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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
Note to self:
Goals for the first day of 2016:
— Fix hydraulics on tractor and bucket loader
— Clean out and restart outdoor wood furnace
— Catch up on New Year’s e-mail
— Write “Hello from Harrigan on InDepthNH.org”
And now construction is not expected to begin until next spring with growing underway towards the end of 2018, said Kelly Wieser, a Campton-based lawyer who helped arrange financing and worked on issues such as permitting.
The Coos County Commissioners plan to review an environmental group’s claim that the owner of the Cog Railway didn’t have the necessary permit to build a “road” to the top of the mountain that may be used to give tourists winter-time rides in a snowcat.
Eversource customers paid $52.3 million more than necessary between November of 2013 and last April due to a controversial contract between the utility and the biomass-burning Burgess BioPower plant in Berlin.
BYOB – In 2011, after a lot of thought, Beverly White concluded that the traditional farmers market – much as she loved it – wasn’t helping farmers or locavore consumers as well as it could in Concord.
LANCASTER – With another winter approaching, the Balsams’ developer is still working on its plan to expand the skiing area, Ed Brisson, an official with developer Dixville Capital LLC, said Wednesday night.
During Tom Pappas’s questioning, Les Otten acknowledged that he did not have to provide financial information or other documentation to receive the loan, nor is there a re-payment schedule, but he did say the money does have to be repaid.
Wayne King of Rumney is opposed to Northern Pass. He is an author, artist and activist and was a three-term State Senator who chaired the Senate Economic Development Committee and the NH Senate Economic Summit.
Nancy West | UPDATED: Northern Pass spokesman Martin Murray responded to InDepthNH.org at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday saying many people met the Site Evaluation Committee members at the court house and followed them the entire tour. “From my perspective, most of the folks along Main Street were quite aware of the committee’s arrival and walking tour,” Murray said.
CONCORD — Landowners along the buried section of the Northern Pass Transmission project may not know the final line placement until state transportation officials decide where it may be placed under state roads.