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The utility that owns Concord’s historic gasholder building will contribute nearly $2.4 million collected from customers toward its preservation and revitalization, making it much more likely that the iconic brick building will be spared from...

By DAVID BROOKS

The 2024 presidential primary might have been a low-key affair in many ways but that didn’t deter voters.More people cast votes in Tuesday’s Republican contest than in any previous presidential primary of either party in New Hampshire’s history.As of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Amid all the important items you’re keeping in mind as you vote today, things like the future of democracy in America, there are some not-quite-as-important items to also consider. Here are a fewVoting machinesIf your polling place uses a...

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In what appears to be the first case of a problem that experts have long feared, some voters have received robocalls that sound like President Biden telling them not to vote, a message that “appears to be artificially generated” and should be ignored,...

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Colebrook is a nice little town alongside the Connecticut River not far from Quebec that has about 2,000 residents. On April 8, however, it will be a nice little town of … well, nobody really knows.“Are we going to have 2,000 more people or 10,000?...

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The ongoing saga of a historical marker in Concord for labor activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn will return to court Wednesday for a hearing about whether the legal case should continue.A Merrimack County Superior Court judge is slated to hear arguments...

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If you’re going to hold a love-fest for the New Hampshire presidential primary, you couldn’t do much better than Wednesday night’s session at St. Anselm College.For 90 minutes John Lynch, a Democrat, and John Sununu Sr., a Republican, who between them...

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A man described as an experienced New Hampshire hiker died this week near Mount Bond, apparently the victim of brutal winter weather that delayed efforts to retrieve his body.According to New Hampshire Fish and Game, the deceased was Christopher Roma,...

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About one-fifth of potential voters in next week’s presidential primary weren’t here in 2020 or couldn’t vote in the last primary, according to a UNH study, reflecting the fact that while New Hampshire’s population isn’t growing very fast, it is...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire got a typical winter snowstorm Tuesday, complete with school cancellations and slick roads, which isn’t all that typical any more.Most of the state saw snow falling from dawn to dusk in a storm that lasted longer than had been...

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As mythological metaphors go, the one that SNHU Professor David Humphreys gave during a recent talk about the eruption of technologies known as artificial intelligence wasn’t terribly reassuring.“We’ve opened a Pandora’s box,” he told two dozen...

By DAVID BROOKS

There won’t be many changes in the way New Hampshire’s polling places are run during the Jan. 23 presidential primary compared to past elections, although there will be one interesting difference: You don’t have reason to go topless anymore.In a...

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Robert Thorson, a professor of Earth sciences at the University of Connecticut, has been thinking for many years about stone walls, those iconic structures that fill the woods of New England. This thinking has led him to what sounds like a ridiculous...

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Back in December I was clinging to hope – irrationally, but isn’t all hope irrational at heart? – that we would dodge the winter COVID surge. No such luck.As of Thursday, the New Hampshire Hospital Association says more people are in its beds with...

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When you talk to old-time New Hampshire folks about “that funny guy who used to do the weather on TV,” there’s a split. In the southern part of the state, they’ll probably think of Al Kaprielian from WNDS but in the northern part, it’s “Marty On The...

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It’s been a while coming but a real New England snowstorm is expected this weekend, with between 6 inches and a foot likely to fall in much of the state before things wind up Sunday evening.Although the storm is moving up the East Coast in typical...

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Canterbury won’t be deciding whether to withdraw from the two-town Shaker Regional School District this year, following the state Board of Education’s rejection of a request to put the issue before voters.The five-person state board rejected the...

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The financial benefit seen by communities who are part of the Community Power Coalition will be reduced this year because all New Hampshire utilities have cut their electric rates.Things are different, however, for four towns that are doing community...

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Voting will be a lot more colorful in New Hampshire’s presidential primary this year, and we’re not talking about candidates’ behavior.The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has chosen three designs for the “I Voted” stickers given to people...

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New England’s wild turkey population seems to have avoided the population declines that are being seen in other parts of the country, and officials are asking for some citizen science help this winter to confirm our status.“We have not been...