by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular Granite Geek readers (hi, dad!) are qjuite familiar with Betty and Barney Hill, the Portsmouth couple who say they were taken aboard an alien spaceship in 1961, launching the whole alien-abduction craze. They’ve been the subjects of books, a movie (James...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Keeping the ocean away is hard, especially when it just keeps getting closer. One good idea to let Mother Nature help – hence, as NHPR reports, efforts on the Seacoast to plant beach grass to help build up and maintain barriers. In places like Seabrook, many...
by David Brooks | Nov 7, 2017 | Newsletter
Firearms season for deer, which by far the most popular hunting season in most of the country, started Wednesday in New Hampshire. Why Wednesday? And why can hunters kill certain genders at certain times, and more deer in certain parts of the state than other parts?...
by David Brooks | Nov 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: This item, my column in the Concord Monitor, ran Tuesday morning, on election day. Manchester voters soundly rejected any change, choosing the original flag by a margin of 15-1 over any other choice, reports the Union-Leader. I didn’t realize I had such...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Every year ISO New England, the organization that runs the six-state New England power grid, issues its Regional System Plan, which reports on the current situation and makes predictions over the next decade. Below is their summary of highlights – including the...
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