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Good morning Concord! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Concord’s Winter Reading Challenge turns your reading time into prizes
  • Concord police log details third DUI charge and other recent arrests
  • Ready for Bedford’s no-cash tolls? Here’s how Concord drivers prepare.

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Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Times of sun and clouds, with a high of 40 and low of 32 degrees.
  • Friday: Breezy with rain, temps: high: 56, low: 24.
  • Saturday: Much colder, with a high of 33 and low of 26 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. City Of Concord: Winter Reading Challenge (patch.com) — Concord residents are invited to join a Winter Reading Challenge that rewards both adults and kids for time spent with books. Adults and teens can play Book Bingo for raffle entries to win local gift certificates, while children earn tote bags and patches for every six hours of reading, with materials available at all Concord circulation desks or by email after registration.
   

2. Habitual Offender Faces 3rd DUI Charge During Early Morning South Main Street Incident: Concord Cop Log (patch.com) — Concord’s latest police log details a series of recent arrests and summonses, including a habitual offender charged with a third DUI after an incident on South Main Street. The report highlights multiple Concord locations such as Loudon Road, Keach Park, Concord Hospital, and the Homeless Resource Center, underscoring ongoing public safety and law enforcement activity in the city.
   

3. Bedford tolls to stop taking cash Jan. 8 (unionleader.com) — If you use the Bedford tolls, be ready: starting 10 p.m. Jan. 8 they’ll stop taking cash and switch to all-electronic payment. Concord drivers can set up or manage NH E‑ZPass accounts at the local walk-in service center or online to avoid extra fees and get a discount, while work continues to fully remove the old toll booths by 2027.
   

4. AG Formella Pushes Meta to Take Action on Misleading AI Weight Loss Ads (indepthnh.org) — From his Concord office, Attorney General John Formella is pressing Meta to crack down on misleading, AI-generated weight loss ads on Facebook and Instagram, especially those pushing non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs. He and other attorneys general say these ads often hide health risks, target body insecurities around the holidays, and misuse AI-created images and fake spokespeople, and they want Meta to enforce its own rules.
   

5. After not meeting for a year, GOP lets Senate Democrat chair EFA oversight panel (unionleader.com) — A Concord retired teacher is raising concerns that the nonprofit managing New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Accounts hasn’t filed required expense reports since 2022–23, even as enrollment and costs have surged. At a long-delayed oversight meeting, Republicans praised EFAs as popular and successful, while Democrats questioned accountability, impacts on public school funding, and called for more detailed reporting and assessment data.
   

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