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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) is announcing an adult from Dublin, NH tested positive for Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV), a viral infection transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. This is the first detection of JCV in a person in the State this season.
Gov. Chris Sununu and the state’s Executive Council were told New Hampshire’s five regional Community Action Partnership or CAP agencies are working hard to release millions of federal dollars in rent and utility assistance for those in peril of losing their homes.
State police will now have body and dash cameras and a whole new information system to support them after the Executive Council unanimously approved a new contract on Wednesday.
On Saturday, on Elm Street in Manchester, Mary N. Georges hosted, “Time for Tea with the Ladies of ‘Victory Women of Vision’: A Celebration of Our Mothers and Daughters.”
Granite State Independent Living reports that every week, about 18,000 hours worth of requests for in-home care go unanswered at The nonprofit, due to a severe staffing shortage.
Earlier Friday night, in a brief submitted to the U.S. First Court of Appeals, the United States Department of Justice took a strong position in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Cushing et al v Packard, repudiating the doctrine of legislative immunity, as Speaker Sherman Packard is seeking to use it in this case to avoid the state’s responsibility to obey the law.
As he signaled last month, Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would change the date of the state primary from September to August.
When Martha Hennessy was released from a federal prison and transferred to an “adult residential re-entry” program in Manchester, it wasn’t her first trip to the Queen City or her first entanglement with the criminal legal system.
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb along with the fast-spreading Delta variant, Gov. Chris Sununu is not changing his position on masks and his spokesman complained that the mask news out of Washington is confusing.