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VOL. 14 NO. 77
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Tea Party takes aim at Alton workforce housing initiative By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
ALTON — An initiative to amend the zoning ordinance to bring the town into compliance with the state statute requiring municipalities “to provide reasonable and realistic opportunities for the development of workforce housing” was met with suspicion and hostility by a crowd of some 75 people, including a contingent from the Lakes Region Tea Party, that jammed the Gilman Museum Wednesday night.
The meeting was the first of two forums hosted as a community service by the Alton Business Association, which takes no position for or against the issue of workforce housing. Voicing the mood in the room, State Rep. Jane Cormier (R-Alton) charged that the proposal reflected an effort by the federal government, through its Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), “to manipulate our local zoning law.” Instead of complying with the law, she
urged voters to send conservative representatives to Concord to repeal it, earning herself a round of thunderous applause. After listening to similar sentiments for more than an hours, Tom Hoopes, vice-chairman of the Planning Board, rose to say “what we’re doing here is planning. We don’t have the tools to deal with a problem. This has nothing to do with HUD.” His statement was met with cries of derision and a woman sitting nearby questioned whether he should see WOrKfOrCE page 3
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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
BELMONT — For the past few months, Polly Murphy has been remembering one of the defining moments of her life — when her late husband Postmaster Thomas Murphy thwarted a 1960 attempted assassination on then President-Elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the aftermath of his heroism and, in part, as the result of a media campaign by former Union Leader newspaper owner and publisher William Loeb, her family ended up being stalked by Richard Paul Pavlick — the man who had intended to kill JFK. “Tom’s name was never supposed to be released, but it was,” she said while attendsee JfK page 8
Gilmanton artist Diane Nyren holds her painting of the Mount Washington at ‘’The Barn’’ in Meredith. She is standing under her recently completed a mural of the Weirs Channel Bridge, which members of the general public will get to see if they tour the facility during an open house on Saturday afternoon. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Weirs Room & car collection just part of wonders in ‘The Barn’ By RogeR aMsden FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
MEREDITH — Dick Dearborn grew up in the Weirs and has special memories of his childhood there, including the historic day when he was seated on his grandfather Leander Lavallee’s shoulder and the Mount Washington
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II cruise ship made its way underneath the Weirs Bridge and out from Paugus Bay onto the main body of Lake Winnipesaukee. That was August 15, 1940 and Dearborn was only four years old. But he still remembers how bystanders atop the bridge were called on by his
grandfather to jump aboard the Mount in order to have it ride deep enough in the water to pass under the bridge. ‘’He had everybody on the bridge jump onto the boat so we could get under the bridge,’’ says Dearborn, whose family lived on the same block at the Weirs and had a front row seat
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