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Downeaster Managers Want New Hampshire Money For the Train

By David Darman on Thursday, May 8, 2008.

The agency in Maine that runs Amtrak’s Downeaster is facing a looming financial crisis.

For years, millions of dollars in federal money has helped pay for the train’s operation. But next year the federal money will run out to the tune of millions of dollars a year.

Downeaster managers hope New Hampshire might make up some of the loss - a possibility that state policymakers say is unlikely.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s David Darman has more.

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Bethlehem's Colonial Theatre Reopens for the Season

By Chris Jensen on Thursday, May 8, 2008.

In the North Country, spring means the mountains turn green, the rivers flow wildly and on Friday - against all odds - one of the nation's oldest movie theaters opens for the summer.

NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has this story about the Colonial Theatre in Bethlehem.

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Gilmanton Oil Spill Contained

By Amy Quinton on Thursday, May 8, 2008.

State environmental officials say they’ve contained an estimated one-thousand gallon oil spill in Gilmanton.

Gilmanton police say a large tanker truck parked nearby emptied the fuel oil into a brook that feeds into Rocky Pond.

As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, both bodies of water and surrounding wetlands are contaminated and police say the spill might have been intentional.

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