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By DAVID BROOKS

Voting will be a lot more colorful in New Hampshire’s presidential primary this year, and we’re not talking about candidates’ behavior.The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has chosen three designs for the “I Voted” stickers given to people...

By DAVID BROOKS

New England’s wild turkey population seems to have avoided the population declines that are being seen in other parts of the country, and officials are asking for some citizen science help this winter to confirm our status.“We have not been...

By DAVID BROOKS

As the region’s aviation community anxiously awaits the annual yes-or-no decision about whether the Alton Bay Ice Runway will open, here’s a tidbit to consider: Keeping Cessnas and Beechcraft from crashing through as they land isn’t why officials have...

By DAVID BROOKS

Pembroke residents will get their chance to join the community-power bandwagon soon, with notices going out in mid-January and a Jan. 31 public meeting.The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Academy auditorium, will explain how Pembroke...

By DAVID BROOKS

As is well known, public school enrollment is slipping throughout New Hampshire and falling sharply in some places.Somebody forgot to tell Bow and Dunbarton.In the decade since much smaller Dunbarton joined Bow in a two-town school district, public...

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There may be debate among the public about the long-term effect of the COVID-19 pandemic but there’s no question when looking at the state’s test scores, especially the lower grades.“This is a generation that was back in pre-school when the pandemic...

By DAVID BROOKS

The most interesting energy thing happening in New Hampshire right now isn’t due to cool tech or federal money, it’s part of that terribly ho-hum tedious topic, local governance.Actually, it’s more ho-hum than that: It’s county governance.Compared to...

By DAVID BROOKS

As more New Hampshire lakes suffer from blooms of toxic algae due to warming weather and increased development, two water bodies in Henniker were part of a study of a faster way to spot outbreaks, using drones.“With the (drone), a small lake might...

By DAVID BROOKS

Red and black campaign signs for Concord School Board candidate Michael Guglielmo appeared on either side of the entrance to the city-owned Beaver Meadow Golf Course last week. More signs were placed in the triangular median at the intersection of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Every good mechanic has a trick or two up their sleeve. Colby Rousseau’s trick is a sleeve, with a cartoonish pointing hand at the end of it, and it’s one of the reasons he’s headed to California and maybe to Japan.“He’s pretty amazing. And he’s got...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-running effort to turn the old Gale School into a vibrant community center, delayed by cost increases, has received federal support.The United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development fund recently directed $391,000 to the project...

By DAVID BROOKS

Redevelopment plans for Steeplegate Mall that include a Costco and a Whole Foods supermarket as well as some 600 housing units are moving ahead now that a Massachusetts developer has purchased the site.An initial Planning Board hearing is set for next...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of New Hampshire’s most interesting-looking bridges straddles one of its handsomest river gorges next to a road and a rail line that have been used for well over a century. It’s the perfect recipe for tourism success in a state that increasingly...

By DAVID BROOKS

Although the business world continues to be in turmoil, with the pandemic scrambling labor supply, customer demand and struggling supply chains, and America’s rising interest rates squeezing investment, the Concord area saw a good chunk of commercial...

By DAVID BROOKS

A woman was injured Saturday in a fire apparently caused by the failure of her home’s battery backup system after the power went out in Sanbornton, an example of a new concern for fire departments and building inspectors.“We’re going to have growing...

By DAVID BROOKS

Torrington Properties has acquired the Fort Eddy Shopping Center in Concord that holds a Shaw's supermarket, Staples and Eastern Mountain Sports for $30 million.The 175,000-square-foot shopping center is fully leased and is the current home of...

By DAVID BROOKS

A few New Hampshire school districts are getting ready to enter the electric transportation era, which means they have to figure out a pretty basic question: How to get the electricity.Once that’s solved, they will get to ponder a more interesting...

By DAVID BROOKS

The family of the Massachusetts woman who succumbed to winter weather while trying to hike the Franconia Ridge last month is asking people to donate to the volunteer organizations and rescuers who searched for her.“In lieu of flowers, please send...

By DAVID BROOKS

The fate of a Massachusetts woman who died alone in the White Mountains while trying to accomplish a hiking goal is a sad reminder of one of the biggest dangers in the backcountry, sometimes called “summit fever.”The term describes how the goal to...

By DAVID BROOKS

Last week’s election includes some perfect examples of why political parties don’t want to give up the job of drawing the boundaries of voting districts.Start with the five-person New Hampshire Executive Council, a poster child for the power of...