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Routine check-in likely saved life of client

ServiceLink works with client’s needs. During routine check-in with a client, it was found that the client being called was suffering from a medical emergency and was unable to summon help. Quick action from Jeff Violette, ServiceLink Options Counselor resulted in medical help. What may seem like a simple call of caring might well have […]

Narcan Training at ServiceLink of Coös County

Listed from Right to Left: Paul Robitaille, Cheryl O’Malley, Jeffrey Violette, Jennifer Williams, Louise Plourde Narcan Training at ServiceLink of Coös County. As Coös SeviceLink a Tri-County community action program serves all members of our community and county, and makes home visits to those clients, the staff at SeviceLink in Berlin decided the ability to administer Narcan in an […]

29th Annual Wildman Biathlon

Shelburne, NH – It’s time for the twenty ninth annual Wildman Biathlon, one of the toughest multi-sport events in New England, is scheduled for Saturday, August 12th at 8:00 a.m., rain or shine.   Calling all runners and bicyclists to shift their training schedules into high gear and get their registrations for this event.   […]

Feds Offer A Helping Hand To Low-Income Homeowners

LANCASTER – It was raining heavily, a bunch of soggy strangers were tromping around in her yard and Corinne Comeau, 84, was thrilled. “I am positively, absolutely in shock. It pays to pray. It really does,” she said. In this case the prayers were being answered through a United States Department of Agriculture program that […]

UPCOMING BLOOD DRIVES FOR JUNE

COOS COUNTY — Before busy summer schedules set in, the American Red Cross urges eligible donors to roll up a sleeve to help ensure a sufficient supply for patients in need. Donors of all blood types are needed now to help accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant patients, and those receiving cancer […]

DUMP THE PUMP AND RIDE FREE WITH TRI-COUNTY TRANSIT

Tri-County Transit will forgo a day’s worth of fares on all Flex Routes to give area residents a free opportunity to experience public transportation. This June 15, Tri-County Transit once again will ask residents to consider trading trips to the gas pump for a ride on Tri-County Transit. Tri-County Transit is participating in National Dump […]

AHEAD, NCHC and TCCAP Collaborate to Transition the Friendship House Treatment Center

The North Country Health Consortium (NCHC), a non-profit public health organization located in Littleton, NH, is pleased to announce that their Board of Directors voted to assume the operations of the alcohol and other drug services currently operated by Tri Country Community Action Program, Inc. (TCCAP). TCCAP is headquartered in Berlin, New Hampshire. These services […]

A Drug Treatment Program at Risk

Meet the People Facing Trump’s Budget Cuts By YAMICHE ALCINDOR and SAM HODGSON New York Times  BETHLEHEM, N.H. In northern New Hampshire, along the Ammonoosuc River, people struggling with addiction work toward recovery in a six-decade-old cottage that is not up to code. Friendship House, the only residential drug treatment center within 65 miles, is […]