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By MEGAN TUTTLE

Megan Tuttle is the president of NEA-New Hampshire. As a mom, I want strong schools for my three boys. As an educator, I want all Granite State students to have access to high-quality educational opportunities, regardless of their zip code. As the...

Boys’ TrackBow 87, John Stark 57, Pembroke 43, Manchester West 34Key players: Bow – Kody McCranie (1st 100, 1st 200, 1st 400, 1st long jump), Wyatt Worcester (1st 1,600, 1st 3,200), Colin Atwell (1st high jump, 2nd 300 hurdles, 5th triple jump), Liam...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire investment advisor who lost clients’ money by putting it into risky securities has been ordered to pay $4.9 million in restitution and $1 million in costs by the state Bureau of Securities Regulation.According to the Bureau, Thomas...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Mold found at Bow’s Community Building has left portions of the structure unusable until cleanup and disinfection are completed.After last week’s testing for the potential presence of mold at the 1959 community center on Bow Center Road, it was...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

One man was sent to Concord Hospital in critical condition after a fire on Lantern Lane Thursday afternoon.Triggered by a fire alarm just after 3 p.m., Concord Fire escalated its response after seeing smoke at the back of the two-bedroom home upon...

By ADAM CZARKOWSKI

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. Susan McKevitt’s recent opinion column “It’s time to properly fund education” in the Concord Monitor reads like a case for a state income tax without saying the words “income tax.”...

Most Americans regardless of which network to gather your news from are left scratching their collective heads wondering what happened to the current generation and what holds true for the future of our country. Then I read the thoughts of Hopkinton...

The commissioner of education is anxious about pronouns hurting kids in New Hampshire schools. Maybe it’s the active shooter drills they’ve been put through since they were five, but my kids themselves are unperturbed by that stuff. Get a grip and...

Let’s commend the Concord School Board. In a time of polarization, the board managed to unite disparate groups in our community. As Kass Ardinger, former long-term board member said on 12/6/23, “The Concord community has shown a high level of...

Can you imagine any NH state department, agency or commission using $45 million of our tax dollars but putting roadblocks in the way of a performance audit of the program? The commissioner of education is hoping you don’t care enough to know. Our...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Christa McAuliffe boarded the Challenger space shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986, she planned to broadcast two lessons from space into thousands of American classrooms.The first – called "The Ultimate Field Trip" – would have involved a tour of the space...

By DAVID BROOKS

With Concord reduced to a single movie theater for the first time in living memory and New Hampshire chain Chunky’s Cinema Pub closing two of its three locations, going out to the flicks in the Granite State just keeps getting harder.Don’t expect that...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The director of the Police Standards and Training Council said it couldn’t take action in the 2006 case involving Jonathan Stone, a full-time officer who reportedly made violent threats against colleagues, due to the lack of authority granted by...

By MAUREEN MILLIKEN

The median sales price for an existing single-family home in New Hampshire hit the $500,000 mark in March, with condo/townhouse properties following close behind at $409,950.Despite the record-high prices, sales edged up slightly in the state,...

By ADAM DRAPCHO

Saturday night was playing out like a nightmare for Steve Southworth, general manager of the Flying Monkey theater. He had a nearly full house, and the headliner’s second set was just starting, when an employee reported smelling something...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

On a chilly Wednesday night in early spring, a group of students from across New Hampshire gathered in a small classroom at the MAXT Makerspace in Peterborough to learn about energy efficiency. They passed around bags full of insulation, learned how...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Sue Nastasi lost her birth certificate years ago. “Beats me where it is,” she said. But getting it back is not a simple matter. Nastasi was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in a hospital that doesn’t exist any more, under a different name, she said. She...

Girls’ LacrosseConcord 20, Nashua North 7Key players: Concord – Emma Pelletier (8 goals, 5 draw controls), Sofia Payne (6 goals, 2 assist), Sarah Leuci (3 goals, 10 draw controls), Sydney Brown (goal, assist), Ava Philbrook (goal, assist), Malie...

By PAT WILCZYNSKI

Pat Wilczynski is a retired psychotherapist living in Concord. The NH End of Life Options Act, HB 1283, would have saved my father. Not from dying, but from the miserable and heartbreaking way he died.His name was Ed Wilczynski. He was over six feet...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will get the first updated cost estimate in two years for its proposed new middle school in June and will ink a final “not to exceed budget” for the project on July 1, according to a new meeting schedule released by the...

By ELISABETH BIALOSKY and WENDY THOMAS

Elisabeth Bialosky, Youth Campaign Organizer/350NH. Rep. Wendy Thomas, Town of Merrimack. The kids are angry. And they have every right to be.Last summer students and youth advocates concerned about climate change had an idea: “Could we work on a...