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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.
Pop quiz. Who is the most powerful person in the criminal justice system? No, it’s not a judge. It’s your local county attorney. Know how a county attorney gets their job?
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The state DHHS announced that all 15 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday are “adults,” but didn’t give any age group in the news release. The summary on the DHHS website Sunday shows three more in the group 10 to 19 bringing the total of people age birth to 19 to 525, up from 522 Saturday. InDepthNH.org asked the state for clarification Saturday and Sunday via email and asked why the data isn’t reported to the public the same way it tracks cases by age on its graph. Will update this story when the state responds.
Shannon VanSickle has traveled to the far reaches of South America to learn more about ancient medicines and religions. Today, she practices Sound Healing at the Grace Wellness Center in Meredith, New Hampshire.
Podcast: Portsmouth Police Commissioner Stefany Shaheen on her testimony at the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency.
A Dover man said he got a second absentee ballot request from the NH GOP Friday – with the wrong address to return it to.
Editor’s note: The state DHHS announced four new cases of COVID-19 in individuals under the age of 18 on Saturday and a graph on its website shows there are seven new cases Saturday in people from birth to age 19. InDepthNH.org has asked for clarification and will update this story when the state responds.
Wear your bathing suit and pack your Superman towel and get out of Dodge, escape from a world of Covid and politics and move into a place where cities look small, where clouds are within reach, where the 17 year old girls in the backseat of the Cessna dance to Tik Tok and eat Pringles.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 24 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths on Friday.
Restaurants across the state can all go to 100 percent indoor capacity for dining as the state continues to see lower COVID-19 numbers and closes one of the worst outbreaks at a long-term care facility.
Recent hot and dry conditions, following lack of snow pack and below average precipitation, have caused designation of portions of southern New Hampshire to escalate from moderate to severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Currently, Democrats outnumber Republicans on the council 3-2. All five seats are up for grabs this fall.
“When the legal representation of children is undervalued, children are undervalued, and that has lifelong effect,” Moira O’Neill said.
The state announced one new death related to COVID-19, a man from Hillsborough County older than 60.
New Hampshire Democratic Party officials criticized Gov. Chris Sununu at a Thursday press conference for his refusal to implement a statewide mask mandate, his support of President Donald Trump despite Trump’s efforts to seek repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and allowance of the Trump Campaign to set their own safety guidelines for a planned July rally in Portsmouth, which was cancelled.
You don’t have to be a ratepayer advocate to sit up and take notice when someone claims that Eversource’s electric customers in New Hampshire overpaid more than $19 million dollars last year.
All law enforcement-involved shootings in New Hampshire are investigated by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and the State Police Major Crimes Unit, but not in an open way that builds trust that police officers who take lives are being held accountable, according to Manchester attorney Larry Vogelman.
There’s a lot of heartburn in the restaurant industry in New Hampshire right now, the Governor’s Economic Reopening Task Force was told on Thursday.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced three additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Wednesday, all over age 60.