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Thrilled to share a train ride with Santa
Laconia native Peter Hildreth trying to save his job at hearing before Exec. Council BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
CONCORD — No more than a dozen onlookers were scattered around the hearing room on the third floor of the Legislative Office Building when, with Governor John Lynch presiding, the Governor and Executive Council yesterday opened its hearing on the petition to remove Bank Commissioner Peter Hildreth from office, for failing to properly oversee Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. (FRM), the Meredith firm that bilked clients of tens of millions of dollars. The first day of testimony left the impression that while examiners repeatedly reported deficiencies in FRM’s operations, including indications see FRM page 7
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Much to the delight and amazement of Violet Rohelia and Cole Johnson, Essie Corrow chats with Santa Claus while onboard the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad on Sunday afternoon. The train rides with Santa, from Laconia’s historic downtown railway station, followed the city’s annual Holiday Parade up Main Street to Veterans Square. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Legion now making bid to host circus in Gilford Village
3-2 majority of town’s rec committee balked for same reasons Laconia gave but selectmen will have last word BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — Three of the five-members Recreation Committee have recommended against hosting the Kelly-Miller Circus at the Gilford Village Field over the 2011 July 4 weekend. The request came from the American Legion Post 1 of Laconia after their bid to the
Laconia Parks and Recreation Department for the use of Opechee Park was denied. “With no direct financial benefit to the town or the department, the commission did not feel that the opportunity that having a circus in town would offer to community members would outweighed the potential negative impacts,” wrote Parks and Recreation Director Herb Greene in a
Nov. 9 memorandum to selectmen. Greene said yesterday that the commission “really wrestled” with the circus proposal but chose not to recommend it to selectmen. The reasons given mirrored the Laconia Parks and Recreation Department’s concerns with hosting the two-day circus at see CIRCUS page 10
looking to buy real estate nearby might be traveling on his property. Versions differ over what happened when the woman, Christine Harris, stopped and asked Bird for directions. A jury believed
Harris when she testified that the Moultonborough man swore and pointed a gun at her. The state Supreme Court upheld Bird’s conviction — and his mandatory minimum see BIRD page 8
UNH law professor labels Bird’s use of gun to threaten as ‘overkill’ BY MICHAEL COUSINEAU NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS
MOULTONBOROUGH — On a late March day in 2006, Ward Bird learned in a phone call from his niece that a woman
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