by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want to get overly dramatic about it, you could say that Kentek, a company that has been in Pittsfield for 34 years, is in the business of protecting us from death rays. “A laser basically evaporates materials, melts them. That’s how it drills,” explained Tom...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote a story about the Concord city library adding a second digital service – Hoopla Digital to supplement the statewide New Hampshire Downloadable Books service operated by the firm OverDrive – and it was interesting to report, but to me the biggest...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: University of New Hampshire researchers have found certain varieties of seedless table grapes grow better in New Hampshire’s colder climate than others. The research project, funded by the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, aims to...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From New Hampshire Fish and Game: It was a difficult summer for the state-endangered and federally threatened piping plovers on Hampton and Seabrook beaches this year. This summer, three pairs nested on Hampton Beach with two chicks fledged (25+ days old), while on...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a Massachusetts firm among the 14 wannabe finalists for the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge, but nobody from New Hampshire made the list. The competition is a sort of mini X-Prize-ish attempt to push innovation in an area that doesn’t get a lot of...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
My wife and I have two manual-transmission cars (although one of them is about to die due to body rust, just short of 250,000 miles). Increasingly, this means nobody can borrow them because fewer people learn, or remember, how to drive a manual transmission:...
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