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The Manchester VA Medical Center is monitoring clusters of cases of COVID-19 among its employees. In email to staff, Associate Director Julie Vose says the VAs contact tracing linked the clusters to unmasked employees eating and drinking in close proximity to each other. Vose says VA employees should not be unmasked within six feet of each other and recommends staff members eat alone in empty rooms, or telework if possible. The VAs online COVID-19 tracker says seven employees at the Manchester ...

Peter Biello: Senator, thank you for taking some time to speak with me. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Im happy to talk with you and hope that everyone out there is going to have a safe holiday. Peter Biello: We are certainly all hoping for a safe and healthy holiday season. Senator Shaheen, this relief bill has a lot in it. Enhanced unemployment benefits, aid for schools and child care, housing support. What is most significant to you? Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Well, I think the individual help for families,...

Paul Tilden, resident of the NH Veterans Home in Tilton, holds a note describing what hes thankful for. The New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton is experiencing one of the deadliest outbreaks of COVID-19 in the state.  As of December 15th, 35 veterans there have died since November 10th.  Many more are infected, and staff who have been exposed are quarantining to prevent further spread of the virus.  For more on what its like for residents of the Veterans Home and their families, NHPRs Pete...

Dartmouth College As we approach the end of a tumultuous year, NHPR is checking in with people we spoke to early on in the pandemic to see how things have changed. It’s part of a series we’re calling “Hindsight.” Earlier this year, some doctors feared rural areas would be overwhelmed with too many COVID-19 patients and too few resources. In June, we reported on a study that found rural areas of New Hampshire and Vermont were doing better than expected - but things have...

In Protest, that featured guest poet Patricia Smith. SPECIAL HOLIDAY HOURS ON SATURDAYS Special Holiday Sale on Selected Items Stop by our gift shop at 222 Court St. to purchase some unique gifts, including Trail T-shirts and jewelry that are 50% off. You can also purchase books and beautiful prints by Richard Haynes from his underground railroad series, Whispering Quilts. The gift shop will be open on Saturday, December 19 from 11 AM- 3 PM. Get that special something for that special some...

   This has not gone the way you predicted back then. Things look very different now. What has surprised you the most, Elizabeth? Elizabeth Carpenter-Song: I think what were seeing now, certainly at this stage in late fall and early winter, were really seeing a divergence in terms of state responses between Vermont and New Hampshire...In the early days of this work, both states looked remarkably similar, and now were seeing dramatically different state-level responses, which we believe are co...

At NHPR, Peter Biello speaks with JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, about the organizations free virtual series highlighting black poets, "The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming."  A recent event featured guest poet Patricia Smith in discussion about poems by James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Danez Smith, and Elizabeth Alexander. The next event in the series is on January 21, featuring guest poet Jericho Brown...

Below is a lightly edited computer transcript of the interview. So is what were seeing now with COVID-19, this rapid rate of virus transmission, high numbers of deaths better or worse than what you might have expected earlier this year? So compared to where we were in August and September, we are in a much worse state now in the months of November into December, then maybe we would have expected. I think that there were some that were projecting that we would have a false surge. We initially th...