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Rebecca T. Dickson

Concord Monitor staff

Position: Reporter
Email: Email Rebecca T. Dickson
Biography: Dickson was a Monitor reporter covering towns.

Most recent content by Rebecca T. Dickson

Olive sails into view flying the Jolly Roger

Children's book author Roberta Baker of Tilton is back with the third in a series about feisty little girls. This time, Olive Elizabeth Julia Jerome is having a seventh birthday party with a pirate theme. But because the party is at her Aunt Tiffany's house, a rather stuffy place filled with fragile knick-knacks, Olive is worried her guests won't be able to let loose. 0

December 4, 2005

Still hooked on Harry Potter

He died, for Pete's sake. It was this news that greeted me late one night, as I lay in bed with another thick J.K. Rowling book in hand. It's been nearly four years since my husband introduced me to the Harry Potter series - a gift to distract me from a very ugly pregnancy. The books worked while they lasted (about two weeks). Then, as I waited for future installments from Hogwarts,… 0

November 6, 2005

Tilton

Reward being offered for two stolen retrievers

TILTON - The owner of two stolen golden retrievers is offering a reward for their safe return. Molly Rice came home from a concert Saturday at about midnight and found someone had broken into her Chestnut Street home. The only things missing were her dogs. Taylor, a 5-year-old neutered male, recently had hip replacement… 0

August 23, 2005

Tilton

Selectman is a no-show at meetings

TILTON - In March, Selectman Steve O'Leary did something he hadn't done in eight months: He attended a selectmen's meeting. But he only went to threaten legal action because, he said, the board had violated his rights at a previous meeting by talking about him when he wasn't there. 0

August 15, 2005

Gilford

4-year-old dies by lake during family vacation

GILFORD - A 4-year-old Georgia boy collapsed and died Wednesday night while playing with his family on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, investigators said. Noah Duble, of Lookout Mountain, Ga., was tossing a football with his uncle and cousins in about 8 inches of water when family members noticed something was wrong, according to Marine Patrol Lt. Tim Dunleavy. Noah began staggering… 0

August 12, 2005

Lakes Region

Bear on rampage is killed

CENTER HARBOR - He had a coat of gorgeous brown fur and weighed just 60 pounds. Despite once being shot in the rear, he couldn't be swayed from helping himself to the contents of local refrigerators. Yesterday morning, his looting days ended. The string cheese was the last straw. 0

August 12, 2005

Tilton

Fired dispatcher unleashes new allegations in lawsuit

TILTON - A former police dispatcher is appealing her firing for bending the department rules, saying in a lawsuit that the chief and other officers do the same. Carla Constant, 43, of Tilton, was a full-time dispatcher and part-time police officer. She was fired two weeks ago, after she used the police computer to research a car her son wanted to buy, according to her own lawsuit,… 0

August 11, 2005

Hopkinton

Confidential source

He graduated from Manchester's Central High School, then Yale, and traveled the country studying the affects of television's Barney, the purple dinosaur, on toddlers. The next year, he lived on Martha's Vineyard and wrote a screenplay about a deadlocked electoral college. Not exactly the kind of guy you might expect… 0

August 9, 2005

Meredith

Landmark lighthouse hits the market with $1.7 million price tag

MEREDITH - In 1892, Col. Charles Cummings built a 40-foot high stone tower at the tip of Spindle Point on Lake Winnipesaukee. Speculation about its origin has churned for decades, helping feed its status as local landmark and historic curiosity. Two years ago, a local family helped set the record straight: The so-called… 0

August 5, 2005

Andover

Dogs found living in squalor; man charged

ANDOVER - A local man was charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty on Friday, after the police found more than a dozen dogs and puppies living in a filthy, rat-infested trailer. They also found three dogs shot to death outside the home. Lester Labraney, 69, faces 14 charges of animal cruelty and one charge of… 0

August 1, 2005