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Vaccination rates vary widely across New Hampshire >Modified: 7/1/2021 10:00:38 PM
WEST LEBANON New Hampshire town-by-town COVID-19 vaccination rates from the Department of Health and Human Services illustrate local differences in the state’s vaccination rollout that track with broader health disparities, according to a Dartmouth College researcher.
In several of the Upper Valley’s working-class communities, such as Claremont and Newport, the number of residents who have gotten at least one vaccination is below 50%, while the more affluent communities of Hanover and Lebanon, home to Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, respectively, have rates above 70%, according to the data as of June 23 that DHHS provided to the
Haverhill budget’s fate uncertain after vote
Modified: 3/15/2021 10:08:46 PM
HAVERHILL Residents at Town Meeting over the weekend ousted the Selectboard chairman and voted against approving the optional meeting procedures Haverhill was following during the COVID-19 state of emergency, creating major budget uncertainty.
In Australian ballot voting on Saturday, Michael Graham defeated Haverhill Selectboard Chairman Darwin Clogston, 514-186.
And warrant Article 2, whose passage was needed to consider more than 30 other articles, was rejected on a 409-264 vote.
Graham, who served on the Selectboard several years ago and runs a family-owned Woodsville insurance agency, said he was running on a platform of “healing Haverhill,” which has been bitterly divided over a plan to create a town fire department and merge the independent district departments into it.
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