Editor’s note: During the course of a week, issues are covered that might not lend themselves to full editorial comment, but they are worthy of The Sunday Telegraph weighing in – thumbs up, thumbs down or neutral.

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THUMBS UP – To state officials as Phase 2a of Nw Hampshire’s vaccination plan starts next week. The plan includes roughly 50,000 teachers, other school employees and child care workers, while phase 2b includes anyone age 50 and older. The plan always has called for completing those phases between March and May, though meeting that target initially appeared unlikely given the limited supply of vaccine available. With the addition of a third vaccine and increased distribution, regional public health networks will begin overseeing clinics for school districts around the state March 12. On March 17, teachers and others in group 2a will be able to schedule appointments at existing public sites. And on March 22, those in group 2b can start scheduling their shots. “It’s not linear,” Gov. Chris Sununu said. “One doesn’t close and one opens. They all kind of mesh into one another because we’re simply going so fast.”

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THUMBS UP – To Eversource and its employees for quickly restoring power following severe windstorms last week. High wins wreaked havoc on power lines and down trees throughout Greater Nashua and the Souhegan Valley. Thanks to the hard work of many, electricity was restored in short order.

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THUMBS UP – And congratulations to former Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, who was sworn in as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court last week in a ceremony where he paid tribute to a former judge and mentor who gifted him his own judicial robes. “The law is a profession that renews and regenerates through role models and mentorship,” MacDonald said in a ceremony at the courthouse. “There is no better role model and mentor as a lawyer and as a judge than Norman Stahl, and there could be no better friend. He never lost faith in me.” MacDonald was a law clerk for Stahl, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Before that, Stahl was a U.S. district judge in New Hampshire, and MacDonald got to know him as a summer intern.

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