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HAMPTON BEACH – Local business owners sounded alarm bells over an impending worker shortage at Hampton Beach this summer if more J-1 student visas are not processed. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and recently appointed Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with business owners during a roundtable Monday morning at the Seashell Complex. Shaheen and Raimondo were visiting the Hampton area to tout ways a block of $750 million contained in the American Rescue Plan and the American Jobs Plan can be used by businesses and municipalities coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. John Nyhan, president of the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce, said the cap on foreign students seeking J-1 visas needs to be lifted beyond the current number. He estimated without the typical influx of foreign students coming to the area for the summer, Hampton Beach will be short approximately 450 seasonal workers alone. ....
PORTSMOUTH There are 10 new metal accessible picnic tables located in and around Market Square for the public to enjoy. Stephanie Seacord, the city’s public information officer, said Department of Public Works employees assembled the picnic tables and put them out Wednesday. The idea for the initiative came out of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee to Reopen Portsmouth 2021. “The idea was discussed . in terms of how do we get people to stay downtown? How do we encourage people to get takeout and then have a place to eat it?” she said Thursday. “It’s an ongoing conversation about Portsmouth being a winter city, a winter destination.” ....