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By CAROLE SOULE

Yes, I’m a cow flipper, not to be confused with a cow tipper. If you’ve watched Chip and Joanna Gaines on TV or read “The Magnolia Story,” you know what a house flipper is. Well, that’s what I do, except with cows. Chip and Joanna work to improve...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.One of the most famed naval battles of the Civil War involved a ship created in, and named for, the Granite State.The USS Kearsarge was built in the Portsmouth Naval...

By JAMES W. SPAIN

There have always been people in this world that care a great deal about the past as well as the future. Perhaps they do believe that without knowledge of the past we are doomed to repeat history for better or worse. While some people with particular...

By JAMES W. SPAIN

Sadness has a way of bringing people together. Regardless of the occasion, sadness does have the ability to bring like-minded people together in a group where we mourn as one. Such was the case back in 1941, with our country marching back into war....

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The real winner on Tuesday was the group of New Hampshire voters who made history.A record 323,166 votes were cast in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.Equally impressive, 121,152 votes were cast in the Democratic primary in a contest...

By JIM SPAIN

Back in the year 1835, our ancestors listened as the United States Government claimed President Andrew Jackson paid off all of the national debt for the first and only time. Our ancestors then learned of the first assassination attempt of a United...

By CAROLE SOULE

Pregnant Maybelle stood at the 500-pound hay bale, swinging her wide Highland horns at any 15 weaning calves who got too close to her feast. When we set out the calves’ grain, she hung back, but when we opened the gate, Maybelle moved in to clean up...

By ROB AZEVEDO

Washed out by 10 am after a morning of work-related lashings, I needed to get off the road, down an ice coffee and recenter myself.Pulling into the Dunkins on Manchester Street, I was certain the foot traffic inside would be light. I wanted that. No...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

How much Chris Christie’s 2024 exit is impacting the race for the Republican presidential nomination depends on where you are.On the day after he dropped out, the candidate who benefited most from the former New Jersey governor’s departure – former...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The pressure’s rising on Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie to drop out of the White House race ahead of the New Hampshire primary to give rival Nikki Haley a boost as she aims to close the gap with former President Donald Trump, the...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

A close friend of my wife and mine recently lost her partner of many years. He died of Alzheimer’s disease at a Concord, New Hampshire hospice facility.As readers will know, I write this column primarily for New Hampshire business owners but also for...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Tensions were high in colonial New Hampshire. A Portsmouth mob had forced the resignation of a British tax collector, the Townsend Acts were being debated among the colonies, disputes over New England timber were coming to a head, and discussions of...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With just a week and a half to go until the Iowa caucuses kick off the Republican presidential nominating calendar – followed eight days later by the New Hampshire primary – the verbal fireworks between the leading contenders are firing back and...

By JAMIE COSTA

Nine years ago, she was sent home before Christmas break, suspended by her principal for speaking out about a teacher’s unusual attention toward her classmates.Ana Goble, a 13-year-old Rundlett Middle School student at the time, was accused of...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

A month before the presidential primary, Nikki Haley is surging in New Hampshire and closing the gap between herself and front runner Donald TrumpGov. Chris Sununu, who endorsed Haley and barnstormed the state with the former South Carolina...

By RUTH SMITH

As the longest night of the year approaches, many of us spend more time outside in the dark. Walking from my car to the house after work and closing the chicken coop before dinner now occur long after sunset. On several recent evenings, I’ve...

By AMY FORTIER

Several dancers from Concord will join Ballet Misha’s cast of 130 as they take the stage for Ballet Misha’s 15th-anniversary production of “The Nutcracker,” which will be performed as part of the Dana Center for Arts and Humanities season at Saint...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Former President Donald Trump returns to New Hampshire next weekend, for his first campaign stop in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state in over a month.The former president will headline a rally at the Whittemore Center, which is the...

By ELLEN BURGER 

Christmas came early for The Community Players of Concord, N.H. Last year a very generous, anonymous donor came forward to assist the group in setting up an investment fund that will help to ensure the continued longevity of the nearly 100-year-old...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.Among the first acts of the American Revolution, the Raid on Fort William and Mary was a pivotal moment for the patriot cause. In the wake of the September 1774...