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For Sadie Halliday, it’s all about creating that work life balance.Her daughters, Lucy, 13, and Sarah, 10, are her world and spending as much time with them as possible is something that is more important than anything.It’s why she decided to help...
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 6/3/2021 12:08:22 PM An announcement regarding the future of the Bond Wellness Center is expected on July 1, Monadnock Community Hospital spokesperson Laura Gingras said on Wednesday. “At this time, no decision has been made about restoring the Bond Wellness Center’s fitness membership programming,” she wrote in a statement. The hospital’s Board of Trustees are evaluating the wellness center’s best use moving forward, she said, in light of the financial pressures the COVID-19 pandemic put on all hospitals. The Wellness Center closed at the st...
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 1/18/2021 4:54:05 PM The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a record number of Granite Staters applying for unemployment benefits. The most recent numbers provided by New Hampshire Employment Security for the week ending Jan. 9, showed 3,067 initial claims by residents applying for benefits, while the number of continued claims stood at 27,283 for the week ending Jan. 2. Under the the most recent stimulus bill, which totaled $900 billion, the unemployed sector will receive up to an additional $300 per week from unemployment benefits through March 14. L...
Published: 12/18/2020 3:41:30 PM Donna Infante knows the injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine she received on Friday morning at Monadnock Community Hospital was a small step in getting the coronavirus pandemic under control. But it’s one Infante said was necessary. Infante, the Director of the Emergency Department at MCH, was on Friday the first of 35 MCH employees to receive their initial dose of the vaccine, which was granted emergency use authorization by the FDA just days earlier. In all, the hospital received 65 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the remaining 30 of whi...
With only two weeks before the deadline to spend any remaining CARES Act money, Gov. Chris Sununu has announced the final allocations the state will make from the $1.25 billion it received from the federal government. During a Thursday afternoon news conference, Sununu announced $23 million will be given to the University System of New Hampshire and hospitals, as well as nonprofit organizations for their employeesâ unemployment benefits. The bulk of the money â $12 million â will go to nonprofits, which Sununu noted includes hospitals, with $4 million earmarked for the universi...