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BETHLEHEM – Vermont-based Casella Waste Systems has notified the town of Bethlehem and the federal government that it will close its subsidiary North Country Environmental Services facility a year earlier than expected.
It was a friendly crowd of more than 100 who came out to the Pittsburg Ridge Runners clubhouse Thursday night to hear from the new owners of the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters tract on what their plans are for the 146,400 acre tract.
The prospective new owners of the state’s largest tract of private land, the 146,400-acre Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Tract, are hosting a town hall style community meeting here next week, the evening before a citizens’ advisory committee meeting addresses issues related to its land management.
Lake Winnipesaukee is losing its water clarity and is suffering from human impacts, according to more than 40 years of research data, which was compiled together for the first time and released this week.
With winter around the corner, the Executive Council took on issues related to home heating for the vulnerable, and bids that came in much higher than anticipated for the state’s only tramway for skiers and tourists at Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch State Park.
“I believe this is in the best interest of the New Hampshire Judicial Branch. I accept responsibility and accountability for my conduct,” he wrote to Gov. Kelly Ayotte in a letter dated today, Sept. 15. He had been on a medical leave of absence.
New Hampshire House Republicans said they spent a lot of time this summer knocking on doors across the state and hearing what the voters want from their government, which helped them develop the seven-point Granite Guarantee, a series of promises they unveiled Monday.
Liberty Utilities said to continue strengthening and modernizing its natural gas system in New Hampshire, it needs an increase in rates from its more than 100,000 customers.
Saying nearly 100,000 New Hampshire ratepayers could see natural gas bills increase by more than 16 percent under Liberty Utilities proposed $35.8 million rate increase request, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, D-NH was successful Thursday in having the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission grant her request to intervene.