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It was a relatively quiet afternoon at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport on Sunday, but those who drove by the terminal would have noticed eight people with signs protesting against Avelo Airlines. The protest was timed to coincide with the departure of Avelo Flight 605, headed to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, where another demonstration took place.
What I hadn’t thought much about was the people behind the scenes who make the systems work. Those are the System Operators, who manage the transmission and distribution electric grids across Eversource’s New Hampshire service territory.
At its regular board meeting Tuesday, leaders of the Pease Development Authority heard pleas for them to halt flights carrying detained immigrants out of Portsmouth International Airport, which the Authority oversees.
Travelers headed to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains Friday afternoon were treated to a series of banners expressing messages like “Resist,” “No Kings,” “Fight Fascism,” and “No Troops in US Streets,” accompanied by American flags.
After surviving a traumatic encounter with armed and masked ICE agents near his Manchester home on Saturday, Edisson Erazo was able to relate his story to U.S. Representative Maggie Goodlander, D-NH, outside the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester on Tuesday.
Concord police are seeking information from anyone who witnessed an altercation between a bystander and a group of people marching downtown carrying a flag with a swastica and a sign saying, “Trump Loves Epstein” on Saturday at about 1:30 p.m.
On August 1, the thirty-fifth anniversary of Pamela Smart’s incarceration, a group of formerly incarcerated women from New York came to the State House to ask Gov. Kelly Ayotte to visit Smart at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York, where Smart is serving a life sentence.
A new biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born in Concord in 1890, provides evidence that Flynn, a celebrated and maligned labor and political leader for much of the 20th century, fits the bill. A marker for Flynn was installed in 2023 only to be taken down two weeks later.
Marking the fifth anniversary of Lewis’ passing, “Good Trouble Lives On” is the theme of 20 demonstrations taking place in New Hampshire tomorrow and more than 1600 nationwide.