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Lake Winnipesaukee has seen its fair share of summer youth camps converted for luxury house lots in the past two decades, but there are some local individuals and a group fighting the sale of one right now with almost a mile of undeveloped shorefront.
– A Republican-backed bill which would limit the types of flags that can be flown at schools is looking like it is headed to defeat.
Vail Resorts, the owner of several New Hampshire ski areas and the state’s lease holder of Mount Sunapee Resort, reacted Tuesday to Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s announcement Monday the state is investigating sales taxes being collected in its “Epic” season pass.
Two education related bills advanced with non-germane amendments in the House Education Funding Committee, Tuesday with unanimous support for Senate Bill 491 related to minimum education standards language and another, Senate Bill 531 which was opposed in part by Democrats that looks at developing data to understand the level of school meals debt in addition to having the state legislature support the development of a community college curriculum in Coos County for cosmetology.
And the state will study getting out of the operation of the Winnipesaukee Basin wastewater treatment program, which is owned and paid for by its eight community members, if the House agrees to recommendations made by the full House Finance Committee Monday.
In its history, New Hampshire’s legislature has never passed an earned income tax.
Education bills were advanced in the Senate session Thursday including one to help alleviate the school bus driver shortage.
It comes at a time when there are new and heightened concerns for current abuse of youths at the detention center.
The state is looking to get out of the business of operating a wastewater treatment plant in the Lakes Region and hand it over entirely to local control.