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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. We begin a week long back to school survival guide. Tonight. tips for first time students and their parents. AND A media blitz in the tiny town of Rollinsford where a lucky couple bought a winning Powerball ticket. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. |
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A Maine couple has won a share of the $294-point-eight million dollar powerball. the second highest in history. The ticket was bought at the Cumberland farms in Rollinsford where members of the national media were camped out since news broke of the sale Saturday night. There were four winners in all including the Maine Couple, one from Kentucky, Delaware and Minnesota. Each ticket is worth 74-million dollars. |
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So who is the lucky couple from Maine? Maura McCann, a spokesperson from the New Hampshire State Lottery Commission joined me by phone. |
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Okay, so you didn't win powerball - but you might still have a chance to claim some money. The New Hampshire State Treasurer's office says it's holding more than 30 million dollars in lost or forgotten savings and checking accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds and more.and, it all belongs to state residents. So, once again this year, the department will set up a booth at the Hopkinton fair, where you can get a free name search done to see if any of that unclaimed money belongs to you. Last year, close to 50 thousand dollars was reuturned to granite staters. The Hopkinton Fair runs from August 30th through September 3rd. |
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A record number of students are heading to school this week and next. from Kindergarten to college, schools across the country are struggling to meet the needs of an increasing number of students and decreasing number of teachers. We'll look at these issues and more this week in our Back to School survival guide. |
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Tonight. we have some tips for first timers. For some parents watching their child enter kindergarten, junior high or high school marks a major milestone in a young person's life that will be remembered for a long time to come. Recently, we talked to three experts about how to make those transitions a little bit easier for their children.We started by taking a look at the first day of kindergarten. |
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Our back to school survival guide continues tomorrow with a look at school safety measures and dress codes. |
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The Strafford County Chapter of the Red Cross issued an appeal today to help several families left homeless after a deadly weekend fire. The fire broke out in the middle of the night at an apartment building in Farmington. Two passersby saw flames, heard screams and rushed in to rescue a four month old baby. The state Fire Marshal says the baby's parents died from smoke inhalation. Farmington Police Chief Scott Roberge explains that a smoke detector outside the couple's apartment had been disconnected. |
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If you would like to make a donation to the Strafford County Chapter of the American Red Cross, call 742-3449. |
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Stocks bounced back and forth today and then lost ground late in the day. Some say investors are waiting to make any big moves until they get more economic data including consumer confidence tomorrow and the Wednesday release of the second-quarter gross domestic product. |
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 41 points to ten-thousand-382. The Nasdaq composite lost four points to end at 19-hundred-12. The S and P 500 closed down more than five points at eleven-hundred-79. |
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors. Chubb was down 93 cents. Shares of Fleetboston Financial lost 96 cents. Oxford Health Plans closed up 92 cents. Pennichuck was up a dollar 50. And State Street Corporation lost 93 cents. |
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By the end of the year, New Hampshire and the province of Quebec will create a task force to work on enviromnmental issues. Governor Jeanne Shaheen will sign an agreement with the canadian province, during her attendence at a two day meeting in Connecticut with New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers. Today, the governors and premiers pledged to reduce mercury emissions 75 percent by 2010. But several environmental groups were not happy with that pledge. They called on the Governors to stop New England's mercury emmisions by the end of the decade. |
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Showers provided some relief from the dry weather that's plagued parts of the state. Some areas have received less than a quarter of the normal rainfall in the last month and a half. Dry condtions helped spark brush fires including five in the Monadnock region over the weekend. We checked in with Katie Koster at the Mount Washington observatory to find out how the weather is shaping and for details on what it was like on the rock pile today. |
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Imagine writing a book that you know will connect with children and adults.but twenty publishers turn you down. So you persevere and publish it on your own. The next thing you know, Barnes and Noble is knocking at your door. That's what happened to New Hampshire artist and author Tracy Kane who brings to life in her book "Fairy Houses" - a story where imagination meets the magic of our natural world. |
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Tracy Kane is currently working on her second book, the subject of which she is keeping a secret. for now. If you're interrested in finding out more about fairy houses, you can visit the website at fairyhouses -dot-com or call 800-397-7641. |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook - An ounce of prevention or an invasion of privacy? We continue our back to school survival guide with the palm print school security debate. |
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That's it for this edition of New Hampshire Outlook. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for Antiques Roadshow U-K. We'll be back tomorrow at 7:30. Good night. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. We begin a week long back to school survival guide. Up first are tips for first time students and their parents. Here at 11:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. An ounce of prevention or invasion of privacy? Our back to school survival guide examines The palm print school security debate. Join us tonight at 7:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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A panel of experts today told New Hampshire legislators the promises made consumers when the electric industry sough deregulation haven't been kept. Some said they're skeptical if they will ever be kept. About 700 representatives from ten northeastern states, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia and several Canadian provinces are meeting in Bartlett this week at the eastern regional meeting of the Council of State Governments to discuss issues ranging from electric competition to school finance. During a panel discussion, Peter Bradford, a visiting lecturer at Yale University, said the challenge facing the electric industry is to keep the promises made to the public that it will have a choice in power producers and lower rates. Richard Rosen, senior research director at the Tellus Institute, questioned if consumers wouldn't be better off if the industry had not been deregulated. He said people could have competition today but their rates would increase since they are being kept artificially low now during a transition to competition. AP-NY-08- |
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DATE:8/27/01 TOPIC: Imagine writing a book that you know will connect with children and adults.but twenty publishers turn you down. So you persevere and publish it on your own. The next thing you know, Barnes and Noble is knocking at your door. That's what happened to New Hampshire artist and author Tracy Kane who brings to life in her book "Fairy Houses" - a story where imagination meets the magic of our natural world. SEGMENT LENGTH: 5:51 NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Tracy Kane\Author & Illlustrator Fairy House Builder |
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DATE:8/27/01 TOPIC:For some parents watching their child enter kindergarten, junior high or high school marks a major milestone in a young person's life that will be remembered for a long time to come. Recently, we talked to three experts about how to make those transitions a little bit easier for their children.We started by taking a look at the first day of kindergarten. SEGMENT LENGTH::8:48 NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Anna Willis\Founder, Upper Room & Parent Educator Jeri Rabchenuk\Educational Consultant & Clinical Social Worker Bob David \Educational Consultant |
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P-NH--Tax Revolt dewpor Anti-tax group meeting again to plan opposition -- The new group founded to fight New Hampshire's statewide property tax meets again tonight, possibly to plan strategy. It's called Taxpayers Revolt Against State Hi-jinks, and some members have talked about having communities secede from New Hampshire in protest. Spokesman John Reagan says the group believes communities should pay for their own schools, just like they have in the past. The problem is, the state Supreme Court said relying on varying local property tax rates to pay for schools is unconstitutional. The group maintains the state must find money in its own budget to support schools, rather than having towns share their property tax money. Reagan says secession is a last resort. He says a more likely plan would be to have residents and towns refuse to pay the tax. |
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News - August 27, 2001 Donald Bliss-state fire marshall POWERBALL: We have a winner From wire and staff reports ROLLINSFORD — The satellite trucks began arriving early yesterday morning at this store near the Maine border hoping that a new multi-millionaire would come forward to claim his or her prize, but to no avail. Winning tickets in Saturday night’s $294.8 million Powerball drawing were sold in Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota and here at the Cumberland Farms store. Word spread quickly that someone won a share of the jackpot with a ticket purchased at the store, but it was business as usual Sunday morning. Customers filled up with gas or bought coffee and snacks — and an occasional lottery ticket. Outside, New Hampshire Sweepstakes spokeswoman Maura McCann said she wasn’t surprised the state’s winner hadn’t come forward yet. “They probably haven’t even checked their ticket yet,” said McCann, who got the news herself at home just before midnight. “When I got the call, I was absolutely thrilled that a winning ticket was sold in our state,” she said. Rollinsford, population about 2,700, is on the Maine-New Hampshire border, about 12 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. Many tickets undoubtedly were sold to people who live in Maine, which doesn’t have Powerball. Television stations from around New England sent their satellite trucks and crews. Even CNN had a crew and truck at the scene. The jackpot for the game, which is played in 21 states and the District of Columbia, was the second-highest in Powerball history. A group of factory workers in Ohio split a $295.7 million prize in 1998. Each winner will get $73.7 million, or $2.9 million per year for 25 years if they take the annuity. They will each get $41.4 million cash if they take the cash option. All of the figures are before taxes. The winning Powerball numbers were 8-17-22-42-47 and Powerball 21. In the early hours, most of the Cumberland Farms’ customers who trickled in learned the news from reporters. Nick Vatistas, 21, of Rollinsford, stopped in around 2 a.m. Sunday. He said he had about five tickets, but hadn’t checked them yet. Did he think he might have won? “I don’t even want to think that right now,” he said. “I’ll die if I won.” Vatistas left to awaken his parents, who he said also buy tickets at the store. Regular customer Tyler Lovett heard the news about 3:30 a.m. when he stopped in for cigarettes and bottled water. “They just told me about the winner. Three hundred million dollars; that’s a sickening amount of money,” said Lovett, of South Berwick, Maine. Lovett has stayed away from Powerball, but he may reconsider. He pulled out his lighter, which has “Money Talks” printed on it. “My lighter says money talks. It really makes me think,” he said. Store manager Deane Palmer said tickets sold like hotcakes Friday and Saturday — many to customers who had driven long distances. “People were buying tickets for relatives in New York last night,” he said. Lottery officials said the Rollinsford store sold $30,000 in Powerball tickets since Thursday, compared to average weekly sales of about $1,500. McCann said things were just as frenzied at stores around the state. She said the state usually sells $500,000 to $600,000 worth of Powerball tickets in a week. Last week’s total was a record $12 million. For Friday and Saturday alone, there were $6.1 million tickets sold in New Hampshire. Of each $1, 30 cents goes to New Hampshire schools, 5 cents to retailers and 50 cents to players in prizes, she said. She said the rest is spent on operations and administration. Sweepstakes officials predict that this week’s ticket sales will produce about $4 million for education. The Cumberland Farms chain, based in Canton, Mass., will get $30,000 for selling the winning ticket. McCann wants people to check their tickets. But she hopes the winner will take stock of the situation before coming forward. “I would think that they would want to wait a little. and seek legal advice first and seek financial advice first,” she said. A University of New Hampshire professor recommends that people minimize the tax obligation by taking the prize as an annuity over several years. Assistant professor of accounting and finance at the Whittemore School at UNH Toni Smith said “The reason is simple. If you take it as a lump sum, you pay all the tax on it now and eliminate any planning opportunities you have for saving over the long run.” She also said people who intend to share the prize should make that known before the proceeds are claimed. That can also reduce tax liabilities she said. The Powerball fever spread into many states that do not sell tickets, causing many people to cross into neighboring states to take a chance at winning a fortune. The odds of winning are one in 80 million. The richest lottery prize in U.S. history is the $363 million Big Game jackpot, won last year by two players in Illinois and Michigan. |