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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
OP-ED: The selection of smaller state roads has been fraught with challenges that would be absent in the Route 93 corridor. Smaller roads such as Route 116 in Franconia and Easton are simply too narrow to accommodate burial of HVDC lines without encroachment upon private property.
LANCASTER – The renovation of the Balsams is moving ahead and plans for a new hotel may be submitted to the Coos Planning Board at its July 26 meeting, a company official said Wednesday night.
COLUMBIA – State Police are continuing to seek the public’s assistance with any information relating to the death of David Oldham.
CONCORD — Several members of the Site Evaluation Committee questioned whether more could be done to minimize harm to wetlands by the Northern Pass Transmission project.
Nancy West | CONCORD – The state Public Utilities Commission issued a major ruling Friday on the future of net metering and the development of clean energy in New Hampshire.
LANCASTER – It was raining heavily, a bunch of soggy strangers were tromping around in her yard and Corinne Comeau, 84, was thrilled.
By the end of the year, the North Country is expected to become part of the growing nationwide Village-to-Village Network, which is largely being created by seniors to help other seniors live independently.
Opponents outnumbered supporters among the 30 or so speakers, but not by the 10-to-one ratio in 1,300 plus written comments submitted to the committee.
Nancy West | CONCORD – Northern Pass Transmission wants to keep confidential a controversial lease with Bayroot LLC for land owned mostly by Yale University for a project right of way in Northern Coös County.
Nancy West | On Tuesday, Yale University broke its silence on the controversial Bayroot LLC land lease deal to Northern Pass in its newsletter YaleNews.