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Library faces multitude of possibilities

Library: Room to Grow

For years, discussions about improving the Concord Public Library have focused on plans for the city to buy land downtown, probably on Storrs Street, to construct a new library building. But officials have cooled on that idea, and City Manager Tom Aspell's proposed 2013 budget would effectively shelve the project… 1

May 25, 2012

CBS wins war for TV ratings

CBS can call itself the country's most-watched network for the ninth time in the past 10 years. The network won the 2011-12 television season, which ended Wednesday, by averaging nearly 12 million viewers each week. That's about 3 million more viewers than closest competitor Fox, the largest margin of victory of any network in more than two decades. America continued to be passionate… 0

May 25, 2012

Get in some free fishing

JUNE 2 IS "Free Fishing Day" in New Hampshire. You'll be able to fish almost anywhere - on inland water or saltwater - without a fishing license. However, you'll still need a fishing license and a special permit to fish for brood stock Atlantic salmon on the Merrimack and lower Pemigewasset rivers. State residents and nonresidents may participate. All fishing regulations will apply,… 0

May 25, 2012
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Illustrating dad

Kate Russo illustration

He's always been her dad. He's always loved her and thought she was great. They've even had the growing pains that come with father-daughter relationships. But with their collection Interventions, Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo and his daughter, Kate Russo, became colleagues. The father-daughter… 0

May 24, 2012
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Poet's work 'an act of discovery'

Never mind that Jane Hirshfield is, in her own words, nowhere, at the moment. The e-mail interview she provides from this undisclosed location where she is deep in artistic seclusion and unreachable by phone is nearly as graceful and radiant as her poetry, revelatory of the reverence she seems to impart to every ordinary thing. The much-celebrated poet has just been selected as… 0

May 24, 2012

Jimmy Buffett helps open casino

Mississippi The Margaritaville Casino is open. And it's already getting rave reviews. Pascagoula, Miss., native Jimmy Buffett came home this week to open the Margaritaville Casino & Restaurant in Biloxi. Buffett played for nearly an hour, sharing songs and memories of growing up on the Gulf Coast. Those who weren't among the 4,000 VIP guests formed an impromptu Parrothead yacht… 0

May 24, 2012

Lawmaker: CIA, Pentagon are too close to filmmakers

A House committee chairman charged yesterday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, a New York Republican, first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer, but said newly released documents… 0

May 24, 2012

Meet Curious George in June

KIDS CAN MEET Curious George, the Cat in the Hat and Woofster from Super Why! when Story Land in Glen hosts NHPTV Family Day on June 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The top three winners of the NHPTV-PBS Kids Go! writing contest will also be on hand that morning to accept their awards and read their stories. Regular admission rates apply; part of the admission proceeds will support New… 0

May 23, 2012

Swim! A love story

Swim. The single, solitary, one-syllable word that makes up the title of this wonderful book makes the author's intention - and her passion - crystal clear. Swim, it reminds us. But is the title of Lynn Sherr's book a command, a suggestion, an exhortation? That one word on the cover leaves us in no doubt as to the focus we'll find on the pages within. This slim volume is not about… 0

May 20, 2012

Czech culture, communism and rock-and-roll

The Arab Spring saw more than 300,000 protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square bring down Hosni Mubarak. But did these protesters represent the average Egyptians who stayed home? Writing about another equinox - the 1968 Prague Spring that introduced liberal reforms to communist Czechoslovakia and provoked a Soviet crackdown - Jonathan Bolton examines in Worlds of Dissent how revolutionaries… 0

May 20, 2012
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