OSSIPEE — Selectman candidates and audience members railed against alleged corruption and bullying in Ossipee town government during a raucous candidates night held at Harley Jack’s Burgers and Brews on Feb. 13.
The meet-the-candidates event was jointly sponsored by a group called Ossipee Public Media and Harley Jack’s. Another candidates night is scheduled to be held Sunday, Feb. 23, at 1 p.m. at the River’s Edge Tavern located at the Indian Mound Golf Course.
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So happy to see democracy in action, and the passion, to stop the horrific behavior of the select board
If you want living in campers and building homemade cesspools to be allowed then put a petition warrant article in to change zoning. Or just live like a civilized human and stop calling people bullies who are charged with enforcing the law as passed by the voters!
The cesspool is where the Ossipee Select board came from .
Jonathan Smith stars as JD “Boss” Hogg in the Dukes of Ossipee, the real-life version of Dukes of Hazzard. Kyle Copeland stars as Roscoe P Coltrane who Boss Smith attempts to install on the selectboard to be his rubberstamp yes-man dipstick deputy
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