Grantham
If he could have, he might have stuck out his thumb for a ride home. But somewhere in the course of his forced migration to Newport Middle High School last weekend, Grantham's quarter-ton carved bonhomme lost his arms. Along with his left foot, most of his beard, both eyes and the twinkle behind them.
August 31, 2008
Lebanon
Lebanon Municipal Airport will start offering commercial passenger service to Boston instead of New York, at an average one-way fare of $54 instead of $160, after the federal Department of Transportation awarded a two-year subsidy contract to Massachusetts-based Cape Air yesterday.
The small commuter airline, which has proposed six direct flights between Boston and Lebanon each…
July 27, 2008
At the seaside Mexican primary school where Paloma Zepedu Rocha teaches English, educators are always looking for resources: more books, more computers, better technology.
But at the top of Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center Tuesday night, overlooking one of the most prestigious and wealthy academic institutions in the world, the young teacher was singing the praises of a simple…
July 17, 2008
When a special group formed last month to investigate splitting up the five-town Mascoma Valley Regional School District, the idea struck some as outlandish, and district officials were quick to emphasize that a new Enfield school district was just one of several "outside the box" propositions being considered to address Mascoma's needs.
June 22, 2008
New London
Their official mascot is the Charger, but as Colby-Sawyer College's Class of 2008 sat under a gigantic tent on the college lawn yesterday, dressed to the nines to await hard-earned diplomas, it was the lowly porcupine that held them rapt.
No, the prickly rodent wasn't a commencement prank. There wasn't even a live specimen on the premises. Instead, natural sciences professor Nicholas…
May 11, 2008
Grantham
Even in the age of prefab sheds and kit decks, diligent do-it-yourselfers like Matt Fahrner will sometimes pull out a ruler and a sheet of graph paper and map out plans for a back yard project from scratch. These homespun blueprints, done in pencil by all but the boldest amateur architects, have guided dabblers like Fahrner through everything from porch renovations to pool installations,…
April 27, 2008
Enfield
Clouds of fuel exhaust and the aroma hamburger grease mingled in the cold air yesterday afternoon, as Evan Dybvig picked his way through a maze of RVs and snowmobiles in the frozen, windswept parking lot of Whaleback Mountain in Enfield. Dybvig, the mountain's owner, was looking for ski instructor Sherry Ruel, but she wouldn't be on skis. She could be anywhere, Dybvig explained,…
December 2, 2007
The lobby of the Grace Outreach building in West Lebanon was quiet Monday, except for a rustling in a large closet, where volunteer Mary Tinkham was stocking shelves with cans and boxes of nonperishable food. Poking her head out, Tinkham explained that she'd just returned from a monthly trip to the New Hampshire Food…
November 25, 2007
Claremont
Don Clarke has been on both sides of open land issues. He's an ardent hunter, but he's also the former owner of what was once the state's largest dairy farm, the 1,000-acre Sugar Vale, Inc., in Claremont.
Now, at 73, Clarke is much more a hunter than a farmer, and he has been spending his semi-retirement hunting with his dogs, walking the fields and woods of other people's property.
August 19, 2007
Enfield Shaker Museum
When the Shaker Village was in its heyday, its members supported Enfield by financing the construction of mills in the small town and building the first bridge across Mascoma Lake.
That was more than 150 years ago, when about 300 Shakers shared 3,000 productive acres on the western side of the lake, which they termed the Chosen Vale. Today, nothing remains of the once-industrious…
July 6, 2007
From his tiny office at the Grafton County House of Corrections, superintendent Glenn Libby jokes that, when this jail was built, outlaws were still robbing banks on horseback. He laughs, but it's true.
Down the hall from Libby's workspace and through a series of heavy, locking doors, 101 minimum-, medium- and maximum-security inmates live in a building that has been around since…
July 2, 2007
Amedee Locke held a .22-caliber rifle against her cheek and aimed at a paper target. A few feet away, her teenage son, Jordan Cottrell, did the same. Behind them, Locke's husband and five other children, ages 6 to 16, milled around the Hartford Rod and Gun Club in Hartford, Vt., picking up knowledge on topics from safely crossing a stream with a gun to finding their way in and out…
September 24, 2006
Hanover
It happens to everyone. The manual for that new computer printer, blender or DVD player appears to be in English, but it's incomprehensible.
The information in those instructions - translated in India, printed in China and mailed from an industrial park in Delaware -has been lost in translation.
August 20, 2006
Vermont
In a last-ditch effort to save her White River Junction, Vt., vintage clothing store, Kim Souza has put Revolution Vintage up for sale on eBay, where it will go to the highest bidder, provided that an unspecified minimum price is met.
Souza's auction began last Tuesday morning and will run through this Tuesday at 10 a.m.
"It's a little bit of a long shot, but I figured I have nothing…
August 6, 2006
