New Hampshire Couple Shares Secret to Living a Job-Free Lifestyle With four children and work schedule no one should (but so many do) call their own, Jeffrey and Samantha Cleveland* decided it was time to take control of their lives back in 2005.  Decision is the first step to achieving anything.  Action is the second. In May of ...

Flooding has become a serious problem in many towns throughout the state .Last year around this time I decided to take a good look at the flooding problem in my town .I started by doing two things .One was to go online and see whats been done and whats being done to reduce flooding . The second thing I did was to go out and have a good look at ...

 Dear Joseph, I may be the underdog in this campaign, running against two candidates with more than $200 million between them – but the real underdogs are the middle class and those without a voice in America today. They are losing ground while the CEOs of huge corporations pocket million dollar bonuses and corporate lobbyists get ...

At Pawtuckaway State Park, perfect weather!

for those who took the time to research flood mitigation you may feel a little dumdfounded right now. did someone change the definition of these particular words?  flood mitigation  would it be easier or harder to understand if we added the word hazard ? take it from me i have read about 100 documents concerning this subject it ...

Sunday morning, I'm sitting quietly on the beach, reading a book, drinking coffee, and smoking a cigarette. All of a sudden this woman walks down to the beach with her 4 kids and settles down about 20 feet away from me on the beach. And then it starts. The crying, the yelling and screaming, running around kicking sand all over the place, the ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNResidents in a low-lying Epsom neighborhood are reeling after the second major flood in 18 months destroyed their mobile homes, toppled their fuel tanks and left septic systems floating in their yards, local safety and health officials said. Kingstowne Mobile Home Park, off Route 28 south of Webster Park, was ravaged by the ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKen Rowe bought a shiny new Mercury Comet in 1965. Forty-one years later, in May 2006, floodwaters ripping through his low-lying neighborhood off Riverside Park Drive got as high as the Comet’s roof. Still, Rowe, a former teacher with no flood insurance for his home of nearly three decades, pledged to get the Comet running ...

Contoocook River - April 2005 copyright Karen Rocklin - Weare, NH http://www.imaginary-arts.com

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