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Party crashers: Massive basking sharks appear alongside New Hampshire bachelorette cruise
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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June 28, 2025
FIESTA. ALL RIGHT. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. A MASSIVE PARTY CRASHER SHOWED UP AT A BACHELORETTE CRUISE NEXT TO A BOAT IN RYE. THAT’S RIGHT. SHARKS WERE SPOTTED OFF OF RYE HARBOR. AND LOOK HOW BIG THEY ARE. YEP. THERE IT IS. THIS IS A BASKING SHARK. A...
New Hampshire Job Corps Center gets a reprieve from shutdown – for now
Manchester Ink Link - New Hampshire
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June 27, 2025
Job Corps, built 10 years ago and opened with much fanfare, is being phased out by U.S. Dept. of Labor. Photo/Pat Grossmith MANCHESTER, NH – The state’s Job Corps program, due to close Monday – putting dozens of students on the street – got a...
Business is booming in Hillsborough, New Hampshire
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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June 27, 2025
Hillsborough is a quaint New England town filled with talented artists, good coffee, unique shops and some of the best tacos in the state. But our visit to Hillsborough started the way every road trip should -- with cake."You can’t come to Cake...
Bills banning gender-affirming care for minors sent to NH governor's desk
NECN - Massachusetts
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New Hampshire lawmakers have taken a significant step towards ending gender-affirming care for minors in the state. The legislation includes two key bills. One aims to ban puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones starting next year. The other bill...
Radio Free New Hampshire: The Great Entertainer
InDepth NH - New Hampshire
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June 27, 2025
Editor’s Note: We welcome back Radio Free New Hampshire. Michael Davidow took a few months off from his column to finish his latest novel “Interdiction” about a veteran cop in a small New Hampshire town who shoots and kills a college student in a...
‘Completely against our culture’: Ousted Market Basket officials speak out about ‘pre-planned attack’
Nashoba Valley Voice - Massachusetts
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June 29, 2025
LOWELL — Like many longtime employees of the eastern New England grocery chain, Joe Schmidt and Tom Gordon started as associates at Market Basket and worked their way up. Schmidt, now the company’s director of operations, started his career in...
NH Business: Supply and demand for electricity in New England
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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June 29, 2025
NH Business: Supply and demand for electricity in New England Fred Kocher talks with San Evans Brown, the Executive Director of Clean Energy New Hampshire about a projected increase of 11% in New England's demand for electricity. LOOKS PLEASANTLY...
New Hampshire Republicans eke out turbulent budget victory; Democrats denounce cuts
New Hampshire Bulletin
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June 26, 2025
Republicans in the House and Senate narrowly passed the New Hampshire budget Thursday, overcoming weeks of disagreement with Gov. Kelly Ayotte over spending priorities and sending her an amended document that resolved some of her concerns. The...
Exploring the peaks of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont
The Laconia Daily Sun - New Hampshire
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In my younger years in school, I always loved geography. Living in New Hampshire, there was so much to be excited about. However, it’s a big world out there with varying degrees of typography, majestic mountains, vast oceans, rivers, and lakes to...
Thousands of Hannaford employees in New Hampshire may have been affected by data breach
Manchester Ink Link - New Hampshire
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June 27, 2025
A November data breach has compromised personal information of Hannaford employees, including the thousands who work at its 36 New Hampshire stores, the Maine-based chain’s parent company said Thursday. File Photo Scarborough, MAINE – Employee...
Non-Compete Agreements in Health Care: A Rapidly Evolving Legal Landscape
JD Supra - California
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June 30, 2025
In states where noncompete laws have recently changed, legislatures appear to be working towards striking a balance between the various rights and interests of the affected stakeholders. These rights and interests may include a company’s right to...
FY 2026-2027 New Hampshire State Budget Barely Squeaks Through
Patch
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June 26, 2025
It passed on the Senate side down partisan lines 16-8 and in the House on a 185-180 vote after it failed on the first try, 182-183. Posted Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 7:32 pm ET CONCORD, NH — By one vote, the state has a new but leaner budget for the...
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Mr. T, a Manchester Icon at Central High School
InDepth NH - New Hampshire
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June 27, 2025
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. The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some...
Pew’s Untrustworthy Spin of Its Social Trust Survey
Chronicles Magazine
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July 1, 2025
Trust is one of the most accurate indicators of a healthy society. Societies with high levels of trust among members are typically at the positive end of many other social variables. Economic productivity is high, crime rates are low, and general...
Something old and something new at Bank of New Hampshire headquarters downtown
The Laconia Daily Sun - New Hampshire
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A clock replica built by Electric Time Company is a faithful reproduction of the old McClintock-style chime clock, affixed to the side of the Bank of New Hampshire in downtown Laconia, seen Wednesday afternoon. The original O.B. McClintock Company...
2025 Concord Market Days festival draws crowds to Main Street
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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June 29, 2025
Main Street in Concord is opening again after being closed for the 51st Annual Market Days festival.The festival started Thursday and wrapped up Saturday night.It featured something for everyone, with over 100 vendors, many of them from local...
The Fight for Fair Funding in New Hampshire
The Progressive Magazine
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June 26, 2025
The junior-senior high school I attended in New Hampshire in the early 2000s was originally built in the 1920s. It had windows that were covered over to save on heating, rumors of asbestos, and a deep well of community pride. To me, it exemplified...
Connecticut Governor Lamont Signs Bill Banning Digital Asset Investments
BeInCrypto
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July 1, 2025
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed House Bill 7082 into law, officially enacting the ban on state investment in digital assets, which includes Bitcoin (BTC). This marks a significant divergence from the growing trend of cryptocurrency...
Vermont All-Stars seek bragging rights vs. New Hampshire
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus - Vermont
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BURLINGTON — The Make-A-Wish All Star Hockey Classic will be celebrating its 33rd year for the men’s game and 28th year for the women’s contest when the teams meet on Saturday at the University of Vermont’s Gutterson Field House. The event...
New Hampshire Is First in New England to Enact Universal School Choice
Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon
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June 25, 2025
By Kathryn Hickok New Hampshire has removed the income cap for families applying to its Education Freedom Account program, making it the first state in New England to offer school choice to all K-12 children. Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the...