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Dreaming Of An Island Home?
No Charges Against Keene Man In Shooting Death
AGs Get Behind Alzheimer’s Drug
Opposition to Eversource’s Northern Pass project killed the electric transmission lines that would have provided a clean energy source for New Hampshire and New England, but now National Grid is in the early stages of planning a 211-mile link running through Vermont and New Hampshire. Unlike Northern Pass, which would have erected huge transmission towers through sensitive areas of the state, the Twin States Clean Energy Link would make use of existing transmission corridors and infrastructure, along with new, buried lines, to minimize the impact.
Governor Chris Sununu has embraced the project, saying it would reduce power costs in the region, bolster reliability, and add resiliency to the electric system by bringing additional hydropower to the ISO-New England grid of which New Hampshire is a part.
In a letter to the Department of Energy supporting the program, Sununu wrote, “Twin States is important to New Hampshire because it has the potential to solve a long-standing hurdle in our North Country by accomplishing costly system upgrades that can allow small renewable energy projects to be developed along the Coos Loop, which is an existing transmission line that serves our northernmost communities. Innovations like this will allow for continued economic growth and new opportunity in our North Country.”
Dreaming Of An Island Home?
There is no doubt about it: Having a home on an island is a fantasy for many, especially if they already have a boat. Cool breezes on a hot day, a warm afternoon sun, waves crashing against the shore, quiet evenings around a fire pit, and the potential of wondrous views of distant mountains can make owning an island property very attractive.
Lake Winnipesaukee boasts 258 islands within its 72-square-mile boundaries. Six islands are connected to the mainland by bridges but, for the remaining islands, a boat is a necessity for access. Going out to a place on the lake provides a break from routine that beats many other options — but only if you’re prepared for a little inconvenience.
“You gotta be adventurous,” says Frank Roche, president of Roche Realty Group.
Betty Ann Bickford of Island Real Estate said people who own properties on the lake tend to be more independent. “It’s not like you’re going to call the plumber, for instance, and he’s going to drive out.”
No Charges Against Keene Man In Shooting Death
Attorney-General John Formella will not be filing criminal charges against 35-year-old Shane Frazier in connection with the shooting death of Kristopher Chagnon, 27, in Keene on May 13, 2022, because conflicting witness statements and the lack of sufficient objective evidence means the state would likely be unable to meet its burden of disproving Frazier’s claim of self-defense at trial.
The incident occurred after Frazier returned from McDonald’s with Happy Meals for his children and discovered that his seven-year-old, whom he had left at home with his 12-year-old child, had left the house and was playing with neighborhood children. He retrieved the younger child but a group of neighbors said he was yelling at the child, grabbing the child’s hair, and dragging the child home. Frazier and his child, along with another neighbor who was not involved in the incident, denied that that occurred.
Five of the neighbors followed Frazier home and pounded on his door. There were conflicting reports on whether they entered his home, but Frazier maintained that some had come in, and he went to his bedroom for his rifle to persuade them to leave. By his account, Chagnon grabbed a metal dumbbell that was outside and broke into the house, at which point Frazier tripped over something and the gun went off, striking Chagnon, who stumbled back outside.
The investigation found no evidence of a gunshot fired inside the house, but because the fatal wound was not fired at close range, as those outside maintained, the state could not rule out Frazier’s version of events. The door showed evidence of being damaged in a way consistent with being struck by the dumbbell.
AGs Get Behind Alzheimer’s Drug
Attorney-General John Formella and 25 other attorneys-general are asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide coverage for a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration believed to delay the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. They say providing full and unrestricted Medicare coverage for FDA-approved Alzheimer's treatments, is consistent with the decades-long practice of covering other FDA-approved prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries.
Currently, the use of monoclonal antibodies to help Alzheimer's patients is covered only when it is administered through clinical trials or other studies. The two manufacturers of a drug called lecanemab, and a “consensus statement” signed by more than 200 Alzheimer’s researchers (many of whom have consulted for the companies) declared that lecanemab is a “foundational gamechanger.”
However, while Dr. Ronald C. Petersen, director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, found the results “pretty impressive,” he also said: “It was a modest clinical response — it didn’t stop the disease, it didn’t make anybody better, not that it was supposed to.” At best, lecanemab might slightly slow a patient’s inevitable decline for a few months, reports Joanne Silberner in The Free Press.
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