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Artists set out to revitalize downtown Laconia
LACONIA — Throughout downtown, benches and flowerpots are sprouting bright colors, displaying details of flowers. This is not an unauthorized phenomenon. The Laconia Parks and Recreation Department, in collaboration with resident Amanda Falwell, is spearheading the Enriching Laconia Project, which aims to revitalize the city with art. Amy Lovisek, director of recreation and facilities, is excited about the endeavor.
Newfound School Board to consider censuring members over public records, meeting violations
BRISTOL — As the Newfound Area School Board struggles to comply with New Hampshire’s right-to-know and conflict-of-interest laws, Bristol’s representative, whose wife will become the new curriculum coordinator for the school district, has called for the board to censure members from Groton and New Hampton whose criticism of the hire last month had veered into territory normally reserved for nonpublic discussion.
Up the Creek: The cobbler who saved the library
Like a good novel, a small town needs characters. When I was a kid in the 1970s, there was this freelance handyman here in Gilmanton, Razor Brown. Every year on the Fourth of July, he would lean into his status as the local bumpkin and walk in the parade barefoot, in overalls, wearing a straw hat and toting a jug of moonshine. His beard was long and wild, and his old hound dog walked beside him, leashed by a stray piece of rope.
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