on Sunday evening and she told me that Nick Koloski had not replied to her email in response to his email. Nearly 3 weeks have gone by and Nick Koloski has not had the conversation with her that he promised during a televised Council meeting. It speaks to his character. Margaret Hurley also told me that she did have a conversation with Wayne Hemingway.

• Gary (Tuesday, March 04 25 02:35 pm EST)

  Tom bullshit. Maybe 91a request the email. Would love your proof. I busted his balls about it yesterday and still magically no return phone call from the Hurleys. This is strategic so they can claim victim status. When making up lies about something make sure they are not an open book that has more steet cred than this page of anonymous lovers. Nice try buddy. Tom aka Meg.

• Tom (Tuesday, March 04 25 10:38 am EST)

  I did watch the meeting. Mr Hurley said his wife emailed Koloski back and Koloski did not respond.

• Jim (Tuesday, March 04 25 08:10 am EST)

  Tom maybe you should watch the meeting where Jack Hurley tried to play that card at the podium claiming no one made contact yet Koloski responsed with the exact dates and times he called and emailed. Nice try Boss. I don't know about the others but the one person you call out makes you look like a fool.

• Tom (Tuesday, March 04 25 07:31 am EST)

  I am not surprised that Nicholas Koloski did not have a conversation with Mrs Hurley like he promised. He only said that to make himself look good to the people watching the city councilors meeting from home. We should never believe a word that he says.

• Gary (Tuesday, March 04 25 06:58 am EST)

  I can't believe the level of stupidity. Watching the zoning board last night there is a zoning appeal filed before the board on the grounds of alleged decisions being made by the board prior to hearing the application or public testimony. The board denies the appeal. The chairman then proceeds to announce more than once they should adjourn and continue the meeting outside of the public eye. The city planner tries to block that but the chairman who clearly either doesn't care about his responsibilities does it anyway. Will the minutes reflect what the discussion was after the cameras went off? The city should remove this gentleman immediately.

• Gary (Monday, March 03 25 04:04 pm EST)

  The councilors and Yoshi Manale have destroyed public transparency in exchange for a shadow government of secrets they are keeping from the taxpayers who are paying the bills. None of them can be trusted.

• Shadow government (Monday, March 03 25 03:21 pm EST)

  Yeah "Gary" the council can only ask questions and follow up questions of their employee only in front of James Sullivan's tv feed. That's exactly how it all works. You should get out more. He knows better so should you since you are the same person. Cue Jimmy to pipe in claiming the trolls are at it again. Trolls being 90% of the community that wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

• John J. O’Connor (Monday, March 03 25 02:53 pm EST)

  “I’ve seen this movie before and didn’t like the ending.”
  I have a problem with the city spending 700k on a building and having no plan on what to do with it. They did the same thing with the other building on Water Street and that took years before someone bought it.
  Seems we are going down that same road again but this time there isn’t a parking garage.
  It doesn’t seem like an easy flip with all the structural and environmental issues so I’m not sure why it was brought in the first place.

• Gary (Monday, March 03 25 02:04 pm EST)

  Jim wrote in his article Ohearne & Koloski voted against. Parking was only addressed with purchase of Parking lots that only hold 18 spots. Not enough. Holding costs were only quickly mentioned Yoshi said minimal costs with no specifics councilors satisfied. No professional review. Dumb idea.

• Shadow (Monday, March 03 25 08:55 am EST)

  "Richard" you must be taking Jim's word for it and have not watched the actual meeting where one of the councilors who voted against the purchase asked about the expenses known as carrying costs. 2 voted against it. The other issues were also raised. I contact a few councilors to express my concern. Parking was brought up, holding costs, maintenance. You, sorry Jim leaves out those details to paint a different picture. You will note he never attends a meeting or speaks on anything so you or he would have no idea. You just regurgitated your news flashes in support of yourself. We are all wise to your bullshit.

• Eric (Monday, March 03 25 08:23 am EST)

  The councilors are nuts to listen to Yoshi. Buying the old building is crazy. We are in trouble.

• Richard (Monday, March 03 25 05:22 am EST)

  The thousand page report for 17 Water St. is worthless. It did not check for all of the usual hazards in an old mill building. Asbestos, radon, PCBs, lead paint, lead in drinking water, air quality and structural quality of the building, roof, walls, floors, ceilings, cellar and foundation. The building was abandoned because of a flood and mold was not checked with this inspection. Yoshi Manale presented a poorly thought out initiative in Brattleboro that changed ambulance vendors and has proven itself to be a disaster creating large deficits. It was a contentious change with large opposition from the residents. This idea cost Yoshi Manale his job with Brattleboro. Dale Girard gained a contract to provide ambulance service and then billing services with Brattleboro. Dale Girard recommended Yoshi Manale for city manager of Claremont and the councilors agreed. Purchasing the 17 Water St. property is another terrible idea from Yoshi Manale with no plan to repay the $700,000 plus interest loan to Claremont Savings Bank one year hence or where the money will come from for maintenance costs of the abandoned building. To say they will be none is absurd. Parking requirements of one parking space per unit will be a difficult if not impossible problem to solve. This is a very large building and could be subdivided into many apartments. If it were to become a hotel then one car per room plus parking for hotel staff would be an enormous challenge. None of these concerns were ever discussed publicly by the city councilors or the city manager at a public meeting but they all agreed to purchase the property. This irresponsible act could have dire consequences for taxpayers.

• Olney (Monday, March 03 25 03:09 am EST)

  Another clear smear campaign against a local volunteer and business owner. As a patron and by actually asking him I discovered on my own he opposes the bill and the law change and submitted verbal opposition to the NH liquor commission. His reasons include loss of income, overservice liability and potential dropping of insurance coverage. The law change would make no sense to anyone if you actually speak to him for 5 minutes. Jim you should watch yourself before you get sued for tort.

• Wayne McElreavy (Sunday, March 02 25 07:29 pm EST)

  Unless Nick Koloski wants to change Time-Out Americana Grill from a full-service restaurant to just a bar with little or no food, he would not benefit from the proposed LSR that would remove the requirement of food sales to comprise 50% of sales.
  
  There is an exemption for those restaurants that reach 75K per year in food sales. Time-Out is currently open five days per week. That's 260 days per year. If he is closed 10 of those days for holidays or other reasons, that's a round number of 250 open days. He would need to average only $300 per day to reach 75K for the year. I have no doubt that the business takes in well over $300 per day in food sales.

• Brian (Sunday, March 02 25 04:47 pm EST)

  Nobody notified the catholic diocese that they must provide Jim Sullivan with more answers besides meeting the state law for a minor subdivision. Is it customary when anyone including a local citizens wants to divide up their land to keep hammering them with why, why. Looking at the rules it would seem they planning board could get sued for violating state law. Jim would love that to write about how they are all fools. Can't ever win with Jimmy Sullivan. I am a parishioners. You will find out when the time comes why something might return to a tax paying commodity. Is that a problem Jim? You would rather it stay as it is?

• Drop Dead Fred (Sunday, March 02 25 04:35 pm EST)

  I am starting to think Jim is mentally retarded. For all the time someone would put into research you might think they could come up with facts on anything and not speculation. We all needed to hear about Topstone yet again and the lovely fake portrayal that someone would benefit from Wayne Hemingways moronic bill. You could actually do some work James and understand what the bill means. If has no bearing on the Koloski business as the type of license and the state law making his establishment exempt. I follow along and actually pay attention to my community. Do better you fake advocate for transparency. Educate yourself on the law. Hmmm you say Wayne spend campaign funds at a place that sells beer but no food? Hmmmm you say Wayne submitted a bill that would assist restaurants with not having to sell food? A real look without wanting to find something predetermined in your own head would reveal the bills intent is to assist the very place he spent campaign funds you tool. Your are welcome for doing your homework for you. State law experts Koloski business from complying with any such requirement with or without law change. A search of public records would prove that would be the case for all of Claremonts restaurants except for 2.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 02 25 03:59 pm EST)

  Eight new articles published today on the News Flashes pages of this website.
  
  1) Reminder! ZBA Hearing regarding Slaughterhouse.
  
  2) Reminder! Acuity Public Hearing.
  
  3) No Vehicular Traffic Allowed within the Mountain View Cemetery!
  
  4) Road Postings 2025.
  
  5) Are Claremont City Officials risking a Taxpayer Bailout with real estate speculation?
  
  6) Why Now?
  
  7) Who are Dale Girard & Wayne Hemingway really representing in Concord?
  
  8) City Manager & all 9 Claremont City Councilors continue to embarrass our community with their behavior!

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, March 02 25 07:57 am EST)

  No articles today, not because I don’t want to write them, it’s just everything is going so well in the City there is nothing to report.
  If I did post any articles today they would be figments of my imagination.

• claremontwatch (Thursday, February 27 25 06:59 pm EST)

  https://patch.com/new-hampshire/across-nh/claremont-school-board-blames-nhjournal-public-outcry-over-stalking-teacher
  Circling the wagons!
  Counselor DiPadova is correct!

• Sojourner Truth (Wednesday, February 26 25 06:32 pm EST)

  River Valley Community College used to be a good little college but is a mess now. The best thing the state can do is to combine all the seven CCSNH schools into one community college. Why do you need seven administrations doing the same thing? RVCC is not transparent at all—they don’t want anyone looking at them with a critical eye. No wonder it costs so much to go there!
  Link: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/07/24/facing-enrollment-drops-and-new-law-new-hampshire-colleges-rush-to-consolidate/

• You have led a pretty sad life. (Wednesday, February 26 25 04:56 pm EST)

  You have spent your entire adult life spreading hate, what have you accomplished? None of your claims have been true and there isn't a city manager, city councilor, or for that matter anyone who has served on a volunteer board that you have not made up your own twisted narrative about to make people look bad. Just good honest people that volunteer their time that you attack. Looking back on your 40 years of hate, what are you most proud of, and don't say that you've shed light on all the corruption. There is no corruption, it's all a figment of your imagination and your pure hatred for the city of Claremont and the people who live here. What a waste of your life, you really are a pathetic person who needs help.

• Insider (Wednesday, February 26 25 09:36 am EST)

  Government does not bring economic development, private businesses do.

• Dicky (Tuesday, February 25 25 06:51 pm EST)

  Sarah (most assuredly Jim or Francis) your information is incorrect. Only two of those positions are unfilled. Keep peddling false information though it brings the site a lot of credibility!

• Sarah (Tuesday, February 25 25 04:34 pm EST)

  The planning department has no director, project manager or business coordinator. Economic development in Claremont will be dead without these staff members in place. Not do nothings like Yoshi but employees with the proper credentials to do a terrific job.

• Jim (Tuesday, February 25 25 03:54 pm EST)

  SO MUch Winning! Billions saved by DOGE and the war over in Gaza and Ukraine! We are so much better off with lower prices and great abundance! Hail Trump! Four more years!

• Insider (Tuesday, February 25 25 11:28 am EST)

  Planning now has just the right amount of staff except for the codes guys should be under the fire chief in the fire department for proper oversight. It sounds like Yoshi will be making that move soon.

• Richard (Tuesday, February 25 25 07:58 am EST)

  Welfare needs a bailout. CDA needs a bailout. Community center yearly bailout growing every year. Arrowhead Club will need a bailout. Music center will need a bailout. Finance dept needs auditors to bail them out of their mess the books are in a shambles it will cost taxpayers tens of thousands to fix. Planning dept decimated with no staff. What does Yoshi and councilors do? Nothing but spend lots of money drying up the city's savings. We are in big trouble.

• Official Sullivan (Monday, February 24 25 02:55 pm EST)

  De Forest bearse for select board

• Caught ya (Monday, February 24 25 11:38 am EST)

  And selling your wife’s underwear online isn’t a legitimate business

• Insider (Monday, February 24 25 11:12 am EST)

  Matt you ain’t watching anything except for them you know whats.

• Claremont-watch (Sunday, February 23 25 07:25 pm EST)

  The schools need to be watched and questioned—I am their watcher/questioner/learner-advocate!
  I have merely scratched the surface thus far!!!

• Fred (Sunday, February 23 25 04:05 pm EST)

  No mention that Jim Sullivans landlord was one of the applications for 79e tax relief? I see Jim whining and name calling others for his own ego but failing to identify the fact his landlord was the only actual application to travel to be heard which is odd because that seems to be the whining Jim is doing. So odd for a guy who needs to "expose" others and only complain when it meets his own selfish needs. No mention of why David Putnam was retiring you say? Maybe don't be a coward and ask him yourself Jim. Narcissists think all actions must be done in front of them and ran by them for approval. Logically thinking the council moves daily by asking pertinent questions in advance and doing this homework. You tiny mind can't seem to process that. The council chambers were full and I attended to wish David Putnam well. The only action was your landlord tossing a fit in the hallway as they would not be hearing his application to line his own pocket. Cowardly man behind a keyboard you are Jim.

• Richard (Sunday, February 23 25 12:36 pm EST)

  A typographical error is the best you can do to criticize the return of the Sullivan Report is weak sauce.

• Bad grammar (Sunday, February 23 25 11:19 am EST)

  “This website is now that up and running again!” ~ James Sullivan

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 23 25 10:41 am EST)

  This website is now that up and running again!
  
  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Rehearing regarding Slaughterhouse scheduled for the next Claremont Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting.
  
  2) Public Hearing Rescheduled.
  
  3) Granite State Packing's $1.6 million US Department of Agriculture Grant Funding is Frozen! Slaughterhouse Project in Limbo!
  
  4) Another disgraceful performance by Claremont City Officials during the February 12, 2025 Council Meeting!

• Insider (Friday, February 21 25 05:11 pm EST)

  Jim finally got the emails. These things were strategically released at the same time that Jim cannot post new articles and is overwhelmed with his new website. Trust me. They know much will get lost in the shuffle and Jim can’t keep up.

• Jim Sullivan (Friday, February 21 25 04:15 pm EST)

  Needless to say I did not write the posting today at 10:05 AM on The Sullivan Report’s Public Forum that was falsely attributed to me. It just shows how incredibly desperate people affiliated with the City of Claremont’s Municipal Government are to try to get my many readers to stop reading my investigative articles that include irrefutable documented proof that what I am reporting is the absolute truth about what Claremont City Officials are doing many times in secret intentionally kept hidden from the public.
  The truth is that the existing framework of my website, The Sullivan Report has broken down and due to its age is no longer under service. Meaning that once again I am going to have to rebuild a brand-new website; something that I have had to do several times before, which has always proven itself to be an arduous, time-consuming process. I have already ordered the new website package and the technicians from my website host company have already set it up so it is now ready for me to use. Tomorrow morning I intend to start building the new website. I have absolutely no idea how long this will take. The web host company’s IT technicians have told me that with new technology that is now available the process to build a new website has been streamlined and is much easier and there is a AI Assistant to help with the setup. I have never used AI before so this will be a new experience and hopefully it will be a beneficial one. I intend to get the new website up and running as soon as possible and once that is done it will replace the existing website with the same Domain Name/Internet Address as I have done before when a new website needed to be created.
  One last thing, this past week I received another treasure trove of public documents from the City of Claremont that I have added to the large electronic pile of other documents that I have yet to get to read. The reason being that I have recently received the entire backlog of documents that I have been waiting to receive for quite some time and it will take a while for me to read it all, analyze the material and write articles regarding these important topics. I have looked at some of it and what I am finding is incredibly shocking. This may be the reason for the false comments posted today in a desperate attempt to try to reduce my website’s readership because an unknown number of Claremont City Officials know exactly what I have received for public documents and if they are even the slightest bit cognizant of exactly what I have received, (at least regarding what I have looked at thus far), then they should be all shitting bricks knowing what I am capable of doing with that damning information. If they are not worried; then they should be!
  Regarding what I have already reported, you have a good idea of how poorly the City is being run but that pales in comparison to what I have found thus far with the new public documents that I have recently received and I still have a lot more of those public documents to slog through. It is truly amazing the incredible ineptitude, ignorance and incompetence of the current elected, appointed & hired Claremont City Officials, who are collectively running our great community right into the ground, which is negatively impacting every single Citizen of Claremont in ways you may not even know! I look forward to being able to expose what is going on to all of you as soon as my website, The Sullivan Report, is up and running again, as all of you have a right to know the truth with investigative reporting, which what passes for the local media these days isn’t doing! Till then!

• Jim Sullivan (Friday, February 21 25 10:05 am EST)

  This site has been officially closed due to unforeseen circumstances.
  Thank you for your loyal readership, it’s been my pleasure to be the instrument to enlighten you about our city Government.
  Good night and good bye.
  Jim

• J Dub (Thursday, February 20 25 02:21 pm EST)

  Hey, Jim can’t post new articles. I will sponsor a new site as long as you promote my business.

• George (Thursday, February 20 25 12:44 pm EST)

  How will we ever survive all this winning! Trump has reduced our rents, groceries and taxes all at once. DOGE is saving us billions and with the Ukrainian war of aggression against Russia resolved we won’t be sending money to back that war.

• Matt (Thursday, February 20 25 09:56 am EST)

  Get out of here with your propaganda Mike. Anyone should be able to go pee or poo anywhere they want

• Mike (Thursday, February 20 25 09:42 am EST)

  https://nhjournal.com/what-is-biological-sex-nh-dems-puzzled-by-bill-protecting-single-sex-spaces/

• Janice (Monday, February 17 25 08:46 pm EST)

  Jeff will be starting at armchair quarterback this weekend in the "you don't know shit about fuck bowl"
  Jeff is Jim.
  Blow it out your ass Jeff /Jim.

• Jeff (Monday, February 17 25 01:20 pm EST)

  If the city manager and the city councilors had the ability to solve Claremont's problems they would have long ago. Have you watched a meeting? All of them are entirely clueless.

• Mayor McCheese (Monday, February 17 25 11:43 am EST)

  Thank goodness. We can all use a break from Sullivan report bullshit. I'm excited that city officials can actually focus on the task at hand rather than your distractions.

• Jim Sullivan (Monday, February 17 25 09:27 am EST)

  To all of my readers. An unexpected problem came up with my website. I can no longer put content up because of technical issues with the actual website and I found out from my website host provider that the website system that I was using is no longer under service as it is considered antiquated and I have to upgrade to a modern website system through them; something that I have had to do a few times before since I started the Sullivan Report website as the technology advances. This means that I will have to create a whole new website and start fresh; which will take a while. So there will be no new content for at least a few weeks as this takes quite a bit of time to do and I have limited time to devote to doing it. Rest assured I will have the new website up and running under the same domain name and website Internet address as soon as possible as I have lots of revelations to share with all of you. Thank you for your patience and your understanding.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 16 25 07:55 pm EST)

  It seems the problem is worse than I thought, None of the new pages I uploaded migrated to the website. I will have to wait until this is fixed before I can publish new content

• Michael (Sunday, February 16 25 02:05 pm EST)

  https://nhjournal.com/national-dems-drop-nh-state-house-from-battleground-list/

• Gary (Sunday, February 16 25 01:49 pm EST)

  Jim, are you going to do a public right to know for the school? Think how much this will cost us as a city.

• Michael (Sunday, February 16 25 01:45 pm EST)

  https://nhjournal.com/nhdems-propose-property-tax-hike-return-of-id-income-tax/

• Damien Fischer (Sunday, February 16 25 11:11 am EST)

  https://nhjournal.com/claremont-sau-knew-teacher-was-under-investigation-didnt-remove-her-from-school/

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 16 25 10:01 am EST)

  I see the Internet Trolls are back presumably snowed in with nothing better to do with their time. Well I will state anyway even though it should be obvious that I did not make that posting Saturday night at 8:52 PM and it seems that Timmy finally made it out of the well. These Internet Trolls sure do seem to have an interesting fantasy life.
  
  Anyway, today I am diligently working on the articles that I will publish presumably late this afternoon because I had other matters to attend to yesterday and I did not have my usual amount of time on Saturday to work on these articles. Till then.

• Timmy (Sunday, February 16 25 09:30 am EST)

  That would explain the sustained celibacy

• Jim Sullivan (Saturday, February 15 25 08:52 pm EST)

  I must have been an ugly kid because I never had a teacher take such interest in me.

• Finsider (Friday, February 14 25 08:24 pm EST)

  Lots of teachers do this

• John J. O’Connor (Friday, February 14 25 08:04 am EST)

  I haven’t seen anything written about this teacher being in a sexual relationship with the 14 year old.
  Why would this teacher or any teacher get so involved with a student unless there was a problem in the student’s home life ?
  I have always believed there are 3 sides to every incident, his side, her side and the true side .
  Unfortunately, we will never know the truth.

• Patrick (Friday, February 14 25 06:38 am EST)

  Should SAU 6 get federal funding since there are pride flags everywhere?

• Rebecca (Thursday, February 13 25 09:18 pm EST)

  Bear, tell that to the 14yr old who was stalked by his teacher!

• Bear (Thursday, February 13 25 08:43 pm EST)

  You have everything you have because of eduction

• Gerald (Thursday, February 13 25 03:08 pm EST)

  These educators with their fat cat wallets spending all the money with no idea what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck. Old people getting kicked out of houses and per pupil cost way up.

• DOGE is welcomed (Thursday, February 13 25 11:39 am EST)

  It most definately should our beauracrats would be sad poking holes in all the waste they create yearly because they are ignorant causing our tax rate to force people out

• Brandon (Thursday, February 13 25 09:57 am EST)

  Sorry Frank, DOGE is coming to Claremont.

• Frank (Thursday, February 13 25 06:17 am EST)

  You shouldn’t put someone’s name on here if you don’t know what you are talking about. Keep your DOGE out of Claremont!!

• John J. O’Connor (Wednesday, February 12 25 12:53 pm EST)

  The whole idea of diversity is to divide, so I’m not sure how it can strengthen anything.
  We will never know the names of the students involved but there is no law forbidding the disclosure of their ages or emigration status.

• Fact (Wednesday, February 12 25 10:53 am EST)

  Bean is Matt Bean

• John J. O’Connor (Wednesday, February 12 25 08:07 am EST)

  Bean,
  What does that mean ?
  How does a community become stronger with diversity?

• Bean (Wednesday, February 12 25 05:58 am EST)

  Our diversity is our strength

• Susan (Wednesday, February 12 25 04:08 am EST)

  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/metro/nh-middle-school-teacher-mullen-stalking-student-claremont/
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nh-middle-school-teacher-fired-after-she-was-accused-of-stalking-student/ar-AA1yO8W8

• Harry (Tuesday, February 11 25 08:17 pm EST)

  With diversity comes problems.

• Concerned cotizen (Tuesday, February 11 25 07:34 pm EST)

  What the hell is going on at the schools!?!

• Bean (Tuesday, February 11 25 01:25 pm EST)

  I’ve come to realize that might be true.

• Insider (Monday, February 10 25 07:19 pm EST)

  Mark and Greg should start a DOGE for Claremont schools and city hall.

• Francis (Monday, February 10 25 07:34 am EST)

  Than you for your recent articles.
  Recently I was having trouble falling asleep but last night, I barely got through your second article before I was sound asleep.
  Keep writing this boring crap, I need the sleep.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 09 25 06:01 pm EST)

  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Former Claremont School Board Member appointed to the US Department of Education.
  
  2) Claremont Officials scheme to begin a Claremont Taxpayer Bailout of the Claremont Development Authority! Part #2 of 2.
  
  3) Claremont Municipal Airport Loans Update!
  
  4) Appeal filed regarding the Claremont Zoning Board of Adjustment Approval of a Slaughterhouse at 471 Sullivan St.!

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 09 25 07:50 am EST)

  Someone has a sense of humor. There will definitely be articles published today; I am still working on them so they will be up later today.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 09 25 07:17 am EST)

  No articles today, it’s Super Sunday.. go Patriots !!!!

• Insider (Friday, February 07 25 01:45 pm EST)

  Is the health officer allowing unchecked junkyards within our city limits? Why does Whipple yard grow? Aren’t junk yards supposed to be not visible?

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, February 05 25 04:05 pm EST)

  Special Report!
  
  New Hampshire Dept. of Environmental Services Public Hearing regarding Recycling Services Inc. seeking to Collect and Process Construction & Demolition Debris scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed due to the impending snowstorm. For more limited information go to the News Flashes page of this website.

• Mary (Wednesday, February 05 25 06:18 am EST)

  The Mayor is divorced for a reason, now we know why .

• Mimi Popover (Tuesday, February 04 25 07:21 pm EST)

  Mayior Girard - Saw him in a pic on facebook with the recovery people. I didn't know he was in recovery!? Well bless his little heart...........................................................................

• Insider (Monday, February 03 25 08:51 pm EST)

  You don’t pay taxes in Claremont you guy
  You also haven’t gotten the real story yet
  Call Whipple

• george (Monday, February 03 25 03:48 pm EST)

  Are you ready to start winning! it's just around the bend! Trump will have the economy singing well, by this Friday!

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 02 25 05:11 pm EST)

  Three new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) The current state of Claremont's Municipal Government.
  
  2) City Officials scheme to begin a Claremont Taxpayer Bailout of the Claremont Development Authority! Part #1 of 2.
  
  3) Did the Manale Administration Secretly Settle the Property Tax Abatement Case before the New Hampshire Board of Tax & Land Appeals?

• Cindy (Sunday, February 02 25 03:28 pm EST)

  I only have a bucket

• Ben Dover (Sunday, February 02 25 03:25 pm EST)

  Go sit on the toilet.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, February 02 25 03:04 pm EST)

  No articles today, my tummy is not feeling good.

• Insider (Sunday, February 02 25 01:21 pm EST)

  ***Goothier***
  How many one term do nothings congregate here?

• John J. O’Connor (Sunday, February 02 25 09:47 am EST)

  Thank you Frank for accepting the position, I expect a report by the end of the month.

• Francis Gauthier (Sunday, February 02 25 07:55 am EST)

  Francis *Gauthier*

• John J. O’Connor (Saturday, February 01 25 07:54 pm EST)

  I nominate former State Representative Francis Guathier to be the the Chairman of the DOGE Committee.

• Insider (Saturday, February 01 25 06:37 am EST)

  Claremont needs a DOGE for the city hall and school district. The school budget is insanely out of control. Since the income tax will be abolished, all the unemployed accountants should become auditors for schools.

• Tim Flanders (Wednesday, January 29 25 07:53 pm EST)

  Suzanne sounds like a mental patient on the radio

• Richard (Wednesday, January 29 25 01:05 pm EST)

  Regarding?

• Insider (Wednesday, January 29 25 12:55 pm EST)

  It sounds like there is an agreement. Big news coming

• Fact (Tuesday, January 28 25 10:06 pm EST)

  Trump is kicking ass

• Insider (Tuesday, January 28 25 06:21 am EST)

  Big interview this week.

• Ben (Monday, January 27 25 05:49 pm EST)

  City hall management, you’re projecting, are you sad because you’re stuck at the city with no professional development opportunities besides getting higher on yoshis “pick me” list? Better go back into your hole.

• travling salesman (Monday, January 27 25 05:08 pm EST)

  Claremont sucks at tourism 90% of activity and travel take place Friday to Sunday. As bad as it sounds is how meany stop in and use the shitter. Should have a gift shop and a maned information desk

• City Hall (Monday, January 27 25 04:37 pm EST)

  Matt, no wonder you can't get bumped up in position. You spend all day on the computer whining.
  
  Sincerely, MGMT

• George (Monday, January 27 25 10:25 am EST)

  I am so ready for the winning! Trump will reverse the economy and have us the strongest country again by Friday!
  
  Claremont get ready for the next big boom!

• Insider (Monday, January 27 25 08:44 am EST)

  Watch for resignations from planning, DPW and city hall. Fire has good morale so shouldn’t be any issues there.
  
  Forcing out NM at the VC has caused everyone to look for new jobs. As they find jobs they leave. There is a stink that just won’t leave.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, January 26 25 04:10 pm EST)

  Two new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Two More Bite the Dust
  
  2) January 22, 2025 Claremont City Council Meeting Synopsis.

• Norm (Saturday, January 25 25 05:23 pm EST)

  Well Avery has said goodbye to people and is leaving for the private sector so he says. I can't say he was a good project manager from my limited dealings on some city contracted work here. I think he's cost you more than you made.

• Insider (Saturday, January 25 25 12:22 pm EST)

  I cannot speak to the intentions of individuals but if something comes up this forum will be the first to know automatically. I’m not sure how much longer I will be in my current position either after Thursday and Friday. I’ve been exposed.

• Denis (Saturday, January 25 25 10:14 am EST)

  Is the City Planner on the verge of leaving too? I heard that Austin Ford is interviewing for other jobs away from Claremont.

• Insider (Saturday, January 25 25 07:35 am EST)

  Ask me anything

• Insider (Saturday, January 25 25 07:34 am EST)

  See, I called her out and she knows who I am. Doesn’t matter anyways we don’t have a supervisor.

• Cooter (Friday, January 24 25 07:19 pm EST)

  You’ll smell me when you come in the door.

• Jenny (Friday, January 24 25 02:26 pm EST)

  Two love birds at the visitor center. Bad bad bad

• Insider (Friday, January 24 25 01:13 pm EST)

  113 since the building was completed in 2005. I saw you just go look. Get back to work you know we aren’t allowed to be on this forum. Do you see why our building needs leadership? More people come in to take a crap in the bathroom than to get information. And no one can give them info anyways. Just come see me don’t talk to me though this stupid forum. You are cute but I’m taken.

• Do Your Homework (Friday, January 24 25 12:35 pm EST)

  According to the log book of signatures on the podium inside the entry door roughly 113 that choose to sign the book. That was as of yesterday when I went in to drop off permit paperwork. Perhaps more research before pretending. Yes, the information on the facility and bills are published on the website. In case you need to take a glance to pretend you work for the city. Back to my barn building. A city employee would know about scenic by ways and the funds used to construct the building.

• Insider (Friday, January 24 25 12:04 pm EST)

  Soon with upcoming resignations there will be 4 employees in the planning building. Who cares about the “scenic byways”. Do you know how many people stop as “visitors”? Less than a dozen a year. It’s a joke and needs to be consolidated. Do you know how much money that building costs? They all go home early anyways. The code guys can go work at the fire department and it won’t cause any problems.

• Keith (Friday, January 24 25 08:48 am EST)

  An insider would be aware you don't shutter a visitors center as its a scenic by ways building. I am a taxpayer and I understand these things. Certainly someone in the building itself would have a better understanding of building expenses and would not go away with not occupying a space. They would also be able to get the number of employees correct and that is not the low number you present. Feel free to name the employees insider. Also please describe the Capitol projects your entire department was present for at the last public meeting presenting updates. Its all public information and I am aware as is Jim Sullivan so please feel free to gives us more then speculation. They would also be able to visualize the layout in city hall and understand the current backlog of inspections at the fire department level and lack of staff. Please by all means keep pretending and spit balling. Being a retired outsider I seem to have a better real world grasp just by watching meetings and obtaining permits for my barn.

• Insider (Friday, January 24 25 06:17 am EST)

  Jim you just don’t listen how many times am I right and you refuse to do the work to get the story. I may not post much after this as my timing has made many suspicious. Morale inside planning at an all time low. Cannot hire and more resignations coming. With only 4 left working there the Planner should be moved to city hall and codes to the fire department. Shutter the building and save tons of money. Put an economic development person right in the managers office for direct day to day contact.

• A.I. (Thursday, January 23 25 09:13 pm EST)

  Megan H is J. Dubbs.

• Megan H (Thursday, January 23 25 08:17 pm EST)

  Kate L. impossible insider is outsider. Insider posted before Project Manager had his resignation in. Narrows it down to few people. Said few people are aware of the situation and had other suspicious activity occur in the work place today. Including the insider who is responsible for posting information before even Yoshi was aware… insider better be more careful about staying “inside”…. Tick tock.

• Todd (Thursday, January 23 25 07:37 pm EST)

  Slander = facts. Just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean anything. Make Claremont Great again.

• Insider (Thursday, January 23 25 04:58 pm EST)

  You have no clue. You should be careful how you slander people.

• Kate L. (Thursday, January 23 25 12:55 pm EST)

  Yes, J. Dubbs but your real name is Jeff Williams of Sugar River Drive. You spend time pretending to be an insider to use reverse psychology on James Sullivan as the city of Claremont acted upon complaints made. You then deflect and pretend everyone works for the city that counters anything you post. Reality is it is boring to hear the same thing over and over. Readers could obtain real information but attending meetings or watching public access. I do and was there last evening. I never see you out from behind a keyboard.

• Insider (Thursday, January 23 25 10:46 am EST)

  Kate L. Glad you joined the party. You know who I am…don’t play coy.

• Kate L. (Thursday, January 23 25 08:22 am EST)

  Insider is really outsider. The project manager has informed several people he accepted a job elsewhere and is already saying his goodbyes. There are numerous high level jobs open so of course they are going to be filled. That is like guessing the sun will rise tomorrow. If you take a look at the DES page the BBQ place should be under scrutiny. All anyone has to do is sit in the audience at a council meeting and speak with the group that shows up for meetings and plans to protest with Contois about the recycling facility. I did. There is no secrecy. It is only secretive if you don't participate in your own city government. If you are late to the party check out cctv for the replays of the meetings.

• Harold (Thursday, January 23 25 05:03 am EST)

  Do you think there are people in the city government or school that will oppose the deportation efforts? I’ve heard there are some very woke activists working at the school that hate our president.

• Cindy (Wednesday, January 22 25 02:19 pm EST)

  Yoshi needs to start interviewing planning employees to find the mole. Who do we think insider is?
  
  This site used to be more fun, no one visits anymore.

• Insider (Wednesday, January 22 25 12:47 pm EST)

  Big news:
  
  - 2 new high level resignations coming
  - a new hire for a high level position
  -restaurant license under scrutiny after discovery
  -manager suspects and leak and bans the forums
  
  More to come…back to work

• J Dub (Tuesday, January 21 25 04:49 am EST)

  Make Claremont Great Again

• Mike (Monday, January 20 25 05:21 pm EST)

  The city leaders of Claremont are really corrupt.

• Tim Mulligan (Sunday, January 19 25 06:24 pm EST)

  Jim you need to talk to the building inspector about what that lodge needs to turn it into a school building. We are talking huge costs, ADA features, sprinkler and alarm and much much more. Stupid decision. Again, all in the planning emails I told you to get.

• Flash Mob (Sunday, January 19 25 03:55 pm EST)

  Steve, yes, Koloski is the only reader of this forum and the only person to say they are sick of hearing the same old tune. Eat less paint chips bud.

• Steve (Sunday, January 19 25 02:51 pm EST)

  Nick we know it was you who wrote the last comment. You do it every time you are mentioned in a less than positive way in one of Jim's articles because your ego cannot take it. Get therapy.

• R. Thompson (Sunday, January 19 25 02:42 pm EST)

  Jimmy, if you are going to continue to speculate, make accusations and trash people and their place of business at minimum get your facts straight. I have storage space in the Topstone Building. I have for 13 years. I have sat pretty quietly all these years as you continue to drag everyone through the mud. A simple tour of the building would reveal yet again you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. Mr. Koloskis business, one I presume you have never stepped foot in, is not the largest tenant in the property. The storage tenant occupancy would be the largest tenant in the property followed second by the industry that has been in the property for nearly 20 years. We have been here long before Koloski and do employee people in the region. I have it on very good authority that the owners once offered you a sit down to address your continual non factual speak but you refused to actually take a walk and see things for yourself. At the end of the day I believe the majority of the community is sick of hearing about Topstone, Koloski and your continue grasping at straws. The business within the property are employers and economic contributors and you do nothing positive for the region, the businesses or the families that are employed by your continued witch hunt to stroke your own ego. Be a man and stop trying to spin everything against people you feel are your enemies. I am starting to think you are a Koloski stalker and it is alarming.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, January 19 25 02:09 pm EST)

  Three new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Claremont School District Purchases Claremont Masonic Lodge.
  
  2) Claremont City Officials Hiding the Truth about Municipal Finances! Part #4 – City Administrations Unethical Grossly Inflated Property Assessments for Local Utilities Artificially Diminishes Claremont's Property Tax Rate!
  
  3) Are Some Claremont City Officials Committing Fraud?

• John J. O’Connor (Sunday, January 19 25 09:12 am EST)

  Tim,
  I wouldn’t go to that extreme but any type of censorship is a cowardly act.
  Back in the day, Jim would never delete anything, free speech was the norm. Now, it seems Jim has gone woke.
  He has no problem slandering elected officials personal reputations, I’ve never seen him delete anything of that. I’ve seen him delete posts that have his name on it but he denies writing it… welcome to my world.
  Someone (Tim) constantly uses my name on posts. I’ll post a denial but that post remains, unlike the one with Jim’s name in it.
  You either have free speech or you don’t. I never expected Jim to embrace Kip’s style of censorship but if you live long enough you’ll see everything.

• Tim Mulligan (Sunday, January 19 25 07:08 am EST)

  Jim has removed so many of my posts over the years. Anything pertaining to a project or person he has agreed to protect will get deleted. I told him about the city hall safety, I told him about moving the offices to the community center, I told him about shutting down the visitors center offices, I told him about the sex scandal at city hall, I told him about the Nancy M saga and the power struggle at planning, all of these things he refused to look in to adequately and they are all in motion. The pool at the community center is so neglected that it will likely be shut down. Brown! It’s gross looking. Jim cares only about what the administration cares about. He is a pawn.

• John J. O’Connor (Saturday, January 18 25 09:22 pm EST)

  No excuse Jim.
  Any kind of censorship is cowardly. Now, you and Kip have something in common.
  I’m very disappointed, always thought you were better than that.
  Guess I was wrong.

• Jim Sullivan (Saturday, January 18 25 08:43 pm EST)

  John, it is true that I removed a few of the comments, which is something that I rarely have to do. These comments were due to language of a sexual content.

• John J. O’Connor (Saturday, January 18 25 08:35 pm EST)

  Jim,
  It was brought to my attention that you remove postings you don’t like or agree with, say it ain’t so Jim?
  I got into a rather heated discussion defending you. I said there is no way you would do something like that, that your site is truly a place for free unedited speech.
  I consider any type of censorship to be cowardly… so Jim, is it true, do you censor and remove postings?

• Mrs. Sullivan (Thursday, January 16 25 07:27 pm EST)

  Jim you shouldn’t act like that.

• George (Wednesday, January 15 25 06:17 pm EST)

  Just five more days until lower grocery prices, evictions for all the immigrants and lower taxes.
  
  Get ready to Win Win Win

• Truth (Wednesday, January 15 25 03:05 pm EST)

  Old Kipp is killing it on WUC on real issues, where are you Jim?

• Uncle_Baby_Billy (Wednesday, January 15 25 02:03 pm EST)

  What is best for the local farming community is what’s best for the community. Need to have food production local to not be dependent on mass agriculture. No wonder no one takes you seriously.

• Insider (Wednesday, January 15 25 11:33 am EST)

  You would know.

• Nancy (Tuesday, January 14 25 07:45 pm EST)

  Hey Jim, did you attend the chicken meeting tonight? With you being the biggest cock in town we want to know what you might have sratched up.
  We all flock to you for this information.

• John J. O’Connor (Tuesday, January 14 25 07:28 am EST)

  Hahaha… sully… you know I might have thought it, but I’d never write something like that .. I didn’t make that post at 10:15pm.
  Tim,
  You already use a bogus name, no need to start using mine.

• John J. O’Connor (Monday, January 13 25 10:15 pm EST)

  Hey Jim, fuck you

• Jim Sullivan (Monday, January 13 25 05:41 pm EST)

  Kalen, I simply told the truth to set the record straight regarding the hiring of Guy Santagate and like John O'Connor I only post comments on the Public Forum under my own name.

• Kalen (Monday, January 13 25 05:06 pm EST)

  Yeah O'Connor. Jimmy put you right in your place proving you wrong with his words. Nana nana boo boo. Take that. He is the type of guy that would advocate for someone and later throw them under a bus for nearly a decade. How dare you think otherwise. He really told you and countered every point with elegance. He must have gotten out of work early today and had to sit patiently to post every hour on the hour today to make it not appear as if he is 4 people standing up for himself. We are all so silly to think otherwise.

• Betty (Monday, January 13 25 04:46 pm EST)

  How did the city of Claremont parks and rec obtain a bingo license to charge admission fees to play bingo at the elks club? I tried looking up the license with the charitable gaming commission but no luck. If anyone knows what department you apply to for a license can you let me know here please. We use to hold games at pizza hut but were shut down. Laws probably have changed to allow for it but I can't find the information.

• Jim Sullivan (Monday, January 13 25 03:57 pm EST)

  John, either your recollection is off or someone told you a lie. After the interviews were conducted I supported the hiring of Guy Santagate and I advocated for his hiring to several other City Councilors, who initially wanted to hire someone else instead of Guy Santagate.

• Allyn (Monday, January 13 25 03:39 pm EST)

  Interesting that you can form a full sentence.

• Lynn (Monday, January 13 25 02:35 pm EST)

  It's interesting that the person who defended Johnathan Stone is now defending Nicholas Koloski.

• Richard (Monday, January 13 25 02:11 pm EST)

  Sitting in a councilors chair for years doesn't mean a thing if the councilor did nothing to improve conditions in Claremont. Nick Koloski fits that description perfectly.

• Tom (Monday, January 13 25 01:03 pm EST)

  Its not years of service but accomplishments. Koloski has accomplished nothing the city government is a wreck and he was there when most of it happened.

• John J. O’Connor (Monday, January 13 25 08:08 am EST)

  You people love to shit all over a career volunteer (Nick) and worship a “one and done” politician (Jim).
  Nick has dedicated his adult life to the citizens of Claremont. Jim held office for one chaotic term in which the Mayor (Shaban) , during a televised meeting, got out of his chair and threatened to punch Jim in his face. Jim’s time on the Council was unremarkable except for the hiring of Claremont’s greatest City Manager of modern times (Santagate). If I remember correctly Jim was not in favor of hiring Santagate and after leaving office he made it his mission in life to remove him from office.
  It’s time to stop bashing Nick, he is one of the longest tenures City Councilors in the history of Claremont who has dedicated years of his life to the citizens of Claremont …can Jim say the same ?

• Ken (Sunday, January 12 25 09:17 pm EST)

  Love this page. Everyone posting under fake names pretending to be Nicky and talking about Nicky pretending Nicky give one single shit about this page. Nobody gives a shit about this commentary including Nicky. Mfers working while you morons pretend and talk to each other Jimbo.

• Nick (Sunday, January 12 25 06:29 pm EST)

  Hey Tony,
  Fuck you.

• Tony (Sunday, January 12 25 06:04 pm EST)

  Nick Koloski is in rare form today. Posting under fake names to try to prop himself up after Jim showed everyone what a doofus Nick is. Nick go drink some of your watered down booze and chill out.

• Mark (Sunday, January 12 25 04:27 pm EST)

  You are good at minute searches. Can you share the minutes and meeting date when the council voted to send increased missed inspection fees to the policy committee for review along with fees schedules for fire alarm and burglar alarm responses? I can't seem to find that information. Almost as if they just took that upon themselves. That wouldn't fit your narrative so please prove me wrong. Imagine if Jimmy had asked for further action to be taken in regards to the policy committee going against council direction and seeking legal opinions at the expense of the taxpayer. It would be a news flash. It was from someone he doesn't like so it now a slam fest. I agree that you seem to be jealous. Find a boyfriend or something Jim. I am only guessing that's your thing. Wasn't it on school? I remember you as the guy who would rat everyone out. Hall monitor it was. This is what happens when you grow up with no friends. You become jealous of those that have more than you instead of seeing they are not your enemy. You have spent your entire life tearing everyone else down. Really sad.

• Jen (Sunday, January 12 25 04:14 pm EST)

  Jim has nothing to do with Koloski. It's your name calling. It really is pathetic. Sadly you read anyone that says a word against you as you vs. Koloski. It really comes across as pathetic. I didn't even read the rest as it's the same thing but worsening like you are slipping. Find a hobby and get some air. You talk out both sides of your mouth. If someone can't give any more time than they do and highlight that at a meeting you scold. If they didn't you would scold. Really pick a lane. The irony is each councilor serves on 2 boards. I think some like Koloski serve on 3. Here you are bitching about that and you serve on zero. The narcissist is the guy with a forum named after himself.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, January 12 25 03:34 pm EST)

  Six new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Recycling Services Inc. Public Hearing to expand business to accept Construction & Demolition at 43 Industrial Blvd. in Claremont.
  
  2) Got Chickens?
  
  3) Filing Period Announced for Elected Claremont School Official Positions.
  
  4) Slaughterhouse Variance approved by ZBA.
  
  5) Another One Bites the Dust – This Time It's the Human Resource Director.
  
  6) Claremont City Council Coasts into the New Year with Extremely Light Agenda!

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, January 12 25 03:28 pm EST)

  I hadn't had time to read the Public Forum since yesterday morning as I have been working on writing today's articles. Two things I wish to comment on. First Insider you are so full of it. We have never talked and I still have absolutely no idea what you are referring to regarding the Planning Office.
  
  Jen, or should I call you Little Nicky as you seem to be more concerned about Nick Koloski than what he and the other Claremont City Officials are doing that is hurting our great community. I barely put the article up and haven't even had the time yet to post a notice on the Public Forum and already you are defending Nick Koloski and not taking issue with anything these City Officials are doing. Who else but Nick Koloski would do that and be solely focused on him? Also, I'm certainly not jealous of any of the Councilors and I am very happy with my life so you need not be concerned about me.

• Kalen (Sunday, January 12 25 03:26 pm EST)

  Jim you seem overly infatuated with Kilowski. Jealous much bro?

• Jen (Sunday, January 12 25 03:14 pm EST)

  Jim do you really need to add name calling in to your posts? I really use to tune in on the regular but it is starting to seem like you have right out issues. Did people poke fun at you and call you Little Jimmy in school? Do you think calling a councilor Nicky is really and insult? I read to that point and find myself trailing off as it is really immature and moronic. How many boards do you serve on? How many businesses do you operate? I am just trying to compare apples here. You often complain about not having time to write on here due to work but yet you don't have a life. You have no property to maintain as a renter. You volunteer on zero boards. You work 1 job and don't even have a significant other. Really sad to see how fixated you are on certain members of the council. There's like 3 you seem jealous of. Grow up.

• Insider (Saturday, January 11 25 07:48 pm EST)

  Pamela is an employee. Didn’t Yosh tell you not to post here? Good luck with the discipline for insubordination
  Jim and I spoke yesterday privately. He knows the exact concerns that cannot be posted here until he gets the info.

• Pamela (Saturday, January 11 25 08:45 am EST)

  Giving a tally of mentions you seen to be mistaken. The number of mentions of your court case and business with court ordered fines to the taxpayers gets more attention and warrants Jim to look in to that. If we are to go by push back and activity here that is. Sounds more like people are sick of hearing about your rants and ask you to submit your own 91a requests for your information and not have Jim cast a wide net wasting tax payers dollars. From reading posts you neglect to address your own issues or state a simple topic Jim should ask for besides all emails. You always defect and pretend everyone who speaks against it is a city employee. I pay taxes here and also do not want increased expense for nothing. Simply state your issue or don't. Stop with the pretend. Thanks

• Insider (Saturday, January 11 25 05:06 am EST)

  Hmmm, the silence is deafening. Jim do you notice anything? You know which topics are important based on the way the forum reacts. This email thing consistently gets more attention and push back than anything else for a long time. When will you do the right thing? Oh it’s a lot of work or oh it will cost money to review doesn’t cut it anymore. The people want to know. How many interviews has Joel had? What does bearse know?

• Insider (Friday, January 10 25 04:40 am EST)

  Shelvy, remember that time you got caught? I do. I have the records. I’ve done an analysis of hours worked and computer browsing history. Playing video games and reading the news is not what the city taxpayers pay you for. If this is chess I’d be saying “check”. Do you know the muffin man?

• Shelvy (Thursday, January 09 25 08:06 am EST)

  Right, the old pretend I am city employee. I retired from a utility but. Like you and your lack of gainful employment it allows me to sit behind a keyboard when I want. Please continue to deflect and pretend. Don't waste Jim's time and be a man and fight your own battles.

• Insider (Thursday, January 09 25 04:18 am EST)

  Ahhh Shelving, the ol sly planning employee. Didnt Yosh and Joel already talk to you and ban you from interacting with this website?? It wasn’t at work because you leave early every day. It’s ok little fella, your secrets are safe with me…until Jim gets the backbone to request the records.

• george (Wednesday, January 08 25 04:56 pm EST)

  Fortunately the Trump Era of economic boom will be here in just a few days. that will resolve most of the issues for us all. With the immigrants removed we will have full employment. Tariffs will eliminate the completion so US companies can begin to manufacture again. We will have lower prices on everything due to Trumps new policies and healthcare for anyone who needs it.

• Shelving Turdis (Wednesday, January 08 25 08:24 am EST)

  Yes, you ran and illegal business and garnered neighborhood complains. You were cited and taken to court and ordered to pay a huge fine to the city. There, axe grinding homework complete. Doesn't matter how many fake names you post under. Pay your fines.

• Insider (Tuesday, January 07 25 02:16 pm EST)

  Melvin, you and I both know what went down.

• Melvin Purvis (Tuesday, January 07 25 01:51 pm EST)

  Not sure who insider is, but he's not wrong about what went down in planning dept.

• Ken (Tuesday, January 07 25 12:48 pm EST)

  Insider sounds like Jeff Williams aka J. Dubbs Home and Auto. 266 Sugar River Drive. Look up that Jim and see if the guy who is calling you lazy and a loser should have you do his dirty work. Axe to grind?

• Insider (Tuesday, January 07 25 10:34 am EST)

  Crickets…
  
  Coward or lazy?

• Insider (Monday, January 06 25 11:49 am EST)

  Joel is running the P&D department as I said. There are no good candidates and Yoshis girlfriend is too obvious of a choice.l he can’t risk the political fallout. Either way, Jim is missing the biggest story of the last two decades by not paying attention to how this whole thing with the planning department unfolded. He is too lazy to request the documents. Or he knows what he will find and has been told to stay out.

• Bob (Monday, January 06 25 11:39 am EST)

  Have you seen a city council meeting? Elections have consequences!

• Dennis (Monday, January 06 25 05:46 am EST)

  I don't understand how people like the finance director and the city manager can do the things that they have done and still keep their jobs? What is wrong with our city councilors?

• Kathy (Sunday, January 05 25 09:10 pm EST)

  Why are the councilors keeping the city manager in his job? He deserves to be fired. The same goes for the finance director.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, January 05 25 04:11 pm EST)

  Five new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Claremont Savings Bank Community Center Lap Pool Reopened.
  
  2) The Manale Administration finally capitulates and follows the law regarding most of my Right to Know Requests.
  
  3) Northern Borders Grant Update.
  
  4) Another One Bites the Dust December 2024.
  
  5) Claremont City Officials Hiding the Truth about Municipal Finances! Part #3 – Unauthorized Property Tax Rate Increase!

• Sam (Friday, January 03 25 02:44 pm EST)

  Jim, I have some INTERNAL AFFAIRS for you to investigate.

• Gary (Wednesday, January 01 25 11:39 am EST)

  What do you expect? The city councilors do not care about the people. Ever watch a meeting? They treat people with disrespect. The folks at the senior home on Sullivan Street came to a meeting and were shut down from speaking by the Mayor and Limoges and the other councilors all went along without a word of complaint. They promised to increase the exemptions for the seniors and the tax credits for the veterans after the big tax increases and they never did.

• Pam (Wednesday, January 01 25 09:42 am EST)

  He didn't remove the post. He edited it. Interesting enough removing the original language that was still shared on tons of other pages and post that cannot be edited. Still straight unnecessary post not even offering thought to those families or individuals involved.

• William (Wednesday, January 01 25 04:55 am EST)

  I am probably in the minority but am terribly disappointed that a seated city council member would immediately take to what's up Claremont to post and continue to post information about a tragic accident last night. A social media post that was shared hundreds of times commenting about the accident having the region jump to conclusions. I hope Councilor Limoges learns from this incident that there is a time and a place and that needing to be a public mouth piece last night was neither. Your reckless action has consequences. I see you have since taken your post down or someone else did. Your actions were something that a teenager would do and not something an elected official should partake in. To think your way of assisting the community at the time of tragedy was to publicly post a play by play was not proper. That is also a slap in the face to emergency services and the victims of the accident and their families. Do better Councilor.

• Jim Sullivan (Tuesday, December 31 24 01:20 pm EST)

  I just deleted all of those disgusting comments as I just saw them for the first time. I will continue to do so if any are reposted or similar comments are made. I have very rarely needed to do this but some things just cross a line that should not be crossed.

• Rick (Monday, December 30 24 04:05 am EST)

  The city manager is doing a lot of things without any permission from the city councilors. Adding more spending to the budget raising the tax rate $.21. Moving millions of dollars around in city accounts to put it all in the city's savings account so the money can be spent when this money was being saved for something and now it will not be there when it is needed. Switching hours to four days a week for the city clerk's office and now the city manager is asking the city councilors to give him permission to do it retroactively. What else is the city manager doing without permission? Any employee doing these things in any well run organization would be fired. The staff in the finance office and the project manager should be fired too and the relationship with the auditing firms should be ended. The city councilors are not supervising the only employee they have. What good are they?

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 29 24 03:52 pm EST)

  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) New Year's closure.
  
  2) West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts is Singing the Blues!
  
  3) Claremont City Officials Hiding the Truth about Municipal Finances! Part #2 – Multi-Million Dollar Transfers.
  
  4) Slaughterhouse Application to come before the Claremont Zoning Board of Adjustment for Possible Final Resolution!

• Insider sam (Saturday, December 28 24 06:16 am EST)

  The visitors center should be opened for warming as well. The city shouldn’t even have offices there. The code enforcers should go to the fire department and planning to city hall. No more hiding. No more leaving early. Most of the office is gone after 3pm with no accountability since Merrill left. They are getting paid but not working.

• John J. O’Connor (Friday, December 27 24 11:52 am EST)

  Wrong Tim,
  My only intention is to point out how ridiculous that announcement is, the city is allowing it’s citizens access to the city’s community center during this cold snap but only during business hours..
  Shouldn’t the tax paying public have access everyday ?
  And… if it’s such a weather emergency, shouldn’t the Community Center extend its hours and provide overnight access when the temperatures are at its coldest ?
  So instead they announce the public can come in but only during business hours , isn’t the public allowed in everyday?

• Tim (Friday, December 27 24 07:53 am EST)

  John J.
  I think its more of an educational announcement that the space is available to the public for this need.
  I'm guessing from your comments that you are leaning in the direction of 24hr staffing and more provisions for "community" use.
  The buildings purpose can get confusing when respected city leaders like Jim Sullivan want it run like a city owned "fitness center" with pay to play 24hr fob access and maximizing profits with tax payer burden. (Jim is the driving force behind councillor Nick's ideas and comments to support this.
  This is way different than what your vision must be. You viewCSBCC as a tax payer funded space for all. I would bet your idea for the space probably involves the city stripping all assets in the "community center" that people pay membership dues to use (including weight room equipment, spin bikes, pickle ball nets) sell those off to finance putting in bunk beds and allow 24hr access, no questions asked to those in need.
  I hope this mixes well with all the students that frequent the space after school. Shouldn't be a problem, even though the homeless shelters denies access to sex offenders, violent, drug addicted or individuals who may jeopardize the well-being of others.
  Im sure that doesn't sit well with you, and your vision for a community center. Because its a city public space it's fine.
  BTW
  I think I noticed a open positions on the advisory board for the CSBCC.
  You can join and become a voice for the people or continue contributing nothing by posting on this forum.

• John J. O’Connor (Thursday, December 26 24 04:44 pm EST)

  Again, the Community Center is being extremely generous in allowing people to enter the building, during business hours, to escape the extreme cold.
  It is so nice for them to allow tax payers access to a public building during business hours.
  My question is, what happens to those people that had no other choice to prevent hypothermia but to go to the Community Center as a last resort , only to be put out into the sub freezing temperatures.
  Good job Community Center for staying open during business hours.

• Dennis (Tuesday, December 24 24 05:51 am EST)

  Rick it's called Corruption and Incompetence, what they fear is transparency!

• Rick (Tuesday, December 24 24 05:26 am EST)

  The city had nearly $10 million in uncollected taxes at the end of June. Now six months later I wonder how many more million the city failed to collect? How is this not a problem that city leaders should be discussing openly during a city council meeting? Why are Yoshi Manale and Dale Girard and the rest of the nincompoops on the city council so afraid of the truth?

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 22 24 04:13 pm EST)

  Three new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) City Office Closures This Week.
  
  2) Claremont City Officials Hiding the Truth about Municipal Finances! Introduction.
  
  3) Claremont City Officials Hiding the Truth about Municipal Finances! Part #1

• Jim Sullivan (Saturday, December 21 24 11:37 am EST)

  Sam, then I will give you a way that you take absolutely no risk whatsoever. Send me the information by US Mail and do not sign it and do not include a return address on the envelope. Send it to me, 24 Factory St. here in Claremont. That is the option I am giving you, either use it or not.

• Sam (Thursday, December 19 24 07:51 pm EST)

  No we meet in person I can’t take any risks

• Jim Sullivan (Thursday, December 19 24 06:36 pm EST)

  Sam, send me an email with all of the information using the link at the top of this webpage and I will keep your name off the record, you have my word of honor on that. I have done the same for many people over the years and I have never violated that sacred trust and I never will.

• #realinsider (Wednesday, December 18 24 12:13 pm EST)

  Yoshi is “fact” lol.
  Hit a nerve did we!?
  
  I never got sent poop in the mail after working someplace for 6 months.
  
  Blame the Mayor for this mess

• Sam (Wednesday, December 18 24 05:02 am EST)

  Ok Jim, it’s time for me to blow a whistle. How do I meet with you in private off the record? I’m tired of holding back.

• Fact (Tuesday, December 17 24 09:36 pm EST)

  You don’t see Yoshi living in a shitty apartment in a shitty part of town. So who is the real loser?

• Mario's sidekick (Tuesday, December 17 24 06:12 pm EST)

  Jim, lets play the who sucks more game. Never mind, you always win that game.

• #realinsider (Tuesday, December 17 24 04:48 pm EST)

  He is pretty anonymous in Claremont - that is "Yoshi-speak" for being left alone.
  
  https://www.reformer.com/local-news/not-the-right-fit-brattleboro-town-manager-resigns/article_5ad8a1ba-d872-11ec-8483-5f593b88273b.html
  
  I don't know where the council finds people like this. How do you work for 6 months and get $120K and a promise from the Mayor of Claremont? How much is he up to now in Claremont - a poor community.
  
  I wonder if the city clerk has googled KPI + City Clerk' Office yet lol!?

• Jim (Tuesday, December 17 24 04:10 pm EST)

  Mario's sidekick, it redirects you to this link instead https://www.reformer.com/local-news/feces-mailed-to-brattleboro-town-manager-before-resignation/article_4e3d8a0a-dc2e-11ec-bd49-07ec92998da8.html

• Mario's sidekick (Tuesday, December 17 24 03:40 pm EST)

  Have you visited www.fuckjimsullivan.com yet?
  Link is up on city website!

• Jim Sullivan III (Tuesday, December 17 24 09:50 am EST)

  I also don’t own property in Claremont, and I don’t vote. Mind your own business. Your mom also told me last night that she doesn’t attend meetings.

• Nicolas (Tuesday, December 17 24 06:36 am EST)

  Jim, why don't you attend city meetings in person?

• Tim Mulligan (Tuesday, December 17 24 05:48 am EST)

  There was an unidentified aerial phenomena above Jim’s house last night…I think it was sniffing out BS?
  Claremont officials neither affirm or deny this.

• Sandy (Monday, December 16 24 11:59 am EST)

  Jim is correct.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 15 24 05:33 pm EST)

  Two new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) December 11, 2024 Claremont City Council Meeting Synopsis.
  
  2) Update

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 15 24 03:13 pm EST)

  No articles today, you people don’t deserve them !!!

• Team Z (Friday, December 13 24 09:55 pm EST)

  Zutter in action
  
  https://youtu.be/4dYswoT5_ss?si=6Bah-gsbPbjLT-5d

• Who? (Friday, December 13 24 09:23 pm EST)

  I wear a track suit and smell like cigarettes and sweaty balls.

• Andy (Friday, December 13 24 02:11 pm EST)

  @realinsider are you thinking about Deb? Her goatee is hardly noticeable you insensitive prick.

• #realinsider (Friday, December 13 24 06:37 am EST)

  You know Zillow= fat guy with goatee…disc jockey

• Insider (Thursday, December 12 24 03:37 pm EST)

  Gregg has a some junk piles and bones in his closet.
  
  Do city employees get reprimanded for sleeping with co workers in the back stairway?

• Todd (Thursday, December 12 24 03:02 pm EST)

  Guess by responding you prove Gregg's point. Real Insider. Considering you don't realize there is no councilor named Zullo perhaps you don't know your own ass from a hole in the ground. This page is laughable. Collective bunch of whiney cowards.

• #realinsider (Thursday, December 12 24 01:35 pm EST)

  City Clerk looked dazed and confused when asked for KPI from Councilor Zullo (finally woke up and asked a pointed question)...That office should be opened 5 days per week no questions about it. I hope they are forced to do 5 days.

• Insider (Thursday, December 12 24 08:44 am EST)

  Is the city enforcing the requirements uniformly? Take a drive around the city. Rules for thee and not for me. Depends on who you are and who you know. How many of the illegal businesses and yards piled with crap have been taken to court and fined? Answer? Yeah that’s what I thought.

• Gregg (Thursday, December 12 24 07:23 am EST)

  The court seemed to think so there J. Dubbs. Aka Insider. Again, with the axe to grind as the planning office shut your auto body, home repair and junk yard business down in 3 different neighborhoods as you get booted from one to another. The court sided with the city so according to public records you should pay your fines and stop asking Jim to do your pestering for you. What's the matter your youtube hero won't do your one up game with the city? Move on moron.

• Insider (Thursday, December 12 24 06:09 am EST)

  Jim look into the massive amount of citizen complaints for the 2024 year at the planning department. Are these handled and resolved in a professional timely manner? How many complaints from the last 2 years have gone to court? How many? What is being done to ensure equal enforcement? Are the citizens being properly serviced? Who looks at the complaints? Are they properly trained?

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, December 11 24 03:50 pm EST)

  John, I will add the Community Center Maintenance Funds to my growing list of things to investigate. I will have to do a Right to Know Request to get some information so it could take a while as the Manale Administration sometimes drags their feet releasing public documents.

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, December 11 24 03:48 pm EST)

  Insider, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about because I have never received a single email from you or anyone else regarding this matter that you are vaguely alluding to. My email address is prominently available right at the top of the Public Forum page so you should have no problem finding it or sending me any information but as I stated thus far I have not received one single email.

• John J. O’Connor (Wednesday, December 11 24 02:41 pm EST)

  Guy,
  I guess they do but I’d think those running the Community Center would check on those things before spending money on a dog park or financing a bus.
  Every budget money is set aside for maintenance and maintenance issues, without proper maintenance those problems become issues.
  I just hope the do regular maintenance so this community center doesn’t end up like the old community center.

• Insider (Wednesday, December 11 24 01:53 pm EST)

  Jim I have sent you several emails with very important information and you have ignored it completely. This whole email situation at the planning department has gotten out of hand. Jim you have no idea who the new director will be and I’m telling you to really dig in to all that happened. I’ve layed it out in emails to you, but you should really see the employee emails. Jim get your damn head out of the sand. And cue the irate planning employees attacking me for this. They want to cover it up.

• Guy Santamaria (Wednesday, December 11 24 12:18 pm EST)

  These things happen Johnny-mind your own business! The city workers work 4 daze a week now and we can’t due everything lol

• John J. O’Connor (Wednesday, December 11 24 10:40 am EST)

  Looks like the Community Center is now in need of repair.
  The motor to the filter has shite the bed and now the roof is leaking above the track.
  Seems like these problems could have been prevented with simple maintenance. To my knowledge, money is allocated yearly for maintenance, maybe it’s time for Jim to find out where those funds have gone because it’s obvious it hasn’t gone to what it was intended for.

• Trump's Advisor (Tuesday, December 10 24 04:56 pm EST)

  School budget meeting - anyone going to contest a 2% raise this year?

• Robert (Tuesday, December 10 24 03:51 pm EST)

  Rape and Incest is coming to Claremont. Where is Jim?

• AI (Sunday, December 08 24 04:13 pm EST)

  Rigggght "Tom". Stop eating paint chips from your mom's basement.

• Tom (Sunday, December 08 24 02:38 pm EST)

  I see that Councilmen Nick Koloski has woken up to read Jim Sullivan's latest article. Ole Nicholas just can't handle the truth.

• Jim's Ego (Sunday, December 08 24 02:34 pm EST)

  In a nutshell your elected officials, city administration, department of revenue administration and auditing firm cannot match my level of intelligence. I am much wiser having spent many years alone in my basement after my one stint as a city councilor until I was voted out of office. My narcissist behavior makes me very intune with numbers and I am never wrong. I have never paid a single dime in property tax but certainly have costs you each more than the increase in research and staff time.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 08 24 11:54 am EST)

  Three new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) 10th Anniversary of Claremont New Hampshire First Night.
  
  2) NH Route 12 & North Street Improvements Project ended for 2024; will resume around April 1, 2025.
  
  3) The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration Releases Claremont's 2024 Property Tax Rate! The Municipal Property Tax Rate Numbers Do Not Add Up!

• Brenda (Thursday, December 05 24 04:26 am EST)

  Jim, I love you.

• Brenda (Wednesday, December 04 24 06:04 pm EST)

  Jim, are you interested in love?

• Insider (Wednesday, December 04 24 03:16 pm EST)

  No you are.

• george (Wednesday, December 04 24 11:37 am EST)

  Wow, how long would a sane person continue to publish rumors, deception and petty name calling. Get some help Jimbo, you lost how many years ago? How many managers ago?

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, December 04 24 05:57 am EST)

  Insider, in regards to me your so-called reliable source is not all that reliable because everything you stated about me is a lie.

• Insider (Wednesday, December 04 24 05:48 am EST)

  Jim lives in Newport now? Heard from a reliable source. His apartment never got any permits and had leaks
  
  Why won’t Jim get those emails?

• Failure to launch (Monday, December 02 24 10:09 pm EST)

  The only reason Jim is crying about political contributions is because he can’t afford to give money to anyone. His mom must have increased his rent for renting the basement still.

• Robert (Monday, December 02 24 03:42 pm EST)

  Why is Merrill still listed on the website as the Director?

• John J. O’Connor (Monday, December 02 24 12:00 pm EST)

  Why is the city buying that building without any formative plans on what to do with it ?
  If you put housing there you’ll need to provide parking which means another parking garage. The last one cost 4 million.
  I can understand wanting to control what goes there but whatever goes there will be extremely limited by the parking issue.
  The city should take a pass on this great “deal”.

• Nancy (Monday, December 02 24 07:55 am EST)

  Explain how "special intrest groups" who get involved and take action pushing for positive experiences, community growth and opertunity are negative in comparison to "no intrest groups" (aka Sullivan report folk) who take zero action, aside from complaining?
  
  You can wait all you want for hidden hero council members to materialize and get voted in, Sanigate to come out of retirement and get hired back on, Joy to reopen its doors and the woolen mills to become prosperous again while you wallow in stagnation and complain or you can maybe take so notes from the "special intrest groups" and go try to acomplish something that befits everyone now.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 01 24 06:29 pm EST)

  Mike, there is no reason for the City of Claremont to risk a large amount of tax dollars to purchase a dilapidated building and then parking spaces presumably for that building which will still not give the building enough parking spaces for housing, hotel rooms or office space. The State of New Hampshire is perfectly capable of selling the building on their own and any developer could place a bid on the property through the State. The City of Claremont Government doesn't even have a plan for how they are going to repay the Claremont Savings Bank Loan a year from now! Whoever buys the building will presumably be paying taxes on the building. If the City of Claremont Government has already worked out a secret deal with a developer then those City Officials violated all kind of rules because City-Owned Property is supposed to go out for bid when it is sold and not be negotiated away in an illegal backroom deal. If the City of Claremont actually goes out to bid what happens if no one submits a bid acceptable to the City of Claremont? An engineering study of the building has yet to be done so no one really knows the full extent of the damage to the building due to the flooding and the cost to renovate the building let alone obtaining additional parking spaces for the building to make any project viable. It could prove to be cost prohibitive for either housing, a hotel or office space. If that were to occur, then the City and the Taxpayers would be on the hook for the loan and the upkeep of a dilapidated building. In my opinion, that is not a risk that the City of Claremont should be taking right now considering the fact that the City's books are a total mess and postings and reconciliations are not current so we really do not have any idea what the City's current financial situation is and the City's Cash Surplus Account the Unassigned Fund Balance is significantly lower than what it should be based on Government Accounting Acceptable Practices. This is an unnecessary risk.

• Mike (Sunday, December 01 24 03:15 pm EST)

  Jim, if the state building sells to a developer for equal to or more than the city paid for it who puts it on the tax rolls, will you publicly apologize to Yoshi and the city council? It seems like they’re taking a calculated risk and wouldn’t take something like this on if they didn’t already have a few people interested in the building.

• David (Sunday, December 01 24 01:30 pm EST)

  I think it's crazy spending all that money to buy the old DMV building and now parking lots in the off chance that a real estate investor will swoop in and buy these properties from the city. Where will the other parking come from that the building will need to operate? With everything that needs to be fixed in Claremont the councilors are spending probably upwards of over $1 million bucks for a pie-in-the-sky dream built on a foundation of a wish and a prayer. It would not surprise me if the outcome will be for the councilors giving the properties away to someone for far less money than what the city paid. Maybe there is already a plan in place to give it all to a friend of the city government and that is why there were so many secret meetings about it when the state leaders discussed all this in open meetings. Our city government is corrupt look at the arrowhead lodge deal after the takeover of the arrowhead club by special interests, the refusal by the councilors to allow a vote this year on binding referendums, how often councilors break rules and how the mayor and Hemingway handled their campaign finances. We are at the mercy of these corrupt leaders.

• Wayne (Sunday, December 01 24 08:19 am EST)

  $200.00. Wow, what a smoking gun. You must have jerked off after uncovering that publicly posted information. $200.00 from one Millionaire to another. Shocking revelation. Imagine the balls to give a small donation to support a friend in their endeavors. Good job Jim. Keep up the good work. All the other business in Claremont that hold a ribbon cutting got those services for free and didn't pay a friend $200.00? Hopefully they are all back billed for those free services that you try to pretend someone paid for with $200.00. You really are missing a few cards in that deck aren't you? I am going to go spend $400.00 on groceries now while you cost tax payers with your 91a requests for those Shocking exposes.

• John J. O’Connor (Sunday, December 01 24 07:15 am EST)

  For the record, I never took a campaign contribution from anyone because I never wanted to be beholden to anyone except for those that elected me.
  There is no way you can accept cash and not be favorably to those that donated. Politicians will say they can but common sense will tell you it’s not possible.
  At the very least a campaign contribution gives you access to that elected official that the person who doesn’t contribute doesn’t have.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, December 01 24 06:12 am EST)

  Two new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) A Tale of Two NH State House Representative Campaigns!
  
  2) Like Brattleboro, Claremont City Councilors heading down Yoshi Manale's Slippery Slope! Everyone in Claremont at risk!

• Uncle_Baby_Billy (Tuesday, November 26 24 03:10 pm EST)

  So basically ohearne was a lazy ass cop. Makes sense since he is a lazy ass city councilor and state rep. Claremont has only gotten lamer since he started working and getting elected

• John J. O’Connor (Tuesday, November 26 24 06:54 am EST)

  Jim,
  Andy and the City of Claremont did exactly what they are entitled to do under the law, an added bonus for that was in slowing the process down, they were busting your balls trying to discourage you for the next time.
  According to your reasoning, you requested Andy’s records because of his relationship to Jon Stone. Are you playing the “guilt by association” game?
  It seems you have taken offense to Andy being a Union Rep. Each Officer that belongs to the Union deserves representation in a State that doesn’t need a reason to fire someone. Andy did his job representing those that elected him.
  You instincts were wrong about Andy. He might not have been the most active cop but he was honest and trustworthy. He never abused or took advantage of the public.
  That should be commended not investigated.
  You still owe Andy an apology for besmirching his professional reputation.

• Jim Sullivan (Monday, November 25 24 04:22 pm EST)

  John, with all due respect if I thought I owed Councilor O’Hearne an apology I would certainly give him a public one. However, based on the circumstances I honestly do not believe that I owe him one. Here is why. Seven months ago-ish I requested Councilor O’Hearne’s Internal Affairs Reports from when he was a Claremont Police Officer. I did so because the Jonathan Stone Internal Affairs Reports were just publicly released and I published them. I noticed that Councilor O’Hearne had represented Jonathan Stone, (his Cousin), as his Union Representative, meaning that O’Hearne had known in great detail what those Internal Affairs Reports regarding Stone had stated and O’Hearne was part of the 18 year cover-up as were others within local law-enforcement at that time. I wondered, as did others privately who contacted me, if O’Hearne had anything hiding in his Internal Affairs Reports, which I thought was relevant because he is currently a member of the Claremont City Council and honesty and integrity are important qualities for Public Officials to have and the Citizens of Claremont have the right to know the truth. I never dreamed when I made the request of those Internal Affairs Reports, which are clearly public documents subject to the New Hampshire Right to Know Law, that I would be stonewalled by Claremont City Officials for over seven months before I would finally receive something that I should have obtained within a few week’s time. Or that Councilor O’Hearne would threaten legal action against the City of Claremont and the Citizens of Claremont, whom he represents as a City Councilor to prevent those public records from being released to me, knowing full well that I would publish them on my website for the sake of public transparency. Reading the contents of the documents that were released I must admit that I am perplexed regarding the intensity of the push back and countless delays that I encountered over the past seven months in regards to obtaining those public documents. I can fully understand why people are wondering if I received all of the documents or if some were withheld because it makes little sense why there would be such push back over the contents of those documents that were released. Right to Know Requests for public information is based on the Honor System. Meaning that Public Officials are trusted to release all public documents requested under the New Hampshire Right to Know Law. However, there is no way to know if all of the public documents requested are released as it is done on blind faith alone as there is no way for any private citizen to verify if the law had been followed or not regarding the request for public documents and what is actually released by Government Officials. For my part, I simply requested public documents, finally received them after seven long months and publish them as I had originally intended to do. Whether or not I received all the public documents that I requested is something that I cannot answer and people will have to draw their own conclusions as to whether I received all of Councilor Andrew O’Hearne’s Internal Affairs Reports during the time he was a Claremont Police Officer or not.

• John J. O’Connor (Monday, November 25 24 06:35 am EST)

  Or maybe Jim took his swing at Andy and missed.
  I am certain Jim received “top secret” information from a loyal reader (Frances) and ran with it.
  The city would be financially liable if they withheld public information that the public is legally entitled to.
  Do you really think the city would do that for Andy ?
  I seriously doubt it, what you see is what Andy did and over a 20+ year career, thats nothing.
  Jim,
  Admit you’re wrong and people will respect you.

• Ryan (Sunday, November 24 24 02:21 pm EST)

  Steve may be right about the police chief not releasing all of Councilman O'Hearne's internal affairs reports. Jim Sullivan made a legal request for them seven months ago. They are public records. Andrew O'Hearne may have used his city councilor status to delay that request for so long even threatening legal action to further delay their release. It makes no sense for Councilman O'Hearne to do all that with what was released. This would not be the first time that the Claremont Police Department and Councilman O'Hearne withheld information from the public. Look no further than the 18 years it took for Jonathan Stone's internal affairs reports to be released. Councilman O'Hearne's cousin, who Councilman O'Hearne represented as union representative.

• Steve (Sunday, November 24 24 11:15 am EST)

  Did Yoshi, Dale, Nick or someone else in the city government give you that nice round made up number? Spreading lies is what they all do. How do we know that the police chief turned over all of Andrew O'Hearne's internal affairs reports? The chief may have only released the less embarrassing ones and kept the rest under wraps. Who would ever know the truth except for the cops?

• Stop the hate (Sunday, November 24 24 10:50 am EST)

  Sullivan cost to taxpayers exceeds $425,000.
  When an idiot like O'connor agrees that the king idiot is wasting our money, isn't it time for him to look in the mirror and ask himself why? The hate needs to stop.

• Denis (Sunday, November 24 24 09:54 am EST)

  I expected nothing less from you John O'Connor ex-cop and all. That solid blue wall of silence still remains strong with so many cops young and old. Jim Sullivan's request for that public information would have cost little if Councilor O'Hearne had not pushed back to stop the release of that public information and threatening a lawsuit against the city and the citizens he represents. Mr. O'Connor you are pointing the finger of blame in the wrong direction. It should be pointed at Councilor O'Hearne for wanting the city to break the law on his behalf.

• John J. O’Connor (Sunday, November 24 24 07:59 am EST)

  Jim,
  That’s all you got on O’Hearn?
  All that time wasted and all that money spent for a few meaningless civilian complaints.
  What did you learn from this expensive endeavor?
  I learned Andy, during a short period in a very long career, was lazy.
  I also learned Andy tried to keep the roadways of Claremont safe by issuing well deserved moving violations and a extremely small percentage found him to be rude..boo hoo..
  Jim, I truly feel you and Frank have “jumped the shark” on this issue. You cost the city a considerable amount of money on a fishing expedition that turned up nothing.
  Shame on you Jim and Frank, always thought you guys were better than that… I guess, just like you, I was wrong.
  You both owe Andy an apology!!

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, November 24 24 07:34 am EST)

  Four new articles published today on the News Flashes page of this website.
  
  1) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Wall That Heals coming to Claremont the week of June 24, 2025.
  
  2) Claremont School District Facing Special Education Funding Gap!
  
  3) City Manager Yoshi Manale oversteps his authority to pander to special interest; Specifically Political Candidates for November 5, 2024 Election!
  
  4) Councilor Andrew O'Hearne's Police Internal Affairs Reports Released!

• Auntie Adams (Saturday, November 23 24 08:45 pm EST)

  Austin from Boston. Go away!

• Austin (Saturday, November 23 24 11:54 am EST)

  Nancy
  You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye!

• Insider (Friday, November 22 24 04:43 am EST)

  That is definitely not the real Bearse she would never stoop low enough to post here. Although I’ve heard the Planning department is in complete sabotage mode against the Yoshi admin for how he pushed out Nancy with no dignity and didn’t even attend her retirement party

• Tom (Thursday, November 21 24 12:38 pm EST)

  deforest should start telling the truth about what happened to Nancy and the planning department

• Jim Sullivan (Wednesday, November 20 24 03:49 pm EST)

  Thank you Deforest for making that catch. I accidentally used the wrong photo and I have now corrected it within the article. I apologize for the error.

• deForest Bearse (Wednesday, November 20 24 03:32 pm EST)

  The picture you show as being City Planner Austin Ford is actually a picture of Project Manager Avery Hallbauer.

• Gary (Wednesday, November 20 24 08:28 am EST)

  Claremont Fire Chief said in ET that Claremont FD.did not respond to Alstead fire because it was a strategic plan to keep coverage in area. Not how I heard about it. Two friends in Charlestowm FD said Claremont FD not called because they are notorious for not answering the call for help.

• Tom Insider (Tuesday, November 19 24 07:09 pm EST)

  Workman and Trombley will make quite a team. They’ve been friends since grade school.

• Pissy Von Schweet (Tuesday, November 19 24 11:05 am EST)

  This is rich. There's a post on Kipp Ryan's What up Claremont page calling out or Fire department for not going to be big outdoor fire in alstead. I asked one of the members when Claremont wasn't there and was told that Claremont can't be trusted to show up so they don't bother asking for the help.

• Robert (Monday, November 18 24 06:17 am EST)

  What does Yoshi Manale do? His job is to manage the city government and in two years he has done nothing about any of these problems. The taxpayer cost to run the community center keeps rising and no plan to reduce that cost. A year later and collections have not started for back dues. The library needs a roof and no one seems to care. The police department needs new repairs to their bathrooms and showers no action there. Yoshi Manale and the highway department superiors will not okay roadwork unless you’re the Mayor and need your road fixed or the city is embarrassed with photographs posted on the Sullivan Report. The finance office is way behind on recording income and expense transactions and balancing the books. Audits are way behind too. There may be big deficits because the books are so far behind and no one knows how much the city really has or if the city is spending too much. Yoshi Manale has not taken this problem seriously. The planning office is a disaster. There is an ex-city councilor with no experience acting as the building inspector. A coordinator who is not good at her job. A city planner who has no experience doing his job and totally messed up a Claremont traffic study for his last employer before Yoshi Manale hired him for a job he is not qualified to do. A project manager who is not good at his job either and now a guy that will be in charge of all of them until a director is hired. Yoshi Manale gave this man high praise for things he did in Franklin that Jim Sullivan proved to be a lie. Reading about what he did in Franklin in that Boston Globe article has me worried about what he will do here with real power. The city councilors got together and all but two of them backed Yoshi Manale’s latest scheme to buy a dilapidated building on Water Street that the state abandoned because of its condition for $700,000 with no idea how to repay the money. Everyone in the Claremont government has gone crazy. The councilors are there through the end of 2025. How much more problems will they create for our city that will take years to fix?

• Mike (Sunday, November 17 24 08:47 pm EST)

  Nobody asked you Steve. And frankly no one asked Jim either. Well I guess we sort of did ask during the last election and Claremont answered and voted for Girard and Hemingway. Gotta risk it for the biscuit. Seems like most of Claremont, our council, and the city manager get that. A couple of old guys living in their apartments on Factory St shouldn’t be lecturing the city on acceptable risk and finances.

• Steve (Sunday, November 17 24 08:40 pm EST)

  There is acceptable risk and there is unacceptable risk. In Claremont there is too much unacceptable risk and the buying of the Water Street building by the city is unacceptable risk. Hiring this guy from Franklin is unacceptable risk. Keeping Yoshi in the corner office at City Hall is unacceptable risk. Yoshi is sinking Claremont like he sunk Brattleboro.

• Calvin (Sunday, November 17 24 08:13 pm EST)

  Easy to see that The Norm Blouin' s, Mike Tetu's and Jim Sullivan's of Franklin are the sceptiques in that story. They call the paper, spun the story. Reporters love to inflate drama.
  
  You have people who understand that risk= reward and that change is NESSASRY have vision to change the city's trajectory doing shit.
  And you have THOSE who safeguard change and do so for selfish reasons . THE DONTcare about a future beyond what short years they have left.

• AI bitch (Sunday, November 17 24 07:41 pm EST)

  AI Overview
  
  Yes, the Mill City Whitewater Park in Franklin, New Hampshire has benefited the town in several ways, including:
  Economic development: The park has spurred about $75 million in economic development, including a $38 million mill project.
  Property values: The park has increased property values, which has increased taxes.
  Quality of life: The park is helping to improve quality of life in Franklin.
  Community revitalization: The park is part of a community revitalization project that's rebranding Franklin around outdoor recreation.
  Tax base: The park could help increase Franklin's tax base.

• Catherine (Sunday, November 17 24 04:06 pm EST)

  The Mayor and the city councilors should tell Yoshi to cancel the job offer to Mr. Workman or the person that will go is Yoshi.

• James Hand (Sunday, November 17 24 04:04 pm EST)

  Jim you need to investigate the Planning Department NOW!!!!

• Mark (Sunday, November 17 24 04:03 pm EST)

  The city councilors should not be investing in real estate with our tax dollars. They have no idea how they are going to pay the bank the $733,000 in P & I. They are destroying our city with their liberal ideas and spending habits.

• Jen (Sunday, November 17 24 03:58 pm EST)

  Controversial votes? Only 2 voted no and only 2 asked actual questions. You make no sense. Your judgment is clouded. Jake has it right.

• Tom (Sunday, November 17 24 03:56 pm EST)

  What the heck is wrong with the city councilors can't they see that Yoshi Manale is no good as a city manager? This new guy he hired sounds as bad as he is. The mayor really screwed us all when he brought Yoshi Manale to town. Hope you are enjoying all of your perks Mayor Girard with the lower taxes the nice paved road and the money you are making from the poor folks in Brattleboro.

• Nate A. (Sunday, November 17 24 03:55 pm EST)

  You are entitled to your opinion obviously but it clearly comes across as you disagreeing with whatever measure anyone in office takes. You can presume all you would like but that almost always is just an assumption. I bothered to actually just pick up the telephone and ask council members the question directly. Their numbers are online if you want to place the call. I got a phone call back within 15 minutes. Just seems biased Jim.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, November 17 24 02:17 pm EST)

  Update. The link to the Boston Globe article below today's Claremont City Council meeting article regarding Todd Workman & Franklin New Hampshire does work and you will be able to read that Boston Globe article. I highly recommend that all Claremont Citizens do so.

• Jim Sullivan (Sunday, November 17 24 02:16 pm EST)

  Nate, I assure you I am neither bipolar nor am I contradicting myself. I do believe that Councilors should be asking important and tough questions; I always did when I was a member of the Council. This time however regarding the City’s purchase of the 17 Water St. property, the Claremont City Council had already met for two non-public meetings when this proposal was presumably discussed in detail. That was the time for Councilor Nick Koloski to ask any of his questions so they could either be answered that evening or at a later time presumably when the public meeting held on November 13. Councilor Koloski has a habit of asking these type of questions at the last possible minute whenever the topic is controversial so that he has an excuse to vote no, publicly saying that he cannot support the proposal at that time because questions are unanswered. That way he remains on both sides of the issue at the same time and he can tell the public that he voted no because of the lack of information. It’s a political ploy that Koloski has used time and time again for many years to avoid going on record taking a side regarding controversial votes. Don’t be fooled!

• Nate A. (Sunday, November 17 24 01:44 pm EST)

  So the council should do all of the managers work for him Jim? I routinely watch meetings and you complain when questions are not asked at a meeting. You now complain questions are not asked in advance. Are you bipolar James? If I was an elected official I wouldn't and shouldn't be expected to do all the work for administration making 6 figures. Is that how you think it should go? Interested spin for sure.

• Rick (Sunday, November 17 24 01:28 pm EST)

  Cotton, I guess you did not read the rest of that article from the Laconia Sun as some of the Franklin town leaders are skeptical about the future of that water park and see that more private investors are needed to maintain the nonprofit operating the waterpark and there is no guarantee that new investors with new investment will ever happen. Do you honestly believe the waterpark spurred the other economic growth? Chinburg has done real estate projects all around the state with one in Claremont and he owns the Moody building too. Franklin is no different than every other community he has invested in with housing projects. You are also not considering that real estate values have risen. Look at how they spiked here in Claremont. Stop sugarcoating the truth.