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Concord man charged with using false Pike files challenge to Condodemetraky suit over health insurance premiums names to acquire prescription drugs LACONIA - City police arrested a Concord man for allegedly giving a false name at the Lakes Region General Hospital in order to receive prescription pain killers. William R. Eades, 52, of 23 Pearly St., is also accused of using a different name to fill and pick up the prescription at Walgreens. He is charged with one count of obtaining a controlled drug by fraud or deceit, one count of uttering a false prescription and one count of possession of a false controlled drug prescription. Eades was released on $5,000 personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to appear in the 4th Circuit MOBILITY from page one Attorney Mike Persson, a steering committee member said that the initiative to discuss sprang from the recent decision of the City Council to shelve a plan to open Beacon Street East and Beacon Street West to two-way traffic. Altogether 32 individuals, evenly divided between men and women and representing a mix of merchants, landlords, residents and customers, attended. They were divided into five groups, each with a trained facilitator. Several of the groups offered similar recommendations for enhancing mobility. Three groups proposed opening a right-of-way at the abandoned police station on Church Street, which would connect Messer Street to the parking lot at City Hall or Canal Street to provide access to downtown access to downtown. One group stressed the need for better signage, especially directional signage, while another suggested color coding the streets themselves. A third found the notion that the downtown traffic pattern is confusing exaggerated, but acknowledged that steps should taken to overcome the perception that it is not “mobility friendly.” Improved crosswalks at Veterans Square and Pleasant
By Gail OBer
BELMONT — Selectmen Chair Jon Pike responded to a challenge by Selectman’s candidate George Condodemetraky’s request that he return the money the town paid him for his health insurance premiums by saying the policy of keeping former spouses on employees health insurance premiums predated Pike’s term as Selectman. Attorney Paul Fitzgerald, who represents Pike personally, also said the 13 exhibits Condodemetraky attached to his petition for summary judgment couldn’t be verified and should go through the legal process of discovery before they can be accepted by the court as evidence. “Co-respondent Pike was not ‘awarded’ a payment in the amount quoted but, rather, there was a payment approved as the settlement of a disputed claim,” wrote Fitzgerald on behalf of Pike. The issue at hand is an $11,000
payment to Pike to settle his threatened claim against the town for not allowing him to remain on his exwife’s medical insurance policy at the town’s expense. Condodemetraky challenged the payment and asked that a judge order Pike to return the money because the decision to make the settlement occurred in a meeting he said was unlawfully convened under the provisions of RSA 91 A or the state’s public meeting law. Minutes of that meeting, which included the Belmont Town Attorney Laura Spector, say Pike recused himself immediately while a second selectman, David Morse stayed in the meeting for about 20 minutes and then also recused himself, leaving Selectman Ron Cormier to move and second the motion to settle with Pike. Fitzgerald only represents Pike in the Condodemetraky action. Spector has filed a notice of appearance on behalf of the town of Belmont but has yet to file the town’s official response.
from preceding page the dangers of radical Islam that the NYPD showed in the lobby of a police training area and has since disavowed. “We are not here to criticize the NYPD but rather thank them for monitoring extremists, a job that Muslims should be doing,” Jasser said. Jasser and others, including activist Manda Zand Ervin, said that the danger is clearly coming from within the Muslim community and that it’s up to other Muslims to help law enforcement stop the threat. They said Muslims do not want to give up civil rights and are behind transparency in police work but it is wrong to suggest that all Muslims are somehow afraid of the NYPD, the nation’s biggest police department. “In no way do we want to be spied on,” Jasser said. “But this is not about spying. This is about monitoring and public programs.” The NYPD didn’t comment Monday. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said he is doing everything within the law to protect the city from another terrorist attack. The department is bound under federal guidelines, known the Handschu guidelines, on how it can do certain investigations, and Kelly said the department’s efforts follow them.
“Anyone who intimates that it is unlawful for the police department to search online, visit public places or map neighborhoods has either not read, misunderstood or intentionally obfuscated the meaning of the Handschu guidelines,” Kelly said at a weekend breakfast. Kelly planned to meet with Muslim leaders on Tuesday, said Sheik Moussa Drammeh, who received an invitation by phone. Drammeh, founder of the Islamic Leadership School in the Bronx, said he wasn’t sure what the meeting would be about. Several other Muslim leaders were invited, but it was unclear how many would attend. The police department on Monday didn’t comment on the meeting. The police department has been criticized by many civil rights groups and politicians who say its surveillance efforts go too far. Several other rallies have been held in the past months by other Muslim groups that drew hundreds of people to protest the NYPD’s tactics. Each side says it’s not being accurately represented by the other. Critics of Monday’s rally pointed out that there were few people in attendance and that “The Third Jihad” had been described even by city officials as “over the top.”
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William R. Eades (Courtesy photo)
Court, Laconia Division on April 12. — Gail Ober Street, Beacon Street West and Water Street and across Main Street where the WOW Trail begins were a high priority for one group. However, “creating downtown,” as one group expressed it, overshadowed suggestions for improving traffic flow and pedestrian access. “Laconia is the city on the lakes,” said John Moriarity, whose group favored creating a “commercial port-of-call” on Lake Winnisquam at the end of Water Street along with a performing arts center downtown. Calling attention to the drab appearance of downtown, one group stressed the need for landscaping while another spoke of wider sidewalks, benches, bike racks, bike lanes and “removing all the snow.” Economic development should aim to establish “community spaces” and “attract diverse businesses,” the same group urged. Afterwards Persson said that clearly there were some limited issues everyone agreed should be addressed, particularly the use of the old police station property, signage to ease the flow of traffic and amenities like wider sidewalks and additional crosswalks. At the same time, he said that conversation indicated that “more discussion needs to take place beyond mobility.”
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