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Sunday, April 11, 2021
While many hotel rooms in the United States stayed vacant last year, stir-crazy travelers headed to houses on private beaches and mountains, where they could enjoy nature but keep their distance from others.
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Desperate to escape quarantine boredom, a freshman at Southern New Hampshire University decided she would live vicariously through various actors this past year.
HANOVER — Ruth Gellis still has nightmares from the years she and her family spent on the run from the Nazis.
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Throughout her early high school days in Portsmouth, a teenage Sharon Jones was a highlight of the music department’s annual student showcase.
Sunday, April 04, 2021
Q: I’ve been using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to fill in and save PDF tax forms on my PC. But when I recently called up a stored tax form, the data I’d filled in appeared for a moment, then disappeared, leaving just a blank tax form. I then called up other tax forms that I’d saved earl…
Thursday, April 01, 2021
MANCHESTER — For the past 20 years, bagpiper Elliot Smith has been competing at Highland games and in world championships, but this might be the first time he’s contemplating unsportsmanlike conduct.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
LONDONDERRY — Peter Cottontail obviously prefers to hop, but with all the ground and air space he had to cover this spring, he’s also a jet-setting rabbit with a few travel tips.
Monday, March 29, 2021
TAUNTON, Mass. — After 23 years of customizing and perfecting it, Raynham resident Kathy MacQueen is looking for a new home for her 46 by 28-inch dollhouse.
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Q. I have a large game room and am debating between buying a 75-inch flat-panel TV or a projector with a 100-inch (or bigger) screen. It will mostly be for movies from Blu-ray and a Roku streaming box, viewed with the lights out. Do you think I will give up a lot of picture quality if I go w…
Q: My Boston Acoustics BA735 digital speakers came with a previous computer, but I’d like to connect them to my MacBook Pro. The speakers and the Mac both use the same 3.5-millimeter jack system, but the speakers are digital and the Mac only outputs an analog signal. Is there some kind of an…
Saturday, March 27, 2021
“I have always had the illusion it was more important, or as important, to be a good man as to be a great writer. I may turn out to be neither. But would like to be both.” — Ernest Hemingway
Sunday, March 21, 2021
What a year, Budget Voguers, what a year. If you are like me, you’ve been around your “stuff” a lot more than you ever thought you would — your dishes, your slippers, your couches, your rugs.
Q: Windows 10 has some color issues that make it hard for me to see things on the screen.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Keith Murphy is feeling much better about St. Patrick’s Day compared with last year.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Q: I used to wirelessly print the newspaper’s crossword puzzles from my iPad using my Google account to connect to “Cloud Print.” But it stopped working, so I had to start printing via the Apple Safari browser. (A third option, HP Smart, won’t print, either, because it says the connection is…
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Nathan Smith readily admits that the process of maple sugaring appeals to the small boy still inside him.
Sunday, March 07, 2021
T he past year has been tough on everyone, but for those on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, it’s been especially exhausting, both physically and emotionally.
I ’ve never been good at meetings.
Q: My iPhone XS, now 26 months old, often doesn’t ring or vibrate when I receive a call. So, unless I’m looking at the screen when the call arrives, I miss it. But this doesn’t happen on every call.
Thursday, March 04, 2021
A re you dreaming of warmer weather and live music?
PORTSMOUTH — What do pizza, music and Pennsylvania bluestone have in common?
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Q: My Samsung Galaxy phone won’t play the sound on YouTube videos when it’s connected by Bluetooth to my car, a 2016 Fiat 500. I can get sound for other things, such as map directions or phone calls. I think the problem is in the car’s Bluetooth connection, but the Fiat dealer has been of no…
Sunday, February 21, 2021
One of my favorite spots in a thrift store is the area for kitchen utensils — forks, knives, bowls. I am drawn often to wooden spoons and other wooden tools.
By Lori BorgmanI came across a list of must-read children’s classics and noted “The Wind in the Willows” on the list. I started reading the book years ago and found it to be an effective sleep aid.
Sunday, February 14, 2021
L arry Frates is a man of many talents. He’s been on “Family Feud” five times, performed magic for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and drawn caricatures of each member of a Laconia High School graduating class.
