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Salvation Army back in thrift store biz
LACONIA — After being out of the game for about 15 months, the Laconia Corps of the Salvation Army is preparing to re-open its thrift store in a new location, which Captain Steve Warren said will be larger and offer greater visibility than the former site. As soon as it gets its final approvals from the city, the Salvation Army will open its store at 77 New Salem Street in a building which had previously housed a plumbing see THrifT page 9
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Employee raises at issue as county budget talks continue By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Although the Belknap County Convention recommends adding a mere $3,600 to the $32.3-million budget proposed for 2011 by the Commissioners, wage increases for county employees remain a bone of contention. After reviewing sections of the budget,
subcommittees presented their recommendations to the full convention at a workshop last night. The sub-committee overseeing the administration and finance departments, county attorney and registrar of deeds and the maintenance budget eliminated step raises and cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) for personnel. Altogether the measures amount to$31,400.
But, other sub-committees did not adjust the salaries and wages in the departments they reviewed. Last week Representative Colette Worsman (R-Meredith) failed in a bid to strip step raises and COLAs totaling $140,000 from the nursing home budget. As the convention has debated the issue of compensation, Ed Philpot, who chairs the see COUNTy page 15
Lots of debate but Gilford school budget doesn’t move a penny
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Hailing from Pont-Rouge Quebec, Maxim Boissonneault’s dogs wait patiently on the eve of the 82nd World Championship Sled Dog Derby in Laconia.Racing begins at 9 a.m. this morning with entrants in the premier open division going off starting at 1 p.m. Racing continues through Sunday afternoon. The start/finish line is located in the field across Parade Road from the former state school property. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
GILFORD — Despite the impassioned pleas of a few of the town’s more fiscally conservative citizens, the 100 people who attended last night’s School District deliberative session voted overwhelmingly to keep the recommended operating budget at the same number pushed forward by the Budget Committee — $24,420,634. The final figure was recommended unanimously by the Gilford School Board and supported by nine of 12 members of the Budget Committee. It was Barbara Aichinger, seconded by David “Skip” Murphy — one of the three Budget Committee members who voted against the budget — who made the motion to reduce the figure by 10-percent, down to $21,847,147. see GiLfOrd page 10
Chandler open about her 2006 resignation from court house job By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — One of two remaining candidates for appointment to the vacant Belknap County Attorney’s position voluntarily made public the separation agree-
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ment she signed detailing her departure from the court house in 2006. Lori Ann Chandler, who went by the name Christmann at the time, was an assistant prosecutor with Belknap County until her sudden departure on Oct. 24, 2006. Several
weeks later she signed a confidential agreement with the Belknap County Commission that detailed, over six pages, the terms of her separation, including three months of severance pay. Stipulations included a comsee CHaNdLEr page 8
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