Grappone Mazda moving back to Concord as electric-car changes loom

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

NH man who ran prostitution, drug operations gets 21 years

Associated Press

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire man convicted of sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes has been sentenced to 21 years in prison, authorities said. The U.S. attorney’s office in New Hampshire said Steven Tucker of Manchester was also ordered...

Chipmunk population boom is part of a natural cycle that you probably just have to live with

By DAVID BROOKS

No, you’re not imagining it: Chipmunks really are everywhere.“We have no formal monitoring of chipmunks,” said Matt Tarr, a wildlife biologist with UNH Extension, “But my observation and what I’m hearing from folks all over New Hampshire is: There’s a...

Dartmouth offers $5,000 to students to live off campus, ease dorm crunch

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

 Dartmouth College is prepared to spend up to $1 million in a one-time lottery to encourage as many as 200 returning students to live off campus next fall in order to ease a housing crunch for dorm rooms, according to an associate dean of residential...

A packed summer of theater

After a quiet eight months, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse’s campus sprung back into action on last week as the theatre company welcomed the technical team and actors who will be kicking off the 2021 season. And while the original 2020 season of shows...

Concord High School

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Rottweiler named Odin taken up Mount Washington had to be carried back down

By RAY DUCKLER

She bought the dog harness two years ago, unsure if she’d ever use it.But Jeannine Robbins of Thornton knew that it was a good idea, that someday she might need one for her golden retriever, Appa. She never figured, however, that the harness would be...

Rising liquor sales make the New Hampshire-Vermont border a booze battleground

By JOHN LIPPMAN

In July, a new 10,300-square-foot New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet will open in the Claremont Marketplace plaza on Washington Street, nearly doubling the space of its former store.Not everyone is raising a glass to toast the occasion.“That’s going...

Families of two Dartmouth students who died by suicide speak out, seek answers

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

Dartmouth College freshman Elizabeth Reimer received an email May 19 from an assistant dean warning her of a looming deadline for a non-recording grade option. The administrator explained that she could withdraw from the course, a first-year seminar,...

Power plant in Bow is now the only one in New England burning coal

It’s official: Bow has the last coal-burning power plant in New England.On Tuesday, Unit 3 of Bridgeport Harbor Station in Connecticut shut down, as has long been planned. The 400 MW unit had produced electricity by burning coal for 53 years but its...

For a Concord mother, Memorial Day is a time to remember son lost to suicide

By RAY DUCKLER

She sat in the grass and moved two fingers down the side of the granite marker, as though comforting her son with a gentle touch to his arm.She used the same care as she moved across the top of the gravestone, perhaps feeling his dark hair. Patricia...

Lincoln Financial buildings and 181 acres in Concord sold for $3.4M

By DAVID BROOKS

One of Concord’s largest commercial properties, 181 acres around two office buildings once occupied by Lincoln Financial, has been sold to Brady Sullivan Properties.The site, off northern Rumford Street, was sold for a total of $3.4 million, according...

There are still New Hampshire homes that heat with coal. Yes, coal

By DAVID BROOKS

Coal, once the dominant fuel for heating buildings while driving industry in New England, has faded almost entirely from view. Julie Kinney can point to one remnant that she wishes would fade with it.“We have an ash pile right now. At some point we’ll...

Newspapers of New England announces leadership changes

Newspapers of New England, Inc., the family-owned parent company of the Concord Monitor, announced a series of leadership changes on Thursday.Current NNE president and CEO Aaron Julien will move into the role of chairman. He replaces longtime NNE...

Concord family accuses boarding school of failing to protect daughter from Leung sexual abuse

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A Concord family is accusing a private boarding school in Massachusetts of failing to protect their daughter, who they say was taken across state lines and sexually assaulted by former summer program director Howie Leung in 2015 and 2016.A lawsuit...

Police accuse Pembroke sex offender of failing to report online accounts

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH 

 A former Pembroke Academy student convicted of assaulting female classmates in 2019 has been arrested on charges of failing to properly register as a sex offender following an incident with a sixteen year old girl. Police say Griffin Furlotte had one...

Incarcerated men claim N.H. State Prisons to blame for Berlin outbreak

By PETER BIELLO

At the start of December of last year, there were no known cases of COVID-19 among the men incarcerated at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin. By Christmas, there were 84. The state Department of Corrections says it can’t...

Late-night fire in Pembroke is a nightmare

By RAY DUCKLER

First, at 11:05 p.m., their doorbell rang like crazy, in rapid-fire succession, suggesting something was wrong.Then came pounding on their front door, along with cries for a phone. Michelle and Michael Girard raced downstairs and opened the door,...

You can see farther from Mount Washington than in years past, study finds

By DAVID BROOKS

If your vehicle bears a “This Car Climbed Mount Washington” sticker, there’s a 60% chance that you were a little disappointed in the trip. That’s how often the summit is covered by clouds.But if you were there during the other 40% of the time, you...

12,500-year-old hunting camp in N.H. gets federal recognition

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire hunting camp that was used by people more than 12,000 years ago has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as an archaeological property.The eight-acre Potter Site in the North Country town of...