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Here you will find stories about the North Country. Just writing those words, though, I sense a fight coming. When I lived in Bethlehem, I could unequivocally state that I lived in the North Country, but things got muddy when I moved to North Conway. You see some folks believe the North Country includes only communities north of the state’s four notches: Franconia Notch, Crawford Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Dixville Notch.
For InDepthNH.org’s purposes, we’ll use a little common sense and maybe stretch that a little farther south. And get ready for a call from our columnist John Harrigan, who has been called the King of The North Country, when we get it wrong.
-Nancy West
| Eversource NH president Bill Quinlan, Manchester Community College and IBEW electrical representatives welcomed Gov. Chris Sununu to a regular lineworker training session Wednesday, according to an Eversource news release. But the event was not posted on Sununu’s public schedule.
And SEC vice chair Kathryn Bailey told Robert Varney: “There is so much opposition from so many of these towns. You should have tried to do more to minimize impacts.”
Representatives from two electricians’ unions testified Monday that Northern Pass construction will be a boon to their members.
CONCORD — Site Evaluation Committee chair Martin Honigberg accused an intervenor Monday of attempting to deliberately delay adjudicative hearings on the Northern Pass Transmission project.
| Grafton County Attorney Lara Saffo made her points about the impact on homeowners and businesses of burying 52 miles of Northern Pass cable from Bethlehem to Bridgewater by showing photos of various properties and the massive equipment it would take during construction.
| CONCORD – As the Northern Pass adjudicative hearings continued Thursday, InDepthNH.org obtained a new study that claims its competitor – National Grid’s Granite State Power Link – would be far better for the environment, a claim that Hydro-Quebec was quick to rebut.
| CONCORD – Over Northern Pass’ objection, Site Evaluation Committee Chairman Martin Honigberg has ordered the project to recall its construction experts for limited cross-examination about “purported inaccuracies” and exceptions it is seeking from the Department of Transportation.
ERROL – Authorities believe they have located the skeletal remains of Tony Imondi, who was 26 when he was last seen on July 1, 1998, after attending a horseshoe tournament at Bill’s Seafood in Errol.
| The action doesn’t stop at Northern Pass adjudicative hearings in Concord.
| CONCORD — Northern Pass’s expert on the visual impact of the proposed 192-mile, high-voltage transmission line says he still doesn’t know which side of the road 52 miles of the project would be buried from Bethlehem to Bridgewater.