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Election turnout next Tuesday is going to be “very high,” said Secretary of State Dave Scanlan who noted he would not be surprised if it “is another record turnout,” and he believes state election workers are ready.
PITTSBURG – Aurora Sustainable Lands is resisting calls to allow for more ATV trail miles on the Connecticut Lakes Headwater Tract under a new recreation plan approved by the state Oct. 21.
New Hampshire’s considerable workforce housing crisis eased a little on Thursday when federal and local leaders came to celebrate the completion of a new, 48-unit multifamily housing development for the Concord area, just off Interstate 393.
With estimates that the state will need close to 90,000 new affordable housing units by 2040 to address the state’s needs and it is already 23,000 units behind, housing is a big issue in the upcoming governor’s race.
President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to New Hampshire Tuesday to tout “consequential progress” in taking on what Sanders called “the greed of the pharmaceutical industry” through the Inflation Reduction Act.
The New Hampshire Association of Counties is expressing concerns about a proposed 10-year agreement with the state that would significantly reduce the amount of timber cut from the 145,000-acre Connecticut Lakes Headwaters tract.
At the same time that Beth Israel/Lahey Hospital is closing its doors on some care it provides the Seacoast region at Exeter Hospital, it is paying its top eight executives $9 million in salaries, said Executive Councilor Janet Stevens of Rye.
CONCORD – With the clock running out on the state spending federal American Rescue Act funds, Gov. Chris Sununu went to the legislative fiscal committee Friday to ask for the last of the commitments to the almost $1 billion in post COVID-19 recovery funds received in New Hampshire.
State officials saw records broken for the number of months of posted warnings for cyanobacteria on lakes and ponds and while awareness has increased, funding to address the problem has not kept up.