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Making a 21st-century helicopter in the ‘tax-free suburb of Boston’
Small companies are encouraged to start up near potential customers. So why is Rotor, which hopes to turn small helicopters into autonomous crop-dusting machines for big farms out west, based at Nashua Airport and testing prototypes from a private...
Kimball Jenkins sees staff shake-up
Financial problems that left it $100,000 in the hole and disagreements about future direction have led the Kimball Jenkins center in Concord to replace the executive director and get rid of two other staffers, but for the moment at least programming...
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Sports
Boys’ basketball: Pembroke’s maturity and togetherness fuels overtime win over Manchester West
PEMBROKE – The Pembroke Academy boys’ basketball team led Manchester West 50-40 with 4:37 left in the fourth quarter on Tuesday night. With two minutes left, their lead was just 52-49. With 30 seconds left, it was tied, 56-56.Pembroke nearly suffered...
Girls’ Basketball: Concord Christian defeats Pembroke in battle of unbeaten teams
Pembroke Academy head coach Steve Langevin knew what to expect when his Spartans took on Concord Christian Academy on Tuesday night. Simply put, “We know what they do. They do things really well.”Concord Christian did most things really well, forcing...
High schools: Coe-Brown, John Stark hoops sweep opponents, plus more Tuesday night basketball
Girls’ BasketballCoe-Brown 51, Bishop Brady 45Key players: Coe-Brown – Kalina Kasprzak (21 points, 8 rebounds), Hannah Meehan (12 points), Emma Lapierre (10 points); Bishop Brady – Claire Jackson (15 points), Peyton Bryson (12 points)Highlights: Brady...
Alpine skiing: Hopkinton wins 2nd consecutive Capital Cup
Scott Zipke likes that the Capital Cup has a “competitive midseason feel” to it. For the second year in a row, that competition has gone Hopkinton’s way.Junior Merrick Chapin led the Hopkinton boys to a 1-2-4 finish in the boys’ slalom to lead the...
High schools: Monday’s basketball and hockey results
Girls’ BasketballBishop Brady 66, Plymouth 47Key players: Bishop Brady – Payton Bryson (24 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals), Morgan Casey (13 points, 8 rebounds), Mia Wagner (10 points, 4 steals), Maia Dow (8 points), Claire Jackson (8 points,...
Opinion
Opinion: Happy accidents in Ireland
Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dog walker who lives and works in Contoocook. In my last My Turn, I wrote about happy accidents my family has experienced while...
Opinion: Liberty at the library
David Paige (Conway), Angela Brennan (Bow/Hopkinton), and Nicholas Germana (Keene) are NH State Representatives. Here in the “Live Free or Die” state, we prize our freedoms. But in New Hampshire, as elsewhere in the United States, we are seeing an...
Opinion: What’s really behind the dehumanization of immigrants?
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. My sister, Lisa Baird, was an immigration attorney. Before she died in 2009, she had a very active private practice in Philadelphia where she represented people who were seeking asylum and trying to avoid...
Opinion: An interstate compact for healthcare
Ahmed Kutty, MD, lives in Peterborough. The concept of healthcare as a human right and its public funding have gained steady salience in our public discourse recently, thanks largely to the 2016 presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Since...
Opinion: Utilities need a business model that’s aligned with the needs of society
Sam Evans-Brown is the executive director of Clean Energy NH. For nearly twenty years electricity consumption has been pancake flat in the United States, but that era is about to end. Electrification is coming.Electric vehicles are hitting the road...
Politics
Haley finishes second in NH, but she’s not going anywhere
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
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
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
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
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
Thanks a million: Art and Bloom 2024 a beautiful success
Art and Bloom 2024 a beautiful successConcord Garden Club’s Art and Bloom event at Kimball Jenkins Estate from Jan. 25-27 was a beautiful success, thanks to our designers, volunteers, and sponsors. Visitors enjoyed 25 creative floral interpretations...
Take Me Outside: Birrrrds – how do they keep warm?
By RUTH SMITHFor the MonitorI watched the snow gently fall from the warmth of my woodstove-heated living room. Outside on the ground dark-eyed juncos hopped about, scratching through the fresh drifts. On branches above, mourning doves were perched and...
From the farm: I'm tired of ice; bring on the mud
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...
From the farm: The mysterious death of Maybelle the cow
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...
From the farm: I’m bossy and I know it
‘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...
Obituaries
Michael Minery
Scarborough, ME - Scarborough, Maine Michael John Minery, age 67 of Denmark, passed away on Saturday January 27, 2024, at the Gosnell Hospice House, in Scarborough with his sister Cindy, son J... remainder of obit for Michael Minery
Francis Dow
Canterbury, NH - CANTERBURY Francis Frank Dow, Sr. (85) passed away on January 26, 2024. Francis was born in Bridgewater, NH on September 22nd, during the Hurricane of 1938. He was th... remainder of obit for Francis Dow
Anita L. Gagnon
Virginia Beach, VA - Anita L. Gagnon, 86, died in her sleep with her children at her side on Sunday morning January 14, 2024, finding peace after Alzheimer's disease. The daughter of Ov... remainder of obit for Anita L. Gagnon
Jerome J. Lagace
Franklin, NH - Jerome J. Lagace, 82, a former resident of Gilford and Concord, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 26, 2024 at The Golden Crest in Franklin, where he had been a re... remainder of obit for Jerome J. Lagace
