Executive Councilor Colin Van Ostern’s office reports that on July 16, the New Hampshire Executive Council “approved new paving and rehabilitation projects for roughly 195 miles of New Hampshire roads and bridges, funded by the recent bipartisan vote in the legislature to increase the gasoline tax for the first time since 1991.”

Among the many road projects approved across the state are New Hampshire Route 11 in Franklin and Andover and New Hampshire Route 127 in Salisbury and Franklin.

The Council also authorized repair work at the Mount Kearsarge fire tower.