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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed a new law on Tuesday, dubbed the “parental bill of rights,” distrust in the public school system that’s been percolating for years culminated with full force.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hours after approving the defining hallmark of Frank Edelblut’s tenure as commissioner of the state Department of Education – universal access to Education Freedom Accounts – Gov. Kelly Ayotte nominated his successor.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law an expansion to New Hampshire’s school voucher program on Tuesday that removes the income eligibility restrictions that had defined the program during its first four years.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The New Hampshire Supreme Court decided wealthier towns can retain all their statewide education property tax payments instead of redistributing a portion to poorer towns, reversing a lower court’s decision that keeping the unused funds was unconstitutional.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Authorities have identified the driver of a Chevrolet pickup truck who died in a single-vehicle crash in Salisbury early Monday morning as Brian L. Young, 63, of Andover. 

By DAVID BROOKS

Just like you and me, Dean Rubine admits that he sometimes wastes time online.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord is prepared to spend $205,000 to clear and clean Healy Park, which for years has been the site of one of Concord’s larger homeless encampments.

By DAN ATTORRI

DURHAM – Ever since he was a freshman, Rio Calle had been thinking about the state’s long jump record. Set in 1998, it was one of just a few that had stood since the previous century. On his final jump, in the final meet of his high school career, Calle broke it.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The federal government is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two transgender high school athletes in New Hampshire, arguing that President Donald Trump’s executive order does not discriminate against them.

A Concord woman was carried off Mount Kearsarge on Sunday morning after injuring her leg.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in relation to a shooting that occurred at a homeless encampment under the Water St. Bridge in Concord on Saturday, June 7.

By DAVID BROOKS

Another weekend, another storm doing a number on town roads. Just ask Leo Aucoin.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Despite a consensus to build a new clubhouse at Beaver Meadow Golf Course, Concord City Councilors wondered whether the prolonged debate over this project had been productive or poisonous. 

By ALEXANDER RAPP

NASHUA – After three very tight quarters where Merrimack Valley dominated, but couldn’t pull away, senior Alyssa Brodeur fired a high, driven, fast and accurate shot into the top right of the goal from the right side edge of the 8-meter circle and put her team ahead 12-8 as the third quarter expired.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

LACONIA – Despite the weather improving for the second Division III girls’ lacrosse semifinal in at Bank of New Hampshire Stadium in Laconia, seven unanswered goals by the top-seeded St. Thomas Saints to start the second half shut the door on Bow in a hard-fought, but very difficult, semifinal for the Falcons.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

LACONIA – Senior attacker and captain Sydney Westover was emotional after her last game in a Hawks uniform. A big defeat in the Division III state semifinal was heartbreaking, but she knew that she, and the rest of her team, left it all out on the field. 

By KIERA McLAUGHLIN

Known as an expert seamstress at Peabody Place in Franklin, Shirley Mento continues to leave her mark on the residents, including those who came after she moved out.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Students fluttered about the library at Bishop Brady High School affixing their caps and gowns, taking selfies and hugging their friends.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At the tail end of Hopkinton’s graduating class filing into the Durgin Pulling Arena, Constantine Salce rolled in with a bright smile, his electric wheelchair carrying him into a well-earned moment of celebration.

By YAA BAME

As Yuhsien Wu-Riggs walked up to receive her Licensed Nursing Assistant certification, she raised the roof with a grin on her face.