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GHS sophomore already playing clarinet with best in the country By adaM drapchO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILMANTON — Danielle Janos was in fourth grade here when she first got her hands on a clarinet. “I really liked the sound, I thought it was pretty, I just had to play it,” she recalled. She’s now a sophomore at Gilford High School and is head over heals for music. Music has returned the love, affording her opportunities as a freshmen that only the very best high school musicians will experience by the time they graduate. Last year, Janos successfully auditioned to play in the all-state band festival, the AllNew England Band Festival and, the jewel in her young crown, the All-National Band Festival, held in Washington, D. C. and which gave her the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Performing Arts Center. Her freshmen year was also the one during which Janos said she began to realize her potential as a young musician. “Before, I was selftaught,” she said, but see JanOs page 8
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Only 2 people show up for pay-as-you-throw hearing in Belmont By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
BELMONT — Only two people showed up at the Selectboard’s Monday night public hearing on the prospect of pay-asyou-throw trash disposal. One of them, Welfare Director Donna Cilley, had a number to technical questions but said her parents
live in a state where pay-as-you-throw is the norm and she wanted to know why the town didn’t just make it mandatory. “Because people will recycle more if you hit them in the pocket than if you hit them with the law,” said Elizabeth Bedard who as a hired consultant for the town presented to selectmen how a recycling program would
affect Belmont specifically. Bedard’s presentation was based on a weekly trash pickup schedule and a biweekly recyclables pick-up schedule. She said the town’s residents paid $532,000 for Bestway to collect trash in 2010. Using the same numbers she said the see BeLMOnT page 10
Doyle, Baer & Bolduc lead sweep by incumbents By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Mayor Mike Seymour and all six sitting city councilors were returned to office as just one in six registered voters cast ballots in yesterday’s municipal election. Seymour won his second term without opposition while incumbent councilors Henry Lipman in Ward 3 and Bob Hamel in Ward 5, who were re-elected to their fourth terms, also ran unopposed. With uncontested races Wards 3 and 5 posted the lowest turnout of the day at 10-percent and 6-percent respectively. Incumbents Ava Doyle (Ward 1), Matt Lahey (Ward 2), Brenda Baer (Ward 4) and Armand Bolduc (Ward 6) all won reelection in contested races by comfortable margins. In Ward 1, Doyle, who was appointed to comWard 4 Councilor Brenda Baer and opponent Jack Terrill chat outside the polling station at Memorial Park on Tuesday. Baer defeated plete the unexpired term Terrill by just fine votes in 2009 but the margin went up to 105 this time around. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch) see eLeCTIOn page 6
Judge rules Attorney General failed to meet legal criteria for injunction to stop Paugus Woods developer from selling homes By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — A Belknap County judge ruled Monday in favor of one of the largest property owners and builders in the state, when he said the state had not met its burden to make Brady Sullivan Properties stop selling homes in a White Oaks Road housing development here.
Judge James O’Neill ruled that the N.H. Office of the Attorney General didn’t not makes it’s case for a preliminary injunction against Brady Sullivan because the company was given express permission to sell a home by the same Attorney General Office that filed suit against it four days later. O’Neill ruled Brady Sullivan
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had acknowledged there were some construction defects in some of the earlier homes that it built in the Villa at Paugus Woods but has since paid for an independent contract engineer selected by either the City of Laconia or the A.G.’s office to ensure future construction met all building code standards. The injunction requested
by the A.G. Office would have stopped Brady Sullivan from selling new homes. O’Neil described the injunctive relief sought as “extraordinary” and ruled that the state didn’t meet the five points of law: that there was no other way to fix the issues; that it would suffer irreparable harm see BRady sULLIVan page 10
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