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LACONIA — Police are investigating another attempted early morning burglary this time in the Pleasant Street area of the city. Police Chief Christopher Adams said yesterday at 7 a.m. a Whipple Avenue resident reported to police that someone had cut the screen on one of the home’s kitchen windows. Adams said the person or people didn’t get into the house and no one was injured.
Meanwhile, many residents of the city are in lock-down mode after a series of daring night-time burglaries have cost at least nine home-owners thousands. In addition, two separate homeowners — one on Mile Hill and one three nights ago on Emerald Drive — reported close encounters with an intruder who apparently entered their homes while they were sleeping. The woman on Emerald Circle scared her
intruder by screaming and turning on the lights when she realized he or she was in her bedroom. Emerald Drive is in the Pine Hill section of town. The Mile Hill Road residents awoke in the early morning to find only cash stolen from them. One victim said the burglar went into the bedroom where she and her husband slept and took money from the wallet in his pants pocket. see BUrGLarS page 12
Spread between highest & lowest tax rates in county is almost 2 to 1 By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — In Belknap County, the adage that “low taxes are the result of low
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NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of a big bank says a U.S. default could be catastrophic for the economy. The head of the Federal Reserve warns of chaos. And a credit rating agency threatens to take away the country’s coveted triple-A status. The response on Wall Street: So what? In Washington, the fight over whether to raise the federal debt limit has grown uglier by the day. The White House says the limit must be raised by Aug. 2 or the government won’t be able to pay its bills, possibly including U.S. bonds held around the world. But as the deadline nears, stocks and bonds have barely flinched. The Dow Jones industrial average fell just 54 points Thursday and stands about where it did at the start of the month. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond, which usually rises when investors see it as a riskier bet, is considerably lower than earsee WHY page 8
fragile signs emerged Thursday of a possible compromise to raise the nation’s debt limit and avert a potentially catastrophic default on Aug. 2. Under a plan discussed by the Senate’s top two leaders, President Barack Obama would receive enhanced authority to raise the debt ceiling at the same time procedures would be set in motion that could lead to federal spending cuts. Word that Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Republican leader Mitch
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It appeared attempts to avoid a default were proceeding on two tracks — one involving the negotiators at the White House, and the other, a fallback alternative. One Republican, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that in the talks so far, negotiators had agreed on about $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts, far less than the $2.4 trillion or so needed to meet Obama’s demand that the debt limit go up enough to tide the Treasury over through the 2012 elections. see DEBT CEILING page 8
Judge blames prosecution for early mistrial call in Roger Clemens case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost as soon as it began, former baseball star Roger Clemens’ perjury trial ended Thursday — in a mistrial the judge blamed on prosecutors and said a “first-year law student” would have known to avoid. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton left the question of a new trial up in the air. But he called a halt to the trial under way after prosecutors showed jurors evidence that he had ruled out — videotaped revelations that a teammate had said he’d told
his wife Clemens confessed to using a drug. Walton scolded prosecutors and said he couldn’t let the former All-Star pitcher face prison if convicted on such “extremely prejudicial” evidence. “Mr. Clemens has to get a fair trial,” Walton said. “In my view, he can’t get it now.” Defense attorney Rusty Hardin, who had asked for the mistrial declaration, patted an unsmiling Clemens on the back as the judge announced his decision. As he left
the courthouse, Clemens did not comment but accepted hugs from a couple of court workers, shook hands with the security guards and autographed baseballs for fans waiting outside. The quick end on only the second day of testimony was the second mistrial involving a superstar player accused in baseball’s steroids scandal. Home run king Barry Bonds was convicted three months ago of obstruction of justice, but a mistrial see CLEMENS page 13
NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions was ordered Thursday to undergo a psychological evaluation after his lawyer told a judge that his client might be mentally ill. “He has indicated to me that he hears voices and has had some hallucinations,” said the attorney, Pierre Bazile.
Levi Aron, 35, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and kidnapping as prosecutors said he lured Leiby Kletzky to his home Monday after the little boy got lost while walking home from an Orthodox Jewish day camp. Video cameras captured the fateful encounter between the two on a Brooklyn street, while Leiby’s mother waited anxiously just a
few blocks away. Detectives later found the boy’s severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in the man’s freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives. At his arraignment Thursday afternoon, Aron appeared disheveled, confused and pale. He stayed quiet during the brief court proceeding. As he was led out of the see VOICES page 11
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Superior Court judge refuses to block implementation of pension system changes
CONCORD (AP) — A judge rejected a request from the New Hampshire Retirement System on Thursday to immediately block implementation of part of a new pension overhaul law but has set an October hearing on the case. Merrimack Superior Court Judge Richard McNamara said he was not convinced irreparable harm would occur if more time was taken to resolve the dispute over part of the law dealing with setting employer contribution rates. At issue is whether the Legislature or the system’s Board of Trustees controls the rates employers pay. The board voted last month to set new rates that will cost employers $50 million more each of the next two years than earlier rates used to build the state and local budgets. The Legislature voted to block the board’s action. Earlier Thursday, McNamara heard arguments in another lawsuit over the new law. A coalition representing New Hampshire public employees asked McNamara to stop the state from charging workers more for their pensions. The two issues are related. The employees’ higher contributions are intended to replace a subsidy the state paid to communities to cover part of their workers’ retirement costs. Lawmakers said the goal was to prevent spikes in
State gives go-ahead to wind farm in Groton
GROTON, N.H. (AP) — State regulators have given the go-ahead for construction of a 48-megawatt wind farm proposed for Groton. The state Site Evaluation Committee last week rejected an appeal by Groton and Rumney residents who wanted to stop the project and approved the proposal submitted by Groton Wind LLC, an arm of Spanish wind energy company Iberdrola Renewables. The proposal calls for a 48-megawatt wind farm that would be powered by 24, 400-foot turbines. Iberdrola constructed the state’s first wind farm in Lempster. An Iberdrola official tells The Concord Monitor barring further appeals, construction on the $100 million project will begin this fall and should be done by the end of next year. Residents opposed to the wind farm say it will lower property values and won’t produce as much energy as claimed.
local property taxes to pay rising retirement costs. The state also saved money under the new law by no longer subsidizing communities. McNamara asked both sides to make more legal arguments on the issue. He said he was not able to decide if the increase in rates — roughly 2 percent — met the legal test for the immediate relief the coalition had requested. The New Hampshire Retirement Security Coali-
tion, which comprises state and municipal employees, including teachers, police and firefighters, wants McNamara to stop the Legislature from interfering with the pension system board’s ability to set employers’ rates. In the coalition hearing, McNamara limited the discussion to the increase in employee contributions. Starting July 1, teachers, state and municipal see PENSION page 10
Lynch passes of chance to veto bill requiring 2 more years for teacher tenure CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire teachers who haven’t worked for their school district for three consecutive years as of July 1 will have to wait two more years to win tenure under a bill Gov. John Lynch has let become law without his signature. The bill also makes changes in the appeal process for teachers whose contracts are not renewed.
They first must appeal to the local school board. If not satisfied by the local board’s decision, they could either appeal to the state Board of Education or through the grievance process if one is in their union contract. They could no longer appeal through both avenues.
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Kennedy family said divided about what to do with famed Hyannis Port compound
Edelstein welcomes interim successor to LRCC campus Lakes Region Community College’s (LRCC) new interim president, Dr. Scott Kalicki (right), visits with LRCC retiring President Dr. Mark Edelstein. Kalicki will be spending a number of days with Edelstein before officially taking over the college’s leadership. Most recently Kalicki has served as vice president for student affairs at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. He has more than 30 years of experience in higher education administration. “Dr. Kalicki will be a tremendous asset to LRCC,” says Edelstein who is retiring after five years as LRCC president. “I feel certain that Scott will continue the growth and development of LRCC.” LRCC has grown by over 30-percent in the past five years. (Courtesy photo)
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HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) — For the Kennedys, the family compound has long been a place to relax, to celebrate and to grieve. Members of America’s most glamorous political dynasty played touch football on the lawn, walked the beach and sailed the sound. The cluster of whiteclapboard homes on Cape Cod served as the summer White House when Jack was president. It was there that the family retreated after his assassination. And it was there that Caroline held her wedding reception and Ted spent his final days. Now, as the Kennedys gather for another wedding there, the family is divided over the future of the compound. On Friday, Patrick Kennedy, a former eight-term congressman from Rhode Island and the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, will marry New Jersey schoolteacher Amy Petitgout in a small, private ceremony presided over by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. At the same time, the Kennedys are split over what is to become of this Camelot-by-the sea. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s widow, Vicki Kennedy, and his three children plan to transfer the main house at the compound to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, perhaps for use as a scholarly retreat or a museum. Some Kennedys have raised concerns about those plans, according to a family associate who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. They are worried about protecting the privacy of family members who will continue to live on the grounds, maintaining the overall character of the compound and ensuring access to the beachfront property, the family associate said. Family members are discussing the concerns in hopes of resolving the issue before the property
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They’re closing down ‘the 405’ for repair; what will L.A. do without its favorite freeway LOS ANGELES (AP) — The alarms have been sounded and the preparations have been made. Now, only two questions remain: Will “Carmageddon,” the shutdown of a 10-mile stretch of one of the busiest highways in the United States, on one of the city’s busiest of summer weekends, bring the City of the Angels to its knees? Or will this too come to pass, just like so many other predictions of the apocalypse? (Remember the Oakland radio preacher who just last spring put up billboards promising the world would end on May 21.) “Like Y2K,” Ashley Nazarian said dismissively, referring to the much-hyped worldwide computer data meltdown that never happened as the clock turned to Jan. 1, 2000. Nazarian, property manager for the Sherman Oaks Galleria, a mall that is located next to an exit on the affected stretch of the 405, might be worried from preceding page beach when I have a tough decision to make,” JFK once said. “The Cape is the one place I can think, and be alone.” The homes that make up the Kennedy compound are not open to the public. According to the National Park Service, the main house contains nearly twodozen rooms, including seven bedrooms for residents and guests and four rooms for servants. The basement holds a movie theater and sauna. The grounds feature an enclosed pool, a tennis court and a four-car garage. The Kennedys’ presence here began in 1926 when Joseph Kennedy Sr. and his wife, Rose, rented a summer cottage with sweeping ocean views. A few years later, the Kennedy patriarch purchased the property and expanded it to suit his growing family. Twenty years after that, JFK and his brother Robert expanded the family footprint when they bought homes nearby. Edward Kennedy made the main house his home for decades.
but she isn’t. Word that part of the freeway will be shut down for 53 hours beginning at midnight Friday has been spread so far and wide by now that she believes people will stay away. Still, the UCLA Health System, which runs the huge Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, is taking no chances. It has three helicopter companies on standby to transport patients and human organs in the event of emergency operations. It is laying in extra medical supplies and 5,200 boxed lunches for its staff. Dr. Wally Ghurabi will be sleeping in the hospital’s emergency room over the weekend rather than try to commute the 20 miles from his home to the hospital, located blocks from the 405. “You can’t take a chance when you deal with patient safety and patient care,” he said.
Ethel Kennedy, Robert’s widow, still keeps a house next to the main residence. The dense collection of white clapboard houses blends seamlessly into the wealthy neighborhood. Signs remind visitors that the compound is private, hidden largely away by fences, driveways and the green sea of Nantucket Sound. Still, sightseers try their best to spy a glimpse. “I’ve heard about it all my life,” said Sarah Buck of Mechanicsville, Va., who stopped by the compound Thursday with three friends. Buck, 29, was on the Cape for a friends’ wedding and wanted to see what she could of the Kennedy home. “They’re an American institution.” The best views of the compound are from the sea. And Hyannis Port boat operators are happy to oblige. “We used to carry 1,500 people a day or more in 60s and ‘70s,” said Murray Scudder, whose father helped found a tour boat business after JFK was elected president. “Now it’s a couple of hundred. It doesn’t have the cachet it once did.”
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Authorities, meanwhile, have been preparing the public for the closure for weeks. Signs on freeways as far away as San Francisco have been flashing the same message over and over: Stay off the 405 July 16-17. On Thursday, Facebook said it will direct about 6.6 million driving-age people in the greater Los Angeles area to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Facebook page detailing the latest traffic conditions this weekend. Numerous celebrities, including Tom Hanks, Piers Morgan and Maroon Five’s Adam Levine have joined the cause, taking to Twitter to get the message out. William Shatner, who as Capt. Kirk of “Star Trek” traveled in space where no man had gone before, indicated on Friday that he won’t be going anywhere near the 405. “LA friends, the 405 closes this weekend in what surely will be Carmageddon,” Shatner tweeted. Then, with a few more characters to burn before he reached Twitter’s 140 limit, added a plug for his forthcoming “Star Trek” documentary, “The Captains.” Transportation experts said Friday the publicity campaign seems to be working. They now predict that while there will likely be some backups on other freeways and on surface streets near the 405, the weekend shouldn’t end in massive gridlock. “It’s going to be fine, people had a lot of warning,” said Lisa Schweitzer, a professor of urban planning at the University of Southern California. Experts compared the shutdown to other big planned events, such as the 1984 summer Olympics, Los Angeles Lakers championship parades and Michael Jackson’s memorial service two years ago. The disastrous traffic jams predicted for each of those events never materialized. People knew to stay off the road. In fact, city residents marveled that, during the two weeks of the Olympics, traffic was actually much lighter than usual.
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We’re all Greeks now Departing for New Hampshire in November 2010, Sen. Judd Gregg, the fiscal conservative President Obama wanted in his Cabinet, blurted an inconvenient truth: “This nation is on a course where if we don’t do something about it, get ... fiscal policy (under control), we’re Greece.” The remark was regarded as hyperbole. But Gregg had a point. For though Greece, measured by the size of her economy, is only 2 to 3-percent of the EU or the U.S. economy, she is a microcosm of the West. Consider the demography. According to the most recent revision of the U.N.’s “World Population Prospects,” Greece in 2010 had 11.2-million people. More than 24-percent were 60 or above, more than 18-percent 65 or older. Three percent were 80 or above. And, every year, for every nine Greeks who are born, 10 Greeks die. Greece is slowly passing away. Fast forward to 2050. Greece’s population will have fallen by 300,000 to 10.8-million. The median age will have risen by eight years to 49.5. Half the population will be 50 or older. More critically, the share of Greece’s population 60 or older will be 37.4-percent, with 31.3-percent over 65. One in nine Greeks will be over 80. If Athens is breaking under the weight of early retirement and pensions for seniors today, her situation will be horrendous by mid-century. Where, in 2010, there were four Greeks under 60 for every Greek over 60, by 2050, there will only be 1.7 Greeks under 60 for every Greek over 60. Conclusion: The retirement age must rise, and pension benefits fall, or Greece collapses. What of the possibility of a new baby boom? Not likely, given that the fertility rate in Greece has been below replacement levels for three decades and is today only twothirds of that needed to replace the present population. Indeed, by 2050, the fertility rate of Greek women will have been below zero population growth for 80 years. One wonders: How can the U.N. estimate that Greece’s population will fall only 3-percent by then? Is the U.N. assuming mass immigration from the Muslim world? But what does Greece have to do with the rest of Europe, or with us? Only this. The median age of all of Europe is rising, and the demographic numbers for Greece look positively rosy alongside those of the east, where population declines in the tens of millions are projected for Russia and Ukraine. And outside Iceland and Albania, not one nation of Europe has a fertility rate sufficient to maintain its population. Those that are projected to grow,
like Britain, have to be relying on Third World immigrants and their higher birth rate. But while this may maintain an existing population size, immigrants from the Maghreb, Middle East, Caribbean, Latin America and South Asia, on average, lack the language, technical skills and educational levels of native-born Europeans. The same is true in the U.S., where peoples of European descent are expected to drop to half the population by 2041. Hispanics will grow from 15-percent to near 30-percent of the U.S. population, and their absolute numbers from 50-million to 135-million by 2050. Yet, again, Hispanics and children of Hispanic immigrants have not, as of yet, reached close to parity in educational achievement with Americans of East Asian or European ancestry. People equate today’s immigration with the immigration of 1890-1920. But another major difference is this: We erected a Great Society over 50 years that did not exist in 1920. In Washington in the 1950s, a city of 800,000, half black and half white, food stamps had not been invented. Families fed themselves. Today, in a District of Columbia of 600,000, one in five are on food stamps. Nationally, a program that did not exist in 1964 feeds one in seven Americans, 44-million people, at a cost of $77-billion a year. And that is but a small fraction of our new Great Society. We are entering a new “age of austerity,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron in 2009. The halcyon days are over. Government payrolls, as is happening from California to New York to Washington, D.C., will have to be slashed. Pension and health care benefits, not only for seniors, will have to be reduced. Retirement ages will have to be raised. From food stamps to foreign aid, programs are going to be capped and cut. The left believes it can get the money from the wealthy. But the top 1-percent of Americans in income already carry 40-percent of the federal income tax load, while the bottom 50-percent of wage-earners ride free. This, too, will have to end. We are either going to man up and radically reduce government at all levels in the United States, or the bond markets are going to do it for us, as they are doing it today for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. We’re all Greeks now. (Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. He won the New Hampshire Republican Primary in 1996.)
LETTERS I am ashamed and the doctors and landlords should be, too To the editor, I am writing this letter in regards to the recent deaths in the city that are attributed to prescription drugs. I am in no way a medical or mental health professional, so maybe no one would mind if I asked a couple of questions and hope for someone to respond. First of all, this drug called Fentanyl, who needs such a powerful pain killer? Secondly, isn’t one of the skills of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, etc., being able to diagnose the patient and have enough information to evaluate if the patient is able to use the prescription correctly, or forgive me for saying this, abusing it? Third, it seems that the majority of these deaths occur in subsidized housing (Is Section 8 politically correct anymore?) with the recipients also receiving social services, and again I apologize for being so cold, but probably receiving food, heat and other types of funded assistance. I wonder if they are also receiving “dual eligibility”, which means they receive benefits from multiple agencies. Now, there is nothing against making an honest living, after all this is America, for now. But does anyone see a correlation between the events that led up to the death of a human being. The recipients are on the federal health system, living in housing with suspect tenants coming and going all the time, requiring the services of the local law enforcement consistently for whatever disturbance,
and then also receiving social services as well. Something just doesn’t seem quite honest to me. Personally, I am ashamed and so should these doctors and landlords be, exploiting this system. I understand that we live in a “service community”, however, should the people on the system be living as well as the person who is working and paying into the system? To me, it seems like paying for your neighbor so that they don’t have to work, but you do. I recently had back surgery and lived with excruciating sciatica pain and suffered for the last eight years. Fortunately, I have a surgeon dedicated to helping people and not exploiting the system and I am back at work functioning at near full capacity. If I can do it, I know that other people can do it. As I was told, some if it is in your mind, you need to push forward. I am sure that any fairly educated person would agree with me that this seems to be a very costly situation to the taxpayers. Is there anyone else that sees this besides me? How do we get change brought about in a positive manner? We, as Americans, must get directly involved. I have begun to do this and would embrace the gathering of like-minded individuals. It can happen, but not by magical fairies overnight, it will take effort and time and honest hard work to get back to where we should be. Don’t give up just yet. Scott Kipreotis Laconia
VA provides immediate & confidential care in treatment of PTSD To the editor, In the professor’s article, “The Plight Of The Homeless Veteran”, I’d like to point out one sentence that may cause undue fear or question VA care for those troops, veterans or families who may have questions or concerns: “The VA has claimed that PTSD has no relationship to military service”! I am sure if you dig deep and hard enough looking for negative information you may find it BUT in this state the care, consideration and confidentiality in dealing with PTSD — or even the question of it — is beyond question. I ask those teterans, troops or family members to call the Vet Center at
question or concerns regarding the issue of PTS (Post Traumatic Stress) or PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The care is immediate and confidential. Here in N.H. you may call the Vet Center in Manchester at 6687060 or the VA Hospital and speak to Gale Rozek (624-4366) for direction. LRGHealthcare offers Healthlink/ VETLINK at 527-7171 at no cost and complete confidentiality to help any veteran, soldier or family member with guidance concerning any related issues. Faith, trust and truth are very much a part of these programs. Bob Jones Meredith
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Do Republicans think I really care that wealthy pay more taxes? To the editor, I found my self reading in your paper the so-called compromise concerning our crippling debt. Can you imagine, the so-called leaders of both parties, (Republican and Democratic) trying to reach a “compromise” with the most incompetent President since Carter. Don’t they know who got us in this mess? How about looking in the mirror. What gets me the most is that they are talking about “cutting “ Social Security and Medicare which are supposed to be “entitlements”. Maybe for the “ lazy” and for the lawyers, who are out to screw the system it is, but for the hard workers like myself, who, by the way paid in the most, it is a benefit we EARNED. Mr. Guinta and Mr. Bass DON’T GET IT. They are no better than the thieving Democrats they replaced — playing follow the leader and voting for these so-called cuts which they no nothing about. The problem is not Social Security,
a system that is sound and is in good financial shape, it is the wasteful spending that has been going on for years, the two wars that were not paid for, the tax cuts that were not paid for and the nine hundred generals at Foggy bottom(aka the Pentagon). What the hell do they do anyway, except make war? Does Mr. Guinta or Mr. Bass or Ms. Ayotte really think I care that the wealthy pay more taxes? Do I really care if Tom Brady, Tim Thomas, or David Ortiz (thanks John Kerry) and those other jock strap sniffers pay more in taxes? The answer is NO. I DON’T CARE. It is time for those three to get to work, think for themselves and do the RIGHT thing and reduce spending, waste and inefficiency. Eliminate tax loop holes and raise taxes in those that can afford it. It is time to get our country’s fiscal health in order Bill Knightly Gilford
GOP & Dems alike to blame for privatizing profits & socializing losses To the editor, In the paper this morning (June 14, I read an interesting letter sent in by Cathy Merwin titled: “Current U.S. tax set-up privatizes profits and socializes losses”. Great point Cathy, but you focused all your blame on Republicans, which is just a bit partisan of you. Look, be fair, Democrats have as much blame for our tax system as anyone else. This monstrosity has been an ongoing collusion between all the parties involved, politicians, business’s, unions from the very beginning. Otherwise the lady is right on. From the content of her letter it’s plain to see she is trying to make a political point but let me make a different one. As I have pointed out before in a couple of my letters, I believe the entire income tax system should be scraped and replaced with a consumption tax system also known as a sales tax. Removing income taxs from business will upset many Democrats who
have been taught that taxing the rich is the only fair way to go but consider this. When a tax is placed on a business that business does not pay the tax, you do, in the additional cost of the product or service which must be passed along. Another thing, the rich spend a great deal of time and money on tax attorneys, lobbyists, and others to manage ton avoid tax liabilities. That will never end as long as the current system stays in place no matter which party controls the government. As far as we the working people are concerned it would be in our best interest to join together, Republican, Democrat, or independent to call for the elimination of the system and to start over with a new fair system which makes all people pay their fair share and none be exempted because of wealth or privilege. Heck it might even have a positive effect on job creation and the economy. Steve Earle Hill
They want to cut Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security. This is nuts! To the editor, The government can reduce the debt. How you ask? Cut their damn pay and let them struggle like we Americans are struggling. Also, STOP taking anymore refugees in N.H. and other states. Then they bring their family here in the U.S.A. Then we give them food stamps and anything else they might need. Well what about us? If we need help we are turned down while illegals and others get everything. How can we survive when we are giving to all these others that are coming into our country by the dozen? ENOUGH already! If the stupid government would cut their spending and pay like us we just might be able to get out of the mess we are in. Such corruption! They care only for themselves and no one else. Why are we giving to other countries that hate us? Charity MUST begin at home. I am sick of the LIBERAL idiots that do not see the handwriting
they are also getting screwed by our wonderful government. They want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security? That is nuts! Start with closing the borders; no one else in at this point until we can get out of our own mess. By the way, GREED has done this. What is really going on in the U.S.A.? We are imploding within and Obama is helping with bringing this country DOWN! We will never get back on our feet unless we bring back morality and GOD into our lives. People, GOD is our creator in case you have forgotten which most have forgotten. People are paying taxes everywhere. Where is all that money going? It is given to the illegals getting all the free everything and certain ones sucking the system dry. Who is looking into all of them these days? That is one reason why we are going DOWN! DOWN! DOWN! Anna DeRose
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DEBT CEILING from page 2 A summary that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor prepared for the talks earlier in the week showed the bulk of cuts coming from day-to-day operating budgets of federal programs. Also included were as much as $245 billion from Medicare, including higher premiums for wealthier beneficiaries, and additional savings from skilled nursing homes and home health care. The summary indicated that federal workers would pay more for their pensions, agriculture sub-
sidies would be cut and food stamp spending would be restrained. The day’s events were shadowed by warnings from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon. Speaking separately, the two men admonished bickering lawmakers that failure to avoid an unprecedented default could have a devastating effect on an already anemic U.S. economy. Adding to the urgency, Moody’s Investor Service has announced it is reviewing America’s bond rating for
a possible downgrade, and there was growing concern overseas, too. A Chinese rating agency, Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., also advised of a possible downgrade, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said: “We hope that the U.S. government adopts a responsible policy to ensure the interests of the investors.” It was unclear when McConnell and Reid might unveil their legislation, or whether they would first present their ideas to Obama and others involved in the daily meetings at the White House. McConnell said the plans had not been discussed in depth at Thursday’s White House session, which lasted less than 90 minutes. One option under discussion by the Senate leaders is creation of a group of lawmakers who could recommend spending cuts, possibly including changes in benefit programs, that would be guaranteed a yes-or-no vote in Congress. Another would be to invite the House to add spending cuts to the legislation, to take effect as soon as Obama requested more borrowing authority, including some that have emerged in private talks led first by Vice President Joe Biden, and now by Obama. The seriousness of the situation was underscored throughout the day.
Testifying before a Senate panel, Bernanke said a default would deal a “selfinflicted wound” to the nation’s economy, driving up interest rates and slowing recovery from the deep recession. Dimon, speaking to reporters in New York, said default could prove catastrophic. “Why take that chance? I wouldn’t take that chance,” he said, answering his own rhetorical question. Obama met with congressional leaders at the White House for a fifth straight day, although press secretary Jay Carney cautioned not to expect a “hallelujah moment” when it was over. Talks have been stymied by a dispute over tax increases as part of any deal to cut future deficits. Obama and Democrats want them, while Republicans don’t. The concept under discussion by the Senate leaders is a more elaborate version of a plan McConnell suggested earlier in the week to a less-than-enthusiastic reception from conservatives. In his first substantive remarks on McConnell’s initial suggestion, Speaker John Boehner told reporters, “What may look like something less than optimal today, if we’re unable to get an agreement might look pretty good a few weeks from now.”
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LETTERS Our democracy ought to be ‘Pricele$$’, not something for sale To the editor, Granny D, born in Laconia, promoter of representative democracy, so deserves the tribute that January 24, 2012, is now officially Granny D Day, proclaimed by legislation and Gov. John Lynch signing to it in a Statehouse ceremony on Tuesday the 12th. On the eve of July 13 in Laconia (sponsored by Belknap County Democrats) and then on July 14 too at Red River Theatres in Concord, people got to see the movie “Pricele$$”. The movie’s theme is that our democracy ought to be priceless, not bought. As Granny D learned from talking to people along the way, at 10 miles a day walking 3200 miles across the U.S., people feel unrepresented in D.C. now, because our representatives are so engaged in raising their next campaign‘s money that constituents at home rank low in the scheme of a day‘s activities. When did this begin? One Congressman in “Pricele$$” says, “What would we do all day if lobbyists weren’t here to see us?” It made me think: too bad a
wall-mounted camera didn’t focus on representative doors in Congress, from 1945 to the present, and capture the foot-traffic, so we’d see what changed and when. Of course that leaves out phone calls and now e-mails, etc. We suffer an environmental cost, too, with special interest money steering our politics. Those images are strongly in the movie. Granny D’s outfit is named P.A.C.E. and supports clean elections. In the movie and headquartered in Concord is Dan Weeks and Americans for Campaign Reform (ACRreform. org). Dan is an excellent speaker for a group’s meeting. The film “Pricele$$” can be had from www.HabitatMedia.org, and comes in short versions appropriate for classroom use. After I witnessed the savvy children in the film saying what they want in their world, I thought: this country would be in good hands with these children leading. Bless them. Lynn Rudmin Chong Sanbornton
Clearly, the chicken farm is example of a great socialist society To the editor, The many contributors to the local papers include a number, like Leo Sandy, who clearly are socialists or even more “liberal”. We have a top U.S. industry which is the perfect example of a socialist environment: the chicken, eggs and meat business. The chickens never have to work, are
always well housed and protected from weather and predators, always well fed and medically cared for, and before undergoing the agonies and problems of aging, they become excellent food for others, the most noble attitude. Clearly that is the socialist society! Jack Stephenson Gilford
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raising employee rates or abolishing the system completely. Head said the state’s law establishing the retirement system does not create a contract protected by the constitution. McNamara asked him if his position was that someone could work for government for 20 years, pay into the system and then the state could abolish the system. Head replied that the state could eliminate the system at any time. Head later also said the state is free to change workers’ benefits. “I, as a state employee, can say it’s worth it to me or not worth it to me (to stay),” he said. The state and coalition also differ on when public employees are vested in the pension system. The new law treats employees as being vested at 10 years, but a New Hampshire court said employees are vested when they become permanent, generally at one year after a probationary period. Head said the issue is important if the court decides the retirement law does establish a contract with employees.
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Bartlett, Opechee Cove & Weirs beaches closed until further notice LACONIA — Parks & Recreation Department officials closed three city beaches on Thursday due to high levels of bacteria detected in the water. Bartlett (Lake Winnisquam), Opechee Cove (Lake Opechee) and Weirs Beach (Lake Winnipeaukee) have all been posted. The N.H. Department of Environmental Services (DES) will be taking more water quality tests on
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VOICES from page one courthouse holding cells, other inmates screamed obscenities at him. He was held without bail, placed on suicide watch and protective custody after his lawyers said they feared he could do harm to himself. Police and prosecutors said Aron, a clerk at a hardware supply store, has confessed to suffocating the boy with a bath towel, but they continued to work on verifying his horrific and bizarre explanation for the boy’s death. At the Kletzky household, his family also looked for answers, too. “Why?” asked Shmuel Eckstein, a close family friend, as the boy’s parents and four sisters sat and prayed. “We don’t have that ... What we know is that through Leiby’s death, God is sending us a huge signal — that we’re doing something terribly wrong.
And we’re looking for what it is.” He added that the family was not looking for retribution. “We’re not into revenge,” he said. At a news conference, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Aron told investigators that after taking Leiby off the street Monday, he brought the boy to a wedding in the suburb of Monsey, nearly 35 miles away, and spent several hours there. Other wedding guests confirmed Aron was there but didn’t see the boy, the commissioner added. By the time the pair returned to the city, it was so late that Aron decided to take Leiby to his home to sleep and left him there Tuesday while he went to work, according to the police version of the confession. Kelly said the hardware supply store consee next page
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BURGLARS from page one The most recent attempt is in a neighborhood previously targeted twice by burglars who, within the past two weeks, were able to get into three homes on Gale Avenue. Gale and Whipple run parallel to each other and stem from Pleasant Street. Both dead end at Lake Winnisquam but there are numerous side streets connecting them to potential areas of escape. To date, Adams verified there have been nine recent burglaries and two attempted burglaries in the city but he cannot confirm they are all related. With the exception of the one yesterday morning on Whipple, the one on Emerald Circle, and the two on Gale Street, all have been in the older neighborhoods in the city’s south end. A woman who lives across the street from the victim on Whipple Ave., who will not be identified, said the victim told her it appeared the burglar or burglars used a wood pallet that he or she leaned against the wall of the victims house and used it to get up to the kitchen window. She said the would-be thief used an item found in the yard to cut the window screen. She said the same item was used to grab the handles of what the burglar thought was a designer pocketbook but was really a lunch bucket. “They dumped it out of the counter,” she said. The neighbor said the victim realized what had happened when she woke yesterday morning and found some things on her sink top moved. The family has a dog but it was sleeping in the air-conditioned bedroom.
After seeing the screen, the neighbor said she called 9-1-1 and the police were there almost immediately. People in the neighborhood are “unsettled,” said the woman who lives across from where yesterday’s reported attempted burglary. “I don’t know what to think,” she said saying she has a motion-sensor light on her front porch and keeps all of her doors and windows locked at night. She said she is very concerned to know someone is entering houses when people are in them. “I’m so glad nothing happened to the woman on Emerald Drive,” she said. “Imagine how frightened she must have been.” Adams said police have been working round the clock to solve this latest string of burglaries and said there are a number of leads being followed. He also said yesterday the topic of the burglaries was discussed in this week’s police chiefs’ meeting and local police departments are exchanging information and leads. He said he was not in a position to comment about crime in anyone else’s town but police in Belmont reported last week that there have been a rash of thefts from vehicles and two vehicles stolen — one of which was recovered in Laconia. “This is our top priority,” he said noting that over the summer the department has used federal traffic and police grants to boost patrols, added bicycle patrols to many neighborhoods and added a detective to the night shift. On yesterday’s police log — that runs from 4 p.m. to 4 p.m. — police recorded suspicious activity see next page
from preceding page firmed that Aron showed up as usual that day. Aron told police he killed Leiby when he got home after being spooked by a massive search for the boy in Borough Park section of Brooklyn, home to one of the world’s largest communities of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel. Thousands of volunteers from the Hasidic community had assembled Monday evening to comb the streets, and the entire neighborhood was in a frenzy Tuesday over the lost child. Aron is Orthodox but not Hasidic. The Hasidim are ultra-Orthodox Jews. “When I saw the fliers, I panicked and was afraid,” Aron said, according to police. Investigators have said Leiby may have been tied up and tried to fight off his captor before he was killed. Kelly said Aron had scratches on his arms, wrists and elsewhere — a sign “there was some kind of struggle.” There also were marks on the boy’s remains that could have been caused by restraints, the commissioner added. A preliminary medical examination indicates Leiby was “smothered or suffocated,” but it remained unclear when that happened, Kelly said. The medical examiner’s office said further study was required.
The commissioner also confirmed reports that Aron had given a written confession in Leiby’s gruesome slaying that ended with, “I’m sorry for the hurt that I caused.” Beyond that, “he hasn’t expressed any remorse,” Kelly said. In his confession, Aron recounted how he dismembered the boy, put some of the body parts in a freezer and took a shower, police said. He then put some remains in a suitcase and drove around with it for 20 minutes before putting the suitcase in a trash bin. Aron has denied molesting the boy, but Kelly said police still consider that a possibility. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said investigators were looking at whether Aron might have had any improper contact with children in the past. Detectives were also examining three computers seized from his home, and searched the backyard. Officials said the killing stands out because there’s no clear motive. “It defies all logic and I think that’s what’s been so terribly disturbing about this case,” Commissioner Kelly said. “There’s absolutely no reason. There’s nothing more innocent than an 8-year-old child and to be killed in this matter is just heart breaking.”
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Laconia agency would very much like its sign back LACONIA — While someone was vandalizing the sign at police headquarters last weekend someone else was stealing the sign at Cornerbridge, a support center for those seeking to overcome mental illness, at 328 Union Avenue. Linda Lamontagne, program director at the center, said that when she left the center Friday afternoon, the sign was in place, hanging from the roof of the porch at the front of the white frame building next door to Laconia House of Pizza across the street from the high school. But, when she came to work Monday morning the sign was gone. Lamontagne said that the sign was hung from a pair of hooks by crimped metal eyelets. She suspected that whoever removed the sign used a strong pair of pliers or similar tool loosen the fasteners. The theft was reported to the police, who she said were not confident of recovering the sign. The center offers a variety of programs, without charge, seven days a week from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Lamontagne said that the center is staffed primarily by volunteers. Without the sign, she said that CLEMENS from page 2 was called on three more serious false-statements charges after jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict. Walton said he would hold a hearing Sept. 2 to decide whether Clemens should face another trial. Hardin told reporters, “I wouldn’t even hazard a guess” about what Walton will decide. Walton could end the prosecution by declaring that a new trial would run afoul of double jeopardy — the right not to be brought to trial twice on the same charges for the same offense. But experts said it was unlikely that he would go that far, especially since the trial was just under way. “Generally speaking, mistrial does not bar a trial of the defendant when the defendant requested the mistrial,” said Harry Sandick, a former prosecutor who now defends white-collar cases. He said a from preceding page between the hours of midnight and 8 a.m. on Davis Place, Highland and Fairview Streets, the Pleasant Street School, Bowman and Academy Streets, the Landmark Inn, Shore Drive, and Winter Street. Adams is still encouraging all town residents to lock their home and car doors and windows at night and to light the interior and exterior of their homes, if possible. He said anyone should report any suspicious activity immediately. “We are out there and we will catch these people,” he said. Anyone with any information about these or any other crimes is asked to call the Laconia Police at 524-5252 or the Great Laconia Crime Line at 5241717.
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from preceding page Clemens’ former teammate and close friend, Andy Pettitte, had told committee investigators that Clemens confessed in 1999 or 2000 that he used human growth hormone. Clemens has said Pettitte “misremembers” or “misheard” their conversation. Prosecutors had wanted to call Laura Pettitte as a witness to back up her husband’s account because she says her husband told her about the conversation the day it happened. But Walton had said Laura Pettitte’s statement wasn’t admissible since it didn’t involve direct knowledge of what Clemens said. In the video prosecutors showed the jury, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., referred to Pettitte’s conversation with his wife during the questioning of Clemens. Walton quickly cut off the tape and called attorneys to the bench for a private conversation for several minutes. The video remained frozen on the screen in front of jurors with a transcript of what was being said on the bottom. Cummings had been quoting from Laura Pettitte’s affidavit to the committee. “I, Laura Pettitte, do depose and state, in 1999 or 2000, Andy told me he had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Roger admitted to him using human growth hormones,” the text on the screen read. The judge eventually told the jurors to leave while he discussed the issue with attorneys in open court. Hardin asked for a mistrial, while prosecutors suggested the problem could be fixed with an instruction to the jury to disregard the evidence. Walton responded that they could never know what impact
the evidence would have during the jury’s deliberations. “I don’t see how I un-ring the bell,” he said. “Government counsel should have been more cautious,” Walton said, raising his voice and noting that the case had already cost a lot of taxpayer money. “I think that a first-year law student would know that you can’t bolster the credibility of one witness with clearly inadmissible evidence,” Walton said. He said it was the second time that prosecutors had gone against his orders. The other occurred during opening arguments Wednesday when assistant U.S. attorney Steven Durham said Pettitte and two other of Clemens’ New York teammates, Chuck Knoblauch and Mike Stanton, had used human growth hormone. Walton said in pre-trial hearings that such testimony could lead jurors to consider Clemens guilty by association. Clemens’ defense attorney objected when Durham made the statement Wednesday and Walton told jurors to disregard Durham’s comments about other players. Joshua Berman, a white collar defense lawyer who used to work with Durham and Butler when he was at the Justice Department, said both men have excellent reputations as ethical and responsible attorneys. “I think that mistakes get made, frankly, and they get made in every trial on both sides,” Berman said. “Unfortunately here you are on Day One of a very high-profile trial.”
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Award of nearly a million dollars in state tax credits will help fund relocation of Community Services to Federal Building CONCORD – Almost a million dollars of the $7.64-million that being awarded in the latest round of state tax credits is going to Lakes Region Community Services in Laconia. The awards come through the N. H. Community Development Finance Authority. A total of 21 projects from Keene to Berlin were funded in the current grouping, including three in Central New Hampshire. I had been announced on Wednesday that the committee attempting to turn the vacant Colonial Theater in Laconia into the Cultural Arts Center of the Lakes Region was the recipient of $625,000 in tax credits to sell. The Grafton County Economic Development Council received $500,000 in tax credits to help finance the creation of an 11,000-square-foot Enter-
prise Center that would serve as a new business incubator in Plymouth. The tax credits going to Lakes Region Community Services Council are to help fund the relocation of the agency from its current headquarters on the grounds of the former Laconia State School to the Federal Building in downtown Laconia. Receiving non-profit organizations can assign the tax credits to businesses that make donations to the causes and the businesses can then offset 75-percent of the value of their donations against amounts owed the state in Business Profits Tax, Business Enterprise Tax or Insurance Premium Tax. Firms may also claim the contribution as a deduction against federal income tax liability.
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SANDWICH — Owners of vintage cars from the local area won most of the prizes at the 5th annual Lakes Region Antique and Classic Car Show. Held at the Sandwich Fairgrounds here for first time, the event attracted 240 entries and was held under ideal conditions on a bright and sunny day and was attended by hundreds of spectators on Saturday. About the only major award which didn’t go to a locally-owned car was the Charter Trust Award which was won by Dick Rouse of Brandon, Vt., with a 1969 Chevy Impala two-door. Charter Trust Com- Grille, headlights and hood ornament of a 1931 Chrysler Imperial Dual Cowl Phaeton owned by David Huckpany, the largest locally- ins of Tilton, which won first place in the Chrysler category. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun) owned investment management company in Northern New England Best foreign car was won by Rudy Kreuger of and is owned by Meredith Village Savings Bank and Wolfeboro with a 1959 MG MG-A, followed by Josh the Lake Sunapee Bank, is the show’s main sponsor. Bartlett of Moultonborough with a 1969 Jaguar E Best of the Show, which was decided by poputype. David Cox of Sandwich was third with a 1930 lar vote of participants and spectators, was a 1931 Austin 7 Ulster. Auburn 989A owned by David and Irene Ladd of A catch-all category called Other saw Kurt AnderMelvin Village. son of Gilford win with his 1932 Duesenberg II, Best Ford winner was Donald Jordan of Alton followed by Dennis Franciosi of Laconia with his with a 1942 Lincoln Continental convertible with home-built 1934 Schafer Victory Special. Third place Jim Garden of Meredith taking second with a 1965 went to David and Irene Ladd of Melvin Village for Cobra Roadster. Jonathan James of Meredith was their 1931 Auburn 989A. third with a 1941 Ford pickup truck. Traveling the furthest distance to the show was Best General Motors was a 1957 Buick Century Polly Walton of Sausalito, California, who entered a owned by Frank and Cathy Sweeney of Belmont, Jensen Interceptor in the show. followed by Jerry Cote of Barrington with a 1968 Winner of the 50-50 raffle was Steve Jenness of Pontiac GTO and Ed Sarno of Malden, Mass., with a Northfield. 1971 Chevy Chevelle. Participants liked the new and spacious venue at Patrick Curran of Meredith won first in the comthe Sandwich Fairgrounds rounds and said it was mercial category with a 1937 Studebaker truck much easier on their cars than the previous location which hauled a Studebaker race car. Second place at Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough. went to a 1911 Stoddard-Dayton wagon owned by “We used to sit in traffic on a steep incline for half Jack and Pat Armstrong of Meredith while Ryan an hour or more and a lot of cars overheated and Thibeault of Strafford was third with a 1928 Ford their radiators boiled over,’’ said David Huckins, Model A Huckster. who brought four Chryslers to this year’s show. David Huckins of Tilton swept the Chrysler cat“I didn’t realize how much space there was here egory with his 1931 Chrysler Imperial dual cowl until I saw the fairgrounds without the tents and Phaeton taking first, followed by his 1931 Chrysler rides set up,’’ said Bob Swett of Meredith, who along Imperial Roadster and his 1933 Chrysler Imperial with his wife, Elsie, brought their 1940 Ford Deluxe Roadster. Coupe to the show.
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Program on Tom Plant’s Balk Peak Club on Tuesday MOULTONBOROUGH — The Moultonborough Heritage Commission (MHC) will present the program “Not Alone in the Wilderness: Tom Plant’s Bald Peak Club” at the Public Library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19. Cristina Ashjian, chair of the MHC, will speak on the early history, landscape, and architecture of Tom Plant’s Bald Peak Country Club, developed in 1919 — 1920 as part of his Lucknow estate (today the Castle in the Clouds). A graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC, Ashjian holds an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and a PhD in 20th Century Art and Architecture from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has lectured previously on
the Castle in the Clouds and is the author of the feature article on the Plant estate titled “New England Arts & Crafts Architecture: Living in Harmony with Nature” published in the Summer 2007 issue of Classic Country Life magazine. This is the third season of Community Landmarks Series events, which focus attention on landmark buildings and sites in the Town. In May 2011, the MHC received a Preservation Achievement Award for exemplary work in education and planning, which is now on display at the Town Hall. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Library at 476-8895 or visit www.moultonboroughnh.gov or www.moultonboroughlibrary.org.
MEREDITH — Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) and the Laconia Area Community Land Trust (LACLT) HomeBuyer Resource Center will present a free seminar about the home-buying process at the MVSB Laconia branch from 8 a.m. — 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 23. The seminar is a practical guide to buying a home. Issues to be covered will include budgeting and financial management, credit and credit reports, shopping for a home, getting a mortgage, home inspections, special financing programs, and more. Participants will receive the “Realizing the Ameri-
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Association officials encourage all parents and children to attend and meet the coaches. Football players will receive equipment needed for the season. For those of you would like to sign up and have not we will be taking registrations as well.
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LACONIA — WOW Fest ’11, presented by Laconia Savings Bank (LSB), will be hosted at the Athletic & Swim Club from 11 a.m. — 2 p.m. on September 17. WOW Fest is a funfilled event featuring a variety of recreational events including a walk, 5K and 10K road races, and 15-mile and 67-mile bicycle challenges. All events conclude at LASC where a BBQ lunch and live music with the Crunchy Western Boys. “Laconia Savings Bank is proud to support the WOW Trail and the WOW Fest Event,” explained LSB President and CEO Mark Primeau. “This is an exciting event that encourages all of us to get out and participate in any one of the five Laconia Savings Bank President and CEO Mark Primeau and WOW Fest Event Director Jennifer Beetle events while supporting show off the WOW Fest ‘11 event shirt that each participant will receive and a WOW Trail sweatshirt this worthy project. We that can be earned by fundraising for the WOW Trail. Laconia Savings Bank is the presenting sponsor believe the WOW Trail of the event, which will be held on Saturday, September 17. (Courtesy photo) contributes to the health and vibrancy of our community and we support its’ activities and BBQ take place. It’s a very fun time.” continued growth”. Participants who would like to help raise money for WOW Fest is another important fundraiser for the The WOW Trail are invited to do so by soliciting sponsorship donations. As a special incentive, participants WOW Trail, which has completed the first 1.1 mile who raise $100 will receive a WOW Fest sweatshirt; segment of the trail connecting Lakeport to downraise $250 and receive a WOW Fest Jacket; raise $500 town Laconia. Fundraising for Phase II of the trail and receive the WOW Fest jacket and a $100 gift ceris in process, which will extend the trail from downtificate to any participating sponsor, include LASC, town Laconia to the planned Belmont trail. In addiPatrick’s, MC Cycle, T Bones/Cactus Jack’s, Fratello’s, tion to raising funds for construction of Phase II, the Piche’s Ski & Sport or O Steak & Seafood. Donations WOW Trail group has established a maintenance can be turned in at the event. fund to assist the city of Laconia with trail upkeep Teams are encouraged to compete for bragging and maintenance. rights, including the team with most participants, All WOW Fest events include an event shirt for those the team that is ‘best dressed,’ the team that raises registered before September 6, the BBQ luncheon, live the most money, and the teams with the fastest 5K music, entertainment, and kids’ activities. and 10K finishers. “This is a really great event that will appeal to Details of these events and on-line registration are the entire community,” said Tom Oakley, owner of available at www.wowtrail.org. Registration forms LASC and WOW Trail Board Member. “We’ve got are also available at LASC, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, five great events for people to get out and get some and the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. For exercise and have some fun, with everyone returnmore information, email at info@wowtrail.org. ing to the club around lunchtime where the festival
Lakes Region Tea Party to meet in M’borough on July 20 MOULTONBOROUGH — The Lakes Region Tea Party will meet at the Life Safety Building in the Fire Department/Police Department complex at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20.
The main topic for the evening will be a discussion about the “Right to Work” legislation at the state level. All interested people are invited to attend.
Town of Sanbornton request for proposals for Auditing Services The Town of Sanbornton is soliciting proposals from qualified firms of certified public accountants to audit the Sanbornton’s financial statements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, with the option of auditing the Sanbornton’s financial statements for the next three subsequent fiscal years. Audit firms should submit their bids by August 10, 2011 before 12:00 p.m. All questions and correspondence should be directed to Bob Veloski, the Town Administrator in writing at the above address or by calling 603-286-8303.
CITY OF LACONIA BICYCLE AUCTION FRIDAY EVENING at 6:00pm, July 15, 2011 RAIN OR SHINE The City of Laconia’s Annual Bicycle Auction will be held at 6:00 pm Friday evening, July 15, 2011, at the City of Laconia Police Station Carport located at 126 New Salem St. in Laconia. Items will be available for viewing at 5:45 pm. We urge anyone missing a bicycle to be present at this viewing. Items will be sold on a cash basis. There are OVER 30 BICYCLES to be auctioned along with various other items (TV, cameras, snowboard, etc.) AUCTIONEER: Michael G. Little
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38th Laconia Farmers’ Market. Every Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon in the City Hall parking lot. www. laconiafarmersmarket.com Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the firstfloor conference room. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518. Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton. 4:30 to 6 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at mark@trinitytilton.org. Free clothing ministry, Closet 2 Closet. Open the 3rd Saturday of every month. 1 to 4 p.m. at Calvary Assembly of God, 100 Calvary St., Laconia. 524-7559. Craft Day at the Meredith Public Library. 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Explore world crafts and make a project to take home. For children of all ages with no sign-up.
SATURDAY, JULY 16 continued from page 21 Children’s Author Fair at Bayswater Book Co. in Center Harbor. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Featuring Karel Hayes, Andy Opel, Marty Kelly and Jaime Hogan. Face painting , children’s dumming and balloons. Free outdoor concert at the Winnipesaukee Marketplace at Weirs Beach. 7 to 10. Brook Young (rock). Adult comedy night at the Flying Monkey Movie House & Performance Center in Plymouth to benefit the Plymouth Call Fire Department. 7:30 p.m. Featuring the hilarious Bucky Lewis. $20. Man of La Mancha at Interlakes Summer Theatre in Meredith. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $30. For tickets call 1-888-245-6374. InterlakesTheatre.com Huge yard sale hosted by the Gilmanton Community Church Pantry & Thrift Show in GIW. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Craft Fair at the Laconia Senior Center. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Refreshments and some baked items will be available as well. Call 524-7689 for more information or directions. Loon Festival hosted by Preservation Committee at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information visit ww.loon.org. Opechee Garden Club’s 15th Annual Garden Tour “Gardening For All Ages”. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Self-guided tour of seven selected Lakes Region gardens. $20 tickets includes luncheon served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tour day tickets available in the morning at the Laconia Public Library and all day at the Gilford Public Library. Or call 5200578 or 731-9810. Summer Fair hosted by the Women’s Fellowship of the First Congregational Church in Meredith. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tables of home-baked goods, crafts and household items for sale. Live music, hot dogs, cold drinks, etc. Book and Bake Sale hosted by the Gilmanton Iron Works Library. 9:30 a.m. to noon. Meat bingo at American Legion Post 33 in Meredith. 3 p.m. Public welcome. 22nd Annual Craft Fair at Alton Bay. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Community House and along the waterfront. Free admission. Rain or shine. 6th Annual Community Fun Fair on Main Street, the Common and the amphitheater in Plymouth. Noon to 5 p.m. Free admission and $5 will cover the price of food. Blueberry pie-eating contest, pony rides, hula hoop contests, water balloon wars, greased pole competitions, 100seat musical chairs, foam field, etc. Shakespear’s “The Tempest” at the Winnipseaukee Playhouse at Weirs Beach. 7:30 p.m. Tickets at 366-7377. www.winniplayhouse.org Neil Simon comedy “Rumors” on stage at the Grange Hall in East Andover. 7:30 p.m. A production of Halfway to Broadway. 17+ $12 at the door, or call 998-4828. Lakes Region Lyme Disease Support Group meeting. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Laconia Middle School. For more information call Nancy at 1-888-596-5698 or write info@ Lyme411.org.
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MVSB hosting ‘Food Lover’s Tour of Boston’ on September 10 MEREDITH — Food lovers will get a taste of Beantown’s best when they join Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) for a “Food Lover’s Tour of Boston” on Saturday, September 10. Reservations are now being accepted for the tasty tour, which
will begin in Boston’s North End, the center for Italian culture and cuisine and one of the most colorful, vibrant, urban neighborhoods in America. As participants visit the many colorful Italian markets and shops, their guide will share details on the local food and culture. Foodies will also have
the opportunity to stop at an Italian bakery for a tasty treat before leaving this vibrant neighborhood. The gastronomic adventure will continue at the city’s historic open-air fruit and vegetable market, Haymarket Square, which has offered “the freshest of produce at half the price” since it opened in 1830. Afterwards, participants may enjoy lunch on their own at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, with 14 restaurants and more than 36 international food vendors to choose from inside the Quincy Market Colonnade. After lunch, the tour will head over to Chinatown for a unique variety of Asian history and cuisine. Attendees will learn about Chinese Moon Cakes, Bubble Tea, medicinal herbs, spices of the Orient, and more. Another tour highlight will include
indulging in chocolate samples from Phillips Candy House, Boston’s oldest chocolatier. Making fine chocolates since 1925, Phillips continues to make artisan chocolates and other confections by hand and in small batches, using only the finest and freshest ingredients. Finally, participants will learn to make the perfect New England clam chowder at Boston’s Freeport Tavern — and savor an included dinner afterwards. Every year, MVSB partners with Rick and Wanda Bogin of Plymouth Travel to host a number of motor coach tours and other trips to exciting destinations and cultural events. To reserve a spot or get more details about the “Food Lovers Tour of Boston,” visit www.mvsb.com/travel, call Plymouth Travel at 536-2403, or MVSB at 528-1500.
Gilford Rec sponsoring workshop on advanced robotics for 7 to 12-year-olds on August 15 &16 GILFORD — The Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor a workshop in advanced robotics through Sciensational Workshops for Kids Inc. at the Elementary School from 9 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. on Monday, August 15 and Tuesday, August 16. “Advanced Robotics — The Ultimate Experience!” is open to children 7 — 12 years old, who will build and take home the Jungle Robot, an advanced level robot. Participants will get to
see and learn how different types of gears mesh and are driven by a motor. They’ll connect the motor, battery, and microphone to a circuit board, which will program their sound activated (clap of the hand) robot. Cost is $132 per participant. Registration is taking place at the Gilford Parks and Recreation office and forms are also available at www.gilfordrec. com. For more information, call 5274722.
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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Sanbornton Old Home Days - Sanbornton Square. Friday through Sunday. Farmers Market, library Arts & Crafts Show, Lane Tavern Tours, All 3-6 p.m. See www.sanborntonnh.org for detailed information. Shakespear’s “The Tempest” at the Winnipseaukee Playhouse at Weirs Beach. 7:30 p.m. Tickets at 366-7377. www.winniplayhouse.org Neil Simon comedy “Rumors” on stage at the Grange Hall in East Andover. 7:30 p.m. A production of Halfway to Broadway. 17+ $12 at the door, or call 998-4828. New Hampshire Music Festival Classic Series Joyous Memories. 8 p.m. at the Gilford High School Auditorium. For tickets call 279-3300 or order online at www. nhmf.org. Heifetz International Music Institute concert at Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough. 6 p.m. Featuring talented young musicians from the school. $20 donation requested. Funds raised will be applied to restoration work by the Castle Preservation Society. Free outdoor concert at the Winnipesaukee Marketplace at Weirs Beach. 7 to 10. Jonathan Sarty (country). Man of La Mancha at Interlakes Summer Theatre in Meredith. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $30. For tickets call 1-888-245-6374. InterlakesTheatre.com Tales of Tails - A family program to learn about the ways N.H. animals use their tails. 10 a.m. at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. $7/member; $9/per non-member. Reservations and advance payment required. Call 968-7194 to register. www.nhnature.org. Loon cruise hosted by the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. 3 p.m. $20/member, $22/ member. Reservations and advance payment required. 968-7194. www.nhnature.org. Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 9:30 to 11 a.m. each Friday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518. Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741. Sanbornton Farmers’ Market. 3 to 6 p.m. every Friday through Oct. 7 at 520 Sanborn Road (Rte. 132) in Sanbornton Square. Noon-time concert on the Common in Plymouth. Hosted each Friday by the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce. Don Saviano plays the blues. Rainbow Trails Tot Time at the Meredith Public Library. 9:30 to 10:20 a.m. Songs, crafts and fun for toddlers 1-3. Explore colors. Sign-up is helpful. Drop-in Storytime at the Gilford Public Library. 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Stories and songs to help foster early literacy skills. Everyone is welcome. Knit Wits gathering at the Gilford Public Library. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. All knitters welcome.
SATURDAY, JULY 16 Sanbornton Old Home Days - Sanbornton Square. Friday through Sunday. Pancake breakfast, Parade at 11 a.m., live local music and Larry Frates magic show, food, games and family fun and town field on Meetinghouse Hill Road. See www.sanborntonnh.org for detailed information. Sanbornton Historical Society Old Home Day Breakfast. 8 to 11 a.m. at Lane Tavern in Sanbornton Square. 4th Annual Gilmanton Year-Round Library Garden Tour, featuring special guest Roger Swain, host of TV’s “The Victory Garden”. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit the Chichester gardens of Gordon and Patty Humphrey. $35 per person. For more information e-mail jdickey@metrocast.net or susan. barr75@gmail.com.
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ANNIE’S MAILBOX
Dear Annie: I need advice on what to do about my niece. She is 39 and has no relationship with her mother (my sister). About 20 years ago, this niece confided to me that she had had an abortion. I respected her confidentiality and kept the information private. I never again discussed this incident with my niece, until the other day when I mentioned it to her. She immediately denied that she had ever said such a thing. I told her I remember the conversation vividly. She claims I must be confused. But I have never mixed up conversations and recollections in my entire life. In attempting to get her to open up again, I proceeded to tell her that I had had an abortion, as well. My niece has recently become a born-again Christian, so I thought that might be why she is denying this unfortunate experience. The problem is, I feel my relationship with her has changed. I now view her as a liar. I am contemplating ending contact and telling her I am doing so because I believe she had an abortion and is lying to me. What should I do? -- Unhappy Aunt Dear Unhappy: There are many possibilities to explain your niece’s reaction -- she may have lied about having the abortion when she was 19, you may have misunderstood the original conversation, or, more likely, she wants the entire experience to disappear. If she had an abortion, it must have been enormously difficult for her, and her current beliefs would undoubtedly make it a shameful part of her life. We cannot imagine what prompted you to bring up the subject, or why you felt it necessary that she admit something that obviously made her uncomfortable. This was a painful and very private experience that does not concern you. Please let her deal with her past in her own way. Dear Annie: I’m in junior high, and I have a serious prob-
lem. I’m terrified of the future. I’m always worrying about what high school will be like and which college I’ll attend. Lately, I have been going nuts about paying for some future mortgage for a home I don’t even have yet. The worst part is, I can’t stay focused in school. I miss hearing directions because I’m too busy worrying about something else. What can I do to take my mind off these things until I really need to think about them? -- Worried Wanda Dear Wanda: It is not unusual to daydream about your future choices, but you seem to focus on the negative aspects and get stuck there. Try developing some relaxation techniques to de-stress. Make sure to get sufficient nutrition and exercise during the day. Talk to your friends about what worries you. When school starts in the fall, if you are still having difficulty concentrating, discuss this with your parents, and make an appointment with your school counselor. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Going Crazy,” whose brother “Kyle” is bipolar and schizophrenic and still living at home with their father. I was disappointed that she felt it necessary to say that Kyle was adopted as an infant. Being adopted has nothing to do with Kyle’s mental health diagnoses, and the mention of it only serves to reinforce in many folks’ minds that adoption is for “damaged” kids. As an adoptee and future adoptive parent, I have heard such comments from people my entire life. Please don’t allow your readers to perpetuate such stereotypes. -- Jamestown, N.C. Dear Jamestown: The fact that Kyle was adopted has nothing to do with his mental health issues, and we certainly would not want to give the impression that it did. We included it because it seemed to mean something to the writer and underscored the gulf between them.
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Animals
Autos
BOATS
Employment Wanted
LOST: Persian/Angora Cream Colored Cat, Batchelder St area in Laconia. “Boots”, missing since 7/5/11. 527-8154.
2005 FORD-XLT truck- 5.4L super crew cab; 4x4, 5-1/2 ft. bed, lined; 51K/miles. Reduced to $17,000. 253-3120 or 707-2435
1984 Wellcraft 19.5 ft. I/O 5.7 350 HP. New engine & new upholstery. In water. $3,000. 603-630-2440.
COMPASSIONATE LNA/Care Giver. 30 years experience. Great references. Will travel, do overnight. 603-875-1232
THE DOG WASH WAGGIN! A full-service mobile grooming salon. Easy, convenient, time-saving! Call 603-651-9016.
BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.
1985 Formula 242LS twin 350s, 95% restored, must see, must sell, health issues. $11,400. 293-4129.
EXPERIENCED housecleaner. Available evenings after 4pm. Impeccable work. 998-2601.
Autos 1966 Red Mustang Convertible 6-cylinder automatic. Very good condition. $12,900. 934-6713 1988 Chrsyler LeBaron Converti ble: 30MPG Highway, 2.2 Turbo, needs brakes, $500. 455-9248. 1998 Toyota RAV4: Automatic, silver/gray interior, excellent shape, 156k miles, $4,995. Call (603)930-5222. 1999 Chrysler Town & Country van, 116k mi, asking $3,500. 387-3895
CASH FOR junk cars & trucks.
Top Dollar Paid. Available 7 days a week. 630-3606 CASH paid for unwanted or junk cars and trucks. Same day service possible. 603-231-2859. TOP Dollar Paid- $150 and up for unwanted & junk vehicles. Call 934-4813
BOATS 15 Foot Flat Back Canoe Trailer with motor and accessories. $500. Call 528-0613
2001 FORD Explorer sport utility 4D, 71k miles. 476-5017
1984 24 ft. Pontoon. 2006 40 HP Honda motor $5,000/OBO. 528-1580
2006 Mazda 3 4-door- 127K Miles, standard, good mileage. $8,900. 934-6713
1990 Penn-Yan 18! Inboard/Out board w/Trailer, $3,995. Call 455-6633.
1994 23! Cuddy by Thundercraft, 260hp, with trailer, runs excellent, must see! $6,495. Call (603)930-5222. BOAT SLIP 2011 Seasonal rental$2,500 Now through October. Spinnaker Cove Yacht Club. 31 ft. x 8.5 beam. For amentities see http://spinnakercoveyachtclub.com Call (603) 770-8531. BOAT SLIPS For Rent At the Winnipesaukee Pier Weirs Beach, NH Reasonable rents installments payments for the season. Call 366-4311. CANOE 12 foot by White/ Old Town, light weight, $300. 476-5017 CRUISE Lake Winnipesaukee. Go to www.cruiseNH.com/LDS to get a coupon for the MOUNT. O!DAY 192 Sailboat. Mainsail, jib w/furler. 4-HP Mariner, trailer. Ready to sail. 279-6761 After 5 QUALITY Boat Lift- 10,000 lb. capacity remote operated Alum-A-Vator. Commercial rated. 25% off retail. Could install. 524-5954 Sylvan 14 ft. aluminum boat with 9.8 HP Mercury outboard motor and tilt trailer. $1,500. 476-5109
Camps GILFORD: Camping and/or RV sites available beginning May 31st. Ask about weekly & monthly specials. Also available for seasonal use and/ or weekend use. Ask about our weekly & monthly specials! Call
Man Seeking work for Drywall, Plastering, Carpentry/Decking. 20 years experience in masonry/ brick paving. Cheap rates. Call 524-6694
For Rent A STUDIO in Tilton, town parking $15/year, updated, close to everything/ park. $560/ month. 916-214-7733. ADORABLE cottage in Meredith, 1 BR, study, large living room, kitchen and great screened porch. No dogs. Refs req!d. $850 month +utilities. 279-6463. ALEXANDRIA Bristol line, quiet 3BR, laundry hookup, parking, new appliances. $900 a month. 707-7864 APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 40 years in rentals. We treat you better! 524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laconia. ATTRACTIVE Large 3-room apartment. Waterfront beach between Laconia & Meredith. Partially furnished, washer/dryer hook-up. Available September 1st. References, no pets. $925/Month. 527-1086 BELMONT at the Bypass, 2 bedroom, outstanding screened porch, basement storage, $850 plus utilities security and references. 630-1296. BELMONT: 2-Bedroom, quiet area, big yard. Heat included, $225/week. All housing certificates accepted. 267-0545. CLEAN UPDATED 1-bedroom and studio apartments in Tilton. Heat/Hot Water included. $560-$660/Month. No pets.
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BELMONT: Two 2-bedroom apartments in newer building with coin-op laundry and storage space in basement, $220 and $235/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234.
LACONIA 2 bedroom across from Opechee Beach. Clean, quiet year-round $695/month + utilities 524-4911
BILLBOARD (8 x 16 ) Route 106, Belmont. Advertise your business. $300/mo. Call 267-1955 CENTER Harbor-one bedroom guest house.Very private -walk to market and post office-very serene setting-$875 includes ultilities. No pets, no smoking, no drama. 387-6774
COZY, SUNNY, VERY CLEAN
LACONIA 3 bedroom. Clean, quiet, new carpet, near park. Short walk to town and schools. $1,100 Heat & hot water included. Call 524-0703 Laconia 3-4 Bedroom. Huge enclosed porch, washer/dryer hook-up. No pets. First + Security. $1,000/Month. 387-6810 LACONIA 3-bedroom, private drive & deck. Laundry, new heat, no pets/smoking, $900/Month + utilities. 528-1580
2 Bedroom apartment in duplex next to Opechee Park. Washer & Dryer provided. $800/Mo. Heat Included
LACONIA Large 2-bedroom on quiet dead-end street near Paugus Bay. $900/Month. All utilities included, Call 527-8363. No pets.
738-2296 or 528-4450
LACONIA- Large studio apartment in clean-quiet downtown building. Nicely renovated. $175/Week includes Heat/Hot Water/Electricity. 524-3892 or 630-4771
FRANKLIN: Quiet modern 2BR w/carport. 1st-floor, starting at $765/Month, includes heat/hot water. Security deposit & references required. No pets. 286-4845. GILFORD 2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 2 balconies, views, fireplace. $1,015/Month. no smoking. Available September 1st. 603-770-3069
LACONIA- SPACIOUS, in-town 2-bedroom. Garage, laundry hook-ups, porch. No pets. $700/Month + Utilities. 455-0874. LACONIA-1 Bedroom, $750/month, utilities included. No Pets. Call GCE @ 267- 8023
GILFORD: 2 and 3-bedroom unit from $250/Week With Heat & utilities. Pets considered. Security/References. 556-7098
LACONIA: 1 bedroom, 2nd floor, near hospital. $190/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234
GILFORD: Efficiency, convenient location, ground floor, utilites included. $640/month. No smokers. No pets. 293-4081.
LACONIA: 1BR, large rooms, includes w/d, heat and lights. Meredith Center Road. $700/month. (603)556-3146.
GILMANTON3-bedroom 1.5-bath on small horse farm. Affordable rent. $1,400/Month, all utilities included. First & last. No smoking/pets. 848-2907
Laconia: Efficiency apartment. $135/week, utilitiess included, parking, close to downtown. Security deposit & references required. No dogs 524-4428
LACONIA -Beautiful large 1-bedroom in one of Pleasant Street!s finest Victorian homes. 2 porches, fireplace, and lots of natural wood work. Washer/dryer. Heat & Hot Water Included. $895/Month 528-6885
LACONIA: 1BR, new carpets, parking, no pets, $150/ week + utilities, security, Sec 8, 387-6810. LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments. Call for available apartments. 524-4428
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LEDGEWOOD ESTATES • Spacious units with a lot of storage area • Low utility costs • On-Site Laundry & Parking • Easy access to I-93 • 24-hour maintenance provided • 2 bedrooms with a 2 person minimum per unit. Ask about our Referral Bonus Rent is based upon 30% of your adjusted income. Hurry and call today to see if you qualify, or download an application at:
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For Rent Laconia: large 3-bedroom. 1st floor. Washer/Dryer hook-up, parking, $900 per month, pay own utilities, gas heat & hot water. References & security deposit required. No dogs. 524-4428 Laconia: Studio apartment. $130/week, utilities included, parking. Security deposit & references required. No dogs. 524-4428 LACONIA: 1-2 Bedrooms starting at $150/Week. Most include Heat/Hot Water & Electric. No dogs. 496-8667 or 545-9510. Meredith 3-bedroom mobile home and 2 bedroom apartments $750-$800/month + utilities. Close to downtown. No dogs. 279-5846 Meredith-Two bedroom, 1st floor unit near shore with great view of lake and Meredith. Refrigerator, stove, modern bath, laundry hook-up, heated, huge deck, no pets, no smoking. 1-year lease. $995/Month + security. 603-622-1940 MOULTONBORO-SPACIOUS recently remodeled 2-bedroom 2-bath home in Suissevale. Economical heating, additional room for office or den. Garage, washer/dryer. References, employment & credit history required. $1,100/Month. Available August 15th. Call 757-876-9559 Nice 2BR duplex in the Weirs $900/Month. Heat/hot water included. Call 279-3141. nsavoieinc@metrocast.net
NORTHFIELD Are you tired of living in run down, dirty housing, then call us we have the absolute best, spotlessly clean and everything works. We include heat & hot water and all appliances, Townhouses & apartments, in Northfield one block from I-93 Call 630-3700 for affordable Clean living. NORTHFIELD: 3 bedroom trailer in small park with coin-op laundry on site, $235/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234. NORTHFIELD: Large 1 bedroom apartment on 1st floor with separate entrance & direct access to basement with coin-op laundry. $210/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234. NORTHFIELD: Two 2 bedroom apartments available, all with coin-op laundry available, $220/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234. TILTON Main St. 1 bedroom apartment $650 per month. Hea included. 393-7935. TILTON/LOCHMERE-2 bedroom duplex with garage underneath. $850/Month + utilities. No smoking. No pets. Call 527-6283 TILTON: 1 bedroom, 1st floor, $195/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234 WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency apartment and a cottage including heat, hot water and lights. No pets. $150-$185/week. $400 deposit. 387-3864.
For Rent-Commercial
STOREFRONT Lakeport: Downtown Laconia: Main St. $750/month
Call 524-4428 For more Information
For Sale 2007 Royal 20 ft. trailer. White/Covered/Shelved inside w/work bench. $4,500. 603-630-3705 2008 Motorcycle, 150 4-stroke, automatic, 80 MPG. $900. 340-7066. AMAZING! Beautiful pillowtop matress sets, twin $169, full or queen $249, king $399. See AD under “Furniture”. BABY ITEMS- Jogger stroller $50, High chair $15, Blue Plaid Rocking Chair $15, Desk $15, Small picnic Table $10, Swing $15, Pack-n-Play $15, Crib Mattress $10. 524-6455 CHIPPER-SHREDDERWorks great, $150. 2 dorm-size refrigerators. Work great-look rough. $25/each. firm. 1 Southern States Reartine tiller. Counter/rotating blade, New $500/OBO. 1 topmount full-size refrigerator/freezer. Black, like new $400/OBO. 1 Jazzy Electric wheelchair. Completely rebuilt & refurbished. Like new, $2,000/OBO. 1 17HP Tecumseh engine. Runs will, $500/OBO. 1 14 inch Sylvania TV/VCR. Excellent condition. $35. 19 inch Emerson TV w/remote. Good shape $35. 1 EMCO 269-135 Storm door. White w/black HDW. 34 inch X 80 inch. New in box. 1 snow blower cab. Cost $150, sell $75. New Summer Sale. Lots more stuff. Call Sam 630-7942. Belmont, NH COMPLETE Full Mattress, Boxspring and Frame and 5-drawer dresser, clean. $100/best offer. 455-2848 or 455-9248.
Dining Room Table $1,099- Includes 62 in. table, two 15 in. leaves, 4 chairs, total table pad.
Boston College wooden armed chair. $225. Various other items available at reasonable prices.
528-0169 GE Electric Range,Self Cleaning Oven, Good Condition, Almond Color. $125 Ask for Gary. 556-4832 INTEX 12-ft. Round Pool Cover: Brand new in box. Got bigger pool before cover arrived. Paid $25, will sell for $20. Please call 455-3686.
Kubota 2009 BX-1860 with 35 hours, still likenew. Front bucket, mid & rear PTO, turf-tires. Asking $9,500. 253-3120
LACONIA-1 Bedroom, $600/Month. NORTHFIELD- 2 Bedroom with on-site laundry room; $750/month. No Pets. Call GCE @ 267- 8023
For Rent-Commercial Space for Lease
Prime retail Location downtown Meredith, visible from Route 3.
Help Wanted HOST FAMILIES NEEDED!!! The Laconia Leafs JR Hockey team is searching for qualified host families and apartments for the upcoming 2011 hockey season. *Players pay hosts monthly fee *Players are 18-20 years old *Players attend college courses For More info contact: Coach Will Fay 581-7008
Elm Street $575/month Elm Street $650/month
Jett III-Ultra Power Wheelchair with oxygen carrier. Like new. $2,500. Many power tools. . 744-6107
For Rent-Vacation
For Sale PACK-N-GO, $25; (2) Children s booster seats, $5 each; Activity seat, $20; Double stroller, like new (used 3x), $75. (603)524-8761.
L-Shaped sectional couch (maroon with gold whirls). Like new, paid $1,200-Take $600 BO. 603-455-9923 Lennox temperware “Fireflower” china.. 55 pieces, 8 5-piece settings + serving pieces. $250. Excellent condition. Honey cherry entertainment cabinet $300. Solid brass full-size bed frame $100. 603-630-3895 NEW Infant Girl Furniture ...Playpen, Bassinet & Bed, Clothes & Toys; Adult snowboard & Playsta-
Rihanna Tickets -Boston, July 24th. Balcony Section 309, Row C, Seats 8&9. $100/pair. 455-5095 SUMMER HOME FURNISHINGSTables, bed, couch, chairs etc. 393-2655. Used Bicycle Sale. Saturday, 9am-2pm. Over 50 various models all refurbished, reasonable prices. 90 Winter St. Laconia
Furniture AMAZING!
Beautiful Queen or Full-size mattress set, Luxury Firm European Pillow-top style, Fabulous back & hip support, Factory sealed - new 10-Yr. warranty. Why pay $1095, buy $249. Can deliver 603-305-9763. PROMOTIONAL New mattresses starting; King set complete $395, queen set $249. 603-524-1430.
SUMMER MATTRESS & FURNITURE SPECIALS
Twin Sets $199! Full $279! Queen $299! King $499! Pillowtop, Memory Foam, Latex, Pocketcoil,Organic! Call For Specials! Futon With Pad $349! Platform Beds $199! Bunkbeds! Daybeds, Recliners! Sofa $499.Shaker, Rustic, Lodge, Log Cabin, Adirondack Featuring Local Craftspeople! Cozycabin Rustics, 517 Whittier Hwy, Moultonborough and Warehouse Direct Mattress Bargain Barn, 757 Tenney Mtn Hwy, Plymouth. Jay 662-9066 or Arthur 996-1555. www.viscodirect.com
Free FREE Pickup for your unwanted, useful items ... attics, cellars, garages, automobiles, boats, yardsale items & whatever. Prompt removal, (603)930-5222. T&B Appliance Removal. Appliances & AC’s removed free of charge if outside. Please call (603)986-5506.
Help Wanted AUTO BODY TECH
Experienced, Basic Tools, Reliable 5 day work week for a busy Auto Body Shop Call 603-662-7820. BARBER Wanted for Established Business: Hours negotiable. 968-3315.
CHILD CARE LEARNING CENTER Looking for qualified pre-school teacher/director. Must have Associate!s Degree in Early Childhood.
Call 455-9189 DJ Wanted for Nightclub: Rock & dance music only. Experienced crowd motivator with resume and references. Call 293-0577 and leave message. FLOOR Show Corp. is seeking experienced & professional carpet & vinyl installers. Sub-contractors must have reliable van and all necessary tools. References, neat appearance and liability insurance is required. Call Brian at 524-2242 Looking to hire someone with trowel work experience. Part-time while training, will work into full-time. Call: 566-6815 LINE
COOK nights, George!s
JCS is expanding for the second time due to record production. We are looking for self-motivated individuals with great attitude for our 2nd shift. No experience required. This is year-round appointment scheduling position. We are the leading marketing company in the booming vacation marketing industry. Average pay $19-$25 per hour. For interview, call 603-581-2450
SCISSORGY DAY SPA Now Has 2 Booths Available For Rent or Commission One for an experienced stylist and one position for an esthitician. Please call Felicia at 253-7587
Help Wanted
Part-Time Secretary/Admin. Position for Maxfield Real Estate office in Center Harbor. Must have efficient computer skills with knowledge of Word, Excel and Publisher.
Call 253-9360 Ask for Joe Plant Maintenance & Repair Technician
Duties would be to maintain and repair process equipment in a 19,000SF manufacturing facility, troubleshoot equipment malfunctions and breakdowns. Waste water experience a plus but not required. Apply in person:
ABC Fabricators 30 Cook Court, Laconia
Help Wanted
Rowell's Sewer & Drain
is looking for 1 full-time Technician/Laborer. Candidate must be self motivated, professional and avail. to work O/T. Must have CDL Class B and be in good physical condition. Benefits include a competitive salary, 8 paid holidays and IRA retirement plan. Forward Resumes to: mandiehagan@yahoo.com Call 934-4145
Now Hiring - Evenings
Servers & Part-Time Cook
Apply in person, 4-6pm:
CJ Avery’s
in Lakeport (closed Mondays)
CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE VNA & HOSPICE Home Care: at the Very Heart of Healthcare….. Enjoy job flexibility, set your own hours, provide care to one patient at a time, work flexible days and hours. RN Case Manager: Full time, benefited position. Provide skilled care for home care clients, develop plan of care, coordinate care with clinical peers & teach/counsel patient and family. Min. 1 year exp., IV skills preferred; computer literacy required. Valid NH nursing license, NH driver’s license and reliable transportation required.
Benefits include mileage reimbursement, tuition assistance and 403(b) retirement plan. Submit resume to: HR, Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice, 780 North Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246. FAX to 603-524-8217, or e-mail clong@commhlth.org. Visit our website at chhnh.org EOE
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Lost Lost Cat- Last seen in Long Bay on June 18th. Gray-Brown Tiger, white belly, answers to “Winni”. Please call 315-0249
Motorcycles 1982 Suzuki 1100GL Motorcycle. 20K miles, Good condition. $500. 978-609-6524.
House for Sale- 129 Main St., New Hampton. 1425 sq. ft., 4 Bedroom, 3 bath. 2 car garage, in village setting. Antique built in 1840, great condition. New roof and furnace. $134,900. For showing contact Jane Angliss, RE/MAX Bayside, 208 DWH, Meredith NH Tel: 603-279-0079
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Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277 Household Helper/Organizer. Cleaning, laundry, ironing, yard work. Let me put your house in order! 393-9619
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LAKES & Mountain Carpet & Furniture Cleaning & Restoration. Quality service since 1975. (603)973-1667.
ROOM for Rent: Meredith, quiet country setting, shared living/kitchen, electric/hw/heat/gas cooking included. Smoking ok. Candidates should be clean and sober. References required. $125/week or $500/month. Contact 707-9794.
Rightway Plumbing and Heating Over 20 Years Experience Fully Insured. License #3647
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CLEANING SERVICES
(603)447-1198. Olson’s Moto Works, RT16 Albany, NH.
Accepting new clients in the Lakes Region area; household or office. Over 30 years experience. References upon request. Eco-friendly products 603-455-9472 or e-mail lovely.robbins@gmail.com.
MOTORCYCLES! We rent motor cycles! HK Powersports, Laconia, 524-0100.
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M.A. SMITH ELECTRIC: Quality work for any size electrical job. Licensed-Insured, Free estimates/ 603-455-5607 MASONRY: Custom stonework, brick/block, patios, fireplaces, repairs/repointing. 726-8679, Paul. prp_masonry@yahoo.com MR. Junk. Attics, cellars, garages cleaned out. Free estimate. Insured. 455-6296
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SIMPLY Decks and More. Free estimates. Fully Insured. No job too big. Call Steve. 603-393-8503.
LACONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT Human Resource Assistant Full-Time Position Candidate must have strengths in: • • • •
Human Resources/Benefits Administration Contract Preparation Personnel/Census Surveys Computer, communication and organizational skills Interested candidates please send Letter of Intent and Resume to:
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Edward Emond, Business Administrator Laconia School District, SAU #30 PO Box 309, Laconia, NH 03247 603-524-5710 E.O.E.
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Yard Sale 3-4 Family Yard Sale- Sunday July 17, 2011, 9am-4pm. 94 Waukewan St. Meredith, NH Outside dog kennel, stainless steel microwave, freezer, bikes, many, many items. NO EARLY BIRDS.
3-FAMILY YARDSALE Saturday, July 16th 7am-2pm Early birds welcome 169 Main Street Belmont AAA Shed Clean-out. Household goods, fish tanks, much, much more. Saturday, 9am-2pm. Rain Date Sunday, 9am-noon. 702 Province Rd. Belmont GILFORD- Massive Estate Yard Sale. Saturday & Sunday, 8am-2pm. Rt. 11 East, 1/4 Mile past Ellacoya on right. Must sell all of former pack rats contents of several buildings, so we can sell the house. Bring trucks & vans, no reasonable offer refused. Hutch, trunks, tables, railroad carts, table saw, old barn boards, tools, drill press, band saw, electric scooter, furniture, railroad lanterns and tons more! Also, taking bids on large marble collection.
Gilford Yard Sale- Saturday, 8am-3pm. Sunday, 8am-12pm. 65 Savage Rd. GILFORD-MULTI-FAMILY- 78 Liberty Hill Rd. Friday & Saturday 7:30am-1:00pm. Great stuff for everyone! GILMANTON Sat. July 16, 8am4pm. 3 Family Yard Sale. 428 Loon Pond Rd. Gilmanton. Lots of Household Items. Something for Everyone! Laconia- Moving Sale. 12 Butler St. Saturday, July 16, 8am-12pm. Laconia- Saturday, 8am-2pm. 154 Nature!s View Dr. (Off of North St.). 2-A/C!s, fans, bike rack, dishware & more! LACONIA- Community Yard Sale Saturday, July 16th 8am-12pm. Paugus Bay Campground 96 Hilliard Rd. Laconia-Saturday 9am-3pm. 22 Belknap St. No rain date. Laconia/Belmont Multi-FamiySaturday 7am-6pm & Sunday, 7am-4pm. Rte. 106 between Laconia & Belmont. Watch for Signs. Assorted items, good deals! MEREDITH- Handyman Heaven! Tools, tools and more tools! All reasonably priced! Saturday, 9am-1:00pm. 8 Sunset Hill Rd.
Belmont- Lake Region Co-Op Park. 4 Valley Dr. Saturday, 9am-2pm. Rain Date Sunday 9am-2pm. Lots of good things. No early birds.
MEREDITH- INHERITANCE SALE-Saturday, July 15th, 9am-1pm. 15 Barnard Ridge Rd. Great older furniture, chairs, household items, tools, lots of chefs cooking items. Please, no early birds.
LACONIA Jennifer!s 1/2 price Inside Yard Sale
MULTI-FAMILY Garage Sale: Plummer Hill Road, Belmont. Saturday, July 16th, 8am-2pm.
Saturday Only! 8am-3pm 1343 Union Avenue Dealers Welcome NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE: Brookside Crossing, Gilford, 2393 Lakeshore Road / Rt 11, Across from Scenic View. Saturday, 7/16, 9am-3pm.
TILTON Brookhill Farm Barn Sale Sunday, 9am-2pm 96 March Rd. Follow Carrot Signs
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Moultonborough Lions Club ‘Ed Selleck Classic’golf tourney to be played at Ridgewood on Aug. 1 MOULTONBOROUGH — The Lions Club’s “Ed Selleck Classic” golf tournament at Ridgewood Country Club will get underway with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. on Monday, August 1. This annual tournament is named in memory of former Lions Club member Ed Selleck, who dedicated countless hours of service to improve the lives
of individuals in Moultonborough and surrounding communities. Selleck truly loved the game of golf and greatly enjoyed the rolling hills and beautiful scenic views of area golf courses. Major tournament sponsors for the four-person team scramble event are Meredith Village Savings Bank, the Joseph M. Pasena Maroun Family Foun-
dation, Charter Trust, and the Ed Selleck Family. Other area businesses and community members are being asked to sponsor a tea or green for a taxdeductible donation of $100. Entry fee for the “Ed Selleck Classic” golf tournament is $90 per person, which includes 18 holes of golf, riding see next page
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great convenient neighborhood. Almost totally rebuilt with new foundation, sub-floors, walls, roof, multi-zone heating system, bathrooms, and more. 1st floor master, family room, screen porch and abutting 62 acres of conservation land.
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Open HOuse sat. July 16, 11:00-2:00 119 PinnaCle ParK rD., MereDitH Custom Built Contemporary on Meredith Bay, Lake Winnipesaukee. Westerly exposure and crystal clear, sparkling shorefront. Expansive docking and deck system accented by a stone breakwater. This exceptional lake home includes 2,742 sqft. of custom living space. Come take a Located off Elm St., Laconia, to Mass. ave, to North St., to Nature’s View. look this Saturday! $999,900 MLS#4058605
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SATURDAY July 16, 11:00-2:00 Come see two elegant Winnipesaukee waterfront homes in Moultonborough!
190 Krainewood Drive, Moultonborough MLS# 4077124. 281’ on Lake Winnipesaukee with a 7,000 Sqft. contemporary home. This southfacing setting with great views features a walk-in, natural, sugar-sand beach with a 60’ covered boat slip and two additional docks. $2,500,000. 29 Hanson Drive, Moultonborough MLS# 4074641. Dramatic, waterfront contemporary home was completely remodeled in 2002. 1.4 acres of MLS#4074641 level land and 100’ of prime shorefront on Lake Winnipesaukee. $1,199,999.
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Over 55 village, OWN your home for as low $59,995 or $6,000 down and $799 for 240 months inc. land lease. Apr 6.5%
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Registration deadline for art & craft show at Moultonborough Old Home Day is July 30 MOULTONBOROUGH — The deadline for artists and artisans to sign up for inclusion in this year’s Old Home Day Art Show and Craft Sale, presented by the Historical Society, is Saturday, July 30. The Art Show will not be juried this year, and all types of media will be accepted. There is room for up to three works by each submitting artist. Cash prizes will be awarded to the best in show. Applications can be found at
www.moultonboroughhistory.org. Anyone whose hobby is painting in oils or watercolors, photography, or sculpture who would like to share their artistic talent with the Old Home Day crowd is encouraged to submit an application. Also, crafters who have objects to sell are invited to rent a table during the Old Home Day celebration, which will be held from 9 a.m. — 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 6. A $5 donation to the Historical Society will secure a spot at the Historical Society complex, if you bring your own table. To rent a space with table provided, the donation is $15. For more information about either the Craft Sale or the Art Show, call Fran Vincent at 253-6950.
from preceding page cart, range balls, prizes, a $20 Funspot gift card, a hat, six golf balls, coffee and muffins in the morning, and a pasta lunch. Contests will include closest to the pin, longest drive, longest putt, casino hole, and putting. Mulligans will be sold before golfers Enjoy this Summer in beautiful Sandwich with 2 town tee off. All proceeds will beaches and quiet country living but, close to all area go to support the commuamenities and shopping. Two large bedrooms, 2 nity projects and activities full baths, hdwd flrs, huge organized and/or suplivingroom with fireplace, ported by the Moultonborsunroom and large barn ough Lions Club. on 3 level acres with Individual or team gorgeous mountain entry forms can be views. Newer siding, roof, picked up at Ridgewood windows and furnace. Country Club. Entry forms and tee or green sponsor forms can also be obtained by calling Call Dianne Raymond Kate or Mike Lancor at ReMax Prestige 476-8409 or 204-8409.
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Gilford $7,299,000
One of the most beautiful homes on the lake w/ sweeping views & 270’ of waterfront on Winnipesaukee. #4028393
Susan Bradley 581-2810
Center Harbor - $349,000
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Ron Burton: 603-253-4345
Ellen Mulligan: 603-253-4345
Gilford $299,500
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Dir; Rt#3 To Union Rd..Follow To Tucker Shore Rd On Rt..Take 2nd Rt To June Circle.
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Live In Easy One Level Comfort. This Laconia Ranch Has Natural Woodwork Throughout That Gleams!! Three Bedrms, Big Living Rm And Garage Under. Nice Cool Lower Level W/ bath. Exceptionally Maintained!! $139,000
NEWLY LISTED
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City Chic Factory Conversion Three Level Condo.. Charming As Can Be!! Wall Of Brick, Exposed Beams, Hw Floors, Soaring Ceilings, 2 Bedrms, 1/5 Baths And Roof Top Deck Over Looks The Winnipesaukee River!! Covered Car Port, Weight Rm And Bring Your Kayak!!
Peaceful Country Setting On 6+ Acres. Three Small Ponds ,Fruit Trees And Mature Landscaping.. Watch The Deer And Wildlife! You’ll Love The Wide Open Space In This Bright & Sunny Meredith Contemporary. Twelve Large Rooms, 4 Bedrms, 3.5 Baths, First Floor In Law Or Guest Space, Fireplaced Kitchen/family Rm And All Updated. $335,000
A Place Near The Beach!! Deeded Lake Winnisquam Beach, Boat Launch And Possible Dock..This 2 Bedroom Ranch Is Situated In A Neighborhood Beach Community. Use It Weekends Or Just Call It Home!!
Furnished & equipped lake house w/ room for lots of guests. Family/game rm in basement w/woodstove & pool table. #4078262
Bob Soucy: 603-253-4345
Rick Edson 581-2871 or Stanley Shepard 581-2858
Gilford $299,000
Over $150,000 in upgrades & renovations in this antique farmhouse loaded w/ great features. A must see! #4078429
Judy McShane 581-2800
$105,000
Laconia $149,000
Large in town New Englander on a quiet corner lot w/ updated kitchen, windows, siding & roof. #4077259
Kathy McLellan 581-2821 or Nancy LeRoy 581-2830
Laconia $147,500
Roomy Cape on a quiet street w/ newer roof, fenced yard w/ lovely gardens and direct access to the wow trail. #4078449
Judy McShane 581-2800
Gilford $24,900
Great get-away or year-round home situated in a nice park. Convenient to lake, skiing, shopping & restaurants. #4078540
Nancy Desrosiers 581-2883
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Dir; Rt#11a To Olde English Ln..At The End Of The Cul De Sac
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Huge New Englander has large wraparound porch, post & beam barn & 2car garage. Totally renovated & updated. #4073204
70 PRESCOTT AVE LACONIA(BEHIND CHRISTMAS ISLAND)
$189,000
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