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By DAVID BROOKS

New England College and four other New Hampshire schools have joined a regional program that says they will automatically accept most students who have an associate degree from a state community college. The Transfer Guarantee Program, overseen by the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Mention the concept of “ice in” and “ice out” to a New Hampshirite and chances are we’ll think of Lake Winnipesaukee.Our biggest lake gets all the publicity for the annual pronouncements when it’s sort-of-officially covered with ice, and when the ice...

By DAVID BROOKS

White pine trees in New Hampshire have been dropping needles this spring but the state Forest Health Bureau says not to be concerned: It’s the result of last year’s rainy late spring and summer and doesn’t pose danger to the trees. For the past 15...

By DAVID BROOKS

The uncertainty caused by the arrival of COVID reduced births by a greater percentage in New Hampshire than any other state, according to estimates in a just-released study.The study by the Brookings Institution, based on data recently released by the...

If you want to win a bar bet, try this question: Where’s the closest nuclear reactor?People will say Seabrook, of course, but depending on where you are in the Concord area the answer might actually be Lowell, Mass. (Check distances on a map before...

By DAVID BROOKS

Browntail moth caterpillar winter webs have been located and removed at the Isles of Shoals off of the New Hampshire coast, the first confirmed incident of the species in the Granite State in 75 years.Browntail moth caterpillars have poisonous fine...

By DAVID BROOKS

As four electric buses in Henniker and Weare wind up their first full month of operation, news has come that Pembroke and Concord will receive some through the latest round of federal grants.In Wednesday’s announcement, part of an ongoing effort to...

By DAVID BROOKS

A Vermont organization is turning human urine into fertilizer that is being used on a half-dozen farms in that state and would like to expand the service into New Hampshire.“We have people who are interested in New Hampshire, certainly,” said Arthur...

By DAVID BROOKS

For most of my life I have suffered from avian ID blindness, the inability to tell birds apart. I blame a college professor.This professor, who never went outside if he could avoid it, dazzled my algorithm-loving youthful self with his efficient...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s something a little surprising about one of New Hampshire’s best museums, the small but mighty New Hampshire Telephone Museum in Warner: You’re not supposed to touch most of the exhibits even though they’re the kind of thing we’ve touched all...

By DAVID BROOKS

The folks who run New England’s power grid think New Hampshire is going to see big changes in the creation and the use of electricity over the next decade, with a ton of new solar panels feeding a ton of new heat pumps and roughly 200,000 more...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you missed the display of Northern Lights over the past weekend, keep two things in mind: It was great but not as great as pictures make it seem, and there’s a pretty good chance you can see it again over the next few months.The Northern Lights, as...

If you, like me, often despair of producing a garden in the mix of stones, sand and grit that New Hampshire optimistically calls “soil,” remember that it could be worse. You could be working with dirt from the moon.“It’s hard to grow in this material....

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s two coal-fired power plants in Bow and Portsmouth look similar to the passer-by with their aging industrial buildings, rail lines and smokestacks. But as both places prepare to transition from burning coal to hosting fleets of...

By DAVID BROOKS

If all goes as planned, a just-opened facility in Ohio may be destroying PFAS chemicals from New Hampshire fire departments later this year, the first step that could lead to a PFAS-destroying operation being built in New England.“This isn’t a forever...

Ted Kitchens, director of the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, will answer questions about recent airfield developments plus effects of the global aviation industry in a free talk, open to the public, on Thursday, May 9.The session comes as the...

By DAVID BROOKS

NASA’s return-to-the-moon program Artemis has 18 New Hampshire companies and institutions supplying products or services, from temperature sensors to gaskets to research projects, so it was no surprise that business was featured when astronaut...

By DAVID BROOKS

This year’s tax season was like all the others, a real pain in the neck to get through especially if, like me, you had to file for an extension because one stupid piece of paper was late. Argh!!!Which made me wonder how things went with the intriguing...

By DAVID BROOKS

When the Monitor ran a story recently that some residents in Boscawen were disagreeing about the design of a town flag, it produced this reaction among an awful lot of readers: “Wait – towns have flags?!? Who knew?”Not many people, it turns out,...

By DAVID BROOKS

When your job involves thinking of a new topic for a newspaper column every single week of the year, your ears perk up when an intriguing phrase floats by. And you can’t get much more intriguing than “laser scarecrows for New Hampshire farmers.”I hit...