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Who is representing NH at the Winter Olympics? Meet the Granite Staters going for gold.

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February 5, 2026

Who is representing NH at the Winter Olympics? Meet the Granite Staters going for gold.

Hockey players and alpine and nordic skiers with New Hampshire ties are among the athletes to watch as the Winter Olympics get underway in Italy this month.

The 2026 Winter Olympics open Feb. 6 in Milano Cortina, Italy, and New Hampshire is well represented in hockey and snow sports, including alpine, freestyle and cross-country skiing.

Dartmouth College, which has sent athletes to every Winter Olympics since they began in Chamonix, France, in 1924, has over a dozen student-athletes or alumni competing in Milano Cortina.

Scroll down to learn more about Olympians from New Hampshire, as well as athletes who have ties to the Granite State.

Photo courtesy of Steve Fuller and UNH Athletics

Lucinda Anderson during a UNH cross-country skiing race. Photo courtesy of Steve Fuller and UNH Athletics

Lucinda Anderson, Biathlon

Anderson, 25, is a 2024 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where she competed on the nordic ski team. She switched to biathlon in 2024.

Cayla Barnes, Hockey

Barnes, 27, attended the New Hampton School in New Hampshire, and then played four years at Boston College, before joining the U.S. team. She is a two-time Olympic medalist.

Mary Bocock, Alpine Skiing

Bocock, 22, is a student at Dartmouth College. She competed for the U.S. Ski Team, not the college team. Her hometown is Salt Lake City.

Sean Doherty, Biathalon

Doherty, 30, is from Center Conway. This is his fourth Olympics. At the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, he was the youngest U.S. athlete to compete in biathlon.

John Steel Hagenbuch is one of two current Dartmouth College students competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics

John Steel Hagenbuch, Cross-country Skiing

Hagenbuch is a student at Dartmouth College. He is from Ketchum, Idaho.

Caroline Harvey, Hockey

Harvey, 23, is from Salem. She was also on Team USA in 2022 and won a silver medal at the Winter Games in Beijing.

Grace Henderson, Freeski Slopestyle, Big Air

Henderson, 24, is from Madbury and trained at Waterville Valley before joining the U.S. Freeski Team. Her younger brother, Hunter Henderson, also competes for the U.S. Freeski Team in slopestyle and big air. He is a first alternate on Team USA’s men’s freestyle team.

Read more: Madbury to Milan, Grace Henderson’s ‘amazing journey’ to Olympics

Hilary Knight, Hockey

Knight, 36, who used to live in Hanover, is a four-time Olympic medalist for Team USA. Knight has announced that Milano Cortina will be her final Olympics.

Nina O’Brien, Alpine Skiing

O’Brien, 28, is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and skied at Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont.

Grace Henderson during Women's Freeski Qualification at the Visa Big Air 2025 on December 11, 2025 at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. ©Brett Wilhelm/U.S. Ski & Snowboard — Grace Henderson during Women’s Freeski Qualification at the Visa Big Air 2025 on December 11, 2025 at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. ©Brett Wilhelm/U.S. Ski & Snowboard

More athletes to watch

Other Dartmouth College athletes and alumni who have qualified for the 2026 Winter Olympics include Jasmine Drolet (cross-country skiing), Michaela Hesová (hockey for Team Czechia) Laura Stacey (hockey for Team Canada), Kyle Negomir, Tanguy Nef (skiing for Switzerland), AG Ginnis (representing Greece in alpine), Lauren Jortberg (Nordic), Julia Kern (Nordic), and Rosie Brennan (Nordic), with Brennan competing in her third Olympics.

AJ Hurt, a Dartmouth College alumni, is competing in her second Olympics; she made the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics

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New Hampshire employment law in 2026 – NH Business Review

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March 2, 2026

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New Hampshire employment law in 2026 – NH Business Review

What employers are getting wrong, and how to fix it before it becomes a claim

New Hampshire’s employment law landscape heading into 2026 may not be dramatically different from last year, but the real risks lie in implementation missteps. From the initial setting of wages, to calculating and distributing wages, employers will likely find a specific statute and/or labor regulation governing the transaction. Failure to follow these detailed wage and hour laws can result in significant back wages and other penalties being imposed by the state or federal Department of Labor following an audit. Fortunately, however, this area of employment law is relatively easy to master, once you are familiar with the basics.

Notice compliance

One of the most common pitfalls for employers in New Hampshire is misunderstanding the wage and hour notice requirements under RSA 275 and the related New Hampshire Department of Labor Administrative Rules.

At the time of hire, employers must notify employees in writing of their rate of pay and the day and place of payment. This notice is traditionally delivered to employees by way of an offer letter or some sort of “New Hire Rate of Pay” form. (A sample form is available from the New Hampshire Department of Labor website.) What surprises most employers, however, is that Lab. 803.03(f)(6) also requires employers to request and obtain their employees’ signatures on this written notification of wages, and employers must keep a copy of the signed written notification of wages on file. Further, employers must notify employees in writing during the course of employment of any changes to wages or day of pay prior to such changes taking effect, and the employer must obtain the employee’s signature on this subsequent notification as well. (See RSA 275:49; Lab. 803.03.)

Employers are further required to notify employees in writing, or through a posted notice maintained in a place accessible to employees, of:

• employment practices and policies with regard to vacation pay, sick leave and other fringe benefits.

• deductions made from the employee’s payroll check, for each period such deductions are made.

• information regarding the deductions allowed from wage payments under state law. (RSA 275:49; Lab. 803.03.)

Policies regarding vacation and sick leave should inform employees whether or not the employer will “cash out” unused time at year end or at the end of employment, and if so, under what terms. Again, if any changes are made to vacation pay, sick leave and other fringe benefits during the course of employment (all of which are considered “wages” under New Hampshire law), employers must request and obtain their employees’ signatures on the written notification of the change, and must keep a copy of the signed form on file. (Lab. 803.03.) Importantly, notification by way of pay stub alone is not sufficient, and, these requirements apply to both increases and decreases in pay.

Two-hour minimum (reporting pay)

Another frequently overlooked obligation is New Hampshire’s two-hour minimum reporting pay requirement. Under RSA 275:43-a, non-exempt employees who report to work but are sent home early must generally be paid for at least two hours. Weather-related closures, client cancellations or operational slowdown days can trigger this rule. Employers should also note that the New Hampshire Department of Labor currently applies this law to remote-based employees. Consequently, employees who “report to work” at an employer’s request from a home office may likewise have a right to two hours of pay, depending on the circumstances.

Salaried vs. hourly employees

Misclassification of employees as exempt from overtime remains a significant source of compliance exposure. The position’s job duties — not the titles or label such as “salaried” — determine whether an employee qualifies for an overtime exemption.

Employers, particularly in nonprofits, health care and small businesses, unintentionally misapply exempt classifications to roles such as administrative staff, office managers, executive assistants, program coordinators or hybrid jobs that involve significant non-exempt tasks. Over time, as organizational needs evolve and employees take on broader responsibilities, job duties can drift outside of an exemption’s scope.

Best practice is to periodically review job descriptions and actual job duties to ensure continued compliance with exemption criteria, particularly following any significant restructuring or job redesigns.

Peg O’Brien is chair of McLane Middleton’s Employment Law Practice Group. She can be reached at margaret.o’brien@mclane.com.

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New photo released in unsolved 1997 homicide of a N.H. woman

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March 2, 2026

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New photo released in unsolved 1997 homicide of a N.H. woman

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“Our family wants to know what happened, who did this and why,” said the family of the victim.

A new photo has been released of the victim in a nearly 30-year-long unsolved murder case, in the hope of finding any new potential witnesses in the cold case, New Hampshire officials said.

“Our family wants to know what happened, who did this and why,” the family of Rosalie Miller said in a press release. “We miss her and want to give her peace.”

Miller was last seen on December 8, 1996 at her apartment in Manchester. At the time of her disappearance, Miller had plans on meeting friends in the Auburn, New Hampshire area, officials said.

Her body was found on January 20, 1997 in a partially wooded spot on a residential lot along the Londonderry Turnpike in Auburn, officials said in the release.

The autopsy report declared Miller’s death a homicide by asphyxiation due to ligature strangulation, N.H. officials wrote.

As part of a new effort to garner public help with the case, an “uncirculated” photo of Miller, 36, is being distributed “in hopes it may jog the memory of someone who saw or spoke with her in the winter of 1996,” Attorney General John M. Formella and New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall announced on behalf of the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit in a joint press release.

Investigators are especially hoping to talk to anyone who was in contact with Miller in December of 1996 or anyone “who may have seen her in the vicinity of the Londonderry Turnpike in Auburn during that time,” officials said in the release.

The newly released photo of Rosalie Miller, 36, who was strangled to death nearly 30 years ago. – Attorney General John M. Formella and New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall

“We are releasing this new photograph today because we believe someone out there has information, perhaps a detail they thought was insignificant at the time, that could be the key to solving this case and bringing justice for Rosalie and those who loved her,” Senior Assistant Attorney General R. Christopher Knowles, New Hampshire Cold Case Unit Chief said in the release.

The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit encourages anyone with any amount of information to contact the group at [email protected] or (603) 271-2663.