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August 2018

As you are planning for Back to School, consider that data show working parents are the norm. 75% of New Hampshire families with children under six have all available parents in the workforce.  56% percent of all working parents say the balancing act is difficult, and those who work are more likely to say that parenting is tiring and stressful, and less likely to find it always enjoyable and rewarding. Read more →


Native American storyteller, Anne Jennison, will share riveting Abenaki stories about the sky at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center on Friday, September 8. The storytelling performance will happen during the Discovery Center’s Super Stellar Friday event where the Center is open extra hours every first Friday of the month from 6:30-9:30 PM with special programming. Read more →


The nation’s best alpine ski racers will descend upon New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley Resort in 2019 and 2021 for U.S. Alpine Championship - the biggest race the resort has hosted since the White Circus visited in 1991 when Julie Parisien won the World Cup giant slalom. Waterville Valley Resort will play host to the slalom, giant slalom, and parallel slalom events March 23-26, 2019. The parallel slalom event will be a new addition to the U.S. Alpine Championships calendar. Read more →


Presby Steel the owner of the Isaacson Steel Fabrication Plant at 40 Jericho Road, Berlin, NH has agreed to lease the fabrication plant to the Mount Washington Cog Railway for use as an additional winter shop for the maintenance and building of its locomotives and passenger coaches. Read more →


On Thursday, August 9th from 2:35-2:55 PM, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will host a live In-flight Education Downlink with astronaut Ricky Arnold on the International Space Station. A downlink is a twenty-minute video Q&A session between a U.S. educational organization and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS.) Read more →