Weare software engineer Joshua Solomon said the hotel proposal gave his town the chance to show that "we are not going to protect Justice Souter from his own rules."
He said Weare had "financial issues, just like every other town in the country, and this would create a nice little revenue-generating business. A quaint country inn is something that people will go to. It would become a historical landmark: land that used to belong to a Supreme Court justice -- land that showed that one small town in America stood up and said no."
Pelletier said the $100 check that fell out of the mail would be returned, along with other contributions sent from around the country. (Weare's tax collector, she happened to be opening the mail because the town clerk was on vacation.)
Pelletier said she doubted the hotel plan would come to fruition. For one thing, "anybody who has been there knows it is the furthest thing possible from a worthwhile location. It is right on the flood plain."
And the prospect of a hotel in Weare is laughable, she said.
"We just got a Dunkin' Donuts," she said. "We don't have a pharmacy. We don't have a dry cleaners. What would we do with a hotel?"
