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Songbirds Are More Than Just Good Singers

By Rosemary Conroy on Friday, May 19, 2006.

Songbirds keep trees healthy, help prevent global warming, and... support our supply of chocolate?

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Floods Help Make For Healthy Mosquitos

By Lisa Peakes on Friday, May 19, 2006.

Talk with UNH professor and entomologist Stanley Swier about the potential for a bumper crop of mosquitoes due to recent floods - and what people can do to reduce the insects' numbers

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Don't Make Assumptions About FEMA

By Mark Bevis on Friday, May 19, 2006.

As FEMA officials tour flood ravaged regions of the state, residents of Cheshire County can sit back and watch with a sense of deja vu.

A little over seven months ago, FEMA investigators were calculating the damage caused by historic floods in that part of New Hampshire.

Matt Saxton has alot of experience with FEMA.

He is in his third term as a Selectman in Alstead.

And Saxton tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that victims of this weeks flooding should should be aware of common misperceptions about what FEMA does.... and doesn't do.

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FEMA Tours Flood Damage

By Kerry Grens on Friday, May 19, 2006.

Today Federal Emergency Management teams began an inspection on the extent of flood damage around New Hampshire.

They are visiting residential areas throughout the next few days to determine whether the state will qualify for federal recovery aid.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Kerry Grens caught up with one FEMA team in Manchester and has this report.

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Flooding in New Hampshire

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Students at St. Paul's School in Concord prepare to evacuate because of high water. (photo courtesy Eleanor Foote)

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Flooding in New Hampshire

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Floodwaters at St. Paul's School in Concord, May 14, 2006. Students were told to stay in their dorms shortly thereafter. (photo courtesy Eleanor Foote)

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Keene Resident Offers Tips on Flood Cleanup

By NHPR Listener on Friday, May 19, 2006.

This week’s floods, and the ensuing talk of recovery and cleanup, prompted Reuben Rajala to contact us.

Reuben is very familiar with flood cleanup. He’s a resident of Keene who was affected by the floods in October of 2005.

He offers his experience to those preparing to clean up.

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Benjamin Britten in New Hampshire

By Shay Zeller on Friday, May 19, 2006.

In 1937 British composer Benjamin Britten was commissioned to write a piece for the BBC that, once it was performed, laid dormant for more than fifty years. "In the Company of Heaven" is an impressive work and will be performed this weekend by Dartmouth's Handel Society. We'll talk with conductor Robert Duff about the significance of the work and what it says about Britain in the 1930's.

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Flood Aid

By Laura Knoy on Friday, May 19, 2006.

With a record rainstorm behind us, many Granite Staters are mopping up, drying off and assessing the damage and are coming to discover that their insurance doesn’t cover what they thought it did. We’ll look at what private insurance can and can’t do, how federal aid may play into the equation and how flood victims will start to put the pieces back together again. Laura's guests are Roger Sevigny, Commissioner for the New Hampshire Insurance Department, Carolyn Gorman, Vice-President of the Washington Media Office for the Insurance Information Institute and Matt Saxton, a Selectman in Alstead. We'll also hear from Marty Bahamonde, Public Affairs Representative for the New England Region of FEMA and Mike Liebl, a State Farm Agent who works in Keene, New Hampshire.

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