New Hampshire
Your weekly guide to taking action in New Hampshire May 6-10, 2026 –
Protests and rallies:
đ Wednesday (May 6)
New Hampshire Peace Action: Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire Now! (Dover, 2 p.m.)Â
New Hampshire Peace Action: Ceasefire Now! (Hanover, 4-5 p.m.)Â
603Forward: North Country Power Hour (Gorham, 6 p.m.)
đ Thursday (May 7)
New Hampshire Peace Action: Ceasefire Vigil (Concord, 12-1:30 p.m.)Â
American Friends Service Committee: Meeting for Worship with Attention to Peace (Virtually, 7:30 p.m.)Â
Brookline Democrats: Gerrymandering in NH (Brookline Historical Society, 6:30 p.m.)
đ Friday (May 8)
American Friends Service Committee: Action Hour for Palestine (Virtual, 12 p.m.)
Indivisible: Nashua Bridge Brigade (Nashua, 2-4 p.m.)Â
New Hampshire Public Radio: By Degrees Climate Summit Community Resilience (Manchester, 12 p.m.)Â
Rochester Dems: Dance for Democracy (Rochester Performing & Arts Center, 6 p.m.)
đ Saturday (May 9)Â
NH Peace Action: Standing against authoritarian actions (Kingston, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.)
New Hampshire Democratic Party: Pro-Democracy Weekly Visibility (Derry, 12 p.m)
đ Sunday (May 10)
Occupy Seacoast: Civil Rights Sunday (Portsmouth, 12-4 p.m.)Â
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter: Bridge Brigade (Exeter, 5-5:30 p.m.)
Have an event to add? Email Lily Jackson, lily@couriernewsroom.com with details (please send details at least one week before the event).
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New Hampshire
NH Lottery Powerball, Pick 3 Day winning numbers for May 4, 2026
The New Hampshire Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at Monday, May 4, 2026 results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from May 4 drawing
30-36-42-60-63, Powerball: 13, Power Play: 2
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from May 4 drawing
Day: 6-2-1
Evening: 3-3-9
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from May 4 drawing
Day: 7-9-1-8
Evening: 9-8-0-8
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Megabucks Plus numbers from May 4 drawing
01-05-33-34-41, Megaball: 05
Check Megabucks Plus payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Gimme 5 numbers from May 4 drawing
23-27-29-37-38
Check Gimme 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Millionaire for Life numbers from May 4 drawing
08-17-22-34-39, Bonus: 05
Check Millionaire for Life payouts and previous drawings here.
Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results
When are the New Hampshire Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Pick 3, 4: 1:10 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. daily.
- Mega Millions: 11:00 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
- Megabucks Plus: 7:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily.
- Gimme 5: 6:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
- Millionaire for Life: 11:15 p.m. daily.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a New Hampshire managing editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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NH medical marijuana program added 2,100 new patients last year – Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
More than 2,100 new patients signed up with New Hampshireâs Therapeutic Cannabis Program last year, bringing the total registry to nearly 17,000, according to new state data.
That increase â about 14.5% from the year prior â is the largest since 2021.
Likely driving the growth were changes to state law in 2024 that allowed more people to qualify for medical marijuana use. They can now join the program at doctorsâ discretion â which covers any debilitating or terminal condition or symptom, as long as their medical provider agrees the benefits of cannabis could outweigh the risks â or with a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder.
More than 900 patients list anxiety as their qualifying condition, according to the report issued this week by the state Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the program.
âThere was certainly an uptick in growth after those bills took effect in late 2024. It hasnât skyrocketed, but has somewhat accelerated the growth of the program,â said Matt Simon, a lobbyist for GraniteLeaf Cannabis, one of three licensed cannabis providers in the state. âWhere weâve been, this extremely tiny program that was tiny for years, it is steadily growing.â
With 16,846 people, about 1.2% of the population are either certified patients or designated caregivers, who are authorized to buy cannabis on behalf of a patient. Thatâs close to one in every 84 Granite Staters.
The data released by the state was collected in June 2025. Simon estimates roughly 1,000 more people have joined since then.
The Therapeutic Cannabis Program, established in 2013, is the only way to lawfully consume marijuana in New Hampshire, as recreational use remains illegal. Patients require a doctorâs approval to join and receive a state-issued card that licenses them to buy medical cannabis products from seven dispensaries across the state, operated by three producers: GraniteLeaf Cannabis, Sanctuary Medicinals and Temescal Wellness.
The new data comes as the Trump administration reclassified medical marijuana last month as a less dangerous drug, effectively legitimizing programs run in 40 states, including New Hampshireâs. The change opens the door for more cannabis research and potential tax breaks for producers.

In New Hampshire, program demographics skew older. Nearly a quarter of patients are between 55 and 65 years old, and almost 70% of patients are over the age of 45. Pain is far and away the most common condition that people aim to treat with cannabis.
Patients are concentrated in southern New Hampshire and in towns where dispensaries, also called alternative treatment centers, are located. There are seven across the state in Chichester, Conway, Dover, Keene, Lebanon, Merrimack and Plymouth.
Concord has between 300 and 734 patients, according to the state data. Manchester has the most patients out of any municipality, at 1,150.
Despite the programâs growth, cost and accessibility remain a challenge. Jerry Knirk, a retired surgeon and state representative who now chairs the stateâs Therapeutic Cannabis Medical Oversight Board, said New Hampshireâs strict regulatory environment plays a role.
âPart of the issue is we have a very high-quality, highly regulated program with testing of all products and lots of restrictions and things, and that does make things more expensive, but itâs how you keep the quality to be really high,â Knirk said. âWe want to have really good quality. Unfortunately, it does make it a little bit harder.
One family of three spent $548 after discounts on a six-week supply of their medicine, which they use for chronic pain and other ailments, the Monitor reported last year.
Limited retail locations also mean that in some parts of the North Country, patients must drive upwards of an hour to obtain their medicine.
âThe lack of dispensary locations, well, yeah, that is a problem,â Knirk said.
The oversight board, joined by other advocates, has pushed for laws to alleviate those concerns. Some of the biggest include allowing patients to grow their own medicine at home and letting dispensaries use outdoor greenhouses to cut down on electricity costs.
That legislation is introduced in the State House almost every year but is often torpedoed by Republicansâ concerns over security protocols.
While advocates expected little movement on marijuana policy under Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who opposes legalizing recreational use, the bill to allow greenhouse cultivation is nearing the finish line this session. Former governor Chris Sununu vetoed a similar bill two years ago; Ayotte hasnât indicated whether sheâd sign it.
Simon said that while cost and accessibility are still challenges, patient satisfaction with the program is improving.
âWe started in a tough place with a lot of people really not liking the law and the program,â he said. âI think itâs been steady growth and steady improvement. Prices have come down somewhat, and the vibes are better.â
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Only a handful of New Hampshire farms are as old as the nation. Their endurance has relied on adaptability – Concord Monitor
Five major dairy farms populated the half-mile stretch of Upper City Road in Pittsfield where Tom Osborneâs childhood unfolded.
As he matured into young adulthood in the 1960s and 70s, the golden years of New England dairy were quietly waning in his backyard. All but one of those farms â enjoying the upward swing of technological progress in mechanical milking and refrigeration made during earlier decades â have deserted dairy, including the Osborne family, which sold its dairy cows in 1986.
Hours were long, and the work was unforgiving. Returns paled in comparison to those investments: The price of milk fluctuated with little predictability while investment grew costlier, often outweighing revenue. Towards the end of the lifetime of their dairy operation, Osborne remembers his late father, David, straining to eke out a third milking from their cows every day, one more than standard.
Resting on their shoulders was the endurance of a business already more than 200 years old. Now, the farm, founded in 1775, is marking its semiquincentennial, looking very different than how it did in the past.
âOver the years, weâve had to evolve and not always do what weâve always done. I think sometimes thatâs a hard thing,â Osborne said. âYou kind of feel like, âHey, this is what weâve always done, letâs keep doing what we do and what we know.â But I think weâve had to just learn.â
In 1976, the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food listed 56 legacy farms as enduring within the same family of owners for 200 years. As the nation now marks its semiquincentennial, 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, only a fraction of those farm enterprises remain, pastoral gems scattered across the state.
To shoulder the caprices of the industry, most have learned to adapt.
In 1938, a hurricane made landfall in Lebanon, tearing through Ascutney View Farm, razing a four-story chicken barn Susan Coleâs father had just built. When the storm subsided, family legend tells that there were chickens stranded in trees.
âSometimes Mother Nature decides for us,â Cole said Friday morning, representing her family farm, founded in 1771, at the New Hampshire Farm, Forest and Garden Exposition. âYou have to be a flexible mind.â
Her father passed away at 102, having worked their 1,100 acres of forested and pasture land his whole life. The 100 dairy cows Cole remembers showing as a child through 4H were gradually sold, and today, the family keeps 60 sheep and taps 2,100 maple trees. Her husband manages the brunt of the manual labor, but without her full-time work in real estate, Cole said the farm would not be viable.
âHaving no outside income is not an option,â she said.
Their familyâs approach isnât altogether uncommon. In 2022, farmers in New Hampshire whose primary occupation was one other than farming outnumbered farmers who made their income primarily from their land, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nearly 60% had an off-farm job that they listed as their main source of income.
For the Osbornes, bifurcating the family business proved to be a more enduring shield against the financial riptides of the industry.
While his brother Paul maintains the farm, Tom Osborne inherited from his father an expanding retail chain, Osborneâs Farm and Garden Centers, with locations in Concord, Hooksett and Belmont.
The year after the family sold its cows, they opened their first Osborneâs Agway Store, selling farm supplies. The farm continued to see changes: Their small horticultural operation has plateaued over the years; land that used to sprout corn has been seeded for hay.
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Osborne cultivates 25,000 hay bales each season and resells more from other producers in his stores, but even the cropâs relative success hasnât insulated the farm from uncontrollable, unpredictable challenges. The last two summers have yielded the best hay seasons in recent memory â for them and for their neighbors and competitors.
Hiring has rebounded in Osborneâs stores since COVID, but labor challenges still cast a long shadow over farm operations, especially for Heidi Bundy at Tomapo Farm in Lebanon.
Bundy knows the history of their land, inexorably entwined with the history of her family: In the mid 1800s, the family owned hundreds of sheep as wool boomed. They shifted to dairy with a herd of Jersey cows, which were displaced by black-and-white Holsteins by the time she was a child.
In 1970, her father and grandfather, by then equal business partners, reckoning with the decline of dairy, reached an impasse: either stay in or get out. They chose the latter.
During the ten years her grandfather, Howard Townsend, served as the stateâs commissioner of agriculture, her father ran the farm himself, logging alone in the woods for months at a time. âWe diversified, and weâll probably continue to have to be diversified,â Bunday said.
That decisive hour came for the Osbornesâ dairy operation two years later. Around 1972, Osborne said, his father questioned whether to throw in the towel on dairy, choosing instead to prolong the inevitable.
âI think my dad, in his later years, regretted taking on more debt to stay afloat,â he said.
Their farms, generational bulwarks, have lived continuous evolutions.
The future approaches with greater uncertainty.
Of Bundyâs five children, she said none feel compelled to take on the farm. Sheâs promised her parents a place to live out the remainder of their days, and sheâs going to âkeep on doing what I can doâ to ensure that she honors her word.
âIf I have to leave the farm, I can do it,â she reflected. âI wonât be happy about it, though.â
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