Firewood Cost Increases Due To Fracking
Concord — Northeasterners who are digging deeper into their pockets to pay for firewood this season can add a new scapegoat to the roster of usual market forces: fracking. A timber industry representative in New Hampshire said hydraulic fracturing well sites in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale formation built to suck natural gas out of the ground are using construction “mats” made of hardwood logs — think of the corduroy roads seen in...
Business Notes: Sept. 13, 2015
Norwich — A free public forum on modern wood pellet heating is scheduled for Tuesday, from 6-8 p.m., at the Montshire Museum of Science. The forum will focus on fully automated central wood pellet heating systems, which organizers say is a more advanced technology than pellet stoves and a clean, efficient, affordable and renewable option for homes and commercial buildings. Presenters will include Adam Sherman of the Biomass Energy...
Maple Lanes Upgrades: Claremont Bowling Center Uses Familiar Synthetic
Claremont — To the non-bowler, the new lanes at Maple Lanes are beautiful, clean and much improved in appearance from the old faded and discolored wooden lanes. The regular bowler sees much more. “Theoretically, it is more uniform across the lanes,” said Tristan McMullen, 17, of Windsor, who bowled a 299 last week on one of the new lanes. The synthetic material, called phenolic, is a laminate that is installed in sections. Its chief...
Privacy Tops List of Drone Concerns
Pittsburgh — Amazon wants to use them to deliver orders. One hovered over a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game last summer. And earlier this year, one crashed onto the White House lawn. Drones are not everywhere yet, but once the Federal Aviation Administration fine-tunes the rules for commercial drone use, thousands of companies could receive licenses to do business via unmanned aircraft. Using a drone for business purposes poses a...
Cottage Industry: Two Potters Build a Shared Business, a Shared Life
The word “potter” brings to mind an apron-clad artist perched at a wheel, smoothly turning out clay creations. But throwing pots is just one part of Nathan and Becca Webb’s duties. As the owners of Two Potters, the husband-and-wife team also spend a good deal of time shipping out orders, organizing open houses and processing the tons of wood needed to fire up their enormous kiln. But the Webbs consider that a fair trade-off for being...
