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LACONIA — Detective Chris Noyes, who leads the Police Department’s effort against drug trafficking, told the City Council last night that as the volume of prescription drugs on the street has dwindled, heroin has taken their place as the drug of choice among those addicted to opiates, who he estimated number between 300 and 500, or as many as three-percent of the population. Police Chief Chris Adams reminded that see HEROIN page 8
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Court St. fire claims contents of several businesses Portion of large commercial building that houses hospital’s laundry spared but extend of damage to equipment is yet to be determined BY GAIL OBER
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
Above, a Laconia Fire Department photo shows what the southeast corner of the large commercial building at 164 Court Street looked like when firefighters arrived on the scene early Sunday morning. Below right, The Little Caesars PIzza restaurant was one of six businesses that were destroyed in the blaze. Below, Skate Escape was the most recent tenant in the front portion of the building. Bottom: The east wall of the building (facing the Meredith Bridge Cemetery) was knocked down because there was a danger it would fall over. (Laconia Daily Sun photos by Gail Ober & Ed Engler)
LACONIA — As construction goes on in the front parking lot of the large commercial building that marks the corner of Fair and Court Streets, city fire officials are combing through the charred remains of the structure to find the cause of a three-alarm fire that gutted most of it early Sunday morning. The fire burned out all but one of the seven businesses that operated from the building, constructed in the early 1970s, that many still refer to as Aubuchon’s, even though the hardware store company left the city some years ago. “At this time we have no reason to
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