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People continue to rally in support of Lily & Alyssa’s families LACONIA — The tragic accident involving two 14 year-old girls walking on a Messer Street sidewalk on April 19 has sparked a surge of support for the families of the victims. Lilyanna Johnson died as a result of her injuries, while Alyssa Miner is recovering from surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. The girls were apparently walking on the sidewalk on the Messer Street Bridge after leaving Laconia Middle School on the Friday afternoon before April vacation week when they were struck from behind by an SUV that had left the roadway. The accident remains under police investigation. The School District on Thursday updated information about the community’s response to the event. Two accounts have been established at Franklin Savings Bank: “Bethany & Lilyanna Johnson Memorial see GirLS page 12
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$5k cash bail holding man accused of purse snatching at pizza place By Gail OBer
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LACONIA — A local man who had recently been living in Hawaii is charged with one count of robbery after allegedly stealing a purse from a female Domino’s
Pizza customer at 9:18 p.m. Wednesday. Jojo R. Morton, whose address is given as 45 Endicott Street East in Laconia, appeared by video arraignment in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division on Thursday and was ordered held on $5,000 cash-only bail.
According to affidavits obtained from court, police received a call from a woman who said she was exiting Domino’s when a man who was “crouched down next to the door” popped up and grabbed her purse. see PUrSE page 12
Streetcar Company staging the musical ‘Oliver’ this weekend
Now for pesky little details City needs to have a mandatory recycling plan in place by July 1 By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
Oliver (Tyler Browne) asks “for more” from Mr. Bumble (Roland Dubois) during a dress rehearsal for the Streetcar Company’s production of “Oliver” at the Inter-Lakes High School auditorium in Meredith on Thursday evening. Performances are Friday and Saturday nights at 7 and Sunday at 2 p.m. More information at www.streetcarcompnay.com. (Karen Bobotas/ for The Laconia Daily Sun)
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LACONIA — Following the Wednesday night decision of the City Council to introduce a mandatory recycling program for a trial period of six months beginning on July 1, City Manager Scott Myers yesterday outlined the steps required to implement it. With mandatory recycling, trash placed at the curbside would not be collected unless accompanied by a recycling container. In addition, to provide an incentive to recycle, the number of trash containers will be limited. Last year, the council adopted an ordinance reducing the number of 30- gallon containers emptied at single family homes and multi-family dwellings from five to two per household and at commercial buildings from 10 to seven. Myers said that he will use the tonnage of trash removed from the waste stream by increased recycling to measure the success of the program. In preparing the 2013-2014 city budget he projected a reduction of $219,523 in the cost of collecting, transporting and disposing of trash, which represents removing 3,924 tons from the waste stream by recycling. He described his projection as “conservative.” To meet the target, the mandatory recycling would have to reduce the waste stream by 1,962 tons between July and December, when Myers anticipated the volume of see rECyCLiNG page 12
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