The budget process "must include strategies to uphold the essential role government plays in fulfilling its social contract to protect and provide for those-in-need and sustain our communities," according to a position statement from the N.H. Center for Non-Profits, which says the non-profit sector contributes more than $8 billion, or 14.5%, of the state's GDP.
A favorite local site for walking, blueberry picking, and gazing at Ossipee Lake and the Ossipee Range receives protection.
Winter has lost its grip on Ossipee Lake.
N.H. Lakes Association and the Nature Conservancy are among those who say cuts to the state's natural resources agencies "undermine the foundations of sustainable economic development." Two well-known lake initiatives are among the programs set to be terminated.
A bill to re-set Ossipee Lake's benchmark from 410 ft. to 407.25 ft. has cleared the state senate and is headed to the governor for signature.
The boat speed limit on Lake Winnipesaukee doesn't apply to Ossipee Lake, but what's being learned from the speed limit law is important for all of the state's large lakes.
Poll shows 69 percent of respondents want limits and oppose the bill to increase the daytime limit to 55 mph in the "broads," a proposal, backed by an anti-speed limit group, that recently passed out of the Senate on a 13-11 vote and is awaiting a vote in the House.
Ossipee Lake is one of the area's bodies of water where landlocked salmon can be caught and keep between now and the end of September.
Most of the snow is gone but the ice continues to cover the lake and bays.
New ground water protection ordinances pass in Freedom, Madison and Effingham.
In an article, State Representative Mark McConkey discusses why he does not support the proposed groundwater protection ordinances as currently written.
There is a giant reserve of drinking water under six towns in Carroll County. This March, those towns are proposing ordinances to keep it clean.
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