The Laconia Daily Sun, June 15, 2011

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MANCHESTER — The Laconia High School softball team coached by Darci Blake captured the NHIAA Division II championship yesterday with a 5-4 win over Hollis-Brookline on the campus of Southern N.H. University. It was the school’s first ever softball crown. The Sachems finished the regular season with a 14-2 record that earned them the number three seed in the tournament. After an opening round scare against Sanborn, a 9-8 victory, Laconia blasted past Souhegan (10-4) and Merrimack Valley (10-2) to reach the title game.

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LACONIA — Architects designing the proposed Huot Regional Technical Education Center renovation and expansion and Superintendent Robert Champlin said yesterday the project will cost $11-million, if completed — about $1.5-million over budget. The proposal that Champlin said would be the best for the Huot Center and for the Laconia High School’s future is most of what was previously called Option B and includes a 32,600 square-foot two story addition on the

Dewey Street side and a renovation of existing 17,000 square-feet of Huot space, turning back the second floor of the current Huot to LHS for future development. Champlin said the district learned recently — since last month’s Huot Center Committee meeting — that it qualifies for no-interest, federal education loans because it is a district with more than a 35-percent economically-disadvantaged, or poor, population — a figure based on how many students qualify for federal free or reduced-price lunches.

“No interest is better than school building aid,” Champlin said, explaining that a $1.5 million, 17-year no-interest loan through the federal government would require an annual payback of $88,000. State building aid — there is a moratorium on all new projects but Laconia’s Huot expansion qualified before the moratorium was put in place — pays back 40-percent of the construction principal for a school building loan, in Laconia’s case, but none of the interest cost. see HUOT page 10

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