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By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said with great passion in a speech to the United Nations General...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A pair of amendments that will serve as a referendum on the autonomy of the Concord School Board will require a supermajority of 60% to pass, rather than the lower state law threshold of 50%.In interviews, two Concord attorneys dismissed any argument...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Michelle Beauregard’s son has no money in his lunch account, he doesn’t eat.The Concord High School junior could, to be clear, purchase the cafeteria’s hot lunch option. But Beauregard’s middle child is a loyal pizza eater, and pizza is an à la...

By PAUL LEVY

Paul Levy lives in Concord. For 30 years after WWII, a strong bipartisan majority addressed embedded racism and economic insecurity by adopting major civil rights and social welfare laws. Votes on civil rights were nearly unanimous except for the nay...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The town of Salisbury failed to reach an agreement Wednesday with its non-profit emergency medical services provider on a new cost-sharing formula after asserting that the amount it pays was “just not fair.”Salisbury shares the services of Penacook...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Emily Shirlock has seen it all.From the heartbreak of losing a dear friend to suicide, enduring losses in the family and battling trauma during college, to confronting her struggles with her own mental health, her journey has been anything but...

By DAVID BROOKS

The owners of Concord’s South Street Market want you to know that their corner store, which has been part of the city for close to a century, is not closing even though it is for sale.The building holding the store and four apartments was listed for...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

Dartmouth College’s graduate student union is the subject of a religious discrimination complaint filed by a graduate student and teaching assistant opposed to the union’s support for pro-Palestinian causes.Benjamin Logsdon, a student in Dartmouth’s...

By CHUCK ANNAL

Chuck Annal lives in Concord. So, we’re going to fight this battle again. It snuck up on us lately, but now comes Tim Robson and Concord Greenspace to declare that Loudon Road is truly the road to hell: too many accidents, too many pedestrians hit by...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Concord’s first director of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice transitioned to a new role at the beginning of the year focusing on restorative justice at the middle school.Quinci Worthey, hired as the DEIJ director in 2022, will spend at least...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Children and their parents gathered outside the Loudon Police Department on Wednesday morning in anticipation of Loudon’s Walk and Roll to School Day. Some brought their bikes, others boasted scooters, and the rest wore their best walking shoes for...

By ANNE EATON

Anne Eaton lives in Concord. A group of residents has emerged in the debate over the location of Concord’s new middle school who would like to be seen as the majority. While a very well organized and very vocal group, I see nothing to support the...

By BERT COOPER

Bert Cooper lives in Concord. In 1574, citizens of a Dutch city, as reward for holding off the Spanish, were offered the choice of a university or several years without taxes. They chose the university. Like those Dutch citizens, we in Concord value...

Boys’ SoccerConcord 3, Timberlane 3Key players: Concord – Irankunda Mvuyekure (2 goals, assist), Dean Ayotte (goal), Sammy Iranzi (assist), Festo Bahininwa (8 saves), Sadiki Rumbukuzi (midfield)Highlights: Ayotte scored to open the match, which was...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Desiree McLaughlin hoped that five words on a yellow sign would sway voters: “Save our tax cap Franklin.” Instead, a slip of paper will determine who fills one of three open seats on Franklin’s city council, each for a three year term, after a race in...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Rows of canned foods and prepackaged snacks sat stacked in the basement of the Early Head Start building in Pittsfield. A small group of volunteers began moving down the line, placing one of each item in bags to be delivered to children in town.This...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Growing up in Auburn, Maine, Zoey Murphy struggled to find spaces where she felt like she belonged.“I was the only Black person in my graduating class, and it was really hard to see different signals that really spoke to me,” she said.Now, she’s a...

By DAVID BROOKS

An electric vehicle charger is being unveiled in a Concord parking lot Wednesday and it’s gathering a lot of attention for a very odd reason: It’s really slow. “The reality is that cars are parked over 90% of the time. This is a great way to harness...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

In a 4,000-year-old tomb in the Luxor valley of the upper Nile, early 20th-century archaeologists discovered evidence of some of the things that mattered deeply to people of ancient Egypt: bread, beef and beer. At Wednesday’s Francestown Recreation...

A 34-year-old man was shot dead by police when an officer responded to a report of domestic violence at a home in Northwood early Tuesday morning.A Northwood officer responded to 534 First New Hampshire Turnpike, off Route 4, around 5:17 a.m. due to...

By CHUCK DOUGLAS

Chuck Douglas is a former State Supreme Court Justice who practices law in Concord. On Tuesday, Sept. 17, the Bow school system clearly violated the First Amendment when it told a resident he could not come on school property “until further notice.”...