This New England

Weather vs climate; border bathos

6:32 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (9)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Some environmental groups have released a report saying that Acadia National Park is deeply threatened by climate change, with rising sea levels and worsening storms. Maybe, in the long run, there's something to it (unless manmade warning is simply......

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 Tags  Acadia National Park   Derby Line   Quebec   Stanstead   Vt.  

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William Morgan: Detritus of a family

4:44 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Photo and Commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN It seemed pretentious to call it an estate sale: the remnants of 65 years of marriage in a two-family frame house in Pawtucket. Mom, long widowed, is 91 and has moved to a......

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Wind service at hotels; red tide review

4:36 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

This sets a fine example: Behind the the Mountain View Grand Resort, in Whitefield, N.H., is now a 121-foot-high wind turbine tower, which will generate up to half of the White Mountain establishment's electricity. Rather than worrying that the......

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 Tags  Mountain View Grand Resort   N.H.   red tide   Whitefield  

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