Modified: 7/23/2021 9:24:58 PM
WEST LEBANON Upper Valley municipal managers say the loss of a state grant program that helped New Hampshire towns and cities pay for costly wastewater upgrades will translate to higher tax and utility bills as they work to cover the funding shortfall.
The state’s two-year budget, signed into law last month by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, reinstates a moratorium on new projects eligible for wastewater state aid grants.
The program, administered by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, is intended to offset the multimillion-dollar costs that municipalities can incur while improving their sewer systems and thereby provide an incentive to curb pollution.
Windsor outbreak centered at care home
Modified: 2/1/2021 7:42:14 PM
WINDSOR A COVID-19 outbreak at the Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community included 23 people as of Monday morning, an uptick of a couple of cases in the past week, according to an administrator.
The outbreak, which has left two residents of the Judith Brogren Memory Care Center dead, is primarily concentrated in the memory care center where 13 residents and six employees have been infected, said Kristi White, executive director of The Village at Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community, the independent and assisted living residences at the Windsor facility.
In addition to the deaths, two memory care residents were hospitalized at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center last week and another was undergoing rehabilitation at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, White said.
COVID-19 outbreak at Claremont senior housing complex infects 21 residents
Elaine Perrault, 83, of Claremont, N.H., takes a cigarette break outside the Earl M. Bourdon Centre where Perrault has lived for the past eight years. Perrault tested negative for the COVID-19 virus last week and is due to be tested again next week. Twenty-one residents and 5 staff have the virus. Residents have been told by intercom to stay in their apartments and communal activities have been cancelled. It s eerie, Perrault said of the empty halls. I want to see these people back to smiling, she said later. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
CLAREMONT â Several city councilors said they remain hesitant to release reserved funds to address underpaid municipal employees at this time, citing a need for more details about which positions the pay increases and potential cost impact.
On Wednesday, City Manager Ed Morris discussed his desire to use $62,000 in budgeted funds this year to increase the compensation for a number of city employees whose pay is substantially below the regional market value.
Morris did not specify which individual positions would receive pay increases but said they were mostly employees in the low end of the cityâs pay scale whose compensation remains considerably below the level received in other area municipalities.