It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another roundup of good news across the Granite State.

Here are some fun things to know this morning:

Here’s what else is inside today’s newsletter:

📸 Check out this pic of Newfound Lake

📰 The news we’re reading from around the state

🌊 This New Hampshire lake is the country’s best

📢 Question of the week: How are you coping with soaring fuel costs?

🌞 The bright side: Your local good news roundup

💪 Nominate a local hero, and we’ll feature them in this newsletter

(Courtesy of Debbie Murray)

Shoutout to Debbie Murray who took this photo at dusk of Pasquaney Bay on Newfound Lake in Bridgewater.

“We’d had a ‘block party’ of sorts, and this was at a neighbor’s house on the Bay,” Debbie shared. “I think it captures the peacefulness of Newfound Lake and its community in late summer.” 

This new photo section has become my favorite part of the newsletter. It’s so fun to see the variety of submissions. If you have a picture we should feature in this newsletter, send it my way.

Located on Lake Winnipesaukee, this lakeside resort offers four distinct kinds of accommodations. (Courtesy of USA Today Network)

By USA Today via Reuters Connect 

New Hampshire is so full of beautiful lakes, it can be nice to go to a beautiful resort as a treat for you and the family on vacation. Travel writer Beth Luberecki from the Family Vacationist website named the 16 best lakeside resorts in the United States and found that one of them is in New Hampshire.

Any guesses on what resort it is? Click the button below to find out.

Fuel prices are climbing with no relief in sight. As of Wednesday, the national average reached $4.51 per gallon, while drivers in New Hampshire were paying a few cents less at $4.48 a gallon, according to AAA.

The rising costs are affecting everything from farming and travel to home heating.

So this week’s question is:

How are you coping with soaring fuel costs?

Here’s what you’re saying…

“1. Buy an EV, or at least a plug-in hybrid. 2. Heat with heat pumps, or at least with wood pellets. 3. Use public transportation.” — Peter Beardsley

The following briefs from around the region are presented in partnership with Granite Goodness. Subscribe today.

🧬 In a breakthrough that could reshape aging research…

Maine researchers have engineered a zebrafish (dubbed the “atrofish”) that can reproduce decades of age-related muscle decline in just days, dramatically accelerating the search for treatments for sarcopenia, the muscle loss condition affecting millions of older adults. MDI Biological Laboratory

⚛️ Meanwhile, New England’s race to lead the next wave of tech innovation is heating up…

UConn and Yale are bidding for $160 million to make Connecticut the country’s quantum computing capital, backed by $61 million the state has already committed through a public-private partnership called QuantumCT. UConn Today

💧 And in Massachusetts, scientists are pushing healthcare tech into the future…

MIT and two Boston biotechs won federal awards to develop a sensor that monitors your health through your tears in real time, and drugs that repair damaged lymphatic vessels rather than just managing symptoms. Massachusetts has now secured more than $330 million in ARPA-H funding since the agency launched. Mass.gov

💙 Know someone in New Hampshire who’s doing something worth celebrating? Whether it’s a neighbor, volunteer, small business owner, artist, or community leader, we want to hear about it!

Send us their name, what they’re doing, and why it matters to you at info@granitepostnews.com.

Thanks for reading. This newsletter was written by Katy Savage with a feature from USA Today via Reuters Connect and stories from NHPR and Granite Goodness. It was edited by Paula Solis.

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