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By ALEXANDER RAPP and DAN ATTORRI
The Concord Christian Kingsmen girls’ basketball team has had an ascent through the ranks of New Hampshire hoops like no other. They have won divisions in three consecutive years and have risen from Division IV to D-I in that span.“When we won...
WrestlingPelham 47, Bow 27Highlights: The Falcons dropped their season opener on their home mats. Bow, the defending D-III champions, will compete against D-I teams at the Salem Blue Devil Classic on Saturday.Records: Bow 0-1Concord 41, Nashua North...
By RACHEL WACHMAN
The Department of Education named the Christa McAuliffe School as a “Distinguished School” based on the high academic achievement of its students.The Concord elementary school takes its place alongside around 100 schools across the United States...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
It took longer than expected, but Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee finally has hired a consultant to facilitate its first steps as a committee.The Texas-based Racial Equity Group beat out three other applicants...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Michele Horne doesn’t want to have the same conversation next year.The past two years, Concord police have asked for retention bonuses for current sworn officers, pitched as a stopgap measure necessary to keep an already slim staff.To Horne, the...
Winter’s first kiss was expected to be washed away by rain and warm temperatures later this week.A brief storm delivered several inches of snow to Concord Monday night that might not stand a chance after Wednesday. Forecasts are calling for 1-2 inches...
By JONATHAN VAN FLEET and GEOFF FORESTER
An 80-year-old diner made its way down Main Street in two pieces Tuesday night to its new resting place as part of the downtown entertainment development called Arts Alley.The construction site at 24 South Main St. is the second phase of the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The legs of the black Baphomet statue outside the State House still stood, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and the panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the...
By NICK PERENCEVICH
Nick Perencevich is a semi-retired physician living in Concord. I’ve gotten into a habit of traveling by the John Gilbert Winant statue on Park Street, just to the left of the State Library walk up, and saying hello to the former governor. When it...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Two Las Vegas companies have shown interest in buying Concord Casino, but the sale has hit a snag after a judge ruled that owner Anthony Sanborn has run out of time to close the deal.Last month, Judge Gregory Albert decided the state can proceed with...
By RACHEL WACHMAN
It takes James “Jim” Marshall three minutes to snip the netting off a Christmas tree, unwrap it, determine the price, put a ribbon on the top, and add it to the pile of trees to be sold. He’s perfected this skill over 38 years of spearheading...
BOYS’ BASKETBALLConcord Christian 54, Mascenic 47Key players: Concord Christian – TJ Charbono (22 points) Mascenic – Lucas Leroux (26 points)Highlights: Leroux put the Vikings on his back in the fourth quarter, scoring 15 points in that frame to get...
By RACHEL WACHMAN
As the lights dimmed and the screen began to glow with the film’s opening scene, audience members at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage settled in for a journey into Samuel Habib’s world.Born with cerebral palsy, the 25-year-old filmmaker and his father...
By RACHEL WACHMAN
Alex Brown wakes up before his family, treads downstairs, brews a pot of coffee and shapes dough into loaves on his kitchen counter.As his two children and his wife start their mornings, Brown puts the dough in the fridge to proof and gets ready for...
By JOHN BUTTRICK
John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving weekend we traveled to Portland, Maine to visit our daughter, son-in-law, and our two grandchildren. We drove over hills and through woods passing by...
By DAVID BROOKS
Steadfast Spirits, a distillery on Hall Street in Concord, has purchased the nearby Lithermans brewery and the owner plans to take the brewpub back to its earlier “vibe.”“The focus is on going back to those original beers, small batches of really good...
By DAVID BROOKS
After more than a decade, an unusual program to place markers on long-forgotten graves of 686 infants and adults in the former “poor lot” of Concord’s huge Blossom Hill Cemetery, the resting place of people who could not afford family plots, has wound...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
FRANKLIN – Franklin High girls’ and boys’ basketball is returning to the Golden Tornadoes’ high school building after 30 years of playing in the middle school gym. Franklin’s athletic director, Dan Sylvester, attributed the success of the project to...
By ALEXANDER RAPP and DAN ATTORRI
The Bow Falcons won the Division III wrestling championship last year and went right back to work on the upcoming season as soon as they could. The team, helmed by coach Bill Chavanelle, said that despite losing many talented seniors, he expects the...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
On a night in July, a car crashed into Alissa and Don Jelley’s garage. Sunday night, it happened again — only this time the driver hit their house, careening into their home office and leaving an eight-foot hole in their foundation. “We heard this...
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