June 4, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

Drugs, weapons seized in Franklin

FRANKLIN — Police confiscated numerous weapons, a video surveillance system, and a substantial amount of money during a warranted search of a Pearl Street residence on Thursday. More...

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Local

Transient faces four drug charges

LACONIA — A transient is facing four counts of sales of a narcotic drug after police arrested him on Thursday. More...

Are Franklin students and teachers making the grade?

FRANKLIN — It could pass for any other faculty meeting: A small group of teachers quietly chat with administrators and one another at a long table near the principal’s office. More...

County Democrats to meet on June 5

LACONIA — The Belknap County Democrats will hold their biennial election for a full slate of officers — chair, vice-chair, treasurer, secretary and two delegates to next year’s state Democratic Party convention — on Tuesday, J More...

Sports

Bobcats fall in semis

HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP

NASHUA — A fast start wasn’t quite enough for the Bobcats. More...

Power players

Chase, Golden Eagles slug Tigers

GILFORD — In a blink of an eye — or, more appropriately, a crack of the bat — Hannah Chase has transformed herself as a hitter. More...

Bard rocked in loss

RED SOX

TORONTO (AP) — Daniel Bard the starter isn’t acting or pitching like Daniel Bard the reliever, and the results aren’t pretty. More...

Columnists

Active-duty parents

These are the busiest weeks for your active-duty parents, what with recitals and sports and don’t forget the big Spring Songfest and good old Yay for Art Night. More...

No greater coward: A review of ‘The Raven’

Universal Pictures chose to release The Raven on the final week of April, hoping to ensnare the most supple moviegoers (read: Dack Rouleau) before Disney unleashed its own monstrosity, The Avengers. More...

Protecting US waterways is good politics

It’s not too soon to begin asking politicians seeking election in November where they stand on restoring clean water safeguards. More...

Entertainment

Photo

Full Story

Woman searches for recourse to ex-husband’s public abuse

DEAR ABBY: I’m divorced with a young son. My ex-husband and I share joint custody, and for the most part it has worked well. My problem is that my ex is very bitter about our divorce and the fact I have moved on with my life. More...

ASTROLOGY

Monday, June 4, 2012 Celebrities born on this day: Bar Refaeli, 27; Russell Brand, 37; Angelina Jolie, 37; Noah Wyle, 41. More...

Baring heads for a good cause

GILFORD — For the eighth year on Saturday, the Lakes Region Chapter of the St. More...

More than 150 killed in Nigerian plane crash

LAGOS, Nigeria — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the tro More...

Inter-Lakes teacher gaining distinction

MEREDITH — If one were to document the professional activities of Corey Henderson, Spanish teacher at Inter-Lakes High School, one would be very impressed. More...

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Region/State

New wing of state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit opens

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections opened a new 8,000 square-foot, 40-bed wing of the Secure Psychiatric Unit/Residential Treatment Unit in Concord on Wednesday. More...

Nation/World

British queen leads jubilee flotilla

LONDON — The River Thames became a royal highway Sunday, as Queen Elizabeth II led a motley but majestic flotilla of more than 1,000 vessels in a waterborne pageant to mark her Diamond Jubilee. More...

Zimmerman in police custody

MIAMI — George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police Sunday and was booked into jail after having his bail revoked two days earlier. More...

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MA alumni basketball game  Free Access 

Just a heads up on an event going on in Moultonborough on Friday: Moultonborough Academy will hold an alumni basketball game June 8 at 7 p.m. at the MA gym. The game will pit the varsity basketball team against an all-star team of alumni. More...

Opinion

Wisconsin’s temper tantrum

I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. No sir, Not I, Not me, So there! — “Peter Pan” the musical, 1954 More...

GUEST EDITORIAL

The drop in child mortality

“The biggest, best story in development.” That is how Michael Clemens, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, described swiftly declining child mortality rates across Africa in an interview with the Economist. More...

Letters

Pretty Woman & Mitt Romney

Editor, The Citizen: I will say that probably many hundreds of thousands of people in the US watched this movie starring Julia Roberts (Vivienne) and Richard Gere (Edward). It was a good romantic comedy filmed in 1990. More...

Romney’s failed record

Editor, The Citizen: Governor Romney has based his Presidential campaign on the premise that he is best suited to improve our nation’s economy. As governor of Massachusetts his performance was disappointing. More...

Wanda Tibbetts

Editor, The Citizen: The following letter to Mayor Michael Seymour and Laconia City Councilors was submitted for publication: More...

Community

Building coops for a cause

MEREDITH — When the market for multi-million-dollar lakefront homes dried up, so did the paychecks for Justin Ludwick and his best friend, Jim Erdel. More...

Facebook: The Anti- Social Network?

Social media sites like Facebook connect users with old friends, new acquaintances and everyone in between. However, studies are revealing an inverse link with online connections and deeper, face-to-face relationships. More...

Mount Washington Cruises helps Red Cross blood drive

GILFORD — Mount Washington Cruises and the American Red Cross are partnering to shore up blood supplies. More...