NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 9 -- Colby-Sawyer College issued the following news: By Michael Pezone Colby-Sawyer College has once again been recognized as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the region, earning Top 10 rankings in three categories in U.S. News & World Report's 2020 Best Colleges issue. The report, released Monday, ranks Colby-Sawyer in the Top 10 in its Best Regional Colleges list for a third straight year, and in the Top 5 for Best Value Schools and Best Undergraduate Teaching  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Sept. 11 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: * * * - New Cross-Species Study Pushes Back on Decision-making Theories * * * A new Dartmouth study on how we use reward information for making choices shows how humans and monkeys adopt their decision-making strategies depending on the uncertainty of information present. The results of this study illustrated that for a simple gamble to obtain a reward, when the magnitude or amount o  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Sept. 11 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, Greenland continues to be an epicenter for climate change research. Each year, hundreds of researchers from the U.S. visit Greenland to conduct fieldwork, often to remote areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet but they rarely collaborate with researchers from Greenland. A new report posted on Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studi  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Sept. 11 -- The New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority issued the following news release: As part of the development of the 2020 Action Plan, which guides the administration of the Statewide Community Development Block Grant Program in New Hampshire, CDFA has proposed policy updates based on data, trends and public participation that will: * Increase the funds to and capacity for communities to develop, implement and sustain impactful projects. * Provid  more

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, Sept. 13 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: The Portsmouth Oil Spill Response Workgroup, in conjunction with the Maine/NH Area Committee, is sponsoring an oil spill exercise on September 18, 2019. This exercise will provide participants with an opportunity to assess capabilities, plans, policies and procedures. It will focus on decision making, coordination and integration with other organizations during a sig  more

GREENLAND, New Hampshire, Sept. 13 -- The New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game issued the following news: The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve turns 30 years old this fall, and The Great Bay Discovery Center is hosting a celebration of three decades of research, education, outreach, land protection, and history-making achievements on September 20. At 12:30 p.m., join the Great Bay team and students and teachers from the Greenland Central School as they unearth a time capsule   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Sept. 10 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following letter (No. RSA 365:28): Re: DE10-024, DE10-212, DE13-298, DE15-302 and DE17-172 Fiscal Year 2020 Renewable Energy Fund Program Budgets To the Parties: On September 6, 2019, Commission Staff filed a memorandum recommending specific program funding allocations for the Renewable Energy Fund(REF)for fiscal year 2020 (FY20). The FY 20 program budgets are set forth in the Funding Allocations by P  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Sept. 10 -- The New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement by Chairman Stephen Stepanek regarding the comments made by New Hampshire State Rep. Timothy Soucy in the Manchester Union Leader: "New Hampshire Democrats do not appreciate the value of New Hampshire's small businesses and regard them only as another revenue source to fund their ever-expanding special interest programs. As stated in today's Union Leader, Democrats had no idea what they were do  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Sept. 10 -- New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald issued the following news release: Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald today announced that New Hampshire has joined 50 attorneys general in a multistate investigation of Google's business practices in accordance with state and federal antitrust laws. The coalition, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, announced plans to investigate Google's overarching control of online advertising markets and search   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Sept. 13 -- New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald issued the following news release: The Attorney General's Charitable Trusts Unit is releasing the following materials: Attorney General's Charitable Trusts Unit Report Regarding Harbor Homes (https://www.doj.nh.gov/news/2019/documents/20190913-harbor-homes.pdf); * Charitable Trusts Unit Report on Harbor Homes with interlineated comments (in red) by Harbor Homes and rejoinders to those comments (in blue) by   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Sept. 9 -- The New Hampshire Supreme Court issued the following order announcing dates of implementation of electronic filing in criminal cases in Superior Court: In a July 18, 2019 order, this court amended the New Hampshire Rules of Criminal Procedure and Supplemental Rules of Superior Court for Electronic Filing. The amendments are designed to implement electronic filing in criminal cases and took effect in Rockingham County on August 6, 2019, when electronic filing i  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 14 [TNSsociologyresearch] -- Northeastern University issued the following news: Who will challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 election? The 10 Democrats who participated in the latest debate Thursday in Houston revealed a variety of strategies. Julian Castro took on frontrunner Joe Biden. Andrew Yang separated himself from his rivals by offering prizes of $1,000 a month to 10 people. Leading progressives Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders dueled over the s  more