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Illegal dumping at remote containers mars start of mandatory recycling effort LACONIA — As the mandatory recycling program entered its second week, the Department of Public Works has found significant amounts of trash in and around the four remote recycling containers, especially those at the Lakeport Fire Station and the Weirs Community Center. Ann Saltmarsh, who manages the recycling program at the DPW,
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State offers no details of Carter murders at arraignment BY GAIL OBER
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FRANKLIN — Homicide complaints filed in the 6th Circuit Court, Franklin Division yesterday morning shine little light on the chopping deaths of a Belmont woman and her adult son other than saying they both died of multiple
wounds to the head and body from an unidentified weapon. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin said police have recovered the weapon they believe Shawn Carter, 31, formerly of 20 Sunset Drive in Belmont, used in the homicides of his mother, Priscilla Carter, 59, and brother, Timothy
Carter, 39, committed on either May 23 or 24. Carter, 31, showed no emotion as he faced the video camera from jai in Laconial yesterday afternoon while Public Defender Jesse Friedman entered no pleas on his behalf to four separate counts of second-degree homicide —
two each for his mother and two each for his brother. Strelzin filed two theories, without details, for each death — one set, he said, charges Carter knowingly caused the death of his mother and brother and one set charges he recklessly caused their deaths. see CARTER page 12
Commission puzzled by lack of political consensus on new-jail issue BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Can the Belknap County Commissioners and the Belknap County Convention overcome their differences to work together to address the county’s need to improve its corrections system? That was the question commissioners
pondered at Wednesday morning’s meeting during a lengthy discussion of the expressed reluctance of many county legislators to support a plan championed by the commission, which calls for construction of a new 94,450 square foot, 180-bed community corrections facility. Commissioner Ed Philpot of Laconia,
who chairs the county’s Jail Planning Committee, said, that after reading the comments recently made by legislators about the proposal, published in the newspaper, he sees the commission’s task is ‘’more of presenting the problem than the solution.’’ He said that the poor relationship the see JAIL page 9
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