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Thursday, February 2, 2012
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2 men quickly arrested for Meredith store burglary MEREDITH — Police arrested two men in connection with an early-morning burglary at the Et Cetera Shoppe on Route 25. Police said the alarm at the popular consignment and second-hand store sounded at 5:51 a.m. Tuesday morning. Initial investigating officers noticed the burglars entered the building through a rear window that had been smashed from the outside. They noticed two sets of fresh footprints in
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State draws line around State School property it wants to keep; Ahern Park will have a new entrance By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — The New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services presented its plan to subdivide a portion of the former Laconia State School property on Parade Road to the city Planning Department yesterday.
Last year, when the Legislature included the sale of the property in the 2011-2012 state budget, the department indicated that it would carve out a parcel housing the 911 call center and the building vacated by Lakes Region Community Services, which would remain the property of the state.
The city has no authority approve or deny proposals by the state, which it presented as a courtesy. The subdivision plan would create a 17-acre lot by annexing four acres of Ahern State Park fronting on Parade Road and bordered by Right Way Path to 13 acres where the two
buildings, each with an adjacent parking lot, stand. The short stretch of Ahern Park Road that begins at Right Way Path and parallels Parade Road before turning west would be abandoned. A new driveway off Parade Road, through the northeast corner of Ahern Park see statE sChOOL page 6
One new bob house, comin’ up
see BurGLary page 11
Ricky Boyd, left, of Gilmanton, and Gilford resident Connor Garfinkle carry a sheet of plywood they had just cut to size to a freshly-framed bob house. Students in the Huot Regional Technical Education Center’s building construction class built the bob house on Tuesday with guidance from the Lakes Region Homebuilders and Remodelers Association. Middleton Building Supply and Southern New Hampshire Concrete helped provide materials. Once finished, the house will be displayed on the lawn in front of Laconia High School, where it will wait to be given as a prize for a contest run by the Hawk 104.9 FM radio station. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
Gilford selectmen all thumbs down on petitioned warrant articles By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — In addition to the warrant articles requested by outside agencies for funding requests, selectmen on Tuesday also reviewed five warrant articles submitted by petition that propose various spending and personFuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. nel policy changes. 10 day cash price* Laconia 524-1421 subject to change At their final meeting
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before next weeks deliberative session of Town Meeting, selectmen discussed why they recommended against each of the five articles and who would address each one at the Gilford High School auditorium on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The first is to allow the town’s default budget to be developed by the Budget Committee as opposed to the Board of Selectmen. Because Gilford operates under the Official Ballot (SB-2) law, the default budget
takes effect it voters reject the proposed operating budget on election day. State law prescribes how the default budget is to be constructed on a foundation of the previous year’s budget. Selectman Kevin Hayes said he would speak against the issue on behalf of selectmen at the deliberative session because the default budget is the basic responsibility of the Board of Selectmen. see GILFOrd page 6