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BudCom chair urges selectmen to act on bank bldg. BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
BELMONT — Budget Committee Chair Ron Mitchell met with selectmen last to night express his displeasure at hearing rumors that the former Northway Bank building was going to be torn down,
intimating the rumors were coming from the Selectboard. Mitchell also wanted selectmen to make some step toward deciding what they will do with the building now that the town owns it. see BELMONT page 9
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LACONIA — A city man who had already served a year in prison for a series of burglaries in the summer of 2010 was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail for allegedly breaking into a north end home Sunday night and stealing two handguns. Police affidavits filed in 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division in support of his see 20 page 14
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MEREDITH — By unanimous vote the Board of Selectmen enacted a controversial regulation to strengthen oversight of septic systems in the Lake Waukewan watershed following a public hearing on the proposal last night. Between 60 and 70 people attended the hearing, which was opened by Community Development Director John Edgar who explained that the regulation, which originated with the Waukewan Advisory Committee, was intended to safeguard water quality by managing the risk of failed septic systems. At more than $18 million, he said that the cost of circling the lake with municipal sewer was prohibitive. Edgar recalled that the committee undertook a risk analysis of septic systems within 250 feet of the lake. Altogether 112 septic systems on the Meredith shoreline were graded based on their age, along with the see SEPTIC page 8
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