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LACONIA — A 22-year-old city man was held at the Belknap County Jail last night or charges that he assaulted another young man at a North Main Street apartment and stole a handgun from him. Kenneth B. Dukette of Dewey Street refused bail and will be arraigned this morning in 4th Circuit Court - Laconia Division. He is charged with robbery, first-degree assault, criminal threatening (two counts), criminal see GUn page 8
Just ‘Wait Until Dark’! Nerissa Bodwell as the blind woman Susy Hendrix is terrorized in her New York City apartment by Rodney Martel as Mike Talman during a rehearsal for the Streetcar Company’s production of “Wait Until Dark”. The Frederick Knott thriller was first performed in 1966. The plot revolves around a stash of heroin that has been hidden in Susy’s apartment without her knowledge and tricks a trio of men use on her to try and retrieve it while her husband is away. Performances at the Laconia High School auditorium are Friday and Saturday (Nov. 1 and 2) at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Advance tickets are on sale at Greenlaw’s Music and online at www.streetcarcompany. com. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
As privatization talk heats up, San’ton DPW chief leaves for Northfield By Gail OBer
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SANBORNTON — Johnny VanTassel is resigning his position as the Director of Public Works and will be taking a similar position in the town of Northfield. His last day on the job here is November 22. Northfield Town Administrator Glenn Smith said yesterday that VanTassel
will be the highway superintendent, with supervisory responsibilities over highways and sanitation, roads, the transfer station, the parks, and the cemeteries. VanTassel said yesterday that he will continue to live in Sanbornton and will continue to contribute to the community. He said he was very grateful to the town for the opportunities it has given him and
enjoyed his time working there. Van Tassel started with the town as a part-time employee at the transfer station and worked on weekends as a backhoe operator, becoming the operations managers. Under previous Public Wroks Director John Thayer, VanTassel became the highway foreman and he took over as director see sanBORnTOn page 8
Priority to customers or employers again question regarding downtown parking By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — For the second time in less than a year, the City Council began wrestling with
how to allocate parking spaces in the center of the city between the customers and the employees of downtown businesses. In January, the council
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