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One of the state’s biggest developers has begun the process of turning the dilapidated Department of Transportation site on Stickney Avenue into housing, although it is yet to be decided how many units might be involved, how existing buildings may be...

By DAVID BROOKS

For most of January, New England has been reliving a piece of our past. Unfortunately, it’s a smoggy, polluting piece.During the recent cold snap, more than a tenth of the electricity generated in New England has been produced by power plants that are...

By DAVID BROOKS

The Bath & Body Works store at Steeplegate Mall will close Saturday, leaving the mall with fewer than 10 occupied storefronts of the 60 it was built to hold.The closing comes as Bath & Body Works has shut a few of its roughly 1,700 stores in Canada...

By DAVID BROOKS

Far too often, a detailed analysis of any question produces the highly unsatisfying answer of “it depends.” So I’m delighted to say that today’s column comes down 100% on one side of this question:Do you really save energy by turning the thermostat...

By DAVID BROOKS

After 20 years, Contoocook Covered Bridge Restaurant is closing as its owner retires, but the site should be reborn this summer as a new restaurant.The decision to close the restaurant overlooking the Contoocook Railroad covered bridge stems from...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the longest-running transportation debates in New Hampshire, whether to bring passenger rail back up the Merrimack River Valley, has been rejuvenated by potential funding from the new federal infrastructure bill.A public information hearing has...

By DAVID BROOKS

Long before “River Dave” there was The Taylor Pond Hermit.Like David Lidstone, who lived alone in a cabin in the Canterbury woods for 27 years but was known to many people in the area, Perley Swett lived alone in a cabin in the town of Stoddard but...

By DAVID BROOKS

New data from the 2020 census shows that the section of Concord that includes the area known as The Heights is one of the state’s most racially diverse neighborhoods. Except for Hanover/Lebanon, it is the only area north of Manchester with the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Clough State Park, off-road trails in the Hopkinton-Everett System and the beach at Elm Brook Park have been temporarily closed by rising waters which are being held back by the Hopkinton and Everett dams to prevent downstream flooding.A week of heavy...

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

By DAVID BROOKS

No, you’re not imagining it: Chipmunks really are everywhere.“We have no formal monitoring of chipmunks,” said Matt Tarr, a wildlife biologist with UNH Extension, “But my observation and what I’m hearing from folks all over New Hampshire is: There’s a...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of Concord’s largest commercial properties, 181 acres around two office buildings once occupied by Lincoln Financial, has been sold to Brady Sullivan Properties.The site, off northern Rumford Street, was sold for a total of $3.4 million, according...

By DAVID BROOKS

If your vehicle bears a “This Car Climbed Mount Washington” sticker, there’s a 60% chance that you were a little disappointed in the trip. That’s how often the summit is covered by clouds.But if you were there during the other 40% of the time, you...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire hunting camp that was used by people more than 12,000 years ago has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as an archaeological property.The eight-acre Potter Site in the North Country town of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Farming livestock is a good way to celebrate life but it also requires dealing with death. That can be a problem for small-scale and beginning farmers, including the many people who decided to start raising chickens during the pandemic.“There’s a...

By DAVID BROOKS

Passenger rail up to Concord is part of a wish-list map of new and improved routes issued by Amtrak in response to President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan.The map, titled “A vision to grow rail service across America,” includes new service from...

By DAVID BROOKS

Six people, including a novelty candidate for governor, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire on charges of participating in a conspiracy to launder money using virtual currency such as bitcoin.The group operated a business...

By DAVID BROOKS

The huge, struggling company that owns Pleasant View and Pleasant View Retirement homes in Concord is preparing to sell control of 51 of its facilities around the country, including three in New Hampshire.Concord’s Pleasant View nursing home and...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has a lot of farms – an estimated 4,100 of them – but most are small and don’t come close to being able to support a family.That’s the conclusion of the latest National Agriculture Statistics Service estimate for New England, which is...

By DAVID BROOKS

The irony is painful: On the year that it would have celebrated its 100th anniversary, Camp Spaulding is shut for good and up for sale.The financial strain of running the 57-acre summer camp at the intersection of Bog and River roads in Concord as a...