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Saturday, February 25, 2012
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Gilford chief blasts state for slow response to dangerous road condition By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — Police Chief Kevin Keenan told selectmen on Wednesday that he was very disappointed after the state transportation department took 90 minutes to get to a main town highway that was the scene of a six-car pileup because of poor road conditions. Keenan told selectmen that one Tuesday just after 9 p.m. six separate vehicles had skidded into each see GILFOrd page 10
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LACONIA — The City Council will consider measures, including adjusting tipping fees at the transfer station and setting container limits for curbside collection, to reduce the cost of handling solid waste, at a special meeting on Monday, Feb. 27, beginning at 6
p.m. before the regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. Currently tipping fees range from $5 for loads less than one ton, to $10 for loads between one and two tons and to $30 a ton for loads of more than two tons. But, the city pays Waste Management $16.60 to truck the trash to Penacook and the Concord Regional Solid Waste
Resource/Recovery Cooperative $66.80 a ton to dispose of it at the incinerator for a total cost of $83.40 a ton. The council will consider a proposal to increase the fees in two increments. The fee for loads of up to 100 pounds, approximately the equvalent of five bags of household trash, would be $5. Beginning on July
1, 2012 loads of more than 100 pounds would cost 3.5 cents a pound, or $60 a ton, calculated in increments of 20 pounds to match the calibration of the scale. On July 1, 2013 the rate for loads of more than 100 pounds would rise to 4.5 cents a pound or $90 a ton. The fees for disposing of elecsee trasH page 10
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he could have hoped for, both from audience members, many of whom have become regular visitors to Pitman’s Freight Room, and the top-flight musicians who can’t wait to make a return performance to Laconia. “This thing at the Freight Room has been very encouraging,” he said. Emboldened by his success, Lorentz is adding a second weeknight performance in Laconia and is planning to establish similar weekly performances in Nashua and Brandon, Vt. Further, he thinks he’s tapped into a hunger of local residents for serious live music. If a couple of other entrepreFuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. 10 day cash price* neurial thinkers could follow in Laconia 524-1421 subject to change his example, he thinks, Laconia
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LACONIA — It was such an unusual idea as to seem crazy: a club featuring weekly, week-night performances of serious jazz musicians traveling from Boston and New York to play in a Laconia room that was most recently an antique store. But while doubters doubted, Jonathan Lorentz pursued his vision. And he’s been rewarded with a response more robust than
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could find itself with the reputation as the best place to see music in New Hampshire – the state’s version of Austin, Tex. Lorentz, a saxophonist who was working throughout New York and New England before life circumstances had him relocate to Gilmanton, knew that he had the contacts, the e-mails and phone numbers of musicians he could ask, as a personal favor, to play a role in his experiment. He got them to agree because what he was creating was a rarity, even for musicians playing the New York City and Boston jazz clubs. Lorentz’s concept was an experience tailored around the music and the listening experience. There’s no bar – patrons are see JaZZ CENtEr page 10