June 30, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

Piatt returns to NH, will lead The Citizen

LACONIA — A veteran newspaper publisher will return to New Hampshire as publisher of the Eagle Times of Claremont and as regional manager for New Hampshire of the Sample News Group, which includes The Citizen of Laconia. More...

Special Sections

Local

Spaulding Youth Center Foundation receives MVSB grant

NORTHFIELD — The Meredith Village Savings Bank Fund has awarded a $5,000 grant to Spaulding Youth Center Foundation that will be used to support their two-year enrollment and marketing initiative. More...

Patriotic performance

THE MEREDITH Parks and Recreation Dept. will be hosting the Occasional Brass Quintet for a performance on Wednesday, July 4 from 7-9 p.m. at Hesky Park. More...

Community Aspirations petition gaining momentum in Lakes Region

LACONIA — The Community Aspirations petition has been circulating for the past six months. More...

Outdoors

No matter what, fishing is great

When I called to invite my buddy Pete to join me for a day of brook trout fishing in my favorite mountain stream, I was fairly optimistic that we’d catch a few fish. More...

Fishing at sunset

PEOPLE ENJOY FISHING at Lake Michigan in Chicago on Thursday, June 28, 2012. More...

Memorial service for fallen Mount Rainier ranger

ASHFORD, Wash. More...

Police/Fire Logs

LAKES REGION FIRE LOG

Emergency Number: 911 for Monday June 28 12:19 a.m. Belmont: Daniel Webster Highway, service call. 12:44 a.m. Franklin: Damy Drive, medical aid. 1:10 a.m. Franklin: Central Street, medical aid. 2:49 a.m. Laconia: Church Street, medical aid. More...

GILFORD POLICE LOG

Police responded to 24 calls for service on Wednesday. Police charged Melissa Flynn, 23, of 9 Oak St., Northfield, with two counts of vehicular assault. More...

TILTON POLICE LOG

Police responded to 199 calls for service on June 18- 24. Police charged Jesse Harwood, 41, of Northfield with driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs and breach of bail conditions. More...

History

THEN . . .

. . AND NOW

IN THE TOP PHOTO, from the historical collections at Laconia Public Library, a detail from an aerial photograph from the mid-1950s shows Main Street from the Court Street-Union Avenue intersection no More...

50 YEARS AGO

Playgrounds, beaches open

LACONIA — City playgrounds and beaches opened for the season, June 26, 1962, The Citizen reported, 50 years ago. Supervisor at Opechee Park was Kathleen Fenton; Leavitt Park, Patricia Plante; Wyatt Park, Mrs. Muriel Weeks; Tardif Park, Mrs. More...

25 YEARS AGO

Open new info booth on blvd.

LACONIA — Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce had opened its new information booth on Weirs Boulevard, The Citizen reported, 25 years ago. More...

Home & Garden

US new-home sales rose at fastest pace in 2 years

WASHINGTON — Americans bought new homes in May at the fastest pace in more than two years. The increase suggests a modest recovery is continuing in the U.S. housing market, despite weaker job growth. More...

Coldwell Banker Linwood Real Estate adds to Franconia team

FRANCONIA — Tom Tremblay, president of Coldwell Banker Linwood Real Estate, has announced that Jennifer Williams has joined the company’s administration team in the new Franconia office, while pursuing Sales Associate licensing. More...

EXIT Lakeside honors Agents of the Month

LACONIA — EXIT Lakeside Realty Group is proud to annouce that Marsha Foden has been named Agent of the Month in the Tilton Office and Brenda Rowan for the Laconia Office. More...

Committee shaves $1.5m off Huot building project

LACONIA — The Huot/Laconia High School Joint Building Committee (JBC) voted unanimously on Friday to accept a number of value engineering changes to the project’s original design resulting in $1.5 million in cost savings. More...

Justice won't prosecute Holder for contempt

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute a crime and he won’t be prosecuted for More...

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Nation/World

Tent-poles and tadpoles mark Hollywood's summer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The audiences are proving far more unpredictable than the movies Hollywood has created to pack them into theaters this summer. More...

Author explains ‘Why You’re Not Married ... Yet’

NEW YORK (AP) — In 2011, writer Tracy McMillan wrote an article for The Huffington Post titled, "Why You're Not Married." McMillan used a girlfriend's guide approach to possible reasons why some women cannot get a guy to commit including "you'r More...

Aspire: Magic Johnson's channel for black families

NEW YORK (AP) — As the crowd counted down, Magic Johnson pulled a large silver lever jutting from a box labeled "ASPiRE." With that, his new cable network went live. More...

Sports

Celtics take Sullinger, Melo in draft

CELTICS

BOSTON — Jared Sullinger had back problems. Fab Melo’s troubles came in the classroom. The Boston Celtics hope the two big men they drafted on Thursday night will help fix some of their issues on the court. More...

Post 66 uses big inning to beat Post 90

JUNIOR LEGION

The Durand-Haley Rangers Post 66 (Plymouth) team proved on Friday night that hitting really can be contagious. More...

Down 2 sets, Federer comes back, wins at Wimbledon

TENNIS

WIMBLEDON, England — A day after Rafael Nadal’s stunning exit at Wimbledon, the only other men who have won the tournament since 2003 — six-time champion Roger Federer and defending champion Novak Djokovic — found themselves t More...

Columnists

Vegetables are done, now time to plant all those berry bushes

By now my vegetable gardens is all planted, annual flowers are in, the weeds are pretty much under control. Time to relax and smell the roses? Well, maybe not. There are always tasks for the gardener. This is a good time to plant some berry bushes. More...

Community

Election results are in

NEW OFFICERS and board members were elected at the May 14 annual meeting of the Interlakes Community Caregivers. More...

Ouellette awarded Good Conduct Medal

Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Don F. Ouellette, son of Anne L. Morrison of Laconia, recently received the Navy Good Conduct Medal. The Good Conduct Medal recognizes the servicemember's honest and faithful service during a three-year period. More...

Colon enlists in US Navy

Civilian Elias D. LeBron Colon, whose wife, Christina, is the daughter of Elizabeth Dougherty of Spring Hill, Fla. More...

Churches/Religion

Attend Your Church This Weekend

United Methodist church fair is going tropical MOULTONBOROUGH — On Saturday, June 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Moultonborough United Methodist Church is having their annual church fair. More...

Lakes Health

LRGHealthcare’s Family Birthplace teaches Period of Purple Crying® program

LACONIA — The LRGHealthcare Family Birthplace is now offering new parents the Period of PURPLE Crying® education program. More...

Saving Our Treasured Chests auction event raises $16,000 for LRGH oncology patients

LACONIA — The Saving Our Treasured Chests: Getting Plastered with a Purpose event, held Wednesday evening during Bike Week at Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant, proved to be a great success. More...

Women invited to participate in Vitamin D research study

LACONIA — LRGHealthcare Oncology/Hematology and NH Oncology- Hematology PA consider the improvement of health care and disease prevention an integral part of their mission, and participation in research programs allows improved treatments and p More...

Entertainment

The sound of Dixieland at Franklin Opera House July 13

FRANKLIN — Dixieland, that raucous sound of Beale Street, Memphis, Bourbon Street, New Orleans and Mississippi riverboats will fill the air at the Franklin Opera House, with two great shows on Friday, July 13 as the Swift River Jazz Band comes More...

Marks and Models: Matthew Best and Paul Pham at The Studio

LACONIA — This month at The Studio, located at 84 Union Avenue in Laconia, artists Matthew Best and his partner Paul Pham share the gallery space for “Marks and Models,” opening Friday, July 6. More...

‘Classic Rockers’ series kicks July 5 with Dave Mason at The Flying Monkey

PLYMOUTH — The Flying Monkey Performance Center is excited to announce its “Classic Rockers” series of concerts in early July. More...