Environment & Science
After $800,000 Treatment in Spring, Cyanobacteria Back on Lake Kanasatka, and Others
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Lake Kanasatka now has its first cyanobacteria watch issued for 2024 after the lake association has taken efforts to fight the problem.
Everyone’s Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds
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Duncan Watson explains the big lie from the plastics industry “is by default, that something should be recyclable because it’s got the chasing arrows on it.”
Jurors Deliberating Charges Against Bradley Asbury in YDC Abuse Case
Jurors must decide if former Sununu Youth Services Center house leader Bradley Asbury held down a 14-year-old boy during a 1998 rape, or if the victim, Michael Gilpatrick, is a fantasist looking for money.
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Groveton Funeral Director
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Grief, Determination, and Community on Transgender Day of Remembrance
It was Concord’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, drawing upwards of 150 people for a solemn community vigil.
More Headlines
YDC Abuse Case Against Bradley Asbury Going to Jury
Bill Threatening Nonprofit Organizations Passes; Kuster, Pappas Opposed
NH One of Top Ten States for Outdoor Recreation Economic Activity
Courts & Corrections
AG: Police Fatally Shot Man Suspected of Killing Woman; Child’s Body Found in Vehicle
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A man suspected of killing a woman in Troy overnight was fatally shot by police 100 miles away with a child’s body found in his car after an encounter on the Piscataqua River Bridge at the Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine state line Thursday.
Courts & Corrections
Malavet Lawyers Try To Discredit Accuser in Day 3 of YDC Criminal Trial
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Lawyers for Victor Malavet, the former Youth Detention Services Unit staffer accused of sexual assault, spent Wednesday walking into errors as they tried to discredit accuser Natasha Maunsell.
Business & Economy
Carbon Credit Co. Offers To Expand Headwaters’ Logging; Group Seeks More Time To Consider Impact
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A carbon credit company that owns the tip of the state has increased its plans for logging the 146,872-acre Connecticut Lakes Headwaters tract for the next 10 years, but an advisory committee who claim that is still lower than previous cuts wants more time to consider the document and its potential impacts to the economy.
News
The News and Sentinel Publishes Its Final Newspaper
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The News and Sentinel in Colebrook, under its third generation of Harrigan family ownership, ceased publication Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, its last print edition after publisher Karen Harrigan, the daughter of storied North Country legend John Harrigan, announced the closure and said efforts to sell the paper two years ago were unsuccessful.
Environment & Science
Form of Cyanobacteria, Gloeotrichia Causes Multiple Lake Winnipesaukee Warnings
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The state Department of Environmental Services reports a form of cyanobacteria known as gloeotrichia which presents as blobs floating up and down in the water column, are the primary concern on the Big Lake while other water bodies are having some form of cyanobacteria warnings or watches including Lake Wentworth in Wolfeboro and Pool Pond in Rindge.
Feature
Speaking of Words: Count Nouns and Mass Nouns
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Poets have sometimes exploited the possibility of squeezing mass nouns into the count-noun category.
Health & Mental Health
AARP Report: Impact of Historic Medicare Rx Out-of-Pocket Spending Cap on NH Seniors
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Today, AARP released a report that shows an estimated 15,000 Granite Staters on Medicare prescription drug plans will see savings thanks to a new out-of-pocket cap that starts January 1, 2025.
Environment & Science
One Unidentified Adult Died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus: NH DHHS
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The last reported human EEEV infection in New Hampshire was in 2014, when DHHS identified three human infections, including two fatalities.
Courts & Corrections
YDC Abuse Survivor Confronts Her Past on Witness Stand in Day 2 of Malavet Criminal Trial
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Natasha Maunsell entered the Merrimack Superior Court Tuesday, swore an oath to tell the truth, and then re-lived her past of alleged sexual abuse as a teen locked up in a state facility.
Education
Education Freedom Account Program Data Off Limits to Auditors
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The data used by the Department of Education to flag nearly 25 percent of the eligibility decisions for Education Freedom Account students in a compliance report, will not be made available to the Legislative Budget Assistant’s Office for a performance audit of the program required by law.
Education
Judge Extends Restraining Order To Let Transgender Girl Play School Soccer
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A recently signed law that restricts transgender girls from playing public school sports is being challenged in U.S. District Court, as two students return to school for the fall who argue it violates their Constitutional rights.
News
Pessimism On Future Personal Finances Ebbing in NH; Majority Expect Recession Within Year
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New Hampshire residents remain downbeat about their personal ?nances and nearly half of state residents report at least some di?culty a?ording basic necessities within the last year.
Business & Economy
NH Rental Costs Continued to Rise in Early 2024, Impacting Tenant Household Budgets
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New data collected earlier this year show the cost of renting continues to rise in New Hampshire, increasing pressure on overall housing availability and the finances of Granite State renters.
Op-Ed
Community Power in Concord: Mayor Culpa
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Mayor Byron Champlin of Concord has some good news and some bad news for the electric ratepayers of his city and, by extension, for electric ratepayers everywhere in New Hampshire.
Courts & Corrections
AG Seeks Tips in Rochester Homicide of Teen Four Years Ago
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Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the New Hampshire Department of Justice is asking for the public to share any information they might have about the 2020 Labor Day weekend homicide of Michael Kenneth Mowry III, age 19, of Rochester, New Hampshire.
Courts & Corrections
YDC Criminal Trial Starts, Victor Malavet’s Defense Claims Then-Teen Wants To Cash In
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The state’s first criminal trial against alleged YDC scandal abuser Victor Malavet got underway Monday in Merrimack Superior Court with his defense team declaring his innocence and accusing the then-15-year-old girl of trying to cash in.
COVID
NH Gets Strong Marks for COVID-19 Response, But Some Improvement Needed: Report
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Beginning in March of 2020, New Hampshire lost almost 3,000 of its 1.4 million residents to the highly transmissible respiratory disease COVID-19 during an unprecedented international public health crisis with more than 375,000 cases reported in the state.
Courts & Corrections
First Criminal YDC Trial Starts Monday for Ex-Cop Who Also Worked at 2 Colleges
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Victor Malavet went from being investigated at his state job for allegedly abusing a teen girl to working as a police officer, and then a safety officer at two different New Hampshire college campuses.
Feature
Report on Qualifying EFA Families Shows Errors in a Quarter of Applications
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While lawmakers await a performance audit of the Education Freedom Account program by the Legislative Budget Assistant expected later this year, a Department of Education compliance report done last fall, but released last month found enough issues to require the program’s administrator to reverify all participants’ applications for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.