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YearRound Library will ask Gilmanton voters for $52,500 By gAil oBeR
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILMANTON — The Board of Directors for the YearRound Public Library has decided to ask the town for $52,500 for operating costs for 2014. Association President Anne Kirby said yesterday the board met earlier this week and decided to commit to privately raising $18,000 of the annual operating budget of $70,500. “We want to show good faith,” she said. “We thought we could raise the $18,000.” The $52,500 will be petitioned on to the annual town warrant for 2014. The March vote on the matter will be the second election for Gilmanton since the taxpayers voted in 2012 to adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 or the Official Ballot — commonly referred to as SB-2. In 2013, voters narrowly rejected a petitioned warrant article for $45,000 for operation expenses at the privately constructed Year-Round Library — the second time see LIBrary page 7
‘Big Boy’ is about ready for winter A buffalo stares down a photographer at the Bolduc Farm in Gilford (Mark Chertok/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Rejection of Laconia chicken ordinance came as a shock By RogeR Amsden THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — The Planning Board’s rejection of an ordinance which would have permitted the keeping of chickens in residential zones in the city came as a surprise to supporters of the change, many of whom assumed that it since it had been endorsed by the Zoning Board last month that passage was assured.
But the board turned it down by a 6-2 vote Tuesday night following a public hearing at which no one testified on behalf of the proposed ordinance, which has been under discussion for months. Planning Director Shanna Saunders said that Planning Board members cited concerns over smell, noise and the disposal of chicken manure in a lengthy discussion before voting down the proposal.
‘’I’m disappointed that it didn’t pass. I wasn’t able to go the meeting, so I don’t understand why they decided to vote it down. But it’s too bad that they did,’’ said Karen Barker of Lane Road, one of the founders of the Lakes Region Food Network who has been in the forefront of efforts to ease restrictions on raising chickens. Barker said that she hopes to renew the see CHICKENs page 6
Boy Scout Troop 68 club house has become target of repeated vandalism By gAil oBeR
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Police continue to investigate at least two breakins at the Boy Scout club house located behind the St. Joseph Church and Holy Cross Catholic
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