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4-1, Meredith If justice agrees an emergency exists, vote to lease/purchase fire truck could be held in September board decides to replace the currently out-oflegal definition the soonest a 2012 Town Meeting to see if B G O service Engine 4. The decision vote can be held will probably voters will agree lease a new to continue GILFORD — After weeks of reverses an earlier course that be in September. pumper for 10 payments totalpublic controversy, selectmen had the town moving toward a The petition, which shall be ling $441,000 to begin in 2013. fight over voted unanimously last night July 31 vote that would have posted for 10 days before being At the end of the closed-end to petition the Belknap County been held without permission submitted to the court, asks a lease, the town would own the Foundry Superior Court for permission from the court. judge to declare the absence pumper outright. to hold a special Town MeetIf a judge agrees that the of Engine 4 an emergency and “Without such a second attack Avenue lot see GILFORD page 13 ing to acquire a new fire truck town’s “emergency” meets the allow the town to hold a second Y
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MEREDITH — For the second time in the past year, the Board of Selectmen yesterday voted to appeal the decision of the Zoning Board of Adjustment to grant a variance for a commercial use on property at 22 Foundry Avenue, lying within a residential district as well as the Lake Waukewan Watershed Overlay district, to Belknap County Superior Court. see LOT page 10
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LRGH’s oncology department held a celebration in honor of Cancer Survivor Day on Monday. Shown here, left to right, are Dr. Bob Friedlander, patient Diane Biggs and clinical trials coordinator Dawn Coleman. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
‘It’s my turn to do it for someone else down the line’ Lakes Region General Hospital celebrates cancer patients & their contributions to clinical trials BY ADAM DRAPCHO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — This summer marks three years since Diane Biggs of Belmont was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although her disease is considered terminal, Biggs isn’t resigned. She continues to lead her
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“I figured, I’m going to beat it,” she says. “It doesn’t control me, I control it.” Biggs was one of many who visited Lakes Region General Hospital’s oncology department on Monday afternoon for a celebration of Cancer Survivor Day. see SURVIVORS page 14
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