CONCORD — Eight commissioners for the state and the executive director of the N.H. Fish and Game Department have all drafted letters of opposition to changing the name of Mount Washington.
The departments of Safety, Education, Transportation, Natural and Cultural Resources, Environmental Services, Administrative Services, Business and Economic Affairs, and Health and Human Services all responded to a citizen’s request to the federal government to change the names of the Northeast’s highest peak.
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