Thursday, May 19, 2011
VOL. 11 NO. 249
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House kills bill to increase speed limit on the Broads By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
CONCORD — The House of Representatives yesterday voted to uphold speed limits all across Lake Winnipesaukee by scuttling a Senate bill to raise the limit on the “Broads” to 55 miles per hour. The margin was
an overwhelming 276 to 75. “I was not totally shocked,” said Sandy Helve of the Winnipesaukee Family Alliance for Boating Safety (WinnFABs), the group that has led the campaign for speed limits on the big lake since 2006. “I’m just delighted to see that our
legislators are listening to the people of New Hampshire.” Helve recalled that a year ago the House voted 268 to 79 to make the speed limits — 45 mph. in daylight and 30 mph. after dark — permanent. “Of course the House has changed,” she said, alluding to the eclipse
of the Democratic majority, which favored speed limits, by a Republican majority of nearly three-to-one. Nevertheless, yesterday more than half the Republican members joined every Democrat in the chamber to form the majority. “They made see BrOads page 8
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Laconia-based band East is East practices at a space in Gilford. With a soon-to-be released album, the band is finding it’s difficult to pursue a career as rock musicians while based in the Lakes Region. From left to right, Abe Hughes, Andy Mallett, Alex Vaughn and Jonas Sabatini. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
East is East but where do you get a gig around here? By adaM drapcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — East is East, a rock band made up of four local men, seems to be poised for a leap to the next level. All four are in their mid-20s and had been honing their chops since high school. The band
formed in 2008 and has spent the intervening years rehearsing and performing, solidifying their sound in the process and generating enough original material to produce an album, which they hope to release in coming weeks. Audiences seem to be taking notice
of their presence. In 2010, East is East won fourth place in a battle of the bands competition hosted by F Nice Records in Boston. 3,600 people have signed up as “fans” on the band’s ReverbNation site. However, they’ve got a problem: they’re see BaNd page 11
Dump workers tell selectmen they can’t make ends meet without their p-t jobs By Gail oBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
SANBORNTON — One week after annual town meeting cut the transfer station budget for fiscal year 2011-12 by $13,000, one-by-one employees of the embattled department last Modern Woodmen
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During this year’s budget preparations, selectmen and the Budget Committee differed in their funding for the transfer station because of an impending move to single-stream recycling — a measure adopted see JOBs page 13
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