2020 New Hampshire Retirement System pension search

This searchable database shows the pensions above $50,000 paid out in 2020 from the New Hampshire Retirement System.An analysis of the highest payouts to retired workers shows that 93 percent of the retirees who collected a pension greater than...

2020 City of Concord payroll search

This searchable database shows the salaries and overtime earnings of Concord city employees for calendar year 2020.The City of Concord’s top-paid employee, as usual, is city manager Tom Aspell, who earned $210,815 in 2020.Overall, the city spend $34.8...

Keene group indicted on charges of money laundering via bitcoin

By DAVID BROOKS

Six people, including a novelty candidate for governor, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire on charges of participating in a conspiracy to launder money using virtual currency such as bitcoin.The group operated a business...

House & Home: A Greenfield house built out of straw

By TIM GOODWIN

The Big Bad Wolf might have been able to blow down the straw house of The Three Little Pigs, but the same result isn’t likely if he huffed and puffed at the front door of Laura Tashjian’s Greenfield home.It was back in 2009 when Tashjian finally...

Firm that owns Pleasant View nursing and retirement homes makes huge restructuring; status of Concord sites unclear

By DAVID BROOKS

The huge, struggling company that owns Pleasant View and Pleasant View Retirement homes in Concord is preparing to sell control of 51 of its facilities around the country, including three in New Hampshire.Concord’s Pleasant View nursing home and...

Number of New Hampshire farms remains steady but fewer acres are used for agriculture

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has a lot of farms – an estimated 4,100 of them – but most are small and don’t come close to being able to support a family.That’s the conclusion of the latest National Agriculture Statistics Service estimate for New England, which is...

Tiny house law proposed in N.H.

By ANNA BROWN

The New Hampshire House is considering a bill that would require towns to allow “tiny houses” alongside single-family homes.Supporters envision a future where tiny house aficionados flock to New Hampshire, bolstering our workforce. Opponents are...

N.H. lawmakers debate banning schools from teaching about systemic racism and sexism

By EILEEN O’GRADY

New Hampshire lawmakers are debating a bill that would prevent educators from teaching about systemic racism and sexism in public schools and state-funded programs. HB 544, titled an act “relative to the propagation of divisive topics,” seeks to limit...

Law in the Marketplace: Inside the uncertain I&D Tax

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

Although New Hampshire boasts that, unlike most other states, it imposes no state income tax on its residents, it does impose an income tax on New Hampshire business owners, and it’s a significant one – namely, the New Hampshire Interest and Dividends...

Jube Savage and Titus Wilson were Black Revolutionary War soldiers with ties to the Monadnock region

By ABBE HAMILTON

In October 1792, the Temple town fathers met to address a frightening development in the town, Monadnock Center for History and Culture Executive Director Michelle Stahl said. “Smallpox had broken out in a community that had grown up around the site...

Former Concord High teacher charged with child sex crimes

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A Concord High School teacher was arrested Thursday after police say he solicited sexual activity from a minor in exchange for money, and obtained images depicting child sexual abuse.Joshua Harwood, 36, of Manchester, who taught business at Concord...

New chapter for iconic Pickity Place tree

By ASHLEY SAARI

Mason landmark Pickity Place is, quite literally, a storybook setting, as its cozy cottage and iconic gnarled white ash tree were once immortalized as illustrations in the Little Golden Book version of “Little Red Riding Hood.” That  made it all the...

All school employees and volunteers required to undergo background checks, training

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Every employee, volunteer or independent contractor who works with the Concord School District will be required to undergo a criminal background check and do training in child abuse prevention, according to a recently-updated policy.At the monthly...

Competition conquers: After 100 years, Camp Spaulding in Concord closes doors and is up for sale

By DAVID BROOKS

The irony is painful: On the year that it would have celebrated its 100th anniversary, Camp Spaulding is shut for good and up for sale.The financial strain of running the 57-acre summer camp at the intersection of Bog and River roads in Concord as a...

From meeting Christa McAuliffe as a boy, Gov. Chris Sununu recalls her inspiration

By ETHAN DeWITT

As a boy, Chris Sununu traveled down to down at Cape Canaveral with his father to watch the Challenger take off in person. But then the weather intervened.Sununu, a fifth-grader back in January 1986, went to Florida for the weekend with his father,...

Dartmouth professors recall slain colleagues 20 years after their murder

Friends and former colleagues of Half and Susanne Zantop lit candles and lay flowers at a garden named for the couple to honor their memory on Wednesday, 20 years to the day since the two Dartmouth College professors were murdered in their Etna...

The age-old game of marbles

By JAMES W. SPAIN

Many of our ancestors arrived from overseas with little more than the clothes on their backs and a dream under their hat. The immigrants arrived from across the ocean carrying their worldly possessions in a canvas sack and a scant few items in their...

Assessing the state of skiing at three slopes

By RICK GREEN

Many things are different at New Hampshire ski areas this year, but the feel and sound of carved turns, the breathtaking view and the fresh mountain air are as good as ever.This month, I skied at Gunstock, Ragged Mountain and Waterville Valley to get...

The tattoo on her arm said it all: Grace Orzechowski was a fighter

By RAY DUCKLER

She called herself a “fighter,” tattooing the scripted word, in black ink, onto her inner forearm while fighting for her life.Her family used the verb “pivot” again and again to describe her adaptability, explaining that Grace Orzechowski absorbed the...

A healing relationship for old dogs and humans

By GEOFF FORESTER and JONATHAN VAN FLEET

Sweet Loretta already lived a long life and needed a soft couch to lay her head. She was old, about 11, and her owner had passed away. The black and white boxer mix required medical care for arthritis and allergies, and surgery to remove a lump under...