When he was young, this Concord doctor saw a pandemic up close
Dr. Oge Young of Concord wants people to realize that getting the COVID-19 vaccine is important in battling the virus, especially after he remembers his childhood friend who contracted polio when he was just 5 years old. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
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FILE - In this July 18, 1962 file photo, a girl swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of the Sabin polio vaccine, served in a paper cup in Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/File) AP
Mrs. Dayton George holds her son Brian, 2, as she and her family take the Sabin oral polio vaccine in Richardson, Texas, July 29, 1962. Other children, left to right, are: Dane, 12; Randy, 11; and Susan, 9. Mr. Dayton George is behind the nurse dispensing the Sabin treated sugar cubes. All Dallas County residents were urged to take the vaccine. Ferd Kaufman / AP file
Ralph Jimenez: The other residents of Hoit Road Marsh
Published: 2/21/2021 6:10:31 AM
There is a constituency that hasn’t been heard from in the long debate over the ban on off-road vehicle use on Concord’s Hoit Road Marsh, as well as contemplated bans on other New Hampshire water bodies.
It is an underwater constituency whose members may be voting with their lives, though we could find no hard science that answers the question.
The marsh is shallow so in winter there is just a few feet of water between the bottom of the ice covering it and the floor of the marsh, where frogs, turtles, and other creatures shelter to keep from freezing. Frogs, which like most amphibians are in decline globally, drastically slow their metabolism to survive in a low-oxygen environment. They lie atop the marsh mud, and breathe through their skin.
Mary Kibling, who turns 100 this month, made lot of fans while ‘On the Move’
Mary Kibling in the living room of her home on Summit Street in Concord where she stills lives on Thursday. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
Mary Kibling looks up from her knittingin the living room of her home on Summit Street in Concord. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
Mary Kibling in the living room of her home on Summit Street in Concord where she stills lives on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Kibling was knitting for her new great-grandson that was just born last week. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
Mary Kibling in the living room of her home on Summit Street in Concord where she stills lives on Thursday, February 18, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
Starting on the night of Valentine’s Day, extreme weather in Texas caused water supplies at a nuclear reactor to freeze, impeding the ability to create steam needed to spin turbines and generate electricity. Gas wells also froze, limiting supplies to.
Letter: How to really help Pittsfield taxpayers
Published: 2/19/2021 12:01:27 AM
Ray Duckler’s article in Saturday’s
Monitor about the challenge of funding the schools in Pittsfield could be written about many communities in New Hampshire.
The problem, simply, is that our schools are funded mostly by local property taxes, and when state government reduces the small piece of the cost of education that it funds or increases the cost of education with initiatives like the voucher bill that is currently being debated by our Legislature, the only way to fill these financial holes is by further increasing local property taxes.