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City councilors discussed the increasing burden to the budget of the welfare department as the affordable housing crisis continues and deepens the needs of community members without a place to live. At a meeting of the council subcommittee on finance, councilors learned that changes to the city’s welfare guidance may…
Continue reading →New Hampshire advocacy groups are considering legal action to challenge several anti-LGBTQ bills signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu late last week. Devon Chaffee, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, and Chris Erchull, a lawyer for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, said Monday that…
Continue reading →Julie Hirshan Hart (Photo by Adam Drapcho, Laconia Daily Sun) The Laconia Daily Sun is continuing to press its right-to-know case against the Laconia School Board, contending the state right-to-know ombudsman’s office wrongly ruled in favor of the school board, and pushing for reconsideration of the ruling. The news outlet’s…
Continue reading →The front of the Keene location of Tito’s Taqueria before it opened last October. (File photo by Trisha Nail) A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found Tito’s Taqueria owed more than $62,000 in back wages and withheld tips to 126 employees across three locations in Keene, Brattleboro and Greenfield, Mass….
Continue reading →Listen Community Services Executive Director Kyle Fisher speaks with volunteer servers about a change in how the annual Lebanon Christmas Day Dinner was to be presented to those in attendance in the basement of Sacred Heart Church in Lebanon, NH, on Dec. 25, 2018. (Photo by Geoff Hansen, Valley News)…
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