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ArchivesBusinessman Aims to Put Firearms Facility Up in GrotonBy Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, February 21, 2006.A Rye businessman wants to build a firearms training facility in Groton, just west of Plymouth. Groton doesn't have any zoning. That makes it nearly impossible for the town to block the project...if it wants to. No zoning means no public hearing. No public hearing means rumors are flying around about just what a firearms training facility is. At the same time, some residents have organized opposition...and hired a lawyer. New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has the story. listen:
  Some Teachers Spend Thousands On Their ClassroomBy Amy Quinton on Tuesday, February 21, 2006.The Concord teachers union and the school board still haven’t reached a contract agreement. listen:
Winter Sports Photographer Dorothy CrossleyBy Shay Zeller on Tuesday, February 21, 2006.This episode of the Front Porch is not available on CD or Cassette Imagine being a photographer who's main assignment is to cover the world of skiing, even though you're not so great at getting around on skis yourself. That was Dorothy Crossley's situation when she first got her start as a photojournalist lugging heavy camera equipment up and down the slopes of New Hampshire -- and this was during the time when women were a rare breed in the realm of sports photography. We'll talk with Dorothy about those days and some of the more glamorous sides of her work. Her book is called Take My Picture! Dorothy's interview originally aired in September, 2005. Please click here to listen to the archived interview. We'll also hear about a special father-son book project. Photographer Thomas Roma was looking for a way for his eight-year-old son Giancarlo to get to know him better, in case he died unexpectedly. He decided to ask Giancarlo to write a book of essays to accompany his photographs. Turns out, Giancarlo saw meanings in the pictures that his dad had never thought of. This piece is not available in our web broadcast, but you can hear the whole thing at the Public Radio Exchange. You can even review it online. Click here to go directly to the story by producer Hillary Frank. listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf).
New Planets and New Adventures in SpaceBy Laura Knoy on Tuesday, February 21, 2006.A possible new planet beyond Pluto in our solar system, the prospects of more “earthlike†planets beyond our galaxy, comet dust captured and brought back to Earth and a new space craft set out to explore farther then we ever have before. Today on the exchange, we’ll look at all the out of this world happenings going on right now beyond the stratosphere. Laura’s guests are Mal Cameron, coordinator of theNASA Educator Resource Center at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, and John Gianforte, Astronomy instructor for the University System of New Hampshire's Granite State College, Co-founder of the Astronomical Society of Northern New England and monthly astronomy columnist for Fosters Daily Democrat. listen:
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