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Friday, april 15, 2011
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Living in the house that ‘Peyton Place’ built By adam drapchO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILMANTON — Struck with Sunny Bishop’s sudden desire to raise alpacas, and with her husband Marshall’s longer-held desire to develop a vineyard, the couple decided to put their Gilford cabin on the market and find a piece of real estate with enough land for each of their pursuits. The right house for them, it turned out, see GraCE page 12
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Will city turn to ‘Pay to Throw’ to avoid layoffs? LACONIA — As the City Council eyes a further round of 2011-12 budget cuts, it may find that reducing the cost of collecting and disposing of solid waste by pursuing a more aggressive recycling program offers an attractive alternative to trimming services and shedding employees. More than two years ago,
when the city faced an unavoidable increase of at least $430,000 in its budget, City Manager Eileen Cabanel indicated that she would present the City Council with options, including “mandatory recycling,” for shrinking the solid waste budget. Instead, single-stream recycling was introduced in 2010. Although the tonnage of recycled material
grew 22-percent to top 1,000 tons, that amounted to just 7-percent of all residential and commercial trash and did little to reduce the solid waste budget. Earlier this week, in anticipation that the state will withdraw its share of employer contributions to the New Hampshire Retirement System for police officers and firefighters, Caba-
nel presented the council with $420,064 of potential budget cuts. Reductions in payroll of $12,000 in the Planning Department, $57,000 in the Police Department, $119,000 in the Fire Department and $105,000 at the Laconia Public Library represent more than half the proposed cuts. see TraSH page 14
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Fiddler Ellen Carlson of Lochmere, accompanied by Tim Mowry on guitar, entertains visitors to the Gilford Public Library with two renditions of “Stay All Night Don’t Want to Go Home” on Thursday evening. Carlson’s “Fiddlin’ Fun’ program included Irish, bluegrass, Cajun and swing tunes and was part of the library’s celebration of National Library Week. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Laconia crack cocaine party said to have led to stabbing & shooting By Gail OBer
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LACONIA — Police affidavits made public yesterday allege a crack cocainefueled argument led to the shooting of one man and the stabbing of another on Straf-
ford Street last Friday morning. Tyler Twombly, 26, of 355 Liberty Hill Road appeared yesterday in Laconia District Court to answer to charges he stabbed one man and punched another during the altercation.
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Pale and shaking during his 30-minute court appearance, Twombly was dressed in what looked like brown checked pajamas. During the altercation, he was shot in the torso, allegedly by James R. McNeil, 29, see CraCK page 10
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