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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A card game helped put things in perspective for Finan Murphy.As he sat in a church in Concord, where residents at Family Promise’s emergency shelter stayed the night, and played a game against one of the teenagers living there at the time, he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Matty Gregg’s story started with a movie and a bet.The 1983 film, The Terry Fox Story, chronicled 22-year-old Canadian Terry Fox as he attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research after he lost his right leg to osteosarcoma.He...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Desiree McLaughlin hoped that five words on a yellow sign would sway voters: “Save our tax cap Franklin.” Instead, a slip of paper will determine who fills one of three open seats on Franklin’s city council, each for a three year term, after a race in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

To help pay their tax bill, the second floor of John and Meredith Lunn’s Newport home is now a 600-square-foot apartment. Any source of income helps when they’re trying to pay an annual tax bill that only seems to grow year to year.In 2023, that bill...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Lochan Sharma has faint memories of Nepal. He knows he used to run in the halls of the school his dad worked at and that he was enrolled in classes quite young. His family helps him stitch together the fabric of the life he left – his sister reminds...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Bruce Marshall adores Franklin so much that he said he wants his ashes scattered there. Sam Jacobson said he wants a city where he can live and play.As a result, the two men changed their legal domiciles to the state’s smallest city to run for...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Heather Otten never thought she’d be a homeowner.When she moved into a single-wide manufactured house in Warner, she was 20 years old with no credit, a newborn and her second child on the way.Now, 14 years later, she’s a partial owner of the 33-home...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chances are when most people walk by Brothers Donuts on Central Street in Franklin, the longstanding shop is closed. Owner Malverino Rizzo hoped to capitalize on inquiring minds who walk by after hours with two long decals in the window displaying a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Editor’s note: Ahead of Sunday’s Multicultural Festival, the Monitor will highlight individuals and organizations that make Concord a more welcoming and inclusive community in a series of stories called “Welcome to Concord.”As Karma Gonpo walked the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ashley Miller loves to tell visitors about Marilla Ricker when they walk into the State Archives. Years before women had the right to vote, Ricker demanded her name be on New Hampshire ballots.She was the first female lawyer in the state and demanded...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dennis Jakubowski put on his washed green hat, stitched with a white peace sign, and headed to the Loudon polls Tuesday morning. Jakubowski, 70, hoped he could sway his neighbors to vote down ballot Democrat. In a narrowly divided legislature, every...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mackenna Trudel grew up on the stage of the Franklin Opera House to choruses of applause as the curtain closed on theater performances. Now the high school freshman is applauding the Franklin City Council after they voted in favor of a $6.8 million...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire is known for many firsts: the first to declare independence from England, and its first-in-the-nation primary. New Hampshire is also the first state where residents of a manufactured housing community purchased their park, forming a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the bottom corner of campaign signs speckled on green front lawns, a white outline of the state is accompanied by the lettering “printed in New Hampshire.”It’s a small marker that Keystone Press in Manchester puts on signs for races up and down the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelly Ayotte doesn’t want to “Mass Up New Hampshire” but she does want her message to hit all channels ahead of the primary.Her opponent, Chuck Morse, also followed suit. Ahead of the primary for New Hampshire’s corner office, the two Republican...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jon Kiper knows that when voters look at the ballot on Tuesday, they probably won’t recognize his name.He's held local office in his Seacoast town of 9,000 but he's not on people’s televisions in attack advertisements like his competitors. Unless they...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Sumana Anand didn’t know much about Kelly Ayotte or Chuck Morse when she took her seat in the auditorium of New England College.The 17-year-old student from Derry kicked off her freshman year by attending her first candidate debate just before she...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In response to a shooting where four people were killed at a high school in Georgia – Lily Tang Williams cited her endorsement from 18 local gun shops and said gun-free zones can cost lives. She wants more Americans to arm themselves, which is their...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Clement Kigugu gets the same question over and over ahead of an election – “Who should I vote for?”While he doesn’t give New Americans any political advice, he has an answer for almost every other question ahead of an election.In the days leading up...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Cassandra Sanchez’s visit to a Tennessee facility last year raised an alarm for the New Hampshire child advocate.One of the children held at the facility told her he had one goal: to do “whatever it takes” to return to the Granite State.A new law,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As Scott Royce walked the halls of his apartment, bed bugs crawled up and down the walls, speckled his front door and crept around his to neighbor’s entryway.These days, his grocery bags have been filled with pesticides. He sprayed along his door...