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Co-op will reinstate mask requirement at stores beginning Aug. 9
Modified: 8/2/2021 9:34:44 PM
HANOVER That didn’t last long.
Citing “serious upticks in the incidence of the delta variant” in its service area, the Hanover Co-op announced on Monday that customers would be required again to wear masks inside its stores.
The revived policy goes into effect next Monday, Aug. 9, just 40 days after the Co-op lifted its mask requirement among employees and customers.
Other Upper Valley businesses and institutions said they are also weighing re-implementing a mask policy as the number of new COVID-19 cases rises amid the highly infectious delta variant, which an internal report for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said could be as contagious as chickenpox.
The approval of the Hanover community power plan follows votes in Keene and Harrisville to move forward with plans of their own.
The Hanover plan will give the town more control over what kind of energy is procured so it can choose a more renewable mix of sources. The town’s goal, set in 2017, is to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. Some energy experts are hopeful that community power will allow municipalities to secure more favorable pricing than utilities that go to market only twice a year.
Traditionally, the utilities make decisions about where to procure power and they then provide this power to customers and bill them accordingly. But community power allows electric customers to band together and choose for themselves where they get power from.
Hanover Town Meeting includes petition to eliminate town manager >Modified: 7/9/2021 9:39:56 PM
HANOVER Voters will decide on Tuesday whether to maintain Hanover’s town manager form of government or instead delegate more responsibilities to its five-member Selectboard.
A petitioned warrant article on this year’s Town Meeting ballot asks residents if they support “the continuation of the town manager plan as now in force in this town?”
A “yes” vote would continue the work of Town Manager Julia Griffin, who was hired in 1996, while a “no” vote would redistribute some of her responsibilities to elected officials.
In New Hampshire, town managers have hiring and firing power, can pay the town’s bills and set salaries. Hanover, which has a population of about 11,500, switched to the model in the 1970s as the town and Dartmouth College grew.
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