March 3, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

Cooper Products proposes doubling factory size

LACONIA — Cooper Products, a manufacturer of gaskets and seals, wants to expand its operations in the city and is asking the Laconia Planning Board for permission to build an addition that would double the size of its current plant at 210 Fair More...

STAYING ALIVE

Panthers survive, head to semis

MOULTONBOROUGH — Marcus Swedberg could finally exhale. There was never a calm moment during Moultonborough’s fourquarter grind against Epping Friday, and the usually stoic senior couldn’t help but take a long, drawn-out breath. More...

Special Sections

Local

Superintendent announces retirement

MEREDITH — Dr. Phil McCormack, superintendent of School Administrative Unit 2, which serves the Inter-Lakes and Ashland school districts, has announced his retirement, effective June 30. More...

PSU announces new endowed professorship

PLYMOUTH — A former student of a Plymouth State alumna has honored her teacher and mentor by creating an Environmental Studies Endowed Professorship. More...

Sports

Belmont-Gilford hockey, Prospect Mountain boys basketball move on

Lakes Region sports teams celebrated a pair of thrilling, upset tournament wins Saturday. More...

B-G primed for playoffs

D-III BOYS HOCKEY PLAYOFFS

BELMONT — After a season peppered with Shoulda Had Its and Almost Wons, the Belmont- Gilford boys ice hockey team kicks off the Division III playoffs Saturday as an underdog. More...

Ortiz to start at 1B for Sox in college game

RED SOX

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — David Ortiz seemed as surprised as anybody when he found out he would be starting at first base for the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night. “I am?” the slugger asked Friday. More...

Columnists

Farewell, honored prophet

WASHINGTON — The most accomplished social scientist of the last halfcentury would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan was President Nixon’s domestic policy adviser. More...

Seven Commandments — or Strong Suggestions — for Parents Everywhere

Among the many items on the list of Things to Know about Parenting, those surrounding the subject of embarrassment figure prominently. More...

Battening down

While New Englanders were enjoying the unseasonably higher temperatures and absence of snow in recent weeks, we wonder if meteorologists inwardly suspected that the odds of escaping any significant winter storms this month were nil. More...

History

THEN... AND NOW...

 IN THE TOP PHOTO, courtesy of George Landry, the new Wood’s Mill, off Bayside Court, Lakeport, is seen around 1915, with houses on Moulton Street in the distance across Lake Opechee. H.H. More...

Lakes History

LACONIA — The Manchester Daily Union was quoted, 125 years ago this week, in regard to The Laconia Democrat’s article, the previous week, calling for uniting Laconia and Lake Village: More...

Our yesterdays

125 YEARS AGO (1887) from The Laconia Democrat More...

Entertainment

Hints from Heloise

Lingering odors sent on their way

Dear Readers: Are LINGERING ODORS around the house a problem? Commercial products are expensive, and they sometimes just mask the odor. What can you use that is cheap and effective? Grab that jug of plain ol’white or apple-cider vinegar. More...

The newest ship of the Disney Cruise Line

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Mariah Carey helped christen the new Disney cruise ship Fantasy at a Hudson River pier in Manhattan on Thursday night and promised to bring her twins back to enjoy some Disney hospitality. More...

The new online video: ‘Yahoo comedy art’

Like any network executive Erin McPherson spent the winter half-crazed over content decisions. She sifted through pitches, sat through pilots, took conference calls over the Christmas holiday from a bedroom in her parents' Colorado home. More...

Four injured in Tilton accident

Collision

TILTON — Two adults and two children — one of them a baby — were transported to Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia following an afternoon accident at the intersection of Laconia Road (Routes 3- 11) and Silver Lake Road on Frid More...

Obama: I’m not bluffing on Iran

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. More...

A career that ran full circle

LACONIA — After 44 years, Nancy Williams- Hunt on Friday ended her career exactly where she began it: with her hometown bank, Meredith Village Savings. More...

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Region/State

Mass. court arguments on 351-year-old will

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Appeals Court should not allow trustee mismanagement to justify efforts to tear up the 351-yearold will that created the nation’s oldest charitable trust to raise funds for Ipswich public schools, an attorney fo More...

Nation/World

Smokey Robinson visits Duke Ellington students

WASHINGTON — Music legend Smokey Robinson reached out to a new generation of performing artists Friday, telling them they were starting out as he did: “with a love for doing something creative.” More...

Historic plantation to be auctioned

BRAITHWAITE, La. — A grand, white-pillared plantation house built on historic River Road near the Mississippi nearly 200 years ago will be sold in a March 10 auction that could provide a new twist in its colorful history. More...

USDA unveils new conservation program

DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled a program Friday that will offer financial incentives for farmers to enroll up to 1 million new acres of grasslands and wetlands into the conservation reserve program. More...

Citizen Sports Blog  Free Access 

A closer look at Moultonborough's comeback  Free Access 

The top-seeded Moultonborough Academy boys basketball team faced its largest second-half deficit of the season Friday night with is season on the line in the Division IV quarterfinals. An 8-2 third-quarter run had No. More...

Cassidy's survival key in T'wolves win  Free Access 

With four fouls to his name early in the fourth quarter of Saturday's quarterfinal game against Campbell, Prospect Mountain guard Pat Cassidy threw his hands to his head when he heard a whistle. Cassidy couldn't believe it. More...

Police/Fire Logs

LACONIA DISTRICT COURT

Judge James M. Carroll IV heard the following cases in the 4th Circuit Court, District Division Laconia: More...

LAKES REGION FIRE LOG

Emergency Number: 911 More...

Community

Attend Your Church This Weekend

FRANKLIN — On Sunday at 10 a.m., the Rev. Brendan Hadash will present “Charles Dickens: 19th Century UU.” Charles Dickens will speak about hope on this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. More...

IN THE SCHOOLS

Local St. Lawrence students study abroad CANTON, NY — The following students are participating in St. Lawrence University's International Study Program for the spring 2012 semester. Emma L. More...

BIRTHS

Davis LACONIA — Kevin and Danielle (Center) Davis of Laconia have announced the birth of their son, Colby Alden Davis, born on Feb. 2, 2012 at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. Colby weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. More...

Business & Finance

New-home sales dip after 4 straight monthly gains

WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes dipped in January but the final quarter of 2011 was stronger than first estimated. More...

Senior Lifestyles

Seniors stay safer with new technology services

New in-home technologies are helping seniors live independently longer. More...

For boomers, a new era of ‘work til you drop’

LOS ANGELES — When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine. More...

Alas, do not smite me with snow for speaking too soon

The Roman god, Mars, is to roar in like a lion and chase old man winter out like a lamb. We are to look southward for the approaching redbreasted robins and near our feet for the drooping snowdrops and crowning crocuses for signs of spring. More...