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A Solar Panel Raising

By Shannon Mullen on Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Plenty of people talk about wanting to live greener lifestyles... but for many Americans the cost of cutting their carbon footprint is still too high, especially when it comes to home improvement...
But some central New Hampshire residents are trying to change that... They've found a way to use their weekends, to help reduce the cost of going solar. NHPR correspondent Shannon Mullen has the story.

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A Tornado Primer

By Sally Hirsh-Dic... on Thursday, July 31, 2008.

A week ago today, a tornado cut a swath of destruction through central New Hampshire. In the seven days since the twister touched down, the National Weather Service revised upward its assessment of the storms density. Meteorologists are now saying the storm was on the ground for about an hour and 20 minutes and moved nearly 50 miles through the state. John Cannon is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray Maine.

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