BERLIN, New Hampshire, Aug. 5 -- The Community College System of New Hampshire issued the following news release: * * * - Implementation of Open Educational Resources looks to save $500,000 in costs to students * * * A new initiative that encourages faculty members to use more Open Educational Resources (OER) to help bring down the cost of education across the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH) is gaining momentum. Launched in the summer of 2018, the initiative involves an ini  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Aug. 5 -- Consolidated Communications, a broadband and business communications provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Company provides fiber-to-the-premises technology that boosts broadband speeds and improves experience for residential and small business customers * * * Consolidated Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSL) today announced the company has made available 1 Gig broadband services to more than 86,000 New Hampshire residential and small busines  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Aug. 2 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: As you enter a new environment such as visiting a classroom for the first time, your brain takes in information about your surroundings to help inform where you are and what direction you are facing. Knowing where the center of the room is located helps provide a reference point for processing space. A Dartmouth study published in Science provides new insight into navigation and spatial learning by examining   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: Today, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill establishing background checks and other common sense gun safety measures. Despite supporting background checks as a candidate for governor in 2016, Chris Sununu made clear his priority isn't the safety of Granite State children and families. Sununu hasn't put forward any plan that would ease the fears Granite Staters have when they enter a place of worshi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: Today, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would have raised the state's minimum wage. When he became governor, Sununu took a $20,000 raise. And he made sure his family and cronies benefitted from his job as governor as well. Sununu's 2017 inaugural fund cut checks of $40,000 for himself, $50,000 for his sister, and nearly $50,000 for one of his family's closest advisors. New Hampshire is the   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 8 [TNSeducationresearch] -- Georgia State University issued the following news release: Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development professor Joe Magliano and assistant professor Kathryn McCarthy are co-principal investigators in a research project that will analyze students' reading comprehension through a two-year, $599,973 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Magliano and McCarthy join principal investigator Danielle McNamara from Arizona  more

EXETER, England, Aug. 8 -- Massachusetts General Hospital issued the following news: * * * - Strong Community Support for Proposed Seacoast Hospital Affiliation * * * NH Seacoast area residents strongly support the proposed affiliation among Exeter Health Resources, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, according to a new poll of 600 participants conducted last month by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Survey Center. State and federal regulatory agencies are c  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Aug. 4 -- The University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy issued the following news: New Hampshire's population continues to grow thanks largely to people moving in from other states. The latest U.S. Census estimates show the state's population grew by 6,700 between July of 2017 and July of 2018 to reach a total of 1,356,000. With a similar increase the previous year, the gain over the last two years was 50 percent greater than the increase between 2  more

NASHUA, New Hampshire, Aug. 5 -- The Community College System of New Hampshire issued the following news release: For many students, summer serves as an opportunity to catch up on their learning to prepare for the upcoming school year. The Nashua School District has been running the Power Scholars Academy each July since 2015 to help students in grades 1-8 be ready for the fall. This year, the district worked with Nashua Community College (NCC) to add a new dimension to the Academy, focusing on  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 8 -- The New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority issued the following news release: The Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA) administers the Statewide Community Development Block Grant program in New Hampshire and is seeking input from municipalities and other stakeholders to help inform the development of the 2020 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Annual Action Plan. This Action Plan describes how CDBG resources will be applied for, d  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 7 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: A cyanobacteria bloom has been observed on Franklin-Pierce Lake in Hillsborough, NH. A surface scum accumulating along the shoreline appeared blue-green, with thin ribbons along the Manahan Park Beach. Samples collected on 8/6 from the beach area exceeded the State threshold of 70,000 cells/ml of cyanobacteria. Samples contained Anabaena/Dolichospermum taxa and were estima  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: Elevated concentrations of cyanobacteria are present in Hunkins Pond in Sanbornton, NH. Samples collected on 8/6 and 8/7 from a shoreline exceeded the State threshold of 70,000 cells/ml of cyanobacteria. Samples contained varieties of cyanobacteria taxa, Anabaena/Dolichospermum, with concentrations ranging from 128,000 to 165,000 cells/ml. There were no observed surface sc  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: Shoreline accumulations of cyanobacteria have been observed on Middle Danforth Pond in Freedom, NH. Reports of these observations have been noted at each end of the pond and are likely to move through to the other connected ponds. Samples collected from a shoreline on 8/9 exceeded the State threshold of 70,000 cells/ml of cyanobacteria. Samples contained cyanobacteria taxo  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 7 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: A cyanobacteria bloom has been observed on Mirror Lake. Samples collected on 8/6/19 exceeded the State threshold of 70,000 cells/ml of cyanobacteria. Samples contained the cyanobacteria taxa; Woronichnia and Microcystis and three varieties of Anabaena/Dolichospermum. The bloom appears bright green and globulous. Concentrations have been spotted accumulating along shoreline  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 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 8/6/2019. Samples from the beach on 8/6 and 8/7 revealed that the state threshold of 70,000 cells/ml of cyanobacteria was exceeded. The cyanobacteria were identified as Anabaena/Dolichospermum. The bloom quickly dissipated and samples on 8/8 revealed that the bloom h  more

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: Two New Hampshire award winners, including a NHDES employee, were among the individuals and organizations honored by the Gulf of Maine Council at an international ceremony held this summer in Nova Scotia for making a significant difference in protecting the health and sustainability of the Gulf of Maine watershed. Recipients from New Hampshire include Kevin Lucey, NHDES  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 8 -- The New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game issued the following news: The summer Turkey Brood Survey ends August 31 and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department needs your help. Get online and report your sightings of hen turkeys, with or without young, at www.wildnh.com/surveys/turkeybrood.html. The survey provides data which helps NH Fish and Game biologists determine the productivity, distribution, and abundance of wild turkeys throughout the state. "O  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement by Chairman Stephen Stepanek on New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu vetoing the minimum wage hike: "The minimum wage increase would have been disastrous for New Hampshire small businesses and employees; Governor Sununu was absolutely right in vetoing it. "Increasing the cost of labor decreases the ability for low-skilled and entry level workers to a job where they can begin to develop their skills.   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: Highlighting a growing epidemic among adolescents in New Hampshire, e-cigarettes are now the tobacco product most commonly used by youth in the state. According to the 2017 NH Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), 24 percent of high school-aged youth reported having used electronic vaping products (including e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, vape pipes, vaping pens, e-hooka  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following water order (No. 26,285) involving Pennichuck East Utility: Order Approving Special Contract This order approves a special contract between Pennichuck East Utility, Inc., and Pillsbury Realty Development, LLC. The special contract allows Pennichuck East Utility, Inc., to deviate from its general tariff and collect funds from the developer, enabling the parties to share the costs of constructing  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 9 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following letter (No. DG 17-152) : Re: DG 17-152, Liberty Utilities (EnergyNorth Natural Gas) Corp .d/b/a Liberty Utilities Least Cost Integrated Resource Plan Suspension of Certain Procedural Deadlines To the Parties: On August 7, 2019, Commission Staff (Staff) filed a letter recommending suspension of the August 9, 2019 deadline for Staff/OCA/lntervenor testimony and the associated discovery period in  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 8 -- The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced that an adult from Kingston, NH tested positive for both Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) and Powassan virus (POW), the first time these vector-borne diseases have been identified in the State in 2019. JCV is transmitted by infected mosquitoes and POW is transmitted by infected ticks. There are no va  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 5 -- The New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement by Communications Director Joe Sweeney: "Democrats are disgustingly politicizing a tragedy by sending the Governor these anti-Second Amendment bills immediately following terrible acts of violence in Texas and Ohio. "None of these bills would have prevented those tragedies. But, by purposefully withholding the legislation for months until tragedy struck, Democrats made it clear that they are onl  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 6 -- The New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement by Communications Director Joe Sweeney regarding New Hampshire State House Speaker Steve Shurtleff's letter on income tax bill: "Speaker Shurtleff's letter makes it clear that Senators Soucy and Feltes are playing partisan political games with the laws of this state. The Speaker has validated what everyone knew from the beginning: the arrival of those bills on the Governor's desk yesterday was no  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Aug. 7 -- Sanford Health issued the following news: Legionnaires' disease tends to lead the news when an outbreak occurs from a source in a public place. Just a few recent examples: * An outbreak of the bacterial infection at a hotel in Atlanta this summer is suspected in dozens of probable cases. * A hot tub led to an outbreak at a New Hampshire hotel last year that killed two and sickened dozens more, state health officials reported. * An outbreak from an unidentif  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Aug. 6 -- The New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement by Chairman Stephen Stepanek: This week, Democrat State Senator Shannon Chandley announced that she is hosting an out-of-state fundraiser at a million dollar mansion near Newport, Rhode Island with US Senator Maggie Hassan. The fundraiser is located near the exclusive summer retreat of rich liberal elite families such as the Vanderbilts. "This fundraiser for State Senator Shannon Chandley and t  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Aug. 4 -- The University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy issued the following news: In the far northeastern corner of Colorado sits the small town of Julesburg. Surrounded by fields of corn and wheat, farming is the predominant occupation here, and has been for much of the town's history. In 1930, Sedgwick County hit its peak population of over 5,580. This was a time when farming required extra hands. But in the decades since, residents, mainly youn  more