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By RAY DUCKLER

He says he vividly recalls their first kiss, about 80 years ago.They were students at Concord High School, walking home at night after a weekend party. The United States, fighting a two-front war in a global conflict, would soon emerge as a confident,...

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Sometimes, Louis Jacob wears a red vest, a white shirt and a black bow tie.He looks like someone from 100 years ago when barbershop quartets and even larger singing teams were common. A declining enrollment for such pursuits in years past was made...

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To the faster runners who had already crossed the finish line and the slower ones still on the course, the explosions heard in Boston 10 years ago Saturday could have been attributed to a celebration of some sort.Yes, they worried about something more...

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Road work on Interstate 393, extending from Exit 1 to the Pembroke/Chichester line, will occur all of next week, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.The facelift will include the ramps to Exits 1 through 3 and begin on Monday, weather...

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State and local fire officials, already investigating the cause of a house fire on Dover Road in Epsom three months ago, believe arson played a role after firefighters were called to the same house on Tuesday afternoon.State Fire Marshal Sean Toomey,...

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It was Mother’s Day last year when Michele Decoteau of Mason brought a stethoscope to a park in Nashua.She wanted to hear a heartbeat. A particular heartbeat. The one that once pumped inside her son, Daniel, before a motor vehicle accident left him...

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Finding an impartial voice these days, especially when it comes to certain topics, seems difficult. But when it comes to the world’s religions, Art Rosen plays it right down the middle.He lectures in schools, makes speaking engagements, writes books...

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Less than two weeks after the Fish and Game Department had covered a swastika spray painted on the wall of an old railroad trestle, more racist remarks and symbols surfaced on Sunday at the same spot, discovered by a local resident walking his...

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Some of Keith Judge’s most vivid memories of his late father contain lights.For example, he recalls the urgency of the red lights, part of Terrence Judge’s DNA and Keith’s childhood, swirling on the trucks inside the Pembroke firehouse each time...

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A combination of Uncle William and Hurricane Maria led Specialist Abner Classen of Exeter down the right path.He came to the Granite State after his homeland of Puerto Rico was destroyed by Maria in 2017. Amid the chaos, Uncle William lived here in...

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Connie Fellows appreciates the offers to help.Her nonprofit – giving homemade Easter baskets to children – has grown over the past nine years, to the point where an ordinary individual might welcome help packing all those baskets, containing...

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Alex Ray, the Common Man Restaurant’s founder and owner, is bringing his famed logo – a farmer working in his field, pushing and leaning hard on a tiller to prepare the soil for planting – to the Epsom Traffic Circle, perhaps by late summer, an...

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Sarah Stanley’s family name, Griffin, is forever part of the Frankin landscape.Her married name, meanwhile, has had its own impact on the town, this one centered at the Veterans Home in Tilton. That’s where Stanley has worked the past three years,...

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Hold the phone. Don’t count Soula Maloutas and her popular downtown restaurant out just yet.She thinks that, perhaps, no news is good news.Maloutas, one of many unknown stars in the universal book known as Reaching the American Dream, is hopeful that...

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Roger Peltzman has a close, personal relationship with an uncle who was murdered by the Nazis nearly 80 years ago.Of course, at 61, Peltzman never met Norbert Stern, but he knows the story and the man’s worth to his own development as a master piano...

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Strange as it may sound, a debilitating stroke suffered by Marty Bender 25 years ago quickly evolved into one of the luckiest chapters in his life.How, you may ask? Bender said recently that his career as a criminal defense and family lawyer had taken...

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On the first day of his new job six months ago, Ryan O’Hora quickly discovered that he had landed in the perfect spot, right where he belonged.The new Pembroke library director was familiar with the area. He grew up in Allenstown and graduated from...

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Debbie Miller would have made a nice complement to Dr. Dolittle.While Dolittle carried on conversations with the animals, Miller would have done practically everything else: fundraisers to help homeless cats and dogs, opening the farms she’s lived on...

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When it comes to town meetings, Deerfield Select Board member Rich Pitman thinks his town does it right.Deerfield is one of many towns that adopted the SB2 format for its town meeting process, where residents attend a deliberative session to finalize...

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Bettey and Jack Tobey’s first date was a hayride more than 75 years ago, and they’re still going strong.They were sophomores at Concord High. They went their separate ways for a few years to serve their country, but they began as high school...