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LACONIA — The city will celebrate Independence Day a week from today, on Thursday, July 4, with an afternoon and evening of festivities sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department and Fourth of July Committee. The celebration will begin with the annual parade, which is scheduled to leave Wyatt Park in the South End at 4:30 p.m. and march up Main Street to Opechee Park. Kevin Dunleavy, director of Parks and see 4TH page 10
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Boys & Girls Club & Genesis Behavioral Health competing for access to same federal money BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Belknap County Commissioners will have to decide between two community organizations seeking sponsorship for $500,000 federal Community Development Block Grants by sometime early next month.
Commissioners agreed to schedule a public hearing for July 10 on the requests from the Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region and Genesis Behavioral Health for projects the organizations told the commission Wednesday morning are vital to their missions. But the county can only
apply for one $500,000 grant at a time, although it has the option of splitting that amount between the two groups. Maggie Pritchard of Genesis, which is a regional mental health agency, serving Belknap and southern Grafton Counties, said the agency wants the grant so that it consolidate its
offices, currently located on Church Street and North Main Street in Laconia, in the former Southern New Hampshire University building at 22 Airport Way in Gilford next to Laconia Municipal Airport. She said that the property is available for $550,000 and it see GRANT page 8
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Young Laconia man who punched cop in face gets 1 1/2 to 5 in state prison BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
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