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NH Investing Up to $100M in Mental Health Services
The state of New Hampshire is investing up to $100 million in mental health services following a recent state Supreme Court ruling to help psychiatric patients who are being held involuntarily in emergency rooms. A combination of federal and state funds will support 30 new emergency beds at hospitals, 60 new transitional housing beds, and 20 long-term care community beds,…
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NH Schools to Reopen Full-Time by April 19, Sununu Says
All K-12 schools must return to full-time, in-person learning as of April 19, although a remote option will still available for parents and students that request it, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday. Schools had already returned to offering in-person learning at least two days a week as of March 8. Sununu said about 60% of schools are already…
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Transgender Youth, Organizations Testify Against NH Sports Bill
Transgender youth, their family members, and representatives of a variety New Hampshire organizations testified Tuesday against a bill that would ban transgender girls from competing on girls’ sports teams in public high schools and colleges in the state, saying it is discriminatory and unconstitutional. “Playing soccer has always been the highlight of my day each summer and fall,” said Lane…
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NH Gov. Sununu Inaugurated Amid Virus, Violence Concerns
The coronavirus pandemic that has shaken New Hampshire to its core also offers a path to both individual and collective transformation, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday as he officially began his third term.
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NH's Top Stories of 2020 Dominated by COVID, Election, Police Reform
The coronavirus pandemic, which brought everyday life to a halt and tested people’s resiliency, was New Hampshire’s top story of 2020. The state has been dealing with rising COVID-19 cases and deaths, overworked health care workers, job and business losses, changing education and sports plans, and countless cancellations. To get back on track, lawmakers, business leaders and state officials...
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NH Restaurants Fined, Warned Over Lack of Masks
A New Hampshire bakery, bagel shop and pizza place each have been fined $500 after repeated complaints about staff not wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. The attorney general’s office said Wednesday that it has assessed penalties against Simply Delicious Baking Co. in Bedford, What a Bagel in Nashua, and Checkmate Pizza in Concord. Two other establishments — Game Changer…
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NH Middle School Cancels Betsy DeVos Visit, Says Staffer Tested Positive for COVID-19
A Bedford public school canceled a scheduled visit Friday by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the New Hampshire Department of Education said. “They had informed us this morning that they had a positive test and obviously wanted to cancel the visit” at McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford, spokesperson Grant…
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NH Reports No Coronavirus Cases Linked to Aug. 28 Trump Rally
No cases of the coronavirus have been linked to President Donald Trump’s rally in New Hampshire two weeks ago, the state health commissioner said Thursday, and only one person who attended Motorcycle Week in Laconia has since tested positive. About 1,400 people attended the president’s rally in an airport hangar in Londonderry on Aug. 28. Many were not wearing masks,…
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UNH Law School Bearing Franklin Pierce's Name Considering Change
A New Hampshire law school bearing the name of the state’s only president, Franklin Pierce, is thinking about removing him from its title as part of the national conversation about systemic racism because he opposed taking steps to stop slavery. Pierce, the country’s 14th president, served from 1853 to 1857. He was an accomplished attorney and brigadier general in the…
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Hudson, NH, Grieves After 2 Local Heroes Die in 1 Week
Moments of silence were observed in a small New Hampshire town Thursday, as well as in the state Senate, as both honored an Air Force officer and a police officer from the same town who died less than a week apart. On a frigid night on the football field at Alvirne High School, hundreds came out to honor Katie Thyne,…
