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1 week ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
LACONIA — Hope Makris, who for more than 80 years helped run one of the region’s most iconic hospitality businesses, has died. She was 100. According to her obituary, Makris died on May 29. She was predeceased by her husband Peter, with whom she had three daughters. She also leaves behind four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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1 week ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
LACONIA — The city is finalizing a deal to sell the top two floors of the parking garage to a private business, but not the same developer who previously entered a purchase-and-sale agreement with the city a year and a half ago. Instead, the city is negotiating with the owners of Fit Focus, an exercise business which takes up most of, and already owns, the ground level of the three-floor structure. “We have an intent to purchase [letter] from a private business,” said City Manager Kirk Beattie.
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1 week ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
MEREDITH — There’s a certain satisfaction that comes from a life in the furniture business, according to Chip Ippolito. You’re not just selling a couch or table, you’re helping a family build a home, he said. That’s what he and his brothers have been doing for most of their adult lives.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
LACONIA — Age 22 can be a tough time for some students, as the birthday which ages them out of the public school system. For those who remain engaged with high school education as 22 approaches, preparing to transition out of school and into adult life can be a challenge. Previously, Laconia School District contracted with a third-party service to prepare for this transition.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
ALTON — Charges against Brian Fortier, co-owner of West Alton Marina, might have been dropped in February, but it takes time to unwind a years-long criminal prosecution. In March, Fortier’s attorney requested his client be released from protective orders which prohibited him from contacting certain persons involved in the complaints, and that order has since been granted by Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Leonard.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
MEREDITH — The top 10 graduates of Inter-Lakes High School are planning to launch into the world to help improve lives, crunch numbers, dance and travel. Alec Adorno, of Meredith, will be studying finance at UNH this fall. “I’ve taken all of the business classes here, and one at [Lakes Region Community College]. It’s interested me more than the other classes I’ve taken,” he said. He intends to start a career by working in data analytics or investment banking.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
LACONIA — The trial for Sherry Connor, who stands accused of causing the death of her young grandson as well as abusing three other children entrusted to her care, is now scheduled for late August after initially being slated to take place this month. Connor has been charged with negligent homicide and manslaughter for the death of her 5-year-old grandson, Dennis “Boo” Vaughan Jr., who was found unresponsive by paramedics in Connor’s then-home on Blueberry Lane on Dec. 24, 2019.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
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3 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
LACONIA — A chat supposedly containing several members of Republican leadership of the New Hampshire House was leaked to the media earlier this week. A local legislator is asking why some of their peers are permitted to invoke threats of violence to fellow lawmakers, while others are removed from committee seats for the transgression of voting their conscience. The chat was first reported in a May 12 article published on the Granite Post website.
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3 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Adam Drapcho
MEREDITH — Sometimes the things owners do for the benefit of their dogs can improve the human’s life as well. That’s certainly the case for Corrie Hempel, an educator who grew up in the Lakes Region and recently joined one of the most exclusive hiking clubs in the world: those who have submitted each of New Hampshire’s 48 4,000-foot peaks in each month of the year. The challenge is referred to as “The Grid,” so named after the spreadsheet necessary to keep track of the pursuit.
