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By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Chris Sununu has been saying for months that the field in the Republican presidential nomination race needs to winnow down.“If you don’t make the first couple of debates, then you probably have to have a tough conversation and get out of the...

By CAROLE SOULE

A business of any size needs good middle managers, and here at Miles Smith Farm, we have a donkey who has promoted herself to "Learning Barn supervisor." She leads a crew of adopted critters who act as farm ambassadors. Because of their small size and...

By HENRY HOMEYER

Fall is a good time to prune deciduous trees and shrubs. Once the leaves have dropped you can see the form – and the clutter – and decide what to take out. But before you begin, think about sharpening up your pruning tools, replacing blades, or buying...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Former President Donald Trump remains the commanding Republican front-runner, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has surged to second place with room to grow, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis failed to resonate in the Granite State.Those are the...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

As New Hampshire business owners will know, in 2021, Congress enacted a new statute, called the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) that, beginning on January 1, 2024, will impose strict new reporting requirements on almost all New Hampshire...

By CAROLE SOULE

The big, shaggy Highland cow darted across Route 106 as I watched, stunned, on the roadside. Truck brakes screeched as the 16-wheeler slowed just enough for the cow to reach the roadside. It was 2009, and this was the second time within moments that...

By JAMES SPAIN

The citizens of Concord have always held the sanctity of trees very close to their hearts. When the first unpaved streets were established, there was much discourse to travel the roads with the blaring sun of summer, frozen earth so bumpy to each...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The Republican National Committee is warning New Hampshire not to move up the date of their first-in-the-nation presidential primary.The RNC’s debate committee decided during a Thursday conference call to issue a warning that it will pull a planned...

By HENRY HOMEYER

I’m lucky. Unlike many houses built in the 1800s or early 1900s, mine had no invasive plants when I bought it in 1970, probably because it was built as a Creamery, or butter factory. Decorative plants were not needed. Most older houses are plagued...

By Ralph Jimenez

After years of living in the woods, my wife, Linda, confronts most wildlife situations with equanimity. “There are animals fighting under the washing machine,” she said one week or so ago. That, of course, is far preferable to having animals fighting...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

As I wrote in my previous column in this newspaper, under the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”), New Hampshire companies formed on or after January 1, 2024 must file with the U.S. Treasury Department detailed reports about, among other things,...

By CAROLE SOULE

“Look, he’s happy. He’s wagging his tail,” said a visitorI watched as Titan, a 200-pound Belted Galloway steer, swished his tail. Titan had arrived at my farm with five other Belted Galloway calves a week earlier. These calves had just been taken from...

By HENRY HOMEYER

As a Certified Senior Citizen, I sometimes wonder if I am too ambitious in my garden. I have about an acre of gardens with 200 or more kinds of flowers and a good-size vegetable garden. These gardens please me greatly, and I visit them daily all year,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

New Hampshire’s top election official says no legal basis exists to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the Republican presidential primary.At a news conference Wednesday at the State House in Concord, Secretary of State Dave...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley appears to be on to something.The former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as ambassador to the United Nations in then-President Donald Trump’s administration has seen the size of her...

By JIM SPAIN

Gather your thoughts and your belongings and join me as I travel back to a simple time. A time when the value of a silver dollar was appreciated and the opportunity to spend your silver dollar frugally down on Main Street in Concord was embraced.It...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

As I wrote in my column last week in this newspaper, under the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”), New Hampshire companies formed on or after January 1, 2024 must file with the U.S. Treasury Department detailed reports about, among other things,...

By CAROLE SOULE

Last week, I shared a story about Mr. Devon, a calf whose weaning had gone sideways. He had an extreme and possibly deadly case of scours (calf diarrhea), and every treatment we tried failed. He’s the only one of the Devon breed of beef cattle on...

By HENRY HOMEYER

I love to cook, and I love to eat. I got started gardening in the vegetable garden more than 70 years ago, in part, because everyone I knew loved to eat homegrown vegetables – raw in the garden, fresh in the kitchen, or cooked for dinner. I’d pull a...

By ASHLEY MILLER

In the New Hampshire State Archives, two copper plates tell the story of a struggle for dominance between two European superpowers. Seldom discussed, King George’s War involved much of New England. The war primarily took place in the British provinces...