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📸 Your New Hampshire view

📰 What we’re reading, news from around the state

🌷 6 fun things to do in NH for Mother’s Day

📢 Question of the week: New Hampshire lawmakers can only be disciplined by a vote. Is that enough accountability?

🌞 The bright side: Your local good news roundup

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

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Shout out to Denise Veau for sharing wildlife around her home in Washington. As she said, “The photo of the deer with her twins is missing a third fawn. That doe actually had triplets that year.”

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🌷 Relax at the spa

The Wingate Salon & Spa in Stratham is offering various Mother’s Day specials, including “Mom’ & Me’s Retreat” and “Mom to Be” packages. Treatments in the packages include blowouts, facials, massages and pedicures, and each package comes with complimentary tea and snacks.

🌷 Check out a craft festival

For the crafty moms who like to shop, Hampton Falls is hosting its annual Mother’s Day Weekend Craft Festival on the Town Common. Goods will be available from over 75 artisans from across New England, including handcrafted jewelry, cork leather bags, hanging plants and landscape photography. This free event will take place on May 9-10, with hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 9 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 10. 

🌷 Spend a day at the farm

Celebrate Mother’s Day with the whole family at Candia’s Charmingfare Farm, where activities include an animal-meeting area, pony rides and tractor rides. Moms who pre-register online get free admission and a ride wristband on Mother’s Day, as well as a 10% discount from the farm’s gift barn.

Rep. Travis Corcoran faced disciplinary action after posting a “final solution” comment directed at a Jewish colleague on social media in March.

Corcoran has since said it was a joke. And, he recently walked out of a committee hearing—calling it a “kangaroo court”—before 18 witnesses testified against him.

The GOP-controlled committee will now draft a recommendation on Corcoran, which will then go before the entire House for a vote.

But this isn’t the first time Corcoran has made a controversial comment. His social media pages have long been filled with racist remarks.

So this week’s question is:

New Hampshire lawmakers can only be disciplined by a vote. Is that enough accountability?

Here’s what you’re saying:

“Human nature being what it is, no group should be depended on to discipline itself entirely. However, as long as we have a free press to report on and investigate government activities, we can hold the members of the general court accountable at election time. So perhaps there’s no real need for more bureaucracy to oversee them.” — JoAnn Carlson

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🎟️ A New Hampshire entertainment project is turning into a major economic win for downtown Nashua …

Three years in, Nashua’s downtown performing arts center is exceeding expectations, with restaurants reporting significant revenue increases, parking revenue climbing, and $3.6 million in regional economic impact generated. Nashua Ink Link

💵 Meanwhile, other New England states are making major economic investments of their own …

Maine just deployed $25 million across 23 companies and research institutions, from seafood processors in Downeast Maine to life sciences labs on the Midcoast, drawing 113 proposals requesting $127 million and projected to create or preserve nearly 4,000 jobs. Maine.gov

💼 And in neighboring Vermont, funding is flowing directly into local businesses and community projects …

Vermont’s economic development authority just invested $13.8 million into a cross-section of small businesses: a community-owned grocery in St. Johnsbury, a grain center in Ferrisburgh, a fitness center in flood-damaged Montpelier, and a donut shop in Rutland. Vermont Business Magazine

💙 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 stories from WMUR, Union Leader, USA Today via Reuters Connect, and Granite Goodness. It was edited by Paula Solis.

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