🌱 Patch AM: Can mushrooms really help clean up Merrimack’s PFAS contamination?

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In today's newsletter:

• Can mushrooms really help clean up Merrimack’s PFAS contamination?
• Merrimack firefighter’s loss helps push national cancer protections forward

Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Mostly sunny and not as cold, with a high of 33 and low of 22 degrees.
• Wednesday: Partly sunny and breezy, temps: high: 40, low: 25.
• Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 41 and low of 34 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Merrimack resident proposes mushrooms as PFAS solution (unionleader.com) — A young Merrimack environmental organizer is pushing an innovative plan to use mushrooms to help clean PFAS contamination linked to the former Saint-Gobain plant in town. She’s seeking state, grant, and possibly company support to test large-scale mycoremediation on or near the closed facility, hoping to turn Merrimack’s contamination stigma into a model of community-driven resilience and cleanup.
   

• Federal legislation would recognize cancer work hazard for firefighters (wmur.com) — A Merrimack firefighter’s family story is helping drive federal legislation that would expand death and disability benefits for firefighters who develop job-related cancers. New Hampshire already presumes cancer as a work-related illness, and now Congress is weighing the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act to extend similar protections nationwide and improve firefighter health safeguards.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Merrimack

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Thursday December 18

• Wrestling at Pelham
  Merrimack Middle School , 31 Madeline Bennett Lane , Merrimack
  4:00 pm
• JMUES Winter Concert
  Mastricola Upper Elementary School , 26 Baboosic Lake Road , Merrimack
  6:00 pm
• Public Hearing-Split the Town Clerk/Tax Collector Position into 2 Positions
  Merrimack Town Clerk , 8 Baboosic Lake Rd , Merrimack
  7:00 pm
• Town Council meeting
  Town of Merrimack , 8 Baboosic Lake Rd , Merrimack
  7:00 pm
• Public Hearing-Ethics Committee Charter Amendment
  Merrimack Town Clerk , 8 Baboosic Lake Rd , Merrimack
  7:00 pm

Thursday December 25

• TOWN HALL CLOSED - Christmas Day
  Merrimack Town Clerk , 6 Baboosic Lake Rd , Merrimack

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• Book Buddies - Big Buddies (High School Students)
  Children's Room Amherst Town Library , 14 Main Street , Amherst
  5:00 pm
• Winter Concert / Snow date is 12/18
  Merrimack School District , 36 McElwain Street , Merrimack
  6:30 pm
• Planning Board Meeting
  Merrimack Town Clerk , 8 Baboosic Lake Rd , Merrimack
  6:30 pm

Wednesday December 17

• Little Listeners
  Main Floor- Boardman Room Amherst Town Library , 14 Main Street , Amherst
  10:00 am
• Little Imaginations
  Main Floor- Boardman Room Amherst Town Library , 14 Main Street , Amherst
  3:30 pm
• School Board Meeting
  Litchfield, NH Calendar , 2 Liberty Way , Litchfield
  5:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

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🗞 Nearby News

Amherst

• former and retired fire stations » Nashua Ink Link (inklink.news)

Bedford

• SNHU's Toolin earns national scholar award (unionleader.com)
• Newsmakers: Moran honored for leadership (unionleader.com)
• SMITH: New Boston Gift Ideas (granitegrok.com)

Nashua

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-- The Patch AM Team

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