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Nashua Plans to Sell the Chandler Library

By Sheryl Rich-Kern on Wednesday, June 28, 2006.

On June 30th, the Nashua Library plans to close up its Chandler Memorial branch.

Under budget constraints, library trustees want to sell the nineteenth century mansion, and use the proceeds to add a new wing to the main library.

But the plan is not going unopposed.

The building's previous owners say if it's not going to be used as a library, they want the building back.

NHPR's Sheryl Rich-Kern reports.

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Long Range Transportation Plans

By Mark Bevis on Wednesday, June 28, 2006.

This week marks the anniversary of one of the largest public works projects of all time.

50 years ago, the country began the task of creating the interstate highway system.

Also this week, a Community Advisory Committee of New Hampshire residents has completed its own task.

The Committee has issued its final report on where the state should focus its long range transportation plans.

Cliff Sinnott is a member of the committee.

He's also the Executive Director of the Rockingham County Planning Commission.

He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that this report in a sense reflects the evolution of how we think about transportation.

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Sonya Kitchell on The Front Porch

At age seventeen, singer/songwriter Sonya Kitchell is already drawing comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Ella Fitzgerald. She stopped by the Front Porch to play songs from her debut CD, "Words Came Back To Me." You can hear Sonya Kitchell on The Front Porch here, as well as view pictures from the program below.

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Sonya Kitchell talks about touring (and her own hobby, photography) on The Front Porch. (Brady Carlson, NHPR)

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Sonya Kitchell (left) talks with NHPR's Shay Zeller on The Front Porch. (Brady Carlson, NHPR)

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Sonya Kitchell (right) performs "Words Came Back To Me" on The Front Porch. (Brady Carlson, NHPR)

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Sonya Kitchell talks about her debut CD "Words Came Back To Me" on The Front Porch. (Brady Carlson, NHPR)

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A Team by Any Other Name

By Lois Shea on Wednesday, June 28, 2006.

What's in a name?

Are the Tigers fierce? Are the Braves courageous? Are the Giants particularly large?

Contributor Lois Shea confronted the task of picking just the right name for her girls softball team earlier this season.

This piece won 2nd place in Commentary in the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated awards.

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Sonya Kitchell

By Shay Zeller on Wednesday, June 28, 2006.

Seventeen-year-old Sonya Kitchell is a Massachusetts native who's drawing bigger and bigger crowds on tour, and frequent comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Ella Fitzgerald. She's known her whole life that she wanted to sing, and some day leave some songs behind. We'll talk with her about that and other aspects of her young artistic vision.

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Writers on a New England Stage - John Updike

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, June 28, 2006.

Although born in Pennsylvania, legendary author John Updike has been a New England writing institution since he moved to Massachusetts North Shore in 1957. Author of the classic book "The Witches of Eastwick" and his famous "Rabbit" series of novels, his compelling new work of fiction is called, "Terrorist". "Terrorist" tells the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, half Irish American, half Egyptian, Ahmad struggles throughout the book between his newly found Islamic beliefs and the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in his working class home town of New Prospect, New Jersey. On Monday, John Updike comes to the Music Hall in Portsmouth as the next installment in our "Writers on a New England Stage" series. First he'll speak about his new book then Exchange host, Laura Knoy joins him for audience questions and a few of her own. Today on The Exchange we rebroadcast an edited version of this live performance.

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