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LACONIA — Despite a Belknap County Judge ruling that says he doesn’t have to keep a gate to his property open, Don Thurston of Thurston’s Marina said he will do so for the rest of Motorcycle Week as a courtesy to his neighbor, Patricia Baldi. The two neighbors squared off before Judge James O’Neill yesterday morning after Baldi filed for an temporary restrain-
ing order that would force Thurston to open a gate she claimed is blocking her right-ofway from the Weirs Beach Drive-In and he proved yesterday is not. The gate leads from the drive-in onto a private roadway that parallels Channel Lane as it runs back toward Endicott Street (Rte. 3). “Without that (gate open) the entire Bike Week will fail,” said Baldi lawyer Friedrich Moeckel, explaining to O’Neill that city
Fire Inspector Charles Roffo had told Baldi that without the emergency exit from the Endicott Street-fronted lot used by vendors for Bike Week, he could and would order the vendors renting space from Baldi to shut down. The gate in question, said Thruston who appeared in court on his own behalf yesterday, is along a sewer and water easement and is in a chain linked fence that separates see GATE page 13
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The burned-out remains of the Wide Open Saloon on Endicott Street (Rte. 3), at the heart the 89th running of the Laconia Motorcycle Rally, continues to loom over the Weirs Beach psyche some 21 months after it was ravaged by fire. Weirs business owners called for the building to be torn down before the 2011 rally but owner Brandi Baldi has thus far succeeded in blocking such a move in the courts. Her appeal of a 2011 City Hall order to have the building razed is now under consideration by the New Hampshire Supreme Court. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Ed Engler)
LACONIA — A motorcyclist accelerated into the back of a minivan in front of Funspot yesterday afternoon, causing his bike to burst into flames and leaving him with serious injuries. State Police handled the scene and did not immediately release the identity of the man who was operating the Massachusetts-registered motorcycle. Laconia Fire Department Captain Kirk Beattie said paramedics transported the motorcyclist from the scene and that he has since been taken by helicopter to Maine Medical Center. The accident occurred as the motorcyclist, who was see CRASH page 11
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LACONIA — The City Council this week agreed to trim at least $180,000 from the city portion of the 2012-2013 municipal budget presented by City Manager Scott Myers in order to reduce the projected rise in the property tax rate from 24 cents to 15
cents per $1,000 of assessed value, which would represent an increase of 0.7-percent. Meeting Monday evening, councilors considered several measures to reduce expenses and raise revenues that would meet their target while at the same time funding an additional position at the Police Department, equipment purchases at the
Department of Public Works and major investment in the recycling program. Each penny off the property tax rate represents about $20,000 in reduced expenditure or additional revenue. In his capital outlay budget Myers recommended purchasing two police cruissee TAX RATE page 8
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