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Peaches are plentiful this year. These are at Monahan Farm in East Kingston, NH.
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This cycle has played out in a host of American household items. A popular chemical used in cash register receipts and to harden plastics in sippy cups and water bottles — bisphenol A, also known as BPA — has been widely replaced with a chemical cousin, bisphenol S. Studies now suggest BPS may be at least as harmful as BPA.
How much preparation have federal transportation authorities carried out to meet the challenge of the advent of self-driving cars and trucks? Not nearly enough, according to a new 44-page report by the Government Accountability Office, a Congressional watchdog agency.
In the long shadow of the Rattlesnake Ridge the talk these days at The Common Cafe or Plain Jane’s Diner in Rumney or Dot’s Bread and Butter Bistro in Ashland is often turning to who the next standard bearers in the political parties should be and what their message to the American people ought to be, with plenty of opinions on all sides about our President.
New California rules aimed at curbing the surprising amount of pollution coming from leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small gas-powered machines cleared a final hurdle Monday, and are set to take effect on Jan. 1.
In New Hampshire, Sen. David Watters (D-Dover), oversaw the passage of a bipartisan 2016 bill that established The New Hampshire Coastal Marine Natural Resources and Environment Commission which began meeting earlier this year.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Dozens of activists from New Hampshire and the Yale community today delivered an open letter to the Yale University Investments Office calling on the university to stop the controversial Northern Pass powerline project.
OPINION: The news is full of stories of all the happy ATV riders flocking to Jericho Mountain State Park and lining Berlin’s Main Street. But no one is hearing about the much different scene playing out at the Gorham OHRV trailhead.
State regulators ruled against Northern Pass and ordered the video be shown at the adjudicative hearings, but said all 10 people featured in it must be available for cross-examination as lawyers for the project had insisted. The video will be shown at the public hearing Friday, Oct. 20 in Concord.
The Coos Planning Board seems headed for a collision with the federal government over the board’s assertion that it has the authority to regulate private projects on federal lands.