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Old mills in Franklin sat empty for years. Now, they’re state-of-the-art housing.
08-01-2024 4:17 PM

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...


Gubernatorial candidates say they talk daily about the housing crisis. Their ideas on root causes and resolutions vary.
07-29-2024 2:51 PM

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...


Before Sanborn’s casino, developers looked to put housing on East Concord site
07-27-2024 7:00 AM

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...


Citing cost, Dakota Partners pulls out of East Concord housing development
07-25-2024 6:00 PM

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...


NH advocates call for resources and support for people experiencing homelessness
07-24-2024 6:10 PM

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...


Concord’s Railyards and Isabella apartments near completion; not yet ready for tenants
07-24-2024 6:06 PM

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,...


‘Where they go, I don’t know’ – Concord police clear backyard encampment along train tracks
07-23-2024 5:43 PM

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...


New Hampshire seniors led voter turnout in 2020. Now some are sad, yet relieved, to see Biden go.
07-22-2024 5:15 PM

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...


Concord police planning to clear homeless encampment from homeowner’s backyard
07-17-2024 5:43 PM

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...


City passes on state forest sale, sold to adjacent manufactured home park owners who have no plans to develop
07-16-2024 5:27 PM

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...


A Concord encampment story went viral. Those living there say there’s nowhere else to go
07-12-2024 5:24 PM

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...


‘She was valiant’ – Friends and family to gather Saturday to celebrate Concord’s Hope Butterworth
07-11-2024 4:39 PM

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...


City council approves grant for new Community Justice Center plan
07-10-2024 9:54 AM

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...


As city revaluations begin, owners have right to refuse but leaders implore all to cooperate
07-09-2024 5:10 PM

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...


“The last player standing” – Swenson Granite’s Concord quarry shuttered after 140-year-history
07-08-2024 5:49 PM

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...


‘You have to give them someplace to go’ – A Concord homeowner has an encampment in her yard. Nationwide, cities are issuing permanent camping bans.
07-06-2024 3:26 PM

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...


Former Warner town administrator no longer with Newbury
07-01-2024 2:23 PM

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...


‘A good possibility’ – Lawmakers say housing committee has more work to do
06-30-2024 6:59 AM

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...


A look into current use law: ‘New Hampshire has a policy but doesn’t want to pay’
06-28-2024 3:47 PM

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...


Status of Girls: Higher rates of depression and poverty for New Hampshire girls of color
06-25-2024 6:20 PM

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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