TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013
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Cab driver reports being robbed at gunpoint BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
BELMONT — Police are investigating the armed robbery of a Mr. C’s taxi driver that occurred last night just after 8 p.m. Cpl. Adam Hawkins said the driver said he was called to Messer Street in Laconia for a fare to Belmont. He said a black man about 6-feet tall and a while male about 5-feet 8-inches tall got in and later pulled a gun and a knife and robbed the driver near Marsh Hill Road off see CAB page 4
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Boys & Girls Club offers to buy St. James Church BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — The Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region has made a formal offer to purchase the building and grounds of St. James Episcopal Church at 876 North Main Street for $700,000. The Vestry, or local governing body of the church, announced
the offer to parishioners at the service on Sunday morning and Pastor Tobias Nyatsambo mentioned it in his weekly newsletter. The Vestry, led by Senior Warden Jeff Pearson, met last night to weigh the offer. The Daily Sun spoke with several members of the parish who attended Sunday’s service but none were willing to discuss
the situation on the record. In the newsletter, Pastor Nyatsambo noted the announcement of the purchase offer was followed “by an open discussion . . . and I am encouraged by people recognizing that the time may be up for us to move away from the buildings. Most people agree the Vestry should accept the offer.”
Built in 1964, the church, a 9,591-square-foot building, sits on 1.3-acre lot alongside a 3,000-square-foot bungalow of one-and-a-half stories. The entire property has an assessed value of $1,139,500, according to city tax records. Founded as a teen center in 1999, the Boys & Girls Club has see CHURCH page 11
Myers presents tax cap friendly budget of $21.6M to City Council BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — In his proposed budget for fiscal year 2014, City Manager Scott Myers recommends expenditures of $21.6 million, $489,129, or 2.3 percent, more
than the current year and projects the total amount to be raised by property taxes to rise $480,431, or 3.3-percent. The projected tax commitment is $18,231 less than the maximum allowed by the property tax cap. Myers told City Council last night his
budget includes a two-percent cost-of-living adjustment for employees belonging to the three unions — Laconia Patrolman Association, State Employees Association and American Federation of State, County see BUDGET page 8
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