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Buoyed by a federal court decision putting a halt to the imminent deportation of about 60 Indonesian immigrants, members of area religious congregations will return to the Norris Cotton Federal Building on Tuesday October 3 to pray for a halt to all deportations.
While the age of a Confirmandi ranges diocese to diocese, the Diocese of Manchester, for many years has bestowed the sacrament to 10th graders, who after they receive it are no longer expected to attend religious education classes.
After June 2018, however, Confirmation and First Holy Communion will be given to 3rd graders.
Northern Pass spokesman Martin Murray dismissed recent comments from the U.S. EPA touting the benefits of burying an additional 40 miles of the project’s transmission line as old news, but Jack Savage of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests said he is missing the point.
CONCORD — The state Department of Transportation will wait for new survey information from Northern Pass Transmission developer Eversource before moving forward on requests to bury sections of the 192-mile line under state roads.
The purchase of land needed to open a $50 million, high-tech commercial greenhouse in Berlin may not occur until late this fall, according to an official working with the project. The deal was expected to go through last April.
New Hampshire Public Television is changing its name to New Hampshire PBS on October 1, 2017. The change in name recognizes the strong relationship viewers express between New Hampshire Public Television and PBS.
And SEC vice chair Kathryn Bailey told Robert Varney: “There is so much opposition from so many of these towns. You should have tried to do more to minimize impacts.”
SEN. SHAHEEN: “The court’s actions today provide valuable time to continue making the case for why the Indonesian community should remain in New Hampshire.”
We’re asking a federal court for the code behind a technique that critics say may have put innocent people in prison.