Another Saint-Gobain Lawsuit + Banned Books Week In Amherst

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First, today's weather:

Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 73 Low: 58.

Here are the top stories today in Amherst:

1. Merrimack Village water system sues Saint-Gobain, two other local manufacturers (The Union Leader)
2. When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead? (The New Yorker)
3. Slam Ready: What Teen Poet Laureates of New Hampshire Are Up To (InDepthNH.org)
4. Mark Bissonnette Obituary (1956 - 2021) - Amherst, NH - Union Leader (Legacy.com)

Today in Amherst:

Amherst Patch Notebook

• Camp Young Judaea: "Hands up if you’re ready for Summer 2022 🙌🏼! Registration for next year opens in just ONE WEEK! 💙🤍#cyj03031 #10for2" (Instagram)
• Regional Services Education Center - RSEC: "The Academy HS experiencing the White Mountains!" (Facebook)
• Official Camp Young Judaea: "Hands up if you’re ready for Summer 2022 🙌🏼! Registration for next year opens in just ONE WEEK! 💙🤍#cyj03031 #10for2" (Facebook)
• Amherst Town Library: "Fight for your right to read this Banned Books Week. Take a look at the Top Ten challenged books of 2020, and learn more about what makes a book “banned” Click the link below then click on the book cover to place hold. https://libraryawa..." (Facebook)
• Opportunity Networks: "Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ~ Lou Holtz Our virtual race is going on now and we are less than a week away from The ability 5K event in Amherst, NH!!..." (Facebook)
• New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation (NH-DI / NHICC): "Details for K-College #IDODI teams at nh-di.org." (Facebook)

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— Jason Claffey

About me: I grew up in Massachusetts outside Boston and started my journalism career at 19 when I earned an internship in the sports department of The Boston Globe. I graduated from Boston University in 2007 and became a reporter at Foster's Daily Democrat in New Hampshire before joining Patch in 2010. I've covered three New Hampshire primaries and won awards for environmental reporting and Sunday staff excellence from the New England Newspaper & Press Association.

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