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Roger Wood
Roger Wood produces a podcast called “Roger Wood Indepth” covering news and life in New Hampshire. Wood is a well-known, award-winning radio, television and newspaper journalist with more than 30 years of experience. He has written and produced news and features for many radio stations and networks over the years.
InDepthNH.org Podcaster Roger Wood caught up with Portsmouth’s new Interim Police Chief David Mara to talk about taking over the department after more than a year of scandalous revelations. Mara formerly served as police chief in Manchester, the state’s largest city.
Roger Wood shares the entire broadcast he and Jim Van Dongen did live for New Hampshire listeners from Cape Canaveral on Jan.28, 1986, when the space Shuttle Challenger exploded killing teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe and her six crewmates.
Jan. 28, 1986 was a relatively warm day in New England with temperatures generally in the 40s.
But at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center read 28 degrees at 6 a.m.
Light from the sun is not only streaming through the stained-glass windows, but is also helping with the electricity bills.
The roof of the Durham Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship on Madbury Road is covered with an array of panels that are capable of generating some 13 kilowatts of power, according to Michael Fleming, a member of the church’s fellowship.
Writer John Harrigan and print and radio reporter Roger Wood have some fun in this podcast sharing their trials and tribulations covering New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary candidates all the way back to 1968.
The year was 2003.
I was at the South Mill Playground in Portsmouth when I observed activity, including a hearse at the intersection of Chestnut and Court streets.
Two Newburyport, Mass., city councilors have called for the shutdown of the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant, which has been operating since 1990.
I don’t know how many times visitors to the Portsmouth area have asked IndepthNH.org’s Roger Wood, “Hey, where’s Yoken’s? The Thar She Blows sign is there, but the restaurant’s gone.”
While standing in the cold at the 2016 First Night Portsmouth ice carving on New Year’s Day, veteran New Hampshire journalist and podcaster Roger Wood reflects on celebrations of the past and present and his hopes for the future.
Schiller Station’s wood-chip boiler has earned state and national recognition for its record of clean power generation starting with the Environmental Protection Agency, but some residents across the river in Eliot, Maine, claim that sulfur pollutants from the plant have affected their health.