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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As town officials ramp up spending year after year, people like Ray Olivier can’t keep up. On Saturday, the challenge for Oliver and other residents on fixed incomes became more pronounced after Pembroke voters approved a $11.6 million budget, which...

By RAY DUCKLER

Ayn Whytemare doesn’t like the view from the top of her hayfield in Pembroke.From there, rising from pines like a lonely skyscraper, stands the smokestack used by the Bow coal plant, the last facility of its kind in New England. And while the visible...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Pembroke plans to eliminate 27 positions from its schools next year in response to a voter mandate to eliminate $3 million, or 10% of the budget, in the face of spiking taxes.“It’s pretty grim, in my opinion, when you see the number of positions laid...

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...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The way William O’Mahoney saw it, Pembroke voters had two options: price out the elderly or support schools. With a proposed budget of $33.8 million delivering a 28% tax increase, it was hard to feel like one didn’t come at the expense of the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Community power, the system under which communities can buy their own electricity instead of depending on the utility, is continuing its rapid expansion in towns throughout the region.Three Concord area towns are among the dozen launching the system...

By RAY DUCKLER

Amid all the property tax hikes in the Concord area this town meeting season, Pembroke residents are facing the biggest with a whopping 28.1% increase in one year.The combined town and school tax rate is expected to increase from $27.88 to $35.70 –...

By MAURICE REGAN

Maurice Regan is a psychologist and former college professor. He lives in Pembroke. Many news stories of personal tragedy include the suggestion that “mental health services” or more mental health services might have prevented the disturbing outcome....

By JENNIFER SMITH

Jennifer Smith, MD, MPH, lives in Pembroke. I was upset to see Rep. Moffett’s black and white opinion on transgender girls’ participation in sports. His My Turn shows insufficient knowledge and a bias that seems widespread among some in the NH...

By DAVID BROOKS

Pembroke residents will get their chance to join the community-power bandwagon soon, with notices going out in mid-January and a Jan. 31 public meeting.The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Academy auditorium, will explain how Pembroke...

By RAY DUCKLER

Elizabeth Duclos, a third-grade teacher at Pembroke Hill School, was named the state’s Teacher of the Year Thursday.Duclos was nominated for the award by superintendents, principals, past and present colleagues, parents of students and other community...

By RAY DUCKLER

The twin boys, 10-year-olds Jackson and Bradley Doyle, devised a plan to keep their former teacher at Pembroke Hill School in their lives.They called it Lunch Bunches, an informal setting that the boys invented during recess one day. They chose a...

By RAY DUCKLER

Lianne Keary’s son turns 18 this year, and that tells her a lot.It tells her that the photos she used to publish Pembroke’s version of the popular Acadia Images of America series were used 18 years ago, because she was pregnant when she pieced those...

By MAURICE REGAN

Maurice Regan lives in Pembroke. That famous, inventive psychologist B.F. Skinner once described a crackpot idea that he could train pigeons to be missile guidance systems for use in WWII. This idea led to the Pelican Project and the development of a...

By RAY DUCKLER

Once, Andrew Chiavaras saw airplanes as small metal tubes, narrow, claustrophobic and dangerous.His irrational fear of flying turned the family’s annual visit to Disney World into a house of horrors, featuring a grade-school kid whose meltdowns on...

By MAURICE REGAN

Maurice Regan of Pembroke is a psychologist and runs Companion Dog Training. Recent data suggests that nearly five million people are bitten by dogs annually in the United States with 17% requiring medical care, 7% requiring emergency department care,...

By CHUCK DOUGLAS

Chuck Douglas of Pembroke is a former State Supreme Court Justice and a trustee of NH Civics. You cannot preserve our democratic institutions when only one in five students understand the basics of them.Eighth graders’ test scores in U.S. History and...

By RAY DUCKLER

Ignore, for a moment, his endless rocking, minus the rocking chair.And forget about his white, outsized long-sleeved shirt, which he uses to hide the damage caused by his obsessive urge to scrub his hands to kill germs and calm his fears.Instead, just...

By RAY DUCKLER

Road work on Interstate 393, extending from Exit 1 to the Pembroke/Chichester line, will occur all of next week, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.The facelift will include the ramps to Exits 1 through 3 and begin on Monday, weather...

By RAY DUCKLER

Some of Keith Judge’s most vivid memories of his late father contain lights.For example, he recalls the urgency of the red lights, part of Terrence Judge’s DNA and Keith’s childhood, swirling on the trucks inside the Pembroke firehouse each time...

ALLENSTOWNElderly database■Just In Case Program - Safety Net for Elderly and Vulnerable Community Members. The Just In Case Program is a comprehensive town-wide registry of elderly vulnerable community members of dementia, autism, and more. The...