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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The people responsible for posting a video with the sign “Jesus loves white children” outside of Pembroke’s elementary school this week shared similar videos on social media in the last year that appeared to have been filmed outside other locations around the state, including two other area schools.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As Pembroke considers a potential partnership with Concord to reduce “forever chemical” contamination in its water, Concord leaders aren’t sure they want to share.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A year after voters in Pembroke rejected a multi-million dollar budget increase, school leaders now face the real prospect of a repeat of sorts – albeit on a smaller scale – this spring.

Throughout New Hampshire, towns, individuals, and veterans’ organizations have erected an assortment of memorials to the Civil War. Beginning with obelisks of the 1860s and continuing onto re-mastered works of the 21st century, historian George Morrison of Bow will present a diverse selection of New Hampshire’s commemorations and their stories at a presentation at the Pembroke Town Library. However, the event, originally scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m., has been postponed due to incoming inclement weather, with a new date to be set soon.

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Pembroke will delay its budget public hearing for one week in response to reports of inclement weather in the area this Thursday.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Presenting a school budget is a typically staid, number-laden affair. 

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...