BENNINGTON, N.H.—A selectman in Bennington says a routine annual audit shows that town-raised funds meant for the public library were spent on dog food, groceries and other inappropriate expenditures, instead.
The town's police department is in the middle of an investigation into the misspent and missing funds.
Selectman James Trow says auditors looking over bank statements and other records recently discovered that more than $2,000 had been misappropriated, though some of the money appears to have been repaid.
Trow says the library funds, which are raised by the town's taxpayers, had been loaded onto a credit card and were meant to be used for library expenses. But he said statements from the credit card indicate the funds were misused.
Bennington Police Chief C. Stephen Campbell said he's still sifting through three years of the library's financial records.
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Information from: The Keene Sentinel, http://www.keenesentinel.com
