Week of Feb. 3-9, 2007

Saturday, February 3 The 120-year-old Conway Mineral Springs House, besides claiming a unique spot in the history books, holds a special place in the memory of local residents. A local Realtor with a sentimental attachment to the towering Village District of Eidelweiss sign has upped the reward to $150 for information leading to its recovery. On Saturday, Jan. 27, some 500,000 people, including residents from Mount Washington Valley, descended on Washington, D.C., for an anti-war rally on the Mall, and a peace march. George Shealy, an 84-year-old Wolfeboro man who was hit by a car last month while riding his bicycle on South Main Street near his home, has died of his injuries. Two Brazilians detained by local police after a traffic stop are processed for deportation hearings in U.S. District Court in Vermont, Wolfeboro police say.Monday, February 5 Viewers of Channel 3 will see fewer meetings and events from Fryeburg and Madison and better production in the programming from Conway, according to a plan laid out by the public-access television station staff and Conway selectmen. Bartlett voters will decide on a petition at town meeting that if passed would authorize selectmen to advise the town's cable provider to discontinue collection of a 3 percent franchise fee from cable subscribers. The New York Times, an American newspaper institution read by people around the world, heralds Ossipee in a vacation review as an unassuming haven, a soothing alternative to tonier tourist traps.Tuesday, February 6 Five months from the opening of a Home Depot store, the town needs to sort out what kind of improvement to make to the North-South Road at the eastern entrance to Settlers' Green. With steady rain, the weather for Super Bowl Sunday in Miami was the worst in the game's history. On the summit of Mount Washington, staff of the Mount Washington Observatory watched the Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears, 29-17, during a rare game-day freeze. Citing dangerous speeders, soaring crime statistics, and increasingly complex cases challenging police, safety officials are proposing staffing increases and infrastructure improvements for 2007. But town leaders worry about the cost. The SAU 9 school district will be paying $1.88 per gallon for heating oil next year, compared to $2.25 this year.Wednesday, February 7 It had become apparent over the last year that during the criminal solicitation trial of ex-jail guard Ronald Hutchins, which opened with a bang on Monday, the defense would seize on the opportunity to condemn the inner workings of Carroll County's correctional institution as corrupt. A Freedom lake home owned by a man on trial in Massachusetts for a double murder burns to the ground, laving authorities piecing together suspicious circumstances surrounding a neighborhood love triangle that turned deadly last spring. Candidate filing period for North Conway Water Precinct opens Wednesday. Incumbent commissioner Jim Umberger, whose term is up, has not decided whether to run again. Jackson residents will welcome accessory structures on already-developed properties known in the vernacular as "mother-in-law apartments" up to an extent, according to the results of a recent poll. Thursday, February 8 The days of drivers making left-hand turns onto North-South Road from Settlers' Green are numbered. Conway selectmen vote unanimously to reject building a roundabout at the busy intersection of Common Court and North-South Road, at least for now. The fire that destroyed the vacant home of jailed double-murder suspect Sean Fitzpatrick has been declared arson. When a person with a $200,000 home in Conway goes to pay their taxes this year, $500 of the total cost will be going to cover school and town employee health insurance and dental benefits something the Conway Municipal Budget Committee wants fixed. On a day filled with injured ice climbers and snowmobilers, Fish and Game officials were thankful for the help of Mark Synnott, of Jackson, who came to a fallen climber's rescue on Frankenstein Cliff, a popular climbing spot near Crawford Notch. Former inmate Carl Brooks testifies that he attacked Guy Priel, for community editor of The Conway Daily Sun,in the Carroll County Jail in July of 2004, and that the guard on trial for criminal solicitation, Ronald Hutchins, goaded the assault with taunts and threats. The late Gary Millen is inducted into the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association's Hall of Fame.Friday, February 9 Trim $90,000 from the budget that's the directive the Conway School Board gives Kennett High Principal Jack Loynd at a special meeting to finalize the 2007-08 budget. Eastern Slope Airport Authority wants Conway to contribute $12,000 this year the same amount budgeteers refused to recommend and voters refused to approve in 2006. The parents of slain Freedom vacation home owner Michael Zammitti Jr. successfully asked a judge last year to place a $2.5 million attachment on the home of their son's accused killer, Sean Fitzpatrick, warning the court that Fitzpatrick, a double-murder suspect sitting in jail, could be expected to hide his assets.