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WOW Trail to be rebranded Belknap Co. Rail Trail? County administrators believe quicker pace would result from regionalizing rec trail building effort BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — County Adminstrator Debra Shackett and County Finance Director Glen Waring are working on a project which will formulate a strategic plan for rebranding a 15-mile recreation trail being built from Tilton through Laconia as the Belknap County Rail Trail. Shackett told commissioners Wednesday
morning that she and Waring are doing the project as part of the process of becoming certified public managers and are looking to increase public awareness of the project in order to assist non-profit associations working to build the trails. She said that currently there are at least three major groups working on different parts of the project, the WOW Trail group in Laconia; the Winnipesaukee River Trail
Association which has completed two segments of the trail extending from downtown Franklin to Rte. 140 in Tilton, and BRATT, (Belmont Recreational Alternative Transportation Team) which is working on a section of the trail which runs from Silver Lake to the Belmont-Laconia town line. The application to the New Hampshire CPM Project notes that for years each of see TRAILS page 11
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Split Sanbornton board decides to sell second ambulance BY GAIL OBER
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SANBORNTON — After a lengthy and occasionally acrimonious discussion with some members of the Fire Department, selectmen last night voted 2-to-1 to uphold a war-
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