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Alexandra Eckersley reunited with her son after giving birth in woods in 2022

03-25-2024 4:13 PM

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD, N.H. — The daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersely has been reunited with her son as she awaits trial on reckless conduct and other charges after giving birth more than a year ago in a tent in subfreezing temperatures, her...


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Despite tough market, New Hampshire housing optimistic about policy and production

03-28-2024 5:11 PM

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Julie Jussif feels sick to her stomach when she thinks about her current mortgage rate. When she bought her second home to size up for her young family, the interest was lightyears above her first. With a competitive housing market, she waived the...


From lunch trays to garden beds: Hopkinton students compost food waste

03-28-2024 5:09 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Owen Lanman and his friends stood guard near the color-coded bins in Maple Street school’s cafeteria, ensuring every student dumped their lunch leftovers into the appropriate receptacles designated for compost, recycling and landfill.“I like doing it...


School Board approves $107.9 million budget

03-28-2024 4:22 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Despite some pushback from the teacher’s union, the Concord School Board stayed the course on plans it made Monday to reduce the number of teaching positions in elementary schools to keep pace with a shrinking student population. The board voted 8-1...


New England College professor is state’s new Poet Laureate

03-28-2024 3:29 PM

The director of New England College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is the new Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.Jennifer Militello was nominated by Gov. Chris Sununu and recently confirmed by the Executive Council. Her five-year term...


Will new legislative garage behind State House ease downtown parking?

03-28-2024 2:24 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As heavy machinery makes way for a new parking garage for lawmakers, some Concord residents and officials have wondered whether the new structure will help ease the pressure on downtown parking.The answer, according to state and city leaders, has yet...


Video: Weare Middle School choir celebrates Music in our Schools Month at the State House

03-28-2024 1:24 PM

Weare Middle School choir celebrates Music in our Schools Month with a performance outside the State House on Wednesday.


Dartmouth graduate student union stages walkout as bargaining talks falter

03-28-2024 12:28 PM

By FRANCES MIZE

In February, unionized graduate student-workers at Dartmouth decided that if they continued to feel that the college was stalling on contract negotiations, they’d walk off the job.They weren’t bluffing.On Wednesday at noon, more than 150 graduate...


State says its buyer has four weeks to ‘put up or shut up’ and close Laconia land deal

03-28-2024 9:46 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has given its chosen buyer until April 22 to “put up or shut up” and close on a $21.5 million land deal for the former 220-acre Laconia State School property. The buyer and her team have requested three extensions since winning the bid to...


Laconia votes to move forward with antique center purchase, splitting building with restaurateur

03-27-2024 4:25 PM

By GABRIEL PERRY

Laconia city council approved the purchase of 601 Main St., current site of the Laconia Antique Center, in a 4-2 vote following hours of discussion at their regular meeting Monday night.The city will purchase the back two thirds of the building for...


Pembroke School Board mulls major cuts to next year’s budget

03-27-2024 3:54 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In Kadyn Dean’s favorite class at the Pembroke Hill School, she works with robots, builds cardboard houses, and helps maintain a local hiking trail. In the past week, the third grader learned the class – called ILAB – is not expected to continue next...


Ossipee Main Street blindsided by parking lot plan

03-27-2024 3:44 PM

By DAYMOND STEER

The Main Street Program’s president says she was blindsided by the Ossipee selectmen’s plan to tear down the Main Street building, which the board discussed in public last week.The Main Street Program, according to its Facebook page, is a non-profit...


Bow power plant to add solar and batteries; coal use to end by 2028

03-27-2024 11:54 AM

By DAVID BROOKS

The region’s last coal-fired power plants, located in Bow and Portsmouth, are expected to switch to large-scale solar power and battery-storage under plans put forward by their owner, Granite Shore Power, marking New Hampshire’s first big transition...


NH House panel recommends against bill to make more kids eligible for free lunch

03-27-2024 11:46 AM

By RICK GREEN

The N.H. House Finance Committee on Tuesday recommended, 13-11, that the full House reject a bill that would expand eligibility for free lunches for children in public schools.It was a party-line vote with Republicans against House Bill 1212 and...


NH lawmakers are reviewing a new GOP school funding plan

03-27-2024 11:31 AM

By JOSH ROGERS

A top Republican budget writer in the New Hampshire House has proposed boosting state aid to public schools by $400 million a year and requiring any future education spending increase made at the local level to be approved by a supermajority...


New Hampshire Hospital increases bed capacity

03-27-2024 10:23 AM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

New Hampshire Hospital has expanded its bed capacity in an effort to stop boarding patients in hospital emergency rooms.The “E” unit at the inpatient psychiatric facility in Concord, originally designed for children, has undergone renovations to...


Lawmakers try again to stop ticket scalping and phony sales

03-27-2024 9:59 AM

Reselling tickets to, say, a Taylor Swift show at five times the true cost would become illegal under a Senate bill that caps the asking price to face value. The legislation would also prohibit the sale of “speculative tickets” that resellers claim to...


The Economic Status of NH and its Residents

03-26-2024 6:09 PM

By PHIL SLETTEN

The U.S. and N.H. economies appear to be escaping high inflation without suffering through a recession. Despite substantially rising prices in the first half of 2022, prompting about a third of N.H. adults to report that it was somewhat or very...


Bill banning products made with PFAS moves forward

03-26-2024 5:43 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Mattresses, feminine hygiene products, food packaging and several other everyday items with added forever chemicals, may face a potential ban as a bill prohibiting their sale and distribution in New Hampshire progresses forward to the House of...


Dartmouth student uses art to shift perceptions of addiction

03-26-2024 5:01 PM

By NICOLA SMITH

LEBANON — In 2013, Alastair Huntley was struggling with depression and an overreliance on medication after being prescribed opioids after surgery for a knee injury, which left him in pain. Then a student at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.,...



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