WASHINGTON, July 3 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families announced that it expects to award up to two discretionary grants for Head Start services in Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2,604,955. The agency said the grant was associated with income security and social services. The funding is open to state, county, city, township governments; independent school distric  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $355,682 cooperative agreement to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, for the completion of cyclic maintenance projects for continued visitor access at the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont and Wes  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - New England Field Office issued the following news release: The U.S Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated 177 thousand acres of corn planted for all purposes in New England for 2019, up 5 percent from last year. Following up to the Prospective Plantings report released in late spring, NASS surveyed approximately 9,000 segments of land  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $43,275 cooperative agreement to the Student Conservation Association of Arlington, Virginia, for visitor services interns at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont, and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire. The agency description of the grant states: "Project goals are to provide learning and career development   more