FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011
VOL. 12 NO. 111
LACONIA, N.H.
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Ward 1 has history of close races
Doyle versus Condodemetraky this time around LACONIA — Among the city’s six wards, none has been the scene of more closely run city council races or more frequent changes in representation than Ward 1, where the last five elections have been contested and five different councilors have served since 2001. With incumbent Ava Doyle facing a challenge from Mark Condodemetraky on Tuesday, this year is see WARD 1 page 11
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Workers with Limerick Steeplejacks, out of Limerick, Maine, are refurbishing the steeple of the South Baptist Church, located on Court Street in Laconia. Shown here, a steeplejack passes a piece of lumber to Blaine Pierce, who was constructing a staging platform on the church’s roof on Thursday. Over Pierce’s shoulder you can see the townhomes at Beacon Street West and the Rist-Frost Shumway building on Water Street. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
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Kelly gets a year in jail for resisting arrest conviction, which he says he’s already served BY GAIL OBER
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TILTON — What started as a war ended in a love fest last night when selectmen and a new business owner in town agreed to use pretty signs as the temporary solution for a parking problem. The signs will serve to both prevent people from parking directly in front of the new business while the N.H. Department of Transportation weighs in on a matter that building owner Jim Crosley thought was solved five years ago. At issue is the newest addition to Tilton’s downtown, The Store, opened about see TILTON page 8
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LACONIA — After deliberating for about two hours, a Superior Court jury yesterday found a former Belmont man guilty of resisting arrest for his actions the night a SWAT team came to arrest him at his girlfriend’s Belmont home. On Tuesday, Belknap County Presiding Judge James O’Neill dropped two felony charges against Christopher Kelly, 34, saying Belknap County Prosecutor Melissa Guldbrandsen had not presented enough evidence to let a jury decide if he was guilty of criminal restraint and unlawful possession of a weapon. The maximum sentence for a Class A
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misdemeanor is 12 months in the Belknap County House of Corrections and O’Neill sentenced Kelly to serve all of it and to pay a $2,000 fine plus a $480 surcharge. At issue, according to Kelly’s lawyer Mark Sisti, is whether or not Kelly has already served his time in jail. Kelly was arrested on Sept. 3, 2010 by the Belknap County Special Operations Group after a 5-hour standoff on a parole violation for failing to report to his parole officer during the months of January through March of 2010 and not getting the drug and anger management treatment ordered by the court after an 2003 drug conviction. At that time, he was also charged with see KELLY page 9
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