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Judge rejects plea bargain for accused bedtime burglar
LACONIA — A Belknap County Superior Court judge rejected a proposed plea deal with the second of two men who police and prosecutors say were the bedtime burglars who scared Lakes Region residents with their break ins of local homes while the residents slept. Belknap County Attorney Melissa Guldbrandsen said Spencer Mullarkey, 32, had agreed to plead guilty to 11 see PLEA page 11
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Meredith police investigating stoning of ducklings near town beach BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
MEREDITH — Police are investigating a claim that some teenage boys threw stones at a nest of ducklings at Waukewan Beach Monday afternoon, nearly killing one of them. A woman who lives nearby said she went down for a swim about 3:30 p.m. and saw four boys she said she were about 15-years-
old throwing the stones at what she knew to be a duck nest. She said one boy was already swimming away and one boy ran away but two stayed and she confronted them. “I overheard one kid say, ‘Oh I think I got it in the back,’” said the woman who asked not to be identified. She said one of the boys also picked up the injured duckling and tossed it in the
lake but it washed up to shore and the woman was able to rescue it. She said both of its legs were broken and and there was a “big dent” it its back. She said the mother duck was able to swim away with her other five chicks safely in tow. Yesterday afternoon she took the duckling, that she said was about about six see DUCKLINGS page 11
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Bob Glassett and Larry Greeley, representing the Lakes Region Home Builders & Remodelers Assoc. leave the infield after Greeley threw out the honorary first pitch of the Laconia Muskrats’ game Wednesday evening at Robbie Mills Field. Attendance at the game, reported as 792, was free, courtesy of the association that built the new left field “monster” shown in the background at no cost to the team or city. The Muskrats defeated New Bedford 7-6. The next home game in Saturday night against Newport. First pitch is at 6:30. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
GILFORD — Selectmen told Scott Miller of Miller Amusements that he should wait and schedule a carnival at the Walmart Plaza for dates other than in late July because town ordinances require a public hearing that couldn’t be scheduled until July 11 at the earliest. Miller had applied for a special entertainment permit after he was contacted by W.S. Development — the people who own the plaza above Lake Shore Road. “The owners came to us and were looking for some additional income,” Miller said. W.S. Developments had wanted the carnival for July 26 through July 29 and Miller said it would have occupied most of the parking lot in front of what see CARNIVAL page 12
Liquor board finds Drew didn’t allow Kings Grant to be used for drug sales BY MICHAEL KITCH
the New Hampshire Liquor Commission found sufficient evidence to uphold three of the charges brought by the Enforcement Division against Will Drew, the owner of Kelsey’s at the Grant that last operated as Mardi Gras North, but found there was insufficient evidence to support the most Fuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. serious charge that he allowed 10 day cash price* Laconia 524-1421 subject to change the premises to be used for illicit
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purposes, namely drug dealing. The proceedings followed the arrest of five exotic dancers employed at the nightspot on charges of drug trafficking at the club during a raid mounted by the Attorney General’s Drug Task Force and Belknap County Special Operations Group last October 18, which led to the closure of the business in December. A subsequent see LIQUOR page 11