Envisioning an evergreen Massachusetts: the Granite State's goal of preserving forest cover and adding even more despite encroaching development and long-term costs has other states watching with interest.
Atop of Massachusetts' Great Hemlock Mountain, the loudest sound on a sunny autumn morning is the percussion of acorns on dry leaves. From a clearing the view stretches the eye, great swatches of forest rolling north into New Hampshire and west to the Connecticut River Valley. [ILLUSTRATION...

National Braille Press.
On April 8, 2008, Brian A. MacDonald was named president of National Braille Press, replacing outgoing President Bill Raeder, who held the position for 32 years until his retirement. Prior to joining National Braille Press, Mr. MacDonald worked as chief operating officer of New Hampshire Audubon, where he helped...

A red zebra helps children search the Internet safely.
Like many parents, Tina Ferruci has concerns about her children doing research on the Internet. Not long ago, she stood behind her 13-year-old son when he went on line to find a pair of shoes--only to be aghast at the inappropriate images that popped up after he typed in...

Murder, North and South: violence in early-twentieth-century Chicago and New Orleans.
OBSERVERS OF AMERICAN REGIONALISM HAVE LONG KNOWN THAT THE South has suffered from high, often astronomically high, levels of violence. Late-eighteenth-century travelers marveled at the eye-gouging and nose-biting rituals at the core of rough-and-tumble fighting in the region, and reports of dueling and lynching became stock elements of nineteenth-century...

Arizona legislature on verge of nixing Real ID program.
On March 19 the Arizona state House passed a bill (HB2677) that would prohibit the state from putting Real ID into effect without the legislature's approval by a vote of 51 to 8. On May 6, the state Senate passed their stronger version of the bill, which would flatly...

Shadow soldiers: Captain Justus Sherwood.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After a lashing at the hands of the Green Mountain Boys in 1776, Captain Justus Sherwood escaped a sentence of life imprisonment and joined the British secret service. He became commanding officer of the spy corps and secretly negotiated to bring Vermont back into the...

2008-2009 MTNA competitions.
2008-2009 MTNA COMPETITIONS (All information is subject to change. Check the MTNA website at www.mtna.org for updates.) STATE DATE Alabama October 31-November 1 Alaska November 8 (Strings) Alaska November 15-16 (All else) Arizona November 1 Arkansas October 31-November 1 California TED Colorado October 25 Connecticut TBD District of Columbia...

Laidlaw Energy Group to Acquire New Hampshire Pulp Mill for New Biofuel Plant.
ENERGY RESOURCE-12 May 2008-Laidlaw Energy Group to Acquire New Hampshire Pulp Mill for New Biofuel Plant(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Laidlaw Energy Group Inc., through its affiliate, Laidlaw Berlin BioPower LLC, has entered into a definitive agreement with North American Dismantling Corp. to acquire the assets of the...

Minnesota and Alaska legislatures reject Real ID.
In May Minnesota and Alaska became the eighth and ninth states whose legislatures have rejected Real ID, joining Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Washington. A dozen more states have approved resolutions calling for the costs of the Real ID program to be fully covered by Congress...

Networking sites more benign than thought.
Use of social networking Web sites poses no greater risk of sexual solicitation and harassment of children than do other online behaviors, according to the results of an e-mail survey of 1,588 preteens and teens. "Our findings suggest that online interpersonal victimizations do not seem to occur...