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The long debate over what to do with a landmark in downtown Littleton may finally be resolved this year.

For years, residents have been arguing back and forth over the fate of the town's historic opera house.

On Tuesday voters will debate the issue one last time at the deliberative town meeting.

NHPR correspondent Todd Wellington has the story.

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Tonight on The Front Porch: New Hampshire gets a special visitor! No, it's not another coy presidential candidate, it's someone a lot more uncommon in these parts -- the Canada Lynx. Trackers have found evidence of a recent visit by the endangered animal, and we'll talk with one of them about their find. Mark Elbroch is lead tracker for a New Hampshire Audubon Society project that's looking at animal/human relations in the Jefferson Route 2 area.

We'll also talk with Yankee Magazine columnist Edie Clark about her new book, "The View From Mary's Farm". It's a collection of essays she's written for the publication about her life on an old farm that she bought in the Monadnock Region.

And we're going to take a quick trip to Maine, where the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies has spent the past 30 years documenting the people who make up a big part of the state's fabric. Today we're going to meet cosmetologist Margo Hubbard. She works at the 75 State Street retirement community in Portland. Radio Producer Julie A. Shargel takes us into the beauty parlor there, where most of the customers are over 80, and where Margo provides much more than just another haircut. This piece comes to us by way of the the Public Radio Exchange. You can click here to listen to the story again and to comment on it at the PRX site.