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State emergency management officials are advising the public to plan for three days of a potential flood emergency beginning late Thursday night particularly in four western counties which are under flood watch: Coos, Grafton, Sullivan and Cheshire.
Gov. Chris Sununu flew to Cheshire County to observe damage caused Monday by heavy rains including damage to a private, recreational dam which was the only one in the state breached on the 93-acre Forest Lake in Winchester.
With Republican presidential candidates swarming into the state this week to seek early primary votes, leaders of the New Hampshire Democratic Party held a press conference Monday criticizing what they call their conservative “out-of-touch” agenda and predicting that none will get the nod here in the general election.
Changing the name of Mount Washington to its Native American name, Agiocochook, got a “no comment” from the Mount Washington Commission on Friday.
Calling it “something for everybody” Gov. Chris Sununu signed the state’s next two-year, $15.2 billion budget.
New Hampshire will have a two-year moratorium on the siting of any new landfills and a $200,000 study to determine how far they should be from water if the governor signs a bipartisan agreement on two bills hammered out Tuesday in committees of conference.
A hard, late frost on May 17 and 18 devasted the apple crop at some of the state’s 228 orchards leaving those low-lying trees eerily without fruit.
With Thursday the deadline to form committees of conference, the New Hampshire Senate agreed to a number of House requests including those related to creating a committee for cannabis sales, prohibiting the use of gender identity as a criminal defense, and long-term purchase power agreements.
Gov. Chris Sununu said he likes being a national political pundit, trying to direct Republicans to success, and at some point, he wants to return to the public sector, but he also said he loves his job.