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He's a former publisher, a reporter, a storyteller, a lover of the outdoors and a loyal fan of New Hampshire’s North Country, and throughout his career John Harrigan's been able to meld all those facets of his life together. His column “Woods, Water and Wildlife” has been a fixture in the Union Leader for the last 32 years celebrating the beauty of New Hampshire’s outdoors; while his other column “North Country Notebook” is now run in twelve weekly newspapers. He’s the former owner and publisher of three newspapers in Northern New Hampshire and in 1997, was declared First Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for getting his paper out the night of the Colebrook shootings, in which his editor, his longtime companion and two police friends were killed. All throughout his career Harrigan has celebrated his North Country while seeing it change before his eyes. For our next installment of our 25 in 25 series, we look at how the North Country has changed and how it's stayed the same over the last quarter century with Colebrook reporter and raconteur John Harrigan.

Guest

• John Harrigan, former owner and publisher of the Colebrook News and Sentinel, and columnist for the New Hampshire Sunday News and for Salmon Press Group.

Drive to the Union Leader offices on a Thursday and you may see pickets.

Three of the four unions at the state's largest newspaper are currently in contract negotiations.

But after nearly a year and half without a contract, one union is growing increasingly impatient with management.

From Manchester, NHPR correspondent Brian Early reports.

Journalist Chris Graff has covered the Green Mountain State's biggest news stories for the past thirty years. His new book, Dateline Vermont looks back on those decades and shows how Vermont went from being a Republican outpost to the home of Civil Unions, Howard Dean, and Bernie Sanders. He'll talk to us about that and how he dealt with his controversial dismissal from the Associated Press.