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Gilmanton teachers agree to forgo raises for 2012-13
GILMANTON — The School Board and the Gilmanton Education Association jointly presented a renegotiated two-year collective bargaining agreement to the Budget Committee last night that calls for no salary increases in the upcoming school year and a combined $40,349 salary increase in 2013-2014. The previously negotiated contract was voted down by
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LACONIA, N.H.
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The business of evictions soaks up lots of energy in market like Laconia BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — In some ways, landlord Mary Davis of Boston got off easy with her deadbeat tenants, even though she never received what should have been five months rent. Davis, a widow who owns two condominiums locally, said after her husband passed away, she decided to rent the one she and
her husband formerly used on weekends. She said the second condo has been rented to the same people for years. “We used to come up all the time,” she said but, with the housing market soft, she said she chose to rent rather than sell this particular Tree Top Circle condominium. All Davis said she ever got from her two newest tenants, who she described as a young married couple who were just start-
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BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — The Belknap County Commission will consider an offer from the state to purchase the former Laconia State School property off North Main Street for $1,760,000 when it meets next Wednesday morning. Ed Philpot of Laconia, chairman of the commission, declined to comment yesterday about any interest the county may have in acquiring the property. City Councilor Matt Lahey (Ward 2), who has led the city’s effort to acquire the site, said yesterday that he hoped the county commission would not only decline the state’s offer but defer to the city and support its bid for the property. The state’s offer to the county is not only far less than its $10-million offer to the city, which was refused, but also $400,000 less than the city’s counter-offer to the state. Moreover, while state offered see STATE SCHOOL page 10
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ing out on their own, was the first month’s rent and security deposit. She said she never got another dime. After a few fruitless months, she began the process of eviction, terrified less about the money than the fact she considered them to be terrible tenants who kept, among other things, pet rats. When the couple didn’t show up in the see EVICTIONS page 6
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CONCORD — The N.H. State Liquor Commission voted unanimously to revoke the liquor license for Kelsey’s at the Grant’s for three days and fine its owner a total of $350 for violations of three of the state’s liquor laws. The license suspension is effective from 12:01 p.m. on July 24 through 12:01 p.m. July 26 — Tuesday through Thursday. “Under the circumstances, I think the ruling was fair,” said night club owner Willard Drew yesterday afternoon. “Although my name has been run through the mud, I’ve lost my business since October and there was extreme damage to my building.” see LICENSE page 7
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