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By JAMES W. SPAIN II

“How soft the music of those village bells, falling at interval upon the ear in cadence sweet; now dying all away, now pealing loud again, and louder still, clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells where memory...

By CAROLE SOULE

What’s more fun than riding in a carriage pulled by a horse? How about a cart pulled by a Scottish Highland steer? Most people think horses are the only draft animals, but maybe they should think about it again. Something as insignificant as a...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — Gov. Chris Sununu was busy making the rounds this week, as he attended his final annual winter meeting of the Republican Governors Association after eight years steering New Hampshire.Sununu is in his final weeks of serving as...

By JAMES W. SPAIN II

There are times in life when practical decisions, decisions that seem quite simple, hold more value than realized at the onset. It was about seventy-five years ago when the Concord CityManager Brackett was reviewing opportunities to bring Concord...

By CAROLE SOULE

Two-month-old Scottish Highland steer Owen struggled against the lead rope. He pulled back, then leaped forward and followed with a flop. As he lay on the ground, his left eye peered balefully at me from between his shaggy bangs as if to say, “I don’t...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov.-elect Kelly Ayotte says that the transition process between her incoming administration and that of current Gov. Chris Sununu is underway.“We’ve already met several times,” Ayotte said from her transition office in Concord, just over a week after...

By JAMES W. SPAIN II

“We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.” – Winston ChurchillTravel back with me to the year 1959. We are together in a location commonly known as Railroad Square. A 25-acre parcel of land that has known a rich history, a history dating back...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Votes are still being counted in some states across the country, and some races have yet to be called in the 2024 election.But in New Hampshire, the campaign spotlight will quickly shift to the state’s 2026 Senate election, which will likely be one of...

By JAMES W. SPAIN II

“For any American who had the great privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories…. And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Former President Bill Clinton returned to New Hampshire days before the election to campaign on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris, Granite State Democratic gubernatorial nominee Joyce Craig, and down-ballot Democrats.The stop in Nashua by the...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With less than one week until Election Day, a new public opinion survey in swing state New Hampshire indicates Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris with a single-digit lead over former President Donald Trump, the Republican...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

President Joe Biden saying in Concord “we’ve got to lock him up” in reference to his former political rival sent shockwaves through the race for the White House.Speaking at a political gathering of supporters at the New Hampshire Democratic Party...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

After 50 years serving in New Hampshire’s government as a state representative, executive councilor, and state senator, Thursday was Sen. Lou D’Allesandro’s final day on the Senate floor in an active capacity, as senators voted on a series of vetoes...

By CAROLE SOULE

After 22 years raising cattle, you’d think I’d be unaffected by June, the friendly cow who walks over looking for scratches, or Tazzy, the grumpy mini-pig, grunting for dinner. But despite the years, the critters still pull on my heartstrings. I melt...

By JIM SPAIN

“Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its...

By ANN DAVIS

When he was four, when Eric Orff and his family lived in Oklahoma he spent as much time as he could outdoors – catching horned toads and tarantulas. “I knew that someday I would work with animals and become a biologist.”Later the Orffs moved to...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

One month out from Election Day on Nov. 5, the state of play in the 2024 race in New Hampshire remains – relatively stable.Public opinion polls suggest that Vice President Kamala Harris retains an upper single-digit lead over former President Donald...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

In the most competitive gubernatorial race in the country this year, New Hampshire Democratic nominee and former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig is getting plenty of help from her party.That helping hand from fellow Democrats could be crucial in Craig’s...

By JIM SPAIN

It was just 66 years ago in 1958 when a storm visited the coast of New Hampshire, a storm that rekindled memories of a Concord romance from well over a century before. It was on Jenness Beach in Rye, that this intense storm exposed the old...

By CAROLE SOULE

Yes, we’re selling our farm, Miles Smith Farm. In 1972, I married my first husband, who lived on this magical spot atop a hill. My second husband, Bruce Dawson, helped me transform the 1850s farmhouse, barn, and 27 acres into a working cattle farm...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Two new polls this week in New Hampshire, home to the only competitive gubernatorial election this year, indicate a close race in the battle to succeed popular Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.And the surveys suggest that former President Donald Trump’s...