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Food Diva Ruth Reichl / Peyton Place Revisited / Bill Kristol

By Shay Zeller on Friday, February 24, 2006.

Ruth Reichl made a name for herself as a food critic for the New York Times, and is currently the editor in chief of Gourmet Magazine. She's in New Hampshire this weekend for a benefit for the McDowell Colony in Peterborough where she herself lived and worked on three separate occasions.

This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of author Grace Metalious’ death. We’ll talk with Sally Hirsh-Dickenson about the relevance of Metalious' once-controversial novel in today’s culture. Sally is a visiting instructor of English at Colby Sawyer College, and is writing her dissertation on Peyton Place.

We'll also hear an excerpt of a speech from conservative analyst and Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol. He spoke this week at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.

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Somersworth Students Build Home For Louisiana Family

By Amy Quinton on Friday, February 24, 2006.

Every year, students at Somersworth Regional Vocational Center build a house.

Students in the Building Trades class usually end up selling that house to someone within their community.

But this year, students are shipping their work more than 15 hundred miles away – to give it to a Louisiana family left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.

This story was awarded first place in the 2006 Feature category by the New Hampshire Associated Press Broadcasters Association.

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Dams in New Hampshire


Dams in
New Hampshire
  AA A B C TOTAL
Federal 17 9 1 11 38
State 91 99 51 32 273
Municipal 184 123 77 18 402
Private 2,212 334 62 28 2,636
TOTAL 2,504 565 191 89 3,349

AA = No Hazard Potential

A = Low Hazard Potential

B = Significant Hazard Potential

C = High Hazard Potential

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Figuring Out Bio-Fuel

By Laura Knoy on Friday, February 24, 2006.

President Bush is touting alternative energy this week in an effort to help ease America’s dependence on foreign oil. We’ll look at what New England states are doing to promote alternative sources of fuel, including using grass pellets in Vermont and a public service project in New Hampshire that will replace a major coal-burning plant with a new cleaner and greener one. Laura's guest is Eric Kingsley, Vice-President for Research and Government Affairs at Innovative Natural Resource Solutions in Portland, Maine. Eric formerly served as Executive Director of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association for five years. We'll also hear from Steve Walker, President, Founder and CEO of New England Wood Pellet, Martin Murray, Media Representative for PSNH and the Northern Wood Power Project, and Jock Gill, President of the Grass Energy Collaborative, an organization based in Vermont that is committed to developing grass energy as a renewable biofuel.

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