Merrimack

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.

En Librería Pública de Nashua, madres leyeron un cuento bilingüe, en inglés y español. Music Hall y UNH llegan a un acuerdo. Demócratas de Merrimack discuten esfuerzos en contra de PFAS.

NH State Rep. Rosemarie Rung pointed out that in New Hampshire those settlement funds will be directed to the Drinking Water and Groundwater Trust Fund, which will provide loans and grants to public water systems where levels of PFAS, a class of harmful man-made chemicals, are above standards.