by David Brooks | May 18, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The continent-wide destruction of ash trees caused by an invasive insect has taken an economic toll in New Hampshire: The Peterboro Basket Co. is shutting after making its specialty baskets for 168 years, partly because it can’t get enough of the right sort of wood....
by David Brooks | May 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
This year would have seen the 100th birthday of Ralph Baer, as I’ve noted, and now that the weather’s nice they’re going to celebrate it in Manchester, where he lived for more than half his life. The event will take place Saturday (May 21) in Arms...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Of all the shocking weather emergencies we’ve seen in recent years, the one that really made the hair stand up on the back of my neck was last July’s wildfire that destroyed an entire town in British Columbia. That out-of-nowhere disaster hits home in New England...
by David Brooks | May 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Two pieces of news last week reflected what I suspect will be the pandemic’s reality for the foreseeable future: It’s not going away but we’re paying less attention. The not-going-away part shows up in the daily data released by the New Hampshire Hospital Association....
by David Brooks | May 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News (story here) has an update on efforts to see whether the lone star Tick has made it to Vermont yet – as it will do any day now: Adult females have a distinctive white star on their backs. Nymphs and adult females are the most likely to bite...
by David Brooks | May 16, 2022 | Newsletter
This is the time of year when fish-stocking happens: New Hampshire Bulletin had a story about money going to boost the state hatcheries that raise the fish. So I thought I’d dust off this 2016 column I did on the topic: In this era of concern about invasive...