Story Archives of 'Coos County'

Engineers are looking closely at the power grid in northern New Hampshire to see if it can support more electricity production.

The New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee approved the Noble wind energy park last week.

And the park’s opponents say they have little hope to stop its construction.

This development could put new limitations on other proposed renewable energy projects in the North Country.

NHPR’s Phil Sletten has more.

The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire is releasing the first part of an ambitious study on youth in Coos County.

Over the course of ten years, researchers are going to follow some 650 students.

When the study started last year, the students were in 7th and 11th grades, and they came from all nine public schools in the county's five districts.

Sociology Professor Nena Stracuzzi is with the Carsey Institute.

She tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that the purpose of the study is to record the changes in the lives of the students... as well as in their hopes and dreams.

Drive through Lempster these days and you’ll see the progress being made on the state’s first commercial wind farm.

When up and running, the 12 windmills on Lempster Mountain are expected to produce enough clean renewable energy for about 10 thousands homes.

With America increasingly looking for clean energy and independence from oil, wind farms are one possibility.

A big one is proposed for Coos County.

The project has its fans, but it also has it opponents.

NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.

With manufacturing jobs disappearing in the North Country some Coos residents are trying to replace them by creating their own.

Since January they’ve been getting help from Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network.

NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.

County nursing homes across the state are expected to incur Medicaid cuts that add up to over $3 million dollars this year.

And county administrators are reeling over the news as they attempt to find ways to make up fo the loss in revenue and continue to serve some of the poorest seniors in the state.

NHPR’s Dianne Finch has more.