The Laconia Daily Sun, September 20, 2012

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

THURSDAY

17-year-old charged with Union Cemetery vandalism

LACONIA — Police yesterday announced the arrest of Jagger Richer, 17, of 227 Eastman Road for his alleged part in overturning gravestones at Union Cemetery in July. Richer has been charged with interference with cemetery or burial ground (RSA 635:6), a class B felony, which may carry a sentence of a fine and imprisonment as well as a see UNION page 13

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Bedbugs said a menace in big apartment buildings BY GAIL OBER

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — It was just about 1 p.m. on a warm day last week and Deputy Fire Chief Shawn Riley was at his desk on the second floor of the Central Fire Station preparing to eat a meatball sub from the deli across the street. His buzzer rang and he

walked down to greet two women and a small child who were there to see him. “They gave me a bed bug,” Riley said a short time later during a conversation about what he considers one of the fastest growing nuisances facing Laconia. Riley, who doubles as the city’s health officer, added the live

creature to his Petri dish collection and spoke at length about flat, brown bugs that once pestered most of inhabited world. According to research done by Dr. Gale Ridge of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, bedbugs were first documented in Italy in 77 C.E. and likely spread throughout the world

over trade routes. Ridge, who spoke at a November 2011 conference in New Hampshire, said they were first documented in the Americas in the late 1500s. At one point in the 1930s and early 1940s, bedbugs infested about one-third of all dwellings in the United States. During WWII, bedbugs were see BEDBUGS page 10

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