Category Archives: New Hampshire News
AG’s office: Newmarket school officials engaged in electioneering
NEWMARKET — The superintendent of schools in Newmarket received a cease and desist order last week after the Attorney General’s Office said that school officials and faculty had posted electioneering communications on a website created to persuade residents to vote for … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged Electioneering, Newmarket, NH AG
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Dartmouth Study Looks at How N.H. Women Legislators Cope with Work-Family Balance
With a legislature like New Hampshire’s, one would think that it would be easier for women to be elected into office and serve their local communities. A recent Dartmouth-led study has found that might not be the case. The research … Continue reading
Sununu Looks To Outsiders For Appointees
Concord — As first-term Gov. Chris Sununu builds out his cabinet, he’s largely turned to appointees with little to no professional experience in the departments they’re being asked to lead.For education, he tapped Frank Edelblut, a businessman who homeschooled his … Continue reading
What Happens When a Select-woman Challenges the Town of Piermont? – Part 5
First, there is the “View Tax”, or more correctly, the “view factor”, which, despite self-serving articles to the contrary that depict it as a useful tool for fairness in property assessment, it is seen in Piermont, as in other areas, … Continue reading
Posted in CNHT, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News, taxes
Tagged Piermont, Property Rights, Terrie Mertz, View Tax
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Sununu taps Belknap County Attorney for Circuit Court
Gov. Chris Sununu will nominate Belknap County Attorney Melissa Guldbrandsen of Alton to serve as a Circuit Court judge at the Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. Guldbrandsen is the first of eight Circuit Court judges Sununu will get to nominate … Continue reading
Posted in Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged Chris Sununu, Circuit Court, Melissa Guldbrandsen
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Potato chips blamed for head-on collision in Vermont
At approximately 3:45 p.m., Michael W. Kavanaugh, 46, of Brattleboro was driving a 2015 Ford Focus north on Route 30 in Newfane when he started to choke on potato chips, Vermont State Police said in a news release. More… *| Keene … Continue reading
Posted in Around New England, New Hampshire News
Tagged Collision, Michael W. Kavanaugh, Newfane
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Rockingham man had 208 bags of heroin
A Rockingham man was arrested Friday in the Hetty Green parking lot. Police say he possessed 208 bags of heroin, as well as cocaine. Matthew D. Dunn, 34, was arrested on charges of trafficking heroin and possession of cocaine, according … Continue reading
Police in New Hampshire Investigate Counterfeit $20 Bills
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in Rochester, New Hampshire, are working with the Secret Service to try to determine the origin of counterfeit $20 bills that have been found in the area. Police said the counterfeit currency looks and feels … Continue reading
Parts of New Hampshire woke up this Mother’s Day 2017 to snow
Parts of the Monadnock and Lake Sunapee regions were awakened to a white ground in many towns.. several inches of wet and heavy snow had fallen in a very short period of time. Power outages numbered in the thousands as … Continue reading
Google and the BIA: Promoting ILLITERACY in the Classroom? For Corporate Profits?
I keep hearing people talk about the Information Age and all we have to do is look something up on the Internet to get answers to our questions. While this may be true in one sense, how would you feel … Continue reading
Posted in Education, National News, New Hampshire News
Tagged BIA, Education, Google, Standards
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The New Media Militia 