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Local company optimistic enough to develop new subdivision in Gilford GILFORD — Signalling increased confidence in the residential real estate market, White Mountain Land Company has begun marketing a 15-lot subdivision with a western exposure at Rowe Farm Road off Cotton Hill Road. “We’ve been in business since 1983,” said Karen Feltham, who with Howard Warren founded the firm, “and this is the longest we’ve ever gone withsee LOTS page 9
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Unmanned boat circles until it wrecks BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
HOLDERNESS — No one was injured yesterday when five young men ended up in the Little Squam Lake and a boat ended up circling at a relatively high rate of speed with no one in it. According to the New Hampshire Marine Patrol and Fire Chief Eleanor Marden, three young men and a dog were in a
14-foot Boston Whaler with a 90-horsepower outboard motor that was pulling two other men on an inner tube at 12:29 p.m. Marden said it appeared the three men were going in circles at about 25 miles per hour and apparently hit one of their own wakes that pitched them and the dog into the water. The boat continued in circles with the two men on the inner tube still being pulled
behind it. Marden said one of the tubers told her he didn’t know whether it was safer to jump off the tube and risk being in hit by the circling boat or to hang on. While one of them made the decision to jump after a short time, the second one road it out until the boat started to head toward a gangway. see BOAT page 8
Gilford asks judge to OK razing of Kimball Castle BY GAIL OBER
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MAD MAX - BEYOND BELMONT: Tim Bartlett of Belmont with his Rat Rod, which he fabricated with parts left over from a street rod he built several years ago. He used a Chevy S-10 frame, which he shortened, and the front end of an International Harvester pickup truck before adding a powerful 383 Stroker engine. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Good, bad & self-proclaimed ugly at Rotary Car Show BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — The Lakes Region Rotary Club’s first-ever car show proved a bigger hit than it’s members anticipated, with 150 cars, pickup trucks and street rods showing up at the parking lot above the Weirs Beach Lobster
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GILFORD — The town, in its capacity as trustee, has asked a judge in the Belknap County Superior Court, for permission to release deed restrictions and give the town permission to allow the current owner to tear down Kimball Castle. According to the pleadings, the town sold a portion of the Kimball Castle in 1999 to Historic Inns of New England with the approval of the court in order to get money to preserve the remaining portion of the property as a de facto wildlife preserve. Historic Inns of New England was empowered to develop the castle and its immediate surrounding property on 59 Lockes Hill Road as a restaurant and lounge. The current owner is part of the initial company that purchased the castle. The pleadings state that his effort and those of the previous owners to raise the capital to restore the castle and build a restaurant failed and because of deterioration and vandalism the building is no longer viable. The town building inspector condemned the property see CASTLE page 8
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