This time of year, I can't help but think back to the sage words of the public address announcer from 1993's seminal basketball video game NBA Jam. Few could forget the silky voice that once cautioned America: "He's heating up!"Well, we're all heating up now. By the time you read this, summer will be at your doorstep, ready to burst in, turn up the temperature…

We hit the streets to find out your favorite summertime activities. Ours is fanning ourself with a copy of the Insider!

It's an unavoidable gardening truth that you'll never be alone in your garden. No matter how tranquil your garden sanctuary feels, you share the space with countless organisms. Many are on your side, working to create healthy plants, but expect a few that are there to eat what you've worked so hard to grow.June is a great time, now that the work of sowing seeds and setting…

Early naturalists were reluctant to recognize there were plants that trapped and devoured insects to obtain food. In the middle of the 1800s, the idea of plants capturing and digesting insects was regarded as being so outrageous as to be called science fiction. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus wrote, "To think that plants ate insects would go against the order of nature as willed by God."However, one…

Summer technically starts June 21, it unofficially starts on Memorial Day, but the actual start is the day I hear my second-most dreaded question: "So, any big summer plans?"You see, my wife's job is such that summer is her busy season, so in prime vacation season I stay put. Sure, we travel plenty in the non-summer months: a quick spring jaunt here, a little autumn getaway there, and, of course,…

From political pop-ins to pepperoni pizza. The most efficient and effective use of the letter P that you've ever read? Precisely. But it also happens to be a very concise description of a major transition on Fort Eddy Road almost two decades ago.Allow us to elaborate.The New Hampshire Highway Hotel dominated Fort Eddy Road for almost 40 years before its sale and demolition in 1988,…