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Laconia unemployment rate highest of N.H. cities By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Although unemployment in the city has tumbled from 10.4-percent to 6.5-percent during the first 10 months of the year, the rate remained the highest among the eleven cities in the state in October. According to the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security, 530
of the city’s labor force of 8,120 were out of work in October, 330 less than the 860 who were jobless in January. Berlin and Franklin, which each counted 270 people without jobs and posted unemployment rates of 6.1-percent, were the only other cities where unemployment topped six-percent. The unemployment rate in the city is 1.5-percent above the state average of five-percent and tops the rate for Belknap
County of 5.2-percent. Likewise, the unemployment rate for the Laconia MicroNECTA, or urban cluster consisted of the city and towns of Belmont, Gilford, Gilmanton and Meredith, stood at 5.5-percent, one point below that for the city. The Department of Employment Security counts 15 public institutions and non-profit corporations among the 23 largest employsee uNEMPLOyMENt page 11
Laconia Holiday Parade preparations
LACONIA — Denise Gee, a resident of an apartment in the building at 184 Union Avenue, said she looked out her window to see a crowd gathering on the evening of Sunday, November 21. Her first thought was that a fight had broken out, but the next thing she knew, the fire department see FIrE page 10
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Larry Frates was busy yesterday working on elements that will be included on the Creative Arts Center float that will be entered in the Laconia Holiday Parade up Main Street on Sunday at 1 p.m. The festivities downtown will start at 11:30 a.m. Thre Veterans Square tree lighting and Santa Fund Train Rides will begin after the parade. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Wet-nosed treasurers are a special find on Black Friday By adaM drapcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
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BELMONT — Of all the retail bargains luring shoppers to stores yesterday, no discounts or flashy advertising could compete with a wet nose and a busy tail. That’s what volunteers and workers with the New Hampshire Humane Society found when
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they held their first “adopt-a-thon” at the Belknap Mall last year beginning on “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving. This year, the Humane Society is hoping the event will be just as successful. Although the first day of the adopt-a-thon got off to a slow start due to poor weather, adoptions quickly picked up once the freez-
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ing rain melted. The event will continue today. “New Hampshire Humane Society is very excited to be able to hold our event here,” said Mary Di Maria, the organization’s executive director. She reported that the society had about 30 cats available at the see adOPt-a-tHON page 8