Lessons From An Old Adversary
As I sit down to write this column I have just finished a long walk along the banks of the Ammonoosuc River...
Another Way To Hit The Trails
When winter lays down a nice blanket of snow, skiers head to the mountains, snowmobilers hit the trails, and tubers slide down...
Understanding Town And School Budgets
As we head into the season of town and school district meetings, citizens who have not participated in the past may be...
Understanding Town Meeting
Town Meeting is a New England tradition in which citizens decide matters ranging from spending and taxation to land use and who...
Understanding US History
A new book by Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson, published by Viking, covers the United States’ evolving democratic republic in...
My ‘Heep’ Story
While I love the traditional town and school district meetings where residents get together and argue the pros and cons of the...
Chess On Ice
Not too many years ago, if anyone spoke of curling, New Englanders might have assumed they were talking about hair, rather than...
A Sharp Idea
Drive past Airport Commons, the former Globe shopping center on Old Lake Shore Road in Gilford, and you may be surprised to...
Out On December 1
Expanded from a short $500 film to a sci-fi feature that will be hitting theaters on December 1, writer-director Brock Heasley’s “The...
A Few Abenaki Words For Thanksgiving
About twenty-five years ago, the New Hampshire Department of Highways proposed building a bypass near North Conway. The highway would bisect the...