U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has named Manchester’s Deborah Cross as July’s “Granite Stater of the Month.”
Crystal Lake remains closed as of Thursday but there are plenty of other options for beating the heat.
The National Weather Service, Grey, ME, has issued a Heat Advisory that includes the City of Manchester, effective from 12 – 8 p.m. August 4. Hot and humid conditions are in the forecast, with heat indices in the mid to upper 90s. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible late Thursday afternoon through evening, some of which may become strong.
On Tuesday night, Lee Ann Provencher became the first female member of the Manchester Board of Assessors since the board was created in 1905.
The Department of Safety on Tuesday reported it was investigating multiple bomb threats targeting various colleges and universities across the state.
I’ve been oddly excited to try out the city’s new textile recycling service. Through a partnership with Helpsy, the process of recycling textiles is simple. The overarching goal is to reduce the amount of clothing items that end up in landfills – in 2021 alone, the company diverted nearly 30 million pounds of textiles from landfills through a combination of clothing drives, home pickups, thrift store partners and clothing receptacles.
On Friday, New Hampshire’s members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2022, a bill that would make it a crime to knowing import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD), excluding grandfathered SAWs and LCAFDs.
On Wednesday, the Executive Council approved a request by the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery (GOFERR) to reduce the amount of money allocated to two housing stability programs and divert the dollars to rental relief.
Housing code regulations enforced in the city are minimum standards designed to protect health and safety, according to a building department official. They do not necessarily address what an average person would consider abysmal conditions within an apartment.
She described YDC as a violent, brutal and particularly cruel place for the young kids placed there. Guards taunted children on a daily basis, called them derogatory names and encouraged one boy to commit suicide.
“To get more people costs more money. We are a state that is very careful with our money. I would say that publicly we enjoy overall what I think is great support. That said, the ability to convince those who have the responsibility of managing the state’s budget that we need more people and for the following reasons is an uphill battle.”
Feeling the political heat from constituents in the Lakes Region, legislators are eager to get Belknap County-owned Gunstock Mountain recreation area back in operation saying it is costing jobs, local business revenue, and may adversely impact county taxes.
After purchasing a house on Route 101 in March 2020, the group, the New Hope Christian Fellowship, began holding services in the living room. Attendance was modest; just 10 to 20 people participated every week, attending Bible study groups, Sunday services, and pastoral counseling. Meetings were held virtually at first, with church leaders broadcasting from the living room, but the church later moved to in-person gatherings. It began planning an extension to the house that could hold 50 people at once.
The New Hampshire Department of Corrections announces that the 118th Corrections Academy class graduated from the pre-service training at a ceremony held at the Arthur D. Kehas Law Enforcement Training Center at the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council facility. The graduation occurred on July 22, 2022.
Instead of doing their duty, the State alleges that the defendant pharmacies flooded New Hampshire with more opioids than could be used for legitimate medical purposes.
As the issue of abortion rights continues to make headlines around the country, the rise of so-called “fetal harm” laws comes as no surprise to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) which said it’s something women’s rights advocates have “seen coming.” While New Hampshire does not have as many broad protections as other states in New England, PPNNE has nevertheless seen an influx of patients from across the nation coming to seek services.
The report also found New Hampshire lacked the resources to effectively enforce the state and federal opioid treatment standards. Only one person at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services was responsible for overseeing the Medicaid providers delivering these services, according to the auditors.
Crushing caseloads had driven a mass exodus of public defenders, leaving 185 criminal defendants too poor to hire an attorney facing incarceration with no one to defend them. Would the lawyers around the table take some of those cases for as little as $60 an hour, a fraction of the $350 to $450 hourly rate their firms typically charge. And regardless of how much time and staff each case took, their payment would be capped at $1,400 for a misdemeanor and $4,100 to $8,000 for felonies.
On Tuesday night, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen deemed a piece of land just south of Parkside Middle School as surplus and then determined that it is in the best interest of the city to sell it for $600,000 to a group seeking to build a new community center named after late philanthropist and businessman Mark Stebbins on the site.
Staff members at the Youth Development Center in the 1980s encouraged youths to sexually assault a co-worker who filed complaints with administrators about their abuse of children detained there, according to a lawsuit filed last Friday.