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She will be present to hear her first oral arguments as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on January 3, 2024. Justice Countway will be formally sworn in at a public ceremony in the near future.
On Wednesday January 3rd and Thursday January 4th, advocates for LGBTQ+ safety and inclusion will rally at the state house to encourage state representatives to reject two bills leftover from last session that would harm transgender Granite Staters and two bills that would make New Hampshire a safer state for transgender people.
As the second year of the 168th session of the New Hampshire General Court is about to start, Republican House Speaker Sherman Packard is laying low regarding the controversy over his “invitation only” press conference Wednesday.
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley explained Thursday why she didn’t mention slavery at a town hall gathering Wednesday night in Berlin as the cause of the Civil War, saying the man who asked the question was a “plant” in the audience.
House Speaker Sherman Packard and Deputy Speaker Steve Smith held an “invitation only” press conference Wednesday regarding former Republican Rep. Troy Merner, who allegedly served the entire last House session after moving out of Lancaster and the district he was elected to represent.
Torrential rain that fell across the state Monday – in some cases more than four inches in a few hours – caused road damage but none worse than the lengthy detour now forced around Crawford Notch which is cut off as an East-West road for at least a week.
Third Circuit Court Judge Melissa Beth Countway of Alton has been confirmed by the Executive Council to be an Associate Supreme Court Justice, replacing Gary Hicks who retired due to age limitations in November.
Only hours after they rescued five people from their roofs in Conway as the rising waters of the Saco River threatened their lives, members of the New Hampshire Army National Guard were honored by the state’s Fish and Game Commission Tuesday.
New Hampshire was one of five states and one territory the Pew Charitable Trusts picked to analyze how they used federal pandemic aid funds and the risks to future budgets.