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Nashua resident Jeff Costa is the alter-ego of professional wrestler Lobsterman. In addition to competing in the New England-based All-Star Wrestling Association, he?s lead musician for the band Lobsterman and the Crustaceans; their new CD is ?Assault and Buttery.? He talked about the CD, his career in the ring, and his 2000 Presidential campaign. The site ?lobsterman.com? is already in use, but Lobsterman has his own web site at www.thelobsterman.net.

Tom Wessels is a professor of Ecology at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene. His new book, ?The Granite Landscape,? studies granite dome mountains in America from New England to Yosemite. He explains what granite domes are, and how they?re formed. He also writes about the unusual ecosystems that develop atop these unique mountains. ?The Granite Landscape? is published by Countryman Press.

City Year New Hampshire has graduated its first volunteers.

The organization, which is part of Americorps, usually focuses its efforts on helping kids in urban areas.

This past school year was the first time City Year had come to small town America.

Two recent graduates, Jason Cheatham and Elizabeth Utley, joined NHPR's Mark Bevis in the studio to talk about what they learned this year, and how it helped.

While the budget and school funding votes took center stage yesterday in Concord, lawmakers also passed important healthcare, judicial and education measures.

Eric Stumacher is Director of the Apple Hill Music Festival and its "Playing for Peace" program. He and the other members of the Apple Hill Chamber Players give concerts in areas troubled by ethnic and religious conflicts. Recent tours have taken them to the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and most recently the trans-Caucuses region of central Asia. The Apple Hill web site includes links to their summer music festival and more on "Playing for Peace."