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New Hampshire governor helps save man choking on lobster roll at seafood festival contest
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu came to the aid of a contestant choking on a lobster roll at a seafood festival eating contest, using the Heimlich maneuver after the man signaled for help.The contestant, Christian Moreno, recovered and resumed eating...
Granite Geek: The joy of compost. Seriously, compost!
By DAVID BROOKS
Much of social media is nasty, as we all know, but there are places where it is charming. One of those is the Reddit subgroup about composting.Yes, composting.Every day people from around the world post pictures on the group showing their pile of...
Anthony Marshall brings ‘head full of culinary solutions’ to The Community Kitchen in Keene
By LIORA ENGEL
If you wander into The Community Kitchen building on Mechanic Street in Keene on any given weekday, you might be treated to a symphony.You’d enter reception and walk past the food pantry area and hear the percussion from behind a set of double doors....
NH Supreme Court rules in favor of police who inflated traffic stop numbers
By TODD BOOKMAN
Three former New Hampshire State Troopers may be able to remove their names from a publicly available list of law enforcement officers with possible credibility issues, in part because of how long ago their alleged misconduct took place, according to...
Grocery cart economics: Financial anxiety high on the list for many NH voters
By KATE DARIO
On a recent late summer afternoon, with the state primary election just days away and scores of candidates vying in several dozen races, Helen Lacroix of Franklin was focused on a different set of numbers.“It’s the two of us, and it’s like $100 here,”...
Nancy Sununu, former first lady of NH, dies at 85
By TODD BOOKMAN
Nancy Sununu, the former first lady of New Hampshire, died over the weekend at the age of 85.Sununu was married to former Gov. John H. Sununu for 65 years, and was mother to eight children, including current Gov. Chris Sununu, and former U.S. Senator...
Fact check: Sununu claims cyanobacteria are ‘not toxic’
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
While bloom notices piled up ahead of Labor Day weekend, Gov. Chris Sununu claimed at an Executive Council meeting held in Wakefield last week that cyanobacteria are “not toxic.” But scientists have found that cyanobacteria, especially blooms,...
In Franklin, council overrides Mayor’s veto with support for $6.8 million bond to repair Opera House
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Mackenna Trudel grew up on the stage of the Franklin Opera House to choruses of applause as the curtain closed on theater performances. Now the high school freshman is applauding the Franklin City Council after they voted in favor of a $6.8 million...
New Hampshire celebrates 150th resident-owned community, leading the nation in affordable homeownership
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
New Hampshire is known for many firsts: the first to declare independence from England, and its first-in-the-nation primary. New Hampshire is also the first state where residents of a manufactured housing community purchased their park, forming a...
Hometown Hero: Donating blood not once but 204 times (and counting)
By DAVID BROOKS
Over the past five decades, David Bugbee has been drained 20 times over.Not all at once, of course, but since Red Cross technicians have stuck a needle in his arm and removed a pint of his blood 204 times since he was a student in Manchester in the...
Mad scientists look for the solution to classroom fun
By GEOFF FORESTER and ARIANNA MacNEILL
For Meg Roby, summer must include one key element.“I love bubbles,” the Concord children’s library technician said, “and we can’t have a summer program without bubbles.”Recently, around 25 kids showed up at the library’s main branch on Green Street to...
‘If the right project comes along’: Some Concord city councilors still open to proposed housing development
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Jillian Andrews Dubois picked up her newspaper a few weeks ago and saw three side-by-side stories that painted a stark tableau.One described how average rents in the state continue to burden the average firefighter or retail worker, another explained...
As Warmington and Craig attack, Kiper hopes his ambiguity is an advantage
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Jon Kiper knows that when voters look at the ballot on Tuesday, they probably won’t recognize his name.He's held local office in his Seacoast town of 9,000 but he's not on people’s televisions in attack advertisements like his competitors. Unless they...
Aiming to overturn middle school location, first school board challenger candidate Andrew Winters emerges
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Andrew Winters knows that if he won a seat on the Concord School Board, he couldn’t single-handedly overturn its decision to move the middle school to the East Side of the city. But he wants to try.Like many fellow residents, he can’t see why the...
Hearing on Concord school board charter amendments set for Monday night
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The Concord School Board will hold a public hearing on two proposed amendments to the district charter Monday night that, if passed, could strip the board of some of its autonomy.The pair of proposed changes, brought on by a citizens’ petition that...
Force of nature: Bear Brook staff and volunteers team up to recover from storm
By RACHEL WACHMAN
When a winter storm tore through the region in April, it felled enough trees in Bear Brook Park that the last fallen trunks and branches were cleared from trails just in the past month.Some debris remains, pushed to the side of the trails and...
NH energy regulators are trying to change their rules. Advocates of all stripes are pushing back.
By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN
A group of unlikely allies are pushing back against a proposal that could limit participation in future cases before the New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission and make other changes to the agency’s proceedings.Critics say the commissioners are...
‘Assumed to be built out’: How a massive housing project hit a roadblock in Concord
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
When addressing the lack of housing in Concord, city officials often cite 3,000 units in the construction pipeline. Yet nearly a third of those come from a single project that the city manager and mayor now say they have no interest in seeing move...
Allenstown adds dumpster for drop-off recycling outside transfer station hours
By RACHEL WACHMAN
Beginning Sept. 9, residents of Allenstown will be able to drop off their recyclables at a dumpster located at Highway Garage in the front lot of the Allenstown Transfer Station, located at 161 Granite St., in addition to bringing recyclables to the...
Bow to host public session to improve cell service, potential cell tower sites identified
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
For years, Bow residents have wrestled with frustratingly poor cell service, but efforts to address the issue are gaining momentum as the town’s telecommunications committee prepares to host an informational session next week to outline progress and...
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