New Hampshire on Tuesday October 27, 2009

NH: FairPoint enters bankruptcy court
By Chelsea Conaboy, Concord Monitor
FairPoint Communications will appear before a New York judge this afternoon to begin a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The company filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, about a year and a half after purchasing Verizon's landline network in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont with high hopes for expanding services and bringing new products to the region.
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ME: Advocate: FairPoint bankrupcty won't hurt NH users
By The Associated Press, Kennebec Journal
CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire's consumer advocate says FairPoint Communications' bankruptcy should not affect customers' phone service.
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NH: Swine flu spreading in region
By David Brooks, Nashua Telegraph
The H1N1 flu never really left New Hampshire, but in recent weeks it has started to crop up again – "widespread" is the way state health officials categorize its presence as of early October – and schools are starting to feel it.
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NH: Law stings laid-off workers, employers
By Tom Fahey, Columnist, The Union Leader (Manchester)
The state will pay roughly three times as much in unemployment claims this year as it did in 2008.
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NH: Nottingham secession move dropped
By Clinton Namuo, The Union Leader (Manchester)
NOTTINGHAM, N.H. -- Selectman Chair Mary Bonser last week made a surprise motion to consider seceding from the state, complaining that the town had no other recourse after years of fighting a state permit allowing water bottler USA Springs to pull about 300,000 gallons a day from local wells. Last night, Bonser withdrew her motion.
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