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New England

  • Pond hockey has been a favorite winter activity for many hearty New Englanders since 1883, when the first hockey game ever played in the United States…
  • Although New Hampshire's economy is recovering, the outlook for the next several years is lackluster. That’s according to a new economic forecast released…
  • The Real Salem Witches
    Visitors to Salem, Massachusetts, have a surfeit of choices in Halloween season. They can take a “Tales and Tombstones Trolley Tour,” attend the Zombie…
  • “Leaves of three, let it be”…even kids and city slickers know the rhyme for identifying poison ivy… how about poison sumac…or oak? Even experienced hikers…
  • The Cheshire Murders: The Crime That Rocked A Small Town
    In July of 2007, the sleepy suburban town of Cheshire, Connecticut woke up to a house set ablaze, three fatalities, one survivor, and two suspects caught…
  • In February of 2011, Jon Lynch visited the newly opened Pinball Wizard Arcade in Pelham, New Hampshire, where more than 200 impeccably restored pinball…
  • As we debate approving a casino for New Hampshire and Massachusetts prepares to build new casinos, we take a look at what facilities already exist in New…
  • New England's gruesome brush with supernatural hysteria did not end with the Salem witch trials in the 17th century. Almost two centuries later came the…
  • Today is the kick-off of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games. Below is a list of New Englanders competing in London, as provided by the U.S. Olympic…
  • The Amazing Outhouse Race
    In a town of fewer than four thousand, tucked in a valley in Western Vermont, the fourth of July means one thing – an outhouse race. Yes, that kind of…

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