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By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

As readers will know, the phrase “artificial intelligence” (usually abbreviated “AI”) refers to digital programs that enable computers to understand and respond to live human beings in their own language — in other words, at least to some degree, to...

By CAROLE SOULE

Every year, about this time, Mother Nature declares war on Miles Smith Farm. Her weapon is ice.Winter is a constant battle to keep my livestock hydrated. Cows have natural insulation to keep warm but can’t live without water. Some farmers believe...

By JAMES SPAIN

It was during the colonial period when we were still ruled by England that Concord residents were expected to act in a certain manner and certainly expected to consume imported products and pay their taxes. The streets here were all cobbled with small...

By HENRY HOMEYER

We gardeners love our home grown vegetables. As John Denver sang long ago, “Only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” And why do they taste so good? We can grow tomatoes that don’t have to conform to commercial...

By KELLY SENNOTT

First and foremost, Bradford artist and printmaker J. Ann Eldridge is a storyteller.Her subjects? Bugs. Rocks. Moles. The outdoors in general. Instead of novels, she prefers reading about the science of the natural world, from horizontal gene transfer...

By JAMES SPAIN

The Christmas tree no longer illuminated, wreaths now being removed from the front door, resolutions have been made, the new year will be so much more. The cold days are only growing colder and darkness is visiting us earlier each afternoon, we seek...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

On Dec. 27, 2017, Donald Trump, who was then president of the United States, signed a major federal tax bill called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The principal purpose of the bill was to provide massive federal income tax cuts to large...

By HENRY HOMEYER

It’s gray and chilly outside, but I have a fire in the new woodstove that warms the house and pleases me as I look through its glass window. I’ve been in the same house since 1970, so I’ve had plenty of time to plan and execute projects. I’d like to...

By KELLY SENNOTT

For Melissa McKeagney, there’s nothing like creating art and putting it on repeat.The Wilmot resident has been a textile artist for fifteen years, but until recently, she’d been creating with other people’s prints. Now her company, Studio Buue, sells...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Chris Sununu says that he’s a veteran when it comes to the state’s biennial budget process.Standing in front of a joint session of the legislature at his inauguration to a fourth two-year term steering New Hampshire, the Republican governor...

By JAMES SPAIN

When my grandfather’s grandfather walked the cobbled streets of Concord over two hundred years ago, he did not walk alone. Concord was known as Rumford then and destined for a bright future. Our little town was at a crossroads and it was soon...

By CAROLE SOULE

For New Year’s Eve, the weather was all warm and balmy with shirt-sleeve temperatures, no wind, and pretending it didn’t try to kill us the week before. I was on vacation in Georgia when the Arctic weather descended. Below-freezing temperatures,...

By HENRY HOMEYER

At the end of the year I always like to take a little time to reflect on what worked well in the garden - and what didn’t. This year I also called some gardening friends – some experienced, some less so – to ask what they had learned so I could share...

By KELLY SENNOTT

When Warner bladesmith Zack Jonas joined the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in 2012, he was the only person selling knives at the Sunapee fair.Bladesmithing hadn’t yet hit mainstream pop culture due to shows like Forged in Fire, and most people...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Winter in New Hampshire isn’t what it used to be.At least, that’s what Walpole filmmaker Gabriel Andrus’s grandfather has been telling him via the daily weather log the older man has been keeping for the last 20 years. As a boy, Andrus was told of the...

By ROB AZEVEDO

Before I owned a pool, I knew three things about them. You jump in, you jump out, then you towel off. That’s it.And I loved them.Always loved carving my way through the bubbles in the deep end, diving to touch the bottom, seeing how long I could stay...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The Granite State’s affection for Donald Trump appears to be wearing thin.Trump’s decisive 2016 victory over the crowded Republican field in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary once propelled him towards the nomination and...

By HENRY HOMEYER

I like dahlias. They are bright and come in many colors with blossoms from the size of daisies to the size of dinner plates. My wife, Cindy, loves dahlias. Every year we have discussions about how many we should plant and where they might go. I...

By RANDALL BALMER

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made the book of Revelation relevant once again.The final book of the New Testament, with its apocalyptic visions of multi-headed dragons, plagues, vials of judgment, the Whore of Babylon and the Battle of...

By KAITLIN ROCCA

Civics is the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society. Civic-minded individuals are proactive citizens willing to plug into and engage in the world around them. Our society thrives when people are committed to serving the greater...