The Conway Daily Sun, Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Local rep questions whether Obama should be on ballot. Page 3

Tree lighting is back on

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011

VOL. 23 NO. 221

CONWAY, N.H.

MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

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Town, chamber, citizens and businesses come together to save Christmas in Conway Village BY TOM EASTMAN THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

CONWAY — The Conway Village Christmas tree lighting is back on for Saturday — literally — making for a

good result to what could have been a bad Christmas story. “We are cautiously optimistic that we will have it all up and ready for Saturday's tree lighting, with the Conway Village Fire Department setting up the

lights at 10 a.m. Thursday. That's our plan,” said Conway town manager Earl Sires late Wednesday afternoon, after town crews worked to check the old lights see TREE LIGHTING page 11

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Several Kennett High School art students along with art teacher Sandy Hall, and J.A.G. teachers Maryanne Dunfey and Diva Hampton hold up some of the 300 handmade ceramic bowls made and kiln fired in the school for the upcoming fund-raiser “Bowls for Hunger” to benefit Vaughan Community Services food pantry. “Bowls for Hunger” will be held in the Kennett High School cafeteria on Wednesday Dec. 7 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and the cost is $9 for a bowl and includes several choices of soup and bread donated by local restaurants and businesses. See page 10. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)

Old skeleton, believed to be Native American, found in Freedom BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

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FREEDOM — A Native American's skeleton, dating back hundreds of years, was recently found while workers were doing construction on a home.

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State Police Det. Sgt. Justin Rowe said State Police were called to assist Freedom police with the investigation on Nov. 15 after workers found a skull while in the process of working on a home's basement. State Police and the New Hampshire State Archaeologist Richard Boisvert

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asked that the location of the home be withheld. Boisvert said the bones were those of a Native American who lived around 300 to 400 hundred years ago. As of Wednesday, the archaeologist was see BONES page 8

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