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Franklin family moves into Habitat home

By BEA LEWIS
blewis@citizen.com
FRANKLIN — Members of the Board of Directors for Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity have gathered many times at a home at 15 Maple Square over the past year, but on Sunday they didn’t come to swing a hammer but to turn over the keys to the More...

Driver killed in accident on Route 16

TAMWORTH — A motorist was killed Sunday morning in a two vehicle crash on Route 16 near Chocorua Lake, according to New Hampshire State Police Troop E. More...

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Local

LAKES REGION FIRE LOG

Emergency 911 for February 9, 2012 1:09 a.m. Meredith EMS: Parade Road, medical aid. 2:37 a.m. Franklin: Smith Hill Road, service call. 3:44 a.m. Belmont: Johnson Street, CO detector activation. 4:51 a.m. More...

ALTON POLICE LOG

Police responded to 427 calls for service during the week of Jan. 15 and Feb. 4, including five arrests. One male subject was charged with willful concealment. One female was charged with willful concealment. More...

Lakes Region Weather Summary

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Nation/World

US admiral: Forces prepared to confront Iran

MANAMA, Bahrain — The top U.S. Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran’s military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region. More...

Advocates work to protect rattlesnakes in Vermont

By WILSON RING
Associated Press

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Every year from spring to fall, David Fedor-Cunningham stands ready to help his neighbors in western Rutland County clear their property of potentially lethal timber rattlesnakes. More...

NH launches online money management game

By HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press

CONCORD — Struggling with money is no fun, but learning how to manage it could be thanks to a new online program based in New Hampshire. More...

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Opinion

Is it bribery or just politics?

WASHINGTON — All elected officials, and those who help finance elections in the expectation that certain promises will be kept — and everyone who cares about the rule of law — should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelm More...

Stuck with NCLB: Why no waiver for NH?

GUEST EDITORIAL

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced that 10 states were granted waivers from the regulatory burdens of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Massachusetts was among the 10. More...

WHAT OTHERS SAY

On Mitt Romney and the poor:

Presidents have had New Deals, Fair Deals and a “war on poverty” aimed at lifting up the poor and preventing the middle and working classes from backsliding. More...

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Community

Passing out dictionaries

SOME OF THE OFFICERS as well as youth members of the Wicwas Lake Grange 292 of Meredith gathered at the Bristol Elementary School on Friday to give dictionaries to the school’s third graders. More...

The Art Place prepares new Ferber exhibit

WOLFEBORO — The Art Place in downtown Wolfeboro will hold its semiannual Peter Ferber Gallery Show on Saturday, Feb. 18, featuring the local artist’s collection of new, original paintings. More...

Bittersweet and strange

Why did I embark on a nighttime drive to Concord on the edge of an imminent snowstorm to sit unaccompanied in the dark to watch Beauty and the Beast, a film I had seen 1,000 times before and already owned on pristine DVD? More...

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Lake Waukewan attracted many anglers during ice fishing derby

By BEA LEWIS
blewis@citizen.com

MEREDITH — The Great Meredith Rotary Ice Fishing Derby kicked off on Saturday and, despite less than ideal ice conditions, the usual metropolis of bob houses of every size, shape and color sprang up on area lakes and ponds. More...

Snowmobilers now face DWI charges after lake rescue

By BEA LEWIS
blewis@citizen.com

GILFORD — Two snowmobilers who ended up in open water on Lake Winnipesaukee Saturday night are lucky to have survived the ordeal, authorities report. More...

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Region/State

Rioting engulfs Athens, buildings burn before vote

By DEREK GATOPOULOS
and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece — Demonstrators set buildings ablaze and fireballs lit up the night sky in Greece’s capital on Sunday amid widespread rioting before a historic parliamentary vote on harsh austerity measures designed to prevent the country More...

The fight begins: Obama’s budget going to Congress

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The new budget that President Barack Obama is sending to Congress aims to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade by restraining government spending and raising taxes on the wealthy. More...

Top Republican calls for birth control mandate exemption bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Barack Obama’s birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he’ll push to overturn the requirement because i More...

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Sports

Rondo puts on a show

Celtics rebound; beat Chicago

CELTICS BOSTON (AP) — Paul Pierce has been around long enough to know what Rajon Rondo’s performance can mean for the aging Boston Celtics. More...

Laconia’s Sleeper finishes 2nd

2012 GREAT MEREDITH ROTARY ICE FISHING DERBY
By RYAN O’LEARY
roleary@citizen.com

MEREDITH — Kurtis Sleeper knows the lakes in this area. He grew up in Gilford and resides in Laconia. He’s participated in the annual Great Meredith Rotary Ice Fishing Derby for 14 years running. More...

Mickelson crushes Tiger and wins Pebble Beach

GOLF
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — He knew his game was getting close, and he broke through with flair Sunday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. That turned out to be Phil Mickelson, not Tiger Woods. In a big, big way. More...

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Letters

Where’s the tolerance?

Editor, The Citizen: In the recent news of Komen for the Cure dropping Planned Parenthood from receiving grants from moneys raised by them and then bowing to pressure put on them by Planned Parenthood and pro abortion activists, shows who the intoler More...

Jon Tolman: A man of action

Editor, The Citizen: Moultonborough has been put in an ideal situation to elect a selectman who will retain the values of the town, listen to the people and clearly communicate to them, and put the town’s best interest as a priority. More...

The answer

Editor, The Citizen: Why does a citizen with no children have to pay school taxes? Think a moment... You went to school and were educated thanks to the older people in your town. Now it’s your turn. More...

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Entertainment

The impulse must be resisted

Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist who died in A.D. 65, said, “It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one’s impulses.” More...

Hints From Heloise

Explosive soda! Dear Heloise: Years ago, I had a sticky mess on my pantry floor and discovered that a SODA CAN HAD BURST. After cleaning it up, I placed the 12-pack boxes in a plastic container to contain the liquid if they exploded again. More...

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