GREENLAND – The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a virtual public meeting about the Superfund Coakley Landfill site on Wednesday night.
The March 3 public meeting will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will include updates from the EPA, along with information about the status of residential well sampling around the landfill, which will be presented by Drew Hoffman of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
The landfill is located in Greenland and North Hampton.
Members of the Coakley Landfill Group (CLG), who are scheduled to speak during Wednesday’s public meeting, are responsible for the cost of the site’s cleanup. The group includes municipalities and private companies that used the dump.
East Rochester s skating rink a respite from pandemic
By Karen Dandurant
ROCHESTER – Families in East Rochester are enjoying the return of an ice-skating rink that had entertained scores of residents over the years.
“This is wonderful,” said Rochester resident Emilee Spear. “There is almost nothing you can do safely right now with your family. This is perfect.”
The rink was created by the Rochester Recreation and Water Department staff, which flooded the field next to the Nancy Loud School on Cocheco Avenue for a few weeks until it was frozen solid and became an outdoor rink.
The field in the center of the east side of town used to be used as a skating rink for years along with the Common in downtown Rochester, an area outside the Rochester Arena where the YMCA building now stands, and an area in Gonic. It has been years since the city stopped flooding them, with rec employees and local history buffs unsure of the exact years or reasons.
Another PFAS detected in wells near Coakley Landfill
NORTH HAMPTON – Former state Rep. Mindi Messmer believes residents who live near the Coakley Landfill Superfund site should be concerned by detections of another PFAS contaminant in private wells.
“It is concerning because once again we have people exposed to a chemical that we have no enforceable standards for,” Messmer said after perfluorooctanesulfonamide (PFOSA) was found in private wells near the landfill. “Other states are taking steps to regulate PFOSA and New Hampshire needs to do the same.”
Messmer, a scientist and environmental activist, said that although there is no federal or state standard for PFOSA in water, residents need to be protected from the chemical.
Speaking in 1965, the year before he died, Spear said he was called at home in Guernsey and invited to Manchester to see test footage of a new working-class drama that Granada was developing and which needed title music. “I was briefed very beautifully on this,” he said. “They wanted something melodic, but not too much so. They wanted something rhythmic, but it mustn’t be jazz. They wanted something exciting, but it mustn’t be too thrilling.”
After lunch, they all stepped outside into a Mancunian street akin to the one the show was based around. It was raining but, remembers Spear, “suddenly the sun broke through the clouds”. The director, now alive to the possibilities, declared he wanted the theme to convey precisely that. That sense of golden hope piercing darkness is there in Spear’s composition: mournful cornet notes sailing over a light shuffle, originally with trumpet, clarinet, muted trombones, drums played with brushes, stand-up bass and acoustic guitar.
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