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By KIERA McLAUGHLIN

Concord Arts Market will host their second monthly Arts in the Park event on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Rollins Park. 

By MANDY TIRRELL

Dear Gov. Ayotte: I am a mother of three grown children and a veteran high school English teacher.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The University of New Hampshire has opted into the House v. NCAA settlement, which will allow universities to pay their athletes directly, marking a new era for collegiate athletics as it moves further away from amateurism.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Medicaid cuts at the state and federal levels have providers across New Hampshire concerned and searching for ways to cushion the impact on the state’s residents.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The state’s $16 billion budget confirms something Concord officials had long dreaded: no state aid for school building projects will be coming to the city for at least the next two years.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A fire destroyed a garage in Webster on Monday night and spread to another structure on the same property.

By REBECA PEREIRA

A Franklin man willingly surrendered a knife to Canterbury Police and was admitted to the Riverbend Community Mental Health facility in Concord on Monday following a multi-department effort to locate him.

The next exhibition at Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton is a solo show of the work of Sandy Steen Bartholomew, an artist who celebrates the imaginative, neurodivergent mind through whimsical creatures, playful stories, and unconventional materials.

By BRENDAN WILLIAMS

In a feat of alchemy, the U.S. Senate managed to turn the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed in the U.S. House and was already laden with terrible policies, into something far more terrible.

By DAVID BROOKS

Bad for strawberries, good for blueberries and raspberries. In a nutshell, that’s the effect of recent weather on New Hampshire’s pick-your-own scene.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A red-listed bridge on Page Road in Bow is scheduled to undergo crucial repairs in the coming weeks that will reroute traffic through the area for about four months.

A dump truck was towed from South Main St. in Concord on Monday morning after it was involved in an accident near the entrance of I-93 North.

By BRENDILOU ARMSTRONG

Decades after a Concord artist painted a portrait of Daniel Webster, the work has returned to the childhood home of the prolific 19th-century statesman and lawyer, where the Franklin Historical Society will work to preserve it.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Want to attend a private four-year college for $10,000 a year? If you graduate from any of 13 area high schools, now you can.

A 25-year-old Franklin man died in an ATV crash in Sanbornton on Sunday, according to authorities.

The NH Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the state must increase education adequacy payments (Monitor, July 1), but in so doing has provided no specific dollar amount or strict timetable for the legislature to act. It feels like back to the future — a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs (again) but a ruling with no teeth (again). This is not Groundhog Day. It is Groundhog Decade.

President Trump is reported to have told Congress to ignore the national debt and conclude the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The spending bill would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Currently the national debt stands at $36 trillion and costs us $1 trillion a year just to service that debt. That is 16% of total budget. Any increase in the debt means more even higher debt cost.

Pew Research Center estimates that 85% of white evangelical Protestants vote Republican and 75 % Latter-day Saints vote Republican. Christian Nationalism is a political ideology that advocates for national policies that are based on Christianity and Christian values. There appears to be a connection with white nationalism. Both the evangelical and Mormon denominations are predominately white.

Regarding James Mayotte’s letter “Peaceful Protests,” (July 1), I do wish that all peaceful protest remained peaceful. However, If I were being grabbed off the street by armed masked people who would not identify themselves, say where they were taking me, or letting me contact family, I might be grateful if passerbys intervened.

“This bill is a farce” – Senator Angus King (I - ME). “Imagine a bunch of guys sitting around a table saying, ‘I’ve got a great idea. Let’s give $32,000 worth of tax breaks to a millionaire and we’ll pay for it by taking health insurance away from lower-income and middle-income people. And to top it off, how about we cut food stamps, we cut SNAP, we cut food aid to people?’... I’ve been in this business of public policy now for 20 years, eight years as governor, 12 years in the United States Senate. I have never seen a bill this bad. I have never seen a bill that is this irresponsible, regressive, and downright cruel.”