Emily Duggan, Author at Concord Monitor

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Attention to students’ social and emotional wellbeing became vital for
students of all ages and abilities last spring, after Gov. Chris Sununu ordered all public school buildings to close in mid-March to protect communities from the coronavirus pandemic (Photo from Franklin School District June 14)

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Schools focus in on student wellbeing

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeAugust 14, 2020

Teaching her third and fourth grade students at Jennie Blake Elementary School in Hill by video conference last spring, teacher Alicia Schaefer spotted a trend.“I started to notice that some of my really good students are really social, and they were…

Rochester introduced mobile hotspots on school buses prior to the pandemic. But once schools shut down, they became a critical resource for the district.

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Remote Learning Progress Report: Broadband proves to be major issue

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeAugust 9, 2020

This 2020 electron microscope image shows the spherical coronavirus particles from the first U.S. case of COVID-19.

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MIS-C not seen as significant threat in Granite State for children

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeJuly 10, 2020

“I feel like this stems from two factors -- an urge for freedom and self-entitlement,” said Benjamin Strawbridge, 22, of millennials not adhering to guidelines when it comes to Covid-19. “Regarding the former, and numerous college students who have had their end-of-the-semester activities and graduation ‘stolen’ from them by the virus feel sick and tired of quarantining in their homes and are using their youth and more active immune systems as excuses to ignore masks and social distancing recommendations.”

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In U.S., rates of COVID in young people on rise

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeJuly 8, 2020

In this undated photo released by Camp Kiwanis, a lifeguard chair stands as the sun sets on Mill Dam Lake in the Ocala National Forest, where Camp Kiwanis has hosted local children since 1948 near Ocala, Fla. Camp Kiwanis will not open this summer for the first time in 72 years due to concerns about spread of the novel coronavirus. Camps across the U.S. are scrambling to make a similar decision about summer 2020 and parents are getting a first wave of closure notices for some camps in harder-hit states. (Scott Mitchell/Camp Kiwanis via AP)

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Tourism leaders worry about shortages of PPE, summer workers

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeJune 30, 2020

In this photo taken Wednesday April 6, 2016 students walk past the historic Thompson Hall at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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For some students, UNH anti-racism plan falls short

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeJune 30, 2020

A shopper places her goods into her car outside a supermarket in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. New Zealand plans to ban disposable plastic shopping bags by next July as the nation tries to live up to its clean-and-green image. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Friday that New Zealanders use hundreds of millions of the bags each year and that some of them end up polluting the precious coastal and marine environment. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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Businesses struggle to balance sustainability, safety

by Emily Duggan Granite State News Collaborative June 4, 2020

A copy of Alcoholics Anonymous is seen on a table in The Launch building at Riverbank House in Laconia on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)

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NH recovery homes face rising demand amid diminished capacity

by Emily Duggan Granite State News CollaborativeMay 28, 2020