The young women received the quilts from The Belknap Mill Quilters Guild as graduation presents for finishing the CORE program yesterday. (Roger Amsden/Laconia Daily Sun)By ROGER AMSDENLACONIA — Emmie Landry says her life has been completely changed thanks to the CORE program at the Belknap County Community Corrections Center. Some of the impetus for the donations came from Mento, whose son, Anthony, works with Concord architectural firm SMP Associates that designed the new corrections center. The Belknap County Delegation cut the $4.452 million budget proposed by Belknap County Commissioners for the department by over $300,000 and reduced the budget line for the CORE program from $220,000 to $126,000. Belknap County Corrections Superintendent Keith Gray said the outlook for the CORE program is unclear at this time.

Source: Daily Sun March 13, 2018 04:29 UTC