Concord Hospital
When Dr. David Underwood started working at Concord Hospital in 1962, patients stayed two or four to a room - except during flu season. Then they piled into the hallways."We would have the corridors lined with beds," said Underwood, who retired in 1992.
"It was even difficult wheeling patients around to get to the bathroom because the corridors weren't all that wide," Underwood…
June 19, 2006
Half-million in aid, 6 students
The Laurent Clerc Academy, a charter school for deaf children in Concord, is closing after its first full year due to low enrollment. The school had six students this year, three of whom are the children of the school's director and only full-time teacher, a married couple.
The elementary school, which operates in American Sign Language and written English, also had trouble recruiting…
June 14, 2006
Editor's choice
The 57-year-old Concord man who died hiking on Mount Sunapee Sunday was a passionate hiker and through-and-through family man, who sent e-mail dispatches from his travels along the Appalachian Trail, loved breakfast, chaperoned his grandson's outdoor field trips and delighted when others took to the mountains too.
June 11, 2006
Hopkinton graduation
Jonathan Orsi, 18, has an unusual goal for someone who just got out of high school: He'd like to go back.
"I used to think high school was like a youth prison," said Orsi who graduated from Hopkinton High School last night. "Then I found stuff I started to enjoy."
(For a special page of graduation coverage -- and to…
June 11, 2006
Hopkinton
Jonathan Orsi, 18, has an unusual goal for someone who just got out of high school: He'd like to go back.
"I used to think high school was like a youth prison," said Orsi, who graduated from Hopkinton High School last night. "Then I found stuff I started to enjoy."
Orsi, who is heading to Montana State University next year, hopes to become a high school English teacher, so he can…
June 10, 2006
Hopkinton graduation
Jonathan Orsi, 18, has an unusual goal for someone who just got out of high school: He'd like to go back.
"I used to think high school was like a youth prison," said Orsi who graduated from Hopkinton High School last night. "Then I found stuff I started to enjoy."
(For a special page of graduation coverage -- and to…
June 9, 2006
'Pre-buy' oil less certain
Homeowners hoping to lock in an early rate for heating oil next winter are in for a bit of sticker shock. It will cost about $600 more to heat an average home this year compared to last year.
Prices for heating oil pre-buys, or early deals for a fixed rate, are an average of 45 percent higher this summer than last summer, according to companies around the Concord area. Customers…
June 8, 2006
Died of heart attack
The 57-year-old Concord man who died hiking on Mount Sunapee Sunday was a passionate hiker and through-and-through family man, who sent e-mail dispatches from his travels along the Appalachian Trail, loved breakfast, chaperoned his grandson's outdoor field trips and delighted when others took to the mountains too.
June 6, 2006
Back surgery
Dr. Tony Salerni of Orthopedic Professional Association in Gilford was the kind of kid who played with erector sets. He also took apart appliances - big ones.
"I took a lawn mower apart when I was 10 and put it back together. I had a few parts left over, but it worked anyway. I don't know what (the parts) did, but…
June 5, 2006
Clinton Jones of Goffstown had wanted to die at home.
But when he came out of the hospital for the last time, his body wracked with colon cancer, Leslie Glines-Jones, his wife of 26 years, knew she couldn't take care of him physically and be there for him emotionally, too.
"I had to basically be honest with myself and decide, could I handle this?" Glines-Jones, 62, said. "I knew…
May 30, 2006