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15 Apr 2021 Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) said officials plan to lift the state’s mask mandate soon but did not indicate when it will happen. He made the comment during an online event with the Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth, according to CBS Boston. “The mask mandate will be ending very, very, very, very soon. We’re there. We’re really there. I can’t tell you exactly what date it’s going to be. But I think the term we use in New Hampshire is wicked soon,” Sununu explained. According to WMUR, the mask mandate is supposed to expire Friday but it was not known if Gov. Su...

Gov. Chris Sununu doubled down on his prediction for a big summer and said that "virtually all" of the his coronavirus restrictions will be lifted "way before Memorial Day." During the Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth's virtual State of the State on Wednesday Sununu was extremely optimistic that the mandates and restrictions will be lifted soon very soon including the mask mandate. He said that universal guidelines would become "universal best practices" which will allow the flexibility to continue social distance practices but it won't be mandated by the government. He understand...

PORTSMOUTH – Gov. Chris Sununu said the state’s mask mandate “will be ending very, very, very, very soon.” “We’re there, we’re really there. I can’t tell you exactly what date it’s going to be but … I think the term we use in New Hampshire is wicked soon, wicked soon,” Sununu said in response to a question during the Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth Bank of America virtual State of the State event Wednesday morning. Later in the event, Valerie Rochon, the chief collaborator for the group, asked Sununu “what restrictions are you looking at lifting?” by Memo...

PORTSMOUTH — Presenters at an economic forum Tuesday morning were bullish on businesses recovering from effects of the COVID-19 pandemic but said issues that predated the pandemic — a need for workers and housing for those workers — will persist. Will Arvelo, New Hampshire’s economic development director, local restaurateur Jay McSharry, and New Hampshire Business Review editor Jeff Feingold shared the stage — Arvelo and McSharry in person, Feingold remotely — at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre for the forum put on by the Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth. The same tr...

Seacoast new businesses hope NH bill will bring COVID relief funds Holly Ramer CONCORD — New businesses that opened just in time to be slammed by the coronavirus pandemic would be eligible for more help under a bill before a Senate committee Tuesday. The state distributed more than $400 million in federal funding through its Main Street Relief Fund for small businesses, but only those that were established before May 26, 2019, were eligible. "This cut out a large segment of new small businesses which fill new needs in our communities and create the most new jobs at a time when they were rea...