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Gilford’s Boston Post Cane presented to David Bickford 99-year-old David Bickford last night accepted the Boston Post Cane that recognizes Gilford’s oldest resident. Making the presentation at Town Hall was Selecboard Chair Gus Benevides (left). Present for the ceremony were women representing four successive generations of Bickford’s family. From left are his granddaughter, Alicia Gorrell, his daughter, Evelyn Firth, his great great granddaughter Lydia Jordan and his great granddaughter Breinn Daigneauult. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Residents want traffic light at Gilford Village; state says ‘no’ GILFORD — About 20 residents packed into last night’s selectman’s meeting to tell officials from the state Department of Transportation that they would really like to see a traffic light at the Gilford Village intersection on Rte. 11-A. The group sat patiently while DOT engineer William Oldenburg explained what the DOT can and will do to the intersection but during the comment period voiced their opinions. “I keep hearing lights will do it,” said one lady. “You don’t need to go to MIT to figure that out. The intersection between Route 11-A and Belknap Mountain and School House Hill Roads is, by DOT standards, one of the see GILFORD page 10
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O’Brien & Leandro feud over fire truck expands in all sorts of directions Selectman accused of taking ‘creepy’interest in opponent’s property BY GAIL OBER
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GILFORD — What started as a difference in opinions between Selectman John O’Brien and Budget Committee member Kevin Leandro over the lease/purchase of a new fire truck has escalated into e-mail accusations of electioneering, charges of wasting town money and alleged invasions of privacy. According to Leandro, O’Brien took pictures of some dump trucks that were parked in the driveway of his home while O’Brien counterclaims that Leandro overreacted when he kidded Leandro by
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writing in an e-mail that he would “warn him the next time he went on patrol.” “The whole thing started from an exchange we had in our e-mail,” O’Brien said yesterday. “We went back and forth and I was kidding him.” O’Brien said he drove by Leandro’s home on his way to Laconia at some point during the fire truck debate and saw two dump trucks in his driveway. He said because Leandro is only allowed one truck at home by zoning ordinance , he snapped a picture with his phone but said he later deleted it. In what remains an unsubstantiated see FEUD page 8
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