Telehealth has become part of many people’s vocabulary in the past few months now that the COVID-19 pandemic is with us. While telehealth existed for many years previously, the need for physical distancing to prevent infection by the COVID-19 virus has brought the concept and the practice ...
Community health centers have been a staple of communities in the Granite State for nearly 50 years, delivering an array of preventive and primary care services, including behavioral health, pediatric care, and oral health to nearly 122,000 patients in every county. Community health centers ...
As the season turns from winter to spring and summer, the YMCA of Greater Nashua encourages children and parents in the Greater Nashua community to explore the many benefits of swimming, while also keeping safety top of mind. In Y swim programs, participants can enjoy water sports, enhance or ...
I’m one of those folks who really digs checking out old photos – whether or not I know where they were taken or even who is in them. So it’s always a bonus when these types of what we of a certain age once called “snapshots” find me and I’m able to recognize someone or someones, ...
New Hampshire’s “stay-at-home order” was issued on March 16. Over two months later, we continue to face serious restrictions that limit our ability to earn a living, that restrain our freedom of assembly, and that restrict our right to worship as we see fit. The continuation of this state ...
Representing long-term care providers, the New Hampshire Health Care Association applauds Nashua’s decision to mandate the wearing of masks in public places. In an April 1942 speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for every American to exercise “the privilege of making ...
Science and experience has demonstrated that governments worldwide overreacted to the COVID-19 threat and perpetuated misleading information to manipulate the public and consolidate power. Despite these revelations, Gov. Chris Sununu is poised to extend his no longer “State of Emergency” ...
Not often, I miss living in New York. As a magazine reporter there, the perks were great like getting a good table at a booked restaurant. But not so great a perk, that someone would recognize you and interrupt your meal. As I’ve gotten older, I don’t miss the city so much, especially ...
Have you gotten out of the house yet now that we’re flexing back into the good old days of restaurant meals, beaches and being flush with toilet paper? While you were in lockdown, several quarantine scofflaws have been raising eyebrows with their hijinx during the pandemic. I’ve been saving ...
Sometimes on one of those late spring days when Memorial Day comes, you can almost see them, marching, marching onward, the legion of forgotten dead. In the soft stillness and solitude of a country graveyard in the evening hush, occasionally you can hear the muffled beat of a drum as the ...
At a special Board of Aldermen meeting Thursday night, officials approved an ordinance requiring city residents to wear face masks in public. The measure, which passed 10-3, requires employees of all businesses to wear face coverings when interacting with the public and when they are within 6 ...
I think I can identify a couple of memory flashes of my experience many moons ago marching in uniform in a 1960s version of Nashua’s Memorial Day parade. Now, there’s photographic proof it happened. Thanks, Pop, the intrepid photographer. I’m wearing a scowl for the ages. I have no ...
Last weekend, while still adhering to the stay-at-home orders like many others, my wife and I found ourselves in the midst of spring cleaning. She was purging the many calendars collected during the year and discovered amongst them a very unique one I received as a birthday gift a while ...
On March 24, Gov. Chris Sununu called on Granite Staters to serve their communities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the month that followed, 1,581 new volunteers registered on Get Connected, Volunteer NH and Granite United Way’s online volunteer portal. Across the state, New ...
With so many great shows and movies to binge-watch as the stay-at-home order reaches a crisis of its own, I’ve found some forgotten gems that you might have skipped over - fear not, I jumped on these grenades to protect the greater good. And trust me, if you have ever seen any of these shows, ...
Fewer people are driving these days because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the stay-at-home orders that are in place. More cars are parked in driveways and garages than are out on the roads. However, as my family has discovered, just because your vehicle isn’t being driven regularly doesn’t ...
Power to the People is a column by D. Maurice Kreis, New Hampshire’s Consumer Advocate. Kreis and his staff of four represent the interests of residential utility customers before the NH Public Utilities Commission and elsewhere. It is co-published by Manchester Ink Link and ...
Some of my earliest memories are of my family gathering around the television on weekends, taking in popular programs like “Hee Haw,” “Fantasy Island,” “Dallas” and many others. I still fondly remember the whole “Who shot J.R.” story line and can almost hear the music and ...
This has been the longest nine weeks of my life. Nine weeks ago, we lived in a very different world. It does not seem like such a long time, but nine weeks ago we were entering our first week of distance learning in the schools. Nine weeks ago, our economy was just going into a shutdown, and ...
Dear COVID-19, before you read any further, please know that I use the customary salutation in the start of this letter simply out of convention and not because I find anything positive or endearing about you. To the contrary, your presence is both vicious and foul as far as I am concerned. I ...
