A day after coastal flooding washed over Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, construction crews worked to clear up the debris.
Sunday’s coastal flooding marks the third significant coastal flooding event this year.
Along Ocean Boulevard, chunks of asphalt littered the ground where water caved in the walkways.
“This year seems to be worse, because the very high tides that we’ve had have been higher than any of us who have been here for a long time can recall,” said Michael McMahon, the fire chief and emergency management director in Hampton, who has been working in the town for nearly 30 years.
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Cleanup is underway on New Hampshire’s Seacoast after high tide caused severe flooding.
Along with closing off areas along Route 101 and Route 1A, police sent out a warning to the Hampton community in advance, asking people to keep away from Ocean Boulevard between Hampton and Rye as flooding increased.
“We had anticipated a nearly 12-and-a-half-foot high tide, which is remarkably high for us here in Hampton,” McMahon said.
“It was a little over two feet, so it wasn’t as bad, but still it left all this mess in front of the house,” said resident Rebecca Clocher.
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A storm brought severe flooding to Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, on Wednesday. Scores of homes were covered in water, which people could be seen wading through.
Flooding started shortly after 11 a.m. on Sunday, and neighbors say most of the water drained by 5 p.m.
Along Ocean Boulevard, a gas line was left exposed, while bright orange cones sectioned off parts of the street where neighbors wouldn’t be able to walk.
Aerial images from the flood show water pooling in between homes, replacing the roadways, but neighbors say Sunday’s flood is nothing compared to the two coastal floods they experienced back in January.
“A lot of people had to move out across the street right there because their houses were damaged by the flood,” said Bob Latour as he pointed at the homes along his block now left abandoned following the devastation.
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Emergency crews are still assessing the totally damage from Sunday’s flooding. Meanwhile, Hampton residents are waiting for funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for January’s flooding.
CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire lawmakers have moved to reject a Republican-backed proposal to launch an impeachment inquiry into the lone Democrat on the state’s five-member Executive Council.
On Friday, a key committee of lawmakers delivered a unanimous 17-0 vote against an impeachment inquiry into Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill of Lebanon, N.H.
The vote on House Resolution 41 followed an abbreviated public hearing, after the bill’s sponsor withdrew his support for the proposal and instead asked lawmakers on the committee to recommend killing it.
The push for Liot Hill’s impeachment was led by Representative Joe Sweeney, a Salem Republican and the deputy majority leader in the New Hampshire House.
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At issue were several emails Liot Hill had sent from her official account to help a partisan law firm identify voters impacted by a new state law. The law tightened voter ID requirements for absentee ballots.
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Sweeney had previously called Liot Hill’s correspondence “political lawfare run out of a taxpayer-funded inbox.” In December, a review by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office found that Liot Hill’s conduct was not illegal and did not constitute a misuse of office, clearing the complaint against her.
Reached by the Globe on Friday, Sweeney, who was not present at the public hearing, said in a statement he preferred to let voters decide whether Liot Hill should continue to serve in the upcoming November election.
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“After reviewing the matter and hearing the discussion, I believe the appropriate course is to move forward and allow the voters and the political process to do their work,” he said.
“The purpose of filing the resolution was to ensure that the constitutional questions raised were addressed seriously and transparently,” he said, noting that he stands by the process and the decision to recommend killing the resolution.
In an interview, Liot Hill said she was pleased with the unanimous vote from the House Judiciary Committee.
“The committee vote, I think, sends the message that there was no merit to this,” she said.
The proposal now heads to the full House of Representatives, which has the power to approve the committee’s recommendation to reject it.
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Amanda Gokee can be reached at amanda.gokee@globe.com. Follow her @amanda_gokee.
A woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her baby whose body was found in a pond in Manchester, New Hampshire last year. Hepay Juma, 26, of Manchester, is now charged with reckless second-degree murder.
The New Hampshire Attorney General said Juma was arrested for “causing the death of Baby Jane “Grace” Doe, her child, under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life.”
On March 27, 2025, the baby’s body was found floating in the water at Pine Island Park in Manchester. The baby’s death was treated as suspicious following an autopsy.
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Investigators have not released any information about how they made the arrest or how the baby died.
Hepay Juma, 26, of Manchester, NH, is charged in connection with the death of her baby.
Manchester, NH police
At the time, Manchester Police Chief Peter Marr said the baby’s death was “extremely tragic.”
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Police asked the public for help after the baby’s body was discovered. They wanted to know if anyone saw someone discarding anything in the water in the previous 14 days, or if anyone knew a pregnant woman who gave birth during that time who needed medical help.
A funeral was held for baby Grace Doe last May, and the public was invited to pay their respects. “The way she was discarded is heartbreaking, and it is important that we give her a proper farewell,” Chief Marr said last year.
The baby was named Grace by police “to celebrate the kindness extended to her by those who refuse to let her life go unrecognized.”
Juma is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in Manchester District Court.
