Sunapee town offices closed April 22, reopen April 23

Residents who need the Town Clerk, Selectboard or Land Use Office on Wednesday, April 22, will not be able to handle licensing, permits, meetings or other town business until Thursday, April 23, when Sunapee says normal hours will resume.

The town posted the public notice on April 17 and placed the closure on its April calendar as an all-day event. That matters because the Town Clerk & Tax Collector office normally keeps Wednesday hours from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., so anyone who might have planned a midweek stop for voter registration, records, or routine counter service will find the office shut instead. Sunapee’s office page tells residents to check the town calendar before making the trip, and this closure is the one that should be checked first.

The town did not give a reason for the shutdown, but the message is clear: anyone with time-sensitive paperwork, a permit question, or a scheduled stop at the clerk’s counter should act before Wednesday or wait until the next day. That includes residents trying to reach the Selectboard or Land Use Office in person, as well as anyone who relies on the clerk’s office for registration work during normal business hours. In a small town like Sunapee, one missed day can push back filings, appointments and last-minute questions that would otherwise be handled quickly.

The closure lands in the middle of a busy municipal week. Sunapee’s April calendar shows a Selectboard meeting on April 20, then the office shutdown on April 22, followed by a Board of Firewards meeting on April 23. It also comes after a run of short office interruptions in recent months, including a March 11 closure for post-election work and a November 2024 post-election shutdown, along with an August 2025 schedule change tied to staff training at the Sullivan County Registry of Deeds. For Sunapee, the pattern is familiar: when the town closes its front counter, residents are expected to plan around it.