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Committee recommends naming Keene trail bridge for Charles Redfern after unanimous executive recommendation

2219890 · February 4, 2025
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The committee held a public hearing on HB 745 to name an alternative-use trail bridge in Keene for Charles (Chuck) Redfern; municipal supporters testified to Redfern’s decades of trail advocacy and private fundraising; the committee voted in executive session to recommend the bill as ought-to-pass, 15–0, and placed it on the consent calendar.

Representative Philip Jones and several Keene civic leaders testified in support of House Bill 745, which would name a 340-foot alternative-use trail bridge in Keene for Charles “Chuck” Redfern, a long-time local trail advocate and fund-raiser. Jones told the committee Redfern helped found Pathways for Keene and “without the vision, the tenacity, and the dedicated efforts of Charles Redfern, there…

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