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New law to make follow-up breast cancer screenings covered by insurance
By RACHEL WACHMAN
When Carrie Becker received abnormal results back from her yearly mammogram, she underwent a series of tests. Three biopsies, three ultrasounds, three mammograms and one MRI later, she learned what the tests had confirmed: she had breast cancer.While...
Despite directive from the state, towns unlawfully took property during pandemic for unpaid taxes, records show
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
While the need to add housing across the state dominated Gov. Chis Sununu’s speeches during his four terms in office, little was said about those who lost their homes during his administration.During the pandemic, 240 homeowners had their properties...
With high property tax burden, lawmakers look to alleviate costs
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Sanjeev Manohar had never knocked on a door asking people to vote for him before. So as he hit one after the other in Nashua during his campaign for state representative, he had a policy pitch prepared. He’d champion women’s rights if he was elected...
As rates of homelessness grow, local response continues to evolve in 2025
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
On a February afternoon, Rebecca Carlman stood in a parking lot off of Storrs Street and passed out blankets from the trunk of her car to people experiencing homelessness. She’d been there herself a few years prior and decided to give donations to...
Family of 4 that died Christmas Day at NH home ID’d
By NICK PERRY
MEREDITH — A Massachusetts couple and their two daughters were identified by authorities Friday as the victims of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after they were found dead at their lake house in New Hampshire on Christmas Day.Matthew Goldstein,...
Local artisans share what creating means to them
By JAMES RINKER
Donni Webber grew up in South Africa and has traveled around the world. However, she said the way she’s experienced creativity in the Monadnock Region is like no other place she’s seen.“Creativity is a way of life here,” the Dublin resident said....
Shaheen & Gordon squabbles with two other firms over attorneys fees in YDC abuse cases
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A prominent Concord law firm is locked in a legal dispute with two other firms over how profits earned through the lucrative representation of Youth Development Center victims should be dispersed.The two firms are accusing Shaheen & Gordon of...
Man dies in Bradford house fire hours after reported mental health crisis
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A man died in a house fire in Bradford on Thursday evening, hours after police responded to the home because a person inside was experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a statement from the Office of the State Fire Marshal.Bradford police...
Update: Plant manager hopes to rebuild Beau-Trusses within a year
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A manufacturing building in Boscawen collapsed Thursday afternoon in what employees reported as an electrical fire. Boscawen Fire initially responded around 3:15 p.m. to Beau-Trusses, a wood framing company just off Route 3. The fire began in the...
A look ahead to 2025: How will school funding issues play out in the new year?
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
The first major school funding battle of 2025 will come just four days into the new year when residents of the Kearsarge Regional School District gather at their high school to vote on a proposed school budget cap.The frustration that fomented...
‘Already behind again’: A Boscawen homeowner narrowly avoided losing her house to unpaid taxes. She expects her plight to continue.
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Marilyn Lara had been there before.She was homeless when she moved into her manufactured house in Boscawen in 2011. Earlier this year she feared she’d be back out on the street again.She’d fallen behind on her tax bill and at the end of March and the...
First lights of Menorah outside State House lit Wednesday
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
With the help of a basket lift, the first lanterns on a large menorah outside the State House were lit Wednesday afternoon in celebration the first night of Hanukkah. At a ceremony in the State House courtyard led by Chabad Lubavitch of New Hampshire,...
Conway village officials hail dissolution, with cake and a warning
By DAYMOND STEER
Conway Village officials expressed optimism about the village’s future at their final meeting before the 118-year-old district dissolves Jan. 1.It ended with a celebratory cake.However, one commissioner urged the public to be vigilant in protecting...
Allenstown continues to weigh fate of elementary school building
By RACHEL WACHMAN
Allenstown officials weighing whether or not the town can afford to purchase, maintain, and potentially renovate the former elementary school have a new concern that if they don’t, it could be turned into a charter school.The town is considering...
Pembroke voters rejected a $3 million school budget hike last year. What has that meant for students and teachers this year?
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Pembroke Academy Spanish teacher Reilly Paquin’s grade book is filling up fast.Halfway through the school year, the tenth-year teacher has resorted to providing written rather than verbal feedback at least a dozen more times than she ordinarily would...
Accessibility and inclusion: Outdoor access, inclusive language, transportation, housing, special education, are 2025 priorities
By RACHEL WACHMAN
When disability rights advocate Mark Race drives around Concord and its surrounding towns, he wonders how many of the new homes and apartments being constructed are designed with accessibility in mind. Likely not many, Race estimates. The Loudon...
Family-run tiny home company coming to Suncook Village
By RACHEL WACHMAN
When Jessica and Mark Stevenson sought to build an accessory dwelling unit on their property for Mark’s mother, who had been living in their home, they encountered a series of logistical steps to follow for town approval of the structure.With...
Amid holiday cheer, Kearsarge residents look toward school budget cap vote with worry
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
As Michael Simon departed Cafe One East in downtown Warner on a frigid afternoon before Christmas, he was already looking past the holidays and toward the new year with trepidation.On the first Saturday of January, residents of the Kearsarge Regional...
A look ahead to 2025: What’s in store for the next legislative session
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
With a new Republican governor and expanded majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, conservatives in the State House will have the chance to deliver on long-sought-after priorities in 2025.While conversations around education and the...
Granite Geek: With Santa on your side, no physics-denying crank has a chance!
By DAVID BROOKS
There’s a standard way to shut down physics cranks who say they’ve disproved Einstein – for some reason, cranks never “disprove” scientists who aren’t famous – and that’s to point to your GPS.The satellite system for tracking our location on Earth...
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