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There were over 80 responses to this weekâs Tele-Talk question, âIs the site of the Intervale Motel a good location for a new four-story hotel?â and except for one or two, all were uniformly opposed to the idea. As I sit in Hannaford s parking lot and look at the monstrosity that s blocking my favorite view of Chocorua, yeah, sure we need another hotel that s a monster. Preservationists want to preserve an outdated motel but can t save a historically significant structure in Center Conway? Ridiculous. If the Intervale House had not burned 100 years ago, there would be a four-story old hotel there now. Think of the proposed structure as a modern reincarnation of the former and the current Intervale Motel as a temporary space holder. ....
When it comes to UFOs, there’s little that surprises Nick Pope these days. The former British civil servant spent 21 years at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and between 1991 and 1994 was assigned to its highly classified ‘UFO desk’, charged with looking into reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, a phrase Pope adopted internally to get away from the “pop-culture baggage” associated with the term UFO. It wasn’t your average job. “The remit was to investigate all sightings in the United Kingdom air defence region and assess whether there was evidence of any threat,” Pope explains. The Cold War had come to an end but that didn’t mean that unknown, advanced technologies from a hostile state couldn’t be out there testing the UK’s capabilities. And if they were, the MOD wanted to know about it. While Pope was in charge he would receive around 300 reports a year. Most had a rational explanation. Meteors or misidentified planes. Satellites or weather b ....