The Laconia Daily Sun, April 17, 2013

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Storytelling Laconia superintendent says insurance savings will more than offset added payroll in year 1 School Board Tuesday evening. years, plus salary step increases taries, while the Support Staff B M M to lead to The contracts between the for longevity and other factors. represents about a dozen mainLACONIA – Pay for memSchool District and the unions The LEA, the largest of the personnel. development bers of the School District’s –– the Laconia Education Asso- three unions with between 200 tenance The new contracts had previously been separately approved by three labor unions will increase ciation, the Education Associaand 220 members, represents the membership of all three unions. 3 1/2 percent for each tion of Laconia and the Laconia teachers. The Education Assoof standards roughly The cost items of the conAssociation of Support Staff — ciation represents around 50 of the next three years under tracts must be approved by terms of collective bargaincall for a 2 percent cost of living para-educators, such as classfor Laconia the see TeaCHeRs page 10 ing agreements approved by the raise for each of the next three room aides, as well as secrearchitecture y

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By Michael kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — Planning Director Shanna Saunders calls it “our storytelling grant,” $50,000 awarded to the city by the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority to fund the development of architectural standards for downtown and The Weirs. What, you might ask, has storytelling got to do with architectural standards? Architectural standards were among the priorities when the Master Plan was updated in 2007 and two years later the Planning Department contracted with the Ironwood Design Group, LLC of Exeter and Sheer, McCrystal, Paison Architecture, Inc. of New London to assist with developing them. In November 2010 the consultants presented their initial findings to the Planning Board. Instead of critiquing the design of particular buildings, they eyed the city through the prism of “form-based code” (FBC), a departure from conventional zoning. Jeff Hyland of the Ironwood Design Group explained that see sTORy page 8

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Belmont police and fire department officials examine the wreckage of a late-model pickup truck resting alongside Rte. 140 West on Tuesday night. Police later said that the driver of the truck, 21-year-old Kyle Hammons of Northfield and a passenger, 19-year-old Cody Southworth of Northfield, were both transported to Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia for treatment of unknown injuries resulting from the crash. Police said the accident remains under investigation but a preliminary report indicates the Belmont village bound truck was attempting to pass at least three other vehicles when it encountered westbound traffic and was forced to go off the road to avoid a collision. The soft shoulder of the roadway caused the driver to loose control of the truck and it struck a tree and flipped. One of the two young men was ejected from the truck at impact and the other managed to crawl from the wreckage. No other details of the accident were available at press time. (Alan MacRae/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

County forester says Emerald Ash Beetle could threaten local shade trees By adaM drapcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — Ash trees represent less than 10 percent of the state’s trees, and according to UNH Cooperative Exten-

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