Tri-Cities opening $1 million shelter: Here s the plan
SOMERSWORTH The Tri-Cities will operate their new $1 million emergency overnight warming center Wednesday night and Thursday night, a few days earlier than they planned, due to a life-threatening winter storm expected to hit the Seacoast on Wednesday.
Dover, Rochester and Somersworth leaders, area emergency management directors and Strafford County officials made the decision just before noon on Tuesday, accelerating plans that previously eyed Sunday, Dec. 20, as the center’s opening date.
“Clearly, this is life safety stuff,” said Dr. Tory Jennison, director of population health for the county’s Integrated Delivery Network. “We’re not 100% ready, but this is a priority.”
Kristin and Josh Hardwick joined the stateâs billion-dollar housing boom.
The Hardwicks moved from Wilton to Amherst in September, living for a month between homes with their two kids, two dogs and a cat in a borrowed camper parked in a relativeâs driveway in Nashua.
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âWe loved seeing our family every single day,â said Kristen Hardwick, who co-owns the Coworking House in Milford. âThe worst part was probably trying to manage two dogs in a camper.â
Despite fears of a slowdown, purchases of New Hampshire homes and condos are up by $1 billion since March compared with the same period a year ago, according to a Sunday News analysis.
Jessica Marino says her story is one of desperation.
For much of the past couple of years, Marino says desperation has guided her decisions as she has clawed through trauma and unsafe situations in pursuit of stability for her 9-year-old son, Sam.
“A lot of times, the decisions we make when we make them out of desperation are not going to be good choices because you’re sort of just grasping at something,” she said. “You’re trying to paddle upstream with nothing.”
Marino fears nothing but more desperation lies beyond both options at her latest crossroads.
That crossroads gave her the option to escape a $900-a-month Rochester apartment she says was unsafe, but do so by moving into a $1,614 Dover apartment her paycheck and savings won’t be able to sustain unless her circumstances cha