friendship house

From left: North Country Health Consortium CEO Nancy Frank (left) leads Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), District 1 Executive Councilor Joe Kenney (R-Wakefield), former Friendship House Director Kristy Letendre and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and other stakeholders in a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony on Friday at the brand-new Friendship House in Bethlehem. (EDITH TUCKER PHOTO)

BETHLEHEM — Collaboration, perseverance and optimism were cited as key factors leading to the ceremonial groundbreaking Friday of a new 32-bed $5.4 million Friendship House treatment and recovery center on Route 302.

Nancy Frank, CEO of the non-profit North Country Health Consortium, welcomed a crowd that included U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan. “Our communities have recognized that it is time to treat addiction as a chronic disease with a medical model,” she said.

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