Hampton utility workers turn handmade cards into powerful moments of connection
How Hampton’s worker shortage could change your trash pickup and beach season
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
Weather forecast:
Wednesday: Turning sunny and pleasant, with a high of 74 and low of 52 degrees.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 80, low: 59.
Friday: Intervals of clouds and sun, with a high of 82 and low of 65 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Unitil Employees Create Handmade Spring Cards For Nursing Home Residents In 3 States (patch.com) — Hampton-based utility company Unitil is spotlighting kindness this spring as employees across New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts hand-crafted greeting cards and delivered them with chocolates to nursing home residents. Staff say the visits, including those by New Hampshire line crews, helped ease seniors’ isolation after a harsh winter while also reminding workers how meaningful small, personal gestures can be.
• Seacoast DPWs face staffing crunch: 'Young people just don't want to get their hands dirty' (seacoastonline.com) — Hampton’s Department of Public Works is short 10 workers, forcing officials to warn that trash pickup, beach cleaning, road repairs, and transfer station hours may be scaled back this summer. The article explains how a tight statewide labor market, retirements, and changing work expectations are hitting Hampton especially hard, and compares the town’s struggles with those in nearby Seacoast communities.
📸 Around Hampton
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Hampton
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★ Featured events ★
Wednesday June 3
The Beach Boys → Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton 8:00 pm
Throwback Theater - Jaws (PG) North Hampton Public Library 237A Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton, NH 03862 2:00 pm
Monday June 8
Library Closing @3pm North Hampton Public Library 237A Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton, NH 03862 3:00 pm
Thursday June 11
AM Coffee Connection - Victoria's Kitchen Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce 725 Lafayette Rd Hampton, NH 8:00 am
Throwback Theater - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (PG) North Hampton Public Library 237A Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton, NH 03862 2:00 pm
Lectures & Libations: The Capital Crime of Witchcraft - What the Pr North Hampton Public Library Throwback Brewery, 7 Hobbs Rd, North Hampton, NH 03862, USA 6:00 pm
Dough Craft Pizza — (617) 957-1809 Dough Craft Pizza is open Tuesday through Sunday at 11:30am.
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🪧 Patch Classifieds
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
🚨OWNERS FOUND!!! Puppy found on the corner of Acadia & Thorwald in Hampton (off Winnecunnett). (Nextdoor North Beach)
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know I was driving down Mill Road in Northampton and I saw this looks like a pitbull small medium size dog with white and brown spots running fast down the road myself and another person pulled over but he was very skittish and ran into the woods. I wanted to let people know again Mill road in Northampton.  (Nextdoor Hampton Town)
Walgreen Company posted a job opening for Shift Lead in Hampton. Apply here.
Hannaford Bros Co posted a job opening for PT Hourly Seasonal Associate Grocery in Hampton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hampton here.
🗞 Nearby News
Hampton Beach
A gambling boom is reshaping New Hampshire's casino landscape (boston.com)
This Problematic Trend Is Taking Over US Beach Towns, Leading To Multiple Arrests (explore.com)
Monday's weather: Some sun, some showers, high of 65 (inklink.news)
Hampton Falls
Your weekly guide to taking action in New Hampshire, June 2-7 (granitepostnews.com)
Seabrook
Group of Seabrook grandmothers gather periodically for activities, sports, games (wmur.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)Got a good riddle for PatchAM? Submit it here!