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A New Hampshire company that kept losing staffers because they couldn’t afford to live nearby is tackling the problem in an unusual way – using a special zoning program in Dover to build 44 tiny homes on less than 4 acres.The project, a modern twist...

By DAVID BROOKS

It has been three full years of pandemic-era carnage in New Hampshire.“Carnage” is a little strong, perhaps. It’s more like a slow, steady increase in the number of New Hampshire residents who die, day in and day out, since our first official COVID-19...

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New Hampshire residents were defrauded almost 7,900 times last year and lost more than $18 million in the process, while people in the Concord region fell for fewer scams than Southern New Hampshire, according to data from the Federal Trade...

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As the Warner River gets closer to protected status with a public hearing set for Thursday, here are two numbers to consider: 2,225 and 6.Those figures are the maximum and minimum possible river flows, measured in cubic feet per second, given in a...

By DAVID BROOKS

Have you ever thought “I’m just not a math person”? If so, how are you at fixing snowmobiles?The connection between backwood winter transportation and the quadratic equation may not be obvious to you, but some people would like to change...

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You’re not imagining it: Mud season has arrived and it’s early, maybe the earliest ever.On Friday the state began posting weight limits on roads to keep heavy vehicles from damaging pavement as it thaws and buckles. The N.H. Department of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Decades of “kicking the can down the road” have caught up with one of Franklin’s most iconic buildings.Spurred by last year’s ultimatum from Fire Chief Michael Foss, the city council on Monday unanimously voted to spend up to $60,000 to start the...

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If you missed the statewide backyard bird count last weekend don’t fret; you can be part of a global backyard bird count this weekend.The Great Backyard Bird Count, launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society as one...

By DAVID BROOKS

More motorcyclists died on New Hampshire roads in 2022 than in any year in recent memory as overall fatal traffic accidents rose sharply, but the state bucked national trends by seeing no rise in pedestrian and bicyclist deaths.According to the New...

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When you start a scientific research project, you never know what you’re going to find. Here’s one thing that Devon O’Rourke found during his Ph.D. work at UNH: “I did not suspect that so many folks were going to be that excited about picking up bat...

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Solar and wind accounted for about 7% of the electricity produced by generators within New England in 2022, according to the group that oversees the power grid, with solar growing much faster than wind power in recent years.Solar farms made about 3.4%...

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In the latest twist of the borrow-things-rather-than-own-them movement, Concord Public Library has unveiled a novel program in which they’re lending out stuff as varied as ukuleles, soil analyzers and paper shredders.At least, I thought it was novel....

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There’s a town meeting truism that the smallest items can generate the most discussion. That proved accurate Tuesday in Henniker, where almost all the debate concerned summer concerts that would cost 1/10th of 1 percent of the operating budget.By the...

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After several false starts in past winters, Tenney Mountain Ski Resort in Plymouth is expected to finally reopen this coming week, more than a dozen years after it last operated fully, although a complete rebirth is still years away.The resort, which...

By DAVID BROOKS

Following three hours of public comment that an 11% hike in the operating budget is way too much, especially when combined with some expensive warrant articles, Boscawen voters will see a smaller proposed increase when town meeting happens in...

By DAVID BROOKS

The Arctic blast coming through the region on Friday and Saturday may not produce record cold but temperatures will fall far below zero and, combined with high winds, will be very dangerous.In what is becoming a more common winter occurrence, air...

By DAVID BROOKS

A proposed 11% increase in the operating budget for the town of Boscawen, fueled by increases in personnel and police department costs, will be the subject of a public hearing on Thursday evening.The proposal calls for spending $473,000 more than last...

By DAVID BROOKS

Pardon me for sounding cynical but over the years I have become dubious about claims that art can bring science to the masses. It seems to me that translating the quantitative into the qualitative usually creates little insight for the general...

By DAVID BROOKS

Free online access is being offered to Westlaw, a database for legal reference materials that is widely used by attorneys to research state and federal laws, regulations and court cases. The New Hampshire Law Library is participating in a pilot...

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A citizen science project called Raspberry Shake is allowing a few in New Hampshire to tune into the “unheard symphony of the planet” – as well as things that aren’t quite so symphonic.“I can tell when vehicles are driving by on the road. And it...