Claremont
The money will come from the unanticipated revenue from the annual franchise fee the city receives from Comcast.
Keith Druhl, executive director of CCTV, said the money will pay for the installation of jacks and wiring from the community center on South Street and visitor’s center on North Street to the nearest Comcast infrastructure. For actual filming, Druhl said that similar to City Council and School Board meetings, volunteers would have to step forward to assist..
“It will be exciting to have and it will expand the number of people who can see events from those locations,” Druhl said.
Concord
The fourth annual fundraiser runs through May. It features empty cans resembling soup cans that donors can purchase at supermarkets throughout the state for $5. The goal is to fill the cans with donations and return them to the food bank.
The campaign has raised nearly $350,000 since 2013.
Food bank officials say the amount of food needed to stock shelves at food pantries and soup kitchens around the state keeps growing dramatically. They say they distributed more than 12 million pounds of food in 2015.
Concord
The State Farm Arson Training Dog Program will be headquartered at the New Hampshire Fire Academy in Concord.
Since 1993, the training program has operated under the auspices of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy and has put more than 350 dogs and their partners through a 200-hour training program.
Formally known as accelerant detection canines, the dogs are trained to sniff out even minute traces of accelerants.
The New Hampshire Fire Marshal’s Office Investigator Sean Plumer and his K9, Pal, graduated from the training program last summer. Gov. Maggie Hassan will welcome the State Farm officials at a ceremony and canine demonstration today.
Andover, n.h
The three — 21-year-old Rebecca Brisson, of Charlemont, Mass., 21-year-old Yarai Mehiar, of Jordan, and 21-year-old Kavyaa Rizal, of Nepal — took a different trail on their descent Saturday and wound up off trail and wandering deeper into the woods. After two cellphones lost power, they used a third to summon help at about 4 p.m.
Officials were able to get accurate GPS coordinates from the call and searchers made their way toward them.
Conservation officers reached the hikers at 6:25 p.m. and led them out of the woods.
Montpelier
The Ways and Means Committee passed a version of the bill Friday that legalizes possession of up to an ounce by adults, and goes beyond a Senate-passed version in that it allows cultivation of up to two plants at home. The Judiciary Committee a week earlier passed a version of the bill that did not call for legalization, but for a study of the issue, along with a new provision cracking down on drivers with both alcohol and any trace of marijuana in their systems. The bill has one more stop at the Appropriations Committee before coming to the full House.
— Staff and wire reports
Barre, Vt.
It’s holding forums this spring for former hippies, commune dwellers, and others to share their stories about that era in Vermont. The forums are scheduled for April 20 at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, April 27 at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington and May 4 at the Park McCullough House in North Bennington, at 7 p.m. Vermont’s population, which had been relatively stagnant, jumped 14 percent in the 1960s and 15 percent in the 1970s, with more than half the increase in the latter decade from people moving in from out of state.
Aside from the forums, the historical society is also doing an online survey.