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As Motorcycle Week in Laconia gets older, so does its bikers
By JACOB DAWSON
It’s pretty obvious who is participating in Laconia Motorcycle Week. It’s no longer the rough-and-tumble riders of yesteryear.“We tend to get older people,” said Charlie St. Clair, executive director for the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association.Bike...
Dumping stereotypes: Hopkinton-Webster transfer station run by all-female staff
By OLIVIA BURDETTE
Kathy Alcott explained the tidiness of the Hopkinton-Webster transfer station when she spotted a piece of newspaper blowing away in the wind.“I think we’re probably a cleaner, neater transfer station than some others I’ve seen,” she said. “I think...
If your free-range chicken does its ranging in the wrong place, you might get fined
By David Brooks
Fans of free-range chicken farming take note: If your chicken freely ranges onto somebody else’s property, you could be in trouble.On Tuesday, Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law a bill that adds “domestic fowl” to a long-standing state law that makes...
Removal of bridge in White Mountains generates ethical debate
By DAVID BROOKS
The dilapidated Thoreau Falls Bridge which provides a rare river crossing in the Pemigewasset Wilderness will be removed but not replaced in order to maintain the wilderness experience, federal authorities have decided – a decision that will anger...
Former Sununu Youth Center counselor to register as sex offender for assault of detained teen
By ALYSSA DANDREA
Twenty-two charges were dismissed against a former Sununu Youth Services Center counselor who will avoid significant jail time for sexually assaulting a teenager sentenced to the juvenile detention facility.Kirstie Bean, 26, of Concord recently...
Community gardens offer room to grow in Concord, Boscawen
By ELIZABETH FRANTZ
On a recent Thursday morning, before the weather got too hot, Peter Ellermann was preparing a bed of soil to plant some green and yellow beans.Like all the gardeners at the Birch Street community garden, he has to haul in his own tools and water, but...
End of an era for Concord church, and perhaps start of a new neighborhood
By CAITLIN ANDREWS
In one week, the Concord Catholic community will witness the former St. Peter’s Church’s last rites.They’ll gather on May 27 for a final liturgy, their voices echoing among the church’s vaulted ceilings, where countless marriages, baptisms and...
White supremacist shot, killed in Claremont parking lot, N.H. AG says
By TIM CAMERATO
A former prison gang leader who was active in the white supremacist movement died shortly after midnight on Sunday in the parking lot of a Chinese restaurant after being shot multiple times, according to the New Hampshire attorney general’s...
Loon Mountain purchased by Michigan-based Boyne in six ski resort deal
Lincoln Loon purchased in 6 ski resort dealMichigan-based Boyne Resorts has completed its purchase of six ski resorts it was operating under long-term lease agreements, including Loon Mountain.CEO Stephen Kircher called the closing with Oz Real...
Poll: Should N.H. redesign the state flag?
New Hampshire’s flag – the round state seal featuring the U.S.S Raleigh floating on the ocean with the sun in the background – all set on a lovely shade of blue is certainly iconic in these parts. In somewhat of a shock to longtime Granite Staters,...
Judge rules use of drug-sniffing dogs unconstitutional in checkpoint lawsuit
By CAITLIN ANDREWS
Police dogs used to sniff out drugs at a border patrol checkpoint on Interstate 93 last summer amounted to a violation of the state Constitution, a judge ruled, throwing out evidence against 18 defendants.The American Civil Liberties Union of New...
Rebuild the Old Man of the Mountain? Many say let him be
By RAY DUCKLER
Rest in pieces, Old Man.That’s what I was told Thursday, which marked the 15th anniversary of the day the Old Man of the Mountain crumbled during an early-morning fog.Not out of disrespect. Quite the contrary, this opinion grew out of love and respect...
Face of Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch fell 15 years ago
After a stormy night in Franconia Notch 15 years ago, daybreak on May 3 – still rainy and dreary from the night before – revealed that New Hampshire’s iconic Old Man of the Mountain was gone.News of the rocky profile’s fall spread quickly, and people...
At least six trees in Concord are the biggest of their kind in the whole state
By DAVID BROOKSand JONATHAN VAN FLEET
It turns out Concord has something to brag about on Arbor Day when it comes to trees: Within the city limits, at least six trees qualify as the biggest of their species in all of New Hampshire. That includes the huge Norway maple next to the arch in...
Franklin man pleads guilty to shooting boyfriend in head, waiting for him to die in woods
By ALYSSA DANDREA
Fresh off Laconia’s annual Motorcycle Week, Richard Tripaldi II and James Brock returned to the remote campsite bordering the Great Gains Memorial Forest in Franklin.The two young men, in a fledgling relationship, had spent some nights there...
Once looking for scoops, author Tom Ryan found solitude with his best friend, Atticus
By RAY DUCKLER
To this day, Tom Ryan can’t explain it, and don’t expect him to try during his appearance Thursday night at Red River Theatres.There, starting at 7, he’ll talk about Following Atticus, the latest selection for Concord Reads – a citywide literary...
Timeline: Key moments in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
A timeline of events related to the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 260 others on April 15, 2013:March 2011: The Russian FSB intelligence security service gives the FBI information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who lives in...
Five years later, five lives affected by Boston Marathon bombing move on
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
One was an attacker. One was a volunteer first responder. One lost her leg. Another lost his little boy. And a police officer very nearly lost his own life.Half a decade ago, these five lives probably never would have intersected. Then bombs bloodied...
The noose in Laconia tells a story about the last man executed in the state
By RAY DUCKLER
The rope is behind glass, in a rectangular wooden box, and it leaves no room for interpretation.It signals death, end of story.A rope will do that – invade your mind with darkness – when tied into a noose. This one is on a back wall at the...
Convicted child killer Dale loses federal appeal, files another in 1st Circuit Court
By Nancy West
Jim Dale has lost his latest case in U.S. District Court, but plans to further appeal his second-degree murder conviction for the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Hopkinton more than 20 years ago.Dale, 60, who is adamant that he didn’t rape...
