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$1.2 million police station vote in Gilford’s future By Gail OBer

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GILFORD — Selectmen approved a 2014 Capital Improvement Program plan Wednesday night that includes $1.213 million for the renovation and addition to the town police station. The proposed addition, said selectman Chair Kevin Hayes yesterday, is very much like

the 2009 proposed renovation and addition that garnered a majority of votes at annual town meeting but didn’t get the 60-percent majority needed to pass. The key difference between the two is newest proposal eliminates the the geothermal heating system that was included in 2009. “The need is more than it was

a few years ago,” Hayes said. Hayes the the $1.213 million budget has been updated for pricing and materials costs by the Amoskeag Architectural Group of Manchester the firm that designed the project. “We think the number is spot-on,” Hayes said. The CIP plan shows the police station debt would cost the town $96,000 beginning in

2015 and would gradually taper off from then. The proposed police department plan has also been coordinated with the ongoing Town Hall upgrade. The addition and renovation proposal calls for a two-story addition to the backside of the building with the sally port (secure entrance for vehicles) on the ground level. see GiLfOrd page 10

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — The petition requesting a recount of the primary election results in the City Council race in Ward 5, which Dave Gammon filed last week, will be heard in Belknap County Superior Court on Wednesday, Oct. 2. Meanwhile, City Clerk Mary Reynolds said yesterday that the questions arising from the primary have already set back preparations for the general election on November 5 by a week. The City Charter stipulates that the two candidates receiving the most votes for each office in the primary election shall advance to the general election in November. In Ward 5, incumbent City Councilor Bob Hamel, who ran unopposed, was declared the winner with 39 of 47 ballots cast. Although election officials reported no write-in votes for city councilor, a comsee WriTE-iNS page 10

Councilor Bob Hamel (left) and School Board Chairman Joe Cormier (right) congratulate Dick Dearborn at Laconia High School on the occasion of Thursday nights official dedication of the new Science Center classroom wing that bears his name. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

New LHS Science Center dedicated to ‘local guy who made good’ By Gail OBer

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LACONIA — “Fantastic” was the first word out of Richard (Dick) Dearborn’s mouth last night after his first tour of the state-of-the-art high school science center that bears his name. Dearborn and the leadership of the manufacturing company he founded, Eptam Plastics of Northfield, made a

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ceremony by members of his family, his work family, and members of the community who came to thank him and tour the new center. He is a 1954 graduate of LHS. City Councilor Matt Lahey, who also headed the capital campaign, referred to Dearborn as a “local guy who made good and does a lot of good for his community.” He described the e-mail informing him see dEarBOrN page 12

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