CONCORD — Wasting no time after Congresswoman Annie Kuster announced she would not seek a seventh term Wednesday, Colin Van Ostern threw his hat in the ring Thursday as a Democratic candidate for the Second Congressional District.
The district includes Nashua, Concord and much of the western half of the state and all of the North Country.
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