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2 feet of snow predicted for N.YBoston corridor & up the coast BOSTON (AP) — A blizzard of potentially mammoth proportions threatened to strike the Northeast with a vengeance Friday, with up to 2 feet of snow feared along the densely populated Interstate 95 corridor from the New York City area to Boston and beyond. From Pennsylvania to Maine, people rushed to stock up on food, shovels and other supplies, and road crews readied salt and sand, halfway through what had been a merciful winter. see STOrM page 26
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Christopher Dame, Jeremy Bilodeau, Brian McCullough, Ronnie Hurley and Matt Haynes play a game of pickup hockey at the Memorial Park skating rink in Laconia on Tuesday night. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
City ready Pickup truck plunges Laconia restaurant finding it’s pretty through ice on C. Harbor easy to find local produce, even in Feb.
LACONIA — City Manager Scott Myers said yesterday that while the Department of Public Works along with the Fire and Police departments are prepared for today’s storm, city offices will be open their usual hours and employees will work to their normal schedule. School Superintendent Bob Champlin was assessing the forecast and had not made decision to either cancel classes for the day or close schools early at press time. see CiTy page 26
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CENTER HARBOR — Two men were fished from chilly waters of Lake Winnipesaukee when their pickup truck went through the ice around 5 p.m. yesterday. Fire Chief John Schlemmer said that the men were returning from an afternoon of ice fishing when their truck toppled into about 10 feet of water some 200 feet offshore of the town beach. He said that personnel of Center Harbor Fire Rescue pulled the men from the bay unharmed and soon afterwards a team from Douglas Murphy and Recovery began bringing the truck to shore. Throughout the week officials of the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department warned see PLUNGE page 26
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LACONIA — When chef Kevin Halligan opened the Local Eatery in downtown Laconia, he centered his fine dining establishment around the concept of sourcing as many of the ingredients from producers as local as possible. His first few menus — they change every couple of weeks — set the standard by using ingredients that were about 80 percent local, produced in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont or, less frequently, Massachusetts. Four out of every five ingredients produced locally set the Local Eatery
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apart. However, that was in August, prime harvest season for New England farmers. How would he be able to feed his diners come February? Rocket from the greenhouse Dilys Morris has been growing vegetables on her Alexandria homestead farm, Bear Mountain Farm, for two decades. For most of that time, the produce she cultivated was just enough to feed her household. Two years ago, though, she began to have surplus vegetables, and set about finding ways to market her organic produce. On one of her delivery runs to the Sunflower Health Food see PrOdUCE page 25
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