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The Merrimack Valley School District exceeded its approved budget by more than $2 million last school year, the superintendent acknowledged this week, more than two months after district administrators became aware of the full extent of the shortfall.

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Concord mother Wendy Santiago said that when her son, Noah, attended a public charter school in the area, he sometimes came home with ripped pants and injuries from bullying.

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The police response to a pro-Palestine protest at the University of New Hampshire last spring that ended in a dozen arrests likely violated students’ free speech rights and should be investigated by an independent body, a university working group concluded this week.

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Epsom voters will decide in March whether to approve a proposed cap that would likely reduce the school district’s budget by about 10%.

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The former chief of the Hancock Police Department will avoid jail time for repeatedly claiming to have been working in Hancock and Richmond simultaneously, according to terms of a plea agreement reached in Merrimack County Superior Court on Tuesday.

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A Concord police officer was found not guilty Friday on charges he assaulted a drunk homeless man outside Sal’s Pizza while attempting to place him into protective custody.

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A Concord police officer on unpaid leave testified that he followed his training when he knocked a resistant homeless man to the ground while attempting to take him into protective custody in April 2023.

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A former employee of Sal’s Pizza said she thought an on-duty Concord police officer was going to kill a homeless man when she witnessed him push the man to the ground outside the Storrs Street restaurant in April 2023.

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The town of Boscawen is currently without representation on the Merrimack Valley School Board after both members from the town resigned in the last three months.Loren Martin stepped down on Sunday due to what board Chair Tracy Bricchi described as...

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Merrimack Valley High School senior Alison Lamontagne’s first foray into New Hampshire’s All-State Music Festival came not as a trumpeter, but rather as a vocalist.“When I was in eighth grade, I was approached by my band director and he heard me sing...

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Longtime University of New Hampshire Police Chief Paul Dean, under scrutiny for his role in the response to a pro-Palestine protest last May, will leave the university to become incoming Governor Kelly Ayotte’s director of citizen services.The...

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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include comments from Concord Mayor Byron Champlin.Late last month, a leader in New Hampshire’s Jewish community reached out to Concord staff to express concern about a description on a little-known...

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More than 1,400 residents flooded Kearsarge Regional High School on Saturday morning to prevent their school district from becoming the next Croydon or Pembroke. In a show of rousing support for public education, voters soundly defeated a proposal...

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A school bus company employee says she was fired for speaking up about safety issues on Kearsarge Regional and Manchester School District buses, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last month.Alison Jones, a corporate employee at the bus...

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In February 1975, two months after Jimmy Carter announced he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination, he arrived at the aptly-named Carter Hill Road home of Concord Monitor editor Thomas W. Gerber for an informal gathering.The hill Carter...

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A prominent Concord law firm is locked in a legal dispute with two other firms over how profits earned through the lucrative representation of Youth Development Center victims should be dispersed.The two firms are accusing Shaheen & Gordon of...

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A man died in a house fire in Bradford on Thursday evening, hours after police responded to the home because a person inside was experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a statement from the Office of the State Fire Marshal.Bradford police...

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The first major school funding battle of 2025 will come just four days into the new year when residents of the Kearsarge Regional School District gather at their high school to vote on a proposed school budget cap.The frustration that fomented...

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Pembroke Academy Spanish teacher Reilly Paquin’s grade book is filling up fast.Halfway through the school year, the tenth-year teacher has resorted to providing written rather than verbal feedback at least a dozen more times than she ordinarily would...

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As Michael Simon departed Cafe One East in downtown Warner on a frigid afternoon before Christmas, he was already looking past the holidays and toward the new year with trepidation.On the first Saturday of January, residents of the Kearsarge Regional...

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As the Challenger launch date approached in January 1986, sixth-grader Kim Bleier rushed home from the Conant School each afternoon to catch the latest news on television, captivated by a mission that was set to make Concord High School social studies...