Merrimack

Plus, Seacoast LitFest kicks off in Portsmouth.

Annual favorites like the Exeter UFO Festival and Manchester's Cruising Downtown Festival return.

The 61st Annual Gem, Mineral, and Jewelry Show is on deck in Concord, and the 42nd Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival will take place in Portsmouth.

The 52nd annual Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb is this Saturday. Plus, two opportunities to see the classic play Our Town.

Whether you stay close to home or explore a new corner of New Hampshire, there are plenty of opportunities to create art, enjoy the outdoors, and see live music.

The Rochester Opera House's production of The Little Mermaid closes this Saturday. Plus, Littleton celebrates another First Friday Arts.

You can also get outside this weekend with yoga or a baseball game.

In 2016, PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, were discovered in hundreds of wells in the area surrounding the company’s Merrimack facility and many more have been discovered in the years since.

In 2016, the manufacturing company Saint-Gobain told New Hampshire officials it found PFAS – also called forever chemicals – in the public water supply near its Merrimack facility.

Laurene Allen, who co-founded the advocacy group Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water, has been advocating for remediation and justice in communities impacted by PFAS contamination for almost a decade.