Tuesday, November 29, 2011
voL. 12 No. 127
LaCoNIa, N.H.
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City tax burden up just 1.2% for 2011 LACONIA — City Manager Scott Myers last night reported that the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration has set the 2011 property tax rate at $20.56 per $1,000 of assessed value, an increase of $0.75, or 3.8-percent. The tax commitment, or total amount to be raised by property taxes, rose by $443,950, or 1.2-percent, from $37,965,652 to $38,409,602 while see taX page 8
Who was in the Laconia Holiday Parade? The Galleria Salon and Day Spa’s float in the Laconia Holiday Parade on Saturday was filled with the Who’s from Whoville. Thousands lined the Main Street parade route to enjoy the celebration and the mild weather. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Grinch steals premium Christmas trees from local lot By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — City police are looking about for the Grinch who Stole Christmas trees from a local tree salesman. David Gouette of Maggie D’s Garden Center on Court Street said someone made off with about 19 of his best Christmas trees sometime between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
Gouette said he stopped by the outside gated area where he and his wife sell plants during the summer at 4:30 p.m. on their way to visit family. When he stopped back two hours later, he said someone had pushed down a portion of the fence toward the rear of his Christmas Tree stand. “Who ever took them knew what they wanted,” said Gou-
ette, explaining that all the stolen trees were from the pile of most expensive, highest quality trees. Gouette said that all of his trees come compressed in netting and, as they are sold, he removes the netting to allow the branches to drop. The stolen trees were some of the biggest and best Balsam firs and Frazier firs he had.
“The $50 trees, if you will,” he said. Gouette and police ask that anyone who was on Court Street Thanksgiving Day who may have seen some kind of truck in or around either Maggie D’s or Bob’s Lock and Key to please call the Laconia Police with the information. He said the trees would have see tRees page 4
Judge scolds police for involving Gilford selectmen in drug search By Gail OBer
when he granted them a search warrant. In a written ruling dated Nov. 19, Judge Jim Carroll ordered the affidavits supporting the search made during the October 18 raid at the Mardi Gras Cabaret North must be made public by Dec. 5. He said the time between his ruling and the disclosure is to allow Belknap County Attorney Melissa Guldbrandsen Fuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. 10 day cash price* to either file an appeal of his Laconia 524-1421 subject to change ruling to the Belknap County
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Superior Court or place a motion before him to redact a “section which would put another citizen in harm’s way.” The motion to unseal was filed on behalf of the Mardi Gras Cabaret North — the company that leases the property and the individual licenses to operate from owner Will Drew. The Daily Sun joined in the petitioner’s motion in the form of a Right-To-Know request but Carroll did not consider it or see seaRCH page 4