E E R F THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013
THURSDAY
Ward 5 ballot box will be opened today
LACONIA — The 47 ballots cast on September 10 in the primary election for the City Council seat in Ward 5 will be recounted today at City Hall beginning at 4:30 p.m., as the result of a brief hearing before Justice James D. O’Neill III of Belknap Superior Court yesterday. Dave Gammon, who believes former mayor see WARD 5 page 8
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Tax bills will be late
New law has delayed town & school rate setting process in Concord — Page 4
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Police investigating toddler’s fall down stairs in Belmont home 2-year-old girl airlifted to Dartmouth Hitchcock BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
BELMONT — Police remained at the Concord Street apartment building last evening where a 2-year-old girl fell down a flight of stairs and sustained a head injury earlier in the day. Although authorities are
ing down the stairs. Dispatches heard over the Lakes Region Mutual Fire Association radio and later confirmed by Fire Chief Dave Parenti said the child was unconscious but breathing. Parenti said it appeared as though she fell from the second floor to the first floor. He said the stairs were carpeted as was the floor where she landed and there was no apparent obsta-
releasing no information, the door to one of the apartments in Building 2 of the Belmont Village Apartments is sealed with crime scene tape. Police and emergency responders from the Belmont Fire Department were called to the home yesterday morning after a report of the child fall-
cles in the stairway. He said he immediately called for a DHART helicopter and had hoped it could land in Belmont but said it was refueling and would fly to Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. Parenti said they took the child to LRGH where she was stabilized by emergency room personnel and then flown by helicopter to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical see GIRL page 10
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A sun-drenched view of Hart’s Pond in the Waukewan Highlands Community Park in Meredith. (Mark Chertok/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Laconia would largely spend $1.8M no-interest loan fixing up LHS BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — School district officials announced Tuesday night that Laconia is the only district in New Hampshire to express any interest in an additional interest-free federal loan for $1.8 million earmarked for school renovations.
The loan fund is administered by the N.H. Department of Education. The proposed QZAB or Qualified Zone Academy Bond is limited to inside upgrades for existing school buildings and doesn’t allow for new construction. Six and one-half million dollars of QZAB money was used to pay for part of the just-
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