by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As I was putting together the newsletter, I was asked to help do a breaking story about a road-closing sinkhole. “We don’t have sinkholes!” I replied. “Says who?” asked the newsroom, itching to put ‘sinkhole’ into the web...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(There are lots more great photos and a video of the quarry at this article on the Monitor website: https://www.concordmonitor.com/swenson-granite-concord-nh-polycor-quarry-19039156) Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson...
by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: From Maine to West Virginia, the Northeast has seen a larger increase in extreme precipitation than anywhere else in the U.S. Prior research found that these heavy rain and snow events, defined as a day with about two inches of...
by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We’re all familiar with crime-scene forensics, or at least the TV version that is the central plot point for every single cop show, but I must admit the concept of cell-phone forensics is new to me. Fortunately for the hiker who was lost for two days in the snow in...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The battle against insects that are attacking New Hampshire’s forests takes place on many fronts, but none is more important than one of the state’s largest gas-fired ovens, a converted shipping container where hundreds of thousands of pieces of camp firewood have...
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