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Kerry Sullivan checks on some of the plants in the greenhouse at Osborne’s Agway in Belmont. The new farm and garden center opened in April and is the third store owned by the Osborne family. (Roger Amsden/ for The Laconia Daily Sun)

BELMONT — The Osborne family of Loudon has a long tradition of farming and that continues in a new and different way with the opening of their third Agway Farm and Garden Center, located just east of the Mosquito Bridge.

The family has been farming the rocky soil of New Hampshire since 1776. David and Louise Osborne milked cows at their hilltop farm in Loudon for more than 30 years. In the mid 70s, they even tried their hand at the retail business, operating a farm store out of their home, selling fresh milk, eggs, and meat, all the while raising four sons, three of whom have returned home from different careers to help run the family farm and their Agway stores .

After making the tough decision to sell the cows in 1986, they embarked upon a new adventure, open-

ing their first Agway store in Hooksett in 1987. Their son, Andy, returned home to help them run the store and also operate the farm in Loudon, which still pro-duces products marketed through the stores, such as hay, firewood, bedding plants, perennials, fall mums, and pumpkins.

In 1998, when Agway was getting out of store management and concentrating on being a supplier, another son, Tom, who had worked for corporate Agway out of college, returned to New Hampshire and helped the family open a new store on Sheep Davis Road in Concord in 2000.

A third son, Paul , who was self-employed as a logger for 15 years before joining the family busi-ness full time in 2002, now manages the daily opera-tions of the new Winnisquam store.

‘’I used to help out in the stores during mud season when I couldn’t log,’’ says Paul, whose experience in the forestry industry has helped the Osbornes grow their firewood and wood pellet business.

He says that the he’s pleased with the new loca-tion, which was built on the site of the former Gour-met Food Barn, and that the existing building was able to be incorporated into the farm and garden supply business operation as a country store and craft shop, which is reached from the main store

Osborn family opens 3rd Agway Farm & Garden Center — this one in Winnisquam section of Belmont

By RogeR AmsdenFOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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through a covered walkway which starts at the greenhouse and takes customers through a display of fl owering plants .

All told, the buildings total nearly 15,000-square-feet and the center offers a wide variety of farm supplies, dog, cat and equine supplies, grains, incu-bators, seeds, bulbs, planters and fertilizers.

The greenhouse and garden center are fi lled with a wide selection of fl owers and shrubs along with fountains and other lawn and fl ower garden orna-mentation.

The store also offers a line of Carhartt clothing and footwear, and the country store offers food items, including raw milk, cheeses and local eggs.

Paul Osborne says freshly baked goods will soon be available, baked in the commercial kitchen down-stairs in the former food barn location.

‘’We’re going to have pies and all kinds of bakery products which will be sold right here,’’ says Osborne, who says the bakery will be operated by Debbie Cousineau, known as “AbracaDebra” for her kitchen magic.

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GILFORD — The N.H. Department of Transporta-tion will be doing bridge work on Belknap Mountain Road, also known as Carriage Road, in Gilford that will require the closure of the road during daytime hours on Wednesday, June 20.

Belknap Mountain Road bridge over Gunstock Brook closed Wed.This road closure to vehicle traffi c, from 6 a.m.

until 3:30 p.m., will allow for the application of an epoxy sealant to the bridge that carries Belknap Mountain Road over Gunstock Brook.

an emergency meeting and, after a 10 day posting period, fi led the petition late last week.

According to the notice of posting, “any interested party may appear at the hearing and show why the petition should or should not be granted,” how-ever anyone wishing to be heard must fi le a writ-ten notice of appearance Belknap County Superior Court and with the Gilford Board of Selectmen in care of Mitchell Municipal Group, 25 Beacon Street East in Laconia.

The petition for a special town meeting — in this case if granted there will be a deliberative session and a separate SB-2 ballot vote — was generated by the news that the town’s secondary attack fi re truck could take as much as $60,000 to $90,000, depending on who you ask, to repair and place back in service.

Voters had the opportunity to replace Engine 4 at this year’s annual town meeting, but chose not to. At the time, the Budget Committee voted split 6-6 against recommending a new truck while selectmen

voted 3-to-0 against the purchase.At the time of the recommendations, selectmen

had information that the pumper tanker could be repaired for about $35,000. Since that time, the town has learned the pump housing on the 25-year-old pumper tanker is cracked.

In addition, an inspection by the Lakes Region Fire Apparatus of Tamworth showed there were additional repairs needed including the brakes, which caused the state to order the town to remove it from service, a radiator, some wiring issues, and broken cab mounts. The fi re truck was towed back to Gilford.

In light of the new information, the Budget Com-mittee, comprised of different members than the earlier Budget Committee, voted 8-to-4 to lease the new truck while selectmen, the same three men, voted 3-to-0 to do the same.

Judge Kenneth McHugh will preside over the evi-dentiary hearing, which will be limited to 30 minutes.

— Gail Ober

JUDGE from page one

bank of microphones and exclaimed: “Wow!”Hardin said Clemens had to hustle to get to court

in time to hear the verdict. “All of us had told Roger there wouldn’t be a verdict for two, three or four days, so he was actually working out with his sons almost at the Washington Monument when he got the call that there was a verdict.”

Prosecutors declined to comment as they left the courthouse. But the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce said in a written statement, “The jury has spoken in this matter, and we thank them for their service. We respect the judicial process and the jury’s verdict.”

Clemens, 49, was charged with two counts of per-jury, three counts of making false statements and one count of obstructing Congress when he testifi ed at a deposition and at a nationally televised hear-ing in February 2008. The charges centered on his repeated denials that he used steroids and human growth hormone during a 24-year career produced

354 victories.The fi rst attempt to try Clemens last year ended

in a mistrial when prosecutors played a snippet of video evidence that had previously been ruled inad-missible.

Still, Monday’s verdict is unlikely to settle the matter in sports circles as to whether Clemens cheated in the latter stages of a remarkable career that extended into a period in which performance-enhancing drug use in baseball was thought to be prevalent. Clemens himself told Congress at the 2008 hearing that “no matter what we discuss here today, I’m never going to have my name restored.”

A crucial barometer comes this fall, when Clem-ens’ name appears on the Hall of Fame ballot for the fi rst time. His statistics would normally make him a shoo-in for baseball’s greatest honor, but voters have been reluctant to induct premier players — such as Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro — whose

CLEMENS from page 2

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