GE makes the LEAP
The newly developed LEAP passenger-jet engines that will power Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s will be taking to the air with parts milled in the Granite State. The engine requires the use of blisks, a bladed metal disc, and as the primary milling source for GE Aviation, the Hooksett plant will produce those blisks.

Coping with cost
Part 3 of our special series on health care costs in New Hampshire focuses on how residents and businesses are dealing with the situation and what might be done to ease the burden on budgets. Don’t miss it.

'The Juggle'
Laura Kreutzer writes about micromanaging, and how she gave up trying to micromanage everything at home when she's not there for part of the month. Sunday Business

Pride on the line
They've been here before; they know the drill. The Boston Celtics have to get past the Philadelphia 76ers to keep their NBA championship hopes alive. We'll have the story. Journal Sunday: The Juggle

Outsider's view
A Texan who spent a month as a house-sitter in Lyndeborough fondly recalls her time as a temporary Granite Stater, including a moving 2011 Memorial Day.

How Memorial Day started
Thousands of New Hampshire families were mourning their sons killed on battlefields far from home when Gov. Natt Head issued the first proclamation of Decoration Day: “Let us tenderly and lovingly lay the flowers of early spring upon the graves of our sons, and place above their ashes the flag, which, living, they covered with imperishable luster....” It was 1881, 16 years after the Civil War had ended, and the governor asked the “whole population” to “lay aside their usual avocations, and come together to consecrate this day forever to the cause of popular freedom, by eulogistic speech, martial airs, and solemn procession.” That was the beginning of what the state now observes as Memorial Day.