Wolfeboro resident Karen Burnett-Kurie announces her candidacy for District
6 Representative to the New Hampshire House. While she has been a lifelong
independent, she is running as a democratic with the goal of bringing balance
to Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro’s representation in Concord.
“Presently, our representatives are authoring, co-sponsoring, and voting for
extreme legislation. They are subverting traditional public education, against
controlling weapons even in schools and hospitals, limiting women’s rights
and invading their privacy,” Burnett-Kurie said. “The Republican majority has
also struggled this session with addressing affordable housing, raising the
minimum wage, and valuing our natural environment.”
A winter resident of Wolfeboro and summer resident of Tuftonboro, Burnett-
Kurie will focus on important local issues, such as the state meeting its legal
obligation to fund traditional public schools, protecting women’s freedoms,
increasing affordable housing, raising the minimum wage and protecting New
Hampshire’s water quality, a key aspect in the state’s economy.
“We need to face these challenges together, not fight against each other,”
Burnett-Kurie says. “We also need leadership that listens to the voters and
brings balance back to solutions.”
Burnett-Kurie moved to Wolfeboro to serve as the first Executive Director of
the Lake Wentworth Foundation, also known as the Wentworth Watershed
Association. She spent her 40-year career working in education, grants and
fund management, non-profit administration, and sustainable environmental
management.
Since high school, she has spent her free time volunteering for a wide variety
of organizations. Examples include the United Way Allocation Committee, her
children’s classrooms, Odyssey of the Mind leader, and reviewer for the EPA.
Most recently, she has been a Lake Steward at the Back Bay boat ramp,
author of NH’s Women in Science and Technology Facebook page, and an
early member of the NH Boat Museum’s site planning committee.
Hailing from a Navy family that saw her father, grandfather, brother,
nephew, uncle and cousin graduate from the Naval Academy, she thought of
New Hampshire as her home base. Both sets of Burnett-Kurie’s grandparents
summered in cottages on Wawbeek Road in Tuftonboro, so she came here
every summer. She proudly reports both cottages remain in the family.
Burnett-Kurie is the granddaughter of Admiral George C. Dyer, known as ‘the
Admiral’ along the Wawbeek shore. The Dyers bought the cottage built by
Joshua Quincy Litchfield, one of the founders of the Abenaki Tower. Four
generations of her family have been involved in the Abenaki Tower and Trail
Association. For five years Burnett-Kurie has been involved in the Tower’s
Centennial Celebration and is looking forward to its culmination this summer.
She reminds everyone: “Mark your calendars for the Tower’s birthday party
on August 10th, 12-3 at the Tower!”
“I look forward to meeting members of both communities and hearing their
priorities and concerns over the upcoming months,” Burnett-Kurie said.
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