Laconia the southwest of Laconia. Laconia has a Mediterranean climate with warm winters and hot summers. Snow is rare on the coast throughout the winter but is very common in the mountains. Evidence of Neolithic settlement in southern Laconia has been found during excavations of the Alepotrypa cave site. In ancient Greece, this was the principal region of the Spartan state. For much of classical antiquity the Spartan sphere of influence expanded to Messenia, whose inhabitants (the Helots) were enslaved. Significant archaeological recovery exists at the Vaphio-tomb site in Laconia. Found here is advanced Bronze Age art as well as evidence
Country News Club Daily Sun" is printed at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire presses of Seacoast Media Group, which also publishes "The Portsmouth Herald". Country News Club and its daily newspapers were founded by Dave Danforth, Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan, the latter two of whom were still on the Conway and Berlin papers' mastheads, as of early 2012, as publisher and editor, respectively. Guerringue and Hirshan partnered with Edward J. Engler to found Lakes Region News Club and "The Laconia Daily Sun". In 2012 Engler remained publisher-editor of the Laconia paper. The Portland paper was begun in February 2009 as a joint effort