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Girls’ BasketballConcord Christian 61,Laconia 38Key players: Concord Christian – Kayden Rioux (23 points), Lilli Carlile (19 points), Emma Smith (16 points); Laconia – Macy Swormstedt (13 points), Mekhia Burton (6 points)Highlights:  Rioux drained six...

Boys’ HockeyBow 2, Keene 1Key players: Bow – Landon Wescott (goal), Billy Smethurst (goal), Mason Marquis (27 saves)Highlights: Captain Smethurst scored the game-winning goal on the power play to lift the Falcons to their first victory of the...

A 24-year-old Pittsfield man was killed in an accident on Interstate 93 Friday night involving an impaired driver from Franklin, police said.Gabriel Anthony was pronounced dead at the scene of the two-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of the...

Girls’ BasketballBishop Guertin 53,Concord 27Key players: Concord – Whitney Vaillant (11 points), Sofia Payne (7 points), Delaney Duford (6 points), Maddie Kelly (3 points)Highlights:  The Cardinals held the Tide to just six baskets from the field and...

By DAN ATTORRI

With a two-year hiatus between indoor track seasons, there was a lot of uncertainty heading into the campaign last winter.At the Division II championship, that uncertainty faded quickly. The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy boys’ team won its first indoor...

WrestlingConcord 43, Keene 27Key players: Concord – Devon Farwell (win by pin at 215), Biswas Darji (win by pin at 106), Cullen Burke (win by pin at 120), Griffin Norwalt (3-1 win by decision at 132), Jaxon Carter (win by pin at 144), Tony Gualtieri...

By RAY DUCKLER

As far as John Santos knew, his relationship with his brother-in-law was fine.He compared any conflict he had had with John Duchesne to a pair of brothers roughhousing. Nothing more. Nothing serious.Duchesne lives in Franklin, at the home of Santos...

Boys’ BasketballGilford 62, Winnisquam 28Key players: Gilford – Henry Sleeper (16 points), Cooper Perkins (15 points), Brendan Baldi (11 points); Winnisquam – Chris Biancardi (8 points), Frank McComiskey (7 points), Caleb Robdau (6 points)Highlights:...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

“Anger, dismay and humiliation,” are the emotions of Franklin leaders as they face a lawsuit from local restaurant owner Miriam Kovacs, said city attorney Paul Fitzgerald.Kovacs accuses the city of failing to protect her from antisemitic threats and...

By DAN ATTORRI

Several area football players were named to their respective division’s All-State roster, as selected by the NHIAA coaches. Gilford-Belmont led area Division II East programs with four First Team selections (including first-year quarterback Anakin...

 By RAY DUCKLER

The recent closing of the Franklin Opera House – forced to shut down because of code violations that had been shelved for a while – pushed the Addams Family from their home and into a middle school cafeteria.That means Lurch, Cousin It, Uncle...

Boys’ BasketballConcord Christian 50, Mascenic 38Key players: Concord Christian – Logan Duffy (11 points), TJ Charbono (10 points), Isaac Bowers (8 points); Mascenic – Lucas Leroux (18 points)Highlights: The Kingsmen led 24-22 at halftime, but Duffy...

By DAN ATTORRI

“Whenever there’s opportunity, there’s excitement.” Those are the words of Greg Farland, the new head coach of the Concord Christian Academy boys’ basketball team. And there are certainly a lot of opportunities for the Kingsmen players who rode the...

Bradley Haas received a police escort through his hometown of Franklin on Monday, past the police department on Central Street where he once served as chief, to a community-wide ceremony in his honor at Winnisquam High School in Tilton.Haas, 63, was...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the Central Street Laundromat, thirteen turkeys will fill tables alongside washers and driers this Wednesday. Franklin’s mayor-elect Desiree McLaughlin has been making pies and the food pantry is donating squash and green beans.It’s an annual...

By BILL YACOPUCCI

Bill Yacopucci lives in Franklin and is founding director of the non-profit Franklin Makerspace. Playing cops and robbers with their friends, every kid imagines being a police officer. It fades for most in adolescence; we start to question the...

By DAVID BROOKS

The gasoline vapors that forced the evacuation of part of Franklin’s downtown Thursday originated from a leak in an underground fuel tank at a Central Street gas station, officials say.“For an unknown amount of time, an unknown quantity of liquid...

By GEOFF FORESTER and DAVID BROOKS

Buildings in downtown Franklin were evacuated for almost 24 hours after the smell of gasoline filled parts of Central Street. The evacuation ended at 3 p.m. Thursday but the cause of the problem has not been announced.At least four people spent...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Long after the school day ends, class is still in session on Thursday nights in Franklin Middle School as teachers trade their lesson plans for a seat in a graduate course led by Plymouth State University.Last spring, a pilot version of the...

By RAY DUCKLER

Franklin police are investigating a shooting Thursday night at a residence on Webster Lake Road that injured a man before another man, who was waiting outside the residence when police arrived, was arrested and charged with two felonies.Police allege...