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By JESSE GILLIS

Jesse Gillis is from Pembroke and an active member of NH Veterans for Peace. I was 15 years old when the warmongers in Washington finally got their war on the citizens of Iraq in 2003. At this point in the 2020s, I thought it was a common...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Nine-year-old Khloe Tag-At sat at her dining room table, hunched over her sketchbook with a colored pencil in hand.“It’s Mount Apo,” Khloe said without glancing up. “The tallest mountain in the Philippines.”She smiled at the thought and continued to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Complicating the road forward for the Pembroke school district is yet another high-profile departure, this time from Superintendent Patty Sherman, who announced that she will retire at the end of the school year.Sherman becomes the latest district...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Longtime educator Dan Morris will step down as headmaster of Pembroke Academy at the end of this school year, he announced earlier this month.The fallout from voters’ $3 million cut to the proposed school budget contributed to his decision to...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Pembroke School Board has a lot to weigh going into budget season for the next school year.The next proposed budget seeks to add $2 million in spending, bringing the total to $33.3 million.The schools are still feeling the effects of last year’s...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Cheyenne Boucher decided to join Best Buddies in 2014, she had no idea her involvement with the organization would shape the trajectory of her life.Best Buddies had just come to the state of New Hampshire. The organization was looking for partner...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Lawyers on Thursday asked a federal court to rule New Hampshire’s controversial transgender sports law unconstitutional for all students – not just their two clients – setting up a potentially precedent-setting court decision.The new request – made...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

To some in her Pembroke neighborhood, Lori Rowe’s home is known as the “fairy house” or the “fairy garden.” It started three years ago when she put out a display of hand-painted fairy houses with little gnomes and knick-knacks. Nestled into the base...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Bradley Cepeck joined Boy Scout Troop 270 in second grade. Now a senior at Pembroke Academy, the 17-year-old used his Eagle Scout project to give young and old community members a way to grow their green thumbs.Through conversations with the Pembroke...

By ROB AZEVEDO

There’s a framed picture of Abraham Lincoln that sits atop the mantle behind the bar at Pembroke City Limits, our new venue down in the historic Suncook village.Abe is there for reasons only those familiar with a particular old saloon in South Dakota...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As soon as the ice cream truck pulled out of the Gelinas family’s Pembroke driveway, the vehicle’s candy jingle echoing down the street, a group of boys slowed their bikes and waved down the truck, shouting “Ice cream!” The truck halted, its blue...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS andSRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Just hours after a court hearing in Concord, 15-year-old Parker Tirrell, a transgender girl, was on her way to lace up her soccer cleats and join her teammates for girls’ soccer tryouts at Plymouth Regional High School on Monday night.A federal judge...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The summer break has done little to quell the exodus of Pembroke schools employees from the district following last spring’s controversial school budget cut.Five more employees have resigned since the start of the summer, with some citing the...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Iris Turmelle leaned back in the car’s rear seat, letting the warmth of the July sun bathe her face as she headed to a sleepover at her friend’s house. But a text message from her mother, shattered that Friday afternoon, overwhelming her with anger...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Mills renovated into apartments. A new craft brewery and a diner. Young couples with dogs and babies strolling the sidewalks.Rob Azevedo had long envisioned how to turn an old furniture store in Suncook Village into a bar and live music venue. Looking...

By IRIS ALTILIO

Iris Altilio is Supervisor of the Checklist for Pembroke. I’ve been a checklist supervisor for almost ten years, and I have grave concerns about bills HB 1569 and HB 1370. Today, to register to vote, you are required to provide proof of age,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Jenny Jones grew up in Pembroke, attended its schools, and began her teaching career at Pembroke Hill School 23 years ago. Over the years, she taught the children of her own childhood friends, pouring energy into a calling that felt decidedly...

By DAVID BROOKS

As four electric buses in Henniker and Weare wind up their first full month of operation, news has come that Pembroke and Concord will receive some through the latest round of federal grants.In Wednesday’s announcement, part of an ongoing effort to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Pembroke Academy biology teacher Gregg Whitmore’s license plate reads “-TROUT”, an ode to the amount of time he spends in rivers as both an avid fly fisherman and researcher. On an overcast morning last Saturday, Whitmore was knee-deep in Lower Bear...

By DIANNE SCHUETT

Rep. Dianne Schuett, Merr. 12, Pembroke. To the families of Pembroke, I recently received a resolution from the Pembroke School Board. It was addressed to all of their elected representatives in the state legislature, of which I am one. It calls...

By RAY DUCKLER

For years, lecturer Mohamed Defaa has sought to demystify the social, cultural and historical complexities surrounding the Middle East for Western audiences.Then, on Oct. 7 of last year, this combustible region, already a difficult subject to...