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Union for Merrimack Correction Workers Airs Contract Grievances

By David Darman on Wednesday, July 5, 2006.

Nearly one hundred corrections officers in Merrimack County's new jail have been working for more than a year without a contract.

And tomorrow, some of them are planning to demonstrate outside the County complex in Concord, to call attention to stalled negotiations.

The union representing the officers accuses the county of trying to roll back hard won worker rights.

But county officials have said the union is out of line in making their complaints public.

New Hampshire Public Radio's David Darman has more.

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A Tale of Two Wind Farms: Part I

By Hilary McQuilkin on Wednesday, July 5, 2006.

Wind power is slowly becoming a reality in New Hampshire and across New England.

Some towns are embracing it.

And some are not.

In the first of a two day series, NHPR Correspondent Hilary McQuilkin is going to take us to the state's first commercial windfarm....in Berlin.

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