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01-27-2024 2:27 PM

Friday morning started like any normal day for Carol Stiasny. She woke before the sun rose and left for work by 6:30 a.m. – going through the motions to keep her mind off the reality that soon she’d need moving boxes.By 2 p.m., while she was finishing...


Promise cut short: Concord shooting victim remembered at vigil as caring, generous and driven

01-26-2024 9:54 PM

Audrey Moran, whose son Zackary Sullivan was killed in a shooting two weeks ago, was overwhelmed with gratitude by the vigil in his memory Friday night.“Zackary was my best friend — and my son. And January 16 is a nightmare that I’m never going to...


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Girls’ basketball: John Stark’s composure carries the Generals to massive win over Bow
01-25-2024 11:56 PM

WEARE – It was just the type of game John Stark struggled to close out last year: high intensity, back and forth, neither team building much separation. But on Thursday night, the Generals (8-3) showed how much they’ve grown since then, closing out a...

High schools: Thursday’s basketball results
01-25-2024 11:55 PM

Boys’ BasketballBow 69, John Stark 53Key players: Bow – Jake Reardon (25 points); John Stark – Donnie White (15 points, 3 assists), Joey Dykstra (14 points, 6 rebounds, 5 steals)Highlights: The Generals had a narrow lead at the half, but too many...

High schools: MV boys’ basketball upsets West, Kearsarge knocks off defending champs
01-24-2024 11:30 PM

Boys’ BasketballMerrimack Valley 52, Manchester West 48Key players: MV – Trevor Simonds (17 points), Logan Gabour (14 points, 10 rebounds), Nate Joubert (4 assists); West –  Max Shosha (17 points, four 3-pointers)Highlights: The Pride started the...

High schools: Bow girls win 5th straight hoops contest, Tuesday’s basketball and Alpine results
01-23-2024 11:26 PM

Girls’ BasketballBow 47, Timberlane 22Key players: Bow – Juliette Tarsa (25 points), Ella Trefethen (11 points), Bry Szepan (4 points), Kate Labrecque (4 points)Highlights:  The Falcons won their fifth straight game on Tuesday night.Records: Bow 7-2;...

High schools: Monday’s results
01-22-2024 11:59 PM

Girls’ BasketballHopkinton 42, Stevens 39Key players: Hopkinton  – Shaylee Murdough (12 points), Sydney Westover (11 points), Lizz Holmes (7 points); Stevens – Kiley Bundy (16 points)Highlights: The Hawks and Cardinals had their second game in four...

Opinion
Opinion: Dads ‘donut’ always make friends easily
01-26-2024 6:00 AM

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

What was the top story of 2023? Here’s what readers had to say
01-25-2024 3:54 PM

At the beginning of the month, we collected our top 10 most read stories of 2023 and asked readers to tell us which was their top story of the year.Out of nearly 100 responses, almost half (42.7%) said the plans for a large mixed-use development at...

Opinion: New Hampshire is a low tax state
01-25-2024 6:30 AM

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. A recent My Turn in the Concord Monitor claimed that New Hampshire has higher taxes than Massachusetts based on one retired person’s situation. I would argue as a person that is...

Opinion: The enchanted life
01-24-2024 6:00 AM

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. When I was young, I wasn’t religious. After I got back from Vietnam, God was dead. Enchantment was a foreign concept to me. A rare...

Opinion: When New Hampshire’s primary launched more than a candidate
01-23-2024 7:00 AM

Bill Shore, founder and executive chair of the anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength, worked in the New Hampshire primary campaigns of Senators Gary Hart (D-CO) and Bob Kerrey (D-NE) For nearly half a century I have been a New Hampshire...

Politics
Haley finishes second in NH, but she’s not going anywhere
01-23-2024 9:26 PM

Former Gov. Nikki Haley may not have pulled off the upset she’d hoped for in Tuesday night’s Republican primary, but she reassured supporters in Concord that she’s not going anywhere.“New Hampshire is first in the nation,” she said, “it is not the...

Trump wins NH primary as rematch with Biden appears increasingly likely
01-23-2024 8:14 PM

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former President Donald Trump easily won New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday, seizing command of the race for the Republican nomination and making a November rematch against President Joe Biden feel all the more inevitable.The result...

It's a sweep for Haley in Dixville Notch
01-23-2024 6:01 AM

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — The six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch in New Hampshire all cast their ballots for Nikki Haley at midnight on Tuesday, giving her a clean sweep over former President Donald Trump and all the other candidates.The resort...

Major shakeup ahead of NH primary: DeSantis out, endorses Trump
01-21-2024 5:06 PM

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump.The decision leaves Trump and...

Explainer: Preparing to vote in New Hampshire
01-21-2024 9:23 AM

Reviewing the candidates and where they stand on important issues is a prerequisite to voting in the New Hampshire Primary. Voters can find out who will be on your ballot by looking at a sample ballot on the Secretary of State’s website or checking...

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Arts & Life
From the farm: I'm tired of ice; bring on the mud
01-27-2024 3:00 PM

The plastic wrap on the huge hay bale was frozen, and so were my fingers. I had removed my gloves to use my knife to slice the wrap, and now my fingers hurt. Husband Bruce got out of the Mahindra tractor to help me, the one-woman ground crew, release...

HomeBoxAlt From the farm: The mysterious death of Maybelle the cow
01-21-2024 9:00 AM

Pregnant Maybelle stood at the 500-pound hay bale, swinging her wide Highland horns at any 15 weaning calves who got too close to her feast. When we set out the calves’ grain, she hung back, but when we opened the gate, Maybelle moved in to clean up...

HomeBoxAlt From the farm: I’m bossy and I know it
01-14-2024 6:00 AM

‘Tell me what you just heard,” I asked.“As soon as Kavi goes through the gate, close it,” Matt replied. “Put her in the front of the pen and shut her in.”I smiled, gave him a quick nod, shook the grain bucket, and called the cattle. Seven pregnant...

HomeBoxAlt Professional gardener to host art talk in Lakes Region
01-09-2024 12:44 PM

The Lakes Region Art Association will host an event Jan. 15 at 7 p.m., with Art Talk speaker Reia Marie Bustolin.  Reia Marie has been a professional gardener for 17 years.After attending one year of school at Montserrat College of Fine Art and 2...

HomeBoxAlt Live read of history play
01-09-2024 12:43 PM

After the success of the staged reading of last season’s “Montague and Capulet” by Jaydie Halperin, Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative begins the 2024 Spark Series with a reading of a historical thriller by Halperin called “The Boys in the...

Obituaries
Lois Higman

Lois "Sandra" Higman Pembroke, NH - Sandra Higman graced our world with her selfless, unconditional love for 83 years. She left us January 14th at Granite VNA Hospice House in Concord due to... Read More

Kathryn C. White

Rumney, NH - Kathy left this world peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior on January 18, 2024 following an extended battle with dementia at Mountain Ridge Nursing Home. She was born on A... Read More

Jayne Golde

Concord, NH - Our beloved Jayne Ann Golde, 61, of Concord, passed away on January 17th after a brief battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her loved ones at the time she passed. Jay... Read More

Eva J. Hodgins

Marion, MS, NH - Eva J. Hodgins, age 87, longtime resident of Northwood passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at Beehive Homes in Marion, MS. She was born in Danville, NH... Read More

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