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The committee established to study whether virtual meetings should be authorized is recommending that remote participation by board members should be allowed, with the question of public access to those meetings being left to local boards, according to a draft report that the panel will be taking up on Oct. 20.
Members of the commission charged with developing recommendations on handling police misconduct complaints praised the hard work that the director of Police Standards and Training had put into a draft legislative proposal, but some objected to the dominance by law enforcement personnel in deciding on the outcomes.
There have been a total of 127,421 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
Amidst an outpouring of anti-vax protesters, at the Executive Council meeting on Wednesday Gov. Chris Sununu quietly nominated two new circuit court justices and is requesting new terms and new faces for a number of key state commissions.
The Executive Council voted to table a contract request Wednesday to market and sell the former Laconia State School in Laconia.
CONCORD — The independence of a new state entity to review complaints of officer misconduct has been slowly diminished as the commission to develop legislative recommendations works toward the completion of its report, due at the end of the month.
There are currently 140 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 126,773 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
Four state Representatives, two of whom are physicians with one a recent convert to the Democratic party, urged the Joint Fiscal Committee and Executive Council on Tuesday to accept $27 million in federal funds to help increase COVID-19 vaccinations in New Hampshire.
Local Abenaki leaders and other community members spoke at Warner’s first official observance of Indigenous People’s Day, held Monday at the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum.