Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell slides on his belly in the stream of running water from the melting snow outside the State House. Thankfully the asphalt burns spell out a city memo!
Welcome to hockeyville
Vote for our arena
Please nominate the Douglas N. Everett Arena to win Kraft’s Hockeyville USA contest, Aspell writes. Is that where they fill up the entire arena with macaroni and cheese? Oh wait, no, that was just a dream we had.
The winning community rink will win the title of Kraft Hockeyville, will receive $150,000 toward arena upgrades and will host a 2015-2016 National Hockey League preseason game with live broadcast from NBCSN. Those are some pretty legit prizes – get voting, people.
Deadline alert! Visit krafthockey
ville.com and nominate the arena by March 18.
Potholy mackerel
Fixes are afoot
Highway and utilities crews have been successfully removing snow from various locations throughout the city, Aspell writes. Through the cunning use of slightly warmer temperatures?
With those recent warmer temperatures, some snow has started to melt and crews have been able to start repairing potholes. Due to this winter’s record low temperatures, pothole season has started with a vengeance. Pothole season is followed by mud season, a week of humane temperatures and then winter.
The ground shifting from the freezing and thawing cycles creates cracks in the pavement and allows water to get underneath, which weakens the road structure and forms potholes. During the spring thaw, it is important to restrict heavy weight on the roads to help prevent any further damage, so don’t put that case of soda in the basket on the back of your bike. Load limit postings, set to 9 tons, were posted beginning March 16. A list and map of posted roads, and more information about Highway and Utilities’ spring operations, can be found on the web at concordnh.gov/
springoperations.
Case closed
Law School climbs ranks
U.S. News recently released this year’s law school rankings report, and it’s very good news for the UNH School of Law in Concord, the only law school in the state, Aspell writes. That’s because Frank’s School of Laws and Stuff hasn’t yet been accredited, even though he watches Law and Order reruns everyday on Oxygen.
The UNH School of Law moved up in the general rankings from No. 93 to No. 87, and held its top 10 position (No. 9) in the Intellectual Property rankings once again, continuing its streak as the only law school placed in the top 10 every year since the IP rankings began. The school has now moved up 55 slots in the general rankings over the last three years, from No. 142 in 2012, to No. 87 this year. Allegedly (isn’t that what you have to say whenever you’re talking about law things?).
