The Laconia Daily Sun, May 23, 2011

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Nassau’s radio stations sold at auction By MichAel kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

W I L M I N G T O N, Del. — Carlisle Capital Corporation, whose principal Bill Binnie of Rye began building a media company after losing a run for the United States Senate in 2010, topped the bidding for 30 radio stations in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine at $12.5-million when all that remained of Nassau Broadcasting Partners’ holdings were auctioned in bankruptcy proceedsee RadIO page 14

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Weirs saloon not the only fire ravaged building in the city that’s still standing well after blaze By Mike Mortensen FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — This September will mark the second anniversary of the three-alarm fire that ravaged the Wide Open Saloon at the crossroads of Weirs Beach. The city says the burned-out,

three-story, 126-year-old building is structurally unsound and has to come down. The building’s owner disagrees and has appealed court rulings allowing its demolition to the state Supreme Court. With the prospect of the appeals process dragging on for months, Weirs

Beach businesses have formally petitioned the city to do more to remove what they say clearly is a safety hazard and an eyesore. While the protracted saga of the Wide Open Saloon has been getting lots of attention, it is not the only burned-out build-

ing sitting derelict in the city. City officials say there are another five buildings, gutted by fires in the recent past, which remain unoccupied and where to date little to nothing has been done to make them livable again. Meanwhile, they see FIRe page 10

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Deanna O’Shaughnessy looks out from the yard of the house she built 28 years ago on the same 300-acre Alton lot that has been a farm since the 18th Century and has been in her family since 1937. In 2009, she and her sister founded a water bottling company to build a secure future for the farm. Now, with a bank calling in its business loan, foreclosure could jeopardize the future of the very land the family was trying to protect. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)

Facing the need to raise $53K in a week By AdAM drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

ALTON — On a warm day in 2004, Deanna O’Shaughnessy was on her family’s 300-acre property, situated on a ridge overlooking Alton Bay, as a well-drilling contractor was driving pipe after pipe

into the ground, searching for an abundant source of water. Their consulting hydrologist predicted they would find all the water they needed at about 135 feet below the surface. At that depth, though, the well only produced enough water for a weak residential supply — hardly enough

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for the bulk water operation she and her family were hoping to launch. The drill sent down another length of pipe, then another. 200 feet, 300 feet, 500 feet, and still only a modest flow. Finally, the crew was down to its last legth of pipe and the see aLTOn FaRM page 13

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