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VOL. 13 NO. 253
LACONIA, N.H.
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LACONIA — The Belknap County Convention last night approved a supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to enable the nursing home to offer rehabilitative services to Medicare patients, but only after another bid to gain the upperhand in its
struggle with the Belknap County Commission over control of the operating budget failed. The commission first broached the subject of the supplemental appropriation in April, explaining that the funds would defray the cost of providing physical, occupational and speech therapy, along with medications,
testing and x-rays, to a limited number of short-stay patients. The services would be provided by independent contractors, not additional staff, and reimbursed by Medicare at 14-percent above cost. Matt Logue, director of the nursing home, projected the program would return some see COUNTY page 8
MacRae blasts selectmen for decision to drop support of Public Access TV BY GAIL OBER
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BELMONT — After getting an earful from a small but vocal group of Lakes Region Public Access television supporters, selectmen said last night they would revisit their decision to
withdraw financial support from the not-for-profit entity at their meeting on June 17. Speaking most loudly was town resident Alan MacRae who was one of the pioneers of public access television in the area and who recounted the
four years it took to form what is now known as LPRA television with the 14 original area communities in the late 1990s. He also scolded the board for not making a better effort to find someone to tape their meetings for later broadcast,
which was the primary reason selectmen cited for not paying the town’s $15,067 assessment to LRPA for 2013. They had a volunteer who had a time conflict and told the board she would be unable to tape the see BELMONT page 8
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