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Who Can Get There Most Cheaply

By Sara Nics on Tuesday, June 19, 2007.

About 40,000 vehicles a year drive to the top of Mount Washington via the auto road.

In these days of $3 a gallon gasoline, that pretty view is getting more and more expensive.

But last weekend. the alternative vehicle regatta met at the mountain and held a competition to see who could get the cheapest view from the summit.

Maine Public Radio's Sara Nics files this report.

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The Berlin Mill One Year Later

By Todd Wellington on Tuesday, June 19, 2007.

It's been a little over a year since the Fraser Pulp Mill in Berlin closed.

When it ceased operations, some 250 people lost their jobs.

New Hampshire Public Radio was at the plant for the final day of operations - interviewing mill workers and community leaders.

One year later - NHPR correspondent Todd Wellington checked in with some of those featured to see how they're doing.

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