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Mittersill Ski Area would reopen and merge with the adjacent Cannon Mountain under a land swap that recently won a key federal approval. The swap calls for the U.S. Forest Service to transfer about 100 acres on the top of Mittersill to the state in exchange for 235 acres of state-owned land in Piermont. The Piermont land includes about a quarter-mile of the Appalachian Trail.


As CNBC's co-anchor of "The Call'' daily Wall Street report, New Hampshire native Trish Regan has sat at the center of the maelstrom through the subprime mortgage meltdown, the credit crisis and the $700 billion federal bailout of big banks and investment houses. Yet she remains optimistic.


Updated, 1:39 p.m. One of New Hampshire's entertainment landmarks, the historic Ioka Theater, will close after 93 years.

> Slideshow: The history of an Exeter landmark
> Monadnock Ledger-Transcript: Peterborough's 94-year-old theater is for sale


As consumers from both sides of the border flock to retail stores for the start of the holiday season, law enforcement officials and store owners have seen a surge in shoplifting and related crimes.


Don't call Bruce Graham a cobbler. According to the Epsom resident and shoe craftsman, professional shoemakers don't like the term "cobbler."