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With the water temperature a pleasant 70 degrees, it could be a good time for a swim in Lake Winnipesaukee as the state has taken down all cyanobacteria warnings and watches for the Big Lake Wednesday.
Lori Harnois, director of the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development, has resigned her post in state government.
Just days after the White Oak Pond Watershed Association filed a $100,000 grant application with the state to create a watershed management plan for the 298-acre water body, the red warning sign went up Monday warning of cyanobacteria.
Members of the state’s tourism, restaurant and lodging industry got a chance to hear from the two top candidates running for governor Monday about how they would handle leadership on issues of mutual concern if elected on Nov. 5.
A peninsula in the north east corner of New Castle, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River into the Atlantic Ocean, which is home to the U.S. Coast Guard, the historic Revolutionary War ruins of Fort Constitution and the Portsmouth Lighthouse, has been heavily damaged by storms in January and will not be ready to receive visitors for the 250th anniversary of the historic Patriot raid there on Dec. 13.
After facing widespread criticism in August over its engineering plans to change the outlay of retail in Rye Harbor, the Pease Development Authority voted Thursday to direct staff to stand down on work for a proposed retail platform.
Despite concern from a number of groups that it could disenfranchise voters, Gov. Chris Sununu signed House Bill 1569 which would eliminate any exceptions to the state’s Voting ID laws and require a birth certificate or passport.
It was a two-fer of sorts on Mount Major Thursday as the Forest Society and state and local officials celebrated the opening of the first half mile of a new Main Trail, 1.8 mile trail, here.
The state’s top election official spent the 2024 Primary Day, Tuesday, touring a number of voting precincts with the nation’s cybersecurity director, who said election security has never been as strong as it is right now.