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NH AG completes review of Ward Bird’s request for pardon
Jury sees video of boy’s death by Uzi 8-year-old’s father filmed accident at Mass. gun show — Page 2
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BudCom members free speech rights again at issue School board chair pens letter challenging Greene’s actions; Stewart says laissez-faire chair is to blame By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — The School Board chair has asked the Budget Committee chair to clarify the intent of last month’s visit by committee member Susan Greene to the school superintendent regarding a public comment made by a school employee that
Greene found objectionable. In a letter made public at Town Hall last evening, Kurt Webber reported that Greene told Paul DeMinico that while he doesn’t have control over one resident, Joe Wernig, who expressed displeasure with some of the Budget Committee’s actions, he does have control over Deb Laliberte,
a resident and GHS career counselor who voiced her objections at a public meeting on Dec. 16. Wernig is also a resident, but teaches in the Shaker Regional School District. “This situation concerns me as it has the potential of creating a hostile environment see GiLfOrd page 10
CONCORD (AP) — The pardon application of a New Hampshire farmer jailed for three years because he brandished a gun at a trespasser is ripe for review by Gov. John Lynch and the Executive Council. The council may vote on whether to dismiss or hold a hearing on the petition by Ward Bird of Moultonboro at its January see PardON page 8
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$3,995 Lucan Moynihan’s home on Nelson Court in Belmont Village is shown here, looking from east to west. Main Street is marked by the stop sign in the background. A paved public right-of-way the town has long maintained as a portion of Nelson Court runs through the middle of Moynihan’s lot, and this picture. The wood pile in the background is on Moyhihan’s lot but the area where his car is parked is technically in the right-of-way. Rather that sue the town for what he sees as a trespass on his property, Moynihan is going to ask town voters to discontinue the right-of-way for through traffic. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
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By Michael Kitch
A public right-of-way?
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BELMONT — A homeowner whose lot straddles a public right-of-way between two legs of Nelson Court is petitioning for a warrant article that would close that stretch of the village street to through traffic. “At least half our property is roadway,”
Lucas Moynihan said yesterday. “We have to move our vehicles whenever the town plows come through and clearly cars and trucks have run into the house a few times.” On the town map, Nelson Court runs southeastward from Main Street, between and parallel to Fuller Street and Gale Street, for about 250 feet before turning
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northeast at a right angle to join Gale Street. Moynihan’s 0.15-acre rectangular lot begins 105 feet from Main Street and ends where Nelson Court turns. Nelson Court enters the lot at its northwest corner then the roadway crosses the property diagonally to reach its southeast corner. see NELSON COUrT page 3