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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 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 CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

LACONIA — A change in location for Penny Pitou Travel to an office across the street is coinciding with the retirement of its namesake.Longtime Executive Vice President Kim Terrio, who bought the agency from Penny Pitou two years ago, spoke to The...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

A Manchester property of the buyer and developer of the former Laconia State School was foreclosed upon and for sale at auction Tuesday.The building at 4 Elm St. in Manchester, a former children’s school later owned by the American-Canadian...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu signed legislation last July that provided more funding for police crisis intervention training and formed a committee to review whether the state should form a mental health incident review board. Such a board, similar to...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

LACONIA — By writing policy, overseeing the superintendent, making plans and implementing goals, school boards shape the vision and current performance of their districts. A state law passed last year now requires New Hampshire school boards to have...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

When shoulder season seems to stretch on indefinitely, and the typical New Hampshire snowy winter arrives with a whimper, skiers and riders can make do with artificially-made snow to get in their winter recreation. Snowmobilers, on the other hand,...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

New England is known for its craft beer. Vermont, famously, has more craft breweries per capita than any state in the country. Portland, Maine, holds the same title out of the nation's cities. Across New England, and around the country, craft beer...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

Vandalism, vaping and evasion — those are the reasons Laconia High School Principal Jim McCollum listed in a letter to parents, explaining increased security at student bathrooms.“The problems started with vaping about four years ago and that issue...