HUD Funding Helps Foster Children Reunite with Families

Concord — New Hampshire is getting nearly $600,000 in federal funding that will go toward helping reunite children in foster care with their families.

The $544,968 from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development was awarded to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority. They will spend the funding on 64 vouchers for families whose housing problems contributed to them being separated from their children.

The funding’s offered through HUD’s Family Unification Program.

Among those targeted are young people found to be at risk of homelessness.

According to the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare, an affordable housing and child welfare advocacy group, foster care costs more than $48,000 annually per family when children enter foster care.

Services Set For Cyclist Killed On CHaD Charity Ride

Portland, Maine — Services are set for a Maine cyclist who was struck and killed on a Mississippi highway while making a cross-country charity ride to raise money for children with cancer.

James Dobson, of Lebanon, Maine, started in New Hampshire on Oct. 1 from the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He was 44 days into his “Positive Vibes Tour” on his recumbent bike near Hattiesburg, Miss., when he died. The crash remains under investigation.

The 32-year-old was raising money for Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and more than $20,000 has been donated to a GoFundMe account.

Burial will be in the spring in Sanford, Maine.

Vermont Rifle Deer Season Ending, But Another Season Coming

Montpelier — Vermont’s 16-day rifle deer hunting season is coming to a close, but hunters still have another opportunity to bag a deer.

The rifle season ended Sunday afternoon. But from Dec. 1 to Dec. 9 people will get an opportunity to hunt with muzzleloaders and bows and arrows. A muzzleloader hunter may take one legal buck anywhere in the state. In addition, a hunter who received a muzzleloader antlerless deer permit may take one antlerless deer in the Wildlife Management Unit designated on the permit.

An archery hunter may take a legal buck, provided they didn’t take one in the October archery season.

An archery hunter may take an antlerless deer anywhere. A legal buck is a deer with at least one antler having two or more points one inch or longer.

— Wire reports