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The Weirs Times was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert. The newspaper, then named Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette, was published until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902.
One of the most remarkable features of the publication was a map of Lake Winnipesaukee which occupied the center spread of the paper. Readers will find the same map reprinted on the center pages of this, and every issue.
The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and vicinity.
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Locally owned for over 19 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will be found in these pages, just the good stuff.
30,000 copies are distributed every week in the Lakes Region/Concord area. 15,000 delivered to
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Wanda Tibbetts
To The Editor: Lakeport lost it’s great-
est cheerleader, its Queen of Lakeport, that lady with a commanding stance, booming voice and a quick smile. Wanda Tibbetts passed away on Thurs- day, February 2, at Dart- mouth/Hitchcock Medical Center. The heart that she gave
to her Lakeport communi- ty gave out but her spirit will continue to inspire those that she led to com- plete her goals, the most important being the grand opening of the Lakeport Freighthouse Museum and Community Center for railroad and Lakeport memorabilia. Because she had a hear-
ing problem, her voice was strong but her ways were soft. She had leadership qualities that encouraged the most humble to ad- vance from the negative to the positive to tackle the task on hand and get the job done. Generations to come must respect Wan- da’s role in saving Lake- port historic sites like the
last Boston & Maine Rail- road building, the “Hatha- way House,” the Goss Reading Room while plan- ning for its growth with the TIF District, WOW Trail, Leavitt Park and the Elm Street Bridge and preserving the old oak tree in Torrey Park, cleaning up Bond Beach and beau- tifying Lakeport Square with flowers, flags and holiday decorations with Santa and scarecrows to greet all. Her customers will miss
their kind hair dresser that picked them up to give them their “do” in her shop. Hail to the Queen! We will miss our dear leader, Wanda Tibbetts, and we hope you will re- member her and share her dream of preserving Lakeport history as a rail- road hub established by the wealth of blue collar citizens that put it on the map . . . between Laconia and the Weirs.
Dorothy Duffy Lakeport Community Association
Schoolmates
To The Editor: As insignificant as we
all are - someone whom we attended school with remembers our name or
face...someone remem- bers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us. George Stephanopoulos
, ABC News, commented about the significance of knowing something about the person identified as Barack Hussein Obama. George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speech- es on campus. Stephano- poulos was a student at Columbia—class of 1984 and never had a single class with Obama. Even witnesses in the protective program aren’t this good.
William (Jim) Breagy Epsom , NH.
Flying Fishes
To The Editor: In regards to Mr. Ze-
buhr’s letter in the 2/2/12 issue.
Actually, I’ve no trouble
imagining a world such as Mr. Zebuhr
portrays...and neither did Mr. Orwell in 1948, when he wrote his terrifying futuristic novel “1984.” If anybody is guilty of ir-
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communities along the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee and another 15,000 to neighboring cities and towns. An independent circulation audit estimates that over 60,000 people read the Weirs Times every week.
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rational hope, “impossible dreams,” and believing in fairy tales, it is he, totally ignoring Atheism’s bloody record from the French Revolution all the way through to such nations - N. Korea, N. Vietnam, Red China and Cuba - where Communist blight is still alive and well. Atheism has yet to pro-
duce a Utopia. It’s totally incapable of doing so. It has yet to produce a fair, free and just society. It
can’t even produce a via- ble ethical system. Worse, it not only fails to provide any comfort or solace in difficult times, it then consigns its followers to oblivion. It may give you your fifteen minutes of fame but sixteen minutes from now, no one will even so much as remember you. Mr. Zebuhr and compa-
ny have convinced them- selves that they are the prophets and harbingers of a new age, busily clear- ing away the debris and wreckage of dead yester- days but my 7th grade teacher, himself a survi- vor of President Calles’ persecution of the Mexi- can Church in the ‘30s, describes them far more accurately: Flying fishes dashing their brains out against the armored sides of a speeding battleship in the arrogant belief they can bring it to a halt. Keep this letter in a safe
place and check it again in 2062 and we’ll see who’s right.
B.J. Figueredo Gonic, NH.
Battling Milfoil
To The Editor: The invasive water weed, known commonly as vari- able milfoil, started infest- ing our waters in the mid 60s. Surprisingly, the variety of milfoil which is harming our lakes is a mutant of an innocuous native species that’s on the endangered list in Penn- sylvania! Unfortunately this “new breed” of milfoil has no natural enemies in New England. It loves phosphorus, warm waters, soft, muddy bottoms, lots of light, shallow depths and can survive freezing and short times out of water. Left unchecked, the weed spreads rapidly, crowding out native spe- cies and turning pristine See MAIL BOAT on 20
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