The Current Use Advisory Board has endorsed proposed changes in current use rates for tax year 2022-23 that represent modest increases in the forest land categories. Farmland would remain at its 2021-22 rate.
Business & Economy
Casella Protesters: We’re Not Going To Take It
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CONCORD — Punctuated by the chorus of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going To Take It,” a grassroots crowd of North Country residents and members of the Sierra Club, Community Action Works, Forest Lake Association, Conservation Law Foundation, and Save Forest Lake staged a protest outside the N.H. Department of Environmental Services’ Hazen Drive Headquarters on Friday afternoon.
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State Seeks Amendment To Casella Wetlands Application
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The Water Division of the Department of Environmental Services has asked Granite State Landfill, LLC, a Casella-owned company seeking a wetlands permit for its proposed new facility in Dalton, to submit an amended application that focuses solely on the first phase of the project.
Business & Economy
Water Has a Memory – Strawbery Banke Documents Sea Level Rise
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In a new exhibit, Strawbery Banke is documenting sea level rise here in New Hampshire.
Business & Economy
FDA Grants Full Approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine
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. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.
Environment & Science
Downgraded Henri Brings Heavy Rain, Winds To NH
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The National Weather Service predicts Henri will weaken Sunday night with winds gusting 20 to 30 mph in some places in New Hampshire especially in southern and coastal areas with high surf through Monday morning.
Environment & Science
Henri Makes Landfall; NH Experiencing Heavy Rains, Power Outages
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The most recent forecast predicts Henri crossing New Hampshire on Monday as a tropical depression but residents and visitors should not let their guards down.
Environment & Science
NH DHHS Identifies Season’s First Positive Test for West Nile Virus in Salem
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The batch was collected in the town of Salem on August 3, 2021.
Abby Herrick
Council Backs More Funds for Media Encouraging Getting Vaccinated Against COVID-19
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The state is shifting its COVID-19 vaccine media focus and spokesmen away from political figures like Gov. Chris Sununu to citizens who have received the benefits of receiving the shots, the Executive Council was told on Wednesday.
Energy
Op-Ed: Code Red on Global Warming
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“The really, really scary thing about the climate crisis is that every single achievement of every human society on Earth occurred under a climate that no longer exists.”