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LACONIA — Seeking to “change the conversation,” John Moriarity has festooned the windows of 600 Main Street with renderings of a vision of downtown recast as “Riverside Loop,” explaining “I want to replace the downtown brand of ‘for sale, for lease, for rent’ with an image of what can happen.” Moriarity is one of the four partners of Lakes Region Acquisitions, LLC, the group that purchased and renovated the former Sundial Shop building in 2010, which but for two inherited tenants — The Galleria and Edward Jones Invest-
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MEREDITH — Dean Mason of Mason Marine Construction is recovering at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon from severe injuries after being stuck by a hitand-driver on U.S. Route 5 at the off-ramp of I-91 in Hartland, Vermont around 2 a.m. on Saturday. The Rutland Herald reported that Senior Trooper Gary Salvastore of the Vermont State Police said that when interviewed at the hospital, Mason explained that he pulled to the side of U.S. Route 5 when his Dodge 3500 truck ran out of gas. A passerby drove him to Mike’s Mobil Station where he filled a small container with gas. He said that as he was pouring the gas into the tank a car “squared up to him” and accelerated toward him. He said that he tried see HIT & RUN page 10
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