UDRIVE IT NH.COM S EARCH L OCAL D EALERSHIPS O N O NE S ITE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013
TUESDAY
Money is main obstacle as solution to Meredith traffic woes nears consensus
VOL. 14 NO. 119
• www.udriveitnh.com
KEEP CHECKING,
NEW
ARRIVALS DAILY!
LACONIA, N.H.
527-9299
FREE
Owner seeks demolition permit for Hathaway House BY MICHAEL KITCH & ROGER AMSDEN THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Cafua Management Company, LLC, the Dunkin’ Donuts franchise owner of the historic Hathaway House at 1106 Union Avenue, is in the process of seeking a demolition permit to raze the Victorian mansion built in 1870. As of Monday, Greg Nolan, director of development at Cafua, has distributed applications for a demolition permit to some — Public Works and Fire — but not
all of the appropriate city departments. The process requires applications, which can be downloaded from the city website, to be signed by officials of the Department of Public Works, Water Department, Fire Department and Planning Department as well as the gas and electric utilities servicing the property then submitted to the Code Enforcement officer. A Planning Department representative said Monday it has not seen a copy of the application as of yet and Code Enforcement
reported the same. Because the Hathaway House is of more than 700-square-feet in area and 75 years old, as well as visible from a public rightof-way, the application must also be presented to the Heritage Commission for review. Pam Clark, who chairs the Heritage Commission, said yesterday that she will decline to sign the demolition permit and instead will schedule a public hearing in an effort to preserve the building. She said see HATHAWAY page 14
MEREDITH — Improvements Routes 3 and 25, including the junction of the two, to ease the flow of traffic through the center of town could get underway by 2017, according to a schedule presented by officials of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (DOT) to the Board of Selectmen at a workshop yesterday. see TRAFFIC page 3
of
Laconia
M-F 7am-6pm Sat 8am-5pm
51 Bisson Ave Laconia next to Irwin Toyota Ford
www.laconiaquicklane.com 603-581-2907 We’ll meet or beat all competitors tire prices. Ask for details
$
UP TO
14000
in Rebates
Governor Maggie Hassan speaks at a press conference at the Whole Village Family Resources Center in Plymouth on Monday at which she urged Republican senators to compromise on a health care expansion plan whose fate will be decided by the legislature on Thursday. Senator Andrew Hosmer (D-Laconia) is at the left and House Seaker Terie Norelli, is second from right. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Governor visits Forrester turf to push for Medicaid expansion BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
With the purchase of 4 tires.
PLYMOUTH — Governor Maggie Hassan called on Republican members of the N.H. Senate to compromise on health See Dealer For Details care expansion when she and Democratic legislative leaders spoke at a press conference at the Whole Village Family Resources Fuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. 10 day cash price* Center here on Monday Laconia 524-1421 subject to change morning. It was not coin-
3.39 99**
cidental that the location of the gathering was in the district of Republican Senator Jeanie Forrester of Meredith, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. The House and Senate will vote this Thursday on whether to expand Medicaid to about 49,000 poor adults but committees in both chambers differ on how to implement the expansion. A proposal by the Republican Senate shifts the adults out of a state managed care program to private insurance through the federal insurance
marketplace in 2015. But Hassan and fellow Democrats say that isn’t feasible as there is only one insurance company that’s interested in providing insurance in the federal health exchange. “The bill lacks workable, achievable and realistic timelines and includes no measures to ensure competition and costeffectiveness on the exchange,” said Hassan She and Speaker of the House Terie Norelli have offered a compromise path see HASSAN page 13