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The bridge over the Connecticut River at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, that George Hormell and Scott King crossed in 1976 (left), now a pedestrian and bicycle bridge, and (right) the vehicle bridge constructed in 2003, as seen from Chesterfield looking west (undated photo).
The Manchester Union Leader (published on Sundays as the New Hampshire Sunday News) reported on the walk ahead of its March 15, 1976, launch at Fort Allen Park in Portland, Maine. The paper later published several articles reporting the progress of the two hikers as they made their way eventually to Will Rogers State Beach in Santa Monica, California.
An initial Meredith Jaycees news release in early March 1976 resulted in notices being published in numerous newspapers across the country. Later, another announcement from the Jaycees stated that the hikers’ route would take them “…across the Appalachian Mountains, through the Great Plains, up over the Rockies and on to the Pacific Coast... Using the slogan originated by the Maine Jaycees, PRIDE IN AMERICA BEGINS WITH ME, they hope to arouse a personal feeling for the Bicentennial…” as they visit “…hundreds of hamlets, villages and towns, meeting America face to face.”
As the Jaycees’ volunteers, George Hormell and Scott King, walked their planned 3,200-mile route, fellow Jaycee Chris Hurd acted as their press agent. He drove the supply van ahead of his two friends. Stopping at cities and towns along the route, he drummed up interest in the imminent arrival of the “Bicentennial hikers,” as George and Scott were known. Chris’ efforts led to special coverage in local media, as well as meetings with local officials. As the walk was supported by the national Jaycees organization, the network of Jaycees chapters across the country aided in spreading the word.
On the evening of March 18, 1976, Hormell and King arrived in Concord, New Hampshire. Hormell wrote in his journal, “Hallelujah, we found out today we are doing much better than we had thought…we’ve done 102 miles in four days! Still not our needed average, but extremely well for our shape and the weather we’ve had.” It had been a difficult journey from Portland, with the pair enduring cold temperatures with sharp winds, and a blast of heavy snow from a brutal March Nor’easter that hit New England on March 16.
After enjoying a pleasant night at the home of a fellow Jaycee, the men made their way through Concord, arriving in Henniker at 5:30 p.m. Hormell wrote, “This is the only Henniker in the world and we’re in it... nowhere to stay, sore and worn out, we were just about to give up and stay in the van…” They were delighted when a friend of King’s father drove up and offered to have them stay at his house overnight. Hormell wrote, “A grand old New England home and fine family, including a bevy of beautiful daughters.”
The next day, March 20, 1976, was the first day of spring, and a pleasant 60 degrees and dry. As Hormell described in his journal, “We saw our first wildlife as an otter prepared to slide into a steam off Route 9. Hope to see much more.” The hikers walked 19 miles before stopping for the day. They were then driven to Keene, where the Elks Lodge fed them and the Keene Jaycees provided a place to sleep and a $25 donation.
On March 21, Hormell and King began walking again at the location where they had stopped the day before, somewhere between Henniker and Keene. They then trekked more than 25 miles, making it through Keene and beyond. Hormell wrote, “The rain fell, got our bones wet, and gave us both new blisters. Tomorrow we will be in Vermont.” Hormell was suffering from inflamed tendons in one ankle, which he bandaged up sufficiently to be able to walk the next day.
On day 8, March 22, 1976, the hikers crossed the 1937 steel arch bridge over the Connecticut River that carries Route 9 from Chesterfield, New Hampshire, to Brattleboro, Vermont. A similar, but sturdier, bridge was built next to it in 2003 to better accommodate vehicle traffic. Today the old span is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge. In 2010 it was named the Harlan Fiske Stone Bridge after the Chief Justice of the United States who was born in Chesterfield in 1872.
Next week: Crossing Vermont into New York State.
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The Bicentennial Hikers: The publicity effort and reaching Vermont | Looking Back | unionleader.com
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The 18-year-old male panda had grown increasingly frail and suffered a series of epileptic seizures last week, zoo officials said at a news conference, giving no immediate cause of death. "At 1:48 p.m., Tuan Tuan's heart stopped beating and will no longer suffer," Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je added in a social media post Saturday.
Tuan Tuan's declining health had been a source of serious concern for the zoo's veterinary team since August. The bear struggled to walk on its hind legs, officials observed, and consumed only half the amount of bamboo he had been eating in previous months.
Efforts to save the animal inspired a rare moment of cooperation between China and Taiwan this month, when Beijing sent a pair of panda experts to visit Tuan Tuan and assist the bear's team of veterinarians and daily caretakers. In a statement at the time, the Taipei Zoo expressed its gratitude for the collaborative effort -- detailing how Taiwanese officials had been communicating with experts from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, in Sichuan province, to seek advice on caring for the bear.
According to CNA, Taiwan's official news agency, zoo officials ended Tuan Tuan's life after he suffered more seizures this month -- suspected to be related to a brain tumor. The average life span of a wild panda is 14 to 20 years, but they can live much longer in captivity, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
"Tuantuan has been in the Taipei Zoo for more than 10 years, bringing joy and good memories to many Taiwanese friends," Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement following its death. "More understanding will help cross-strait exchanges."
For decades at least -- some date it back to the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century -- Beijing has practiced "panda diplomacy," gifting the black-and-white bears to other nations, including the United States, Soviet Union, Hong Kong and North Korea. Initially, Taiwan turned down Beijing's proposed pandas out of fear the animals would function as a propaganda tool for the mainland government. In 2008, after a change in government, the stance was reversed, and Taipei accepted Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, who were born two days apart. The bears became instant celebrities, prompting news reports of "pandamania."
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Chinese panda, gifted to Taiwan as a symbol of friendship, dies | Back Page | unionleader.com
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Beckham, who played for Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder, is working for Qatar, which has been criticized for its treatment of foreign workers, LGBTQ+ rights and restrictive social laws.
Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar and the country's organizers of the World Cup have warned visitors against public displays of affection but say that everyone, no matter their sexual orientation or background, is welcome at the event.
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UK comedian shreds 10,000 pounds over David Beckham Qatar World Cup deal | Back Page | unionleader.com
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With Biden already the oldest person to serve as president, the 2024 race for the White House is shaping up to be uncharted territory for the United States.
The nearly 250-year old democracy celebrates youth, but millions of Americans -- including presidents -- are now working well beyond the traditional retirement age of 65.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted online in English throughout the United States, gathered responses from 1,003 adults, including 468 Democrats and 342 Republicans. It has a credibility interval -- a measure of precision -- of 4 percentage points either way.
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As Biden turns 80, Americans ask 'What's too old?' | National | unionleader.com
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Members of the UNH football team on Sunday celebrate their selection to the FCS tournament. The Wildcats will host Fordham on Saturday at 2 p.m.
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UNH returns to FCS playoffs for first time since 2017, will host Fordham on Saturday
The UNH football received the news it was hoping for.
The Wildcats, who put themselves in position to qualify for the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs by tipping rival Maine 42-41 in overtime on Saturday, were rewarded one day later when selections for the 24-team field were announced. UNH, ranked 17th nationally, will host No. 21 Fordham in a first-round contest this coming Saturday at Wildcat Stadium. Kickoff is 2 p.m.
“I’m excited for the Durham community, our fan base (and) all our loyal supporters that we can have a home playoff game,” UNH first-year head coach Rick Santos said. “We’re going to get The Dungeon rocking back to the good old days of New Hampshire football.”
The selection was the 17th overall and first for the Wildcats since 2017 under coach Sean McDonnell.
The Wildcats (8-3, 7-1 CAA) received an at-large selection after beating host Maine to clinch a share of the CAA championship and reclaim possession of the Brice-Cowell Musket.
“The job is not finished. This is the whole point of it,” said Santos. “We wanted to win a championship and get back to the playoffs. The ultimate goal of this program since I was a redshirt freshman, when Coach Mac put up those goals (in the locker room) was to win a national championship.”
The Rams, from the Patriot League, received an at-large bid. They were 9-2 with a 5-1 conference record, their only loss coming at Holy Cross, 53-52, in overtime on Oct. 29.
Fordham has several connections to the UNH football program. The Rams’ head coach, Joe Conlin, spent seven seasons (2004-10) as a UNH assistant coach of the defensive line (2004-07), defensive backs (2008) and the offensive line (2009-10). Kevin Decker, Fordham’s offensive coordinator/QB coach, is a 2012 UNH graduate who won the 2011 CAA Offensive Player of the Year award in 2011 as the Wildcats’ starting quarterback. Associate head coach/WR coach Art Asselta coached Wildcats wide receivers in 2012.
UNH and Fordham have played in the FCS tournament before, in 2014, a second-round game in Durham won by the Wildcats, 44-19.
Holy Cross (11-0) received the No. 8 seed and a first-round bye. The winner of the UNH-Fordham game will visit Holy Cross at Fitton Field in Worcester, Mass., for the second round on Saturday, Dec. 3 (noon kickoff).
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The Patriots' Marcus Jones eludes Jets punter Braden Mann on a return for a touchdown in the final seconds Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
Happy return for Patriots: "Other" Jones brings back game’s 17th punt for TD in final seconds
Zach Wilson threw for just 77 yards on 9-for-22 passing. He also ran for a team-high 26 yards, while Michael Carter went for 19 yards on eight carries.
New York’s defense stood strong as well, sacking Jones six times.
Both teams punted on their first two drives, but Nick Folk broke the scoreless tie at the beginning of the second quarter with a 24-yard field goal to punctuate a 14-play, 74-yard drive.
New York quickly evened the score, though, thanks to Greg Zuerlein’s 45-yarder on the ensuing possession.
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Happy return for Patriots: "Other" Jones brings back game’s 17th punt for TD in final seconds | Patriots | unionleader.com
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By Rachel Pannett The Washington Post
Disney has reappointed Robert Iger as CEO for the next two years, ousting Bob Chapek, following a two-year tenure in which Chapek faced controversy including a feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over LGBTQ discussions in Florida's schools.
Iger was chief executive of Walt Disney Co. for 15 years before he passed the reins to Chapek in 2020. He left the company after serving as executive chairman last December. Iger will serve with a mandate from the board to select a successor, the company said in a news release.
"We thank Bob Chapek for his service to Disney over his long career, including navigating the company through the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic," Susan Arnold, chairman of the Disney board said. "The board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry transformation, Bob Iger is uniquely situated to lead the company through this pivotal period."
Disney missed Wall Street expectations as it recorded losses from its push into streaming video. It produces series such as the Star Wars spinoffs "The Mandalorian," "Andor" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
Still, Sunday's late-night announcement came as a surprise: Disney's board voted only in June to extend his contract for three years.
During Chapek's short tenure, Disney became embroiled in an internal culture war as its missteps over LGBTQ discussions in Florida's schools sparked fury from Disney's LGBTQ employees.
Disney noted Sunday that during his previous tenure, Iger oversaw the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, and increased the company's market capitalization fivefold.
He left at a high point for Disney in the streaming wars against its top rivals, Netflix and Warner Bros. More recently, Disney has struggled to match earlier subscriber growth amid the economic slowdown.
Iger said in the news release that he was "extremely optimistic for the future of this great company and thrilled to be asked by the board to return as its CEO."
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Commander of Russia's Aerospace Forces Sergei Surovikin attends a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, Nov. 3, 2021.
By Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan Reuters
LONDON - Russia's leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow's forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favor of the move is now under growing pressure to prove it was worth it.
Another, Maxim Yusin, complained on air about what he said were lies being peddled by some politicians on state TV boasting that Russian forces were so strong they would be able to reach "the Polish border, Berlin, the English Channel and Lisbon."
Some of the wives and mothers of newly mobilized men have organized to try to pressure the defense ministry over what they say is inadequate training and equipment.
Their numbers are relatively modest so far, but some of their complaints, largely rejected by the defense ministry, chime with those made by public figures who support the war.
While the Russian army continued to suffer from poor junior and mid-level leadership, it said, ."..this relative success is likely partially due to a more effective, single operational command under General Sergei Surovikin."
Ukraine's defense minister and Western diplomats say the general appears to have brought greater discipline, as well as more brutality with his stepped-up infrastructure attacks.
"Surovikin has made a big difference to the way they are functioning," said Anthony Brenton, Britain's former ambassador to Russia. ."..there's more of a sense of coherence and sensible purpose about what Russia is now up to militarily."
"For some, this will be seen as a new offensive that will prove that all the retreats were actually a tactical maneuver. For others, it will be seen as a way of forcing Ukraine to enter into peace talks using the following formula: the city of Kherson in exchange for peace, electricity, water and heating in Ukrainian cities."
Konrad Muzyka, a Polish defense analyst who recently returned from Ukraine, said that, after Kherson, the moment of truth for the Russian army had arrived.
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Russia's 'General Armageddon' under pressure to deliver on battlefield after retreat | Military | unionleader.com
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Kazakhstan's President President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2022.
ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev secured a second term in Sunday's snap election, winning 81.31% of the vote, the central Asian nation's Central Election Commission said on Monday, citing preliminary data.
"We can say that the people have expressed convincing confidence in me as president and all of you," Tokayev, 69, had told his staff earlier, referring to exit polls that favored him.
The campaign would "go down in history," the former diplomat added.
Voter turnout was 69.44%, with five other candidates scoring in the low single digits, data showed. Voters' second most popular choice was "against everyone," with 5.8% of ballots.
Prompted by the exit polls, several fellow central Asian leaders congratulated Tokayev on Monday before the preliminary results. Congratulations from Beijing and Moscow came after the official announcement.
Tokayev won his first election in 2019 with the backing of predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev, but the two fell out this year amid violent unrest in the nation of 20 million, and Sunday's vote consolidated his power as an independent leader.
(Reporting by Tamara Vaal; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Edmund Klamann, Clarence Fernandez and Tomasz Janowski)
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Kazakh President Tokayev wins re-election with 81.3% of vote | World | unionleader.com
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Meeting on redevelopment of Manchester school draws lone neighbor to listen
More than a dozen Manchester officials and nonprofit staff held a neighborhood meeting last week to answer questions and update abutters on plans to redevelop the vacant Hallsville School.
Just one neighbor showed up.
Mary Roberge, a direct abutter of the property on Jewett Street, asked questions and offered comments and concerns with a proposal for the site from Southern New Hampshire Services (SNHS) and Granite State Children’s Alliance (GSCA) that includes creating 20 units of affordable housing for seniors, an early childhood classroom, and a Child Advocacy Center, operated by Granite State Children’s Alliance, offering services to children who have experienced trauma.
But without other neighbors in attendance, the session wrapped up in about a half hour.
“I’m a little disappointed that the turnout from this neighborhood is me,” said Roberge. “I really thought there would be other people coming.”
Roberge said she had concerns over the project eventually ending up as homeless housing. Officials assured her that wouldn’t be the case, and they wouldn’t locate a youth services center alongside a homeless center.
Roberge said it makes her sad to think about how Hallsville School was allowed to fall into disrepair and neglect over the years.
“It’s a very beautiful building,” said Roberge. “I am going to be a nosy neighbor…anything that goes on in the neighborhood, I’m going to look. I don’t want to see this building neglected and I don’t want to see it run down any further.”
Roberge said she also has concerns about traffic in the area.
“I just want to be able to feel safe,” Roberge said. “I want to be able to get in and out of my driveway. I want to be able to come and go. It’s tight enough now, so this is a concern. I want to be able to get off my street — when I was working full time, granted when the school was there, it took me a half hour to get off my street because of the traffic there.”
“It’s a vacant building right now, and we’re putting it to very good use,” said Mayor Joyce Craig. “We all have to trust that we are moving in the right direction. The use of this building as proposed is really good.”
The final bell rang at Hallsville in June 2021, 130 years after it opened. Former Superintendent of Schools John Goldhardt recommended the school be closed as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 budget.
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Workers at the two largest U.S. rail unions split over ratifying on a tentative contract deal reached in September ahead of a potential rail stoppage deadline in early December.
Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) voted to ratify the agreement while train and engine service members the transportation division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) voted to reject the deal. SMART-TD yardmasters voted to ratify their national agreement.
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Workers split at two U.S. largest rail unions on contract | Transportation | unionleader.com
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President Joe Biden attends the annual ceremony to pardon Chocolate and Chip, the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 21, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden, wearing his trademark aviator sunglasses, pardoned two turkeys from North Carolina named Chocolate and Chip on Monday, sparing them from Thanksgiving dinner tables.
Biden made note of midterm congressional elections on Nov. 8 in which Democrats held on to control of the Senate but lost the House of Representatives by a handful of votes to Republicans, denying the opposition party of an overwhelming "red wave."
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In Thanksgiving tradition, Biden pardons two chatty turkeys | Back Page | unionleader.com
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Growing up, Tanya Herbert always towered above her classmates.
Now, the Texas woman has earned a Guinness World Record for the size of her feet, breaking the previous record held by a United Kingdom woman.
Herbert, who lives in Houston, said she exclusively shops for shoes online. Her right foot measures 13.03 inches and her left 12.79 inches, typically a women’s size 18 or men’s size 16-17.
“Going to the stores was out of the question,” Herbert told Guinness in an interview. “None of the stores I’ve ever been to have carried a men’s size 16 let alone a women’s size 18.”
At 6 feet, 9 inches tall, Herbert is only three inches shorter than the tallest woman alive, Turkey’s Rumeysa Gelgi, who is 7 feet, 0.7 inches tall.
Herbert’s parents, who were both well over 6 feet tall, instilled confidence in her from an early age, she said, so her height never bothered her.
For much of her life, Herbert only wore men’s shoes. But social media has helped her connect with other women who struggle to find shoes, she told Guinness. She even picked up tips to alter smaller shoes to fit her.
“I buy some of the largest shoes I could find online and manipulate those to extend them out a little longer and make them a little wider so that they would fit my feet,” she said.
Social media has also brought some unwanted attention, including from men who ask for photos of her feet.
“I never got on social media to be an object of attention or anything like that, or to go into foot fetish world,” she told Guinness. “Five percent of men that do follow me are the ones who send strange and interesting comments into my inbox asking if I would sell them pictures of my feet.”
Herbert said she hopes her story will prompt shoe manufacturers to provide more inclusive shoe sizing, with customizable and affordable options.
“Being a world record holder may open doors that I may not have been able to get into beforehand,” Herbert said in the interview. “I want to be a spark to the shoe manufacturing industry.”
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Texas woman’s size 18 feet breaks Guinness World Record | Back Page | unionleader.com
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U.S., China defense chiefs likely to meet in sign of thawing ties
By Jennifer Jacobs Bloomberg
The U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs are likely to meet for their first talks since Beijing suspended dialog with Washington over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's August visit to Taiwan - the latest sign that ties between the two nations are stabilizing.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would welcome a meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe during a gathering of defense chiefs in Cambodia, Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon spokesman, said Monday in Jakarta. That would follow Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent meetings with President Joe Biden and, separately, Vice President Kamala Harris, who remains in the region.
"Secretary Austin has frequently expressed the importance of keeping lines of communication open between the U.S. and China and welcomes the opportunity to meet with his PRC counterpart in Cambodia," Ryder said in a statement, adding that there was nothing formal to announce "at this time."
A flurry of high-level U.S.-China talks has helped ease pessimism about a relationship that plunged to its lowest point in a generation over issues including Taiwan, human rights in Xinjiang and U.S. restrictions on tech exports to China. While all those issues remain intractable, the lack of communication between the two sides had fueled concerns that new disagreements or an accident could quickly spiral out of control.
Biden officials have repeatedly called for "guardrails" to prevent tensions between the world's two largest economies from getting out of hand. In his encounter Saturday with Harris in Bangkok, Xi emphasized his view that more communication is needed.
"I hope both sides will step up mutual understanding, reduce misunderstanding and misjudgment, and together push for Sino-U.S. relations to return to a healthy and stable track," Xi said.
Austin arrives in Cambodia on Monday night for the Asean defense ministers' gathering after meeting with Indonesia's defense minister in Jakarta. The Pentagon chief is scheduled to sit down with his counterparts from the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Wei and Austin last spoke in June in Singapore, when the bulk of the conversation between the two defense chiefs was on Taiwan. Wei condemned American moves to sell arms to the democratically-run island.
That was just before Pelosi visited Taipei, prompting China to conduct its biggest ever air and sea exercises near the island, including firing a missile that reportedly flew over Taipei.
Biden, who returned to the U.S. Thursday after visiting Egypt and Indonesia, has said several times that U.S. troops would defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack.
With tensions high, U.S. officials have warned that China has become more aggressive with "dangerous intercepts" against American military aircraft and ships, as well as those of Japan, Canada and Australia in the South China Sea region. China claims a huge swath of the waterway, home of some of the world's busiest commercial shipping lanes.
While Xi has sought to build stronger ties with Pacific nations such as Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, his government has also charged the U.S. with trying to build a NATO-style bloc of allies in the region. The Chinese leader warned last week that "the Asia-Pacific is no one's backyard and should not become an arena for big power contest."
Harris is continuing her travel through Southeast Asia this week, and is scheduled to visit the Philippines province of Palawan, on the edge of the South China Sea after meeting with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila. The U.S.-Philippine relationship has been improving quickly under the new president.
During the meeting with Marcos, the two sides agreed to open talks on a deal for the Philippines to build nuclear power plans with American technology. Harris also reaffirmed the U.S.'s "unwavering" commitment to defend the Philippines in case of armed attack in the sea.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry offered a muted response Monday when asked about Harris's planned visit to Palawan. "We do not oppose the U.S.'s exchanges with regional countries, but such exchanges should be conducive to regional stability and should not harm any other country's interests," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular news briefing in Beijing.
In Jakarta on Monday, Austin praised Indonesia's government for hosting a "super" version of regular military exercises with the U.S. and 12 other nations known as Garuda Shield. He also thanked Indonesia for voting to condemn Russia's war against Ukraine - something Washington would like to see from India and China as well.
On Saturday, Austin warned that one consequence of the Russian war on Ukraine could be "a dangerous spiral of nuclear proliferation" by Russia's allies.
"Putin's fellow autocrats are watching. And they could well conclude that getting nuclear weapons would give them a hunting license of their own," Austin said during a speech at the Halifax International Security Forum.
Bloomberg's Jenny Leonard and Andreo Calonzo contributed to this report.
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Airlines handled with ease the first weekend in what they say is a new, stretched-out Thanksgiving travel window, an early sign their optimism heading into a critical holiday period is well-founded. But as the industry revs up for one of its busiest periods of the year, the holiday's peak travel days and a threat of inclement weather lie ahead.
Industry leaders have been preparing for a Thanksgiving that looks more like a long, busy week of travel rather than a mad rush for the airport on Wednesday and again on Sunday - the result of flexible schedules that allow some to work from anywhere. Since Thursday, more than 2 million people a day have passed through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, topped by 2.4 million on Friday.
The figures have outpaced last year's numbers and rival those of 2019. Less than 1 percent of flights were canceled and about a quarter were delayed in recent days, according to data from FlightAware, numbers that are comparable to the 2019 Thanksgiving travel period.
The holiday this week stands as a major test of airlines' pandemic-era recovery and their ability to get travelers to their destinations on time after a chaotic summer. It also will show how the pandemic has changed travel patterns, biting into business travel while opening the door to trips that blend work, leisure and visits with family.
"We feel that we have absolutely done a good job at making sure that we're staffed up, making sure folks are trained and having extra folks on board to be able to handle Thanksgiving travel," said Sharon Pinkerton, senior vice president for legislative and regulatory policy at trade group Airlines for America. "And as a result, we're confident that the week is going to go well."
"We are delighted that demand is returning like nobody thought possible, with more and more passengers having the income and the desire to take to the skies," Buttigieg said Monday during a visit to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. "But we also know that means airlines have to continue taking steps to address the challenges of servicing those tickets that they sell."
Analysts and airline officials say the overall trend shaping the industry during the holidays and beyond is passengers' ability to work remotely, ushering in a mixture of business and leisure trips. Helane Becker, an analyst at financial firm Cowen, said that creates potential benefits for both airlines and their customers.
"It's more manageable, frankly," for airlines, Becker said. "It enables them to be less 'peaky.' For customers, it enables them to get better pricing."
Fares remain high, soaring in the early summer months before easing this fall. The average of domestic fares tracked by booking app Hopper stands at about $325 - well above the $268 at the same point last year and slightly higher than 2019's prices.
"We are indeed anticipating that the Thanksgiving weekend, for example, will be peak, but even the days around it, we'll have a level of demand," Raja said.
"We're like dominoes," she said. "One thing happens and we just fall apart."
"We've been very purposeful in trying to make sure that we match our resources to our schedules for the whole year," Southwest's chief operating officer, Mike Van de Ven, said during a recent earnings call. "I feel like we're really set up to perform well over the holidays as we go into Thanksgiving and the Christmas season."
Business and international travel, major sources of airline revenue, also remain down as domestic leisure trips rebound. An analysis by Airlines for America showed that passenger counts on Saturdays and Sundays are within 5 percent of 2019 levels, but Tuesday and Wednesday travel is down more than 10 percent - an indicator of the decline in business travel. Analysts say continued inflation or a recession also could cool leisure travel.
"I think that's why the airline managements are so optimistic," Becker said. "That's why I'm more optimistic than I usually am."
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Oil prices, which had slid more than 5% to below $83 a barrel after the Wall Street Journal report, pared losses following the minister's comments. Brent crude was down 1% at $86.70.
The WSJ said talk of a production increase has emerged after President Joe Biden's administration told a federal court judge that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should have sovereign immunity from a federal lawsuit related to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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A Concord man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for exploitation of a minor, authorities said Monday.
Police in July 2019 arrested Jerry S. Roberts, Jr., 38, a convicted sex offender, following his assault of another person, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, citing court documents and statements made in court.
The assault victim said that Roberts and a child had left their personal property in the victim’s apartment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Roberts is a repeat and dangerous sex offender against children,” U.S. Attorney Jane Young said in a statement. “The sentence handed down in this case reflects the serious nature of the crimes committed by this defendant, which are particularly troubling given his multiple prior convictions for sexual abuse of young children.”
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By Matthew Cappucci The Washington Post
Wednesday, which is the busiest travel day, will be remarkably quiet across the Lower 48, with little in the way of precipitation outside some snow showers in the Intermountain West. The latter half of the holiday period probably won't be so tranquil.
Here's an early glance at the forecast in your region-by-region forecast:
There are no weather worries for Wednesday and Thursday. Between Friday and the weekend, the chance of a strong coastal storm has lessened, but the weather could still be a little unsettled at times. It's worth paying attention to the forecast, as it's still evolving.
Wednesday: A cool day with upper 20s for highs in northern Maine, 30s over New Hampshire, much of Upstate New York and Vermont, 40s in southern New England and near 50 for the South Coast. Dry conditions with sunshine and a few passing clouds.
Thursday: Expect highs in the Lower 20s in far northern Maine. Otherwise, high range from the upper 30s to near 40 in Vermont and New Hampshire, and 40s to near 50 in southern regions. Sunshine giving way to overcast skies late in the day. Pleasant in Boston, Manchester, Concord, Portland, Hartford and Providence.
Weekend: High temperatures range from upper 30s and 40s in interior sections to the low to mid-50s nearer the coast. Depending on how Friday's storm system evolves, it could linger into Saturday bringing rain and windy conditions. Alternatively, it may end up partly sunny and breezy for most of the weekend, until clouds increase on Sunday with a chance of rain late in the day.
Mild and dry weather is anticipated Wednesday and Thanksgiving. Depending on how much a storm system develops on Friday, there could be steady rain or just some scattered showers. Saturday and the first half of Sunday will feature tranquil weather before downpours arrive Sunday evening.
Wednesday and Thursday: Highs in the mid-50s near the Mason-Dixon Line to near 60 south of the nation's capital to lower to mid-60s in the Carolinas. Mostly sunny skies, except near the Carolina coastline. Clouds and a very isolated shower are possible along the immediate coastline Wednesday.
Friday: There's a chance of rain but just how widespread and intense is still to be determined. Some areas may end up dry.
A developing low pressure system will take shape near the Texas Gulf Coast Thanksgiving, working north and bringing showers across much of the South through Friday. By Saturday night, another low pressure zone may form over Texas and Arkansas, with more rain possible along and ahead of it.
Friday: Showers and downpours, and perhaps some thunderstorms, are probable in Mississippi, Alabama, coastal Louisiana and the Delta, northern and western Georgia, Tennessee and the Ohio Valley. Jackson, Miss., Huntsville, Birmingham, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville and Louisville could see wet weather.
Highs are about 10 degrees cooler then Wednesday and Thursday: ranging from low 50s in Tennessee to the lower 60s along the Gulf Coast. In Florida, highs range from the upper 60s in the Panhandle to the 70s and 80s in the Peninsula.
Weekend: Another round of showers is possible over Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi on Saturday, and may spread north and east on Sunday but confidence is low. Highs are mostly in the 60s except the 50s toward the Tennessee Valley and 70s in South Florida.
Central U.S.
Temperature contrasts over the southern Plains may help spawn a couple storm systems, each of which could bring rain to Texas and southern Oklahoma between Friday and Sunday. Much of the central and northern Plains, the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, behind a series of weak fronts, will be mostly dry between Wednesday and the weekend.
Thursday: Sunny across the northern Plains, clouds in Texas and downpours in eastern parts of the Lone Star State, especially during the afternoon. That could affect Interstates 20 and 30. A front makes it into Oklahoma. Upper 20s to lower 30s in northern North Dakota, 40s to around 50 in Kansas and Nebraska, and upper 50s to 60s south of the front in Oklahoma and northern Texas. Upper 70s to near 80 for the Gulf Coast. In the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, highs will range from mid-30s in th north and closer to 50 around Chicago.
High pressure dominates, keeping temperatures elevated and staving off rain. The exception will be in Seattle and Portland, where rainy conditions may try to lap at the coastline.
Wednesday: Rain lurks off the Pacific Northwest coastline, but should remain offshore. A few clouds in Seattle. Cooler in the mountains, with highs about 5 to 10 degrees below average in the Columbia River Basin and Four Corners. Near- to slightly above-average readings along the Pacific Coastline.
Thursday: Warmer. Ten to 20 degrees above average in northern parts of California's San Joaquin Valley, with highs 5 to 10 degrees above average all the way north to British Columbia. Conversely, it will be cooler than average in the Rockies. Atmospheric river remains pointed at Vancouver Island, but doesn't reach the United States.
Weekend: Becoming warmer in the Rockies. Stormy conditions begin working down coastline Saturday before impacting the Sierra Nevada and dropping significant snows early next week.
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For decades, Mr. Pertschuk cheered advocates — and rankled industry leaders — with his winning campaign to enshrine and enforce government oversight in the marketplace.
“He touched every person in this country,” Nader said in an interview, describing Mr. Pertschuk as the most “ferocious consumer advocate on a congressional staff in American history.”
Mr. Pertschuk joined the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee in 1964 as chief counsel, later assuming the duties of staff director.
He was among a small coterie of Senate aides, a Washington Post reporter wrote in 1977, who occupied “the top stratum of an invisible network of staff power and influence in the Senate, with impact on the life of every citizen of the United States.”
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Disney’s brand
But the move is far from a sure thing, as the business climate is very different from the one he left: The streaming market has cooled, the theatrical business is in crisis and an ever-worsening social polarization imperils Disney’s brand of broad apolitical entertainment where all can feel welcome. And he may need to confront a potential recession that will prompt consumers to rethink and potentially restrict their entertainment-spending habits.
Chapek, who led the entertainment giant throughout the pandemic, had received a three-year contract extension in June. But the company is coming off a disappointing quarter and has been grappling with a host of other challenges, including a feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over the state’s LGBTQ policies in schools.
Investors cheered the news, powering Disney stock up more than 5 percent Monday.
Missed expectations
Disney missed Wall Street expectations as it recorded losses from its push into streaming video. It produces series such as the Star Wars spinoffs “The Mandalorian,” “Andor” and “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
Chapek’s ascent to the top job in February 2020 also came as a surprise, occurring just weeks before the pandemic began to inflict its global economic damage. Iger, who had waffled for years to name a successor, announced abruptly he would become executive chairman in charge of creative endeavors while Chapek, a theme-park veteran, would succeed him as CEO.
LGBTQ fury
But his tenure was also marked by a series of controversies. They include blowback from Hollywood’s talent community after Disney moved a number of theatrical films to streaming (it spilled over with a lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson over her “Black Widow” pay) and Chapek’s silence, eventually broken, over Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” education law.
Disney’s missteps over Florida’s policies sparked fury from Disney’s LGBTQ employees. DeSantis, meanwhile, used that turmoil as a launchpad for his boldest confrontation yet with corporate America, spearheading a successful push to strip Disney of a decades-old tax district, criticizing the company on Fox News and fundraising off the clash, The Washington Post reported previously.
Disney Plus struggles
Disney noted Sunday that during his previous tenure, Iger oversaw the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, and increased the company’s market capitalization fivefold. He left at a high point for Disney in the streaming wars against its top rivals, Netflix and Warner Bros. Months before the leadership change, Disney’s share price had climbed to what was then an all-time high.
The company nevertheless faced challenges when Iger handed the reins to Chapek — including the possibility of shutting down its popular theme parks. It was faced with an exodus of cable subscribers, and the task of making Disney+ profitable. At the time, some analysts suggested that Iger sensed the head winds and wanted to go out on top, The Post has reported.
While Disney has dominated the box office with the release of Marvel franchise movies, Disney Plus has yet to turn a profit as the company has struggled to match earlier subscriber growth amid the economic slowdown. In November, Disney reported $1.5 billion in losses to its direct-to-consumer business, despite topping 235 million subscribers to its streaming services.
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A Lancaster man has been arrested on civil contempt of court charges stemming from an alleged “longstanding refusal to comply” with court orders to stop operating a motor vehicle and scrap metal yard until the site meets state solid and hazardous waste laws.
The series of court orders were issued from July 2018 through September 2022.
The court ordered Daniel Benoit, Sr., of Lancaster -- arrested after first finding him in contempt of the court’s orders on half-a-dozen prior occasions since 2019 and $100,000 in fines imposed, along with an additional $55,500 in contempt sanctions -- proved “insufficient to incentivize him to initiate and sequentially complete the court-ordered cleanup of his illegal motor vehicle salvage (junkyard) and scrap metal yard,” the Attorney General’s Office said in a news release.
Benoit was released on bail conditions requiring him to initiate cleanup efforts on one area of his auto salvage yard and scrap metal facility, and finish cleaning up that first site no later than Jan. 15, 2023.
Benoit is also required to complete cleanups at nine other areas of the site included in a compliance schedule imposed by a Nov. 1, 2021 court order (one area at a time, 60 days to clean up each area).
“The court cautioned Mr. Benoit that any continued failure to comply with the court’s orders could result in his reincarceration for indirect civil contempt,” the Attorney General’s Office said in a release.
The court has scheduled a review hearing to re-assess Benoit’s compliance on Feb. 6, 2023, following another NHDES inspection of the site 3-5 business days prior to the Feb. 6, 2023 review hearing.
“The NHDES Solid Waste Management Bureau and the Motor Vehicle Salvage Yard Program have attempted to work with Mr. Benoit since December of 2013 in an effort to get the site into compliance,” the Attorney General’s Office said in a release. “The Attorney General’s Office also brought suit and secured a judgment against Mr. Benoit in July of 2018, which deferred civil penalties but required Mr. Benoit to bring the site into compliance.”
Benoit has been ordered to remove all end-of-life (junk) vehicles (“ELVs”) from the site and to stop accepting additional ELVs, to remove all containerized motor vehicle fluids, remove all junk car parts, solid waste (including household garbage) and waste tires from 10 areas on the site.
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Colleges: UNH men's soccer team eliminated in dramatic ending
The University of New Hampshire men’s soccer team was eliminated from the NCAA Division I tournament in the toughest possible manner: penalty kicks.
The Wildcats, after tying the game twice — once in regulation and once in the second overtime — lost 10-9 in 12 rounds of penalty kicks Sunday night at Florida International University in Miami. Officially, the score was 2-2.
FIU advanced to the third round and will visit Duke on Sunday.
The game was played in heavy rain. Rory O’Driscoll scored both UNH goals, including the equalizer with 2 minutes remaining in the second overtime to send the game to penalty kicks.
The Wildcats finished 15-4-1. FIU, the tourney’s 10th seed, is 13-4-2.
UNH’s Laube earns CAA, N.E. honors
UNH junior running back Dylan Laube on Monday was named CAA Football Offensive Player of the Week and recipient of the New England Football Writers Association Gold Helmet Award, which is presented by the Jack Grinoold/Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation.
Laube rushed for 190 yards and three touchdowns and finished with 281 all-purpose yards in UNH’s 42-41 overtime win at Maine on Saturday. The victory enabled the Wildcats to capture a share of the CAA title.
UNH (8-3 overall, 7-1 CAA) received an at-large selection to the NCAA Division I Football Championship and will host Fordham on Saturday at 2 p.m. in a first-round game at Wildcat Stadium
St. Anselm selected for NCAA field hockey
The Saint Anselm field hockey team on Monday was seeded fifth to play in the NCAA Division II tournament and will visit fourth seed Assumption on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Hawks, 14-6 overall under coach Carolyn King-Robitaille, are ranked No. 7 in the latest coaches’ poll.
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LACONIA – A Queen City man who allegedly told his mental health case worker in Laconia that he was going to commit a “mass shooting” at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester has been indicted on a charge of criminal threatening of a violent crime by the Belknap County Grand Jury.
The grand jury on Thursday issued an indictment against Christopher Stewart, 33, of 69 Brook St., #5.
According to the indictment, Stewart on Sept. 7, “did threaten to commit a crime of violence, to wit, threatened to commit a mass shooting” at UNH-Manchester.
Stewart, the indictment said, “acted with a purpose to cause evacuation of a building or place of assembly, or to otherwise cause serious public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of causing fear, terror or inconvenience.”
The charge is a Class B felony, which upon conviction is punishable by a term of between 3 1/2 and 7 years in prison.
Court documents said that around 11:56 a.m. on Sept. 7, Stewart called Lakes Region Mental Health in Laconia, where he is a patient, and “made reference to committing a mass shooting.”
His case worker later called Laconia Police and told an officer that Stewart allegedly told her that he had been “kicked out of his college class and was going back to class tonight at 1800 hrs. (6 p.m.) and he could not be stopped.”
The case worker said Stewart allegedly said that “the only way to get his point across was to do a mass shooting.”
The case worker told Laconia Police that she also received a text from Stewart stating “it was the right thing to do even if it means going to jail.”
Due to the above statements, court documents said an involuntary emergency admission (IEA) was drafted for Stewart, who was taken into custody for the IEA at his apartment by Manchester police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Stewart gave consent for a search of his apartment, the court documents said, and officers located “an AR-15 style rifle and two loaded magazines.” Officers also located in Stewart’s vehicle what was described as a “tactical belt” that contained binoculars and two, empty rifle magazines.
Court documents said Stewart was under a Dec. 27, 2021, bail order out of Laconia District Court for an unspecified charge that prohibited him from possessing “a firearm, destructive device, dangerous weapon or ammunition.”
Stewart is being held in preventative detention at the Belknap County Jail.
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More than half of Americans 50 and older — 54% — are considered to be caregivers because of the help they provide to one or more people 65 and older, according to the most recent findings of the University of Michigan’s ongoing National Poll on Healthy Aging.
Most often, caregiving involves helping with health care, usually through making appointments, talking with doctors and handling insurance issues.
But caregiving it can also include assisting with home cleaning, yard work, grocery shopping, meal preparation, banking and bill paying.
The survey found that nearly all caregivers (94%) are not being paid for their help, and nearly half (47%) have been helping out for at least three years.
The most frequent recipients are parents (45% of the time) and friends or neighbors (19%).
The researchers note in their report that such support “is often essential for aging in place and managing chronic conditions” — issues that people increasingly confront as they age.
The Census Bureau projects that, by 2034, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history and, by 2040, 1 in 5 Americans will be 65 or older.
That reflects a worldwide trend, with every country seeing a greater percentage of older people in its population, according to the World Health Organization.
The WHO predicts that, by 2050, the global population of people 60 and older will double (to 2.1 billion) and the number of people 80 and older will triple (to 426 million).
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Miss Auburn Xanthi Russell sings the National Anthem at the Santa Fund kickoff luncheon at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester on Monday.
The Salvation Army horn ensemble perform at the Santa Fund kickoff luncheon at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester on Monday.
Guests including John and Sherry Sinclair of Merrimack, left, bid on items for the silent auction at the Santa Fund kickoff luncheon at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester on Monday.
Mary Steele of the Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary stands for the Pledge of Allegiance at the Santa Fund kickoff luncheon at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester on Monday.
The money raised by the Union Leader Santa Fund each year offers more than just holiday cheer to many families in need. It goes toward year-round Salvation Army programs — especially those geared toward children.
Jim Terrero, 32, who now works as a city firefighter, knows it.
On Monday afternoon at the fund’s kickoff luncheon and fundraiser, he spoke on the impact the Salvation Army had on his early years growing up in a single-parent home.
Terrero moved to Manchester at age 10 from the Dominican Republic and spoke no English. He became involved in teen nights at the Salvation Army.
“I would meet other kids who wanted to be there,” he said. “We played basketball more than we did soccer. There was a 5-on-5 every single night, and everybody there came in with good intentions … It was a great escape.”
He now volunteers.
“I try at least every summer to spend two or three days with the kids in the summer program,” Terrero said. “There were mentors there that have impacted my life to this day.”
The luncheon, which drew about 200 people at the DoubleTree Hotel, officially launched the 63rd year of the Union Leader Santa Fund for the Salvation Army. The fund has raised more than $8 million.
The fund started after then-Union Leader editor Hugh O’Neill discovered the need when he ran into Salvation Army officials at the old Post Office Fruit, a luncheonette near the newspaper’s former building on Amherst Street, the day before Thanksgiving in 1960.
The fund helps pay for Christmas presents for kids, holiday meals, warm clothes, after-school programs and summer camp scholarships.
The Red Kettle Campaign also brings in a significant amount of money for the organization’s annual budget. Maj. Colin DeVault said the Manchester Corps hopes to raise $200,000 through the kettles.
He said the past two years have seen a decrease in donations. The organization is always recruiting volunteers to ring bells.
Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig said the Santa Fund raised more than $150,000 and helped provide Christmas gifts for 2,300 children in the greater Manchester area last year.
“Because of your efforts this year, thousands of kids will wake up on Christmas morning excited to see presents under the Christmas trees,” she said. “It is wonderful to see our city come together to support families in need, especially around the holidays.”
For many, the luncheon has become the unofficial start to the holiday season. The tables featured colorful Christmas ornaments as centerpieces, poinsettias lined the stages and fake snow covered the top of the podium. Christmas trees with white lights were set up in the corner of the ballroom.
A brass quintet played Christmas favorites like “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” and “Somewhere in My Memory,” written by John Williams for “Home Alone,” the now-classic Christmas movie.
This was the first kick-off event since 2019 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Union Leader President and Publisher Brendan J. McQuaid said it was great to be back in person for the event.
The first year, the plan was just to inform Manchester residents that the Salvation Army needed help, he said.
“That was enough to get people to open up their wallets and their hearts to donate,” McQuaid said. “We’ve been doing it every year, and the outpouring of support that we get in the community is amazing. The help that we get from the community is amazing. I’m amazed every time I see the list run in the paper, and for so many people this is an annual tradition.”
The Salvation Army presented awards to the Rotary Club of Bedford, Merchants Automotive Group and the Union Leader.
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Luis Perdomo carries a broom after clearing snow from his car during Friday’s snowstorm in Manchester. By 7 p.m. Friday, state police counted 80 crashes and cars off the road around the state.Several cars are parked on the street in Manchester during a snowstorm last February. City officials have toughened regulations for post-storm parking to improve snow-removal operations.
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Patriots believe in Mac Jones, but are frustrated by offense
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — You could hear the joyous screams. You could see the smiles. The Patriots’ locker room was rocking on Sunday evening. Following Marcus Jones’s 84-yard game-winning punt return for a touchdown, players were happy inside Gillette Stadium.
It’s hard to win in the NFL. It’s hard to beat division opponents. It’s even harder to beat those division opponents twice. For those reasons, Patriots offensive players were happy. For other reasons, they weren’t.
They put on smiling faces afterward, but knew what they did — score three points at home against the New York Jets — wasn’t close to good enough.
“It’s super frustrating. It’s not good enough on our side of the ball. It’s just not,” said tight end Hunter Henry. “We’re not bringing it. We moved the ball, but we just beat ourselves and did not do very smart things. It’s the same script. We’ve got to fix it.”
Another Sunday meant another slow offensive performance. Two steps forward and two steps back. There were more negative plays and penalties. More porous offensive line play. The game had an offensive rhythm that either put you to sleep or made you want to bang your head against the wall. To make matters worse, the 3-point performance came off the bye week where the hope was that the group would improve.
Offensive players left Gillette Stadium with mixed emotions. They improved to 6-4 and are in position to fight for a playoff spot. However, they’re 11 weeks into this NFL season and having the same struggles we saw in Week 1.
“That’s been the whole year,” said right guard Michael Onwenu. “We’ve been trying to stop with the penalties and stop beating ourselves.”
Can the Patriots figure this out?
From the outside, people question if the Patriots have the talent to be better on the offensive end. In the building, it’s never been a matter of confidence. Even through Mac Jones’s tough start to the season, players said they believed they had the right pieces to win games.
If there was a silver lining on Sunday — other than the fact that the Patriots gained 297 yards — it was that Jones looked improved.
The last time Jones played the Jets, he threw for 194 yards to go with a touchdown and one interception. He was lucky to finish with just one interception. He was sacked a career-high six times. The Jets on Sunday again sacked him a career-high six times, but this time he looked different. Jones completed 85% of his passes (23 for 27) for 246 yards.
On a day when the offense looked bad, the quarterback didn’t look like the problem.
“We have to get the ball out of Mac’s hands. Like you saw, when he’s on time and everything is good, he’s one of the best. He’s great,” Henry said. “We’ve got to protect him. Everything has to come out on time. You can see how good he is when those balls are coming out.”
“He’s been doing a lot of good things and being very careful with the football,” tight end Jonnu Smith added. “He’s making the right reads and doing everything he can. Mac’s a hell of a player, hell of a teammate and I have all the confidence in the world in him.”
In the past two games, against two good defenses, Jones has completed 75% (43 for 57) of his passes for 393 yards.
“It’s not all on Mac. It’s all of us together,” wide receiver Kendrick Bourne said. “Yes, we need to be better, obviously, but we’re winning.”
Added running back Damien Harris: “Our entire team feels very fortunate to have Mac as our quarterback.”
The harsh truth about the 2022 Patriots is that their offense isn’t talented enough to overcome negative plays. We’re almost in December and it feels like a certainty that anytime you see a negative run on first down or a holding call that it’ll result in the Pats calling for their punter. Those issues were clear on Sunday.
The first series saw the Patriots give up a sack on first down for a loss of seven. On the second, the first-down run gained just one yard. It shouldn’t have been surprising that both drives ended with three-and-outs.
The two missed field goals on Sunday followed a common theme. The Patriots got into field goal position and then got pushed back by a holding call and a sack on back-to-back plays.
“It was very frustrating. Put it on the o-line,” Onwenu said. “We’ve got to do our jobs better and just get in position to score and when we have those opportunities, score.”
“I seemed like anytime we crossed the 50, we got in our own way,” added center James Ferentz. “It’s one of those things where I don’t know if it’s a mental thing at this point, but whatever it is, we’ve got to find a way to push through it. We’re getting to a point where every game matters, but even more so now as we get close to the end.”
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Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson hauls in a pass two weeks ago against Buffalo.
During a videoconference Monday, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick spoke about what lies ahead having to face Cousins and his arsenal.
The Patriots defense, which shut down the Jets, holding them to 103 total yards and six first downs, will have to deal with several explosive threats on the Vikings, led by wideout Justin Jefferson, running back Dalvin Cook, and tight end T.J. Hockenson.
Jefferson is the NFL’s second-leading receiver behind Tyreek Hill with 72 catches for 1,093 yards, and four touchdowns. Cook, who is averaging 5.1 yards per carry, is a dual threat both running and catching the football. Hockenson just arrived in a trade from Detroit, and is already making his mark.
Save for Tua Tagovailoa and the vast array of weapons the Pats faced against Miami in Week 1, the Vikings are perhaps the best group Belichick’s defense has had to prepare.
After beating Buffalo Week 10 en route to winning seven straight games, the Vikings turned in a stinker against Dallas, with the Cowboys whipping them 40-3.
The Patriots will no doubt take notes on how the Cowboys stopped Cousins, who was sacked seven times and held to 105 yards passing.
Jefferson, who is dealing with turf toe, was held to three catches for 33 yards by the Cowboys.
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Matt Turner of the U.S., left, shakes hands with Gareth Bale of Wales after Monday’s World Cup match in Qatar. The teams played to a 1-1 tie.
U.S. settles for 1-1 draw with Wales in World Cup opener
Gareth Bale converted a penalty shot in the 82nd minute and Wales salvaged a 1-1 draw against the United States in both teams’ Group B opener at the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Monday in Doha, Qatar.
Bale earned the chance when he received a pass inside the area and used his body to shield himself from the challenge of American defender Walker Zimmerman, who fouled him with his attempt at the ball.
His conversion from the penalty spot, despite diving U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner getting a palm on the shot, marked his 41st career goal for the Wales national team, in his nation’s first World Cup match since 1958.
The U.S. took the lead in the 36th minute on one of the best early goals of the tournament. Pulisic did a lot of the heavy lifting, getting on the ball in midfield and then playing a give-and-go with Josh Sargent to move forward. Then he slipped a through-ball in to Weah, who ran to the ball and slid a low finish past Wayne Hennessee to give the Americans the lead.
Wales grew into the game after halftime, getting two dangerous chances on headers in the 65th minute.
Turner saved the first from Ben Davies in open play. Substitute Kieffer Moore’s effort from an ensuing corner sailed over the crossbar.
Wales had few clear chances after that until Zimmerman clattered into Bale, setting up a share of the points.
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Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
By Adam Rogan The Journal Times, Racine, Wisc.
Republicans were largely predicted to win majorities in the House and Senate after the midterm elections earlier this month, but came up short in the Senate and won one of the narrowest Congressional majorities on record, with several Trump-endorsees coming up short.
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All of the watching and following is without my permission or knowledge. He usually tells me about it later, saying he only does it “out of love.” This has been going on for a few years. Why do I put up with it? I have tried to break up. It started after a few months together. But he guilted me into staying, saying he’d be all alone. Or he’d kill himself.
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To the Editor: The state Department of Education recently identified 10 of the lowest performing high schools, referring to them as Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools. Eight out of the 10 schools identified were charter schools. Why should the state force public school districts to fund and support the state’s top failing schools?
I am all for state-funded school choice programs, but diverting funding from public schools to failed educational institutions is not a good model for public education. Public schools are far from perfect, however, it is clear these charter schools are even less perfect. Maybe consolidating resources will help improve the service provided by the better performing public schools in the school districts where these charter schools operate?
Give parents state dollars, not from money from the Education Trust Fund, to expand educational options or support charter schools only with state aid. Let the state be responsible for these models and programs. That seems reasonable to me.
But using locally raised property taxes for failed charter schools is a poor investment for taxpayers, parents and children. I can’t see how spending property taxes this way actually prepares the next generation of workers, voters, and leaders.
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To the Editor: I grew up in an era of leadership greatness. My children are growing up searching for it, longing for it. The nation is crying out for civility and leadership. Those who represent us are not cooperating.
Winston Churchill rallied a nation with no chance of winning World War II by saying “This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”
JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you…”
Ronald Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Back when Sen. Bob Packwood (R) was accused of harassing his aid, Sen. Orin Hatch (R) said, “I have known Bob Packwood all of my career. He is my friend. But if these allegations are true, he needs to resign immediately.”
None of these leaders led perfect lives. But when it was time to lead with dignity and humility, they did. But today? My children got to watch Rep. Rashida Tlaib at her victory party address her people saying, “We are going to impeach the [expletive]!”
Candidate Donald Trump said, “Well, I like people who don’t get captured.” (For the record, my father was a WWII POW.)
Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the House, petulantly tore up President Trump’s speech at the State of the Union Address.
For all the legislation Sen. Ted Kennedy passed, I will always remember him wearing the neck brace while lying to us about Chappaquiddick.
America used to lead the world. Who will lead us now?
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Esther Sherman Arlan
Now it is time to roll up our sleeves and begin to work together on issues that affect every citizen in New Hampshire from birth to death.
Let’s stop complaining about inflation and the high cost of food, over which we have no control. Instead, when shopping look for alternatives to use, try new lower-cost items and become creative in your menu planning. Talk to a dietician at the grocery store or where you go for health care. The ideas and suggestions are there for the asking.
I do not appreciate the high cost at the grocery store any more than you do. I do not like to see the price of a gallon of gas go up and down at the whim of the industry. But I am also thinking of the people in the Ukraine and Africa that have been affected by wars and invasions of terrorist groups.
In Ukraine, where the people are fighting to keep their country a democracy, they are going without electricity, walking to destinations for food as the cost of gas is high. In countries in Africa people are starving as wheat is not being delivered in a timely manner and would be happy to pay $4 for a loaf of bread that will last for days for their family.
In U.S. dollars, the price of gas in Canada is around $5.60 a gallon, England is close to $7.50 a gallon, France is $8.23/gallon, Finland is $9.20 and in Germany it is $8.62 a gallon. Converted prices from liters to gallons.
Letters to the CEOs of the major gas companies will let them know you are not happy with the way they are doing business. Yes, they should make a profit but adjust the multi-million dollars paid to their boards of directors, CEOs and CFOs.
I am content with a lower setting on the thermometer; less driving and shopping for the sake of shopping; talking to store managers when I see an item on the shelf is priced differently than at the check-out; and I ask for a medication in generic form. Try frugality, it does work.
Esther Sherman Arlan lives in Nashua.
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Rev. Stephen Edington
For the past 50 years, opposition to Roe v. Wade has been the most effective political tool in the pro-life arsenal. It was the litmus test they could hold up for office seekers at any number of levels. For an aspiring president, it was: Will you put persons on the Supreme Court who will strike down Roe v. Wade? For aspiring senators and congressional representatives, it was: Will you support legislation that will severely curtail Roe v. Wade even if we can’t completely get rid of it? For aspiring governors or members of state legislatures, it was the same question.
For an office seeker or holder who was courting the pro-life vote, the response was an easy one. Just say yes. And it was a very easy political “yes,” as long as Roe v. Wade stayed in place. That way, the “yea-sayers” didn’t have to deal with the implications of what an actual overturning of Roe would involve.
Ironically, from a political angle, Roe v. Wade was the best thing the pro-life people had going for them. It gave them a great political tool without them having to consider the actual outcome of what they professed to want.
We are now seeing that outcome for what it is. The pro-life people finally got the Supreme Court they wanted. This was due in large measure to the backing by much of the White, Christian evangelical community of Donald Trump’s presidential bid. It would not have mattered to them if he had broken each of the Ten Commandments a hundred times over as long as they got his “yes” on overturning Roe v. Wade. They got the yes from Trump they wanted. Now they get to witness the “mess of pottage” (for those of you who know the Jacob and Esau story) for which they have sold their souls.
While the Dobbs decision did indeed overturn Roe v. Wade, it did anything but put the abortion issue to rest. Instead, it has re-ignited it with a fury. While the outcome of the latest congressional elections was not determined by any single factor, access to abortion was one of the main issues on which it turned. A harbinger of this was the majority pro-choice votes that were cast in several recent state referenda, even in such red states as Kansas and Kentucky.
With President Joe Biden’s popularity ratings in the low 40’s, living costs on the rise, concerns about crime, unresolved immigration challenges, just to name a few, the midterm election should have been a big red slam dunk. Instead, the U.S. Senate remains in control of the Democrats, the GOP will barely control the House and President Biden has been given new political life.
Many exit polls showed that while the above cited concerns were much on voters’ minds, it was the reaction to the Dobbs decision, along with the threats to our democratic processes, that went a long way in giving us the election outcome we got.
Again, be careful what you wish for.
I’ll offer my own pro-life position. Other than when it would be essential to save a would-be mother’s life or when carrying a pregnancy to term would result in the birth of a terribly underdeveloped infant with scant chance of survival, I would like to see abortion greatly curtailed in our country.
I would like to see the day come when every pregnancy is greeted with joy and anticipation, and that every child born finds him or herself in a safe, loving, nurturing and caring environment.
I would like to see the day come when any young person coming of age — female and male — would learn about and practice healthy and responsible sexuality; and that birth control means are available to the extent that every child born is a wanted child.
And how wonderful it would be should the day arrive when women are no longer victims of rape or incest and the pregnancies that might happen as a result.
Until that blessed day arrives, access to legal abortion must remain available.
I wish the pro-life community had devoted their time and political capital to getting us to such a time instead of obsessing over Roe v. Wade. Had they, we would be closer to that day today.
The Rev. Steve Edington is the Minister Emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua.
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Brenda Dulin, left, and Dayna Webb console each other as they visit a memorial for the victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs. "I care deeply about the LGBTQ community," Webb said. "I want them to know they're loved." MUST
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By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Annie Gowen The Washington Post
By night's end, the air of celebration would be cut off by gunfire. Three of Fierro's loved ones would be shot - one fatally - and Fierro, a U.S. Army veteran, would find himself rushing to confront and subdue the gunman.
On Monday, he brushed aside his actions as necessary, as chaos overtook the club.
"I had my whole Colorado Springs family in there. I had to do something. He was not going to kill my family," Fierro said. "I just want people to take care of people, the people who are hurt and no longer with us. I still got two of my best friends who are in the hospital. They still need prayers; they still need support."
Since the weekend attack, police and others have credited unnamed customers with saving "dozens and dozens of lives," as one of Club Q's owners, Matthew Haynes, said at a memorial vigil Sunday evening. "Stopped the man cold. Everyone else was running away and he ran toward him."
In a police briefing Monday afternoon, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez and Mayor John Suthers named two patrons they said had subdued the gunman - Fierro and a second man, Thomas James.
Suthers said that he had spoken to Fierro on Monday, and "in my opinion, he saved a lot of lives."
"I have never encountered a person who has engaged in such heroic actions who was so humble about it," an emotional Suthers said.
Before the officials' confirmation, club employees directed The Washington Post to comments on social media by Fierro's family that credited him, and he spoke briefly to a reporter by telephone.
Five people were killed in the shooting and many more were injured, police said. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the alleged gunman, was among those still hospitalized on Monday. Authorities were holding him on five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, according to city spokesman Max D'Onofrio.
Fierro, who works for defense contractor Northrop Grumman and co-owns Atrevida Beer with his wife, Jessica, said that after the drag show he was standing with a friend as their wives danced. Then the gunman entered the club, firing.
Fierro, 45, had served in the Army before settling in Colorado Springs, a military community that is home to both Army and Air Force installations. Club Q staff and regulars included many service members and veterans, employees said.
"But I've always been shot at from afar," Fierro said. Not this time. "I heard the shot. I smelled the cordite."
Military records confirm that Fierro served as an Army field artillery officer from 1999 to 2013, deploying three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. He rose to the rank of major before leaving the service, according to Sgt. Pablo Saez, an Army spokesman. Fierro received numerous awards for his service, notably a Combat Action Badge and two Bronze Stars.
When the gunfire first rang out, Fierro said, "I dove when I heard it and I pushed my friend down. He went to the floor and ended up getting shot." So did his friend's wife and his daughter's boyfriend.
Fierro's daughter broke a knee as she ran for cover, and a stranger pulled her into a dressing room to hide. He said his wife "got sucked into the crowd that went to the patio."
As Fierro got up from the floor, he said, he saw a man with a gun.
"I looked across the room and the guy was standing at the door. I ran across the bar, grabbed the guy from the back and pulled him down and pinned him against the stairs," he said.
Fierro weighs 300 pounds, but he said the gunman was bigger, wearing body armor and carrying both a handgun and an AR-15-style rifle.
"He went for his weapon, and I grabbed his handgun," Fierro said, but "his AR was right in front of him."
"I said 'Kick him! Move the AR!' Then I just started hitting him. But he was in armor plates, so I started hitting him wherever there was skin," Fierro said. "The back of his head was my target."
"I'm an officer and that's what we do. I took control of the scene as best I could. I'm just hitting the guy with the pistol, beating the back of his head," he recalled. "I'm yelling to people at the same time, 'Call the police! Let's go!'"
When the young man assisting him flagged, Fierro said he hailed a drag queen in high heels to help, shouting, "Kick him!"
"She kicked him because the other guy was tired," Fierro said.
Minutes later, the first police officer arrived. "I was in the middle of a puddle of blood," Fierro said.
After handing off to the police, Fierro went to find his friends, both of whom had been shot and were being treated with tourniquets by first responders.
"I put her hand in his hand so they could be together," he said.
As other officers arrived, Fierro said, they treated him with suspicion. They interrupted him as he gave first aid to a friend, he said, and "dragged me out of there like I was the shooter." He said he was held in a police car for an hour before authorities released him to reunite with his wife and daughter. Police did not return calls seeking to confirm Fierro's account.
Fierro never saw his daughter Kassy's boyfriend, 22-year-old Raymond Green Vance, her high school sweetheart. Later, he learned from the man's mother that he had died, and with her permission, Fierro's wife posted about their experience online.
"NO ONE should ever have to witness bloodshed like this," Jessica Fierro wrote. "The loss of lives and the injured are in our hearts. We are devastated and torn. We love our #lgbtq community and stand with them. This cowardly and despicable act of hate has no room in our lives."
She said the shooting had "left us and our community scarred but not broken."
At home on Monday, Kassy Fierro was recovering from the knee injury, Jessica Fierro from bruises and her husband from injuries he suffered to his hands, knees and ankle while subduing the shooter. Jessica Fierro said she worries the shooting triggered his post-traumatic stress disorder.
Fierro said he does not consider himself a hero. Online, survivors of the shooting, friends and family responded to Fierro's post with an outpouring of grateful support.
"I saw him there, I danced with them, he saved my life," wrote Brianna Raenae. "Thank you for your bravery."
"Thank you Richard, without your heroic actions this could've ended much worse than it already has," wrote Patrick Curley.
"We already knew Rich was a Hero. He proves it yet again. Praying for healing, physically and mentally. Lots of love for your family and everyone [affected] by this evil lunatic," wrote James Kormanik.
Gowen reported from Colorado Springs and Hennessy-Fiske from Houston. The Washington Post's Alex Horton contributed to this report.
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The U.S. military band got the crowd in the mood for the event by playing a version of the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Free Bird" ahead of the pardon. From the balcony of the White House behind Biden, his German shepherd Commander observed and barked loudly.
But Chocolate, weighing in at 46 pounds (21 kg), and Chip, at 47 pounds, will live out their lives in their home state, at North Carolina State University. The White House turkey pardon is a tradition that dates back decades.
Biden referred to the midterm congressional elections on Nov. 8 in which Democrats held on to control of the U.S. Senate and lost the House of Representatives by a slim margin to Republicans, denying the opposition party its hoped-for "red wave."
Later on Monday evening, Biden and his wife Jill flew to North Carolina to thank Marines based there during a "Friendsgiving" dinner.
"You represent 1% of the population and you defend the rest of us," Biden said before donning an apron and gloves to spoon out mashed potatoes for service members. "We wanted to come and tell you how much we appreciate all you've done." (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Writing by Steve Holland; Editing by Josie Kao and Rosalba O'Brien)
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In Thanksgiving tradition, Biden pardons two chatty turkeys | Animals | unionleader.com
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By Tracey Porpora Staten Island Advance, N.Y.
According to the the VantageScore model, the average credit score in the U.S. is 695, and that's just below the start of a good credit range.
With credit scores being the deciding factor for whether a person can obtain credit cards, buy a home and purchase or lease a car, it's important to keep that three digit number in a healthy range.
The average credit score in New Hampshire was 719, which ranked second in the U.S.
WalletHub sought advice from credit experts about the best ways to build credit. Here's what the experts had to say:
"Be Patient. Building good credit takes time. You must be consistent with your bill payments. Take the necessary steps to avoid derogatory marks on your credit report. For example, if you are not able to make a payment on time, reach out to the lender, and ask for an extension," said Philip Gibson, an associate professor, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C. "If you visit the doctor's office, be sure to open all mail that comes from that office to make sure you do not miss a bill. Monitor your credit report to make sure everything looks accurate. Understand how credit utilization, a general rule of thumb is to keep your utilization below 30%, but the closer you are to zero, the better it is."
Said Bradley Allen Stevenson, associate professor, Bellarmine University, Louisville, K.Y.: "Make sure you pay your bills on time. For credit cards, pay them off every month and, even if you cannot pay them off every month, keep your balances low. Keep your other outstanding debt lower as well and pay it off. More outstanding debt makes you look riskier to potential lenders. Also, for credit cards, especially for younger people, become an authorized user on someone else's account like a parent (who has good credit practices)."
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States with the best credit scores: Granite Staters are rock solid | Business | unionleader.com
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By Kimberly Drelich The Day, New London, Conn.
GROTON, Connecticut — Navy officials and supporters gathered Monday to celebrate the Naval Submarine Base's new Pier 32, a nearly $70 million project to help modernize the base's waterfront for the Navy's next generation of submarines.
"It's a proud day for every member of the Naval Submarine Base New London team as we're committed to positively impacting SUBASE's fleet, fighters, and families through the best infrastructure and service support we can deliver," said Cmdr. Reg Preston, executive officer of the submarine base, who spoke before an audience of about 60 people, including Navy, submarine base and Coast Guard representatives and government officials.
The new 68-foot by 525-foot Pier 32 replaces the original pier built in 1978 and will serve as a modern pier for the Navy's newest submarines, according to Capt. Ken Curtin, commanding officer of the submarine base
Curtin said the completion of the project "marks a key step in a waterfront modernization that ultimately assures SUBASE will be ready to provide for the next generation of Virginia-class fast attack submarines."
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said that ever since the Naval Submarine Base avoided a base closing 18 years ago, a cascade of resources has greatly improved the infrastructure and operations of the base, thanks to the leadership in the state and a commitment by Congress.
Courtney said this latest improvement of Pier 32 will lock in "the enduring mission of this base for decades and decades to come" and is built for the new class of submarines under construction.
Curtin said the older pier was "really only suitable for one submarine at a time," while the new pier meets updated requirements for submarine berthing and is wide enough to berth Virginia class or Los Angeles class submarines on both sides.
As part of the project, about 25,000 yards of material were dredged and the navigation channel was widened, Curtin said.
The pier is intended to be "climate resilient" with raised electrical infrastructure to help protect against damage from flooding, he said. The pier is also made of materials that "wear better, last longer and require less maintenance."
Weeks Marine, Inc. of Cranford, N.J., was the prime contractor on the project, and the designer of the project was a joint venture of Moffatt & Nichol and Stantec, Curtin said.
The modernization of the base's waterfront next calls for extending Pier 31 and building a new Pier 8, according to the Navy.
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Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) on Capitol Hill on Dec. 10, 2021. After unsuccessfully challenging a subpoena, he has testified before a grand jury in Georgia that is examining possible interference with the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
By Holly Bailey and Matthew Brown The Washington Post
ATLANTA - After months of failed legal challenges, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) appeared Tuesday before a special grand jury investigating efforts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia, the latest high-profile witness in a probe that is believed to be nearing a conclusion.
Bailey reported from New Orleans and Brown from Atlanta. The Washington Post's Ann E. Marimow and Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.
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Lindsey Graham testifies before Georgia grand jury in election probe | Courts | unionleader.com
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The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution addresses unreasonable search and seizure. Trump, a Republican, has accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Joe Biden of conducting a political witch hunt.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to preside over criminal probes involving the former president after Trump announced he would run for president again.
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By Corey Dickstein Stars and Stripes
The VA's new abortion policy -- which allows its clinicians to provide abortions in rape or incest cases or when the patient's life or health are threatened even in states that have banned abortions -- is "deeply flawed" and "unlawful," wrote lead author Lynn Fitch, Mississippi's attorney general, in a letter Nov. 17 to VA Secretary Dennis McDonough.
The VA adopted the new rules in September, about 10 weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortions across the United States.
The states that signed the letter are Mississippi, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
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MARIA DEVLIN
Hundreds of business, political, and community leaders kicked off the holiday season by attending the Families in Transition (FIT) 29th Annual Breakfast fundraiser at the Doubletree by Hilton in Manchester, raising more than $235,000 in the process to support those experiencing homelessness and food insecurity in New Hampshire.
The funds support Families in Transition emergency shelters for individuals and families, affordable and supportive housing to people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness, food programs that provide hunger relief, and other supportive services.
The breakfast was held in-person for the first time since 2019 and highlighted several people behind the scenes including the recently renovated FIT food pantry, as well as a young mom who recently moved into one of FIT’s apartment units in Manchester with her young boy.
“We come across countless stories like this one, it’s why we do what we do,” Maria Devlin, President, and Chief Executive Officer for Families in Transition said in a statement. “Through funds raised at this event, we will be able to continue all efforts to extend a hand to those needing some extra assistance in shifting to permanent housing. I like to say we support our participants in contributing to their community once stable housing is achieved. It’s an honor to work with participants and I am deeply touched by the outpouring of support from the annual breakfast.”
Organizers say the need for FIT programs and essential services has risen and continues to be significant. Donations to nonprofits have decreased in recent months, but the economic challenges have resulted in more people seeking help, which puts a strain on the service programs offered by FIT.
“We deeply value the community partners who have leaned into these challenges facing so many people,” said Stephanie Savard, Chief External Relations Officer with Families in Transition. “The winter months add more strain to the limited resources we are able to offer. Our emergency shelters are already at capacity, and we haven’t yet hit the coldest weeks of the season. The funds raised through the annual breakfast will ensure we can continue our efforts to care for those who come to us for safety and shelter.”
Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig attended the breakfast, praising FIT’s efforts.
“I am deeply grateful for the tireless efforts of the dedicated group of staff and volunteers at Families in Transition,” said Craig in a statement. “The work they do to support our most vulnerable makes a tremendous difference, and it wouldn’t be possible without the generosity and support of our community.”
For more information and to donate, visit the FIT Breakfast donation page at https://support.fitnh.org.
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In June 2021, Aldrich was arrested for an alleged bomb threat, one that prompted a partial evacuation of the Colorado Springs neighborhood where his mother lived at the time. He was charged with kidnapping and felony menacing but was never prosecuted, for reasons that remain unclear. No bomb was ever found.
Aldrich remained hospitalized Monday, and authorities declined to discuss his medical condition.
Allen declined to say whether Aldrich had spoken with law enforcement. Officials have also declined to shed any light on when, how or where Aldrich obtained his weapon.
Months later, on April 28, 2016, a petition was filed in a Bexar County, Texas, court requesting a legal name change for the young man. The formal order, issued a week later, appeared under the simple heading: “Nicholas F. Brink to Anderson L. Aldrich.”
Klemko reported from Colorado Springs. The Washington Post’s Mark Berman and Cate Brown contributed to this report.
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LGBTQ club shooting suspect's troubled past was obscured by a name change, records show | Crime | unionleader.com
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Bradley Rein, 53 of Hingham is arraigned in Hingham District court as a result of a crash at the Apple Store in Hingham that resulted in a death and 19 injuries on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. (Greg Derr/Pool/Patriot Ledger/TNS)
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Treating victims of the deadly car crash at a Hingham Apple Store was a surreal experience, South Shore Hospital staff said Tuesday, a day after an SUV plowed into the retail storefront, killing one man and injuring 20 more.
But it was a possibility the paramedics, doctors, surgeons and nurses had trained for.
Many of the people hit had fractures, chest traumas or pulmonary injuries. Eighteen patients were ultimately treated at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, 17 arriving in the first roughly 45 minutes after the crash, five of them in “extremely critical condition,” said Dr. Jason Tracy, the hospital’s chair of emergency medicine.
Two patients were later sent to Boston hospitals. Three other patients were brought directly to Boston facilities.
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Lt. James Kneeland, of the Fish and Game search-and-rescue team, on Tuesday morning addresses searchers looking for Emily Sotelo, who has been missing since Sunday after a going on a hike in Franconia Notch.
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A search team boards a New Hampshire National Guard helicopter in the Cannon Tram parking lot on Tuesday morning as part of the search for a hiker who has been missing in Franconia Notch since Sunday.
FRANCONIA -- As a New Hampshire National Guard helicopter ferried search teams to peaks in Franconia Notch on Tuesday, Fish and Game officials said the effort to locate a hiker missing there since Sunday is entering the recovery phase.
Emily Sotelo, of Westford, Mass., whose 20th birthday is today , was dropped off by her mother at the Lafayette Place Campground around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, said Capt. Michael Eastman, a co-leader of the Fish and Game search-and-rescue team.
He said Sotelo, whom family members told him was a student at Vanderbilt University, was supposed to hike on Mount Lafayette, Little Haystack Mountain and Mount Flume.
In an e-mail, Vanderbilt University confirmed that Sotelo is a sophomore majoring in biochemistry and chemical biology.
“We hope Emily is found safe and are monitoring for any news of her welfare,” said G.L. Black, vice provost for student affairs and dean of students. “We are in touch with her family members and have offered our support during this incredibly difficult time.”
Sotelo was supposed to rendezvous with her mother in the parking lot at the Flume Gorge between 3 and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, but she never arrived, prompting an extensive response by Fish and Game and volunteer search-and-rescue organizations.
In speaking with family members, Eastman said, it became apparent that Sotelo was “woefully unprepared” for conditions in Franconia Notch, which on Sunday morning saw zero degrees on the summits and wind gusts of 40 miles per hour.
On Tuesday morning, before the helicopter took searchers up from the Cannon Tram parking lot to the tops of the three peaks along Sotelo’s intended route, Eastman said it was likely that later Tuesday he would inform the Sotelo family that Emily had died and that the aim of searchers would be to find her body.
Members of the Sotelo family were present Tuesday at the Fish and Game staging area at the Flume Forge.
Eastman said Emily Sotelo’s itinerary was “pretty aggressive” and might have been borne of confidence from her previous experience hiking in the area in April. She took summer-wilderness survival training, he said, but that training didn’t fully prepare her for winter conditions.
Despite beginning her quest some two hours before the first light came into Franconia Notch on Sunday morning, Eastman said Sotelo’s only light source was her cell phone. She was lightly dressed, he said -- a jacket and athletic pants -- and wore sneakers, none of which would have stood her well on icy, snowy trails in freezing temperatures.
While she carried a “small amount of food” in a backpack and a water bladder, the water in the bladder would likely have frozen, said Eastman. Sotelo did not carry a lighter or other means of starting a fire to melt water or for heat.
While he didn’t want to speculate on Sotelo’s reasons for hiking solo in winter conditions, Eastman said the accessibility of hiking trails directly off the Franconia Notch Parkway (Interstate 93) can create a false sense of security for some people.
A line of thinking goes that if you can see the peak from the trailhead parking lot you can get to the summit relatively easily, said Eastman, and if you get into trouble, “somebody can rescue you,” which is not always true.
Eastman said no searchers have been injured, despite there being “rock gardens and drainages” under the snow the searchers are walking on. On Mount Lafayette, there were “impenetrable ice walls” on either side of the trail, he said, which made for tough going.
Sotelo's story should be a lesson for all hikers in the White Mountains, Eastman.
“The White Mountains are not a joke. We’ve had 32 degrees in July at the top of a mountain,” he said. According to Fish and Game, three people died on New Hampshire mountains last winter, including one who fell and another who suffered a heart attack.
“If you’re going to come (to the White Mountains) you've got to be prepared,” said Eastman. Better yet, “be over-prepared.”
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Taylor Swift poses upon arriving for the Time 100 Gala celebrating Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in New York in 2019.
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Senate antitrust panel will hold a hearing on the lack of competition in the ticketing industry after Ticketmaster’s problems last week managing the sale of Taylor Swift tickets, Senator Amy Klobuchar, chair of the panel, said on Tuesday.
Ticketmaster in a statement denied any anti-competitive practices and said it remained under a consent decree with the Justice Department following a 2010 merger, adding that there was no “evidence of systemic violations of the consent decree.”
Ticketmaster had previously blamed presale problems for Swift’s Eras tour, the pop superstar’s first tour in five years, on unprecedented demand and an effort to keep out bots run by ticket scalpers.
For her part, Swift on Friday said it was “excruciating” for her to watch fans struggle to secure tickets and that she had been assured that Ticketmaster could handle large demand.
The DOJ has proven in recent years to be much more willing to file antitrust lawsuits against giant companies — including the ongoing December 2020 lawsuit against Google — and fight mergers.
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The Sununu administration has battled with federal officials over the use of COVID relief funds available to help tenants struggling to pay rent. The program offering rental assistance subsidies for most will end in late December but the state acted Tuesday to use $20 million in federal grants to keep paying hotel or motel room rentals for those at risk of being homeless during the winter months.
CONCORD — The Sununu administration is using $20 million in federal grants to enable families at risk of becoming homeless to stay in hotel and motel rooms through the winter months.
The proposal will use state discretionary money under the federal American Rescue Plan Act to continue providing these accommodations for couples through April 1 and for families through June 15.
Taylor Caswell, director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery (GOFERR), said the state in the future will set a cap to pay no more than $200 a night for these hotel rooms, with some exceptions.
“We feel this is the population in the neediest situation for the winter months,” Caswell said.
This money will pay for those already in hotel rooms or anyone who applied for this assistance before the Sununu administration placed a pause on all new requests on Oct. 21.
“The intent of the program is to assist families in need and at risk of homelessness, reduce potential demand on homeless or emergency shelters, and ensure additional time for these households to find and access more permanent housing solutions,” GOFERR said in its request.
State Rep. Peter Leishman, D-Peterborough, said he was alarmed to learn the state had been paying as much as $350 a night for these rooms.
“We all support keeping people warm through the winter, but can you put some controls on these costs?” Leishman asked.
Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington, D-Concord, said she was told one hotel owner was paid $289 a night for a room that should have cost about $100. Officials in that city renegotiated a lower rate of $159, she said.
Caswell said the $200 cap could be difficult to maintain during winter vacation weeks, especially in the North Country, where hotel rooms can cost much more than that.
“We can foresee there will be situation where a hotel (management) is willing to switch people out” of their hotel rooms to get a better rate, Caswell said.
“We don’t want to put people in that situation.”
Leishman said he thought hotel owners should be willing to accept the certainty of getting a hotel room filled at the lower nightly rate.
Gov. Chris Sununu said he agreed with the cap.
“Some of the rates were exorbitant,” he said.
This move does not extend the regular federal Rental Assistance Program that, without much more federal money, will end late next month.
Won’t go far
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee and the Executive Council have in recent days accepted $2.2 million in additional federal money for the program, and state officials said they expect to receive another $2 million.
This additional money will not go far; the state currently spends about $5 million a week on the program.
Gov. Sununu sharply criticized the U.S. Treasury Department for failing to approve the state’s request for up to $100 million in additional rental assistance grants.
The state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation said state officials improperly spent some of the money they had earlier received. That was one of the reasons New Hampshire did not receive additional money, they said.
Sununu denied the state ever misspent any money and the Biden administration has failed to give any reason for failing to approve New Hampshire requests while giving many states more money.
“That is absolutely not true, period, end of story,” Sununu said of the delegation’s claim.
Caswell said that while the Rental Assistance Program is ending, the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority and the Community Action Programs continue to operate other programs that give assistance to renters and help them find alternative housing.
“At this stage the rental subsidy not related to hotels and motels is winding down,” Caswell said.
The program has served more than 25,000 households, and it has been assisting about 2,500 a week.
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This “Freedom From Want” artwork was created by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, as an update to Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting of a family Thanksgiving, for For Freedoms, a national artist collective.
”Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you should respond to each one.”
P olitics, financial hardship, substance abuse and infectious diseases — plenty of challenges are dividing American families as we approach this holiday season.
On Thanksgiving, of all days, can’t we just get along?
Rabbi Beth Davidson from Temple Adath Yeshurun in Manchester says she sees a “significant” level of stress and anxiety among members of her congregation. Many people are still worried about COVID, and many also are struggling with rising costs, she said.
Not to mention politics.
“I think the fact that it looks like Congress is going to be deadlocked and nothing is going to get done in the next two years just adds to people’s general malaise,” Davidson said. “The last couple of years have been so polarizing, with politics and the dissolution of civility, that people are anxious about that as well.”
For an antidote, Davidson suggests turning to the Jewish ideal of “shalom bayit” — “which literally means ‘peace in the house,’” she said.
“It teaches this idea that there are things that you don’t bring home, and that you strive for peace and strive for openness and tolerance and acceptance,” Davidson said. “I would say that in individual homes, that’s an ideal that’s wonderful to strive for, but I think particularly at holiday times, it’s a helpful idea.”
Rik Cornell, vice president of community relations at the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester, suggests a holiday gathering be viewed as a sort of “demilitarized zone.”
“You don’t talk about things that people are going to get into arguments about,” he said. “You stay clear of them.”
That may prove challenging these days.
The Union Leader recently asked readers to share stories of how their families and friends have managed to reconcile their differences.
It set off a virtual food fight on social media.
“No one in my family fell for Trump’s crap so we get along just fine,” one woman responded on Facebook.
“The Covid Karen’s need to apologize for their actions the last few years,” a man wrote. “Consequences is necessary.”
That prompted another to reply: “lol hope you enjoy your microwave tv dinner alone this thanksgiving.”
“Who cares. I rather not deal with dumbasses,” someone else wrote.
Meanwhile, over on Twitter, the request prompted this post: “How silly.”
Family, food and friction
Danielle Capelle, director of mental health services at Catholic Charities New Hampshire, said many people are “in a very black and white mode” these days. “It’s either ‘We get along great and we’re going to enjoy family time’ or it’s the exact opposite: ‘If you don’t have the same opinion, we’re not even going to communicate at all,’” she said.
Her advice: Plan ahead.
“If you know your family struggles with any of those hard topics, don’t be the one to bring it up, or plan to excuse yourself if that topic does come up,” she said.
“‘The dog needs to be walked? I got this.’”
If things do get heated, Capelle suggests a strategy she calls “take five.”
“Walk away,” she said. “Take five minutes.
“If it’s an important conversation that needs an outcome, then come back to it when the emotions aren’t so high. But most of these conversations, there’s no outcome that’s going to satisfy everybody.”
Family friction around the holidays is not new.
There’s often tension between young adults returning home from college or new jobs and their parents, said Krysta Marinelli, associate clinical director of the adult community support program at the Center for Life Management in Derry.
“They’re getting exposed to new people, new ideas, and they come home and they start questioning things, challenging things,” she said. “It upsets the status quo.”
Marinelli urges people to temper their expectations about family gatherings. “Don’t put all of your hopes into, ‘This is going to be the meal, the holiday, that fixes everything and puts everything back together,’” she said.
It’s OK to ask people to check their politics at the door, counselors say. And don’t be afraid to set boundaries.
“Whatever it is that’s making you stressed out, you can agree up front we’re not going to talk about that,” Rabbi Davidson said. “And maybe that then opens the space for families to talk about ‘remember when,’ and to revisit old and positive memories.”
“If you give people the guidelines — here are the things we’re not talking about today — then you have to hope and expect that people are going to respect your wishes,” she said.
Disagreeing about disagreement
Davidson thinks most families would welcome a break from everything that is making them anxious.
“I think people are so hungry to get back together face to face that most people are going to say, ‘Great, it’s going to be an oasis in time,’ and they’re going to agree to not bring up explosive issues,” she said.
Does that mean the old adage that you shouldn’t talk about politics or religion is true? Are we no longer able to have civil discourse about such weighty matters?
“I think in the year 2022, it’s not impossible to have civil discourse,” Marinelli from the Center for Life Management said. “I think it’s on the individual to remind themselves that you’ve got to come into a space maintaining respect for the other person.
“It’s getting harder and harder to do these days, but we come back to that idea of ‘Let’s agree to disagree,’” she said.
Cornell from the Manchester mental health center recommends, “Go with an attitude that you’re going to make the best of it and not make the worst of it.
“Nothing gets solved on Thanksgiving,” he said. “I don’t know why people think it does.
“The only thing that gets solved is people eat.”
Planning activities the whole family can enjoy is a good way to forestall arguments. Taking a walk, playing board games, watching old family videos or going through photo albums can all prompt laughter and fond memories.
“Holidays are often a time when new people are being brought into the fold,” Marinelli said. She suggests planning “inclusive” activities in which everyone can participate, young and old.
After all, Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings.
“I would think we all have something to be grateful for,” Rabbi Davidson said. “Whether it’s that we have a house and a table and can sit down and eat turkey together when there are people who have none of those things,” she said, “I think we all have reason to give thanks.”
Capelle from Catholic Charities said it’s good to focus on the “here and now” at the holidays. “Enjoy being with people you care about. Enjoy watching the kids or grandkids,” she said. “Whatever your family traditions are, put the focus back on those things.”
And if all else fails?
“Eat a lot of turkey and take a nap,” Capelle said.
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Above: Pounding out rhythms, the internationally touring “Stomp” literally uses everything ... and the kitchen sink. Below: “Stomp” drummers take to shopping carts and big water jugs to tap out a sequence in the touring show.
Pounding out rhythms, the internationally touring "Stomp" literally uses everything ... AND the kitchen sink.
Jordan Brooks had his sights on becoming a Broadway drummer when he happened to see a listing for ‘Stomp’ auditions and his career plans changed rhythm.
Keene is the new 'Stomp'-ing ground for big-scale touring shows
By Kathie Ragsdale Special to the Union Leader
They’re not your average musical instruments: Zippo lighters. Grocery carts. Trash can lids. Push brooms. Truck inner tubes. Sinks, hub caps, radiators and traffic signs.
Welcome to the world of “Stomp,” the not-your-average percussion group coming Nov. 29-30 to the newly renovated Colonial Performing Arts Center in downtown Keene.
Combining dance, theater and music, cast members use everyday objects and their own bodies to drum up rhythms and pound out beats, delivering all with a frenzied physicality that has become a trademark of the group over the past two decades.
“It’s not necessarily the easiest show on your body,” allows Jordan Brooks, who plays the character Sarge in “Stomp” productions.
Shows typically have eight characters, with Sarge usually appearing first, sweeping the stage with a broom and occasionally soliciting the audience to join the action with clapping.
Sarge is soon joined by the rest of the cast, all pushing brooms that quickly evolve into percussion instruments as they pound, swoosh, tap and whirl the objects in a preview of the musical adventures to come.
There’s a percussive display where characters’ waists are encircled by massive inner tubes that become drum heads they pound with hand-held sticks.
There are dance numbers where characters stomp about the stage atop trash barrels attached to their feet. And “fight” scenes that look like martial arts with broomsticks.
One new routine — and recently revised in advance of the Keene show — utilizes suitcases, especially the four-wheeled variety, for music-making.
Unlike other performance arts companies like Blue Man Group, “Stomp” uses no electronics or synthetic sounds. “Everything you hear is happening onstage,” says Brooks, who is also the group’s rehearsal director. “It’s just making music with the actual objects we have onstage. You could turn the entire sound system off and you would still have a show.”
Nor is there any dialogue. The names given to cast members — like Sarge, Particle Man, Mozzie, Potato Head, Cornish — are meant to help them get into character rather than respond to each other verbally.
Wordlessness, however, only contributes to the onstage interaction. Audience members quickly learn, for example, that Potato Head and Mozzie do not get along. In a scene where Potato Head deposits sand in front of each character, he puts only a sprinkling in front of Mozzie, who later retaliates by bonking Potato Head in the head with a rubber mallet.
Cast members come from a variety of backgrounds, from modern dance to acrobatics to hip hop, and travel with a physical therapist to tend to any medical issues.
Brooks belonged to two drum and bugle corps as a young man and went on to study classical jazz, contemporary and world music at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He later earned a master’s degree in music at New York University, studying under such renowned instructors as Valerie Naranjo, a major percussionist for Broadway’s “The Lion King.”
He had his sights on becoming a Broadway drummer when he happened to see a listing for ‘Stomp’ auditions and thought, “I might as well do this audition while I’m trying to get to Broadway.”
That was six years ago, and he hasn’t looked back.
“It’s super fun,” he says. “My craziest memory is from when I was in New York and I was taking a subway to the theater and I realized I was practicing with Zippos (flicking them rhythmically). I never would have thought that after all my training I would be practicing for a show with Zippos on a subway.”
Stomping grounds“Stomp” was created in 1991 in the United Kingdom by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell, who remain managers. The group began its run at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City in 1994, quickly won an Obie Award and other honors, and launched a tour group that same year.
“Stomp” has appeared in an episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and had a cameo appearance in the sitcom “Mad About You,” among other TV and film credits, and has been seen by millions of viewers worldwide.
On tour, “Stomp” performs in about three cities a week, according to Brooks.
The Keene visit will take place at a 98-year-old live performance center, originally designed for vaudeville and film, that has been transformed into the Colonial Performing Arts Center, where major enhancements have been made to the stage and backstage areas.
“Due to our prior technical inadequacies, we were turned down multiple times over the years by the ‘Stomp’ tour,” says Alec Doyle, executive director at the center. “Our newly increased stage depth, addition of structural steel and contemporary rigging have changed all that, enabling us to present ‘Stomp’ — a first for the Monadnock region.”
The changes stem from a $12.5 million capital campaign that started two years ago.
It led to the purchase of a building on Commercial Street, which was transformed into a smaller venue called the Showroom that opened last year, and major renovations and expansion of the historic main theater on Main Street, which opened its doors in April.
Mark Bodin, president of the Savings Bank of Walpole in Keene, says the bank rented the Showroom for a catered party to celebrate coming out of the earlier days of the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that the smaller venue is expected to bring in “smaller bands and acts that never would have performed in our area before.”
The bank is a longtime financial supporter of the Colonial. “It’s not just a charitable donation,” says Bodin. “It’s an investment because it’s such a vital part of our community.”
Improvements at the main theater included increasing the stage depth to 30 feet, increasing the height of the stage house to allow battens to fly out to 52 feet, new lighting and sound systems and new artist dressing rooms.
“Our programming had historically been defined by the physical limitations of a theater which was designed for vaudeville productions and film,” says Doyle.
“This project has brought the Colonial Performing Arts Center into the 21st century, enabling us to host Broadway touring shows, large music acts, dance companies, and events that require circus-type aerial rigging.”
“Stomp” is the first large production to come to the center since the renovations, according to Martha Haas, director of marketing and communications, but more are scheduled — including “Legally Blonde — the Musical!” next spring.
Christopher Hamblet, president of the Keene electrical contracting firm F.H. Hamblet Inc. and the third generation in his family to run the company, says Hamblet Inc. has supported the Colonial financially for years and also worked on the renovations.
“What the public sees is a renovated lobby, ticket booth and bathrooms,” he says.
“But the real action is from the stage back. The audio was upgraded, the video was upgraded, as well as the place where the talent comes in. Now it’s like this showplace back there.”
Hamblet says he recently sponsored a sold-out performance of the Led Zepplin tribute band Get the Led Out and performers “were quite impressed with the upgrades, I heard.”
He says he is looking forward to seeing “Stomp,” which he calls “an absolute party” and “a lot of fun.”
Brooks says he particularly looks forward to seeing families and young children at performances, and notes he often sees youngsters tapping out rhythms on random objects as they leave a venue.
“We’re trying to create this magical moment every time we’re onstage,” he says.
He adds that he hopes Keene audiences enjoy the group’s creativity “and hopefully leave inspired and with this energy you can take home with you. The reason the show is still running and can translate anywhere in the world is because there’s no language barrier. It’s just the rhythm of life we’re exploring on stage.”
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Lots of laughs, gingerbread houses and a community stroll to kick off the holidays
Catch a show at Tupelo
DERRY — The English Beat, with its energetic mix of soul, reggae, pop and punk, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry. The band rose to fame in the 1980s with hits including “Save It For Later” and “I Confess.” Tickets are $40.
On Saturday, Tupelo will host The Fools at 8 p.m. Hailing from Ipswich, Mass., The Fools saw major success through the 1980s with record-breaking audio airplay, adoring fans and lots of media attention. The band has taken the stage with performers such as Blondie, The Knack, Van Halen and The Ramones, among many others. Tickets are $35.
Info: Tupelohall.com or 603-437-5100.
‘A Christmas Carol’: A classic holiday tradition
MANCHESTER — “A Christmas Carol” returns to The Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., starting Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Get into the holiday spirit with Charles Dickens’ classic story of Scrooge, who is visited by three ghosts on a snowy Christmas Eve. The show is filled with lively song and dance, special effects, professional actors and a live orchestra.
The show runs through Friday, Dec. 23. Tickets are $25-$46.
Info: palacetheatre.org or 603-668-5588.
Lots of laughs for a long weekend
LACONIA — The “Best of Boston Comedy Festival,” featuring Jim McCue and two guests, will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Lakeport Opera House, 781 Union Ave.
McCue went viral this year with his DryBar special “nothing personal,” which has had over 4 million views. He has been featured on Comedy Central, Comcast Comedy Spotlight, NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and “RedEye” on Fox news, among many others. He started his comedy career in Boston performing with iconic comedians like Bill Burr, Joe Rogan and Patrice O’Neil.
Info: lakeportopera.com or 603-519-7506.
Portsmouth hosts sweetest competition
PORTSMOUTH — The 32nd annual Gingerbread House Contest and Exhibition kicks off Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Portsmouth Historical Society, 10 Middle St.
“Fictional Places and Characters” is this year’s theme, which goes along with “Show + Tell,” an exhibition of work by the Seacoast area’s illustrators of children’s picturebooks. “Show + Tell” runs through Friday, Dec. 30. Gingerbread houses will be on display in galleries and downtown through Friday, Dec. 22.
Info: portsmouthhistory.org/gingerbread2022 or 603-436-8433.
Take a stroll down Main Street
NASHUA — The annual Winter Holiday Stroll will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday. The candlelit procession down Main Street typically attracts roughly 40,000 people. The stroll ends at Library Hill, where the city’s holiday tree is lit. This family-fun event, which marks its 27th year after being canceled in 2020 and 2021, features food, vendors, live performances, rides and Santa!
Info: downtownnashua.org/holidaystroll.
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UNH’s Rick Santos, conducting his first summer practice, on Tuesday was named the CAA’s coach of the year.
UNH's Santos named CAA Football Coach of the Year
University of New Hampshire head football coach Rick Santos was named CAA Football coach of the year on Tuesday to highlight a total of eight conference awards received by the Wildcats.
Junior running back Dylan Laube received three accolades. He was voted all-conference first team as a punt returner, second team as a running back and third team as a kickoff returner.
Sophomore defensive ends Dylan Ruiz and Josiah Silver joined Laube on the first team, senior captain Patrick Flynn was selected to the second team on the offensive line, and grad student captain Pop Bush made the third team at safety.
UNH (8-3, 7-1 CAA) begins NCAA posteason play with a first-round game against Fordham on Saturday at noon at Wildcat Stadium in Durham.
Santos, in his first year as head coach, led UNH to an 8-3 overall record, a share of the CAA championship with a 7-1 conference record, and an at-large selection to the NCAA Division I Championship. This season marks the most wins and first playoff appearance since 2017, as well as the first CAA title since 2014. The Wildcats were picked to finish ninth in this year’s league preseason poll.
Laube leads the nation in all-purpose yards per game (179.20), is No. 4 in punt returns (15.0 yards/return), No. 11 in total touchdowns (15), No. 19 in rushing yards per game (100.00), No. 20 in rushing TDs (12) and No. 25 in rushing yards (1,000).
Ruiz is No. 5 in the nation in sacks (1.00 per game) as well as 37th in tackles for loss (1.2 per game); those numbers rank second in the CAA in sacks and fifth in tackles for loss. He has a team-leading 11 sacks and ranks second with 13.5 tackles for loss.
Silver is 15th nationally in sacks (0.77 per game and 28th in tackles for loss (1.3 per game); those numbers rank third in the CAA in sacks and fourth in tackles for loss. He leads all Wildcats with 14 tackles for loss and ranks second in sacks (8.5). Silver is fourth in both solo (27) and total (42) tackles. His other stats include three quarterback hurries, one forced fumble, a blocked punt and a pass breakup.
Flynn has started 45 consecutive games overall – every New Hampshire game dating back to the 2019 season opener – and that includes all 11 games this season at left tackle.
Bush, who played in 9 of 11 regular-season games, ranks fifth on the team with 40 tackles. He is tied for third in tackles for loss (4.5) as well as third in pass breakups (four), and also has one fumble recovery this season.
UNH’s CAA Football All-Conference Team and Major Awards
Coach of the Year: Rick Santos
All-Conference First Team: Dylan Ruiz (DE), Josiah Silver DE), Dylan Laube (PR)
All-Conference Second Team: Dylan Laube (RB), Patrick Flynn (OL)
All-Conference Third Team: Pop Bush (S), Dylan Laube (KR)
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Memorial senior Mene Adumene poses for a photograph during a break in practice on Monday.
Memorial senior Mene Adumene runs a drill during practice in Manchester on Monday.
Manchester Memorial senior Mene Adumene poses for a photograph during a break in practice in Manchester on Monday.
City Thanksgiving Day matchup: No game more important for Adumene, Memorial
MENE ADUMENE is anything but ambivalent about playing high school football on Thanksgiving.
Adumene, one of eight seniors on the Manchester Memorial roster, will tell you he and his teammates are thankful for one more opportunity to play football this year. That opportunity will come Thursday (10 a.m.), when Memorial and Central go head-to-head at Gill Stadium.
“I’ve been thinking about winning that game, and the feeling of playing on that turf field for the last time,” Adumene said. “It’s a little bit sad, but if we end on a win, I’ll be happy. It’s something that I’m looking forward to.
“The more time we get to spend together as a football team practicing, the better.”
Adumene, a 6-foot-2, 328-pound guard/nose-tackle, has been a starter for the Crusaders in each of the past three seasons. He plans to major in nursing in college, and hopes to continue his football career as well. He also plays varsity lacrosse.
“He’s been our best player probably for three years now,” Memorial football coach Rob Sturgis said. “Whenever we need a yard, we run the ball behind him.
“Playing Thursday means a lot to him. It means a lot to all of them.”
The Crusaders and Little Green did not play each other during the regular season. The schools were placed in different conferences this year, in part, to help create more buzz when the teams meet on Thanksgiving.
Manchester has been crowning a “city champion” on Thanksgiving since 1981. At one time Memorial, Central, West and Trinity were all eligible to play in the game — the two teams that had the best regular season would participate — but recently it’s been a matchup between the Crusaders and the Little Green. Last season, the clubs played a nonconference game on Nov. 6.
Sturgis grew up in Massachusetts, where watching your local high school football team play on Thanksgiving is part of the holiday tradition for many people. He said there’s no negative to playing on Thanksgiving.
“Especially games like ours where it’s truly a rivalry,” he said. “For a full year, you get to say you’re the city champs.
“As a coach, I don’t get to work with the JV kids or the freshman kids on an everyday basis, so getting a chance to work with them for three weeks and seeing what we have in the future and see what we have coming up, I love it. I get to see who can play varsity football and who would be better suited to playing JV again next year.”
Because Memorial and Central have a cooperative lacrosse team, Adumene said his “Central teammates” regularly remind him about Central’s 27-24 victory over Memorial last year.
“It was every day, especially during the lacrosse season,” Adumene said. “I heard about it a lot.
“We’ve grown up around each other for most of our lives. Played different sports together. The competitiveness, it’s always there. Even after this game, we’re always going to be talking about it.
“I’m confident. We’ve had good practices and I think we’ll execute to the best of our ability and be the more physical team.”
Memorial’s only Thanksgiving Day victory came in 2014, when it beat Central 41-14. Thursday will be Memorial’s 11th appearance in the “Turkey Bowl.”
“It’s the one time you get together with all of your high school friends, especially if you went away to college,” said Sturgis. “Playing on Thanksgiving makes sense to me. That’s supposed to mark the end of your season.”
“Mene and every one of these seniors wants to beat Central more than they want to win any other game on their schedule. A lot of them are friends, but as soon as the game rolls around, there’s no game that’s more important to these kids.”
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Tom Bozoian is shown coaching Manchester West during the Queen City Jamboree several years ago.
Tom Bozoian resigns as Manchester West football coach
Tom Bozoian isn’t sure what’s in his immediate future, but coaching football at Manchester West won’t be a part of it.
Bozoian submitted his letter of resignation Tuesday, after serving as West’s head coach for the last six seasons. He met with members of his team Tuesday afternoon.
“I work for the city and I’m retiring August 1,” Bozoian said. “I’m gonna go work somewhere and I don’t know where that’s going to bring me.
“That, plus I’m tired. This isn’t an easy job. No one can understand the challenges here unless they’re in the program. Honestly, a new voice might do some good things here too.”
Bozoian replaced Vance Sullivan as West’s head coach in 2017. The Blue Knights had a 1-33 record in the previous four seasons when he was hired.
Bozoian said West regained the respect of the other teams in Division II during his tenure.
“We sent some kids to play college football, we had some all-state kids and some CHaD (all-star) players,” Bozoian said. “That was rewarding. Just the fact that opponents had to prepare for us … that sounds minimal, but that was a milestone.”
Bozoian, a Manchester resident, spent three years as Raymond High School’s head coach and was also an assistant coach at Campbell High School for nine seasons before he took over the West program. He said he hasn’t ruled out coaching in the future.
“We could have had more wins, but bringing respect back to the program and some of those other things I mentioned — just getting kids to play — is really what it was about,” he said. “Everything else is a bonus. This isn’t a job for the faint of heart.”
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We thank Thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank Thee for health and remember the sick. We thank Thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank Thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service. That Thy gifts to us may be used for others.
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Dear Abby: Woman's second marriage gets the cold shoulder | Human Interest | unionleader.com
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“The First Thanksgiving 1621” by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930).
New Hampshire native Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) led a Civil War-era campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Her letter to Abraham Lincoln, reprinted here, led the President to issue a proclamation.
Hon. Abraham Lincoln — President of the United States
Sir.–
Permit me, as Editress of the “Lady’s Book”, to request a few minutes of your precious time, while laying before you a subject of deep interest to myself and — as I trust — even to the President of our Republic, of some importance. This subject is to have the day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.
You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution.
Enclosed are three papers (being printed these are easily read) which will make the idea and its progress clear and show also the popularity of the plan.
For the last fifteen years I have set forth this idea in the “Lady’s Book”, and placed the papers before the Governors of all the States and Territories — also I have sent these to our Ministers abroad, and our Missionaries to the heathen — and commanders in the Navy. From the recipients I have received, uniformly the most kind approval. Two of these letters, one from Governor (now General) Banks and one from Governor Morgan are enclosed; both gentlemen as you will see, have nobly aided to bring about the desired Thanksgiving Union.
But I find there are obstacles not possible to be overcome without legislative aid — that each State should, by statute, make it obligatory on the Governor to appoint the last Thursday of November, annually, as Thanksgiving Day; — or, as this way would require years to be realized, it has occurred to me that a proclamation from the President of the United States would be the best, surest and most fitting method of National appointment.
I have written to my friend, Hon. Wm. H. Seward, and requested him to confer with President Lincoln on this subject As the President of the United States has the power of appointments for the District of Columbia and the Territories; also for the Army and Navy and all American citizens abroad who claim protection from the U. S. Flag — could he not, with right as well as duty, issue his proclamation for a Day of National Thanksgiving for all the above classes of persons? And would it not be fitting and patriotic for him to appeal to the Governors of all the States, inviting and commending these to unite in issuing proclamations for the last Thursday in November as the Day of Thanksgiving for the people of each State? Thus the great Union Festival of America would be established.
Now the purpose of this letter is to entreat President Lincoln to put forth his Proclamation, appointing the last Thursday in November (which falls this year on the 26th) as the National Thanksgiving for all those classes of people who are under the National Government particularly, and commending this Union Thanksgiving to each State Executive: thus, by the noble example and action of the President of the United States, the permanency and unity of our Great American Festival of Thanksgiving would be forever secured.
An immediate proclamation would be necessary, so as to reach all the States in season for State appointments, also to anticipate the early appointments by Governors.
Excuse the liberty I have taken
With profound respect,
Yrs truly
Sarah Josepha Hale,
Editress of the “Lady’s Book”
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A DAY OF THANKSGIVING | Columnists | unionleader.com
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By Brittany Shammas and Maham Javaid The Washington Post
Oklahoma authorities are searching for a man they say killed four Chinese nationals and injured another in a shooting at a marijuana farm in Kingfisher County, northwest of Oklahoma City.
The man entered a building at the farm just after sunset, around 5:45 p.m., on Sunday and was inside for a significant amount of time before "the executions began," the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Tuesday.
Brooke Arbeitman, a bureau spokeswoman, said via text message: "These people were executed. Not randomly shot and killed." She added that the suspect - whose identity authorities are not releasing, because they believe that may put additional individuals in danger - is "considered armed and dangerous."
Deputies with the Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office responded to a call Sunday about a hostage situation along North 2760 Road, west of Hennessey, when they arrived at the marijuana farm.
There were "several employees" present with the victims, three men and one woman, authorities said.
Another person, also a Chinese national, was wounded and flown to a hospital, according to the statement.
Families of the victims have not yet been notified, because of to a "significant language barrier," the statement said.
The Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office referred questions about the case to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Local television station KFOR reported that the 10-acre farm appeared to be a marijuana growing operation, quoting State Bureau of Investigation Capt. Stan Florence. State voters legalized medical marijuana in 2018.
The sheriff's office requested assistance from the State Bureau of Investigation. Authorities spent Sunday and part of Monday going door-to-door and using helicopters and drones to search the farm, KFOR reported.
Florence told KFOR that investigators believe the killer and victims knew one another.
"Don't know if they're related, don't know if they were co-workers, but, certainly these individuals, or we believe, all familiar with each other," he said.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tours the U.S.-Mexico border in April in Eagle Pass, Texas. McCarthy was back at the border Tuesday to meet with Customs and Border Protection personnel in El Paso as he seeks to become House GOP leader in January.
By Marianna Sotomayor and Maria Sacchetti The Washington Post
McCarthy announced he had directed the Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), and the Oversight Committee's top Republican, Rep. James Comer (Ky.), to immediately launch investigations over "the collapse of our border" and the overall reduction in immigration arrests in the interior of the United States when they chair their respective committees in January.
"Our country may never recover from Secretary Mayorkas's dereliction of duty," McCarthy said after he and six other Republicans visited U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel in El Paso.
McCarthy and other Republicans challenged Mayorkas' assertions, most recently at a congressional hearing last week, that the border is "secure."
"We can't find one border agent who agrees with him. So we will investigate," McCarthy said.
"Secretary Mayorkas is proud to advance the noble mission of this Department, support its extraordinary workforce, and serve the American people," spokeswoman Marsha Espinosa said in an email. "Members of Congress can do better than point the finger at someone else; they should come to the table and work on solutions for our broken system and outdated laws, which have not been overhauled in over 40 years."
The push to investigate Mayorkas began long before Tuesday as House Republicans campaigned to immediately oust him if they regained the majority. Republicans have united around targeting Mayorkas and President Joe Biden for what they say is their collective failure to contain the surge of migrants at the border by undoing restrictive measures put in place by former president Donald Trump. They also say the administration lacks enough personnel to adequately deal with the influx of people and illegal drugs, such as fentanyl, from entering the United States.
The incredibly tight margins will force Republicans to work with Democrats if they want to see any reforms passed through a Democratic-controlled Senate and signed by Biden. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R), who represents the largest portion of the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, says he has conversations with Democrats weekly, including on immigration reforms, which he says begins with securing the border by ensuring that those who do not qualify for asylum are immediately sent back to their country of origin.
"I'm looking for partners, and it's been very difficult in this political environment to find partners that want to have a real conversation. But we're still able to do it," he said, before pointing to the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act he proposed alongside Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas).
But the razor-thin majority Republicans were dealt this midterm election will make it more difficult for the party to find a legislative pathway given the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus, which blocked efforts by previous GOP speakers John Boehner (Ohio) and Paul Ryan (Wis.) to reform immigration laws because they deemed the proposals too lax.
That is why Republicans have zeroed in on investigations against the Biden administration, a benefit they are given as the party in charge of the House. Besides investigating Mayorkas, Republicans have pledged to look into the business dealings and art sales of Biden's son Hunter, the Biden administration's military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the origins of the novel coronavirus, coronavirus-related school closures, the administration's deliberations over weapons sales to Ukraine and the spending of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Mayorkas, a former U.S. attorney and deputy homeland security secretary during the Obama administration, has been the chief steward of the Biden administration's complicated efforts to create a more humane immigration system while also creating a more orderly system at the border. He is also responsible for ending family migrant detention and criticized the prior Republican administration for forcibly separating migrant children from their parents at the border.
But Mayorkas has also faced criticism for the mass arrivals of migrants from Latin America and other regions, especially from Republicans who say the Biden administration's policies are encouraging migrants to attempt to enter the United States in search of better lives.
McCarthy's move comes days after he battled for leadership in the narrowly divided House and as the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to wind down one of the Trump administration's most significant border policies, known as Title 42, which allows border officials to expel migrants instead of allowing them into the United States to seek asylum or release pending a court hearing. The policy has led to more than 2.4 million expulsions, mostly from the southern border.
Trump's staunchest allies are calling for immediately impeaching Mayorkas and Biden for the border crisis rather than delaying the actions by investigating them. McCarthy has previously signaled a cautious approach toward impeachment.
"We never do impeachment for political purposes," McCarthy said Tuesday. "If the investigation leads to an impeachment inquiry, we will follow through."
GOP members and aides have privately mused their hope that removing Mayorkas may be enough of a scalp to throw at Trump's "Make America Great Again" base than also going after Biden and establishing a precedent for the House majority to impeach every president that is not of its party.
"I think the president and Mayorkas have shown a dereliction of duty on the border. I say that as a middle-of-the-road conservative dealmaker," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.). "This is an issue that we should be doing oversight on."
Bacon echoed McCarthy and cautioned that just impeaching members of the Biden administration would "hurt us in the long run," since swing voters, like the ones he represents, don't want to see a GOP majority only focus on investigations.
Impeachment also faces even longer odds in the Senate, where a Democratic majority is likely to vote to acquit any member of the Biden administration. The only Cabinet member to be impeached was William Belknap, president Ulysses S. Grant's secretary of war, in 1876 for accepting bribes.
McCarthy's public declaration against Mayorkas was seen by some as an early signal to the Freedom Caucus that he is taking seriously their calls to investigate the Biden administration at a time when he's facing trouble securing the 218 votes necessary to officially become speaker Jan. 3.
One way to keep the Freedom Caucus appeased is based on whom McCarthy and his leadership team tap to lead the House Homeland Security Committee. Reps. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who were on the trip to El Paso, are vying for the top spot after Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) announced he would not seek reelection. The Freedom Caucus is hoping McCarthy and his allies choose Green as they look to expand their influence atop committees, a right previous GOP speakers had forbidden.
Mayorkas's future came up during a homeland security committee hearing last week, when Republicans such as Freedom Caucus member Rep. Michael Guest (Miss.) applauded him for pressuring former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus to resign after less than a year on the job. But when Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) asked if he would also step down, Mayorkas stated he had no plans on doing so.
"I am very proud of what we have accomplished," Mayorkas told LaTurner at the hearing. "I'm very committed to accomplishing more."
"I hope for the sake of the safety of the American people that conversation happens very soon," LaTurner said.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) was clearer in his threat, telling Mayorkas, "We look forward to seeing you in January."
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A rare view of the James Webb Space Telescope face-on, from the NASA Goddard cleanroom observation window.
The agency launched the investigation into Webb's history in March 2021, after a group of scientists writing in Scientific American criticized the telescope's name and launched a petition demanding that the agency change it. Critics of Webb have argued that he was complicit in the U.S. government's Cold War-era campaign to discriminate against and fire homosexual federal workers.
The agency said it had sought "any available evidence" tying Webb to the Lavender Scare, when thousands of gay federal employees were forced out of their jobs from the late 1940s to the 60s. Through historical records, NASA historians sought to answer whether Webb was responsible for the anti-gay policy, involved in firings, or otherwise linked to discrimination, and found he was not, the agency said.
"The purpose of this investigation was to go where the evidence took us, see what evidence was out there . . . and come to some conclusion," NASA chief historian Brian Odom said in an interview with The Washington Post. "Knowing this history will help us go forward as an organization - not just an organization, but a country - that learns from its past."
The findings were laid out in an 88-page report published Thursday, which NASA said came from a review of more than 50,000 pages of government archives by its historians. Critics questioned the report, some saying it was a "selective historical reading."
He also worked at the State Department from 1949 to 1952, when the federal government had begun the expulsion of homosexual workers. An executive order from President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 made it policy across federal agencies to identify and fire federal workers who were gay as a "security" matter, a policy that endured until 1975, according to the NASA report.
Critics of Webb's say his role as a federal leader during a time when LGBTQ people were being purged from the government workforce makes him complicit in persecution - and means the telescope's name evokes a harmful chapter of American history.
On Thursday, the scientists who wrote the Scientific American piece -- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein of the University of New Hampshire, Brian Nord, Sarah Tuttle and Lucianne Walkowicz -- criticized NASA's approach and said they planned to study the report.
As administrator, they said in a statement Thursday, Webb would have known what was going on at his agency. The absence of "a piece of paper that explicitly says, 'James Webb knew about this' " does not prove he didn't know, they indicated.
"It is hypocritical of NASA to insist on giving Webb credit for the exciting things that happened under his leadership - activities that were actually conducted by other people - but refuse to accept his culpability for the problems," they wrote. "NASA is engaging in historical cherry picking, which is deeply unscientific in our view."
The four also argued the report's method and findings imply that managers are not responsible for discrimination that occurs under their tenure, "an explicitly anti-equity, diversity and inclusion stance that places responsibility on the most marginalized people to fend for ourselves."
In a statement announcing the release of the report, NASA said that understanding the history would help guide the agency in its work to ensure equal opportunities for its employees and "advance full equality for LGBTQI+ Americans."
"The report illuminates that this period in federal policy - and in American history more broadly - was a dark chapter that does not reflect the agency's values today," the statement said.
Broadly, NASA historians sought to understand whether Webb was a proponent of keeping homosexual people out of the workforce and whether he oversaw enforcement of that policy, Odom said. They also zeroed in on specific incidents that could have linked Webb to knowledge or support of the firings, which Odom said he was particularly interested in investigating but didn't find yield major findings.
Because the policy was the standard across federal government at the time - though "we look at [it] today and it's an abhorrent policy" - that meant that firings were likely considered routine and would not have reached the administrator's desk, Odom said.
"This is a moment that we can learn a lot from, this period of history. . . . It's an important topic that we shouldn't forget about," Odom said. "I just want folks to know that this was done in the most objective way possible."
Keeping the name, Webb's critics have argued, sends the wrong message.
"Discrimination against queer people, including scientists, still affects their lives and careers," the four scientists wrote in 2021. "So what signal does it send to current and future generations of scientists when we prioritize the legacies of complicit government officials over the dreams of the next generation?"
Odom, who spent months combing through material at various federal archives, said he understood people's reactions.
"Ultimately, as a historian, I have to fall back on evidence," he said. "I understand why people feel the way they do. These things are serious. They have real-world consequences. The past is never closed; in fact, it's hardly ever past."
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OTTAWA - Canadian police said on Tuesday they were investigating reports of Chinese "police service stations" operating in the Greater Toronto Area for possible interference in Canadian interests and threats to national security.
It has previously said that there are centers outside China run by local volunteers, not Chinese police officers, that aim to help Chinese citizens renew documents and offer other services that were disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kristen Hamilton of Hooksett stains her project at a recent Girls Night Out at Board & Brush in Amherst.
These holiday designs are waiting for the right crafter at Board & Brush in Amherst.
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Leanne Taipale of Andover, Mass., enjoys a recent Girls Night Out at Board & Brush in Amherst. She’s shown staining a sign for her home.
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Customize wooden signs, tray, planters and more with plenty of helpful guidance. HELEN GOODROW of Merrimack pounded a slab of raw wood with a hammer, “distressing” the board so it would have a weathered look. She’s a frequent visitor to Board & Brush in Amherst, and on that Friday night, she was celebrating her birthday with her daughters and friends. “It’s hands-on, and I like that,” she explained of her crafting choice. “It’s also a chance to get together. “And,” she added with a grin, “you can always take out your frustrations on the board.” The Amherst shop for Board & Brush, a national franchise, is located in Salzburg Square, Route 101A. On any given evening, and some daytimes, area residents can be found hammering, staining and embellishing wood projects to give or to keep. On that Friday night, Goodrow displayed a copy of the sign she hoped to make: a weathered, distressed version of the American flag. She has experimented with other crafts in the past, Goodrow said, but she likes Board & Brush because she can customize what she makes. “I was doing a ‘welcome’ sign and they let me put, ‘Bienvenue,’” she explained as she pounded on her board of choice. “I like it because we can do our own thing.” Pam Naro of Nashua was a member of Goodrow’s party — her son dates Goodrow’s daughter, and the young couple gave her a gift card to Board & Brush for her birthday. Though she was a first-timer, Naro knew what she wanted to make: a sign reading, “Good beer, good wine, great times at the Naro bar.” “I need to do more for myself,” Naro said. “I’m too busy taking care of everyone else.” Kelsea Goodrow, the giver of the gift certificate, is a fourth-timer to Board and Brush. “What do I like? Everything,” she said. “It’s nice to do something different.” Because she lives in an apartment, she’s always looking for pieces in a smaller scale. Her project that night was a wooden tray, stenciled with jars of flowers. The workshop was lined with project suggestions and racks of paint colors and tools. A grid explained the various stains available. As staff members in “Got Wood?” T-shirts presented the various steps, owner Lori Goddard watched from an alcove. According to Goddard, the franchise was founded by Julie Selby, a Wisconsin entrepreneur, who started giving parties from her garage. The concept grew and was formalized into Board & Brush. Goddard and her daughter Brittny Daly opened a Portsmouth studio in May 2018, followed by the Amherst branch. “I loved the whole idea of DIY, and of people having unplugged family time,” Goddard explained. Goddard also liked the scope of the business, with signs, trays and even planters her clients could customize. “It’s projects that they love, and that they can give as a gift,” she said. Goddard added that the Board & Brush concept is different from other craft studios because it doesn’t require any freehand work. With hundreds of stencils available, “you don’t have to be an artist,” she pointed out. “People of any ability can participate.” “Your raw sign is natural wood,” staff member Meghan Tewksbury told the group. “If you bang it up a little, that will give it a little more character.” She explained how to make stripes by dragging a claw hammer, how to pound in character with a meat mallet, and the impression left by chicken wire. “The knottier the better,” Tewksbury said cheerfully. Naro and her daughter Felicia Bibbo talked across the table, discussing paint choices. “I don’t want it too dark,” Naro said of her sign project. “I feel like it needs to ‘pop’ a little bit.” Her family room includes a lot of dark furniture, she said. Bibbo said she was going with a classic gray. “It will go in the kitchen, and we want to repaint the kitchen,” she said. “I’m not sure of the color, so the gray will go with anything.” Tewskbury and Joanna Hartson continued to walk the group through sanding, staining, painting and stenciling. In a corner, first-timer Leanne Taipale of Andover, Mass., brushed a dark stain over her round sign. Taipale has done paint-your-own-pottery and paint-your-own-still life, but said she was liking the Board & Brush concept just as much. “I like all the options,” she said. “It’s nice to have all the variety. And I appreciate all the help.” Holiday-themed projects include signs, trays and a “Countdown to Christmas” calendar. For more information and to check the workshop schedule, visit boardandbrush.com/amherst.
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The Craft School at Mill Hollow in Keene offers holiday workshops including wreath-making.
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Participants in a wreath-making workshop at the Craft School at Mill Hollow Works in Keene show off their holiday creations.
Children and adults are welcome at the holiday workshops at The Craft School at Mill Hollow.
Finished crafts and crafting supplies cover the table at Mill Hollow Work’s Craft School.
HEATHER HOLLOWAY promotes crafting for a living. But when the workday ends, hers doesn’t, at least in late fall. “I hand-make all my cards,” she said. “I think about past holidays, what these people mean to me. It’s a chance to stop, be where you are, and love these connections.”
Holloway grew up with a hammer in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. Now she’s helping other Granite Staters discover the joy of doing it themselves. Holloway and her husband, Wade Smith, are the founders and directors of the Craft School at Mill Hollow Works in Keene. Over the holiday season, they promote “the joy of making” in a half-dozen workshops.
Holloway grew up in Alstead and Smith in Charlestown. Raised during a recession, “we had to be handy,” she said, whether that involved a garden, home repairs or heating with wood.
The by-product of their separate upbringings was a strong sense of self-reliance and independence, she recalled. It’s a trait that characterizes New England, New Hampshire, and her beloved Monadnock Region.
Holloway was to go from wood stoves and compost to glitter and glamor, as she spent almost 20 years in television production in Los Angeles. Smith, meanwhile, was honing his craft as a builder of wooden boats. The couple reconnected via Facebook, and Holloway moved back East to marry Smith and care for aging parents.
She used her TV skills to help local businesses with their media presence, and she and Smith discovered that they wanted to celebrate what these craftspeople do. In addition, she said, “There’s a whole new generation that doesn’t know how to do these things.”
The Craft School began in 2016. with a canoe restoration class taught by Smith. The founders added other classes over time, including foraging, woodworking, fiber and textile, and home repair. There’s a Woodworking for Women class that creates “an environment of support” for women new to tools.
Mission of self-reliance
“Our philosophy and mission is self-reliance,” Holloway said. “We want people to do more for themselves, to live purposeful, creative lives.” The key word is “connection,” she said — “to the land, to ourselves, to our region.”
The philosophy fits well into the December holidays, according to Holloway. “There’s nothing like a handmade gift,” she mused. “When you’re making it, you’re not only thinking about how to make something special, but as you’re putting it together, you’re thinking about the recipient.”
With that mission as a guide, the Craft School has created several holiday classes for makers. On Sunday, Nov. 27, they offer an evergreen wreath class.
On Dec. 3, they will offer a trifecta of workshops: one on ornament-making, one on crocheted snowflakes, and one on making a wooden knife or spoon with a metal inlay. The classes are well-attended, with two and even three generations attending together. Holloway sees whole families, mother-daughter combos, and even couples crafting together.
To keep that family feeling, Holloway caps her wreath, garland and ornament classes at 15 people, so attendees can fellowship across the hot-glue gun. She caps wood carving at 10.
Her most popular holiday classes are evergreen wreaths, traditional garlands including cranberries and popcorn, and a mini-gingerbread house.
Whatever the season, Holloway will continue to promote the healing power of craft. “A student in one of Wade’s boat-building classes was an Army surgeon, who did four tours in Afghanistan. At first he couldn’t talk about the trauma, the spiritual shattering. But in Wade’s class, he found all those shattered pieces coalescing.”
The Craft School will offer holiday-themed workshops through Dec. 17. For more information, visit millhollowworks.org.
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Glass artist Jocelyn Brown works on a piece at Terrapin Glassblowing Studio in Jaffrey. Owner Dominique Caissie says that though first-timers are often nervous about the 3,000 flame, they follow directions and end up with something they can treasure.
Tiny blown-glass ornaments are available for making, giving or keeping in a workshop offered by Terrapin Glassblowing Studio in Jaffrey.
Dominique Caissie, owner of Terrapin Glassblowing Studio, shows off a pendant available for sale or make at her studio.
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Glow-in-the-dark glass Christmas trees are available for holiday giving at Terrapins’ studio..
“I like being creative,” she said with a smile. “And after that, there’s the fire, the heat, the movement of the glass!”
Caissie, now owner of Terrapin Glassblowing Studio in Jaffrey, wants to share her passion for glass with area crafters. She offers a series of one-session workshops to introduce students to the glory of glass and give them a little something to take home for the holidays.
Caissie has been creating in glass for about 15 years and went professional 11 years ago. “I was selling at farmers’ markets, craft fairs.” She met other artists and envisioned a space where she could teach and other artists could rent space to pursue their glass dreams. Sometimes that overlaps, Caissie noted, with one of her staff members also working independently on her own art and a freelance glass artist lending a hand with Terrapin’s overflow.
Group workshops
Caissie runs workshops and classes all year-round, and she has a full slate of holiday-themed programs. Her signature class is the hour-long workshop for up to six people. It’s suitable for family groups, bachelorette parties or girls-or-guys’ nights out, she said. The class is private, and she doesn’t mix her students with other groups.
In the workshop, participants can make their choice of six small glass ornaments: a candy cane, an icicle, a tiny Christmas tree, a simple teardrop ornament, or a green glass pickle, a tradition of good luck in some homes.
The first 10 minutes are a demonstration, Caissie said. A staff member will show students how to take a single “rod” of color and fold it over under the blowtorch to make it thicker. They then combine it with a rod of clear glass, to give a polka-dot texture, she said. Then, with guidance, they can shape their molten glass into their choice of holiday shape.
In the introductory classes, staff members have already inserted the hook to hang the ornament, so students can spend more time on the actual glass. “We want that first class to be light and fun,” she said.
‘Hotter than a blowtorch’
Her classes are open to teens and adults, according to Caissie. The flame burns over 3,000 degrees, so it’s not safe for younger children. But those age 12 and up do “really well,” she added. “They’re used to learning and being in a school environment. Sometimes the kids do better than the parents!’
Do they use a blowtorch? “It’s hotter than a blowtorch,” Caissie said.
Some of her first-time students are nervous around the torch, and that’s actually good, Caissie said. “They are easier to teach. The ones who are gung-ho make a few mistakes at first.”
Before COVID, she had 10 workstations placed close together. She received a COFID-related grant to remodel her space and improved the ventilation and spread out her worktables.
Some of her clients are tourists or people visiting relatives, who make one item in a day or a weekend. Some of these come back when they’re in the area, according to Caissie. Other crafters from around New England do a workshop, get a taste of the glass arts, and come back for longer classes or even rent her space for their own projects.
She offers other classes such as glass pipes (21-plus), glass straws, air-plant containers, beads and pendants. Clients often take her classes as family groups, she said, and she recalled a recent class for making glass straws.
“It was a mother and father, the daughter and her husband, and the son and his wife,” Caissie recalled. “They all made straws, and they’re going to have a ‘competition’ this Christmas to see whose came out worst.”
Caissie will continue to share her passion for glass, over the December holidays and throughout the year. She loves to see the reaction of her students when they finish a piece. “It’s like an adrenaline high,” she said, “like runners when they finish a marathon. It’s the best feeling ever, to get glass to do what you want.”
For more information or a list of holiday-themed workshops, visit terrapinglass.com.
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Guests can get a great view of Glove Hollow Farm in Plymouth at the top of the viewing tower.
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On your afternoon of Christmas tree picking, you can visit these friendly goats at Glove Hollow Farm.
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THE HOLIDAYS ARE HERE, which means a trip to a Christmas tree farm for many people, a tradition with special meaning for Mike Ahern, fourth-generation owner of Glove Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Plymouth.
“We want to make that experience more and more fun — and to provide a nice tree, too — but we are really selling the experience,” he said. “We want people to come here and feel like they are family and belong here.”
“Here” is an expansive place, as the farm is 435 acres with approximately 75,000 trees of varying sizes. Glove Hollow grows Fraser fir and balsam fir, with the former known for extended needle retention and the latter for fragrance.
“We have plenty of trees for cut-your-own, but there may not be many over 7-and-a-half feet,” said Ahern. “There may not be many tall ones, but we have a huge supply this year.”
The farm also sells pre-cut trees of all different sizes, although there are limitations due to a drought in 2016 where Ahern said about 65% or more of all trees did not survive. A glut in supply in 2011, 2012, and 2014 where supply substantially exceeded demand led to less trees planted, which also impacts the size of available trees this year.
“Then COVID happened, and more people wanted to cut their own trees,” explained Ahern. “With this huge demand, anything extra was cut, which included trees that were smaller than expected. Now, farms are seeing fewer trees and smaller trees, so there is less supply.”
According to Ahern, though, Glove Hollow Christmas Tree Farm is fortunate in that it has “amazing soils.”
“Like the Nile River, our Pemigewasset River floods and makes it a great spot and allows us to grow trees rotation after rotation after rotation,” he said.
This ability to grow so many trees, he noted, is not usual with Christmas tree farms.
“Some farmers have a hard time growing a tree after four rotations,” Ahern said. “With us, it is just as easy. All of our acres of our farm are in one spot, too, which makes for efficient cutting and maintenance of the farm … I couldn’t ask for a better spot to grow Christmas trees.”
In addition to selling trees, Glove Hollow Christmas Tree Farm features a retail store where Ahern said they always have “something fresh and new that people haven’t seen before.” They also offer hayrides where people may be dropped off to either cut their own trees or take in expansive views of the property from their 20-foot-high viewing tower.
“We have a tree house, 60-foot farm slide that everyone loves, and we also have small Nigerian goats without horns who are very friendly that people love to visit,” said Ahern.
The farm also has a stagecoach station next to the tower to get in from wind and rain.
“There is a tunnel between the tower and station that people love to go like ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ we say,” he added.
As for why people should make the trip to Glove Hollow Christmas Tree Farm, Ahern cited Plymouth, especially its downtown, as a destination.
“This is such a great community with local artisan shops and restaurants,” he said. “To see the beauty of the river and the fields combined with the beauty of the town is wonderful, and the town has always been very supportive of us … It is such a unique spot, and our farm is so easy to get to off of the Interstate.”
After Thanksgiving, Glove Hollow Farm is open Monday — Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m.; Friday from 1 to 8 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“We have self-serve hours, too,” said Ahern. “Anyone can come at any hour of day or evening and pick out a pre-cut tree or go down and cut their own tree and leave the amount in cash or check in the lock box. We are kind of always open.”
To learn more about the farm and its history, visit glovehollow.com.
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The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles is sending mailings to the 46,000 residents who still don't have a Real ID.
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By Luz Lazo The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Motor vehicle agencies across the country are stepping up messaging to residents in hopes they will get their Real ID before May, when full implementation of a federal law is set to take effect at U.S. airports.
Beginning May 3, the only driver's licenses or state-issued ID that will be accepted for boarding commercial flights will be those that meet the federal Real ID requirements. That date - barring another extension - would mark the end of a 14-year delay but could prompt confusion among noncompliant air travelers, who would be turned away from boarding domestic aircraft.
The law, which is intended to prevent identity fraud, sets minimum standards for state-issued driver's licenses and IDs. Applicants are required to provide proof of identity and legal U.S. residency to obtain the new ID. Enforcement at federal buildings and military bases began in 2014.
DMVs across the country are allowing residents to renew licenses and IDs as early as a year before they expire. Others are launching campaigns alerting residents of the May deadline - sending electronic and paper messages to those whose licenses or IDs aren't compliant - while partnering with airports and the Transportation Security Administration to increase signage.
Some travel groups worry that the Real ID compliance rate is too low and that, come May 3, hundreds of thousands of Americans who use their state-issued ID could be turned away from airport checkpoints. The TSA accepts other forms of identification, such as a U.S. passport or military ID, but none are as ubiquitous as a standard driver's license.
"We really do want Real ID to succeed, but 50 percent uptake is really not a success. It's a recipe for disaster," said Tori Emerson Barnes, the travel association's executive vice president for policy. "They are going to really have to look hard at further delay if they don't improve the numbers over the next few months. We just simply can't have 50 percent of the population showing up at the airport and being turned away."
While compliance nationwide hovers near half, Maryland and the District have made more progress in recent years. In Maryland, 89 percent of licensed drivers and ID cardholders are Real ID-compliant. In the nation's capital, 93 percent of residents with a driver's license or identification have a Real ID.
"For folks who are not yet compliant, we want to continue to reach out to them and make sure that they are aware, especially if they plan on traveling," she said. "We have a wide availability of appointments. There's really no difficulty in getting it taken care of."
In Virginia, the DMV has issued Real IDs on a voluntary basis since fall 2018 while allowing residents to continue obtaining a standard credential with a "Federal Limits Apply" note in the right corner, instead of the Real ID star.
"We expect our offices will be busy in April and May with last-minute Real ID customers," Cowardin said.
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By Louisa Loveluck The Washington Post
BAGHDAD - A U.S.-supported Syrian enclave braced for attacks by Turkish forces as its leading commander called on Washington to do more to oppose the threatened ground invasion.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's forces launched air, drone and artillery strikes on northeast Syrian towns and cities for a fourth day Wednesday. Some 18 civilians have been killed in the attacks, according to the U.S.-backed force in the area, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces.
The rising tide of violence has sent ripples of fear through a region that is no stranger to threats from its neighbor. The Turkish government has fought Kurdish militants at home for decades, and it views the largely Kurdish dominated SDF as a threat to its national security. Turkish forces last invaded the enclave in 2019, after what Erdogan's administration appeared to view as a greenlight from then-President Donald Trump.
"Those who condemn the attack in Istanbul with crocodile tears have revealed their real faces with their reactions to the operation that we began immediately after," Erdogan said in a speech to members of his party gathered in Ankara. "We have the right to take care of ourselves."
A U.S.-led military coalition joined the fight against Islamic State forces in 2014 after the militants seized a vast swath of land there. Three and a half years after the group's official defeat, hundreds of American troops are still stationed in territory that lies outside Syrian government control.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Gen. Mazloum Kobane Abdi, the SDF's top commander and Washington's strongest ally in Syria, urged Western allies to stand against any further military action, arguing that international pressure could make the difference between a ground operation taking place.
"It's not news to anyone that Erdogan has been threatening the ground operation for months, but he could launch this operation now," said Mazloum, who goes by his nom de guerre. "This war, if it happens, won't benefit anybody. It will affect many lives, there will be massive waves of displacement, and a humanitarian crisis."
"It's been so cold," said 32-year-old Nesrin Salim, as she hung her children's clothes on a washing line. "My only concern is my kids. I can't think of anything else, I don't want them to hear those explosions."
In a short statement, the Biden administration urged de-escalation, but did not condemn the violence. "The United States expresses its sincere condolences for the loss of civilian life in Syria and Turkey," the State Department said.
As Turkish attacks continue, there have also been salvos fired from Syria into Turkey. A child and a teacher were killed and six people were hurt on Monday when mortars hit a border area in Turkey's Gaziantep province.
Mazloum denied that the SDF were responsible for the attacks, saying that the force sought only to de-escalate the situation. But in other public media, the SDF has vowed revenge. "They have killed many of our people, and we will retaliate," spokesman Farhad Shami tweeted Monday.
On Wednesday, Shami reposted a tweet from Biden in 2019, accusing Trump of abandoning the U.S.-backed force. "Today under your presidency, the same is happening," Shami wrote. "Our people and our forces have the right to know your stance regarding the Turkish aggression against our people."
The Washington Post's Mustafa al-Ali in Kobane, Syria, contributed to this report.
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Former Manchester Mayor Raymond Wieczorek dies at 93
Former Manchester Mayor Raymond Wieczorek, 93, has died, according to an announcement from the mayor’s office.
“I am saddened to hear of the passing of former Mayor Raymond Wieczorek,” Mayor Joyce Craig said Wednesday.
“Mayor Wieczorek cared deeply about this city, and many of our beloved institutions, like the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport and the SNHU Arena, were made possible by his hard work,” Craig said. “My thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.”
Wieczorek, who was mayor in the 1990s, also served as a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council.
“His passion and dedication to the city of Manchester and people of New Hampshire created a legacy of positive results and an economic revolution,” Gatsas said in a statement. “Ray was a friend, mentor, and someone I and so many could look up to. This is a sad day for our community and I extend my condolences to the Wieczorek family.”
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Suspect arrested after two shooting deaths in rural Hillsborough County
A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two people in rural Hillsborough County, according to police broadcasts.
The man was arrested in Nashua after massive police searches around the Milford area Wednesday morning.
In a brief statement earlier Wednesday, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said homicide prosecutors were responding to Lyndeborough in connection to two suspicious deaths "in the area."
Another person was shot about 6:30 a.m. in Brookline, which is located about 30 minutes from Lyndeborough, and police were seen rushing through the area and undertaking searches in Greenfield and Wilton.
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One man is dead and another injured from shootings, which took place in Brookline and Lyndeborough Wednesday morning.
The gunman led police on a chase through multiple towns including Lyndeborough, Brookline, Greenfield, Milford, Wilton, before being arrested in Nashua, according to a news release from the Attorney General’s Office. Police took the man into custody around 12:15 p.m.
The shooting death occurred at a residence in Lyndeborough. Authorities are also investigating what “they believe is a related non-fatal shooting incident” to another man that occurred in Brookline.
An earlier press release had said authorities were investigating two suspicious deaths.
The person in Brookline was shot around 6:30 a.m. Brookline is located about 30 minutes from Lyndeborough, and police were seen rushing through the area and undertaking searches in Greenfield and Wilton.
Police said the shooting involved people in separate vehicles and appears to be domestic related. The suspected shooter tried to run the victim’s car off the road.
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Shoppers wait outside the Macy’s flagship store in New York in 2019.
Shoppers helped companies such as Macy’s Inc. avoid the worst-case scenario in the third quarter, loading up credit cards to absorb higher prices for food and household items while taking advantage of steep discounts for overstocked TVs and furniture. And while results from retailers including Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and Best Buy Co. exceeded forecasts, sales were still down — the contraction just wasn’t as bad as expected.
Add it all up and the U.S. economy is looking at the bleakest holiday outlook in recent memory, with sales that will struggle to top the record-setting levels of the past few years. Apparel companies across the board are conservative about expectations for the fourth quarter, citing an uncertain environment and declining sales activity in late October and early November.
Bloomberg’s Martine Paris contributed to this report.
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MANCHESTER – Former Mayor Raymond Wieczorek, who jump-started the Millyard and downtown during the 1990s and pushed to build what is now the SNHU Arena, has passed away.
During his 10-year mayoral reign starting in 1990, Wieczorek, 93, presided over a city where federal regulators shuttered several failing banks, downtown storefronts stood vacant, and city leaders made difficult decisions over the city’s troubled finances.
“There’s no question in my mind that the city would not have been as well positioned today without Ray Wieczorek being mayor during that 10-year time period,” said Bob Baines, who narrowly defeated Wieczorek in late 1999.
“He was a steady, steady forceful hand during these very turbulent times,” Baines said.
Wieczorek later served on the Executive Council for about a decade before not seeking another term in 2012.
At a retirement party for Wieczorek a decade ago, former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., called Wieczorek “the father of modern Manchester as we see it today."
Wieczorek shared the credit.
"If you live as long as I have, you can get a few things done," Wieczorek said then. "But here’s the big thing: You can never get anything done by yourself. I don’t care what I get credit for. I never did it by myself."
His major accomplishments included a new airport terminal in 1994 as well as the downtown arena in 2001.
In 2011, state and federal officials celebrated the opening of Raymond Wieczorek Drive, a new road connecting the F.E. Everett Turnpike to the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport across the river. The road opened up access to vacant land that today houses major companies and hundreds of workers.
Wieczorek “had a big vision for the city of Manchester and for the region,” then-state Sen. David Boutin, R-Hooksett, said at the dedication. That vision led to revitalizing the Millyard, the arena and a “rejuvenated downtown where we actually have people walking the streets at night,” Boutin said.
Wieczorek, a Republican, wasn’t bashful about getting things done with help from Democratic aldermen.
“He was willing to work with everybody,” said Wihby, who considered Wieczorek a father. “The old days we would do that. It just seems like it’s lost now.”
Wihby last saw Wieczorek about a week before his death.
“He remembered dates and amounts (of money for projects) from 20 years ago,” Wihby said. “To the end, he had his sense of humor and personality.”
During his time as mayor, Wieczorek also was instrumental in getting money to develop the SEE Science Center in the Millyard.
He later ran unsuccessfully for Congress.
“His passion and dedication to the city of Manchester and people of New Hampshire created a legacy of positive results and an economic revolution,” Gatsas said in a statement. “Ray was a friend, mentor, and someone I and so many could look up to.”
Gov. Chris Sununu said “Ray Wieczorek served with a smile.
“As mayor of Manchester and as an Executive Councilor, Ray took the time to listen and connect with his constituents one on one,” Sununu said. “He leaves behind a legacy that will inspire many for decades to come.”
“Mayor Wieczorek cared deeply about this city, and many of our beloved institutions, like the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport and the SNHU Arena, were made possible by his hard work,” said Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig.
Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said “Ray always had the biggest smile and an eagerness to work together to address New Hampshire’s challenges. He was truly one of the Granite State’s finest citizens and he will be missed.”
Former Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, who also served in Congress, called Wieczorek a mentor and friend and “someone I could count on for advice and counsel when making important decisions impacting the people I served.”
Information on services wasn't immediately available.
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Three of the KC-46A refueling tankers stationed at Pease Air National Guard Base in New Hampshire.
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The Spirit of Portsmouth, a KC-46A assigned to the 157th Air Refueling Wing, sits in the evening sunlight on the ramp at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on June 30, 2022. The plane was in Alaska to receive its patriotic new paint job at the 176th Wing’s 36,000 square-foot paint booth, one of the largest in the Department of Defense.
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Master Sgt. Timothy Dupuis and Tech. Sgt. Sean Avery load seat pallets onto a KC-46A at Pease Air National Guard Base in Newington in this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, file photo.
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A U.S. Air Force air-to-air refueler has set a flight record with a 36-hour nonstop endurance mission covering 16,000 miles, the service said in a statement.
The flight, which involved a KC-46A Pegasus from the 157th Air Refueling Wing out of New Hampshire, is now the Air Mobility Command's longest mission to date, the Air Force said.
"This extended mission is yet another example of capable Airmen taking charge and moving out to accelerate our employment of the KC-46A," Gen. Mike Minihan, AMC commander, said in a Friday statement.
The flight occurred over a two-day span from Nov. 16-17.
Minihan described the effort as meeting an "imperative to think differently" as the Air Force aims to provide more options to the broader joint force.
The KC-46A plays a key role in extending the reach of American warplanes. The plane itself can be refueled in flight while delivering fuel to most other aircraft. Notably, unresolved problems mean the KC-46A remains unable to refuel the A-10 attack plane.
The KC-46A Pegasus has dealt with a range of technical difficulties and setbacks over the years, which has complicated Air Force plans to have the aircraft replace the aging KC-135 Stratotanker.
Still, the aircraft has been gradually playing a larger role. In September, Minihan approved the KC-46A for worldwide deployments.
"We are ready to use this aircraft globally in any fight, without hesitation," Minihan said at the time.
During this month's endurance mission, the aircraft refueled F-22 fighters in the Pacific and was itself refueled three times, the Air Force said. The crew took off from Pease Air National Guard Base, flying over North America and into the Pacific, going two-thirds of the way around the globe and back, the Air Force said.
Air Force officials said the mission built on previous 22- and 24-hour missions.
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Police blocked off a portion of Center Road in Lyndeborough as investigators stood outside a barn on the property Wednesday as they investigated the shooting of a man on the property.
By Paul Feely, Mark Hayward and Jonathan Phelps Union Leader Staff
A city man has been arrested and charged in one of two shootings that occurred in Lyndeborough and Brookline on Wednesday.
Robert Gagnon, 45, of Manchester, was charged with one count of attempted murder after officials allege he shot a man in Brookline.
Gagnon was taken in custody on Auburn Street in Nashua Wednesday afternoon, the Attorney General’s Office said in a release.
Around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police responded to the area of Route 13 and Townsend Hill Road in Brookline for a report of a shooting.
Upon arrival officers found a man identified as Carlos Quintong, 44, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Quintong was transported to a local hospital where he is receiving medical treatment.
An initial statement from the attorney general's office indicating that Quintong had been killed was incorrect.
Gagnon will be arraigned in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, officials said. No date has been set for his arraignment.
The Attorney General’s Office is continuing to investigate a second shooting that occurred early Wednesday, this one in Lyndeborough.
Around 9:21 a.m. Wednesday, police responded to 774 Center Road in Lyndeborough. Upon arrival they found the body of a deceased man inside the home, identified asRobert Prest, 83.
The Attorney General’s Office said the investigation into Prest’s death is ongoing. An autopsy is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday. No further information is expected until after the autopsy is completed.
No arrests have been made in connection with Prest’s death, but police said Wednesday they believe the two shootings are related.
“All parties involved in these incidents appear to have been identified and there is no known threat to the public at this time,” the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
On Wednesday, police blocked off a portion of Center Road in Lyndeborough as investigators stood outside a barn on the property. Police tape surrounded the house, barn and a Buick parked on the property.
Brookline is located about 30 minutes from Lyndeborough, and police were seen rushing through the area and undertaking searches in Greenfield and Wilton.
According to Brookline police, a man was shot in the chest just before 6:30 a.m. on Townsend Police said the shooting involved people in separate vehicles and appears to be domestic related. The suspected shooter tried to run the victim’s car off the road.
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DANIEL WHITMORE
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A man arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a Manchester native along a popular walking trail has been indicted on multiple charges in connection with the crime, prosecutors said this week.
Raymond L. Moore, 40, of no known address, has been indicted and charged with one count of second-degree murder for knowingly causing the death of Daniel Whitmore, 75, of Manchester by stabbing him with a knife on Sept. 2, and one alternative count of second-degree murder for recklessly causing Whitmore’s death under circumstances “manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life” by stabbing him with a knife, Attorney General John Formella said in a release.
Moore was also indicted on a separate count for “knowingly having in his possession or under his control a knife, a deadly weapon, after having been previously convicted of a felony against the person or property of another.” These crimes are alleged to have been committed while Moore was out on bail, prosecutors said.
Moore, previously of Forest, Mississippi, is currently being held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned on these indictments in Hillsborough County Superior Court – Northern District on December 15.
Manchester police responded around 10:32 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 2, to a walking trail at the western edge of Nutt’s Pond, accessed through Precourt Park, after receiving a 911 call for a man who had been stabbed.
An autopsy determined Whitmore died from “multiple stab and incise wounds,” according to a release. His death was ruled a homicide.
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Paralympian Noelle Lambert of Manchester, a competitor on Season 43 of “Survivor,” talks with a reporter at Next Step Bionics & Prosthetics in Manchester on Monday.
Paralympian Noelle Lambert, who is on the television show “Survivor” at Next Step Bionics & Prosthetics, Inc., in Manchester on Sept. 26, 2022.
Noelle Lambert of Manchester in a scene from “Survivor.” How to maintain her prosthetic leg posed unique challenges for Lambert as she prepared for the competition in Fiji.
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Noelle Lambert of Manchester is a competitor on Season 43 of “Survivor.” Lambert lost her left leg in a moped accident in 2016.
A New Hampshire woman’s quest to win the reality TV game show “Survivor” has come to an end.
Noelle Lambert, a Paralympian and the first above-the-knee amputee to compete in the popular CBS show, was voted off in an episode broadcast Wednesday night.
Raised in Londonderry and now living in Manchester, Lambert finished in the top 8 out of 18 contestants competing on the 43rd season of the show, filmed in Fiji.
"I'm absolutely satisfied with what I've been able to do and accomplish, especially physically," Lambert, 25, said at the end of this week’s episode. “I came into this game wanting to play the hardest and that's what got me voted off, but I did a good job. To be the first above the knee amputee to ever play the game of 'Survivor,' hopefully I can pave the way for a new generation of people to start applying.”
Lambert will appear in remaining episodes this season as a member of the jury of ousted contestants, who ultimately choose this season’s winner.
Lambert, who lost her left leg above her knee in a moped accident in 2016, was competing in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo the summer of 2021 - where she set an American record for the 100 meter - when a casting agent with Survivor sent her a direct message on social media asking if she would be interested in appearing on the show.
“My mom is the biggest, diehard Survivor fan there is,” said Lambert. “She got me into watching it from a really young age.”
She worked closely with Jason Lalla, a certified prosthetist at Next Step Bionics and Prosthetics in Manchester’s Millyard to help prepare her for what she might face in Fiji.
Lambert was voted off by her fellow contestants following an inspiring performance to win this week’s reward challenge.
Competing for the right to spend a night at the show’s ‘sanctuary’ and indulge in food like pizza, brownies, and beer, Lambert and others had to spin inside a metal frame to slowly pull a buoy attached to a rope towards them. Once the buoy crossed a line, contestants moved through several obstacles to try and become the first to collect a sandbag from a long beam, then work their way along the narrow beam before tossing the sandbag and landing it on top of a tall tower.
Lambert struggled while trying to collect the sandbag and navigating her way along the beam, finishing that portion well behind the other contestants. As the rest struggled with their throws, Lambert landed her sandbag on the tower first , winning the reward before dropping to her knees, clearly overcome with emotion.
"I was really doubting myself but I didn't want to give up because I came out here wanting to prove to myself and to everybody else that I can do these challenges, and I did it,” Lambert told the audience during the show.
After receiving a running blade that still allowed her to play lacrosse — she was on the lacrosse team at the University of Massachusetts Lowell when the accident happened — Lambert wanted to pay things forward through her own organization, The Born to Run Foundation.
Because many insurance policies will not cover athletic prosthetics, Born to Run eases the financial burden for young amputees, in addition to building a community of peer support.
Since December 2019, the foundation has donated 21 specialized prostheses, leveling the playing field for amputees to pursue their athletic dreams and achieve lifetime goals.
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One person died and five others injured in a rollover crash that closed the Portsmouth traffic circle for approximately 5 hours early Thanksgiving Day, state police said.
Pending notification to next of kin and further investigation, state police said no further information regarding the identity of the remaining occupants of the Porsche will be released.
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A Barrington woman was killed and five others injured in a rollover crash that closed the Portsmouth traffic circle for approximately 5 hours early Thanksgiving Day, state police said.
State police identified the deceased as Drew Ceppetelli, 21, of Barrington. State police said no further information regarding the identity of the remaining occupants of the Porsche will be released.
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Elizabeth Grubbs spoons carrots into a take-out food container held by Dale Packard on Thursday during the Hazel Duke Thanksgiving Dinner at the Laconia Congregational Church.
LACONIA -- We all have at least one favorite thing in a Thanksgiving Day dinner; Joseph Bixby has two.
“Probably mashed potatoes and gravy,” said Bixby, before qualifying that “I like the gravy …on everything.”
Bixby was born in Laconia and is once again a resident of the City on the Lakes after moving south as a child and graduating from high school in Savannah, Georgia.
He moved back to the Lakes Region more than two decades ago, first to Center Harbor, where he and his then wife started a family.
Thanksgiving Day 2022 found Bixby living alone, not far from the Laconia Congregational Church, and standing in a line with dozens of other people behind the church, waiting for a free holiday meal prepared and provided by volunteers and inspired by the late Hazel Duke.
A longtime teacher in Laconia public schools, Duke was a congregant of Laconia Congregational Church who believed that no one should be alone on Thanksgiving. In her will, Duke left money for the Thanksgiving Day meal that for the last 55 years has borne her name.
The Hazel Duke Dinner has traditionally been held in the basement of Laconia Congregational Church, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, the event became carry-out only in 2020 and 2021 and again this year, which is the first time Bixby has attended.
“A friend told me about it,” explained Bixby, who is on Social Security, and in his description, is “just kind of between stuff right now.”
Growing up, Thanksgivings were always meaningful to him, and later to his own family, said Bixby, who conceded that he would “probably not” have a turkey dinner with all the fixings and dessert unless he came to the Hazel Duke Dinner.
“I really don’t have anywhere else to go today,” he said, but to the church.
Upon receiving a container of food, Bixby thanked volunteer Bob Nerbonne, who in turn thanked him for coming.
“We’re glad you’re here,” said Nerbonne.
Hollis Thompson, who has overseen the last four Hazel Duke Dinners, was grateful that the weather was improved from a year ago.
Last year, when the dinner provided 120 meals, “It was rainy and cold,” she said, whereas on Thursday, when 150 dinners were provided, it was cold “but at least it’s not raining.”
The food is served until there is no more, Hollis said, and the recipients can ask for as many meals as they want.
“It’s like everything, on the honor system,” she said, adding that some people are picking up meals for themselves as well as family members or friends who might not be able to do so. There are many reasons why people come to the Hazel Duke Dinner, but only one reason for making it happen, said Thompson, quoting Jesus’ admonition to “feed the hungry.”
“This is something we need to do as Christians and the community,” she said.
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A member of the NYPD keeps watch from a rooftop during the 96th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday.
The country marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence.
The official holiday dates to the Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day to give thanks and seek healing. Schoolchildren learn to trace the holiday to Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and celebrated the autumn harvest with the Wampanoag peoples. Among Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection on the genocide that followed.
Americans were mourning this year in the wake of a pair of deadly shootings. On Saturday, an attacker opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people. On Tuesday, a Walmart employee gunned down six coworkers and turned the gun on himself in Chesapeake, Virginia. (See related story at left.)
While visiting a firehouse on Nantucket Island, Mass., to thank first responders on Thanksgiving, Biden told reporters he would attempt to pass some form of gun control before a new Congress is seated in January, possibly renewing his attempt to ban assault weapons.
Football serves as the backdrop to turkey dinners with mounds of side dishes and desserts. The National Football League was staging three games Thursday.
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Sean O’Donnell sits on the rooftop, where a viewing space called a belvedere was removed years ago. He hopes to build a new one.
The Knight Park House in Collingswood, New Jersey, in 2016. The siding has been removed, and Sean O’Donnell, the latest live-in caretaker and restorer of the 134-year-old house, has painted the original cedar clapboards on three sides. He also hopes to restore the wraparound porch and the rooftop belvedere.
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A 2014 graduate of Williamson College of the Trades in Media, Pennsylvania, where he majored in horticulture, O’Donnell is the third resident caretaker and restorer of the park house since 2010, when the Proud Neighbors of Collingswood organization began funding restoration. The park itself was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The Knight Park Board of Trustees estimates that contracting out the restoration could have cost as much as $250,000 and that the live-in caretaker/restorer approach could end up costing as little as the $30,000, all of it provided through donations and fundraising.
“Each (caretaker-restorer) has done what they can, bit by bit, removing carpeting, removing coats of paint, and bringing the house back to the original wood. It’s exhausting work,” said Leonard.
“We had a committee of volunteer architects and experts look over the house and give us some preliminary advice and spoke to carpenters and contractors as well,” Leonard said. “We chose what (projects) could be done within the expertise of a caretaker, and Proud Neighbors donated the seed money.”
The house still has the original cedar clapboarding that was covered by siding for decades, said O’Donnell, scaling a ladder against the western side of the house on a chilly October afternoon. “Holes had been drilled in (some of the clapboards) when insulation was installed, and I had to fill them all in.
“Right now I’m putting the final coat on the trim. It’s a lot of work. Hours and hours of stripping, scraping, priming, but I wanted to get this stuff done before the winter starts. I’ll do the (south) side of the house in the spring.”
Residing in the park “is amazing,” he said.
“It’s quite a place to wake up in and look out the window at the trees. And it’s quiet.”
“I have had the privilege of watching Sean work passionately to bring life back to this historic home for nearly two years,” Eileen, a special-education teacher in Haddon Township, said in an email.
“It amazes and inspires me to see the dedication he has to his work restoring and preserving the character of this home.”
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U.S. Sen Jeanne Shaheen shares a laugh Tuesday with Karen Bassett of Wayfarer Coffee Roasters and her daughter, Josie.
U.S. Sen Jeanne Shaheen speaks Tuesday with Sam Read and Angela Stewart at NH Vintage Vinyl.
LACONIA — If you’re looking for a great cup of coffee, and/or a classic vinyl record from a late 20th century rock and roll band, the chances are that you’ll find both, here, on Main Street in the City on the Lakes.
Ahead of Small Business Saturday — which is an international marketing initiative begun by American Express in 2010 to encourage shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, according to Wikipedia — a group of elected and appointed officials, including U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Mike Vlacich, the regional administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, toured several businesses on Tuesday in Laconia’s downtown.
Ninety-five percent of businesses in the Granite State, said Vlacich, are considered “small” in that by the SBA definition, they have 500 or fewer employees.
Small Business Saturday promotes shopping, he said, as well as dining and going to a show, perchance, at Laconia’s renovated Colonial Theatre.
“The facts are clear that last year, there was $26 billion worth of sales nationally on Small Business Saturday,” said Vlacich, adding that studies have shown that 70% of consumers who shop at a business on Small Business Saurday will return to it at other times of the year.
Karen Bassett, who with her husband, Reuben, owns or co-owns five businesses in the downtown, including Wayfarer Coffee Roasters, said Small Business Saturday is important, but in other ways, just another day.
“We try to promote local producers year-round,” said Bassett, “So that’s not changing for the holidays” and Small Business Saturday.
“We’re a meeting place for the community,” she said, and have been since the original Wayfarer, which now has a satellite location in Lakeport, opened.
“We love Laconia. We think it has the bones to support a really thriving community,” she said.
In May, Wayfarer hosted the inaugural New England Coffee Festival and it was a huge hit, said Bassett.
“We had 5,000 attendees and 50 vendors,” she said, as well as coffee-industry representatives.
“The business community in Laconia is very supportive, definitely community over competition,” Bassett said.
Karmen Gifford, the executive director of the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce, said Laconia has seen an influx of entrepreneurs, like the Bassetts, come into the downtown in recent years, and with them, “We’re starting to see younger people.”
The Chamber of Commerce currently has 510 members, she said, about a third of which are tourism-related, while the rest are service oriented.
At NH Vintage Vinyl, Sam Read and Angela Stewart informed Shaheen and Vlacich about how everything old — such as analog stereo equipment and vinyl records — is new again.
NH Vintage Vinyl opened on July 1 of this year, said Read, and business has been “very good, very good.”
A native of nearby Gilford, Read said “Laconia is coming back, and it’s awesome.” Also awesome, he said, is the fact that new pressings of old albums are “selling like hotcakes.”
Charlie St. Clair, who owns the Laconia Antique Center, observed that “every day is small business day and every day is important to small businesses” because “every dollar is hard earned.”
The reopening of the Colonial Theatre in July 2021 “is a godsend” to downtown Laconia, he said, and has brought new businesses into the area.
On Small Business Saturday, the Laconia Antique Center “will provide the excellent service and retail experience that we do all year long,” said St. Clair, who is the executive director of Laconia Motorcycle Week and who recently, after a hiatus, was reelected to the N.H. House of Representatives.
A Democrat like Shaheen, St. Clair said he was nonetheless “always thrilled to see” elected officials of either stripe “take the trouble to visit with businesspeople in the City of Laconia.”
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Bedford vs. Londonderry (1 p.m.)
Ten of the last 11 Division I championship games were decided by at least 10 points, but it’s hard to picture either of these teams winning by more than a touchdown. Both teams play fast on defense and have offenses that are anything but one-dimensional. It’s an even matchup that could come down to a big play on special teams, and no team is better in the kicking game than the Lancers. Londonderry 14, Bedford 13.
— Roger Brown
CERTAINLY a case can be made that this year’s NHIAA Division I championship game features the state’s top offense (Londonderry) and the state’…
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Londonderry quarterback Drew Heenan, shown in the Lancers' semifinal win over Pinkerton Academy, is a threat to run or pass.
Bedford’s Dylan Soden is shown stopping Windham’s Bryan Desmarais in the Bulldogs' first-round playoff win.
CERTAINLY a case can be made that this year’s NHIAA Division I championship game features the state’s top offense (Londonderry) and the state’s top defense (Bedford). Although each team is strong on both sides of the ball, the Londonderry offense against the Bedford defense will be the sexy matchup Saturday when the teams meet at Exeter High School (1 p.m.).
Bedford (9-3) has surrendered 77 points in its 12 games this season. The 10th-seeded Bulldogs have seven shutouts in those 12 games and haven’t allowed a point in their three playoff games.
Defensive ends Cal McAuliffe and Kevin Sheridan, and middle linebacker Parker Bromley are among the standouts on the Bedford defense.
“When you get to this point in the season you’re playing the best of the best, and that’s definitely an intriguing matchup,” Londonderry coach Jimmy Lauzon said. “We have to figure out ways to get the ball moving consistently. They play a lot of games defensively, and we try to discover what teams are trying to do and counter that. It’s a lot of cat and mouse.
“I’d say the biggest challenge is trying to figure out how to score some points on these guys. Seven out of their 12 games have been shutouts. They’ve done a really good job on defense. They’re fast and aggressive on every level, and very athletic on the back end. Just a really good team.”
Londonderry’s offense includes many of the same pieces that helped the Lancers win last year’s Division I championship. That group includes quarterback Drew Heenan and wide receiver Andrew Kullman.
Heenan is a run/pass threat who has completed 69 of 125 pass attempts for 1,374 yards and 17 touchdowns this year. He’s been intercepted three times. Heenan has also run for 408 yards and five touchdowns on 108 carries.
Kullman has 24 receptions for 667 yards and six TDs.
The top-seeded Lancers (10-1) scored at least 30 points against every in-state opponent they faced during the regular season.
“Obviously we’ve put together some solid performances and I think our kids are playing really well on the defensive side of the ball,” Bedford coach Zach Matthews said. “I assume they’re going to use Heenan quite a bit. What becomes difficult is not only defending the pass, but the quarterback run. Anytime the quarterback is a good runner, it’s a situation where the offense has a plus-one.
“For us it’s going to be managing those quarterback runs and making sure we’re being accountable for him. Drew Heenan has been there before. He’s an experienced starter. He’s a very good runner — very physical, very durable. He’s an extension of the coaching staff for them.”
As good as these units have been, both have shown weaknesses. Merrimack put 24 points on the scoreboard when it defeated Bedford 24-21 on the regular season’s final weekend, and Londonderry has been limited to 21 points in each of its two playoff games despite scoring a TD on special teams in each game.
“Big plays would be nice — and eliminate their big plays,” Lauzon said. “That’s something they’ve been able to do, and I think we have to make them earn their way down the field. Last year we won the championship on a handful of big plays. With the weather being good, I think we’ll both have our chances.”
Londonderry will be trying to win its third Division I championship in the last four years (2019 and 2021). The Lancers also won the Division I title in 1996 and 1998.
Bedford is seeking its third title since moving to Division I. The Bulldogs earned Division I championships in 2016 and 2018.
“It’s team speed,” Matthews said when he was asked what stands out about Londonderry. “They have athletes all over the place. They fly around, offensively and defensively, and so the team speed is what jumps out at you first and foremost. They play fast, they play physical. There’s not much hesitation on offense or defense.
“We’re expecting a really good football game and we’re preparing to be in a four-quarter battle.”
Neither Londonderry nor Bedford shied away from tough competition this season.
Bedford played third-seeded Exeter and fifth-seeded Bishop Guertin in its non-conference games, and filled its bye week by playing at Thornton Academy (Saco, Maine), which lost in Maine’s Class A championship game this year. The Bulldogs went 2-1 in those games.
Matthews said he wanted to put his team in the best position to win postseason games.
“I wasn’t really concerned with the regular-season record,” he said. “Especially with 13 teams getting into the playoffs. We pushed ourselves in the regular season. We played in some tough games.
“The whole idea for us was to develop this group of kids and be ready to play our best football at the end of the road. We’re definitely one of those teams that believes that competing against the best opponents is going to put you in a really good position to win games at the end of the year. It certainly played out that way for us, and I know Londonderry is the same.”
Londonderry’s only loss this season came in Week 2, when it traveled to Warwick, Rhode Island, to face Bishop Hendricken, which was Rhode Island’s Division I runner-up (to La Salle Academy) this season. Bishop Hendricken beat Londonderry 40-20. Like Bedford, Londonderry also faced Bishop Guertin during the regular season.
“I think Bishop Hendricken did wonders for us in terms of knowing we can hang athletically with any team out there, because that’s what they put on the field — tons of athletes,” Lauzon said. “That was good for us to see. Coaching-wise we were tested by a lot of teams in our conference.”
Londonderry and Bedford compete against each other in a 7-on-7 league during the summer, and Matthews said the ability to move the ball through the air may be the key for each team.
“When you get to this part of the season, especially with two solid defenses, I don’t see either one of these teams running through or running over the other team,” he said.
“There’s going to have to be some plays made in the passing game for both teams in order to come out victorious. I don’t think it’s one of those games where you can come out, line up and run, run, run, run and score touchdowns. I think both defenses are good, I think the athletes are good on both sides of the field. I think both teams are going to be well-prepared. I think the passing game is going to be a major factor for both teams.”
Bedford quarterback Danny Black has completed 100 of 178 passes for 1,579 yards and 15 touchdowns this season. He’s been intercepted nine times.
Colby Snow has been Bedford’s big-play receiver. He has 26 receptions for 512 yards and eight TDs, and has also carried the ball 68 times for 425 yards and three TDs.
Snow scored four touchdowns — two rushing and two receiving — in Bedford’s 32-0 triumph over Timberlane in the semifinals.
Saturday’s game will mark the 13th time the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Union Leader Power Poll have met in the Division I championship game since the poll began in 2008.
The only years the top two teams didn’t face each other were 2009 and 2010.
Teams that finished No. 1 in the Power Poll by year:
2008: Nashua South
2009: Bishop Guertin
2010: Pinkerton
2011: Exeter
2013: Concord
2015: Goffstown
2016: Bedford
2017: Winnacunnet
2019: Londonderry
2020: Nashua North
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To the Editor: I did not watch Donald Trump’s recent speech announcing his intention to run again for president. I have had enough of his grandstanding, his meanness, and the ever-present ego. And I have vowed that I will never again vote for him, as I have twice.
Then I read a newspaper report on what he said and I agree with almost everything he proposes. And that is my dilemma. Which brings me to the point of this letter:
Why is the great Republican Party of the great country of the United States incapable of finding a leader who does not embarrass and infuriate me? The Grand Old Party, which I have supported for my entire life, seems incapable of selecting a leader who unifies rather than divides us, who makes us proud to be his or her supporters, who inspires us to be better people rather than deaf would-be demigods. Why?
Has the party lost its soul to the ranting and raving elements? If so, we as a party are doomed. And so goes the nation.
LEE N. WILLIAMS
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Richard Gagnon:
WE. What a great word! Defined as “used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people considered together.” In fact, it is one of the best two-letter words in our language. It is non-discriminatory, non-racial, selfless and inclusive. It can refer to two, two hundred, two million. The entire population of the world can be represented by the word “WE”.
It is a word that needs context to fully understand what it represents. One cannot say “we can do this!” or “we are better than that” without understanding who WE is.
WE — all Americans, all of us, are guided by two wonderful declarations: “WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS...” and “WE, THE PEOPLE….”
The first one is the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Written in July of 1776, the ‘WE’ expressed here were men and their families who quickly became branded as traitors punishable by death. It was not “I”, or “You” or “They”, or “Them” or “Those people.” It was, WE hold these truths to be self-evident.
The second is the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Five objectives — a more perfect Union, establish Justice, domestic Tranquility, common defense, Blessings of Liberty — for who? We the People.
These 52 words, beginning with the inclusive WE, take us to the highest Law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution, and eventually the Bill of Rights.
The Founding Fathers, and later, the Framers of the Constitution knew in a prescient way that words meant something, and that the word WE, had strength and represented an inclusivity that, while not fully attainable in their lifetime, was to become the foundational stone for this great country.
WE struggle, and WE fall, but WE get right back up and WE push forward! WE acknowledge our failures and We endeavor not to repeat them. WE are a people — not White Americans, not Black Americans, not Hispanic Americans and not Asian Americans but AMERICANS! As defined many years ago, during times of great strife and tribulation and birthing pains, by a group of men dedicated to a new Nation.
WE, what a great word!
Richard Gagnon lives in Brentwood.
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The lawsuit was filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which lifts the statute of limitations for one year on civil claims for sexual offenses. The suit also includes a fresh claim for defamation, because Trump repeated his comments about Carroll in a social-media post last month.
"Roughly 27 years ago, playful banter at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in New York City took a dark turn when Defendant Donald J. Trump seized Plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, forced her up against a dressing room wall, pinned her in place with his shoulder, and raped her," her lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in the new complaint.
"While I respect and admire individuals that come forward, this case is unfortunately an abuse of the purpose of this Act which creates a terrible precedent and runs the risk of delegitimizing the credibility of actual victims," Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, said.
The lawsuit tees up Carroll's claim as one of the first tests of the Adult Survivors Act, which was passed by New York lawmakers in the wake of the "Me Too" movement. Kaplan said at a virtual court hearing on Nov. 21 that she wants to combine the battery suit with her current defamation case under the same judge for a proposed joint trial as soon as April.
At that hearing, Habba balked at joining the two cases and proposed moving the current defamation trial, currently set for February, to May to allow the District of Columbia's highest local court to weigh an ongoing related appeal.
Carroll made her rape claim in a 2019 New York magazine article that detailed how Trump allegedly sexually assaulted her after they ran into each other while shopping. She then sued Trump for defamation when he publicly accused her of fabricating the attack to sell a "crummy book" she'd written and otherwise maligned her character, according to Carroll.
Trump argued, with the support of the US Justice Department, that he couldn't be sued for comments he made while president. But the new battery lawsuit includes a fresh defamation claim based on comments Trump made on social media after leaving officer that were largely the same as those he made in 2019.
The alleged assault caused "significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological harms, loss of dignity, and invasion of her privacy," according to the complaint.
Trump delayed the defamation suit with numerous appeals and other legal maneuvers before being forced to sit for sworn testimony last month at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump's lawyer said he answered all questions and had been "ready and eager" to testify. Carroll was also deposed by Trump's lawyers.
In the new complaint, Carroll argues an Oct. 12 statement by Trump on social media, in which he repeated his allegedly defamatory remarks about her, was "consistent with other statements that Trump had made in response to other accusations of sexual assault by other women."
The post may also undermine Trump's current defense of the defamation claim -- that he is protected by a federal law that bars civil claims against employees of the federal government over allegations related to their job duties. That argument is already the subject of a drawn-out appeal that hasn't yet been resolved.
The federal appeals court in September agreed with Trump that he qualified as a government employee under the federal law, known as the Westfall Act, when he made the disputed comments. But a D.C. appellate court must still decide whether those comments qualified as an official duty. Arguments on that question are set for Jan. 10 in Washington.
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By Taylor Lorenz The Washington Post
After posting a Twitter poll asking, "Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?" in which 72.4 percent of the respondents voted yes, Musk declared, "Amnesty begins next week."
The mass return of users who had been banned for such offenses as violent threats, harassment and misinformation will have a significant impact on the platform, experts said. And many questioned how such a resurrection would be handled, given that it's unclear what Musk means by "egregious spam" and the difficulty of separating out users who have "broken the law," which vary widely by jurisdiction and country.
"Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the app store," said Alejandra Caraballo, clinical instructor at Harvard Law's cyberlaw clinic. "What Musk is doing is existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities. It's like opening the gates of hell in terms of the havoc it will cause. People who engaged in direct targeted harassment can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can't even begin to state how dangerous this will be."
This is the second time in a week that Musk has used a Twitter poll to seemingly make a major decision related to the platform. On Nov. 18, he restored former president Donald Trump's account after 52 percent of a poll's respondents said he should do so. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," Musk tweeted, Latin for "the voice of the people is the voice of God."
On that day, he also unilaterally reinstated at least 11 high-profile far-right Twitter accounts, including Jordan Peterson, a professor who was banned from Twitter for misgendering a trans person, and the Babylon Bee, a conservative media company. He also restored Project Veritas, a site that was frequently accused of misrepresenting events it commented on and banned "for repeated violations of Twitter's private information policy," and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account, which had been banned since January for violating the platform's covid-19 misinformation policies and pushing violent and extreme rhetoric.
Experts say that bots and bad actors can easily skew the results of a Twitter poll, and so basing decisions on one is irresponsible. "A Twitter poll can be manipulated, there's nothing scientific or rigorous in any way about what he's doing," said Sarah T. Roberts, an associate professor at UCLA and faculty director for UCLA's Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, who previously worked at Twitter researching content moderation processes.
Many predict the restoration of banned accounts will help bring on the "free-for-all hellscape" that Musk had promised advertisers would not come to pass shortly after he took possession of the platform.
Whether Musk can do what the Twitter poll seeks is a matter of debate. He has laid off leaders of the trust and safety team, which would normally handle the logistics of reactivating the accounts. And separating out those who "broke the law" is entirely dependent on whether Twitter has detailed documentation for each suspension. Without such a legal filter, which would be dependent on state and local laws for each tweet, every account would require a thorough review, given how laws vary widely by country and region.
Madeleine Burkholder, a senior technical solutions engineer who has worked on consumer products managing spam, said Musk's ask is nonsensical. "Egregious spamming is not a technical term," she said, and most record keeping at major tech companies doesn't include questions of local governmental legal codes. The norm is to simply note whether an account violated a company's terms of service, which are rules set by the platform, not a government entity.
"It gets really hairy to pull these threads apart and figure out what the exact behavior was that led to their suspension," Burkholder said. "Was it an innocent mistake? Was it malicious? How malicious was it? . . . Doing that on a single case is challenging, trying to do it for every account ever, you're guaranteed to make mistakes."
Angelo Carusone, chairman and president of Media Matters, a nonprofit advocacy group and media watchdog, said that Musk's decision could mean bringing back networks of individuals that include the American Nazi Party and "a whole bunch of 8chan, 4chan, conspiracy theorists who engage in harassment and abuse." 8chan and 4chan are two message boards known for their racist and antisemitic posts.
Reversing the suspensions would mean "turning Twitter into a one-stop shop for operationalizing doxing and harassment, and an engine of radicalization," Carusone said. "It's a red pill Pez dispenser."
And quitting Twitter won't keep you safe. "Even if you're not on Twitter, you can still be the recipient of these campaigns," he said. He predicted that public health officials, election officials, journalists and teachers will all be targeted.
"You have journalists, activists in authoritarian regimes in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia who are now even at the mercy of even more vicious trolls with no ability to fight back," said Caraballo. "It's literally life or death for people."
The lifting of the suspensions was especially troubling to LGBTQ activists, coming just days after a mass killing at the Club Q in Colorado Springs killed five and wounded 18. Several of the restored accounts had previously been suspended for hateful rhetoric toward the gay and trans community, and Musk has been criticized for replying to Tim Pool, a right-wing YouTube star who falsely claimed the club had hosted a "grooming event," and other anti-LGBTQ accounts.
"It's a slap in the face to LGBTQ people," Caraballo said.
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By Francesca Ebel The Washington Post
The lower house of Russia's parliament has passed the final reading of a bill that bans the promotion of "LGBT propaganda" to children, expanding on a law that was adopted in 2013.
Under the legislation, any attempt to promote homosexuality, including in movies, books or advertising, could incur a severe fine.
The bill aims to prevent Russians from promoting or "praising" homosexual relationships or gender reassignment surgery or suggesting that they are "normal."
Citizens who promote what the Duma dubs "the propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" could be fined up to $6,600; organizations could be fined up to $82,100. Foreign nationals could be sentenced to up to 15 days and deported.
The legislation now moves to the upper chamber, which is expected to approve it, and to President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to sign it.
Rights activists say the legislation is an attempt to further oppress sexual minorities in Russia, who already face challenges in a conservative society that has historically prevented gay pride marches and targeted LGBTQ rights activists with impunity.
Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, said the 2013 law was "an unabashed example of political homophobia." The new legislation, she said, amplifies it in "broader and harsher ways."
"The original 'gay propaganda' ban purported to protect children from 'propaganda' - broadly defined to mean any positive or neutral depiction of non-heterosexual relations," Lokshina told The Washington Post. "The draft legislation, while maintaining aggravated penalties when children are involved, extends it to a blanket ban that covers all public information or activities."
Lokshina described the bill as an attempt by the Kremlin to distract from growing discontent over Russia's war against Ukraine and recent failures on the battlefield.
How the law would be applied is unclear. There have been few cases of individuals being tried for "gay propaganda" under the 2013 law, but it has increasingly been used to target cultural events, films and theater. Lokshina said LGBTQ parents are at particular risk.
Russian political activist Lucy Shtein said the legislation would prohibit "the representation of a huge part of society."
"Fighting the visibility of LGBTQ+ people doesn't in any way affect the number of such people, but only causes more suffering, forcing them to hide and hate themselves," she said.
Shtein said Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made LGBTQ people more vulnerable because it is now much more difficult to evacuate Russian citizens targeted by authorities. The Russian mobilization drive for new troops to fight in Ukraine and travel restrictions imposed on Russian citizens by foreign countries in the wake of the invasion have restricted Russians' freedom of movement.
Human rights conditions in Russia have greatly deteriorated in the past year, Shtein said. The new legislation is "another nail in the coffin."
"This war has shown that, for this government, any life is expendable and their repressions are particularly affecting communities that were already vulnerable before the war, including the LGBT community."
LGBTQ rights have been scapegoated in Putin's Russia, with many pundits associating them with Western-promoted, "anti-Russian" values. Lawmakers argue they are defending morality in the face of "decadent" values.
"LGBT [rights] today are an element of hybrid warfare, and in this hybrid warfare we must protect our values, our society and our children," Alexander Khinshtein, one of the bill's architects, said last month.
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Former Lyme, N.H., resident Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates with boyfriend Aleksander Kilde after she won the overall World Cup Alpine skiing title on Thursday, March 17,l 2022, in France.
The trek from the mountain in Levi, Finland - where Mikaela Shiffrin opened the World Cup Alpine season by winning the first two races, adding trophies to a pile that has no limits - consisted of a race back to the hotel with 45 minutes to pack, a drive to nearby Kittila for a flight to Helsinki for a stay at an airport hotel to sleep before a 4 a.m. alarm for a 6:30 a.m. flight to Frankfurt, Germany, to catch another plane to Boston, where she could gather her bags, rent a car and drive the three hours to Killington, Vt., arriving around 8 p.m.
"After a race, for me, I'm so wired, I can't even sleep," she said. "I'm just totally like, 'Aaaayaah!' Especially after the way this season started, it was so spectacular, I just couldn't turn my brain off."
Which assumes Shiffrin's brain has an off switch at all. There's scant evidence of that. Those two slalom victories in Finland were the 75th and 76th World Cup wins of a career that has few peers. Lindsey Vonn holds the women's record with 82, and Ingemar Stenmark holds the human mark with 86. That's the club. It is small.
When you start to consider the slalom at Killington has been contested five times, and Shiffrin has won all five, and do the math that she has three individual seasons in which she has won more than 12 races - well, the stuff of dreams starts to seem real.
"The way I used to think about it is that if I got to a certain point in my career with enough wins, I would actually finally start to feel confident that I am a winner and I deserve to be there and the success has come, I'm there," Shiffrin said this week in a phone conversation from Killington. "I'm finally there. I'm at the destination.
"And I realize now that it's never going to feel that way. And every single morning when I wake up, the first thing I'm going to think is: What do I have to do today to earn that again?"
"Which is fine," she continued. "That's not a bad feeling. In some ways, I think it's almost a healthier way to live, not dwelling on things that have gone right in the past, just trying to continue to work on your dreams - wherever they take you."
Killington - a giant slalom Saturday, a slalom Sunday - is the only U.S. stop on the women's World Cup schedule. Shiffrin loves those events, just two hours from where she had her formative training, at Vermont's Burke Mountain Academy. "It's such a gift, such a kind atmosphere, a kind crowd," she said.
But it is also very much a business trip. She is there to work, and when some on the women's circuit move on to speed races in Lake Louise, Canada, the following week, she will head back to Europe to concentrate on training for the technical events, giant slalom and slalom, in which she has posted 63 of her 76 World Cup victories.
In talking to Shiffrin over the years, beginning when she was 17 and bursting onto the international scene leading up to her first Olympics in 2014 in Sochi, Russia, I've often wondered whether her nervousness before races or her unrelenting quest for perfection - she is a training and video junkie - have overwhelmed the joy she derives from winning. Now that she's 27 and somehow closer to the end of her career than the beginning, I realize I've been thinking of it backward.
Take some training sessions in Levi in the weeks before the races there. Rather than return to Copper Mountain in Colorado, where many American racers were training for speed, the U.S. technical racers stayed in Europe and trained in Finland - with some of the best Europeans. There, American teammate Paula Moltzan was laying down blazing run after blazing run.
"I would be like, 'What do I have to do to try catch up to her?' " Shiffrin said. "And then maybe I'd get neck and neck or I'd get just a little bit faster - and then she would put down a faster time." And her voice picks up with emotion here. "Those are the days that are pret-ty fun. That's amazing to have in a training environment like that."
We see the results and count the victories and figure out what's possible and what would be legendary. For Shiffrin, there's more joy in what we don't see.
"It's more like I'm ski racing for the training, and how much fun it is to train when I'm skiing well, vs. the racing," Shiffrin said. "The racing part is kind of the thing that makes me question even if I want to do this, and the training is the thing that keeps me coming back."
After the sudden and tragic death of her father, Jeff, early in 2020 and then the pandemic and all the havoc it wrought, coming back wasn't always a guarantee. A Beijing Olympics in which she not only didn't medal but also didn't finish the slalom, giant slalom or Alpine combined could have pushed her further to the brink. Retirement - even at 27, with historic marks just ahead - is always somewhere on the front of the stove, slowly simmering.
"I'm glad that I have stuck with it to this point, but it's definitely still something that's always kind of crossing my mind," Shiffrin said. "When is the moment going to come that I decide the work is not worth the reward anymore? And I don't feel that so far mostly because the work - I actually really enjoy doing the work."
In her case, the work almost invariably yields results. The results are pushing limits only the sport's legends have reached. But while the marks of Vonn and Stenmark are certainly within her field of vision, it doesn't make them Shiffrin's main motivation.
"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a factor at all, that I never thought about it," Shiffrin said. "But it's not the driving force.
"Lindsey, she earned the entire world of ski racing's respect. Throughout her entire career, so much of what she did was so groundbreaking. So whatever I do, it doesn't change anything that happened in her career. I would be so proud to hold that record. But it's not the thing that makes me feel any kind of gratification when I look back on my career."
She can look back on her career and realize she has already accomplished more than she could have hoped. The rest of us can look ahead and note the landmarks on the horizon. The joy for the crowd at Killington would be reveling in another Shiffrin victory. The joy for Shiffrin would be the improvement in training runs in the week leading up. Both can exist in the same space. They all lead to a place - with accomplishments bordering on unprecedented - that makes it hard to turn the brain off.
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Are you ready for 'The Hip Hop Nutcracker'?
A NEW TWIST on a holiday tradition, Disney+ streams “The Hip Hop Nutcracker.” Rev Run of Run DMC oversees the action that translates Tchaikovsky’s beloved tale of mice and the Sugar Plum Fairy to the streets of New York City on New Year’s Eve.
While some may feel that hip-hop is too contemporary a sound for this ballet, the musical genre is actually well into its fifth decade. And if “Hamilton” can set the Founding Fathers to hip-hop beats, why not Drosselmeyer?
Just three decades beyond their Cotton Club heyday, Duke Ellington and his arranger Billy Strayhorn released a jazz version of “The Nutcracker” in 1960. So by their pace, you have to figure this hip-hop version is decades overdue.
• As much as stand-up comedy tries to brand itself as edgy, controversial and angry, Comedy Central often gets its biggest audiences with specials featuring a strenuously normal guy and his cast of puppets. There are three chances to catch “Jeff Dunham: Me the People” (8 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., Comedy Central, TV-14).
• A product placement movie just in time for Black Friday shopping, “Fantasy Football” streams on Paramount+. Callie (Marsai Martin), the precocious daughter of an NFL journeyman, discovers that she can improve (and control) her father’s on-field performance using the EA Sports Madden Football fantasy game.
This collaboration between Paramount+ and Nickelodeon is clearly aimed at kids. Executive produced by LeBron James. Martin, Omari Hardwick and Kelly Rowland star.
• Fashion-forward personalities bring the drag scene to small towns on the third season premiere of “We’re Here” (10 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).
• Despite questionable digital production values, the 2004 fantasy “The Polar Express” (7:10 p.m., TBS), starring Tom Hanks, remains a holiday favorite.
• Jimmy Durante narrates the 1969 animated special “Frosty the Snowman” (8 p.m., CBS).
• Boris Karloff narrates the 1966 special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (8 p.m., NBC).
• A novelty song inspires an hour-long special “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG).
• A Broadway dancer and a club owner clash as they try to revive a traditional Christmas Eve extravaganza in the 2022 romantic musical comedy “Steppin’ Into the Holiday” (8 p.m., Lifetime, TV-PG).
• A rambunctious, short-legged pooch brings a desperate prince and fetching dog trainer together just in time for the holidays in the 2022 romance “A Royal Corgi Christmas” (8 p.m., Hallmark Channel, TV-G).
• A busy executive dedicates her holiday season to saving a small town’s local outdoor movie theater in the 2022 romantic comedy “Christmas at the Drive-In” (8 p.m., Great American Family, TV-PG).
• The voices of John Goodman and Jonathan Winters animate the holiday sequel “Frosty Returns” (8:30 p.m., CBS, TV-G).
• Secret Santa plans go awry on “Trolls Holiday in Harmony” (8:30 p.m., NBC).
• Too busy for relationships, an ambitious lawyer hires a local chef to pose as his girlfriend to placate his family around the holidays in the 2021 romance “A Christmas Proposal” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG).
• A newcomer challenges three sisters’ traditional domination of the holiday cooking competition in the 2022 comedy “The Christmas Clapback” (9 p.m., BET, TV-PG).
• Florida State hosts Florida in college football action (7:30 p.m., ABC).
• A turncoat (Ray Liotta) recalls his mobster glory days from the safety of witness protection in director Martin Scorsese’s 1990 drama “Goodfellas” (8:30 p.m., IFC). Both Liotta and his “Goodfellas” co-star Paul Sorvino died in 2022.
• A popular baritone performs classics from many musical genres on “Great Performances: Josh Groban’s Great Big Radio City Show”(9 p.m. PBS, check local listings). He is joined by special guest stars including Cyndi Lauper, Denee Benton and New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck.
• Freeform offers a sneak peak at the Disney+ “Star Wars” spinoff “Andor” (9 p.m., TV-14).
“The Wizard of Oz” wasn’t the only movie made in 1939 to switch from black and white to color. “The Women” (5:45 p.m., TCM), a campy and quotable comedy about society rivals switches briefly to a fashion show, presented in technicolor. Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford lead a legendary ensemble.
“WWE Friday Night Smackdown” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14) ... “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC).
Jason Momoa, Luke Grimes and Lainey Wilson appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC) ... Tracy Morgan and James Acaster visit “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) ... Jimmy Smits, Zach Woods and Greg Stone appear on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (12:37 a.m., CBS).
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Robert C. Gagnon, the man at the center of Wednesday's lethal rampage in the Milford area, had been released two days earlier from a Manchester jail, where he had spent nearly a month for violating a protective order filed by a woman seeking to divorce him.
As of Friday, authorities had not connected a non-fatal shooting and a bludgeoning death to the pending divorce of Robert and Jennifer Gagnon, who lives in Wilton.
But according to a friend of Jennifer Gagnon, she was terrified of her husband, who is charged with the attempted murder of Jennifer's boyfriend, Carlos Quintong, 44.
"He (Gagnon) was released (from jail) on Monday. She had a restraining order against him. She was very scared to have him released," said the friend, who asked that her name not be published.
On Friday afternoon, officials released further details in the death of Robert Prest, 83, whose death appears involved in the rampage. Early reports were of a shooting fatality inside Prest's home at 774 Center Road, Lyndeborough.
But an autopsy determined that Prest died of blunt injuries to his head, according to a statement issued by Attorney General John Formella. He did not suffer from gunshot injuries, Formella's office said.
For hours on Wednesday, police frantically searched for Gagnon, throwing the normally hectic eve of Thanksgiving into chaos in the Wilton-Milford area. A helicopter hovered overhead as police cars raced to answer reports of sightings of Gagnon and some businesses and stores were locked down.
Gagnon had been living in Wilton before the divorce proceedings started in August. He faces a charge of attempted murder for allegedly trying to run Quintong off the road in the town of Brookline and then shooting him.
Brookline police have said the shooting was domestic-related, and Agati said Gagnon and Quintong knew each other.
Gagnon was arraigned by video Friday morning, when a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. The brief arraignment ended with Superior Court Judge Mark Attori ordering him held on preventive detention.
His lawyers, public defenders Sarah Rothman and Meredith Lugo, said they wanted more time to discuss the case with Gagnon, and that they may ask for bail in the future.
"The defendant lunged at plaintiff such that the parties' 17-year-old son had to intervene," wrote a Milford District Court judge, who granted the protection order. He noted a family history of domestic violence and alcohol abuse.
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U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner catches the ball against England during the second half of a group stage match during the 2022 World Cup at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar.
World Cup: United States plays England to scoreless draw
The momentum went back and forth in the second half but the best chance was a straight-on shot by England's Marcus Rashford in the 87th minute that former New England Revolution goalkeeper Matt Turner easily stopped.
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The BMW iX M60.
By Marc D. Grasso Boston Herald
When thinking of EV vehicles, Elon Musk’s brand the first that comes to mind. But BMW has stepped up to the plate with a wave as it stomps the competition with its new 2023 iX M60.
Despite being an EV, the M60’s aesthetics retain certain traits of the internal combustion era. Consider the oversized front kidney-shaped gills, which are probably not for everyone. Their only function is decorative, since the EV does not require airflow to cool its engine.
But this vehicle is beautiful. Its curves are right, its ride height is perfect, and its sight lines are impeccable. On the inside, the bright blue seat belts and titanium bronze accents scream modern all the way throughout the SUV. Ample legroom, state-of-the-art infotainment, and a small center console with dials and settings are just a few of the interior features that stood out in our week-long EV test. For a vehicle that gets 288 miles on a charge, the $105K price tag is a lot, but the iX M60 is luxurious. It’s a great ride on 21 inch wheels, has all-wheel drive, and goes from zero to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds.
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By Arriana McLymore and Doyinsola Oladipo Reuters
Many who opened their wallets said their purchases were strategic, not impulsive or splurges. “We’ve been waiting” for discounts, said Tulio Rose, 28, who picked up a big-screen TV at Best Buy in Los Angeles, while shopping with Barnisha Nill, 35. They saved about $500 on the 85-inch Samsung TV for their new apartment.
“Usually at this time of the year you struggle to find parking. This year I haven’t had an issue getting a parking spot,” Marshal Cohen, chief industry adviser of the NPD Group Inc said.
“It’s a lot of social shopping, everybody is only looking to get what they need. There is no sense of urgency,” Cohen said based on his store checks in New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
“There’s a lot of deals that weren’t advertised. Some of the stores I got 50% off everything I bought,” said Christine Chavez, 45.
She added that she is primarily gift shopping and picked up items from Victoria Secret and Torrid.
J.R. Moran, 49, gripped strands of red and green tinsel and felt antlers, which he planned to use for an “ugly sweater.” But he said he would make other holiday purchases online. “Online shopping is more convenient nowadays,” he said.
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By Jessica M. Goldstein Special To The Washington Post
But when he was in his 20s, Mike, a game developer who lives in Portland, Maine, found out that a couple he knew had combined parts of their surnames into a new one they could share. Then a friend announced he would be taking his fiancee's last name when they wed. Mike started thinking past the cultural default options, and when he got engaged to his now-wife, Sara, he floated to her the option of taking her last name.
He was "half-joking" at first. But she took the idea seriously, so he did, too. It didn't hurt that she had a primo last name.
"'Mike Primo,'" he said in an interview, stating his married name. Compared with what he had before, "that's basically James Bond."
Primo's brothers have since followed in his footsteps. But outside of that inner circle, he has met exactly zero who've done the same, he said, and doubts most other men have even thought about it.
"I think it literally isn't on the table, in any way shape or form, for the vast majority of couples in America, full stop," he said.
It is exceedingly unusual for grooms to take their bride's surname - though data on how rare is tough to find. The Social Security Administration doesn't track it, nor does the Census Bureau. The Knot's 2021 Real Weddings Study surveyed over 15,000 respondents and found that 78 percent of couples that got married that year had one partner take the other partner's last name - but that survey doesn't break that data down by gender.
The anecdotal evidence, however, is unambiguous: It's rare.
"I've not seen one groom take a bride's last name," said Andrew Zill, an event planner who's helped couples plan weddings for 20 years.
"I've never had a man take the woman's last name," said Heidi Hiller, CEO and creative director of Innovative Party Planners, who has done a half-dozen weddings a year for the past dozen years.
Sandy Yi-Davis, founder and head of event design of Chic Weddings and Events, estimated that she has planned over 250 weddings over the past decade. And how many of those couples had a groom taking his bride's name?
"It's actually zero," she said.
HitchSwitch, an online name-changing service, estimates that about 5 percent of its newlywed clients are men seeking information on taking their wives' names, a slight uptick from a few years ago. Matthew A. Wolff, HitchSwitch director of operations and compliance, said that occasionally: "When the husbands take the wife's last name, the husbands are like, 'Is this even allowed?' "
Why aren't more men taking their wives' names when they get married?
"There is this assumption that female last names are the changeable, malleable ones," journalist and author Jill Filipovic said. "The fact that it's only women making this choice - that it's only women presumed to be making this choice - in and of itself, reflects a pretty deep gender imbalance."
Currently, a woman marrying a man must both make a choice and deal with the judgment her choice will invite from loved ones and strangers alike, whether for keeping her name (divisive, selfish, does she even really love this guy?) or taking her husband's (retrograde, traitor to the cause, aiding and abetting her own erasure). Meanwhile, her husband-to-be is above reproach regardless of the outcome. She can't win, and he can't lose.
For women, keeping their existing last name (most likely inherited from their father's family) is typically considered the most-progressive option. About 20 percent of women made that choice in the years leading up to 2015, according to an analysis that year by the New York Times's Upshot blog. But even in households where the woman keeping her name is a foregone conclusion, the idea that the man would change his name, more often than not, isn't even on the table.
When author Laura Hankin got engaged to David Christie, a staffer for a female Democratic senator, she knew she would be keeping her name - "My name is my identity," she said - but the prospect of Christie taking Hankin's last name never came up.
Hankin is confident that had she "made a big argument about making a grand social statement for gender equality," Christie would have been receptive to it. But she wasn't interested in asking.
"I think it goes back to that question of identity," Hankin said. "Marriage is a beautiful commitment between two people who aren't necessarily changing themselves or becoming a whole new person. I think both of us felt like: We want to be two people who love and support and commit to each other, but don't become each other. So if I didn't want to change my name to his for that reason, why would he change his name to mine?"
What's funny about the whole name-changing phenomenon, said Rebecca Traister, an author who has written extensively on women in America, "is that it's a fundamentally weird thing to do - from any perspective."
A name change is a symbolic reallocation of privilege (whose name displaces the other?) rather than a practical one (who takes off work early for day-care pickup?), which makes couples more likely to ignore the custom rather than reverse it. While the material concerns of parenting, cooking and cleaning must be attended to, "changing your name is not a necessary thing in life - in fact, it is a bizarre and anachronistic thing," Traister said. And yet "the attitudes around it, those linger. Those are really hard to shake off."
Ask why it is that women have historically changed their names when they marry, Princeton historian Tera Hunter said, and you'll see why most men don't.
The legal construction of marriage in the United States is modeled on coverture, the set of domestic laws imported from England by early colonists, which decreed that a married woman's identity and existence was legally "covered" by her husband. Her money was his money, her body was his to do with what he liked, and her name no longer existed.
"The woman's identity is essentially erased," Hunter said, and the erasure of her name signified her submission to the authority of her husband.
Probably the average modern man isn't thinking about the dehumanizing framework of coverture laws when he bristles at the prospect of taking his wife's name (if he thinks of it at all). But as Hunter sees it, these norms are so deeply ingrained in our society that even people without any awareness of the history feel an imperative to abide by those customs, or are wary of the cost of rejecting them.
"There's a lot of social pressure around naming practices," she says, including "egos, ideas about masculinity, family traditions, all kinds of things that are influencing the ways men think about themselves and think about their names in particular."
When Vogue asked the pop icon now known to the legal system (if not her fans) as Mrs. Jennifer Affleck if any part of her "might want Ben to be Mr. Lopez," she laughed out loud. "No! It's not traditional," she explained. "It doesn't have any romance to it."
When actress Zoe Saldana wed Marco Perugo in 2013, Marco took Saldana's name - and Zoe told InStyle that she "tried to talk him out of it." She was concerned that he would be "emasculated" by his "Latin community of men, by the world."
Mike Primo, the Maine man formerly known as Mike Ambrogi, has a theory: Most men have a visceral, even subconscious aversion to taking their wives' names - one they may be unable to acknowledge, even to themselves.
"I wonder if - just getting into the deep, deep code of being a participant in our culture - most dudes are coding taking a woman's name as straight-up emasculation," Primo said. Maybe to "become more like a woman in any way, for a man, is to sacrifice status and caste placement in our culture."
"None of the things you'd imagine would happen," he said. "No one ever had any pushback of any kind or honestly even that much curiosity." He used to call Ambrogi his "bachelor name," but has since adopted the more classic "maiden name." ("Again, you would think there would be some follow-up," Primo said, "but there just isn't.")
One person Primo didn't have to explain himself to was Josh Peek (né Goldston), the friend whose decision to take his wife's name had influenced Primo's decision to do the same.
As a kid, Peek had asked his mother why she'd taken his father's name. "And she said, 'Well, a family needs a name,' " Peek recalled. "And that was a compelling point to me, and a central one." So when he and his wife, Katie, got engaged, and she said she wanted to keep her name, he pitched her on him taking hers. (Josh would keep "Goldston" as a second middle name, and his wife would "unofficially" take it on as well.)
His dad was "onboard quite quickly," Peek said, but his mom needed a bit more time to come around.
"My reaction was a bit negative," Ruth Goldston said. 'What, you're not going to have our name?'"
As the mother of two sons, she said, "your expectation is that a lot of other things aren't going to happen. You'll never be the mother of the bride, for instance."
By the wedding, however, she had warmed to the idea, and she now takes a measure of pride in her son's last name - even if it's not the one she gave him.
"Their reasoning was they wanted to subvert the dominant paradigm," Goldston said. "And I could hardly not get on board with that."
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By Emily Burnham Bangor Daily News, Maine
Why do some people have Maine accents, and others don't?
If you believed some movies and TV shows, you'd think that as soon as you crossed the state line into Maine, you'd be met by legions of no-nonsense, plainspoken men and women who speak with the thickest Maine accents imaginable. According to pop culture, lobsters practically jump out of the sea here, but there's nary a pronounced hard "r" to be found.
The reality, of course, is much different. In fact, these days, you really have to go searching to find a proper Maine accent, generally outside of larger cities like Portland or Bangor, or tourist destinations like Ogunquit, Camden or Bar Harbor. Drive north into Piscataquis or Aroostook counties, or east to Washington County, and you'll find an accent, by gorry.
"Maine dialect circa 2022 is very different from what you'd have heard in Maine in 1922 or 1822," Sample said. "All aspects of language, including dialect, pronunciation and colloquial terms, are constantly shifting and evolving."
But as the decades passed, Mainers developed their own dialect with a different flavor from what our neighbors to the south had — in part due to natural evolution, and in part due to what Sample said is a desire to clearly differentiate between the locals and people "from away."
"Some communities, whether they are aware of it or not, experience a greater 'felt need' for a simple, accurate method of sorting out 'us' and 'them' than others," Sample said. "So you'll typically encounter more pronounced accents in isolated areas such as Beals Island, Eastport and South Bristol than in more cosmopolitan areas."
By the 20th century, the Maine accent was well-established throughout the state. But as with regional dialects all over the country, the advent of mass media like television and, later, the internet, would start to change that. People on TV tended to speak with the "general American" accent, and the creeping influence of that has had a flattening effect on some regional accents around the country.
In many ways, the perception of the Maine accent by people from Maine and from elsewhere has also been kept alive by pop culture. From the "Bert & I" stories by Marshall Dodge to the work of Sample and the characters featured in Stephen King movies to contemporary Maine accents like the over-the-top one employed by comedian Bob Marley, it's kept the accent in the national — and Maine — consciousness.
Greater mobility also helps to change the way people speak, as people move into Maine from elsewhere, or are exposed to a wider variety of cultures and colloquialisms the more they move around the country and the world. Though Maine is the whitest state in the country, it's still a much more diverse place than it was even just 20 years ago, both ethnically and economically.
There's also a generational element to it. Both my grandparents had Maine accents, having been raised in coastal Maine in the 1920s and '30s. But my mother doesn't have an accent, despite being a Belfast native with two parents who spoke that way. I don't really have one — except when my friggin' car won't start on a cold January day, or I'm stuck on hold with the cable company. Then, wouldn't you know it, a Maine accent comes out.
Words and phrases change as well. Sample said that when he was growing up in Tenants Harbor in the 1950s, adult working men would call each other "dear" and "darling," a usage that's all but disappeared today. At the same time, the phrase "flatlander" (a person from away, or more specifically, city folk) has come into usage, despite it originally stemming from the southern Appalachian mountain regions of the country.
Some things have stayed the same, however. You still leave your snow shovel in the dooryard. Your kids and grandkids are still wicked cunning. Those tourists driving on Route 1 can still be pretty numb sometimes. And even if our way of speaking evolves right alongside our way of living, for some Mainers, "dear" will always have two syllables, and jeezum crow, ain't that something.
"I'm pleased to report that the Maine accent is still alive and well, if you know where to listen for it," Sample said. "I'll be long gone by then, but it would be interesting to hear what the Maine accent sounds like circa 2122. All I can say for sure is that there will be one."
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) speaks during a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, 2022. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by David Becker
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), shown here on Capitol Hill in June 2021, advocates that Michigan be put first in line in Democratic presidential primary states in 2024.
By Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager The Washington Post
New Hampshire's Republican governor considers Nevada's bid to become the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state a joke. Nevada's top Democratic operative is warning against a big state like Michigan jumping to the front of the line. And South Carolina kingmaker Rep. James E. Clyburn (D) has signaled support for replacing Iowa.
"Everyone is still waiting on the smoke signal from the White House," said one member of the Rules and Bylaws committee, who like some others for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak about deliberations.
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A tropical kingbird was found at the N.H. Fish & Game Great Bay Wildlife Management Area (Greenland Access), and Great Bay Farm in Greenland on Nov. 13, and has been seen on nearly every day since then. It was last seen on the 21st. A late-migrating great egret, and two American pipits were seen in cornfields in the same general area several times during the past week.
A greater white-fronted goose and a cackling goose were seen at the Boat Landing on the Connecticut River in Westmoreland on Nov. 20. At least one red-throated loon was seen on the Connecticut River in North Walpole and South Charlestown during the past week.
An immature red-headed woodpecker was photographed visiting a birdfeeder at a private residence at Dover Point in Dover on Nov. 20.
Single golden eagles were seen flying south over Pack Monadnock on Nov. 17-20.
A northern shrike was seen at Airport Marsh in Whitefield on Nov. 16.
A common murre and 31 dovekies were seen offshore at Jeffrey’s Ledge by birders on a fishing boat on Nov. 19. A great shearwater was seen here on the 15th.
A male Eurasian wigeon continues to be seen in the southeast section of Great Bay and was last reported on Nov. 19. Viewing is sometimes possible from the shore at the N.H. Fish & Game Great Bay Wildlife Management Area (Greenland Access).
A male American wigeon continues to be seen at Horseshoe Pond in Concord and was last reported on Nov. 19.
A surf scoter was seen at Newfound Lake in Hebron, and one was seen at Post Pond in Lyme, both during the past week. A white-winged scoter was seen on Great Bay from Adam’s Point in Durham on Nov. 20.
Two red-breasted mergansers were seen on Crystal Lake in Enfield during the past week.
A snow goose was seen at Moulton Farm fields in Meredith on Nov. 21.
A late migrating double-crested cormorant was seen at Cherry Pond in Jefferson on Nov. 17. This is far north for species and time of year.
At least one semi-palmated plover, and a spotted sandpiper were seen on the coast during the past week.
An orange-crowned warbler was seen at Berway Farm on North Thetford Road in Lyme on Nov. 20; one was seen along River Road in Hanover on the 19th; one was seen along Willow Avenue in North Hampton on the 19th; one was seen at Sunset Farm in Greenland on the 15th; and one was seen at Great Bay Farm in Greenland on 15th.
Sixty-five Bohemian waxwings were reported from Gorham on Nov. 19.
A pine grosbeak was reported from Errol on Nov. 19. 8 Evening grosbeaks were seen in Milton on Nov. 18, and one was reported from Barrington on the 19th.
Seven red crossbills were reported from Pack Monadnock on Nov. 17.
A Lapland longspur was reported from Concord on Nov. 19.
Seventeen turkey vultures were seen in Epping, and one was reported from Sanbornville, all on Nov. 15. At least eight turkey vultures were seen in the Durham and Dover area during the past week.
Migrants are on the move and there have been several reports during the past week of: osprey, barn swallow, eastern phoebe, ruby-crowned kinglet, yellow-bellied sapsucker, yellow warbler, black-throated blue warbler, northern parula, common yellowthroat, palm warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, Baltimore oriole, hermit thrush, eastern towhee, fox sparrow, Lincoln’s sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, and chipping sparrow.
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Stacey Cole Nature Talks: Remembering when turkeys weren't so abundant
Editor’s note: The following column was originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Nov. 28, 1970.
THE THANKSGIVING-Christmas holiday period is a traditional time to enjoy turkey.
Although the Pilgrims, when celebrating their first Thanksgiving in 1621, drew on a “great store of wild turkeys,” this “great store” was used up in Connecticut in 1813 and in Massachusetts in 1851, for those are the last years in which wild turkeys were recorded. These magnificent wild birds succumbed due to a combination of heavy hunting pressure, the clearing of old-growth woodlands, and the chestnut blight which took one of their staple foods.
Recently in New Hampshire the Fish and Game Department has acquired some turkeys in trade for fisher cats with the state of West Virginia. The turkeys received from West Virginia were wild, trapped birds.
According to Don Allison, who is in charge of the experiment of the Fish and Game Department, 11 wild birds were received by the state in 1969 and 15 more during the winter and spring of 1970. During the summer of 1969 there was one brood reported with four or five young raised. The birds wintered well in south-eastern New Hampshire by feeding near spring seeps which kept the ground open even though there was considerable snow. They fed on acorns and ash seeds and spent their time trailing from one seep to another. It was estimated that here were 22-29 turkeys at the beginning of the 1970 breeding season. During the summer, there were 4 or 5 broods reported. Mr. Allison estimated that there were some 20 to 30 young raised.
To his knowledge, there has been one natural killing and a few have been hit by automobiles, but he feels that there are now between 50 and 60 wild turkeys in New Hampshire. He attributes the success of the program to the quality of the original birds in that they came from wild stock and had not been pen raised.
In Edward Howe Forbush’s book, “A History of the Game Birds, Wild Fowl and Shore Birds,” Mr. Forbush refers to this bird’s history as follows:
The discoverers and early explorers of North America found this bird ranging almost the entire length of the Atlantic Coast line, from Florida to Nova Scotia, where it roves in great flocks, and often migrated in multitudes in search of food. It seems to have been particularly numerous in Massachusetts and New England. The first settlers found it a vital asset of the land and a substantial source of food supply.
William Wood (1629-1634, Massachusetts) writes: “The Turky is a very large Bird, of blacke colour, yet white in flesh; much bigger than our English Turky. He hath the use of his long legs so ready, that he can runne as fast as a Dogge, and flye as well as a Goose: of these sometimes there will be forty, three-score, and a hundred of a flocke, sometimes more and sometimes lesse; their feeding is Acornes, Hawes, and Berries, some of them get a haunt to frequent our English corne: In winter when the Snow covers the ground, they resort to the Sea shore to look for Shrimps, and such small Fishes at low tides.”
Of the habits of the wild turkey, Forbush wrote:
“Although it is a bird of the woods, where it roosts high in the tall timber in the deep fastnesses of which it hides, it likes to come out in the open and search in the tail grass of field, meadow or prairie for insects of which it is fond. When discovered in such a situation it usually tries to steal away through the long grass; if followed it runs rapidly, and if closely pressed rises and flies, often a long distance, generally making for timber if possible, where it disappears like magic in the thickets.
“The wild turkey adapts itself to circumstances in regard to food, eating acorns, berries, buds, weed seeds, grass seeds, and other food. It is also fond of grain.”
Stacey Cole, Nature Talks columnist for more than 50 years, passed away in 2014. If readers have a favorite column written by Stacey they would like to see reprinted, please drop a note to Jen Lord at jlord@unionleader.com.
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By Nita Johnson The Sentinel Echo, London, Ky.
That will create 50 new jobs locally, with Sazerac's plans to expand the Robinson Stave and Cumberland Cooperage facility in the near future by 72,000 square feet.
"This is a significant investment in Kentucky by Sazerac as our signature bourbon industry continues to grow at an incredible rate," Gov. Beshear said. "I am so glad to see this job creation in Southeastern Kentucky, as well as the growth of a company that has invested so much in the commonwealth over the past 25 years. Thank you to the leaders at Sazerac for further deepening their roots in the Bluegrass State."
Paula Thompson, executive director of the London Laurel County Economic Development Authority, stressed that the facility will be used to age Sazerac's products and will not be a distillery.
"The property will house 20 warehouses to age the bourbons. It will not be open to the public and there will be no production of spirits at the site," she said. "This was the perfect solution for that property due to the residents in the area being concerned about how development of the property would affect traffic on (KY) 192."
Sazerac is one of America's oldest family owned, privately held companies in the United States with facilities in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Maine, , South Carolina, Maryland and California. From its base in Louisvillle, Sazerac has distilleries across the state. It invested $1.2 million at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort. Bardstown hosts the Barton 1792 Distillery, while the Glenmore Distillery in Owensboro headquarters its office in Jefferson County.
"We are delighted to expand further in Laurel Country and appreciate the warm welcome given to us by the local government and the Economic Development Authority," said Mark Brown, Sazerac president and chief executive officer. "We've invested in London-Laurel County because we know the residents are hardworking Kentuckians who take pride in their craft. Our construction of new barrel storage warehouses and expansion of our barrel cooperage operations will allow for the continued growth of Kentucky's signature bourbon industry."
The Commonwealth's bourbon sector is a nearly $9 billion signature industry in Kentucky, generating more than 22,500 jobs with an annual payroll exceeding $1.23 billion. Since the start of the Beshear administration, more than 60 spirits-related announcements have generated over $1.4 billion in new investment creating more than 1,100 full-time jobs for Kentuckians.
Laurel County Judge Executive David Westerfield and London Mayor Troy Rudder both expressed gratitude for the development of the property and Sazerac's commitment to the community.
Westerfield said, "This multimillion-dollar expansion is monumental for Laurel County. Sazerac's-Cumberland Cooperage in East Bernstadt offers some of the best jobs in our county and we are thrilled they are expanding their presence in our community."
"It's always exciting when one of our existing businesses expand and invest further in our community," stated Troy Rudder, Mayor of London. "Sazerac's Cumberland Cooperage offers some of the best paying jobs and benefits in the area and we are fortunate to have them continue to grow here."
"As a Member of the Senate Economic Development, Tourism & Labor Committee, as well as being a native of London and Laurel County, I am extremely excited about Sazerac's continued multi-million dollar investment in our community and our citizenry. With Sazerac's purchase of the Rowland Acres Industrial Park, there will be a plethora of jobs available here in our Region for many years to come. London and Laurel County continue to be visionaries on the forefront of Regional economic development and I want to say thank you to everyone who worked so diligently to bring this project to fruition. I am excited to see the long-lasting impact this investment will have on our community economically," said Brandon J. Storm, State Senator, 21st Senate District.
"London and Laurel County continue to create economic opportunities for the Cumberland Region. Congratulations to local leaders for their hard work and determination over the last year on this project to continue to create quality jobs for this county and surrounding communities," stated Shane Baker, State Representative House District 85.
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