The Citizen (Laconia)

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The Citizen
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Geo. J. Foster Company
Editor	John Howe
Founded
Headquarters	171 Fair Street, Laconia, New Hampshire 03246  United States
Website: citizen.com

The Citizen is a seven day a week, morning daily newspaper in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA, the largest local paper serving the Lakes Region of that state. It has been owned since 1991 by Geo. J. Foster Company, publisher of Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, New Hampshire.

In the late 1990s, the Foster Company launched Foster's Sunday Citizen as a joint venture by Foster's Daily Democrat and The Citizen, neither of which previously had a Sunday edition.^[1]

The Citizen was formerly an afternoon paper called the Laconia Evening Citizen. It was owned by Lawrence J. Smith and Alma Gallagher Smith until the Foster Company took over, May 10, 1991.^[2]

In November 2006, The Citizen converted to morning publication; its sister paper in Dover followed a year later.^[3] The company made the change in order to compete with nearby papers such as the New Hampshire Union Leader and the Concord Monitor.^{[citation needed]}

The Saturday newspapers feature a "local" section. In that section is the History section, a look back at Laconia, NH from 125, 100, 75, 50, 25, and 10 years ago with articles from local newspapers of that time, as well as an old photograph of an area in Laconia (including Weirs Beach and Lakeport) with a description below it, then a current picture of the same area with an updated description. This interesting and unique section is written by Warren Huse.

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