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By DAVID BROOKS

Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson Granite Quarry has expanded operations slightly on Rattlesnake Hill, even as it starts reconfiguring its approach to tackle one of the paradoxes of mining.“The deeper we...

By DAVID BROOKS

We’re all familiar with crime-scene forensics, or at least the TV version that is the central plot point for every single cop show, but I must admit the concept of cellphone forensics is new to me.Fortunately for a hiker who was lost for two days in...

By DAVID BROOKS

In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via candles, Coleman lanterns and kerosene lights, and they decided to take a high-tech plunge.Thirty-nine years later (or maybe 40, but...

By David Brooks

Fans of free-range chicken farming take note: If your chicken freely ranges onto somebody else’s property, you could be in trouble.On Tuesday, Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law a bill that adds “domestic fowl” to a long-standing state law that makes...

By DAVID BROOKS

Many proposed laws seek to move New Hampshire forward, but there’s one that wants to move us – or at least our clocks – sideways into the Atlantic time zone.The bill would shift New Hampshire away from the time zone used by New York City and...

By DAVID BROOKS

At least one loyal customer isn’t surprised that building and landscape supply store Corriveau-Routhier has shut its doors after 70 years.“It was a great source of supplies that we needed, had been great for a long time. But over the past maybe two...