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City played Planner says it didn’t happen & it’s time to move on; private landlord says demand for units is soft no role in plumbing and heating supply the arm for the city’s downtown. purchase and sales agreement. B M K company, F.W. Webb, does not Linda Harvey, executive She anticipates presenting a permitting match the vision city officials director of the LACLT, said proposal to the Planning Board LACONIA — The prospect of had for the property when it yesterday that although plans in August. the Laconia Community Area mental last changed hands in 2007. have been submitted to the The boundaries of the 1.87Land Trust (LACLT) constructparcel describe a triangle, Then, the property was seen Planning Department, the ing affordable apartments on a health group lot tucked between Union Ave. as a great location for a classy, trust is still in the process of acre with 685 feet of frontage on the waterfront, mixed-use developperforming due diligence on river — 598 feet above Avery and the Winnipesaukee River home on see APARTMENTS page 29 ment that would be a shot in the property and negotiating a once occupied by a wholesale McGrath St. Y
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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — In the wake of the recent homicide at a local mental health support home on McGrath St. at least one person in the neighborhood said they were distressed to learn the home had changed in 2004 from one of constant supervision to one of less supervision. Mike Persson, an see McRATH page 7
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A small army of volunteers was in the basement of the Congregational Church of Laconia Wednesday morning packing lunch material for the more than 500 city school children who will be served by the program this summer. Like deliveries will be made every week until school is back is session. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Got Lunch! Laconia begins 3rd summer thinking about former volunteer Lily Johnson BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Got Lunch! Laconia kicked off its third summer of delivering lunch items to city school children Wednesday morning by dedicating year’s program to Lily Johnson, a 14-year-old Laconia Middle School student, who died
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