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It’s been a pretty wet and relatively cool week for the 91st Annual Craftsmen’s Fair which continues through Sunday, but most artists say that business has been pretty strong during the week and they have many beautiful items yet to be displayed.
Recent storms may have churned up some unwanted water problems on the state’s water bodies this week with 15 posted for either cyanobacteria or fecal bacteria as of Friday afternoon.
Lakefront property owners and residents made it clear at a public meeting Friday they do not like the state Department of Environmental Services process for approving docks and were told that it would require a legislative fix in the law.
InDepthNH.org scans the websites of New Hampshire funeral homes each week and selects at random some of our friends, relatives and neighbors to feature in this column.
The new cases reside in Merrimack (12), Rockingham (12), Strafford (12), Belknap (6), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (3), and Grafton (1) counties, and in the cities of Nashua (9) and Manchester (5).
Unprecedented is a word that is used often lately – unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, unprecedented politics. But today I muse joyfully on unprecedented kindness.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 48 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths Friday.
House Minority Leader Dick Hinch complained to UNH’s president Friday about a letter Speaker Steve Shurtleff sent the day before accusing some House members of drinking beer and not wearing masks outside of Wednesday’s session at the Whittemore Center.
A new poll shows a significant number of New Hampshire residents are not comfortable going to a concert, bar, gym, indoor wedding over 50 people. And that is going to impact economic recovery, said Andrew Smith of the University of New Hampshire.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 35 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths Thursday.
It isn’t like the University of New Hampshire administration hasn’t had to deal with beer and bad behavior before, but it might just be the first time that it involved the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Gov. Chris Sununu said the state will take action on 48 recommendations to improve law enforcement that were identified by the task force he created after George Floyd was killed in police custody in Minnesota sparking a national outcry on racial injustice.
More needs to be done to alleviate the social isolation of patients in long-term care facilities, a legislative study committee was told Thursday.
Claremont agreed to keep quiet about why Jon Stone was fired as a police officer in 2006, and the city agreed to purge his personnel records, according to information revealed in court on Thursday.
Michael D. Verrocchi, age 42, of Salem, New Hampshire has been indicted by the New Hampshire Multicounty Grand Jury for one count of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, a class B felony.
It almost felt like normal times at the State House this morning. With the Senate about to convene, there were a dozen members of the Kent Street Coalition, with signs and a “Sununu Veto Graveyard” depicting the 79 bills vetoed by Governor Chris Sununu in the past two years.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 33 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths on Wednesday.
Republicans were able to preserve Gov. Chris Sununu’s vetoes on all bills that came before the New Hampshire Senate on Wednesday.
There were 47 House Republicans (roughly 33% of Republicans in attendance) who refused to wear any protective equipment Wednesday, according the House spokesman.
The House failed Wednesday to override any of the 17 vetoes before it on the final day of the 2019-2020 session held at Whittemore Center on the University of New Hampshire’s Durham campus.
Solicitor General Dan Will argued to the state Supreme Court Wednesday that the Laurie List of untrustworthy law enforcement officers should remain secret because it is “imperfect” and was never intended to be made public.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 34 new positive test results for COVID-19 and two news deaths Tuesday, both women older than 60 in Rockingham County.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.