Lots of snow and lots of customers made this a great season for southern New Hampshire’s two downhill ski areas, but the reborn Crotched Mountain is still trying to overcome having been out of the public eye for 13 years.…
A comprehensive fund-raising campaign and an expanded schedule of “trademark” events are the highlights of The Music Hall of Portsmouth’s recently unveiled two-year strategic plan. The 2005-2007 plan, unveiled by Executive Director Patricia Lynch and Gail VanHoy-Carolan, board president, also…
In the movie, “Field of Dreams,” the resurrected Joe Jackson looks at the ballpark built in a cornfield and asks, “Is this heaven?” “No, Iowa,” he’s told. Sports fans in New England may be feeling the same way as we…
When Celestica Inc. announced it was closing its Salem plant last month — and laying off 420 workers because it could manufacture more competitively on foreign soil - a curious fact wasn’t mentioned. During the last three years, the high-tech…
Anne Jamieson is a registered nurse, has been a health-care manager, a clinical technology director and an attorney. She recently added chief executive officer to her list of titles. Only two months into her new role as head of Parkland…
The issues surrounding storage of high-level nuclear waste remain unsettled amid reports of falsified studies concerning the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, development of a possible temporary storage site in Utah and federal legislation that would authorize long-term storage at…
The Terry Schiavo matter raised many timely and important issues relevant to New Hampshire as well as the rest of the nation. First, the extraordinary involvement in the matter by the state courts, federal courts, Congress, the president and then,…
Gov. John Lynch maintains he’s the one in charge of the state’s health and human services reform plan — and he will move forward cautiously in drawing it up. But Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen is lobbying hard…
Hey, out there in Washington! Remember us, your constituents in New Hampshire? The people you’re supposed to represent? Think you might actually consider - and act on - OUR views, wishes and interests? Think you might stop repeating “yes” to…
You may know that the cost of insurance includes a 2 percent tax on the premiums you pay. House Bill 678, which resulted from the work of a legislative study committee, would decrease the tax from 2 percent to 1…
