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Lynch charges LRGHealthcare walking away from its mission In reaction to decision to curtail access for poor patients, governor questions hospitalsânon-profit status BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA â Governor John Lynch yesterday chastised LRGHealthcare for its decision to close its primary care offices to Medicaid patients and levelled a thinly failed threat to ask the New Hampshire
Attorney General to review the corporationâs nonprofit status. Through a spokesperson,Tom Clairmont, president and chief executive officer of LRGH, declined comment until he had an opportunity to weigh the full import of the governorâs statement.
On Tuesday, LRGH announced that a dozen of its primary care offices will no longer provide services to some 3,500 current and new Medicaid patients after the middle of next month. Emergency services will continue to be provided to Medicaid see MEDICAID page 12
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GILFORD â With the Town Hall public meeting room packed with onlookers, selectmen said last night their attorney had advised them to hold a public hearing before voting on whether or not to revoke a local strip clubâs live entertainment license. see GILFORD page 10
Bruce Hooker along with his grandson Jackson pose with two of his Atlantic Giant pumpkins grown this summer in Hookerâs garden at his Belmont home. The smaller weighs in at 852 pounds while the larger pumpkin comes in at 1464.5 pounds, the largest Hooker has grown to date. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
1,464-lb. pumpkin is personal record for Belmont man BY ADAM DRAPCHO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
BELMONT â Bruce Hooker has been growing giant pumpkins for several years. This year he produced a squash that is not only his personal best but one he believes to
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be the the fifth largest pumpkin ever grown in New Hampshire. Heâs grown some whoppers, including one that, at 1,326 pounds, won first place at last yearâs Deerfield Fair. This year, though, he out-did himself and grew a pumpkin that
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weighed 1,464 pounds. âThis is the biggest I have ever grown.â The pumpkin won first place at a weigh-in at at festival in Goffstown earlier this month and Hooker said see GIANT page 13
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