CONCORD — Parents looking for summer camps for their children will have few to pick from and almost none with overnight accommodations.
The coronavirus has taken its toll on New Hampshire’s 150 plus summer camps that have seen an 80 percent reduction in their revenue stream, the Legislative Advisory Committee of the Governor’s Office for Relief and Recovery was told Wednesday.
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