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In 2010, Craig Grossi was part of a group of Marines trying to hold its ground in a small town in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He saw Taliban rockets up close, and he saw comrades fall.
He also saw a smallish white and golden dog – a mutt with some corgi and lab features – scavenging for food in the battle zone. Grossi was impressed with the dog’s apparent smarts. He was putting up with desert heat to forage during the day, avoiding fights with other stray dogs in the battle zone, who mostly came out at night. Grossi, who always wanted a dog growing up but never had one, decided to approach the canine and offer him a stick of beef jerky.
To our readers, Maine Calling to feature upcoming Camden Conference
Feb 09, 2021 Maine Calling host Jennifer Rooks will discuss the upcoming Camden Conference on her radio program.
The Maine Public radio program “Maine Calling” will discuss the upcoming 2021 Camden Conference, “The Geopolitics of the Arctic: A Region in Peril.” The show will be broadcast live Feb. 16 at 11 a.m. and repeated at 7 p.m.
Host Jennifer Rooks will interview Frances Ulmer, chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School; Prof. Paul A. Mayewski of the University of Maine, who has led more than 55 research missions to the Arctic and other extreme climate locations; and Prof. Charles H. Norchi of the Maine School of Law and director of the Center for Oceans and Coastal Law.
CONWAY â A new documentary about New Hampshire s demographic challenges featuring Conway was aired recently.
Efforts by a group in Conway to change zoning laws related to affordable housing were among the topics covered by the filmmakers.
The Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, along with several other community organizations, partnered with New Hampshire PBS to offer an online screening of Jay B. Childs âCommunities & Consequences IIâ on Jan. 26. About 90-100 people logged in to view it.
In 2008, a filmmaking team consisting of Childs of Portsmouth, demographer Peter Francese of Exeter and former state Commissioner of Agriculture Lorraine Merrill of Stratham published a book and made a movie about the decline of the state s young workforce. It was called âCommunities & Consequences: The Unbalancing of New Hampshireâs Human Ecology.