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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight. Books, Books, Books It's the Summer reading show. There's something for everyone next. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight, security officers in courts around New Hampshire are wondering how much longer they'll have jobs. The budget passed last week eliminates one-point-eight million dollars from the Administrative Office of the Courts to pay for security officers. Judge Edwin Kelly, administrative judge for the district court system, says the cut will force the courts to rethink security issues. |
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One of the largest employers in the North Country has failed to meet a deadline to make a one-point five million dollar tax payment. Pulp and Paper of America had until 4:30 p-m today to pay its 2001 tax bill to the city of Berlin. The tax collector says the money never showed up. Strapped for cash, the company has fallen behind on its property taxes and reportedly has struggled to meet payroll. Outlook is following this story closely and will bring you a full report tomorrow night right here at 7:30. |
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The invasive aquatic weed called milfoil may be doing more than choking other plants -- it could be eating away at the value of New Hampshire's waterfront homes. Exotic weeds such as milfoil have been a growing problem in waterways for more than a decade. Because the plants aren't native and face no natural controls, they grow quickly, forcing out other species and causing trouble for boaters and swimmers. So far, about 50 of New Hampshire's 800 lakes have been found to have milfoil or other invasive plants. |
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For many people across the granite state right now, this is the first real vacation week of the summer. It's a time to relax, cast worries aside and get lost in a good book. Tonight we're dedicating a big portion of our program to summer reading. I'm joined by two people who spend a lot of time with books -- Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, and Jennifer Ericsson, a children's book author and librarian. They're going to tell us some of their favorite books to read this summer. |
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We had a camera in Portsmouth recently to find out what readers there are buying. |
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I'd like to thank my guests Michael Herrmann of Gibson's Bookstore and Jennifer Ericsson for being here and getting us ready to read our way through the summer. Thanks also to the New Hampshire Writer's Project for their help in locating tonight's great guests. |
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Investors today shrugged off a profit warning by manufacturing giant 3-M. And instead focused on some positive signs of economic stabilization. In May, personal spending, income and manufacturing growth all seemed to level off while total U-S construction spending rose. |
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The Dow Jones Industrials Average closed up over 91 points. The Nasdaq composite ended the day down almost 12 points. And the S-and-P-500 was up over 12 points at the end of trading today. |
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors. Brookstone ended the day down 49-cents-a-share. Cabletron stock was 65-cents-lower at the end of trading today. Shares of Fisher Scientific closed down two-dollars. New Hampshire Thrift ended the day up a dollar-and-ten-cents. And Teradyne closed up a dollar-and-thirty-two-cents a share. |
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If you own or operate a business in the granite state you may be polled about what kind of health insurance you offer employees. The New Hampshire Health Insurance Department is conducting the survey to find out how many businesses offer health insurance and what prevents those who don't from doing so.The state will contact roughly 600 businesses selected at random. |
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Officials in Portsmouth want to know if arts and culture add up to additional dollars and cents for the city. Portsmouth is participating in a national study sponsored by Americans for the Arts, to determine just that. Though people have assumed that arts and culture have economic benefits, there has been no economic data to support the claim. Roughly 100 communities around the country are participating in the survey. The study will be completed next year. |
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Textron Holding has sold off a Manchester auto parts manufacturer.Textron says the 150 employees at the plant will work for Hong-Kong-based Johnson Electric for several months - but layoffs are anticipated afterward. Textron has four main divisions: automotive, finance, aircraft and industrial. The company's stock was up 30 cents at over 55 dollars in early afternoon trading. |
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If you have a mercury thermometer in your medicine cabinet - you should replace it. That word from the American Academy of Pediatrics which recommends that doctors and parents should use an alternative - like a digital thermometer. If mercury thermometers are broken, vapors can be absorbed. Long-term exposure to mercury can cause neurological damage in children. Several cities and hospitals have banned mercury thermometers altogether, and some major store chains have stopped selling them. The academy's recommendation is in the July issue of its journal, Pediatrics. |
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Turning now to the weather and today's blustery conditions. For a look at how long they'll last, we checked in a few minutes ago with Katie Koster at the Mount Washington Observatory. |
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CG:WEATHER\Mount Washington Observatory\Current Conditions: Mostly cloudy\Temperature: 35 Degrees\Partly cloudy\Wind: Northwest 53 mph\Visibility: 85 miles CG:WEATHER\Tonight\North\Clear\Low: 35 to 45 degrees\Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph\ CG:WEATHER\Tonight \South\Clear \Low: 40 to 45 degrees\West wind 5 to 10 mph\ CG:WEATHER\Tomorrow\Statewide\Partly sunny with chance of showers North \Highs: 70s \Southwest 5 to 10 mph\ |
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Finally tonight, another literary moment. This one with New Hampshire's own Poet Laureate. Chip Neal first introduced us to her last fall. |
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VO: Her name is Marie Harris, and she is a poet with several books published. The most recent is a prose/poem memoir about her adopted son Manny. Now, to become the state poet Laureate you have to be appointed by the Governor for a five year term without pay. And what does the poet Laureate do? MH: I'm here to promote New Hampshire poetry.to promote the Arts in general in New Hampshire, and just raise the consciousness, I guess, of people in the state about poetry and New Hampshire poets. VO: For her first official task, she was asked by the Commissioner of Cultural Resources to write a poem for the introduction ceremony of the New Hampshire state quarter. The quarter honors our Old Man of the Mountain. MH: There is a little quote in the beginning from the Concord Monitor about the man who tends to the Old Man of the Mountain. The poem is called Common Coin. I remember my Dad used to tell people that he gave the Old Man a shave and a haircut--shave and a haircut two bits. Profilius looks mighty fine on the coin's stateside. Shored up, spit-shinned in mint condition you might say for today's unveiling. But even gussied up, the quarter is still a common coin clinking in the pockets of poor and rich alike. A coin with which to buy time for a load or two of laundry. Time in the parking meter's monitor of our comings and goings. Time enough to sip a takeout coffee, phone a friend. Though time is as they say money, it's time that we never get enough of and no minted coin is more valuable than that. Still, this Old Man's granite visage, sculpted from a rock hard, rock-ribbed history, tempered in the kiln's of summer fire and winter ice, is now--to coin a phrase--coin of New Hampshire's realm and as such in service to the general welfare, well spent, here. VO: What's the health of poetry in New Hampshire these days? MH: Well, if you can judge by the most recent anthology that has just come out called UNDER THE LEGISLATURE OF STARS by the Oyster River Press that represents sixty some odd contemporary New Hampshire poets and that doesn't cover all of them. So, I would say very healthy. VO: When and why did poetry stop having to rhyme? MH: Well, I'm not sure that it has stopped having to rhyme.poetry.Rhyming and poetry is just one device, and sometimes rhyming is the exact effect you want and other times rhyming gets in the way. VO: If I don't understand a piece of poetry, does that mean it is bad? MH: I would answer that question this way. If you are reasonably well read, if you are reading or hearing a poem in your own language, and if upon hearing it or reading it once or twice you still don't understand it, then I would say the burden is on the poet. I don't think that poetry is meant to be something that takes an incredible amount of specialized knowledge to understand. It never was meant to be that way. VO: And finally, I asked New Hampshire state poet Laureate for a closing thought about poetry. MH: Something, I think that William Carlos Williams said, I'm just paraphrasing but that the news that is to be found in poetry is such that everyday people are dying for lack of it. That somehow poetry is providing us with something we dearly dearly need to know to live our lives. |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook - We'll take you to cooking school for the backyard chef. Get back to basics with safe and sumptuous grill ideas. |
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That's it for this edition of New Hampshire Outlook. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for Antiques Roadshow. We'll be back tomorrow at 7:30. Good night. |
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Thanks to our founding sponsors who have provided major funding for the production of New Hampshire Outlook: New Hampshire Charitable Foundadtion Public Service of New Hampshire Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust Putnam Foundation Stratford Foundation |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. With the glorious fourth just around the corner it's barbecue time. Find out what's cooking in your backyard this summer. Get back to basics with safe and sumptuous grill ideas. Join us tonight at 7:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Here at 11:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Finally tonight, we revisit a story we first brought to you last December. Yankee Yankee Magazine had just published a list of the 100 Classic New England Children's Books. Set in New England, many in New Hampshire, the books are also written and illustrated by local authors. Some third and fourth graders from the Center Strafford school in Strafford shared their favorite selections with us. We thought you'd like to hear them again. |
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If you want more information about classic New England stories, visit your local library or bookstore. |
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DATE: 7/2/01 TOPIC: Summer Reading SEGMENT LENGTH: 15:00 NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: For many people across the granite state right now, this is the first real vacation week of the summer. It's a time to relax, cast worries aside and get lost in a good book. Tonight we're dedicating a big portion of our program to summer reading. I'm joined by two people who spend a lot of time with books -- Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, and Jennifer Ericsson, a children's book author and librarian. They're going to tell us some of their favorite books to read this summer. |
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Officials in Atkinson have a doggone problem. As of last weekend there were roughly 230 unregistered pooches -more than twice as many as last year. By state law, the deadline to pay the licensing fees was June 1. To get people to pay up, officials tonight will consider placing liens on the dogs, which could result in fines, court appearances, and in extreme but rare cases, seizure of the dog. |