To the Nashua Board of Aldermen,
My name is John Plourde. I’m a lifelong Nashua resident and a homeowner in the city. I’m also
the bar manager at the Peddler’s Daughter on Main St. I’ve been employed there for almost 10
years and I’ve been bartending for over 20 years.
Alter speaking with the owners at Peddler’s, as well as employees of many other downtown
establishments, we'd like the members of the board to know that we’re AGAINST the pending
legislation attempting to extend last call and it’s our hope that the board will, once again, decide
that this is not the right choice for Nashua at the current time.
This bill is being pitched as something that will help Nashua businesses compete with
Massachusetts. That’s both misleading and misguided. People aren’t choosing to go out in
Boston because of a 2AM last call, they’re going there because there’s a ton of stuff to do. For
proof of this, one needs only to take a trip across the border to Tyngsborough where they have a
2AM last call but not much else to offer and are not stealing business trom Nashua bars, What I
HAVE seen though, is people jumping in Ubers at 1AM to go to Tyngsborough for the extra
hour (which is what we REALLY want to avoid, more on that later). I attended the committee
