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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
Nancy West | CONCORD – Seacoast lawmakers are working with their North Country colleagues hoping to change the law to require a vote of approval by a municipality before a high voltage transmission line can be sited there.
GROVETON – NSA Industries’ new manufacturing facility in Groveton hasn’t opened yet, but the Vermont firm is already working on an expansion, NSA president James Moroney told InDepthNH.org.
The Lancaster event begins at 10 a.m. at the Great North Woods Welcome Center. There will also be solidarity marches on Saturday, Jan. 21, at the New Hampshire State House in Concord from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and in Portsmouth at 1 p.m.
A 17-year-old Canadian man rescued Thursday evening in the White Mountains is likely to be billed for the cost of saving him, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game.
Nancy West | “Journalism faces many serious challenges today and we think it’s time we should work together,” said executive director Nancy West.
At the core of the forest service’s deliberations is the tricky question: how wild should the wilderness be?
Get together with family and friends for hikes all over the state on New Year’s Day. What a way to start 2017.
The hiker is identified as 26 year old John Holden of Jefferson, Mass.
LANCASTER: A section of the Coos County zoning ordinance designed to preserve and protect high-elevation areas such as Mount Washington contains a section that one planning board member is arguing could allow a 35-room hotel along the Cog Railway.
Nancy West | Five hours after InDepthNH.org reported that the U.S. Department of Energy planned to exclude the public and press from two meetings about Northern Pass next week, those events in Concord and Whitefield were suddenly postponed.