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Standup: North Country dub tape 1 0:06:10 Hello, I'm Richard Ager and Welcome to NH Outlook. First: a confession. As a statewide broadcaster, we don't get to the North Country as often as we should. And when we do, too often it's in response to some bad news. So this week, we thought we'd do something a bit different. We'll spend two days driving across the North country, visiting and revisiting some of the people and stories we thought you should know about. Next stop: North of the notches. Soundup: North Country dub tape 1 0:02:00 Station truck drives by - pan to shot of trailhead parking Standup: North Country dub tape 1 0:25:20 In January, 2006, more than 100 workers here in Groveton got some very bad news. International Paper was to close their mill, even though it was still profitable, leaving them all out of work. The state sent in an emergency response team, but now, almost a year and a half later, we thought we would return to see what the community was doing to help out in this situation. Video: North Country dub tape 1 0:20:35 exteriors of Normandeau Waste services, Normadeau stone… Track: We visited with local businessman Barry Normandeau and Lancaster Herald reporter Charlotte Sheltry. Both are members of a community group known as GREAT - the Groveton Regional Economic Action Team. Bite: North Country dub tape 1 0:13:00 WHAT ACTIONS HAVE YOU ALL BEEN TAKING? Since that group formed last summer, there's been quite a few things that have happened. We have formalized as a nonprofit - and that's the first step we had to take. We raised quite a bit in fundraising now and we are doing events to bring regional exposure to the area so that we make ourselves more enticing;. We're also involved in bringing a possible bioenergy facility to this area as well, and a bioethanol facilty - so that's the core of what has happened in the last six months. Track: The town has already agreed to sell the land needed for the facility - which in turn could sell its power to the remaining Wausau mill in Groveton - which still employs 300 people. And the community has taken other measures to recover. Bite: North Country dub tape 1 00:15:15 We brought back a 30-year old winter carnival this year - which was very successful. And people for the first time saw that things could be done. There was a positive outlook. Before that, it had been kind of humdrum. And very depressive state. But the winter carnival was the point of turnaround for many of the people in the area, and they realized for the first time that they could do something for themselves. Bite: North Country dub tape 1 0:20:00 ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THINGS HERE? We are. We are. It'll take another year or two or three- but you'll start seeing changes from that point. Video; North Country dub tape 1 0:31:25 driving into Colebrook -wipers going Track: Our next story brought us to Colebrook - one of the northernmost communities in the state. Colebrook has long faced economic challenges. Soundup: North Country dub tape 1 0:48:38 You'll notice there's no fire escapes from these upper floors either. Track: One of those challenges was the old elementary school that no longer met code requirements. In 2001, the community met to vote on a new school. Video: North country dub tape 1 0:58:55 exteriors of Colebrook elementary school Bite: North Country dub tape 1 0:37:30 WE SHOULD POINT OUT THAT THIS IS NOT A COMMUNITY THAT HAS A LOT OF MONEY. YET, WHEN THE VOTE CAME, WHAT WAS THE RESULT? It was 82% in favor. I will tell you, the night of the school board meeting, I was a little worried. I had told the teachers - don't be disappointed if it doesn't pass. Sometimes things don't pass on the first try. You can't lose heart. The public arrived, the gymnasium was packed - and there were a lot of older people there. Teachers were biting their fingernails and worrying that - oh no, the elderly are going to be on fixed incomes and say they don't want to fund this expensive thing - and it really was very moving. One at a time, elderly people stood up, identified themselves, and said my grandchild is in that building, my daughter went to school there, my daughter teaches here. They each had a personal connection with the kids or staff in the building - and they said we need to build this building for them. Yes, we're on fixed incomes - but if we don't do this for them, they're not going to have much of a future. Bite: North Country dub tape 1 0:39:45 WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW THAT YOU COULDN'T DO BEFORE? There's a lot of things that we can do now. Let me give you an example. Art projects - I noticed when I first came that teachers simply didn't do hands-on science or art in their classrooms, and I wondered why and I wandered around the building and it finally dawned on me that the reason they didn't do it was they had no access to water. Anywhere in the building, except in the basement. There was one bathroom in the building and that was in the basement of the building. There was no elevator to haul all that water up to the classrooms - it was ridiculous. So they just didn't do it. One of the things we asked for in this building was a sink in every classroom and there's even a sink in the AV room so - that means that teachers can do finger painting, they can do modeling with clay, they can do papier mache - they can do all sorts of projects they couldn't do before and they can plant seeds, and they can clean up. They can clean up the mess afterward - and something simple like that, people don't think of it. Your building has a lot to do with how you can teach. Bite: North Country dub tape 1 0:43:21 I have in my school several students whose father laid all the concrete out here. I even have a photograph of one of the little boys helping his daddy lay the sidewalk. That was very important - the money stayed here - it was paid to local or North Country people to build this place - so that gave people a sense of satisfaction too. DO YOU GET THE SENSE THAT THIS PLACE IS A SYMBOL OF HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY, OF REGROWTH AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE? Yes, I definitely do. Businesses are attracted to a community where a good school exists. If a business knows that a community has a good school, they know that they can bring their employees here and their employees will be happy here because there's a good school for their kids. Track: Businesses also demand access to high-speed internet - which Colebrook now has. Bite: North Country dub tape 2 0:23:00 Larry and Richard approach shed "So - this is the shed." Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:16:41 NOW LARRY THIS IS? This is the central control point - one of the two for our broadband project. IT'S NOT A LARGE LOOKING OPERATION - WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE WITH IT? Well, this is just part of the equipment. The operation is going to expand. We plan to service from Pittsburg all the way down south to North Strafford. So actually, what you see is just the part that we started to use at the moment, but there's going to be more equipment coming in here. NOW THERE ARE PEOPLE ACTUALY STARTING TO USE THIS SERVICE, AREN'T THERE? Absolutely. We have - about a dozen people who are signed up - actually using it now. 50-100 are signed up. SO FAR, WHAT KIND OF DIFFERENCE IS THIS MAKING? So far, everybody is very happy. This is considerably faster than anything they are using by a factor as much as 10-20 times. Everybody likes the fact that you can get video over the internet, if all you do is browse a website, it's still a lot faster than what people are used to. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:18:45 We used to be asked what's your transportation like. Now the first question is what do you have for internet, what do you have for high-speed internet? And fortunately, now we're able to answer them - we have it. We have high speed internet - and because of the shape NH is, we're one of the few places where we can provide connections to Vermont, NH, Maine - and north to Canada. So we can offer a form of redundancy that very few places can offer. GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF BUSINESSES THAT YOU THINK WILL BE ABLE TO EXPAND AND GROW HERE THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO UNTIL NOW. Well the number one obvious one would be a call center. As you know, most telephone call centers operate over the internet, they don't operate using copper wires and we can offer a call center. We have buildings, we have space, we have everything that's necessary to do that. And it can be as large as you can conceivably want to make it. A couple of thousand phone lines if that's what you want to make it. HOW LONG DO YOU EXPECT IT TO TAKE FOR THIS TO BE AVAILABLE TO MOST RESIDENTS OF THE AREA? Well, people are signing up now. So I expect by the end of the summer, the majority of businesses and private individuals in Colebrook will have what they need. Track: Lorraine Cotnoir already has her new internet connection. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:29:47 I'm just going to down load anything - this is how fast it is - I got it already. ** It was what - a second? Track: Lorraine pays $39 a month for the service plus a $400 installation fee to have the receiver installed. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:28:20 IN THE TWO WEEKS YOU'VE HAD THIS SERVICE, HOW WOULD YOU SUM UP THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT MAKES. Between the dial up? 100% better. More than 100% better. It's 5 times faster. Better than that even. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:31:45 WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING WITH IT THAT YOU HAVEN'T BEEN DOING SO FAR? I might go on the internet now and look for more graphics. I like to do my own greeting cards - and I do a friend's business cards so I'll probably go search for some more graphics which sometimes would take a long time to download. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:33:52 ONE LAST THING - HOW MANY HOURS A DAY ARE YOU NOW SPENDING ON THIS THING? Oh my goodness my husband might kill me, I spend a good six hours a day, five to six hours a day. Track: The arrival of high-speed internet is one of many changes going on in Colebrook - just ask Charlie and Donna Jordan. Soundup: North Country Dub tape 3 0:18:45 Charlie and Donna - I've got some pictures of the flooding in Vermont - I'll put that on page 3 of the Chronicle… Track: The Jordans are long-time journalists who put out the Colebrook Chronicle every week, along with the Lancaster Herald. We spent some time with them catching up on local news. |
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Soundup: North Country Dub tape 3 0:19:30 ** That's got 2 angles to it. A new business coming to town…. Bite: North Country Dub tape 3 0:01;30 SO TELL ME WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE BIGGEST CHANGES ON THE STREETS HERE IN COLEBROOK IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. Well, unfortunately, we've seen the closing of the Colebrook House Inn in January. WAS THAT A REAL BLOW? You know, the last few winters have been tough. Snowmobile season - that sort of thing - it has been tough around here and you're either going to cut it in the third year or you aren't. And unfortunately, they couldn't. In the month of January, their income was $14,000 and you're not going to make it work with ¾ of a million dollars in loans. So their business was closed at the end of January- they didn't make a secret of it. They didn't leave in the middle of the night - and last week, we did a story that they had filed for bankruptcy. Track: Another change - more positive - is the planned rehabilitation of the old Grange just off Main St. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:42:25 This is about 100 years old…it was constructed as a stable for the Balsams stage, people coming into Colebrook headed out to Dixville and the horse teams were kept right here, and at some point it became a Grange building and has operated as that until sometime in the 1960's and since then its been Colebrook's hidden secret and we're pretty excited. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S IN PRETTY GOOD CONDITION, HOW MUCH WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE ON IT AND WHAT DO YOU WANT TO USE IT FOR? The goal of the two organizations working on this the Colebrook downtown development associations, is to take an unused part of town and bring life back to it, and the great northwoods center for the arts, sees it as fulfilling our mission to have a performing and visual arts center in north country. Track: Thanks to the late owners of the Balsams resort - Neil & Louise Tillotson - the Grange is getting a new life. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:45:00 The key grant was from the Neil and Louise Tillotson fund, and that's a 100,000 dollar grant, and that's to get it structurally sound and hopefully to start using it by end of this year. Then we'll be having fundraisers to really get the community behind it, but the real fun is up stairs, I want you to see the stage up there. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 000:45:44 You know we were really surprised when we got into the building because we thought it was going to be in a far less usable state. You look behind here is an old ticket window but there's a big area in here and this is where we're going to be having performances. We're going to be extending back and have behind the stage scene, they use to have proms and things in here, and these benches its almost like you can envision kids from different towns on either side. Track: That may be easier to envision than what we found next. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:04:05 IT WAS A SURPRISE FOR ME TO FIND A GENUINE FRENCH BAKERY IN COLEBROOK. WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO COME FROM PARIS TO COLEBROOK? When we was in France, we wanted to change the activity - and Marc was in Pennsylvania before, and we decided to start a bakery and make it a French bakery. Track: Besides the retail business, Le Rendezvous now sells some of its baked goods and Belgian chocolate in other stores through the North country. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:08;00 AFTER FIVE YEARS, IS THIS SUCCESSFUL FOR YOU? ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE CHOICE YOU MADE COMING HERE? We chose to come here because it's quiet - and not a lot of people - It's really a la compagne. IN THE COUNTRY. In the country - yes. From Paris to here. A LITTLE DIFFERENT. Big change - yes. Bite: North Country Dub tape 2 0:09;00 SO ARE YOU GOING TO STAY? VOUS ALLEZ RESTER ICI? If the people of Colebrook want us. Yes - it is not so easy in a small town to run a business - and now it is a little bit slow because the winter was not very good because of the weather - but it's okay and I want to say - the people here are very, very friendly - and I cannot forget that. The first day we opened, they came here with a lot of flowers and they say welcome and it was very nice. MARC. VERLAIN. MERCI BEAUCOUP. Merci. Thank you very much. EITHER DIP TO BLACK AND UP OR SLOW DISSOLVE TO SOUNDUP Soundup: North Country Dub tape 3 0:06:00 Sound of rain - three of us walking toward memorial THEN SOUNDUP ON CHARLIE 0:06:08 I think it helped prepare me for life is not a certainty. Expect the unexpected. Track: The weather seemed appropriate for our next stop. This year is the 10th anniversary of the Colebrook murders in which a judge, an editor and two troopers were killed. On this day, Franconia was preparing to bury it's own murdered police officer - and his killer. Bite: North Country Dub tape 3 0:06:30 WHAT COMES TO MY MIND IS WONDERING WHAT YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT NOT MANY DAYS AGO WHEN YOU HEARD THE NEWS OUT OF FRANCONIA. Bite: North Country Dub tape 3 0:08;55 I thought to myself this is going to be really difficult, no matter what the circumstances are, no matter who caused what - there's no blames, there's no faults, everyone has their heart broken right now. And the only thing they can do is not expect anything out of themselves other than to get up tomorrow morning. And if they get up and walk away from their bed and put their slippers on, that's another step they've been able to make. If they can make a cup of coffee and drink it, that's another step they've made. I REMEMBER A LOT OF TALK AT THE TIME - ONE STEP AT A TIME. One step at a time - and there are a lot of people - family, friends and neighbors who are going to feel like I want to say something, I want to do something, but I don't want to make it worse. But you can't make it worse, so they shouldn't be afraid of reaching out - and I know that's been a really big help for those of us in this area. We see each other today - 10 years later - we see each other in the grocery store - and we hug and say how are you. CHARLIE, YOU WERE HERE ON THE SCENE JUST MOMENTS AFTER THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED, TOOK THE FIRST PHOTOS, AND WORKED AT PAPER FOR A YEAR AFTER. HOW LONG HAS IT TAKEN TO FIND - NORMALCY? You don't get over it. You just absorb and change. I think because of the fact - when 9/11 happened a few years later, it was another bright beautiful sunny day, and I came down to Colebrook and people were standing outside their businesses looking around, like what's happening right now, what are we seeing on our televisions? And it was eerie, it was like this - and you know what? We just understood what was ahead for those communities - for that Pennsylvania town where that plane went down. Soundup: North Country Dub tape 3 0:12:50 memorial in the rain DIP TO BLACK AND UP Video: Berlin b-roll tape 0:02:20 high wide shot of Berlin - pans across soundup: Berlin b-roll tape 1;05:10 pan down from hills to traffic Track: We began our second day in the North Country with Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson. Bite: North Country Dub Tape 4 00:04:10 WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT HERE BOB? Well, about two weeks ago we had a fire here Track: Berlin has been plagued with fires in condemned buildings. This one - on Main St. - took a rehabbed building with it. Danderson says Berlin needs to demolish more than 500 substandard housing units. wide Berlin housing shot*** Bite: North Country Dub Tape 4 00:08:12 Well, what we're trying to do is apply for a 300,000 dollar grant which will tear down a few homes. Last year we didn't get it because of the floods in Alstead - that money was directed there. And we have a housing coordinator that is doing a great job in working on this. IT SEEMS ALMOST LIKE THE PROBLEMS HERE ARE IN REVERSE TO PROBLEMS IN COMMUNITIES ELSEWHERE. YOU'RE SEEKING NOT TO BUILD MORE BUT TO ACTUALLY TEAR DOWN MORE… We're seeking to reduce a lot of the low income housing that is usually sub standard housing. That's very difficult to do with federal monies because they want that to do the opposite. What that will do is provide better housing for all. No one should live in a pit. *** This house was condemned, and it took a good house with it. You know, we are going to get very aggressive and we are going to change our ordinance and get aggressive with landlords who own places like this.*** |
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North Country Tour Script Bite: North Country Dub Tape 4 00:09:15 NOW IN TERMS OF THE POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS, WHAT OTHER ISSUES DO YOU FACE? CAN YOU ATTRACT WORKING PEOPLE? WHO IS MOVING INTO BERLIN THESE DAYS? If I had to say… the people are either on welfare… WHY? BECAUSE OF THE HOUSING? Simply because of the housing. *** If you're on welfare in Concord and the cheapest apartment is a 1000 dollars, and you can pick up an apartment for 400 dollars in Berlin, where are you going? *** Because the dollar will go farther. And that makes for problems. We see people on disability and retirement. And actually I want to attract some retirement people, I'd like to get some nicer homes to accommodate them, cause it's a great group to target. 00:10:10 WELL DO YOU HAVE A START ON RETIREMENT OVER HERE? ACROSS THE STREET? What we have is the corner stone project. And downstairs is supposed to be for commercial - like restaurants and retail - and the two floors above that are supposed to be assisted living housing. Track: If Danderson has a development project nearest to his heart, it can be found in a park on the west side of Berlin. Video: Berlin B-roll tape 0:01:25 Jericho Lake Park sign Bite: North Country Dub tape 4 00:27:15 *** "And now, Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson is gonna show me a very important part of the economic future of Berlin." "You better believe it." "Let's go Mayor." *** Track: Danderson wants to transform the Jericho Lake municipal park into the Jericho Mountain State ATV Park. The legislature has already bought the additional 7000 acres - but has yet to approve the proposed network of ATV trails. Bite: North Country Dub tape 4 00:36:15 *** Mayor and Richard driving towards cam. "SO FAR HOW MANY PEOPLE USE THE TRAILS?" "So far, quite a few. I've seen people here 5,6,7 tmes and that's two per car and that's with only fifteen miles of trails. Fifteen miles is nothing." *** Track: Danderson says at least 130 miles of trails are needed to attract ATV owners and the dollars they bring. Bite: North Country Dub tape 4 0:36:48 AND IT'S A RELATIVELY HIGH INCOME GROUP YOU'RE ATTRACTING, RIGHT? Yes. I MEAN THESE AREN'T CHEAP. It's like snowmobiling, which was a 1.2 billion dollar industry in this state. I believe ATVs will surpass that, because it's a longer season and you're not dependent on snow. It's basically the same thing… same type of enthusiasm. soundup: North Country Dub tape 4 0:26:30 Randy unloading ATV** Track: Even before opening, the park has attracted at least one entrepreneur. Bite: North Country Dub tape 4 00:17:25 YOU CAME FROM? I came from Epsom, NH. AND WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE? Well, basically Jericho Park brought me here. My wife and I were looking at some homes and we made a decision that we'd been thinking… we knew the park was coming, we made a decision to move up here. This has been my dream - it's our passion, it's what we like to do, we love to snowmobile, we love to ATV, my son's up here, he's 13, he loves the outdoors like I do. We really just came up here to start a whole new life. Essentially, geared around the park. Track: So Randy Cicchetto opened Jericho Motorsports to sell and rent ATVs to the anticipated visitors to the park. Bite: North Country Dub tape 4 00:19:45 NOW I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD OF PEOPLE AFRAID OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DANGERS OF HAVING ATV TRAILS ALL OVER THE NORTH COUNTRY. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE WHO SAY ITS DISTURBING THE QUIET? Well, what I see here is that we all have a right to use the forest. And I see it as a chance for the state to prove that ATV's if used properly on maintained trails, that it will be good… there will be less usage off trail where they shouldn't be. So I think it's gonna really - I don't wanna use the word "rein-in" but for lack of a better word, its gonna keep people to a devised ATV trail system like snowmobilers. Snowmobilers came together in the early 70's and put together trails all over the state. They're a group and it works fantastic. Track: From the great outdoors to cyberspace, Berlin is seeking to diversify its economy. Soundup: 00:02:15 exterior of Berlin Boxing Club building Track: The sign outside may say boxing club, but the sweet science being practiced inside is new business. Soundup: North Country Dub tape 3 0:53:20 Erica's computer. "This is a blog monitoring reports for Epsom, the printer company. And this is the end result. Track: In a modest building opposite city hall, Katie Paine has relocated her company - and communications expertise - to Berlin. Bite: North Country Dub tape 3 0:31:10 We've always measured the effectiveness of public relations and marketing activities by reading the media. So the big thing is reading social media - blogs and news groups and chat rooms and U-tube and monitoring everything in MySpace and FaceBook. SO WHO ARE YOU MONITORING THE INTERNET ON BEHALF OF? WHO NEEDS TO KNOW? Companies like Raytheon and Epsom and FaceBook and AllState and also organizations like the American society of Plastic Surgeons and the ASPCA - and universities - Georgia Tech is one of our clients. So now what we've been able to do is go from doing a lot of that stuff manually - we're actually going to be automating it more so we can get into the whole blog content analysis piece of the business, which we've been doing but we'll do more of. And also getting more into the actual advice-giving. SO WHAT IS SOUNDS LIKE IS - YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE SURFING THE NET - WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE DO IN THEIR SPARE TIME - AND YOU'RE PAYING THEM FOR IT. That's right - we're paying people to surf the internet - and to make judgements about what they're reading. To basically interpret it and say is this article - does this article leave somebody more likely to go to Georgia Tech? Or to buy an Epsom Printer? And how visible in the brand name. And what's the value of the article to the brand. SO WHEN A COMPANY INVESTS A LOT OF MONEY IN A WEB PAGE, THEY WANT TO KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS. AND YOU CAN TELL THEM. And more important, if they are investing money in blogging, we can tell them. Bite: North Country Dub tape 3 00:38:15 9 MONTHS AFTER YOU OPENED HERE, YOU'VE GOT HOW MANY EMPLOYEES? "20." PROJECT THE NEXT FEW YEARS - WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN? We think we're going to be running out of space here by the end of the year. We project that the 50% growth rate that we've been seeing is going to continue. I see - the goal is to be a $10 million company by 2010 which would put us around 100 people. So much for the mills and the prisons - we're going to employ all of them. Track: And if you think that sounds ambitious, listen to this. Bite: North Country Dub tape 3 00:40:35 We'd like to see NH community technical college in Berlin be the center for social networking knowledge, because nobody else has it, nobody else is doing it. Everyone else is doing it Wednesdays, Tuesdays, - the whole social networking marketing discipline is in business schools someplace else, in marketing someplace else, in management someplace else, in IT someplace else - I think there's a huge advantage in concentrating a whole bunch of smart people here. We've got the core of the knowledge here - let's make it the Cornell Hotel School for Blogging. Track: And with that, Katie had to leave to drive 130 miles south to Bedford. The occasion: to receive her "NH Small Business Woman of the Year" award from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Video: North Country Dub tape 4 00:02:53 **nice pan from street to boxing club building; Berlin b-roll tape 1:01:55 Welcome to Berlin sign - THEN DISSOLVE TO: Standup: North Country Dub Tape 4 00:59:20 "THAT IS ALL THE STORIES WE HAVE TIME FOR. THERE WERE MANY MORE THAT WE JUST COULDN'T GET TO… THE NEW PRISON IN BERLIN, SPRAWL IN LITTLETON. ALL OF THEM REASONS FOR RETURNING TO THE NORTH COUNTRY. THANKS FOR JOINING US… WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ON NH OUTLOOK." soundup: Berlin b-roll tape 0:09:05 *****mountain stream pans to station vehicle on way home END OF SCRIPT |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 2:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. First stop: North of the notches, in Groveton. In January of 2006 more than one hundred mill workers got some very bad news. International paper was to close their mill even though it was still profitable, leaving all of them out of work. The state stepped in with an emergency response team, so now a year and a half later we thought we would return to see what the community is doing to help change the situation. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Gov. John Lynch\ New Hampshire, Barry Normandeau\Groveton Economic Action Team, Charlotte Sheltry\Lancaster Herald Reporter |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 3:30 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our second stop brings us to Colebrook, one of the most northern most communities in the state. Colebrook has long faced economic challenges -- one being the old elementary school that no longer met code requirements. In 2001 the community met to vote on a new school. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Mary Jolles\Principal, Colebrook Elementary School |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 3:30 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our second stop brings us to Colebrook, one of the most northern most communities in the state. Colebrook has long faced economic challenges -- one being the old elementary school that no longer met code requirements. In 2001 the community met to vote on a new school. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Mary Jolles\Principal, Colebrook Elementary School |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 4:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our second stop brings us to Colebrook, one of the most northern most communities in the state. Colebrook has long faced economic challenges -- one of them being the lack of high speed internet in the North Country, which they now have. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Larry Rappaport\Colebrook Development Corporation, Lorraine Cotnoir\High Speed Internet Subscriber |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 4:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our second stop brings us to Colebrook, one of the most northern most communities in the state. Colebrook has long faced economic challenges -- one of them being the lack of high speed internet in the North Country, which they now have. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Larry Rappaport\Colebrook Development Corporation, Lorraine Cotnoir\High Speed Internet Subscriber |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 1:30 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our second stop brings us to Colebrook, one of the most northern most communities in the state. Ten years ago the Colebrook murders claimed the lives of a judge, an editor and two State Troopers. On this day, Franconia was planning to bury one of their own police officers and his killer. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Donna Jordan\Publisher, Colebrook Chronicle, Charlie Jordan\Editor, Colebrook Chronicle |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 2:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our third stop on the trip brings us to Berlin -- where Mayor Bob Danderson is hoping to demolish more than five hundred sub standard housing units. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Bob Danderson\Berlin Mayor |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 5:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our third stop on the trip brings us to Berlin -- where Mayor Bob Danderson is aiming to boost the economic growth in the region with a project that would create over one hundred fourty miles of ATV trails in the North Country. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Bob Danderson\Berlin Mayor, Randy Cicchetto\Jericho Motorsports |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 5:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our third stop on the trip brings us to Berlin -- where Mayor Bob Danderson is aiming to boost the economic growth in the region with a project that would create over one hundred fourty miles of ATV trails in the North Country. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Bob Danderson\Berlin Mayor, Randy Cicchetto\Jericho Motorsports |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 3:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our third stop on the trip brings us to Berlin -- where business entrepreneur KD Paine has launched her own business that monitors blogs, message boards, youtube, myspace. you name it -- for companies who want to know how they're doing with their customers. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Katie Paine\KDPaine & Partners |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:8/26/2007 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 3:00 On this special edition of NH Outlook: We're heading to the North Country to visit some of the people and stories that we think you should know about. Our third stop on the trip brings us to Berlin -- where business entrepreneur KD Paine has launched her own business that monitors blogs, message boards, youtube, myspace. you name it -- for companies who want to know how they're doing with their customers. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Katie Paine\KDPaine & Partners |
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Ethanol could fuel price hikes Posted Saturday, March 31st 2007, 4:00 AM An ethanol-fueled boom in prices will prompt American farmers to plant the most corn since the year the Allies invaded Normandy, but surging demand could mean consumers still might pay more for everything from chicken to cough syrup. Corn is a key ingredient in many foods, from corn syrup found in candies to feed used in meat production. With more corn being used for ethanol production, that could raise prices in other areas where corn is used. Farmers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn, according to the Department of Agriculture's annual prospective plantings report released yesterday. That would be a 15% increase over 2006 and the most corn planted since 1944. The move to plant corn is in large part due to a rush to produce corn-based ethanol, which is blended with gasoline. The corn rush was sparked by President Bush's initiative for support of flexible-fuel vehicles and his administration's plan to cut gas consumption by 20% in 10 years. The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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n New West Energy Grok ‘Ethanol Binge’ Hikes Corn Prices By Richard Martin, 3-23-07 Last week US BioEnergy had a ground-breaking ceremony at a new ethanol plant in Dyersville, Iowa, bringing to 78 the number of ethanol plants under construction, with 113 already operating. And that’s not good news for the ranchers and poultry farmers of the Rocky Mountain West. Amid the “ethaphoria” currently gripping agribusiness and certain parts of the nation’s capital, a growing chorus of voices is pointing out an unintended consequence on the reliance on corn and grains as the raw material for ethanol production: prices for feed fo livestock are rising, sending prices at grocery stores up as well. “This ethanol binge is insane,” Paul Hitch, president-elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn., told BusinessWeek. Corn prices have doubled over the last year, reports the Earth Policy Institute, while wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years. The diversion of corn to fuel ethanol uses “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain,” a Bloomberg analysis finds – not to mention increased use of pesticides and fossil fuels to grow all that corn. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has slapped a 54-cents-per-gallon tarrif on ethanol from Brazil – which is grown from sugarcane. Wonder what’s going to happen to rum prices. In other energy news: -- In a man-bites-dog story, Xcel Energy has applied to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for an electricity rate decrease of $13.6 million thanks to lower costs of fuel, such as natural gas, and purchased electricity predicted for upcoming months. If approved by the PUC, the new rates would take effect April 1 and continue through June 30. Meanwhile, the Colo. attorney general has announced his support for HB 1208, which would alter the state’s Unfair Practices Act to allow big chain stores to offer big gas discounts. -- As Colo. Governor Bill Ritter’s legislative package to boost renewable energy, and increase oversight of the oil and gas industry in the state, moves closer to signing, Big Energy is faced with a dilemma: oppose the measures, and be seen as obstructionists and anti-environmentalists, or swallow hard and go along? So far the Colorado Petroleum Association is against House Bill 1341, which would reform the board of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, while oil giant BP—the state’s No. 1 natural gas producer—says it will take a wait-and-see approach. -- Earlier we reported that, despite the Bush Administration’s ambitious goals for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol from organic material other than corn, the research budget for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, which is leading the way on cellulosic science, had flatlined. That’s no longer the case: the Energy Department announced Friday that the NREL will get an additional $99 million in funding this year, a 47-percent jump. Comment By dukeco1, 3-23-07 Big Energy is not accustomed to going along. They are, in Colorado at least, accustomed to getting their way. They just need to sidle over and make room for all their chickens moving back in to the roost. Comment By Hal Herring, 3-23-07 Brazilian ethanol tariff shows the world that all our free market talk is just like all that talk about WMD. How much more credibility can we stand to lose? As we pump out the last aquifers to water the chem-corn.bust the last prairie for the GMO variety, importing as much oil as we can to drive those tractors that make the corn ethanol binge.keep those Wahabbis happy, don't you know, keep the money flowing to them as leaders pretend to "get off the product," wreck the land, keep the annuities for the families of the Islamic suicide bombers healthy, line some US pockets, and witness the end of the greatest nation on earth. Dang. Hal Boy, it ain't a pretty picture is it? Comment By Chris, 3-23-07 Not only that, but the plants that make the stuff are awful-smelling blights too. Last week I was working literally in the shadow of an ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA, that processes corn syrup from corn, and is in the process of building an ethanol plant. I don't know what was in the exhaust belching into the sky, but it sure smelled raunchy. I wouldn't wish that in anyone's backyard. Comment By pete geddes, 3-23-07 When we subsidize things that trade in the market, we benefit the well off and well organized at the expense of the most vulnerable members of society. This holds true whether in Bozeman, Boston, or Birmingham. Princeton Ph.D. George Will said it well: “The world is divided between those who do and do not understand that activist, interventionist, regulating, subsidizing government is generally a servant of the strong and entrenched against the weak and aspiring.” Comment By Francesco DeParis, 3-23-07 I think we should start supporting cellulosic ethanol in the same manner we support corn-based ethanol. There will come a point when corn prices are too high to consider this an economic alternative to petroleum. I comment about cellulosic ethanol onEnergy Spin: Alternative Energy Blog For Investors Served Daily Cheers, Francesco DeParis Comment By bearbait, 3-25-07 One result of NAFTA was that corn from USA was so cheap and available that it drove tens of thousands of small Mexican farmers off the land and to town to find work. Now that corn has doubled in price, tortillas have also doubled in price. The poorest in Mexico now have a harder time eating, and more incentive to move north. The end result, of course, is how much energy independence do you gain by having your country supporting another million or more illegal aliens in need of medical, financial, housing and education subsidy, all of which come with energy demands? Corn ethanol comes with costs, many of which are hidden. Again, a hero move supported by liberal midwestern politicians financed by MegaAg companies, comes with unintended consequences. The ones in Mexico have happened, and the ones here are on the conveyor belt to realization. Meat prices will have to rise, and we all will pay that price. Even the vegans will pay a higher price as soy beans are replaced by corn in the farm fields. Comment By cc, 3-26-07 That Xcel Energy news item relates to the monthly ECA which adjusts, up or down, for the commodity cost of natural gas feedstock, primarily. Thus, it is not that unusual to see a downward ECA result in an overall decrease in electrictiy rates for the following month. Incidentally, the same mechanism is found on the natural gas bills but it is called a GCA. Thus, this is not a "man bites dog" story, but something that occurs when natural gas prices decline. 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