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Today let us consider Edwards’ Hairstreak, which sounds like a mid-1980s glam band but is actually a butterfly with some weird aspects to its life cycle. It is of interest to us as Concord’s latest example of the indirect benefits that come from...

By DAVID BROOKS

It has become slightly easier to operate the smallest component of the state’s huge alcohol-centered industry, the nano-brewery, although you still can’t do it in your living room.“It’s a small change, but it’s a good small,” said Rep. Hope Damon, a...

By DAVID BROOKS

When Concord takes stock Monday on its progress toward the city’s clean-energy goals, there will be one bright accomplishment to celebrate, some moves on the horizon to anticipate and a whole bunch of important stuff that is, to say the least, slow to...

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An invasive fish known as the green sunfish has been confirmed in the Piscataquog River downstream from the Weare Reservoir, also known as Horace Lake, and at Waukewan Lake. This is an expansion of the range. In 2022, biologists at the NH Department...

By DAVID BROOKS

A major study has singled out New Hampshire as a model among U.S. states in response to COVID-19, having suffered virtually the lowest cumulative death rate from the pandemic.The state’s success, the study said, came about partly because of relative...

On the long list of difficult things needed to reduce future climate change, weaning buildings off fossil fuels and onto electricity is near the top of the complexity scale. When you’re talking about a mish-mosh of old buildings in a New England town,...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s no single thing that New Hampshire must do to make sure that people who already live here want to stay. Taxes, environment, jobs, lifestyle – they’re all important.That is the conclusion of researchers who analyzed state polls which asked more...

By DAVID BROOKS

The ongoing effort to create a makerspace in Franklin will try to drum up support, and do some entertaining in the process, at Franklin's Community Day on Saturday.“We have looked at many places only to have it fall through, or someone wants us to pay...

Today’s column tells the story of a nasty disease that was heading toward New Hampshire but has been kept away by low-tech, sensible actions which have been adopted even though they inconvenience some people.Any comparison to our experience with COVID...

By DAVID BROOKS

The new president of NHTI got a real New Hampshire welcome when his family arrived in Concord from southern Virginia just as a January blizzard began.“They were throwing the furniture off the truck as the first flakes were starting to fall,” recalled...

By DAVID BROOKS

Two towns will be testing ballot-counting machines at elections Tuesday, the latest step as the state decides how to replace the aging AccuVote machines.Hanover and Moultonborough will use ballot-counting devices produced by Election Systems &...

By DAVID BROOKS

Five years after Northern Pass was rejected by the state, another proposal is on the books to bring Quebec hydropower through New Hampshire but this time along a different route – passing through Dunbarton instead of Concord – with different owners...

By DAVID BROOKS

For a century, up until it crumbled 20 years ago, the Old Man of the Mountain could be viewed because it was held together by chains, spikes and geologists scrambling over the face of Cannon Mountain.Now it can be viewed again, but this time because...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’re anything like my wife and me, you recently purchased at least one packet of seeds to plant in your flower box, garden or other controlled-vegetation spot. And if you’re anything like us, you didn’t think about where the seeds came from.Seeds...

 By DAVID BROOKS

The arrival of spring means that your animals want to go outside, not just dogs and cats but the increasing number of backyard chickens that are tired of being literally cooped up.Yet there’s a reason to think twice: Highly pathogenic avian flu, which...

Concord’s community college has a new president: Dr. Patrick Tompkins, who previously was with a number of schools in the Virginia Community College System.Tompkins was selected by the board of directors from a pool of over 60 applicants, the school...

By DAVID BROOKS

The “electrify everything” movement that wants to switch homes, cars, industry and everything else from fossil fuels to electricity is a necessary step to avoid total climate disaster but it raises a real concern: How in the world are we going to...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’ve been outside in any snow-free location lately, it doesn’t take an analysis of 14,252 ticks collected from all over New Hampshire to tell you that everybody’s least favorite arachnid is back – in fact, it never left.But if you want...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to getting people to talk about their own mortality, Kristine Green knows the timing all too well.“For a lot of people it’s always too soon, always too soon – until it’s too late,” she said.Green, an RN, is the chief hospice officer of...

By DAVID BROOKS

When I was in high school I was taught to use a slide rule, even though the venerable technology had recently been made irrelevant by calculators.The irrelevance didn’t matter to my gray-haired algebra teacher, who insisted it was still valuable to...