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.
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.
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.