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Town Offices: Located in the library building, Route 10, Piermont, N.H. 03779; 272-4840
Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 1-7 p.m.
Selectmen: Jean Daley (chairman), 272-4944; Dean Osgood, 272-5804; Robert Lang, 989-5684 (meet second and fourth Mondays of each month from 7:30-9 p.m. in the Selectmen's office)
Town Clerk/Tax Collector: Linda Lambert, 272-4840
Town Treasurer: James Lambert, 272-5848
Town Auditor: Private contractor
Planning Board: Peter Labounty (chairman), 272-4830; Jean Daley; Kay Westcott; Suzanne Woodard; Fred Shipman; Thomas Stevens (vice chairman)
Conservation Commission: Helga Mueller (chairwoman), 272-4359; David Ritchie; Eric Underhill; Robert A. Michenfelder; Donald Smith; Ernest Hartley, Jr.; Charles Grant
Zoning Board: Fred Shipman (chairman), 272-4938; William Putnam; Dean Osgood; George Schmid; Jeffrey Dube; Steve Daly
Town Moderator: S. Arnold Shields
Health Officer: Alex Medlicott, 272-4825
Police Chief: William Deal, 272-5882
Police Officer: John Metcalf, 272-4372
Fire Chief/Dog Officer: Wayne Godfrey, 272-5802
Road Agent: Chris Davidson, 272-9110
Public Library: 272-4967
School Board: Lisa Knapton (chairwoman), Glenn Meder, Vernon Jones (meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Piermont Village School)
Piermont Village School: Russell Collins (interim principal), 272-5881
Interim Superintendent of Schools: Howard Goodrow, 787-2113
Elevation: 565 feet
Distance to Boston: 148 miles
New York City: 330 miles
Montreal: 270 miles
Average precipitation: 38 inches/year
Population:
2000: 709
1990: 624
Number of families: 199
Average family size: 2.90
Income:
Per capita: $22,183
Median family income: $44,531
Median household income: $38,611
Employment:
Residents working in community: 22.2%
Mean travel time to work: 25 minutes
Unemployment rate: 1.6%
Housing Units:
Single-family: 362
Multi-family: 34
Manufactured homes: 39
2001 Equalized tax rate: $22.65*
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
Elementary: 1; enrollment: 74
Middle school: elementary school is K-8
High school: none
Private/parochial schools: none
The Sawyer-Medlicott Home, a handsome brick farmhouse on Route 25, near the Connecticut River, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
There are three lightly developed lakes in the western end of town: Lake Tarleton, Lake Katherine and Lake Arlington, with public access available.
A small hydro dam produces power on Eastman Brook.
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