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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
Scheduled to be aboard the Titan, a business emergency sidelined David Concannon. Soon he was immersed in the efforts to help save the submersible. This is his first extended interview since the tragedy.
It’s been 47 years since he was first arrested protesting the Seabrook nuclear plant, and over three decades since he relocated to the DC Beltway, but Paul Gunter still has New Hampshire on his mind.
But Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed the bill last week saying “New Hampshire ratepayers have been taken for over $200 million in order to subsidize the Burgess Biomass Plant in Berlin, NH. Enough is enough,” adding “The Power Purchase Agreement with Burgess Biopower is a great example of what can go wrong when the good intentions of a sympathetic government get exploited and abused by opportunists in the private sector.”
It’s raining today. Not just rain, but a deluge of biblical proportions. My canoe is ready by the back door just in case. I was supposed to go fishing today.
For reasons that have nothing to do with its virtues, English has become “the world language.” Although more people speak Mandarin Chinese as a first language than English, hundreds of millions of people speak English fluently as a second language or, as in India, a second first language
LACONIA — “I’m from Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, near Claremont and Lebanon, and my environmental concern is single use plastic waste and pollution in our state.”
Did you know it was white people who ended slavery? Or that slavery was commonplace in the world as far back as the third century?
The 90th Annual League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair concludes this Sunday and has been outstanding, organizers say, with good weather and help with new, mobile technology the state provided which allows for secure credit card transfers.
The people listed here passed away during the previous week and have some public or charitable connection to their community. InDepthNH.org is now offering obituaries through the Legacy.com service.