While it’s true that receiving an award from the president, having a statue in your honor put up in your hometown and being featured in the nation’s most prominent museum are impressive achievements, you haven’t really made it these days until you’re the subject of a...

Anybody who has raised pigs or visited a pig farm knows that while this animal is smart and cute, they can be destructive and mean and dangerous as all get-out. Wild pigs are even more so, which is why their continued spread in the U.S. and Canada is one of the more...

My first job in high school was at a fast-food joint that made fried chicken. As low man on the totem pole I had to clean out the grease trap, a container under the floor where used fats and oils collected during the course of the day. Almost five decades later, the...

With small clusters of COVID-19 popping up at schools and perhaps elsewhere, including the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire’s pandemic situation remains, shall we say, unsettled. But nothing worse than that – at least, not so far. The average number of new...

A reader, Marsha Rich of Chichester, sent me some photos yesterday (Sept. 17) of grey dust on her car, wondering if it was from the Western wildfires. I said that while the dust had made the sky hazy and sunsets interesting, I hadn't heard of it descending to the...