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Judge orders Weirs saloon taken down inside 14 days BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — A Superior Court judge yesterday ordered the charred remains of the Wide Open Saloon in the Weirs section of the city razed within 14 days. In his six page ruling, Belknap County Superior Court Judge James O’Neill III said he found no error of law in
Laconia District Court Judge Jim Carroll’s May ruling on the issue and upheld it in its entirely. “Specifically the District Court cited Mr. (William) Stewart’s testimony as ‘sufficient grounds’ for the conclusion that the building was hazardous under RSA 155-B,” wrote O’Neill.
“Thus,” he concluded, “The District’s Court’s decision was sufficiently supported by the evidence.” Stewart is the former Laconia Code Enforcement Officer and the only person to testify for the city during the May trial held in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division in May. Stewart said the building was “list-
ing to the rear and in danger of collapse” and both Carroll and now O’Neill said his testimony was “credible.” The Wide Open Saloon burned on September 17, 2010 in a spectacular early-morning, three-alarm blaze that brought firefighters from as far away as Franklin and Holderness to see SALOON page 8
LACONIA — In the City on the Lakes, beer mixes with motorcycles but not with baseball. This week, the Parks and Recreation Commission declined to approve the request of Noah Crane, vice-president and general manager of the Laconia Muskrats, to sell beer during the team’s 21 home dates at Robbie Mills Field. see BEER page 7
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Carl Hansen cuts ice on Squaw Cove on Squam Lake with a motorized saw as members of the ice harvest crew move the blocks of ice down a channel where they are picked up and taken to Rockywold-Deephaven camps where they are used in ice boxes during the summer months. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Ice still harvested for use in summer camp boxes BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
HOLDERNESS – Some 200 tons of ice which will be used this coming summer in ice boxes at the Rockywold-Deephaven camps are being harvested from a Squaw Cove in Squam Lake this week. The 140 pound blocks of ice help keep alive a connection between the camps and the natural environment that surrounds them says John Jurszyinski, camp director, who is working along with other members of the ice-cutting crew. He says that ice harvest maintains
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the camp’s unique tradition of supplying its summer guests with ice boxes, rather than refrigerators, to keep things cool during the summer months. “Every now and then the question is raised if getting ice from the lake is the most efficient form of refrigeration for the camps. But that was pretty well settled some years ago. In 1967, the camps bought four compact refrigerators as an experiment. No guests wanted them, so they ended up in staff quarters,”’ says Jurszyinski. He said that the ice in Squaw Cove,
located off from Metcalf Road in Sandwich, is about 13 inches thick, nearly twice as thick as the ice in True Cove, which is used for ice harvesting some years and is located next to the camps. Norm Lyford of Ashland, who has been harvesting ice from Squaw Cove on Squam Lake for 67 years, says that the basics of the mid-winter ritual have changed very little. “We used to use an old one-lunger engine with a saw like you’d use on cordwood to cut the ice with. It had a wide belt that ran the saw,”’ recalls Lyford, who has worked see ICE HARVEST page 10
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