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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...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A massive budget cut sustained by the Pembroke School District in March has thrust the future of a long-planned elementary school building project into uncertainty.The plan to renovate or rebuild the kindergarten through fourth grade Pembroke Hill...
By RAY DUCKLER
Ayn Whytemare doesn’t like the view from the top of her hayfield in Pembroke.From there, rising from pines like a lonely skyscraper, stands the smokestack used by the Bow coal plant, the last facility of its kind in New England. And while the visible...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Pembroke plans to eliminate 27 positions from its schools next year in response to a voter mandate to eliminate $3 million, or 10% of the budget, in the face of spiking taxes.“It’s pretty grim, in my opinion, when you see the number of positions laid...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
In Kadyn Dean’s favorite class at the Pembroke Hill School, she works with robots, builds cardboard houses, and helps maintain a local hiking trail. In the past week, the third grader learned the class – called ILAB – is not expected to continue next...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
As town officials ramp up spending year after year, people like Ray Olivier can’t keep up. On Saturday, the challenge for Oliver and other residents on fixed incomes became more pronounced after Pembroke voters approved a $11.6 million budget, which...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The way William O’Mahoney saw it, Pembroke voters had two options: price out the elderly or support schools. With a proposed budget of $33.8 million delivering a 28% tax increase, it was hard to feel like one didn’t come at the expense of the...
By DAVID BROOKS
Community power, the system under which communities can buy their own electricity instead of depending on the utility, is continuing its rapid expansion in towns throughout the region.Three Concord area towns are among the dozen launching the system...
By RAY DUCKLER
Amid all the property tax hikes in the Concord area this town meeting season, Pembroke residents are facing the biggest with a whopping 28.1% increase in one year.The combined town and school tax rate is expected to increase from $27.88 to $35.70 –...
By MAURICE REGAN
Maurice Regan is a psychologist and former college professor. He lives in Pembroke. Many news stories of personal tragedy include the suggestion that “mental health services” or more mental health services might have prevented the disturbing outcome....
By JENNIFER SMITH
Jennifer Smith, MD, MPH, lives in Pembroke. I was upset to see Rep. Moffett’s black and white opinion on transgender girls’ participation in sports. His My Turn shows insufficient knowledge and a bias that seems widespread among some in the NH...
By DAVID BROOKS
Pembroke residents will get their chance to join the community-power bandwagon soon, with notices going out in mid-January and a Jan. 31 public meeting.The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Academy auditorium, will explain how Pembroke...
By RAY DUCKLER
Elizabeth Duclos, a third-grade teacher at Pembroke Hill School, was named the state’s Teacher of the Year Thursday.Duclos was nominated for the award by superintendents, principals, past and present colleagues, parents of students and other community...
By RAY DUCKLER
The twin boys, 10-year-olds Jackson and Bradley Doyle, devised a plan to keep their former teacher at Pembroke Hill School in their lives.They called it Lunch Bunches, an informal setting that the boys invented during recess one day. They chose a...
By RAY DUCKLER
Lianne Keary’s son turns 18 this year, and that tells her a lot.It tells her that the photos she used to publish Pembroke’s version of the popular Acadia Images of America series were used 18 years ago, because she was pregnant when she pieced those...
By MAURICE REGAN
Maurice Regan lives in Pembroke. That famous, inventive psychologist B.F. Skinner once described a crackpot idea that he could train pigeons to be missile guidance systems for use in WWII. This idea led to the Pelican Project and the development of a...
By RAY DUCKLER
Once, Andrew Chiavaras saw airplanes as small metal tubes, narrow, claustrophobic and dangerous.His irrational fear of flying turned the family’s annual visit to Disney World into a house of horrors, featuring a grade-school kid whose meltdowns on...
By MAURICE REGAN
Maurice Regan of Pembroke is a psychologist and runs Companion Dog Training. Recent data suggests that nearly five million people are bitten by dogs annually in the United States with 17% requiring medical care, 7% requiring emergency department care,...
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