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State’s Director of Tourism Development Resigns
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Lori Harnois, director of the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development, has resigned her post in state government.
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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.
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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.
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