Regular readers (hi, family!) know that I've long measured daily rain and snowfall for CoCoRaHS. With the Trump Team's incoherent slashing of NOAA to benefit private weather companies, this collection of citizen-science data will become even more important. So why...

A friend pointed me to an interested Request for Proposal - RFP - from New Hampshire Fish and Game. (An RFP is the way a governments says "We want something done; if you want to do it submit a bid and we'll see whether we want to hire you,") "Soliciting proposals from...

As you probably don’t know, since it’s not high on most people’s list of holidays, we are in the midst of Sunshine Week. This is an annual collaboration of journalists and various groups to shine a light (hence “sunshine”) on the importance of public records and open...

We all know about cyanobacteria blooms in summer, when slimy stuff appears on the surface of ponds and lakes, releasing toxins that can hurt people or pets. New Hampshire Bulletin has a story about Partridge Lake near Littleton which is seeing these blooms even in...

(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through March 16. *** Double-Diffused Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Transistor...

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: New Hampshire’s population grew slightly last year but only because of transplants moving into the state, since more state residents are dying than are born. That has been the story of state demographics for close to a decade, with...

This is town meeting season in New Hampshire which takes up most of the mental energy for a local newspaper, leaving less for Granite Geek. I should be back to semi-normal next week.

A driver following their GPS drove onto a beginner slope at Cannon Mountain Ski Area, reports the Union-Leader. It happened before the ski area was open. The area is clearly marked, Jace Wirth, Cannon’s general manager, said, and mistaking the slopes for a roadway...

When the kids were little and it was my turn to cook dinner, my thinking went like this: Decide what the meat is going to be – burger, lamb chop, fish sticks, meatloaf, whatever – and then worry about veggies, starch, sweets. It was all about the meat. Then our...

(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through March 9. *** Sock TBL LICENSING LLC, Stratham, New Hampshire has been...