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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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Elena Alois jokes that the Capital Region Food Program is her family business.Her grandfather started the organization – which aims to provide food to people in need in the Concord area – over 50 years ago. She’s the third generation at the helm,...

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...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the political library at Saint Anselm’s Institute of Politics, James Thibault sat down to do his homework in a gray suit. Pins of both the New Hampshire flag and United States flag were fastened to the lapel, and his red, white and blue tie was...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu has one ask before he leaves the corner office: to see Dartmouth Health take over operations at Hampstead Hospital.He knows it’s a unique proposition – the private hospital would lease the facility from the state, gaining full control...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ellen Read and Joe Alexander don’t agree on much. In the primary, mailers attacked Read, a Newmarket Democrat, as the “AOC of N.H.” In his three terms in the House, Alexander, a Goffstown Republican, has quickly risen through party ranks. Both voted...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michelle Laverdure wants a plan for tomorrow.She’s tired of living out of her van, driving spot to spot so her vehicle isn’t towed or vandalized. She’s exhausted by watching her friends relocate their tent: one encampment sweep means they’re herded to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Shamir Darjee didn’t know anything about a mortgage or real estate listing six months ago. Most 20-year-olds don’t.He did know that he’d like his own bedroom. For the last ten years, he slept in the living room alongside his younger brother in a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Karen Jantzen knows what the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness does well.Dozens of people are in the coalition’s resource center daily – waiting to take a shower, do laundry, check their mail or connect with a case manager.The beginning of...

Project S.T.O.R.Y. and the Empower Dance Company held their second annual dance recital Tuesday, featuring a dozen choreographed dances for girls ages 6 to 14 years old. The dance program through Project S.T.O.R.Y., which is a volunteer organization...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Claudine Gasana can relate to her students at Second Start. She arrived in New Hampshire as a high school student from Rwanda, speaking no English.She graduated from Concord High School and Keene State College. Now, she works both at Second Start, and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When the doors to New Hampshire’s first psychiatric residential facility for children opened last May, advocates and state leaders celebrated the new resource that could house up to a dozen kids. Over a year later, that maximum capacity has yet to be...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jose Cambrils has had his eyes on Whitney Hill Road in Canterbury for years.He bought a 30-acre plot of land where the trees were spared from logging and wildlife roams about and another 95 acres just down the street in hopes of building a house in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Isiaka Bizumuremyi waited nine years for this moment.In Concord, over 7,000 miles away from home, he has own new apartment. Very new, in fact.The walls are still bare and the kitchen appliances had never been used. Just over a month after arriving in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Danielle Bee thought Warner residents had made it clear – many in town did not support more sidewalks, public transportation and new housing developments. To her, the state’s Housing Champions program – a tool for communities to be eligible for grants...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Down a long hallway, 12 doors lead to rooms bathed in a pale blue with cozy beds draped in gray comforters. Each room is finished with a bedside table and wardrobe to create an inviting atmosphere with a subtle, calming palette.These rooms will become...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Rob Dapice was delighted to learn that housing was on the minds of most lawmakers in the State House last session. The results, though, not so much.Last session, the legislature formed the first-ever special committee on housing and filed dozens of...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Nar Darjee didn’t know what to expect Tuesday.In one hand, she had a large white envelope with documents in plastic sleeves. She grabbed her passport too and a driver’s license and waited for her ride to the polls.Outside the City Wide Community...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jonathan Paquette wants to buy a house. But supporting his wife and six kids on one paycheck feels like he can hardly buy anything these days.He’s hoping a second Donald Trump presidency will change that.“We have had a bunch of Democrats that have had...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Firefighting was in Dan Randall’s family. His grandfather was a fire chief, as was his dad.Randall had no doubt it would be his career path too, but he waited until he was 35 years old to get hired to a department – competition at the time was...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

David Goldstein said his Halloween retirement wasn’t intentional. It sure is fitting, though, for someone who spent their childhood wearing the same Medford Police costume on repeat each year.Goldstein grew up across the street from a local police...