WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan recognized Georgia Merrill of Brentwood as August's Granite Stater of the Month. For the past eight years, 14-year-old Georgia has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the New Hampshire Food Bank through her Peach Project initiative. When Georgia was six years old and driving in a car with her grandmother, she saw a homeless person on the side of the road holding a sign   more