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The search for alien life

November’s Science Cafe Nashua blasts off on a discussion of space, the final frontier and the search for alien life, more specifically. This week we will again bring a panel of experts together with a public invitation to a conversation about “Space, SETI and Little Green Men.” As ...

Remembering Armistice Day: Pay tribute and stop going to war

Those of us of a certain age may remember that Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day – the day the guns fell silent in war-torn Europe at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The Great War, the Global War that we now call World War I, had reached a ...

Time and turkey: preserving nature takes patience

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time, we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” —Linda Hogan A turkey is a turkey is a turkey. Or not. In this season of thanks, cornucopias and the glorious bird, we might learn a ...

A thank you and an offer

Our area’s Jewish community has been touched and overwhelmed by all the support we have received beginning a week ago Saturday, after news of the murder of 11 people in Pittsburgh attending Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Congregation. If you want to know something about Jews, it’s ...

Cemetery Sentiments – Cathedral of the Pines and Armistice Day

“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.” – Laurence Binyon The nature of remembrance is as fragile as it is important. And it takes many ...

Let’s get it right this time

It is common knowledge that New Hampshire once had a mental health care delivery system that was a model for the entire country. Today, the state continues to be in the midst of a deepening crisis; compounded further by the ravaging opioid crisis that has a stranglehold on New Hampshire ...