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The 400-member New Hampshire House has found a new place to meet indoors later this month, but the Legislature s top Democrat is threatening legal action to allow lawmakers who don t want to meet in person due to COVID-19 the right to participate remotely.
In a notice to colleagues Friday, House Speaker Sherman Packard said he continues to research ways for the House to meet remotely but has yet to find a solution that meets what he called the body s unique needs.
Packard has, however, found a place where he says the House can safely meet in person: the New Hampshire Sportsplex in Bedford. Packard said lawmakers there will have 50,000 square feet in which to maintain social distance - about twice what they had the last time the house met indoors, at UNH s Whittemore Center.
A well-known Vermont brewery that has won many prestigious awards for its beer is now earning praise for the way it embraces workers who might have faced barriers to employment in the past.The Vermont Governor’s Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities gave an award Wednesday to The Alchemist for reflecting the spirit of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The small business was praised for its outreach, training, accommodations, creative thinking around assignments for workers and other practices.“Spirit of ADA award winners are an inspiration and role model to all Vermont employers,” said Rose Lucenti, who chairs the Vermont Governor’s Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities.The Alchemist, which is best known for its acclaimed double IPA Heady Topper, currently employs two workers who have intellectual disabilities, and one with physical disabilities.“It makes you have a good self esteem,” said one of those workers, Eric Greenberg of
NEW PHILADELPHIA Members of the Tuscarawas County Board of Elections met with commissioners on Monday to express their concerns about new security arrangements at the courthouse and the county office building.
Currently, visitors to the courthouse enter through a secured entrance off of Ashwood Lane. However, members of the public are able to access the county office building through multiple unsecured entrances.
Under a new plan, which goes into effect on March 1, the Ashwood Lane entrance will be closed. All visitors to the courthouse and the county office building will enter both buildings through one secured entrance in the county office building.