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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
Garry has been a longtime journalist in New Hampshire and Michael began his NH career as a journalist, specializing in business issues, and served in the early 90s as the State Senate Policy specialist on the budget and economic policy.
Alas, some mornings I have company. There is a beaver who slaps his tail and warns me I’m too close to his family.
This diary was kept by a 14, 15, and 16-year-old young man caught up in the horrors of the Holocaust.
At a meeting at UNH a few years ago I was taken to task by a graduate student for using the phrase “American Indians.”
Mary Ellen Foley was organizing opposition to U.S. support for the military dictatorship in El Salvador, where three nuns and a laywoman had been murdered by death squads the year before.
As I was walking past them down the river I was greeted by a lovely Southern accent. I said hello back and then said, “You sound like you are from down south, where in Massachusetts are you from?”
Several incidents occurred in the last month that either did not go before the ethics committee or were processed in a way to avoid the sunshine that is the public’s right-to-know.
Autumn brings a sweet mix of melancholy and genuine new beginnings.
Going to Septemberfest at KTP has become a family tradition over the past 23 years. It started when I needed a bigger canoe to entertain my growing family.