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1. 1. Emotional farewell party given for longtime Durham town clerk

   www4.fosters.com/May2004/may_0 - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/3/2004   Last Visited: 5/4/2004

   Linda Ekdahl speaks to a room full of friends and former coworkers attending her retirement party in honor of her 35 years of service as Durham's town clerk and tax collector. (Andrew Moore / Democrat photo)
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   DURHAM - "You can't be replaced" and "Thank you for all you've done" were two sentences seemingly repeated again and again at the retirement party held Sunday afternoon for longtime town clerk-tax collector Linda Ekdahl.
   
   Whether it was greeting a stream of about 250 friends and colleagues or listening to speeches made by state and local officials during a brief presentation ceremony, the accolades never stopped.
   
   Ekdahl spent 38 years with the Town of Durham, 35 as the town clerk-tax collector, a position she was elected to 12 consecutive times before retiring March 9.
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   Janet Wall, D-Madbury, gave Ekdahl a proclamation from the House of Representatives.
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   George West of the New Hampshire Tax Collectors Association figured that in her 38 years in office, Ekdahl completed 430,000 transactions as town clerk, including registering 220,000 motor vehicles, 29,000 dogs and issued 1,700 marriage licenses.
   
   It was a remarkable number for a woman many people in town know by her first name and who shared many life experiences during her years in office.
   
   Ekdahl began working for the town in 1966 and took over the position three years later after former clerk and friend, Phyllis Roachfort, decided to retire and travel overseas with her husband.
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   Outside of the office, Ekdahl was a member of the Durham Historical Society, the Durham Taxpayers Association, the University of New Hampshire Alumni Association and the New Hampshire town clerks and tax collector associations.
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   Kathy Seaver of the New Hampshire Tax Collectors Association presented Ekdahl with a wooden rocking chair with the emblem of the New Hampshire Tax Collectors Association on it and Council Chair Malcolm Sandberg presented her with a town council chair and an engraved locket.
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   In her speech to the approximately 250 people who gathered at the university's Alumni Center, Ekdahl said always wanted to make the town hall feel like home to the people who came in each day.
   
   During her retirement, Ekdahl said she plans to catch up on her reading, taking trips, relaxing and not setting her alarm.
   
   Ekdahl thanked those who came to the party and told the crowd she would "remember this always."

2. 2. - The New Hamshire -

   www.tnh.unh.edu/issues/111700/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/4/2001   Last Visited: 8/4/2001

   And Durham town Clerk Linda Ekdahl thinks that this was the case regarding last week's election.
   
   With a presidency on the line , many UNH students registered to vote last Tuesday as Durham residents , instead of going through the absentee ballot process in their hometowns. With this action , students were claiming Durham as their intended permanent residence even though they may call some other place home.
   
   UNH and the Town of Durham have different views on the question of students who register to vote in Durham.
   
   Town Clerk Linda Ekdahl firmly believes that UNH students who claim to be permanent Durham residents in order to vote without an absentee ballot are breaking the law.
   
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   Ekdahl argues that the four years a UNH student stays in Durham is hardly an indefinite period , and by signing their names as residents of Durham , students are committing perjury.
   
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   What bothers me is that the word perjury meant nothing , said Ekdahl. We want students to vote. We want everyone to vote. But we want them to vote where they're legally registered to vote..
   
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   According to Ekdahl , a student at Dartmouth lost his scholarship over the issue because , with his permanent residence established in Hanover , he was no longer qualified to receive out-of-state funding.
   
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   Ekdahl sees the issue as just another dividing line between the town of Durham and UNH. She points out that because of student turn-out at Oyster River High School , the number of voters the town has to handle is well over that of non-college towns , and it is a source of stress.
   
   This volume [ of voters ] should not be in a town this size. We should have wards. I deputized 10 people as town clerks to handle registering. That means we could register 16 at a time..
   
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   Ekdahl said it's a form of manipulation , possibly bribery , but Dufour puts it into another perspective.
   
   Students just want to vote , she said.
   
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3. 3. New Hampshire Board of Registrars

   www.republicansabroad.ca/state - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/14/2003   Last Visited: 6/30/2004

   Linda Ekdahl Town Clerk of Durham 15 Newmarket Rd Durham 03824
   
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