By KEVIN LANDRIGAN | The New Hampshire Union Leader | Published: May 4, 2021 CONCORD, N.H. (Tribune News Service) A Green Alert system to mobilize the public to help find a missing veteran would help deal with an epidemic of suicides among returning servicemen and women, according to U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Chris Pappas, both D-N.H. The pair hosted a virtual discussion Monday about this proposal each is offering during this congressional session with bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. We do need to intervene in those moments to save a life so the veteran can choose the best way forward, Hassan said.
Carolyn Timbie s grandmother, Grace Banker, was the chief operator of the U.S. Army Signal Corps women telephone operators. Timbie is helping historians and U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan understand the work done by Signal Corps women during the war, when they became known as the Hello Girls.
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN | The New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester | Published: February 1, 2021 MANCHESTER, N.H. (Tribune News Service) Charlene Fyfe got stuck in a bureaucratic maze for more than a year, trying just to get a federal employee on the telephone as she searched for the military records of her father, Norman Levesque. The Milford woman credits Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, and staff with pulling the strings necessary to get those documents to Fyfe a few weeks ago. They didn t come until after Levesque died Dec. 12 at age 77 in a local nursing home, four days after he had gotten COVID-19. But hers is one of thousands of stories that cry out for reform of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Mo. where 60 million paper records of veterans are stored.
By JEFF MCMENEMY | Foster s Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H. | Published: January 23, 2021 PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (Tribune News Service) Testing For Pease co-founder Andrea Amico is optimistic that President Joe Biden s administration will work to better regulate dangerous PFAS chemicals now that he s in office. We need incredibly protective standards to protect people from ongoing exposure, and not only people impacted at military sites like we were at Pease, but also at industrial sites like we see in Merrimack, along with firefighters, Amico, a Portsmouth mother of three, said during an interview Friday. I am optimistic that we will see more action from the Biden EPA than we did from the Trump EPA.
By PATRICK CRONIN | Portsmouth Herald, N.H. | Published: January 13, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. EXETER, N.H. (Tribune News Service) Gold Star mother Natalie Healy has launched a campaign to help Seacoast restaurant servers and bartenders struggling financially due to the coronavirus pandemic. I wanted to do something to help the restaurant workers in the area since I have been one myself off and on for many years, said Healy, who most recently worked as a waitress at Bogie s at Depot Square in Hampton up until the start of the pandemic.