FOXBORO — A local man was seriously injured while hiking with his son in the White Mountains in New Hampshire over the weekend.
Michael Kelly, 35, was carrying his young son on Greeley Ponds Trail in Livermore on Sunday when he lost his balance and fell on wet, slippery mud while attempting to cross a wooden board section, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
A lack of public support for the US bombing campaign in Iran appears to be adding to the political headwinds facing Republicans in New Hampshire ahead of the midterm elections, according to data released Monday by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center.
An outright majority of registered voters in the state (59 percent) oppose the war — including 95 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of undeclared voters, and 20 percent of Republicans — according to a survey of 1,491 people conducted last week.
Those numbers, combined with domestic economic concerns, help to explain why Democrats appear to be gaining ground in New Hampshire, according to Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.
“War and economic uncertainty tend to hurt the incumbent party,” he said.
The survey found a notable shift in how voters responded when asked generally which party’s candidate would get their vote if the congressional elections were held now. Democrats outperformed Republicans by 8 percentage points (49 percent to 41 percent) on this “generic ballot” question in March, doubling the 4-point lead (46 percent to 42 percent) they had in November, when this survey was last conducted.
These numbers come as Democrats hope to hang onto all four seats in New Hampshire’s congressional delegation, despite Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s impending retirement triggering wide open contests for two of those seats.
Representative Chris Pappas, who represents the 1st Congressional District, has a commanding lead in the Democratic primary for Shaheen’s seat in the Senate. Meanwhile, former US senators John E. Sununu and Scott Brown are competing for the Republican nomination.
Sununu, who secured President Trump’s endorsement in early February, leads Brown by 21 percentage points (49 percent to 28 percent), according to the Saint Anselm survey. (A poll conducted in January by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center found Sununu with a similar lead in the GOP race.)
Hypothetical matchups in the Saint Anselm survey data suggest Pappas may be on track to beat either Sununu or Brown in the general election, though his current lead over Sununu (46 percent to 43 percent) is barely larger than the margin of sampling error (2.5 percentage points).
Although voter sentiment appears to be shifting to favor Democrats in federal races, first-term Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte still appears to have an early advantage in her 2026 bid for reelection.
In hypothetical matchups with the Democratic candidates, Ayotte is leading Cinde Warmington by 7 percentage points (46 percent to 39 percent), and she’s leading Jonathan Kiper by 14 points (45 percent to 31 percent), according to the Saint Anselm survey.
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MANCHESTER, NH — The New Hampshire Lottery began distributing a new $30 scratch ticket to retailers statewide on Monday, introducing what it says is the largest scratch ticket jackpot in its history.
The game, called $30 $3,000,000 Cash Spectacular, offers three top prizes of $3 million and is the Granite State’s first $30 ticket in more than a decade.
To mark the launch, the lottery unveiled a 70-foot-tall banner of the new ticket on the side of the GYK building, the former R.G. Sullivan Cigar Factory Building, at 175 Canal St. in Manchester. The ticket has a limited run, according to the New Hampshire Lottery.
“We are always looking for new and exciting ways to connect with our players while delivering opportunities to win big,” Charlie McIntyre, the executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery, said. “Seeing this new $30 scratch ticket brought to life on such a large scale in downtown Manchester is a powerful reminder of the fun and anticipation our games create. We’re thrilled to offer our players the chance to win $3 million — the largest scratch ticket jackpot prize we have ever offered — and we look forward to the excitement this new ticket will bring.”
The game uses a standard match-and-win format. According to the lottery, players win the prize shown if any of their numbers match any winning numbers. Players who reveal a 2X, 5X, 10X, 20X or 50X symbol win 2, 5, 10, 20 or 50 times the prize shown for that symbol.
The lottery said players who reveal “WINALL” win all 35 prizes. If a player reveals a roll of cash symbol, they automatically win the prize shown. The bonus portion of the ticket is played separately, according to the lottery.
Tickets may be purchased by anyone 18 or older at New Hampshire Lottery retailers across the state. The lottery said players can use its website to find the retailer nearest to them.
The rollout adds a new high-priced scratch option for New Hampshire players and gives retailers a new game to offer customers. The new ticket went into distribution Monday and is now available statewide, according to the New Hampshire Lottery.
Six people were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries after a floor collapsed at a wedding venue in Tamworth, New Hampshire, around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, a spokesperson for the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office said.
The collapse happened while a wedding party of about 140 people were present, according to a joint release from the Tamworth Fire/Rescue Department and the State Fire Marshal’s Office. The office confirmed there were no fatalities and said late Saturday that four of the people treated at the hospital had already been released.
A phone call to the venue, the Preserve at Chocorua, was not answered. Tamworth, a town of about 2,800 people, is around 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of Concord, New Hampshire, near the western border of Maine. Phone calls to the MaineHealth Memorial Hospital went unanswered Saturday night.
The Fire Marshal’s Office said while more than 100 people gathered in a building called the Sap House at the venue, the floor buckled creating a 20-foot by 20-foot opening and sending about 70 people into the basement. Several people were trapped by the fallen beams and by farm equipment that had been stored on the lower floor.
An office spokesperson said in a release late Saturday that before first responders arrived, other guests and staff helped some of the people who had fallen climb out of the basement with the aid of ladders, and were rendering first aid to people with minor injuries. It was unclear how many people were treated at the scene, and investigators are still determining the extent of injuries.
A photo from the Fire Marshal’s Office shows a chandelier and white bunting decorating the ceiling above the buckled floor boards, as well as stacked benches that had been used for seating for the wedding before the collapse.
The Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the collapse along with the Tamworth Fire/Rescue Department, a spokesperson said Saturday. Investigators believe the building “was over capacity” prior to the floor collapse, a spokesperson said in a release.
A first responder who arrived on scene shortly after 911 calls came in described half the floor of the building where the wedding ceremony was set to take place as having fallen into the basement over scanner traffic listened to on Broadcastify. He asked for more first responders to talk to witnesses, saying there were about 145 people present at the event. The responder also said they were carefully pulling people out of the building basement.
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