Category Archives: Economy

In One Town, Its Live Free and Ride ATVs

Residents of northern New Hampshire are staking their economic future on a new kind of tourist. Faced with the decline of the paper industry, Berlin, N.H., hopes to capitalize on the increasing popularity of All Terrain Vehicles. ATVs can tear up the ground as they roar through the woods, leaving exhaust in their trail.

Some communities have tried to ban them. But theyre welcome in Berlin, which is creating one of the nations largest ATV parks in hopes of attracting riders — and their money — from all over.

[Read and Listen](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5738244 “Read the Story”) (NPR)

Gasoline prices could keep falling

Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months.

“The only place they have to go is down,” says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service OPIS. “Well be closer to $2 than $3 come Thanksgiving.”

[Read](http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-08-29-gas-price-usat_x.htm) (USA Today)

Culpeper now leads state housing boom

Culpeper
County
was tops in Virginia and sixth in the nation in the growth
rate for its housing market between 2004 and 2005, according to Census
data.

The county added 1,379 houses, apartments, and mobile homes during that
period, an increase of 9.3 percent.

In Culpeper, the housing boom has also ushered in a commercial explosion
as well.

“We’re getting a Target, a Kohl’s, a Starbucks,” said Tomarie
Boyd or Re/Max. “I’ve been here 20 years and I loved it like it was, but
there’s something to be said for the convenience of a Lowe’s.”

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(Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)