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Portsmouth Mayor Deaglan McEachern said he and the city council have authority over the Portsmouth Police Department budget’s bottom line as they do most departments but no say on how it is spent or who is hired or fired.
The crash involving Jackie Burnett, Portsmouth Police Chief Mark Newport’s executive assistant, appears to have been more serious than first reported, but many of the details remain confidential.
Thomas Quinn with 2,283 votes, and Arnie Rosenblatt with 1,954 beat Jason Sorens’ 1,110 votes for the two seats on the Amherst Planning Board in Tuesday’s town meeting vote.
The state Supreme Court reversed domestic violence and simple assault convictions against former state Sen. Jeffrey Woodburn, 57, of Whitefield on Thursday and ordered a new trial.
In fact, I am appalled that the New Hampshire Supreme Court refused to release how the four justices decided their 2 to 2 split that allowed the lower court’s ruling keeping Gov. Chris Sununu’s records confidential on his change of heart on a redistricting bill stand.
State Police Sgt. Joseph Ronchi said Thursday it will take at least 60 days and possibly longer to provide public records about the Feb. 25 at 1:24 a.m. crash into a telephone pole in Portsmouth involving Jackie Burnett, the executive assistant to Portsmouth Police Chief Mark Newport.
Town meetings that postponed voting March 14 because of the Nor’Easter will be held March 28, but under certain circumstances you can vote absentee between now and then.
Portsmouth Police Chief Mark Newport’s executive assistant Jackie Burnett pleaded guilty Monday to reckless operation, a violation that was reduced from misdemeanor DUI impairment after her car crashed into a telephone pole at 1:25 a.m. on Feb. 25.
There has been considerable confusion about Tuesday’s town meetings after the Secretary of State and Attorney General said at 1:14 p.m. today Monday that people could vote by absentee today Monday March 13 if they lived in a town with a National Weather Service winter weather warning, but then changed after some towns postponed their meetings.