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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
President Joe Biden is set to visit Concord on Tuesday with an official White House event at NHTI. It is his first trip back to the state since stepping out of the presidential race in August. He last visited the Granite State in May, with a speech in...
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...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Emmett Soldati figures his first question about the seat he's running for is the same as most voters. “What is the Executive Council?” Five years ago, then-councilor Andru Volinsky walked into Teatotaller Cafe in Dover, where Soldati is the owner, and...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Former Franklin mayor Jo Brown was fined by a judge Friday for using a private email account for official city business after she did not produce all requested documents in an ongoing lawsuit filed by a business owner against the city. Miriam Kovacs,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
To Matt Walsh, Concord’s housing market is a mixed blessing.In 2023, New Hampshire’s capital city was 10th on the list of most popular markets on Zillow. It shows Concord is attractive – people want to raise a family in the city and post-pandemic...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Danielle Feole knew the drill taking her son Joey, 6, to see President Joe Biden.The wait to hear the president would be long, so she packed an iPad and Grey, the stuffed animal wolf that’s attached to her son’s hip.The afternoon in Concord would be...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Aryn Bernardo watches Filipino telenovelas to feel connected to the country her parents left just before she was born.She can understand Tagalog in the shows and when her parents speak it to her at home, but she doesn’t know how to speak the language....
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Freeman Toth wants to set the record straight.Out of the 300 or so people he talks to who are experiencing homelessness in the Concord area, more than two-thirds do not use drugs. Three in four people are disabled, as defined by the Americans with...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Nelga Kisula loves to draw. When she comes to Project STORY after school, art is her favorite thing the group does together.But that hasn’t always been possible. The volunteer-run group, which offers free programming after school and in the summer for...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Matty Gregg’s story started with a movie and a bet.The 1983 film, The Terry Fox Story, chronicled 22-year-old Canadian Terry Fox as he attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research after he lost his right leg to osteosarcoma.He...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Desiree McLaughlin hoped that five words on a yellow sign would sway voters: “Save our tax cap Franklin.” Instead, a slip of paper will determine who fills one of three open seats on Franklin’s city council, each for a three year term, after a race in...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
To help pay their tax bill, the second floor of John and Meredith Lunn’s Newport home is now a 600-square-foot apartment. Any source of income helps when they’re trying to pay an annual tax bill that only seems to grow year to year.In 2023, that bill...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Lochan Sharma has faint memories of Nepal. He knows he used to run in the halls of the school his dad worked at and that he was enrolled in classes quite young. His family helps him stitch together the fabric of the life he left – his sister reminds...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A card game helped put things in perspective for Finan Murphy.As he sat in a church in Concord, where residents at Family Promise’s emergency shelter stayed the night, and played a game against one of the teenagers living there at the time, he...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Bruce Marshall adores Franklin so much that he said he wants his ashes scattered there. Sam Jacobson said he wants a city where he can live and play.As a result, the two men changed their legal domiciles to the state’s smallest city to run for...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Heather Otten never thought she’d be a homeowner.When she moved into a single-wide manufactured house in Warner, she was 20 years old with no credit, a newborn and her second child on the way.Now, 14 years later, she’s a partial owner of the 33-home...
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