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By ADAM DRAPCHO

LACONIA — In a prior era, Weirs Boulevard was lined with small businesses offering tourists accommodations — a small space to rest at the end of a long day of visiting shops, beaches or other local attractions. These “cottage colonies,” as they were...

By GABRIEL PERRY

The Tilton family mausoleum was vandalized Monday night, according to cemetery officials. The mausoleum, which sits atop the tallest hill in the cemetery and was constructed to house the crypts of the Tilton family members, was constructed in the 19th...

By GABRIEL PERRY

Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH) highlighted the importance of supporting sustainable development after touring the state's only polystyrene recycling facility last week. The transfer station recently received a $54,000 grant from the Northern Border...

By GABRIEL PERRY

Questions regarding the funding of the city’s purchase of a portion of the Laconia Antique Center building at 601 Main St. downtown remain after the original funding mechanism was removed from the resolution at last week’s city council meeting.City...

By GABRIEL PERRY

Laconia city council approved the purchase of 601 Main St., current site of the Laconia Antique Center, in a 4-2 vote following hours of discussion at their regular meeting Monday night.The city will purchase the back two thirds of the building for...

By ADAM DRAPCHO

It’s been a weird winter, with mild and rainy weather confounding people who try to organize traditional winter activities. It turns out that the warmer winters have also led to changes in the behaviors of at least one animal: loons.Biologists at the...

By DANIEL SARCH

GILFORD — By the end of this trimester, 18 students at Gilford High School will have completed the Video Game Development class, where they are learning to program and design a working game. While most games will be fairly simple, or unfinished,...

By DANIEL SARCH

FRANKLIN — Despite a successful opening weekend, the lack of snow this winter season has left the Veterans Memorial Ski Area struggling to stay open. After what was thought to be an unseasonably warm weather anomaly last year, it seems a pattern is...

By GABRIEL PERRY

SANDWICH — Nancy Morton knows what it’s like to see her life grind to a screeching halt from 90 miles per hour. She went from working as a personal trainer, running and playing tennis regularly and operating a wood-splitting business to being...

By GABRIEL PERRY

The ice runway at the Alton Bay Seaplane Base on Lake Winnipesaukee won’t be open this season due to lack of ice. Base officials made the final decision not to open the runway at all the first weekend of February.The tradition began in 1947 and has...

By ADAM DRAPCHO

MEREDITH — An ice fisher who fell through the ice was able to catch the attention of a man out walking his dog, a stroke of fortune that likely saved his life on Tuesday.Meredith Fire Chief Ken Jones said his department was called for an ice rescue...

By DANIEL SARCH

GILFORD — After four years as president and general manager of Gunstock Mountain Resort, Tom Day told the Gunstock Area Commission Thursday he is retiring, and this winter season is his final one at the resort, according to a press release.In the...

By ADAM DRAPCHO

LACONIA — When the New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival first came to the city in 2015, downtown was struggling, with about half of the storefronts vacant and the Colonial Theatre closed.Eight years later, downtown is vibrant and the Colonial is hosting...

A Belknap County jury concluded on Monday that Brian Fortier, one of the owners of West Alton Marina, sexually assaulted a 16-year-old who was under his employ.The trial, which took place in Superior Court, lasted for four days. The jury found...

By DANIEL SARCH

GILFORD — Gunstock Mountain Resort has overcome many challenges in its 87 years operating as a ski area, and has responded to the warm start to the season with snow guns blazing.The winter of 2023-24 was predicted at the beginning of December to be...

By ADAM DRAPCHO

FRANKLIN — Miriam Kovacs, a Central Street business owner who is suing the town over its response to hateful attacks against her restaurant, has offered a settlement deal that is light on cash but heavy on reforms she wishes the city to make.Kovacs,...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

GILFORD — Gunstock Mountain Resort has been required to pay 1.75% of its gross operating income to Belknap County annually since the passage of a 2020 law. One local lawmaker is working on legislation that would nearly double that rate.Legislation for...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

FRANKLIN — Filling the Franklin Elks Lodge Monday night, a municipal candidate forum hosted by the civic group Choose Franklin began energetically — three candidates for school board and then seven candidates for city council shared their policy views...

By JON DECKER

SANDWICH — Data collected from dozens of nonviable loon eggs points to high levels of “forever chemicals” and other similar contaminants in Squam Lake, which has been lauded for its pristine water quality. In 2021, the Loon Preservation Committee...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

A delivery vehicle containing approximately 2,000 copies of the Thursday edition of The Laconia Daily Sun was stolen from its drivers in the first hour of Thursday morning. The car made it as far as Fairfield, Connecticut, where police say the thief...

By ADAM DRAPCHO

If Keith Tuttle could go back to April 11, 2019, he would put his helmet on before heading out for a motorcycle ride. He can’t change his choice on that day, so he’s doing the next best thing: Telling as many other motorcyclists about what happened to...