The Laconia Daily Sun, April 24, 2012

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City offering $2.16M for State School property BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — After receiving an offer from the state to sell the site on North Main Street that formerly housed the Laconia State School to the city for $10-million, the City Council last night voted to authorize City Manager Scott Myers and City Council Matt Lahey (Ward 2) to make a counter offer to purchase the property, along

with the Robbie Mills Sports Complex for $2.16-million. Five of the six councilors — Lahey, Ava Doyle (Ward 1) Henry Lipman (Ward 3, Bob Hamel (Ward 5) and Armand Bolduc (Ward 6) — voted in favor with Councilor Brenda Baer (Ward 4) the lone dissenter. Last year, the Legislature directed the New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to offer the entire

site to the city for “not less than $10-million” and, if by June 30, 2012 the city failed to accept the offer, to offer it to Belknap County “at fair market value” with a deadline of August 15, 2012. If neither the city nor the county purchased the property, it would be put on the open market or no less than its fair market value. Lawmakers stipulated that proceeds see STATE SCHOOL page 8

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Ryan Hebert and other members of the Rotary Club and Elks Lodge teams that play in Laconia Little League’s “Majors” march up North Main Street on Saturday morning to the traditional opening day ceremony at Colby Field in Opechee Park. Police Chief Chris Adams was given the honor of throwing out the first pitch. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

LACONIA — Birdwatchers, biologists and Public Service of New Hampshire thought last week that they had solved the dilemma presented by the pair of osprey that had selected the top of an electric utility pole overlooking Lake Opechee as this year’s nest site. The solution, which was carried out on Friday, was to erect a pole nearby with a readymade nest and to tear down the existing one. However, proving that persistence is key to the bird’s survival – the osprey makes a yearly migration from New England to South America, crossing several hundred miles of open sea – the pair of birds over the weekend attempted to rebuild the see OSPREY page 14

Future said bright for advanced manufacturing in N.H. if . . . BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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