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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012
VOL. 12 NO. 181
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Man perishes in early a.m. Northfield trailer fire BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
NORTHFIELD — A local man perished in fast-moving blaze yesterday morning after apparently smoking a cigarette while he was using an oxygen machine. Next door neighbor on Granite Street, Michael Ramsey, said he, his wife and his two children were awake at 6 a.m. when they heard an explosion. My bedroom is in the back and is next to where his bedroom was,” said Ramsey see FIRE page 24
Richard Touchette, Sr., at left, and Ron Mahoney use an auger mounted to a jeep’s front bumper to cut a hole in the ice on Saunders Bay in Gilford. Ice fishing derby participants were sequestered to fewer than usual areas of Lake Winnipesaukee that had safe ice. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
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Fisherman in quest for safe ice as derby gets underway BY ADAM DRAPCHO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE — “Usually it’s like a city out here,” said Paul Geere, looking out over Meredith Bay on Friday after driving from Cambridge, Mass. He was one
of a group of four men who for decades have been making the trip to the big lake to participate in the Great Meredith Rotary Ice Fishing Derby. They, like nearly all other derby participants this year, were hoping to land a big one,
preferably one of the tagged rainbow trout that were stocked in Winnipesaukee and four other local lakes. Due to an unusually mild winter, derby participants hoping to catch the biggest fish first had to find a place
Alton’s Holway left indelible mark on sexual violence mores BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
ALTON — Almost 21 years before she passed away this week at the age of 96, Florence Holway suffered what polite company called “a fate worse than death” but through courage and resolve left a legacy that has benefited victims of sexual violence ever since. Holway, a portrait painter and medical artist, came to Peterborough, New Hamp-
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own children and taught those of others. She farmed, gardened, and painted. And did not lock her door. In 1991, not long after midnight on Easter Sunday, Holway, who was then 76, recalled “I was just getting my head on the pillow when he came at me. All I can see is those two hands.” She said the man bound her with the telephone cord then choked and beat her before raping her. After see HOLWAY page 8
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