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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011
VOL. 23 NO. 98
CONWAY, N.H.
MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
No, no, not that Dick Vitale BY TERRY LEAVITT THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — The Conway Daily Sun office received a phone call late Monday afternoon from a person identifying himself as Dick Vitale of ESPN and wanting to talk to someone about a letter to the editor published in Saturday's issue of the Sun. He was concerned, he said, that someone was falsely using his name to promote some ideas about Conway School District
superintendent Carl Nelson. He said his wife had noticed the letter while doing a Google search and, after he too saw the letter, he contacted the Sun office. But no deception was intended. Turns out there are two Dick Vitales (could be more, but we haven't checked). One Dick Vitale lives in Florida and is a sportscaster for ESPN. The other lives in North Conway and occasionally writes letters to The Conway Daily Sun. see VITALE page 8
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Tim Eldridge to be paroled on Friday after serving 22 years for murder of Travis Wiggin Judge suspends three years for good behavior; Eldridge not allowed in Carroll County BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
MANCHESTER — A man who has served 22 years in prison for the murder a local teen is scheduled to be released on parole on Friday. Timothy Eldridge, then 20, murdered Travis Wiggin, 15, in Chocorua on a July night in 1988. Eldridge was sentenced to 25 years in prison to life for second-degree murder. However, he has only served 22 years because a Superior Court judge suspended three years for good behavior in a hearing in February of 2009. He will be released from Calumet halfway house in Manchester on Friday. Eldridge declined to be interviewed for this story as did Travis Wiggin's father, Gary. In late May of 2010, Eldridge entered a Transitional Work Center — a facility with lower security than the state prison. In October, Eldridge moved to the halfway house where he could come and go with permission, said Corrections Department spokesman Jeff Lyons.
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In stride
Top, Conway Elementary School fifth grader William Krug finishes the 100-meter dash a few strides ahead of classmate Daniel Cradock during the Conway School District annual track meet with fifth and sixth graders from Conway, Pine Tree, John Fuller and Jackson elementary schools at the Kennett track Wednesday. Every student competed in a running event in the morning and a field event in the afternoon. At right, Jackson Grammar School sixth grader Darren Pietrow makes his move at the beginning of the last lap and went on win the mile run in a time 6:11 (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTOS)
Man who approached boy in Intervale was a ‘predator,’ witness says BY ERIK EISELE THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — The man who called police to report a man trying to lure a boy into his car on Saturday has no doubt about what he saw. “Nothing about this scene was a normal conversation,” Sean Riley said in an e-mail. “He was and is a predator, don’t let the lack of physical evidence make it out to be anything else.” see PREDATOR page 10