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The ATV Park, Broadband and BIO-Mass. Life after the mills in the White Mountains and Great North Woods. We'll talk with journalists who cover the north country. on their turf. That's NOW on NH Outlook-- where NH Talks |
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We're coming to you from the MT Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods where the lure of the White Moutains has long drawn vacationers here.from all over the world. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We're in the historic Gold Room at the Mt Washington Hotel. It was here in 1944 that treaties were signed leading to the World Bank and the subsequent rebuilding of Europe after World War II. The hotel opened in 1902 and quickly became a summer favorite of poets, presidents even princes. With its Spanish Rennaissance architecture, it was the most luxurious hotel of the day. Now, the grande old hotel is undergoing a facelift. We thought it a very fitting backdrop for our program on NH's North country. Here to talk about the region's economy and some of the challenges that lie ahead: Edith Tucker from the Coos County Democrat, Barbara Tetreault from The Berlin Daily Sun and Todd Wellington for NH Public Radio. Welcome. Q EDITH: Mt Washington Hotel.now under new ownership. What's in store for this grand old hotel??? |
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Q BARBARA: Lost Groveton Paper Mill and Frasier and 400 jobs. How is the area faring since. Q Wood Energy Plant in Berlin.wood burning plant in Groveton. What do those new projects mean for the local economy? Laid Law BioMass Plant Q 4 major fires since the new year. In Jan, 3 died in an apt fire & in April, 2 downtown bldgs were destroyed. . Q ATV Park- opened last summer in Berlin with miles of trails. If you build it.they will come. Did they? Will it become a powerful economic engine for the region? 6.6 mil dollar project. Q A new federal prison in Berlin -- a boon to the economy?? popular in Berlin.not so in neighboring towns. Critics say using great north woods for prison poor use of state's natural resouces?? Mayor Danderson sees prison as "building block for transforming Berlin's struggling economy". Super WalMart in Gorham Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, and when it talks about coming to a new town, it often stirs controversy as large as the big-box stores themselves. . The Wal-Mart Supercenter, the first in northern New Hampshire Tourism dollars this year??? Q Snowmobiles good biz for Pittsburg. growing reputation as recreational area. made town a year round destination. 2nd homes being built realtively cheap real estate Q Broadband: In Jan.MT Orne cell tower up and operational. North country now has cell service and hope of broadband for the future. Q Is the image of the north country changing? As for poverty rates, one only has to look in NH's backyard to find poverty. public perception vs reality Is North country NH's playground -- or poor step child? Q North Country organizations get $203,354 from Tillotson fund grant Q Flooding rom April's NOreaster. FEMA made coos county eligible for fed asst to repair flood damage. |
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will want to talk about the Mt. Washington's planned expansion -- $25 million -- for a spa and convention center, plus $1.6 million for refurbishing/redecorating the lobby, plus $2.5 restoring the Donald Ross golf course/ The new owners have been there almost a year. They have also worked out a working partnership with the AMC and the Highland Center at the top of Crawford Notch. Gas prices don't seem to be scaring off tourists according to the motel owners I've talked to. Edith |
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grand masterpiece of Spanish Renaissance architecture, The Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire's White Mountains, was a two-year labor of love for 250 master craftsmen. Conceived by industrialist Joseph Stickney, this National Historic Landmark opened in 1902 and immediately became a favorite summer haunt for poets, presidents and princes. Play 27 holes on our PGA courses. Ever Gracious, Ever Grand Throughout its history, the Hotel has been renowned for natural beauty and luxurious extras. Indoor pools, Jacuzzis and fireplaces are just a few of the indoor amenities comforting year round guests. |
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My thanks to Edith Tucker, Barbara Tetrault and Todd Wellington for helping us understand some of the issues impacting the region. That wraps up our program from the North Country. Special thanks to our hosts here at the MT Washington Hotel and Thank you for watching NH Outlook, where NH talks. I'm Beth Carroll. I'll see you around NH. |
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Description LITTLETON, N.H. -- How can America's Main Street communities make it in fiercely competitive times that send factory jobs to Asia and white-collar work to big metro regions? Business and civic leaders in Littleton, a town of 5,800 in New Hampshire's isolated and thinly populated North Country, have spent a quarter-century devising inventive formulas to control their own fate rather than falling victim to adverse national and global economic tides. Today, they can claim broad success--holding and attracting manufacturing jobs, turning their Main Street into a nationally recognized model, positioning the town-owned utility to buy power at New England's lowest rates, initiating a Littleton Learning Center that's a model for 21st century work-force training. If there's a word for this town's success, it's leadership--an open and flexible group of. The closing of two major wood processing mills in the North Country has created a challenge for forest managers. How do you sustain healthy acres of growth if there's no place to send your harvested wood? We'll look at that and the effects globalization is having on lumber producers in New Hampshire. |
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CONCORD, N.H. _ Crews working to restore telephone and electric service and re-open roads spent a third day Wednesday dealing with rain and drizzle, washouts and toppled trees, and Gov. John Lynch said about 6,000 residents who were evacuated are still unable to return to their homes. Federal Emergency Management officials on Friday are expected to start assessing the damage in each of the state's 10 counties. Early estimates indicate the state should have little trouble reaching the $1.5 million threshold required for federal assistance. While the focus moved to assessing storm damage and repairs, some areas still were dealing with active threats. In Hollis, safety officials planned a controlled breach of the 19th-century Hayden Mill Pond dam to relieve pressure and avert a failure. A dozen families living in the immediate area were evacuated Tuesday evening and National Guard troops closed part of Route 122 as a precaution; the route was reopened Wednesday evening. Several thousand homes and businesses still had no electricity, and the state's largest utility, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, warned that customers in remote areas of the North Country and the western part of the state might not get their power back until the weekend. At the storm's peak Monday, utilities reported roughly 90,000 outages statewide. Public Service said 5,900 customers still lacked power Wednesday night. The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative reported 7,900 outages in the morning. The co-op still needed to perform 283 separate repairs, but hoped to have all the outages fixed by midnight Thursday, whether caused by snapped poles or limbs falling on lines. In many areas, road damage and fallen trees are blocking crews' access, said spokesman Seth Wheeler. "There are 18 different tree crews we've hired. just clearing trees first before the line crews can get in there and do construction," Wheeler said Wednesday morning. Most of the co-op's remaining outages were in the Plymouth and Meredith areas. Lynch said about 41 state roads remained closed because of high water or damage Wednesday, but that 13 of those were expected to re-open by Thursday morning. Route 101, closed by a landslide in Wilton, was an exception. "It's still unclear how we're going to handle the 101 landslide situation," Transportation Department spokesman Bill Boynton said. "It's a very unstable slope and it may require more stabilization." In the Raymond-Auburn area, Verizon officials said Wednesday they were able to get back into the central switching station, which had been flooded. "The water has receded, we're starting the cleanup process, and working to replace the equipment damaged by the flood," spokesman Erle Pierce said. "We still don't have an estimated time of full restoral of land-based phone service," adding that it could be at least another week. Residents said they could call within their own exchange, but couldn't call numbers outside it, or reach 911. Pierce said that cell phone service is getting better. "We're bringing in a portable tower tomorrow to help with celluar coverage," he said. The storm took no lives in New Hampshire, but a 4-year-old girl from Manchester was killed Monday when she and her grandmother were swept away in fast-moving water in Maine. Flooding in southern Maine also caused the cancellation of service by Amtrak's Downeaster, which runs from Portland, Maine to Boston and stops in Dover, Durham and Exeter. Part of the track was washed out. Legislators took steps Wednesday to delay a bill to send $3.7 million to communities affected by last year's mid-May floods until damage from the current flooding could be included. The governor supported the move. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2007 Geo. J. Foster Company |
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America’s state highway departments have historically been overbearing Goliaths. They’re usually run by technocrats, talk in hard-to-decipher jargon, and almost always prefer asphalt-first solutions. Transportation Sidebar ArticlesWatery Solutions Bradley: Barrier or Breakthrough? Radical Departure: A New - New England Model? Broadband ArticleBroadband Internet: New England's Future Up in the Air Download Articles Carol Murray, New Hampshire’s reform minded Transportation Commissioner, notes the way they’ve often communicated with towns: “Your Main Street is a state-numbered route, and we have to get traffic through more quickly. So you’ll have to eliminate your on-street parking and narrow your sidewalks. We’re going to make the road wide and straight, with 10-foot shoulders. And you’re going to like it.” The ice, though, may be starting to thaw. Under Gov. Mitt Romney and Commonwealth Development Chief Doug Foy, for example, Massachusetts has developed a “fix it first” and “context sensitive design” approach to highways. The state highway department’s written a new design guidebook pledging to listen to communities and make roadways compatible with such community surroundings as classic New England downtowns, stone walls and historic districts. Vermont has had similar standards in effect since 1997. The most remarkable change may be in New Hampshire, previously a roads-roads-roads constituency. Recalling her growing up years in the charming up-country town of Littleton, Murray recites how she could walk to school or to Main Street. She worries New Hampshire has been losing its quality of life through thoughtless transportation decisions. “Each community,” she asserts, “should be able to shape its own future.” Photo: Courtesy of New Hampshire Department of Transportation Carol Murray, New Hampshire's reform minded Transportation Commissioner. The town of Meredith on Lake Winnipesaukie was a case in point. Faced by congestion of two major roads converging and immense summertime traffic, the highway engineers were adamant for wider roadways and fast 24-hour “throughput.” Townspeople saw their quaint town and its peaceful lake views imperiled. To break the impasse, Murray promised a fresh start. She reached out to independent consultants including Fred Kent of the Project for Public Spaces, to talk with townspeople about alternatives. For the town’s major intersection with its traffic lights, the idea of a space-saving roundabout emerged. The new concept: it’s impossible to design for fast Fourth of July-volume traffic, so at least offer motorists a pleasant view, not just more asphalt. Similar discussions produced “softer” highway plans for Keene and Littleton. But they were rejected by citizens of Berlin, a hard-hit old lumber town that values its main highway strip boxes as a sign of economic strength; the townspeople nixed a remake into a tree-lined boulevard. No matter what outcomes, Murray and her allies want to move from pro-forms highway briefings to earnest discussions, highlighting alternatives and engaging local citizens. And now they’re trying even more. Murray took writing of the state transportation plan for the next 25 years -- combined road, rail, bus, freight, aviation and more -- out of the hands of transportation officials who’d normally handle it. Instead, she entrusted the task to a Citizens Advisory Committee, co-chaired by Lew Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and Executive Councilor Raymond Burton. The committee was a kaleidoscope of New Hampshire opinion, from the truckers to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, municipal officials to business leaders, legislators to children’s and housing advocates. Last month , the group produced its draft report -- an eye-opening document claimed to be “the first and only effort nationwide to ‘put the customer in the driver’s seat’ of transportation planning.” The central message: barring some fiscal miracle, New Hampshire will fall hundreds of millions of dollars short yearly in the money it prospectively needs -- from gas taxes or federal funds -- to maintain its existing roads, and rehab its already-aging interstates, and add all the new highways its current sprawling form of development demands. “Just building more roads isn’t the answer,” the committee concluded. So what to do? The group’s objective: join transportation with land use planning in an effort to reduce travel distances, tamp down new highway demand, and start considering needs of the state’s non-drivers -- increasing numbers of elderly, children, the handicapped, bikers and pedestrians. A raft of ways to get there, focused on more compact development, are suggested. Among them: stop segregating land uses; instead promote mixed use including zoning overlays to promote traditional town centers. Site schools in towns, so more children can walk or bike there Develop corridor plans, multiple towns participating, with an enhanced role for regional planning commissions that also engage citizens. Gear in programs for energy efficiency and economic development. And demystify transportation language and information so ordinary citizens can grasp it. The report’s less innovative on finances. Though it does suggest developers pay more of access road costs. And to get rail rolling in a state that’s resisted financing it, the committee endorses tax-increment financing, a device Nashua is now considering to pay for proposed train service to Lowell and Boston. Is it certain such new, unconventional approaches will work? They do go against the grain of decades of practice. But the idea of citizen-oriented transportation planning is a fresh and reassuring breeze -- and all the more fitting in the region of America that invented the town meeting. Email List Signup |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/03/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 25:00 Now on New Hampshire Outlook -- where New Hampshire Talks: We're coming to you from the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods where the lure of the White Moutains has long drawn vacationers from all over the world. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We're in the historic Gold Room, where in 1944 the treaties that led to rebuilding of Europe after World War Two were signed. Currently, the grande old hotel is undergoing a roughly thirty million dollar facelift. We thought it fitting to serve as the backdrop for today's program, which focuses on New Hampshire's North Country. Here to talk about the region's culture, economy and some of the challenges that lie ahead: Edith Tucker, from the Coos County Democrate, Barbara Tetreault, from The Berlin Daily Sun and Todd Wellington, the north country reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Edith Tucker\Coos County Democrat, Barbara Tetreault\The Berlin Daily Sun, Todd Wellington\NHPR |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/03/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 25:00 Now on New Hampshire Outlook -- where New Hampshire Talks: We're coming to you from the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods where the lure of the White Moutains has long drawn vacationers from all over the world. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We're in the historic Gold Room, where in 1944 the treaties that led to rebuilding of Europe after World War Two were signed. Currently, the grande old hotel is undergoing a roughly thirty million dollar facelift. We thought it fitting to serve as the backdrop for today's program, which focuses on New Hampshire's North Country. Here to talk about the region's culture, economy and some of the challenges that lie ahead: Edith Tucker, from the Coos County Democrate, Barbara Tetreault, from The Berlin Daily Sun and Todd Wellington, the north country reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Edith Tucker\Coos County Democrat, Barbara Tetreault\The Berlin Daily Sun, Todd Wellington\NHPR |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/20/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 25:00 Now on New Hampshire Outlook -- where New Hampshire Talks: We're coming to you from the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods where the lure of the White Moutains has long drawn vacationers from all over the world. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We're in the historic Gold Room, where in 1944 the treaties that led to rebuilding of Europe after World War Two were signed. Currently, the grande old hotel is undergoing a roughly thirty million dollar facelift. We thought it fitting to serve as the backdrop for today's program, which focuses on New Hampshire's North Country. Here to talk about the region's culture, economy and some of the challenges that lie ahead: Edith Tucker, from the Coos County Democrate, Barbara Tetreault, from The Berlin Daily Sun and Todd Wellington, the north country reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Edith Tucker\Coos County Democrat, Barbara Tetreault\The Berlin Daily Sun, Todd Wellington\NHPR |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/20/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 25:00 Now on New Hampshire Outlook -- where New Hampshire Talks: We're coming to you from the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods where the lure of the White Moutains has long drawn vacationers from all over the world. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We're in the historic Gold Room, where in 1944 the treaties that led to rebuilding of Europe after World War Two were signed. Currently, the grande old hotel is undergoing a roughly thirty million dollar facelift. We thought it fitting to serve as the backdrop for today's program, which focuses on New Hampshire's North Country. Here to talk about the region's culture, economy and some of the challenges that lie ahead: Edith Tucker, from the Coos County Democrate, Barbara Tetreault, from The Berlin Daily Sun and Todd Wellington, the north country reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Edith Tucker\Coos County Democrat, Barbara Tetreault\The Berlin Daily Sun, Todd Wellington\NHPR |
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