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By DAVID BROOKS

Having survived the almost-death of film, the switch from cameras to smartphones and the turmoil of the pandemic, Concord Photo Service on North Main Street, a business still known as Concord Camera to many people, is surrendering to Father Time.“It’s...

By DAVID BROOKS

The continent-wide destruction of ash trees caused by an invasive insect has taken an economic toll in New Hampshire: The Peterboro Basket Co. is shutting down after making its specialty baskets for 168 years, partly because it can’t get enough of the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Tenney Mountain Ski Area should be up and running again next winter as a new owner takes a fresh look at long-simmering development plans around it.“We have a ways to go on master planning … over the next year,” said Steven Kelly, CEO of...

By DAVID BROOKS

The news that Tesla is coming to New Hampshire – probably, at least – is the latest indication that life is changing for New Hampshire’s auto dealerships as electric vehicles take center stage. But it’s not the only one.“Prepping for EVs (electric...

By DAVID BROOKS

An unusual land sale that involved much of the frontage around one of New Hampshire’s most pristine small lakes has produced an unusual result: On the Boscawen side of Walker Pond, almost the entire shorefront has been preserved from development for...

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The coal-fired power plant in Bow has won another year’s funding from a program designed to guarantee future electricity supplies, although at about three-quarters of previous levels.The two units at Merrimack Station, the last coal-fired power plant...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s own Mount Washington will be the star of a major motion picture opening later this month but be warned: It’s not any Mount Washington we’re familiar with.“I told my friends who pointed that out: just roll with it!” said Pam Bales, a...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the state’s biggest developers has begun the process of turning the dilapidated Department of Transportation site on Stickney Avenue into housing, although it is yet to be decided how many units might be involved, how existing buildings may be...

By DAVID BROOKS

For most of January, New England has been reliving a piece of our past. Unfortunately, it’s a smoggy, polluting piece.During the recent cold snap, more than a tenth of the electricity generated in New England has been produced by power plants that are...

By DAVID BROOKS

The Bath & Body Works store at Steeplegate Mall will close Saturday, leaving the mall with fewer than 10 occupied storefronts of the 60 it was built to hold.The closing comes as Bath & Body Works has shut a few of its roughly 1,700 stores in Canada...

By DAVID BROOKS

Far too often, a detailed analysis of any question produces the highly unsatisfying answer of “it depends.” So I’m delighted to say that today’s column comes down 100% on one side of this question:Do you really save energy by turning the thermostat...

By DAVID BROOKS

After 20 years, Contoocook Covered Bridge Restaurant is closing as its owner retires, but the site should be reborn this summer as a new restaurant.The decision to close the restaurant overlooking the Contoocook Railroad covered bridge stems from...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the longest-running transportation debates in New Hampshire, whether to bring passenger rail back up the Merrimack River Valley, has been rejuvenated by potential funding from the new federal infrastructure bill.A public information hearing has...

By DAVID BROOKS

Long before “River Dave” there was The Taylor Pond Hermit.Like David Lidstone, who lived alone in a cabin in the Canterbury woods for 27 years but was known to many people in the area, Perley Swett lived alone in a cabin in the town of Stoddard but...

By DAVID BROOKS

New data from the 2020 census shows that the section of Concord that includes the area known as The Heights is one of the state’s most racially diverse neighborhoods. Except for Hanover/Lebanon, it is the only area north of Manchester with the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Clough State Park, off-road trails in the Hopkinton-Everett System and the beach at Elm Brook Park have been temporarily closed by rising waters which are being held back by the Hopkinton and Everett dams to prevent downstream flooding.A week of heavy...

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

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No, you’re not imagining it: Chipmunks really are everywhere.“We have no formal monitoring of chipmunks,” said Matt Tarr, a wildlife biologist with UNH Extension, “But my observation and what I’m hearing from folks all over New Hampshire is: There’s a...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of Concord’s largest commercial properties, 181 acres around two office buildings once occupied by Lincoln Financial, has been sold to Brady Sullivan Properties.The site, off northern Rumford Street, was sold for a total of $3.4 million, according...

By DAVID BROOKS

If your vehicle bears a “This Car Climbed Mount Washington” sticker, there’s a 60% chance that you were a little disappointed in the trip. That’s how often the summit is covered by clouds.But if you were there during the other 40% of the time, you...