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Four brush fires ignite in Meredith
MEREDITH — Firefighters spent much of yesterday afternoon containing then dousing a string of brush fires in wooded land along Daniel Webster Highway (US Route 3) south of the junction with Parade Road (NH Route 106). Meredith Fire Chief Ken Jones said that near 1:30 p.m. firefighters arrived to find four separate fires within a third-ofa-mile stretch on the east side of the highway from just north of the Color Shed to south of Northview Drive. “We chose two,” see FIRES page 4
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CONCORD — As the deadline set by the Legislature for selling the former Laconia State School site on North Main Street passed yesterday without so much as an offer, City Councilor Matt Lahey (Ward 2) said that he will likely ask the council to resubmit its $2.16-million bid for the property.
In the 2011-12 budget, the Legislature directed the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to sell the property to the city for $10-million and, failing that, to Belknap County for its fair market value. If neither the city nor the county purchased the property, DAS was instructed to hire an agent to market, promote and negotiate the sale of the property on the open market by May 1, 2013 in return for six-percent of
the selling price. In the meantime, the state would be responsible for “minimal maintenance” at the site. When the state appraised the property for $2.16-million, the city submitted its matching bid, which DAS shelved. After the county passed on the offer and DAS contracted with Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc. of New York to sell the property the city see DEADLINE page 12
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Inter-Lakes Drama staging ‘13’ this weekend The Inter-Lakes Drama Club’s spring musical, “13”, provides a grown-up look at growing up. The show will be performed at the Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Sanbornton Rep says he’s ashamed of County Delegation BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
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LACONIA — State Representative Dennis Fields (R-Sanbornton), who was recently voted out of his position as Belknap County Delegation clerk by his fellow Republicans, praised the Belknap
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