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After a longer-than-usual closed session, the city of Selma has a new interim city manager. The selection was made at at the June 6 city council special meeting.
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Mike Marland calls an end to his sharp-eyed editorial work
March 4, 2021
After over 30 years of drawing editorial cartoons in New Hampshire newspapers, Mike Marland says the time has come to cease that work, although he’ll continue on his syndicated comic stripes, RFD and Snuffy Smith. And, he adds, he retains the right to post from time to time.(Courtesy photo)
Editor’s note: This story was co-published by NH Business Review and InDepthNH.org.
Mike Marland’s career has spanned more than four decades, during which he’s earned notoriety in New Hampshire state politics and culture for his ability to synthesize complex issues into simple, easily understood illustrations. While the verbiage in his editorial cartoons may have been brief, the fond remembrances of his work by colleagues, fellow cartoonists and the subjects of his caricatures are not.
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.
Ralph Jimenez: COVID days, dead batteries, and parasitic drain
Published: 1/31/2021 6:45:36 AM
Today, after risking my old high-risk life by shopping at a supermarket on Fort Eddy Road, I came out and my car, which has been to the shop twice for the same problem, again had a dead battery.
I called my wife for a jump-start, but of course her phone was in her purse and she didn’t answer. I hooked up my $100 emergency lithium battery jumper pack, advertised as able to start the diesel engine of a semi, and turned the key. A rapid clicking ensued. In the old pre-computer days that meant that the solenoid was trying to get the starter motor to turn but just didn’t have the juice to do it. I’m pretty sure this modern clicking was the car laughing in a code that included insults and obscenities.