FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011
FRIDAY
VOL. 12 NO. 42
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SANBORNTON — Police Chief Steve Hankard said yesterday that four homes in the Lower Bay Road section of town were struck overnight by what appears to be the bedtime burglar or burglars. Hankard said three of the homes are on Lower Bay Road
and the fourth home is on Upper Smith Road. He said all four homes were occupied during the burglaries and at least two of them had dogs. Hankard said all of the burglaries appeared to have taken place between 2 and 5 a.m. Thursday morning and all appeared to have been “crimes of opportunity.”
“Quick in, quick out,” Hankard said adding all four of the burglaries were reported to police yesterday morning and none of the victims or their neighbors reported hearing anything. One of the Lower Bay Road victims, who will not be identified, said she never heard a thing and actually rose during
the night to use the bathroom. She said she had left her door unlocked and her pocketbook near the door, but never knew her home had been entered until her neighbor, also a victim, called at 6 a.m. to tell her the police wanted to speak with her. “She told me not to touch see BURGLARY page 12
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On Thursday evening The 2nd Baptist Church in Sanbornton hosted a spaghetti dinner followed by a concert with the Lakes Region Big Band. The event raised raising $2,300 that will go towards the renovation of the bandstand on the church’s front lawn. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Welcome to the Township of Governor’s Island, N.H.? BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — “When did our personal success become an open checkbook for big government?” asked Barbara Aichinger, who is seeking to persuade her neighbors on Governor’s Island to secede from the town and establish a separate municipality. In a manifesto echoing the Founding Fathers, Aichinger opens by explaining that there are 202 taxable properties and 166 residential homes on the island, but just 118 registered voters, which leaves a
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Class warfare breaks out at selectman’s meeting GILFORD — Sparks flew when the selectmen met this week as Barbara Aichinger, who owns two homes on Governor’s Island, implored the board to trim the budget and slash the payroll to lighten the
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