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Treehouse is Accessible to All

By Trish Anderton on Friday, December 5, 2003.

On the grounds of the Crotched Mountain School, in the small town of Greenfield, an unusual structure is taking shape.

When it's finished, the treehouse will connect eleven separate trees.

It'll have an enclosed clubhouse, and open decks where kids can hang out in the sunshine.

And, it'll be fully wheelchair-accessible.

NHPR's Trish Anderton reports.

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Manchester's Ranks of Unemployed Swell by 550

By Mark Bevis on Friday, December 5, 2003.

Tyson's food has announced it is closing the JAC PAC plant. Employees have until the beginning of February to find other jobs. But a good number of them are newly arrived immigrants who speak little english. NHPR's Mark Bevis speaks with Dennis Norton the union representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

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