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By RAY DUCKLER
The latest candidate for the Monitor’s Hometown Hero award, Lawre Murphy of Boscawen, strongly believed that her partner in keeping seniors on their toes, Brenda Bartlett, deserved the honor more than she did.Bartlett happened to be the woman who...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
When Journee LaFond arrived in New Hampshire in 2018, their first thought was that the state had the potential for a strong community. But two questions lingered.“Where are the Black people and where are the queer people?” said LaFond. “Where’s...
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Liz Wolf showed during the recent holiday season that no unselfish act is too tall for the Andover resident.Her friend, Jenny Bodwell, was diagnosed with liver cancer last summer. During her treatment in November, Bodwell expressed an interest in...
By RAY DUCKLER
LLeanna Lorden has a diminished role when it comes to face-to-face meetings with students at White Birch Center in Henniker. She was promoted to chief operating officer last summer, shifting to an administrative role filled with meetings and phone...
By RAY DUCKLER
Marilia Procopio, the portfolio manager at Elm Grove Companies in Manchester, is flexible like Gumby.How else to explain how she crams three sections of her busy life into one neat little daily package? She’s a single mother raising her 14-year-old...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Each day at 2:30 p.m., as the school bus arrives with kids from Beaver Meadow for their after-school program at First Start, Heather Tobine stands ready at the entrance of the building to welcome them.“The best part of coming to work is spreading a...
By RAY DUCKLER
Shilo Lynn of Allenstown read on Facebook recently that residents in the area had given food and money to a woman in the downtown village of Suncook.The woman had been spending an inordinate amount of time on a bench under a street light, alone,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
It’s hard for Claire Nepa to explain how long it took her to find peas in the grocery store without laughing. It sounds ridiculous now – it’s just a can or frozen bag of vegetables.But when peas sound like “piece” which also sounds like “peace,”...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Susi von Oettingen is always on the lookout for endangered species.Take her to a river, and she’ll look for mussels. Bring her to a wetland at dusk, and she’ll watch for bats in the sky. On a sandy beach, her focus shifts to scanning for plovers along...
By RAY DUCKLER
Barbara Hays trained employees at a telephone and communications company for decades.These days, at age 80, the Bow resident is still involved in communications, but she no longer needs to say anything to anybody.Her quilts say it all.“Barbara has...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Steve Garside’s family will welcome some guests to their home later this fall: Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in Tibet. His wife, Lisa, who owns Ohana Yoga in Contoocook, has been connected with them for several years now. This will...
By RAY DUCKLER
Wanted: 40 employees to bolster the wafer-thin staff at Community Bridges, an organization that provides support of all kinds to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.“And that is just us,” said Ann Potoczak, the CEO of Community...
By RAY DUCKLER
Aidan Mini and Michelle Fridlington had no idea last spring that their lives would be intertwined forever.They formed an alliance last May, unknown to them at the time, before Aidan’s senior year at Gilford High School. She was the wellness teacher at...
By DAVID BROOKS
When Jonathan Hunt came on board at Whaleback Mountain, which like many independent ski areas had repeatedly flirted with failure for 20 years, he knew that it would take more than speeding up the chairlift to keep things going. “Immediately my job...
By RAY DUCKLER
Mike French’s green thumb means food for the less fortunate.He tends to the Lions Club Community Garden in Henniker and ships his produce to two food pantries, one in his hometown, the other in Hopkinton. And if he has a surplus of food after the...
By RAY DUCKLER
Joan O’Connor wonders how her good friend, Monica Rico, reaches out in so many directions.With her daily schedule of volunteer work and dedication to bringing healthy, organic food to the Granite State, it’s a wonder how she gets it all done.“She’s...
By RAY DUCKLER
Dawn Shimberg of Campton worked at a vendor booth last month at the annual Tilton-Northfield Old Home Day.There, as the director of the Youth Assistance Program in Tilton, she promoted a service that she’s led for a dozen years, aimed at troubled...
By RAY DUCKLER
Tim Blagden is heading in the right direction.For several years, he’s been dreaming of a hiking, biking and walking trail 34-miles long that, with a landowner’s permission, would allow snowmobiling in certain spots. As Blagden saw it, a trail...
By RAY DUCKLER
Steve DeStefano looked terrific. He wore a blue button-down shirt in his real estate office on Pleasant Street, highlighting his deep blue eyes. His hair was silver, but his hairline remained at the front line like a good soldier, unwilling to...
By RAY DUCKLER
Scott Carpenter travels for work.One day, he may have an appointment on a mountain somewhere, other days on a huge rock, still others trudging through waist-deep snow. And sometimes, he’ll work at a senior housing complex, breathing life into people,...
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