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/PRNewswire/ -- GovCIO won the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) National Capitals Corporate Growth Company Award in the over $250 million category...

100 Years Ago: 1922 The North Auburn Grange will hold its annual outing at Bear Pond, Saturday, August 13. William Bennett will make a round trip for

LACONIA – Last week’s school board meeting ushered in sudden changes and limits to public comment period that some audience members say caught them off guard and resulted in shouts, insults and accusations – and prompted the board to call a recess to...

Laconia School Board members walk out, residents hurl insults at chaotic meeting Published: 6/17/2021 7:23:36 PM  The Laconia School Board meeting devolved into chaos Tuesday as some members of the public tried to confront the board over the issue of critical race theory. Tuesday’s meeting marked the second time this month that a group of residents from Laconia and neighboring towns have come to press their opposition to critical race theory, an academic concept that seeks to explore how la...

Laconia school board member says masks in school violate state law Published: 5/6/2021 4:10:48 PM  A school board member is demanding that the school district rescind its COVID face mask regulation, saying that the order is illegal. Dawn Johnson said at Tuesday’s board meeting that requiring students to wear face masks is a violation of a state law that limits the use of child restraint practices in schools and treatment facilities. “We are in violation of this law. It restricts a child fr...

LACONIA — At an online School Board meeting with roughly 300 viewers and repeated calls for board member Dawn Johnson to step down, residents voiced outrage and loss of trust and faith in Johnson to serve the district after she linked on social media to anti-Semitic material from the neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer. Much of the criticism came from mothers of school children, who blasted Johnson for what they said were attitudes that run counter to the communitys values and school distr...

Taylor property sale will be decided at town meeting December 12, 2020MOULTONBOROUGH — The proposed sale of the Taylor Property will be decided by voters at town meeting after a citizens petition was submitted to the selectmen. During last Thursdays selectmens meeting, board of selectmen chair Kevin Quinlan announced the board received a petition signed by 65 people to put the sale of the property at 970 Whittier Highway up for the vote at the March 2021 town meeting. Under state law, this p...