Friday, July 26, 2013
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Man bails out before kayak goes over Avery Dam
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Marine Patrol making plans to build new Glendale headquarters By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — The Legislature has appropriated $9,379,313 in the biennial capital budget for the reconstruction of the New Hampshire Marine Patrol headquarters at Glendale. Several years ago the
Department of Safety commissioned an engineering firm to assess the structural integrity of the building as well as the condition of its mechanical and electrical systems. Finding the building beyond repair, the report proposed construction of a new 36,163-square-foot build-
ing at an estimated cost of $11 million. When the Legislature diverted the balance of the Navigation Safety Fund to the General Fund to balance the budget In 2010, the Department of Safety deferred action on the report. This year, the
Public Works Bureau of the Department of Administrative Services reviewed the report recommended instead a 31,994-square-foot facility built on on a pile foundation with an estimated cost of $9.4 million, which includes items required see MariNE PaTrOL page 15
LACONIA — Three men who ventured onto the Winnipesaukee River behind City Hall yesterday around 3 p.m. are safe after nearly taking a plunge over Avery Dam. Witnesses said the three — one in an aluminum boat and two in a red kayak –— were in the river when the man in the aluminum boat got swept downriver and grabbed on to the line that holds the buoys see KayaK page 8
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There’s been a lot of talk about the Belknap County facility; The Daily Sun takes you inside By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Although Dan Ward, superintendent of the Belknap County Jail and House of Corrections, is not especially proud of his facility, he relishes the opportunity to usher visitors through its confines, impressing on them the achieve-
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