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Seventy-four towns, two school districts, and a fire district held voting across New Hampshire on Tuesday after a March Nor’easter caused them to be rescheduled two weeks ago, with some testing out digital scan vote counting devices which may be used in the state in the future.
Both Mayor Andrew Hosmer and Charlie Arlinghaus, state commissioner, said they are pleased with progress on the development of the former Laconia State School, and that an issue identified as the process moves forward is the need to have adequate water and sewer for as many as 1,900 units.
In a unified message of support for healthcare for the state’s most vulnerable, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to make its nine-year Medicaid expansion program permanent and approved extending Medicaid coverage for young moms from 60 days to a year on Thursday.
CONCORD – A 120-bed consolidated behavioral health facility will be built somewhere in southern New Hampshire as part of a $15 million state agreement with SolutionHealth, within the next year and a half.
Senate Republicans voted to support a Parents Bill of Rights, declaring parents have a “fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children” and that no information about a child’s health and behavior can be withheld from them by a teacher or school without a compelling state interest.
Gov. Chris Sununu is asking the Biden Administration to step up its patrol of New Hampshire’s 51-mile border with Canada or he will do it with a $1.4 million budget priority he has proposed to use state and local law enforcement.
Secretary of State Dave Scanlan said a new law that allows town meeting voting to be postponed two weeks during weather emergencies was being used in about 77 precincts Tuesday as a March Nor’Easter swept through the state with snow, driving wind, and rain.
Supporters and opponents of the governor’s proposal to eliminate, consolidate or change many licensing boards in the state spoke out at a budget hearing Monday along with those who would like to see the governor’s proposed pay raises for all state employees and a 40 percent increase in private duty nursing rates for at-home care for the developmentally disabled.
Ahead of the upcoming NH Maple Weekend, March 18 and 19, when almost 200 sugarhouses in the state are open to the public, Gov. Chris Sununu tapped a century-old maple on the grounds of the Remick Farm Museum with students from the Madison Elementary School Monday.