Moose lottery winners
According to a press release, 33 people have been offered official permits to hunt moose in New Hampshire this October in the state’s annual moose hunt lottery drawing, which was held at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in Concord.
The winning hunters will be officially notified by mail. A complete list of names of the 2024 winners and alternates is posted online at wildlife.nh.gov/hunting-nh.
Winners of the Lottery are offered permits to hunt moose in a specific Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) during the nine-day 2024 New Hampshire moose season from Saturday, Oct. 19, to Sunday, Oct. 27. There are eight WMUs. Winners are allowed to enlist a guide and one friend or relative to help on the hunt as a subpermittee, according to the release.
New Hampshire has held an annual moose hunt since 1988, when 75 permits were issued for a three-day hunt in the North Country. In 2023, 22 moose were harvested, for a statewide success rate of 67 percent, according to the release. Visit nhfishgame.com.
New hospice director
According to a press release, Granite VNA has appointed nurse management professional Otillie Dean-Crotty, R.N., B.S.N., as its director of hospice. Dean-Crotty will oversee the clinical business operations and patient care services of Granite VNA’s community hospice program with responsibilities including planning, organizing, developing and managing the agency’s hospice services as well as agency policies and procedures, according to the release.
Dean-Crotty brings 15 years of experience in advanced nursing and leadership roles, most recently as director of clinical services at Compassus, a hospice, home health and palliative care provider in Bedford, and also served as the director of nursing at The Huntington at Nashua, as a senior nurse care manager at Anthem, Inc., in Manchester, and as a hospice team lead for Home Health & Hospice Care in Merrimack, according to the same release. She is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree from Rivier University, where she received her master’s, bachelor’s and associate of science degrees in nursing.
In a statement, Rachel Tracy, M.S., R.N., Granite VNA’s hospice director of clinical operations, said that with Dean-Crotty’s “diverse experience in health and hospice care roles, we are confident in her ability to guide our teams and ensure that patients and their families receive exceptional care.” Visit granitevna.org.
Body cams
In a press release, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections announced that every sworn law enforcement officer in the department is now issued a body-worn camera, and all emergency vehicles are equipped with in-vehicle camera systems.
The New Hampshire Department of Corrections is now the second state corrections department in the country to deploy body-worn cameras department-wide to all sworn law enforcement officers, according to the same release.
The Department began a pilot of body-worn cameras through a U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance federal grant awarded in 2019, which provided technical assistance to engage a variety of stakeholders, to establish a departmental policy, and to purchase 52 body-worn cameras with a total grant amount of $52,006, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the pilot’s implementation, according to the release.
The Department advocated for additional state general funds through the budgeting process to deploy cameras to the Department after Gov. Sununu’s Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency encouraged all law enforcement agencies to use body and/or dash cameras, and this is funded through state general funds at a cost of $720,000, according to the release.
The Department initiated the pilot deployment in July 2023 in the Secure Psychiatric Unit and expanded rollout to the rest of the department including all corrections officers at the prisons and transitional housing units and all investigators and probation parole officers.
More than 450 body-worn cameras are now deployed department-wide with all officers and investigators trained on their operation, and all 55 of the department’s emergency vehicles are outfitted with cameras on the dash and/or inside the transport compartment, according to the release.
Visit corrections.nh.gov.
Summer fitness
On Friday, June 21, the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester hosted an event with teens at the Planet Fitness on Huse Road to celebrate the fitness center’s High School Summer Pass program. Through Aug. 31, teens age 14 to 19 can sign up to get a free summer membership to Planet Fitness, according to a press release. Teens under age 18 must register with a parent or guardian; see planetfitness.com/summerpass.
See the end of SEE Science Center’s Kickoff to Summer with Zach’s Contraptions with Zach Umperovitch at SEE, 200 Bedford St., Manchester, until Friday, June 28. Visit see-sciencecenter.org or call 669-0400. Read an interview with Umperovitch on page 6 of our June 13 issue.
Granite State Antique Shows (506-9848, gsashows.com) will host an Outdoor Flea Market at the Granite Town Plaza (185 Elm St., Milford) from 8:30 a.m. to noon Sunday, June 30. Early-bird admission starts at 7 a.m. General admission is $5; early-bird admission is $30.
Author Catherine Newman will discuss and sign her novel Sandwich on Saturday, June 29, at 11 a.m. at Toadstool Bookshop (12 Depot Square in Peterborough; toadbooks.com).
