The Sunshine Effect is a new series in The Laconia Daily Sun highlighting the people and organizations working to improve our communities through volunteering and fundraising. We believe that telling their stories will encourage others to support their work, and launch new charitable efforts of their own.
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FRANKLIN — Despite a successful opening weekend, the lack of snow this winter season has left the Veterans Memorial Ski Area struggling to sta…
GILFORD — Donna Kuethe has always liked bikes. So much so, that when she got her first job, instead of buying a car, she splurged on a Schwinn…
LACONIA — The New England Wolves will retire jersey No. 18 in memory of Mischa Fay during the 8th annual JBT game on Saturday. The game is a f…
LACONIA — A new food truck in the parking lot of E.M. Heath's Ace Hardware on Union Avenue offers much more than just lunch. At Papa’s Kitchen…
LACONIA — At the Huot Career and Technical Center at Laconia High School, the building construction and plumbing programs are working together…
LACONIA — Right before lunch and recess, all the antsy kindergartners from Elm Street Elementary School gathered in the hallway outside their …
GILFORD — At the scenic pond at the base of Gunstock Mountain, friends and former colleagues are planning to build a covered bridge and walkin…
GILFORD — Delilah Smock, 17, could be described as a stereotypical high school student. She's a talented athlete in both softball and ski raci…
LACONIA — “No” is not in Paige Youschak-Thompson’s vocabulary.
LACONIA — After serving the community for seven years, the Belknap House is looking to expand. St. James Episcopal Church is supporting this e…
PLYMOUTH — The New Hampshire nonprofit Common Man for Ukraine completed its seventh humanitarian aid trip to Ukraine Nov. 6-14. With a nine-tr…
WOLFEBORO — A young skier, enamored of the sport, purchases the best pair of skis, with the latest and fastest design, that they can afford. I…
MEREDITH — It’s a sign of patriotism to fly an American flag, yet doing so comes with a set of rules. One shouldn’t let the flag touch the gro…
Rachel Xavier, the founder of The Xavier Group, meets new people all the time.
BELMONT — The assignment was to do something that pushed her out of her comfort zone. But for Belmont High School senior Chasey Fleck, the wor…
LACONIA — Featuring the annual holiday parade, a “Santa Shuffle” 5K, a decoration competition, an outdoor “food court” and more, Celebrate Lac…
FRANKLIN — The Three Rivers City’s third annual Fall Festival — featuring the popular Soup Fest fundraiser — makes its way to Marceau Park on …
LACONIA — If heads of state are sitting down to a meal, how much does the menu matter? Quite a bit, in the eyes of journalist and historian Al…
Cindy Hemeon-Plessner may be a banker by trade, but what she’s always invested in is children.
MOULTONBOROUGH — Shelby Boudreau has a string of beads, in which each bead represents a particular step in her daughter’s health journey. Ther…
FRANKLIN — Bonnie Tisdale knows the look — the expression and the appearance of someone in the grips of addiction, someone whose illness has c…
MEREDITH — The Heart and Hands Thrift Shop sells clothing for adults at $3 per item, and children’s apparel for 50 cents, and it’s only open t…
When Elizabeth Brothers was a young girl, she hiked Mount Chocorua with her parents one chilly day. At the summit, the family met a boy who ha…
LACONIA — The April Fools Day edition of The Laconia Sun landed with a bang. Whether out of confusion because they had been successfully prank…
MOULTONBOROUGH — Fran Orenstein designed her Arts and Crafts-style home on serene Wakondah Pond with a vision. Now, she’s selling it with one, too.
BELMONT — When life gives you lemonade, according to teen Ella O’Hara, sell it to raise money for a cause.
Bob Manley of Hermit Woods Winery & Eatery named champion of Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction
MEREDITH — A photographer, a geologist and a pilot are the rather accidental masterminds behind Hermit Woods Winery & Eatery.
“Dedicated,” “strong-willed,” and “hardworking” are just a few frequent phrases friends and co-workers use to describe Kurt Webber. Webber, co…
PLYMOUTH — Were Mark Twain a member of the New Hampshire Music Festival, he might have said the rumors of the organization’s death have been g…
LACONIA — Freya is an outgoing kid who likes people, singing and anything with a motor. She also has mobility issues, which make it challengin…
LACONIA — The feelings high-schoolers can get from prom — of coming of age, of confidence, of the thrilling spectacle of a formal event — are …
You may be sipping your morning coffee while reading the paper today. For most of us, this is how our day starts. We wake up wondering when th…
CENTER HARBOR — One step leads to another and, tens of thousands of steps later, marathon runners will reach the finish line. A local resident…
LACONIA — When you think of a closet in a high school, you might imagine a dusty storage space filled with forgotten textbooks and school supp…
The clock is ticking on the future of the New Hampshire Music Festival.
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