Schools striving for some normalcy for year-end events Published: 5/6/2021 4:17:54 PM After last year’s anti-climatic graduation season, school officials are going to great lengths to organize end-of-year activities this spring that hopefully will capture, at least to a limited degree, the magic of those moments and define one of life’s biggest turning points. Events like proms and graduations will be similar, but not the same. COVID is lifting, but it isn’t gone. Using the federal and state guidelines as starting points Laconia and Gilford high schools have come up with plans that they feel strike the right balance between a celebration to remember at a time when restraint is still the watchword. Face masks and social distancing will be required.