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NH Freedom: The Newest Game in Town.

By Rebecca Kaufman on Friday, May 16, 2003.

Football fans waiting for the fall should know the Patriots are not the only game in town.
The Freedom, New Hampshire?s semi-pro football team, are half-way through their regular season. Saturday they will be in Rhode Island taking on the Riptide. NHPR correspondent Rebecca Kaufman was down on the sidelines with the Freedom at a recent home game in Manchester. She files this report.

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'Tis the Season for West Nile Virus

By Mark Bevis on Friday, May 16, 2003.

The warm weather is slowly returning to New Hampshire.

And with spring comes black flies and mosquitoes.

And for the past several years, mosquitoes have brought with them news accounts of West Nile virus.

Dr. Jose Montero is the chief of disease control at the Department of Health and Human Services.

He says state officials will continue to monitor for the spread of the disease.

But he tells NHPR's Mark Bevis chances are good we'll see an increase in the number of people affected.

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