by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2018 | Newsletter
After more than a week, I have received no credible evidence to unseat my claim to have found the oldest operating solar panel in New Hampshire. Rumors of an older panel at an off-grid goat farm in Orford have proved unfounded. If you missed the story, check it out....
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Lots of people, including me, have become interested in helping insects that pollinate our crops, but it’s not easy to know what to plant. Here comes UNH News Service to the rescue: Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2018 | Newsletter
Four loons on New Hampshire lakes have died this year after swallowing lead fishing tackle and a fifth “faces an uncertain future,” wildlife officials said this past week. New Hampshire Fish and Game say it appears some of the tackle is from current fishing activity,...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The death of a New Hampshire man said to be infected with a rare mosquito-borne disease called Jamestown Canyon virus has raised questions as to whether he is its first recorded fatality. Thomas Bengtson’s widow, Susan Bengtson, says two separate tests found evidence...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(This ran Tuesday; on Thursday I’m hunting down reports of a functioning N.H. solar panel installed in 1973 but so far, this one is still the winner.) In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
For decades starting in the Great Depression the use of wood as a heating source in the U.S. declined as it was replaced by coal, oil and electricity. But in the first years of this century wood made a little comeback, fueled (ha!) in part by wood pellet technology,...
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