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Voter ID law causes no problems for election Revitalization project uncovers century old penstock sections officials in Laconia By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Voters in Laconia turned the clock back to 2008 on Tuesday, when Democratic candidates made their strongest showing in decades. President Obama again carried the city, polling majorities in four of the six wards,
By Gail OBer
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By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Echoing New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, City Clerk Mary Reynolds said yesterday that the general election proceeded smoothly and in particular the law requiring voters to show photographic identification posed no problems for election officials. Reynolds said that personnel posted at the six polling stations asked voters for their photo IDs when they arrived and directed those without it to a table where they were asked to complete a “challenged voter affidavit” before casting their vote. She said that some voters refused to present a photo ID as a gesture of opposition to the law, but readily completed the affidavit. On instructions from the Secretary of State she declined to disclose how many affidavits were submitted. Attorney David Bownes, who served as a legal observer in Laconia during the election, said he was see Id page 10
BELMONT – Part of a 100-year-old penstock has been unearthed as part of the Belmont Revitalization Project. A penstock is a length of pipe that channels water from one place to another, usu-
but by a slimmer margin than in 2008 when he took 53-percent of the vote to top John McCain by 468 votes. This year, the city gave Obama a majority of just 79 votes — 3,938 to 3,859 — over Mitt Romney. Romney, like McCain before him, ran strongest in Wards 1 and 6 while losing the other four. In the 1st Congressional District, Demo-
crat Carol Shea-Porter failed to match her performance of 2008, when she won 53-percent of the city vote on her way to ousting incumbent Republican Jeb Bradley. But, after losing the seat in 2010 to Republican Frank Guinta, who swept all six wards and captured 57-percent of the vote, she fared see ELECtION page 6
ally to be used for electricity generation. In this case, Belmont historian Wallace Rhodes said the original Penstock Park site was purchased in 1794 by Joseph Fellows who built a dam and a sawmill. His heirs held on to the property until 1817 when it was deeded to the Belmont Mill.
Rhodes said the Gilmanton Village Manufacturing Company built a larger dam in the 1830s that allowed the water to be diverted into a canal that crossed the street and eventually ran down Main Street to the new mill. see PENstOCK page 9
Tenant’s sensitive nose raised alarm over leaking furnace fumes By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
Promenade and do-si-do at Inter-Lakes
Bandanas, pigtails and plaid on the dance floor as Janney Halperin swings her partner, Abby Smith, during Inter-Lakes Elementary School’s annual Square Dance on Thursday afternoon.
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LACONIA — The tenants of the Pleasant Street threestory apartment building where there was a carbon monoxide scare Wednesday night took the woman who called the fire department out for a thank-you dinner Thursday night. Sherry Roderick said she hadn’t been smelling something funny all day as was previous reported but that she and her service dog were in their apartment in the early evening when she started feeling very drowsy. She said she opened her window from some fresh air. She also noticed her service dog wasn’t acting as energetic as she usually does. Roderick said walked down the stairs to go outside for some fresh air when she noticed a much stronger see NOsE page 7
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