How to Help Greenlight or Block 100-Footer Tonight

Local residents will have a chance to provide input Thursday night on a controversial, 100-foot-tall contel project for Hampton Beach's A Block.

Hampton Zoning Board of Adjustment members have said they don't decide whether to approve a project until after a public hearing on any given project, during which there's a full project presentation as well as a public comment period.

The contel project's public hearing is scheduled for tonight's zoning board meeting, which starts at 7.

One beach group has already pulled a 180 and has decided to back the plan, which is for an eight-story, rental condominium building with 56-multi-family units and eight upscale retail stores on the burned down former site of the Surf Hotel and Happy Hampton Arcade.

Other important things you should know today:

• In case you missed it, fishermen caught and released a 9-foot-long shark off Hampton Beach right around the same time that a shark forced a beach evacuation in Rye.
• There are back to school events at Hampton schools today, as well as a back to school picnic and open house at North Hampton School at 5 p.m.
• The North Hampton Zoning Board is expected to discuss tonight the jurisdictional issue between the Little Boars Head District and town of North Hampton.
  
• Click here for information on today's free show on the Hampton Beach Seashell Stage.