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Stories of the Year: Teens Swim Across Baboosic Lake – Twice
Join us as we count down some of the most read stories in Merrimack in 2013.
It's the end of the year and that means it's time to count down some of the top stories to hit Merrimack Patch this year (local stories of the year below).
It's been a newsy year around the country as Sandy Hook students returned to school in a new location following the tragic shooting at the end of 2012. In April, two bomb blast created chaos and terror at the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing three and injuring hundreds who lost limbs, suffered serious burns and shrapnel wounds and a plethora of other injuries. Days later, an MIT police officer was killed and his friend was critically injured late that night in a shootout with the bombing suspects.
We saw a country unite behind the city whose baseball team, months later earned its third World Series win in nine years.
Outside of New England, we saw George Zimmerman acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, and Jodi Arias was found guilty of murdering boyfriend Travis Alexander. A royal baby was born in July and the President Obama-led Affordable Care Act went into effect.
Over the days leading up to the end of the year, we'll choose a story or topic a day that has generated the most buzz in town this year. Check back each morning as we bring you back through 2013.
Teens Make Early Morning Swim Across Lake
Among our most read stories of the year was the quirky arrest of three teenagers who, in an attempt to elude police who had come to speak with them in the very early morning hours of July 20, on the Four Seasons Road beach.Police said at the time that three of the four young people they were attempting to speak with jumped in Baboosic Lake and swam across to the Amherst shore.
A short time later, a police officer who hung back at the beach saw two kayaks coming across the lake. When police tried to speak to the teens again, they dove back in for a second swim.
Officers waited near the beach and a short time later saw two kayaks returning across the lake. When the kayaks beached, police attempted again to talk to the teens but they jumped back in the lake and began a second swim.
One teen, Brian Peterson, 19, of Carriage Lane, Merrimack, turned back and was arrested for resisting detention.
Police used a boat provided by a Merrimack homeowner to cross the lake and arrest Lauren Provost, 17, of Lamson Drive, Merrimack, and Danielle Pelletier, 19 of Marty Drive, who were also arrested on a charges of resisting detention.
Read the full story here.
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