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Joe “Eggy” Eggleston, a “Cogger” who worked as an engineer on the Mount Washington Cog Railway and an avid hiker, died in a tragic fall during a hike with his wife Kelley on Mount Willard over the weekend.
Gov. Chris Sununu has been doing a deep dive into the exploding heat and energy costs looking at the region’s grid into the future, renewables, and said he believes that hydropower is one of the state’s best options for inexpensive, renewable energy.
In a bit of a pleasant surprise just in time for the holidays Eversource has filed a petition to decrease electric rates by 10.3 percent for its small customer group for six months beginning in February.
Republican Secretary of State David Scanlan survived a challenge by former state Senator Melanie Levesque, a Democrat, and Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, also won re-election on Organization Day at the State House.
Despite concerns raised by farmers at a public hearing last week, the state’s Executive Council voted to approve the renomination of Shawn Jasper as the commissioner of agriculture for another five years on a vote of 3-1 with one abstention.