NASHUA, New Hampshire, July 9 -- Consolidated Communications, a broadband and business communications provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Company Provides Fiber-to-the-Premises Technology that Enhances Broadband Service Experience * * * Consolidated Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSL) today announced the company is launching 1 Gig broadband services to more than 12,000 Nashua, N.H., residential and small business locations. The enhanced service will use the company's new Fib  more

DARTMOUTH, New Hampshire, July 11 -- The Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine issued the following news release: Marnie E. Halpern, PhD, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science and adjunct professor of biology and neuroscience at John Hopkins University, has been named the Chair of the Department of Molecular and Systems Biology at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. "I am looking forward to joining Dartmouth and for the opportunity to lead this talented department," say  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 13 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: Death metal band logos often have a spiky look while romance novel titles often have a swirly script. The jaggedness or curviness of a font can be used to express an emotional tone. A Dartmouth study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds that sounds, shapes, speech and body movements convey emotional arousal the same way across the senses. The findings explain why nea  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following statement by Communications Director David Turner: At a Republican fundraiser in Wolfeboro on July 4, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu was featured as the auctioneer. At the event, Sununu literally auctioned off a copy of his veto of Senate Bill 1--a bill that would have enacted paid family and medical leave in New Hampshire. "This story proves what we already knew: Chris Sununu has sold out New Hampshire to the hi  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 10 -- The New Hampshire Democratic Party issued the following statement by spokesperson Holly Shulman responding to Gov. Chris Sununu's paid family leave policy: "I wish I could say I was surprised, but we've known for a long time that Sununu has been offering up his vetoes to the highest bidder. "Whether it's Sununu's budget veto that benefits his corporate special interest donors at the expense of taxpayers and New Hampshire schools, his net metering veto sponsor  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 9 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) has REMOVED a cyanobacteria advisory issued on 6/26/2019. The cyanobacteria were identified as Anabaena/Dolichospermum. Most recent samples were collected on 7/9/2019 from the beach and along the shorelines. No colonies of cyanobacteria were observed. While the bloom has dissipated, DES advises that lake-goers sh  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 10 -- The New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement by Chairman Stephen Stepanek: Today's vote by the Democrats on the Executive Council is a troubling and sad sign of the times. Councilors Volinsky, Cryans, and Pignatelli have made it remarkably clear that they are willing to place partisan politics over the well-being of the Granite State. "New Hampshire's Democrat Councilors brought partisan Washington politics into a non-partisan appointment  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 12 -- The New Hampshire Democratic Party issued the following news release, dated July 9: Oral arguments begin today for the Trump lawsuit that could strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA), and undermine New Hampshire's efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Republican U.S. Senate candidates Bill O'Brien, Donald Bolduc and Corky Messner all back the lawsuit that would kill the Affordable Care Act. One of the GOP candidates, Bolduc, admitted to "not knowin  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, July 11 -- Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green, a law firm, issued the following news release: Sheehan Phinney attorney Patrick J. Queenan has graduated from the Leadership Greater Nashua Program. Graduates of the 2018/2019 class were recognized at Hotel Inn, Nashua, NH on June 6, 2019. Queenan is an experienced trial lawyer and represents clients in a wide variety of white collar criminal and civil litigation matters before state and federal courts in both Massachusetts   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 11 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: Elevated concentrations of cyanobacteria are present in Keyser Pond in Henniker, NH. Samples collected on 7/10/2019 from the deep site of the lake exceeded the State threshold of 70,000 cells/ml of cyanobacteria. Samples contained Anabaena/Dolichospermum with a total cell count of 145,000 cells/ml. There is also a deep layer bloom (at 5 m) of Oscillatoria/Planktothrix, An  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 11 -- The New Hampshire Democratic Party issued the following news release: * * * - Lists Many Items that are of "Special Interest" * * * Today, Chris Sununu, inspired by the attention his local veto auction received this week and spurred on by the record number of vetoes he plans to recklessly produce, took his auction online, launching an eBay auction site so that his special interest corporate donors could quickly and efficiently up their bids to sponsor Sunun  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, July 11 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: As the summer months heat up, so will the asphalt and other materials used to make roads. Pavements, which are vulnerable to increased temperatures and excessive flooding due to sea level rise, can crack and crumble. Climate change can be a major contributor and as greenhouse gas emissions continue, which scientists say have caused an increase in global temperatures since th  more