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2 days ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
WOLFEBORO — State criminal investigators are renewing calls for help from the public in seeking information regarding the 2009 murder of a Wolfeboro woman whose case ran cold. Attorney General John Formella and the Cold Case Unit issued a renewed request for assistance on Friday morning, seeking information on the killing of Stacey Burns. Burns, who Formella described as a “loving mother of five” children, was apparently killed 16 years ago. “This remains an open homicide investigation.
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5 days ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — City councilors will hold one public hearing and consider several other items relating to private roads within city limits at their meeting on Monday night. The council meeting is set for 7 p.m. on Monday, May 12, at City Hall downtown. The public hearing scheduled for money is to deal with a request to extend emergency lane designations for Plantation and Colonial roads. Both roads are located off Endicott Street East in the Weirs.
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1 week ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — It took a bit of elbow grease and some old-fashioned bargaining, but a proposed apartment development on New Salem Street won planning board approval on Tuesday night, along with a partial waiver of impact fees, in exchange for keeping some of the units affordable.
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1 week ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — Police are tracking a sneaky driveway paving scheme cropping up around the city in recent weeks. “We’ve had several people that have been scammed,” Chief Matt Canfield said Tuesday morning. Several residents have reported solicitors showing up to their property, telling homeowners they’ve got leftover pavement after completing a job for the city, or otherwise and offering a cheap deal.
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1 week ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
FRANKLIN — Firefighters responded to a house fire on Sunday morning. There were no injuries. The City of Franklin Fire Department was dispatched to a reported building fire at 14 Timberland Drive just before 11 a.m. on May 4, Chief Michael Foss wrote in a news release. Tilton-Northfield Fire & EMS, as well as the Hill and Bristol fire departments were sent as automatic aid to Franklin.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — The Laconia Historical and Museum Society will open a museum on Water Street this summer. Tara Shore, president of LHMS, told city councilors at their meeting Monday night the group intends to open a museum at their 65 Water St. property as early as June. Shore presented to councilors the activities, achievements and challenges faced by the society over the last year, and the opening of the museum was the big ticket item. “We are the Laconia Historical and Museum Society,” Shore said.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — The site of an old conference center on the north end of the city is one step closer to providing housing, after councilors supported an amendment to the zoning ordinance at their meeting on Monday night. City councilors unanimously approved an amendment to the municipal zoning ordinance relative to the parcel at 35 Blueberry Lane, the location of the Beane Conference Center, in order to facilitate the development of housing there.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — City Manager Kirk Beattie presented a preliminary budget compliant with the tax cap, indicating a reduced tax rate, to the city council on Monday night. The budget process is just beginning to play out in public, but city department heads have been working to develop it for most of a year. The council has to pass a budget by the end of July, one month into fiscal year 2026.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LACONIA — A report compiled by the Lakes Region Planning Commission indicates the broader Lakes Region significantly lacks available housing. The 2023 Lakes Region Housing Needs Assessment details strong population growth over the past 20 years, and a distinct lack of available housing. The local experience over that time period closely mirrors conditions throughout New England, according to the report.
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2 weeks ago | 
laconiadailysun.com | Gabriel Perry
LAKEPORT — Kati Preston, a prolific orator and writer who survived the Holocaust in Hungary decades ago, had a message for a local audience this weekend about hate. “It took me 50 years to stop hating. I don’t hate anymore,” Preston said. “When your heart is full of hatred, there’s no room for anything else and I managed to fill my heart with love.”Around 200 people packed the Lakeport Opera House Sunday afternoon to view Preston's presentation.
