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Stimulus for Enviro Clean-Up and Londonderry Fire Dept.
by Jon Greenberg on
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From Carol Shea-Porter's office, we read that NH Dept. of Environmental Services will get $1.8 million for a revolving load fund to deal with what are generally called brownfields. These are older industrial sites that need to be cleaned up before they can be redeveloped.
Here's the press release with a few more details.
We also see that Londonderry's Fire Dept. got over $1.6 million to relocate and upgrade its facilities. That's more than pocketchange for a town, even one as large as Londonderry.
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Declining home prices continue to help residential sales in New Hampshire. Prices are down about 11 percent and sales for the year are a hair above what they were in 2008.
Real estate agents are pleased with the October numbers. After a grim period stretching from last fall to early spring, there’s been a consistent if modest upward trend. The number of homes sold last month rose compared to this September and compared to October a year ago. The data come from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors.
The state unemployment rate fell 4-tenths of a percent in October.
Unemployment dropped to 6.8 percent. The decline caught most analysts by surprise. Usually, when the national rate rises, as it did, so does the state’s.
Economist Annette Nielsen with the labor market information bureau says the job growth is real. The rate is not due to lots of people dropping out of the labor force. But Nielsen takes a cautious view.
Nielsen: "I would like to see a couple of months before I would definitely say this is what’s going on."
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