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By DAVID BROOKS
Back in December I was clinging to hope – irrationally, but isn’t all hope irrational at heart? – that we would dodge the winter COVID surge. No such luck.As of Thursday, the New Hampshire Hospital Association says more people are in its beds with...
By DAVID BROOKS
When you talk to old-time New Hampshire folks about “that funny guy who used to do the weather on TV,” there’s a split. In the southern part of the state, they’ll probably think of Al Kaprielian from WNDS but in the northern part, it’s “Marty On The...
By DAVID BROOKS
It’s been a while coming but a real New England snowstorm is expected this weekend, with between 6 inches and a foot likely to fall in much of the state before things wind up Sunday evening.Although the storm is moving up the East Coast in typical...
By DAVID BROOKS
Canterbury won’t be deciding whether to withdraw from the two-town Shaker Regional School District this year, following the state Board of Education’s rejection of a request to put the issue before voters.The five-person state board rejected the...
By DAVID BROOKS
The financial benefit seen by communities who are part of the Community Power Coalition will be reduced this year because all New Hampshire utilities have cut their electric rates.Things are different, however, for four towns that are doing community...
By DAVID BROOKS
Voting will be a lot more colorful in New Hampshire’s presidential primary this year, and we’re not talking about candidates’ behavior.The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has chosen three designs for the “I Voted” stickers given to people...
By DAVID BROOKS
New England’s wild turkey population seems to have avoided the population declines that are being seen in other parts of the country, and officials are asking for some citizen science help this winter to confirm our status.“We have not been...
By DAVID BROOKS
As the region’s aviation community anxiously awaits the annual yes-or-no decision about whether the Alton Bay Ice Runway will open, here’s a tidbit to consider: Keeping Cessnas and Beechcraft from crashing through as they land isn’t why officials have...
By DAVID BROOKS
Pembroke residents will get their chance to join the community-power bandwagon soon, with notices going out in mid-January and a Jan. 31 public meeting.The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Academy auditorium, will explain how Pembroke...
By DAVID BROOKS
As I listen to hand-wringing about empty office towers due to people’s continued preference to work from home instead of commuting to a cubicle (those ungrateful swine!), a Christmas thought comes to mind: How is Santa’s workshop doing?I imagine that...
By DAVID BROOKS
Almost a year after it was sold, major changes are coming to Fort Eddy Plaza with at least three large retail stores closing.Eastern Mountain Sports, the outdoor-gear retailer, announced to customers in huge window signs that it will be closing its...
By DAVID BROOKS
In my career, I’ve encountered several non-traditional ways to build a home, from stacking hay bales to rolling out plastic tubes to using 3D-printed concrete. They’ve been fun to talk about but never made the slightest dent in the industry. The...
By DAVID BROOKS
It’s not a surprise that the New Hampshire project that won $2 million in funding in the latest federal conservation program involves saving our salt marshes from a host of threats.“The projects are heavy on watershed restoration – riverways, coastal...
By DAVID BROOKS
One of the supporters of the controversial Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historical marker says the state program that installed and then removed the sign is operating without the necessary legal rules, and he has proposed a solution: He can write...
By DAVID BROOKS
Fans of small ski areas who have watched the resurrection of Crotched and Tenney mountains can pin their downhill hopes on another former New Hampshire site, although it’s a real long shot.Mt. Whittier Ski Area in Ossipee, which had one of the...
By DAVID BROOKS
The developer of a proposed mixed-use building where the former CVS store was located on North Main Street is reassessing plans after the city rejected his request to let it partially block the view of the State House Dome from the highway.Concord...
By DAVID BROOKS
When it comes to our electric bills, sometimes global fuel trends giveth and sometimes they taketh away. Right now they’re giving.Eversource on Thursday said it has asked state regulators to cut its energy supply rate as part of the twice-yearly...
By DAVID BROOKS
I went to a vaccine conference at Dartmouth last week to learn more about the most depressing piece of research I’ve ever encountered. Amazingly, I came away a tiny bit more optimistic.The ongoing research by Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government...
By DAVID BROOKS
When it comes to senior citizens and technology, the problem isn’t really that things are too complicated. The problem is that they won’t stand still.“Technology is an issue with a lot of seniors – it changes so quickly,” said Lori Mckinney, program...
By DAVID BROOKS
If Concord buys a former insurance building to become a future police station, an idea that will be discussed by the city council Monday night, the $4 million purchase would only be the start of costs.Concord’s capital improvements program includes an...
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