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Laconia’s next mayor takes oath of office
By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — A request by Aavid Thermalloy, LLC to change the name of Primrose Drive South to Aavid Drive set the firm at odds with their corporate neighbors at the O’Shea Industrial Park and led to disagreement among the city councilors last night. see COUnCIL p. 12
Edward Engler and David Bownes are sworn in as mayor and city councilor on Monday, November 12, 2013. In the background are councilors Matt Lahey, seated, who did not run for re-election, and Henry Lipman, standing, who was re-elected. (Alan MacRae/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
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City councilor: re-route WOW Trail to avoid South Down By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — With homeowners at the gated communities of South Down Shores and Long Bay determined to keep the WOW Trail from passing along the western shore of Paugus Bay on its way toward the Meredith town line, City Councilor Armand
Bolduc (Ward 6) has begun exploring an alternative route. As planned, the third phase of the trail begins at Van Buren Street and runs northward 2.2 miles past Pickerel Cove to Birch Haven Road, following railway along the shorefront through South Down Shores and Long Bay. The South Down Recreation
Association has accrued a legal fund from annual assessments of $100 on each of some 500 households and allied with residents of Long Bay. Chester Cilley, president of the South Down Recreation Association, said yesterday that while the association has convened a committee, which will coopsee wOw page 9
Grant trial begins with testimony of alleged victim By Gail OBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
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LACONIA – The 17-year-old girl who is accusing Eric Grant, the lead singer and namesake of a local country music band, of penetrating her digitally at a New Year’s Eve party in 2006 was the first to testify in his trial Fuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. yesterday. 10 day cash price* Laconia 524-1421 subject to change The alleged victim,
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who lives in North Monterey County in California, is now a senior in high school. She is Grant’s niece. Poised, wearing a black suit and with long, dark blond hair, she spent most of yesterday afternoon telling the 12 members of the jury her recollections of that night. In front of about 20 of Grant’s friends and family who were in the Belknap County Superior Court room yesterday - some of them wearing blue oval buttons that read
“TRUTH” - the girl said Grant slipped his hand down the back of her pajamas and put his finger in her while she sat next to him. She said Grant’s legs were stretched out on the couch and she was sitting between them. Under direct examination by Assistant Prosecutor Carley Ahern, the girl told the jury that she “felt violated, it hurt.” During her opening arguments, Ahern had prepared the jury by telling them see TRIaL page 8