NEW LONDON, New Hampshire, July 26 -- Colby-Sawyer College issued the following news: Colby-Sawyer College raised $20.8 million in fiscal year 2023, marking the second highest single-year fundraising total in its 186-year history. The $20,852,672 raised in 2023 represents a 78% increase from last year's fundraising total, and is just $660,430 less than the all-time mark set in 2021. Colby-Sawyer also saw its second highest number of donors, with nearly 3,500 individuals and organizations makin  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 27 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: Last fall, poet Heid Erdrich '86, an award-winning author and educator, was invited by the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies to teach NAIS 8: Perspectives in Native American Studies. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Native American Studies Program and of coeducation at Dartmouth, Erdrich, a visiting professor, invited a different Native American or Indigenous alumna  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 28 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: * * * Study looks at Facebook users' news feeds, evaluates if "echo chambers" play a role. * * * People often debate whether social media creates "echo chambers" by showing users content that matches their politics and in turn increases polarization. A new study published today in the journal Nature reports that reducing Facebook users' exposure to content from politically "like-minded" s  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 28 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: * * * Neptune-sized planet strangely and sporadically burps hydrogen as it circles its sun. * * * Trillions of miles from Earth, the violent and erratic shedding of a young planet's atmosphere could provide a rare glimpse into the tumultuous early life that besets most of the planets in our galaxy. A new study led by PhD candidate Keighley Rockcliffe, Guarini, and Assistant Professor of Physics and Astro  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNStalk) -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following statement on July 19, 2023, by Executive Director Meghan Meehan-Draper: * * * DGA Executive Director Meghan Meehan-Draper released the following statement on Gov. Chris Sununu announcing he will not seek a fifth term as Governor of New Hampshire: "Gov. Chris Sununu's announcement that he is not running is a massive RGA recruitment failure that will kick off a nasty, extreme and expensive Republican prim  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: Ayotte led U.S. Senate charge for national abortion ban, at odds with NH voters who name abortion rights as second-most important issue. In an interview with The Pulse of NH, New Hampshire Republican candidate for governor and 2016 U.S. Senate race loser Kelly Ayotte claimed "there is no 'abortion ban' in New Hampshire...It's just not true." Under Gov. Chris Sununu's leadership, New Hampshire passed the most  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 (TNStalk) -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following statement on July 24, 2023, by Deputy Communications Director Izzi Levy: * * * DGA Deputy Communications Director Izzi Levy issued the following statement in response to 2016 U.S. Senate race loser Kelly Ayotte's announcement that she will run for New Hampshire governor in 2024: "Kelly Ayotte has spent her career working to stack the deck against New Hampshire's working families and attacking their most  more

BERLIN, New Hampshire, July 25 (TNSper) -- The Community College System of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Dr. Charles "Chuck" Lloyd has been appointed Vice Chancellor for the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH). Lloyd, a native of Franklin, NH, has been president of White Mountains Community College (WMCC), with campuses in Berlin and Littleton, NH, since 2017. Prior to his role at WMCC, Lloyd served in senior administrative and teaching roles at NHTI-Concord's C  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 29 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release and letter: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, on the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of the U.S. military, joined Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella in co-leading a bipartisan coalition calling on Congress to pass the Sgt. Isaac Woodard, Jr. and Sgt. Joseph H. Maddox GI Bill Restoration Act of 2023. The proposed federal legisl  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 27 -- New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Attorney General John M. Formella announces that on this the 75th Anniversary of the desegregation of the U.S. Military, he is proud to co-lead a bi-partisan, multi-state call on Congress to pass H.R. 1255, the Sgt. Isaac Woodard, Jr. and Sgt. Joseph H. Maddox GI Bill Restoration Act of 2023. The proposed federal legislation, named in honor of two Black World War I  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 26 -- New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued the following news release: Attorney General John M. Formella joined a coalition of 27 states in a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule--or at least clarify--the doctrine known as Chevron deference. "For decades now unelected bureaucrats at federal agencies have been using a legal principle known as Chevron deference to operate like a fourth branch of the Government. We now see courts deferring to  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 21 (TNStalk) -- The New Hampshire Democratic Party issued the following statement on July 20, 2023, by Chair Ray Buckley: * * * Ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy's town hall in Manchester today, NHDP Chair Ray Buckley released the following statement: "Vivek Ramaswamy is a fringe extremist whose extreme MAGA agenda is wildly out of step with Granite Staters. Ramaswamy's agenda poses a dangerous threat to the freedoms we cherish in New Hampshire: he supports cruel bans on a  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 28 (TNSres) -- The New Hampshire Department of Education issued the following news release: One year after launching its partnership with TeachUNITED, educators participating in the program say their instructional improvement goals are now coming to fruition, adding the collaborative work has been immensely helpful and effective. Twenty-six educators from five New Hampshire schools have completed the first of two years of the TeachUNITED Coaching for Impact Program  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 26 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) announced that the Governor and Executive Council recently approved an Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund project in Francestown for $202,730. The grant awarded to Trout Unlimited will support the removal of the dam structure on Brennan Brook to re-establish stream connectivity, improve aquatic organism p  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 27 -- The New Hampshire Department of Insurance issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has today released statistics for its Consumer Services Unit for Fiscal Year 2023. During FY 2023, Consumer Services processed 1,078 consumer complaint investigations, 4,086 assistance requests and 88 applications for external health review. Consumer Services recovered approximately $6 million dollars for New Hampshire co  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 29 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following electric order (No. 26,861) on July 27, 2023, involving Electric and Natural Gas Utilities: * * * Development of a Statewide, Multi-Use Online Energy Data Platform Order on Selected Consultant Following a Request for Proposals In this order the Commission approves the Governance Council's selection of a consultant to assist in developing the design and cost estimates for integrating utility   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 26 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following electric order (No. 26,860) on July 25, 2023, involving Eversource Energy and Consolidated Communications: * * * Joint Petition to Approve Pole Asset Transfer Order on Objection and Motion Related to Compliance Tariff Filing On May 12, 2023, Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy (Eversource) filed a compliance tariff in this docket. The compliance tariff was filed p  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 28 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following water order (No. 26,862) on July 27, 2023, involving Pennichuck Water Works Inc.: * * * Request for Change in Rates Order Approving Final Revenue Requirement and Resulting Rates In this order the Commission approves a final revenue requirement of $40,736,437, which includes proposed revenues from base rates of $40,143,045. This yields an annual revenue increase of $3,714,300, which adjusted   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 25 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. DE 23-063) on July 24, 2023: * * * Public Service Company of New Hampshire dba Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) Corp. dba Liberty, and Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. Petition for Waiver of Certain Provisions of the Puc 2200 Rules and Request to Recover Costs of Implementing the Puc 2200 Rules COMMENCEMENT OF ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDING AND NOTICE OF PREHEARIN  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 25 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. DE 23-071) on July 24, 2023: * * * TOWN OF NEW LONDON, Request for Approval of New London Community Power Plan ORDER OF NOTICE On July 21, 2023, the Town of New London (New London) filed a Community Power Electric Aggregation Plan (Community Power Plan) with the Commission pursuant to RSA 53-E:7 for Commission review and approval. RSA 53-E:7, II provides that The commission shall  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 25 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following letter (No. DE 23-063) on July 24, 2023: * * * Re: Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, and Unitil Energy Systems, Inc.; Petition for Waiver of Certain Provisions of the Puc 2200 Rules and Request to Recover Costs of Implementing the Puc 2200 Rules; Hearing Guidelines To the Parties: To facilitate the  more