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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
With 153 apartments, a gym, common spaces, a hairdresser and a brewery, Stevens Mills in Franklin is akin to a college campus to Elizabeth Stewart, the property manager. The shuttered mills off Central Street downtown are now transformed into a...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
New Hampshire’s gubernatorial candidates are in agreement with voters: housing in the state is at a crisis point.To Cinde Warmington, the lone Democrat on the Executive Council, there’s one person to blame for the current state of affairs: Governor...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
With the need for housing dire, Concord is expected to see a new casino built on land that was once eyed for a multifamily development.The Flatley Company folded on talks for a project in East Concord in 2021 in favor of a different opportunity...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A Massachusetts developer has pulled out of a project that was set to bring 98 housing units to East Concord on Old Loudon Road.The project, which had been in the works for over a year, received conditional Planning Board approval. With high...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
If Freeman Toth had a wishlist to address homelessness, he’d ask for more permanent supportive housing, rent control, better access to voucher programs and outreach from community mental health centers.To solve homelessness in the state, New Hampshire...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The Railyard development on Langdon Avenue in Concord’s South End is nearing completion, but not yet ready for new tenants. In downtown, the former New Hampshire Employment Security building, now renamed the Isabella apartments, is nearing completion,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
By 3 p.m. the U-Haul was filled to the brim. Laundry baskets, rolled-up rugs, folded tarps and plastic bins were stacked one on top of the other as Concord police fourwheelers were parked next to the truck. After weeks of warning people living along...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
David Elberfeld felt steadfast in his convictions against former President Donald Trump and solemn about President Joe Biden stepping aside.To watch Biden, 81, chase the presidency throughout his lifetime – running several times before being the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Concord Police and outreach workers are beginning to tell people living along the railroad tracks behind houses on North Main Street that they must move their encampment or it will be cleared out.The tracks are owned by CSX, which has a memorandum of...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The state of New Hampshire decided to sell 30 acres of protected forest to nearby landowners after the city of Concord declined to match the $132,000 purchase price.The sale of the Allen State Forest off Warner Road along the Contookcook River to...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Straps tied to trees supported the blue and gray tarps hanging like a canopy over the green tent. Plywood, scaffolding, pallets – even a swing – line the wooded encampment.This is the jury-rigged home that a woman named Melissa and her husband built...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Hope Butterworth’s house on Merrimack Street in Concord was unconventional. Here she raised her three kids with a darkroom occupying one bathroom where she developed film and a picnic table serving as the dining room table. Next to it, a stereo played...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A new Community Justice Center could house legal resources in Concord, with New Hampshire Legal Assistance, 603 Legal Aid and the Disability Rights Center looking to combine forces in one office space.Currently, the three providers have their own...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
If Concord’s property assessment team encounters a no-trespassing sign on a homeowner’s property while conducting their city-wide revaluation, they’ll leave the site and send a letter in the mail. If a resident isn’t home when the team, marked by neon...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
In a recent drive up Rattlesnake Hill, Kurt Swenson found the quarry he once owned eerily quiet.Gone were the employees who sliced blocks of stone from walls a hundred-plus feet down from the edge, a job he first had as a teenager. Silent was the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Robin Bach knows her property is a work in progress.Room by room, she and her husband have chipped away at restoring their 19th-century Walker house in Concord, measuring out baseboards and cutting trim from the original moldings to preserve the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Editors note: The headline of a previous version of this story indicated that Diane Ricciardelli was fired from her post as town administrator in Newbury. According to June 10 select board minutes, the town of Newbury entered an “agreement and...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The rationale for convening a special housing committee was easy for House Speaker Sherman Packard to justify. People across the state told him time and time again how the lack of affordable homes and apartments in New Hampshire was impacting their...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
At Kelley Monahan’s house in Orford, New Hampshire, she has eight acres and two ponds along the Connecticut River. It became her slice of rural heaven after she left Hartford, Connecticut, 25 years ago.To Monahan, a few metrics help define rural life...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Riyah Patel knows the impact of the pandemic on high school girls. She was one when school shuttered and online classes began.She saw the struggles with mental health, learning gaps and isolation in her classmates. She saw it continue as she returned...
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