This photo from Unitil shows two types of guards placed atop transformers to make it harder for squirrels to accidentally touch two areas at once and cause a short circuit, which is the most common animal-caused electric outage in New England. (Courtesy photo)
This photo from Unitil shows two types of guards placed atop transformers to make it harder for squirrels to accidentally touch two areas at once and cause a short circuit, which is the most common animal-caused electric outage in New England. (Courtesy photo)
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Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.