The Conway Daily Sun, Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011

VOL. 23 NO. 196

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Remembering Bruce Bedford: ‘Photography was not his work, it was his life, and he lived it with passion’ BY TERRY LEAVITT THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

CONWAY — Photographer Bruce Bedford has died, leaving behind a legacy of photographs that chronicled life in Carroll County for the better part of the last 40 years. Bedford, who worked for The Carroll County Independent from the early 1970s

Bruce Bedford

to the early 1990s and for The Conway Daily Sun from 2000 to 2005, brought day-to-day life in the North Country into sharp focus with a patient artist's eye. Along with the routine newspaper fare of public meetings, candidate visits, special events and car accidents, Bedford took hundreds of photos of dances, children playing in school yards, fishing derbys, bean suppers and church fairs, creating

images that linger in the memories of many people in Carroll County. "They don't sound very exciting, but he really captured them in his photos," said Susan Slack, who was an editor at The Granite State News in the 1980s. "He really was an artist with his photography. He had a way of capturing people in his see BEDFORD page 10

Librarians hope to keep book-loan vans rolling

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But lawmakers suggest there may be other uses for federal grant money BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

The Mount Washington Valley Skating Club is currently seeking skaters for its Winter I Session of skating lessons as well as its annual Holiday On Ice skating show. See page 31. (MADELEINE RYAN PHOTO)

McCarthy, county sheriff spar over spending BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

OSSIPEE — The long simmering feud between the county sheriff and a Conway state representative finally came to a head last week. Rep. Frank McCarthy extended

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an olive branch but the sheriff remained skeptical. Since last winter, State Rep. Frank McCarthy (R-Conway) had alleged that county sheriff Christopher Conley inappropriately purchased about $200 worth of boots see SHERIFF page 12

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CONWAY — Local librarians are fighting to keep funding for their inter-library loan vans, for sharing books and other resources, and they are gathering signatures for their cause until the end of the month. But the state representative who suggested looking at other uses for the money says he's been vilified for trying to improve the state budget. The New Hampshire State Library runs a federally-funded inter-library loan program that allows libraries all over the state to share their resources like books, CDs and DVDs. The program uses a fleet of four vans to move these items between libraries all over the state. A House committee, Finance Division 1, asked the New Hampshire State

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