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Biden set to visit Concord Tuesday with stop at NHTI
10-21-2024 1:42 PM

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...

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Inside New Hampshire’s new mental health housing facility for adults with mobility challenges
11-12-2024 5:20 PM

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...


As housing costs rise, experts say zoning reform needed to encourage development
11-10-2024 4:59 PM

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...


With community support, newly naturalized citizens cast first votes
11-08-2024 3:25 PM

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...


‘He’s going to change that’: With a second Trump presidency, New Hampshire residents looking for a change
11-06-2024 4:53 PM

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...


“Honoring the promise” – First responders want cuts to state pension system undone
10-31-2024 4:57 PM

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...


Franklin Police Chief David Goldstein retires after 16 years in the city
10-29-2024 4:47 PM

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...


In District 1, Emmett Soldati challenges incumbent Joe Kenney for Executive Council
10-27-2024 2:18 PM

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...


Former Mayor of Franklin fined for deleting emails from private account related to lawsuit against city
10-25-2024 2:12 PM

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,...


Development tracker: Concord working on 2,300 new housing units
10-24-2024 5:12 PM

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...


While Biden praises his administration, young voters look ahead to engaging with a new, more relatable ticket
10-22-2024 5:53 PM

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...


Rethinking Rundlett: In a debate over middle school location, critical voices are missing from the conversation
10-21-2024 3:29 PM

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....


While city committee looks to hire homelessness manager, frustration rises about lack of accountability
10-16-2024 3:28 PM

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...


‘Our own space’: Project STORY gains home base through partnership with Capital Center for the Arts
10-13-2024 2:01 PM

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...


Matty Gregg wants to end hunger. So he’s running across New Hampshire to do it
10-04-2024 1:33 PM

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...


In Franklin, voters hoped the election would move the city forward. Now, one seat will be decided by a paper drawing after a tie.
10-01-2024 10:25 PM

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...


Rand school funding trial to begin Monday
09-29-2024 12:00 PM

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...


In new novel Go Home, veteran author partners with Concord teen to explore immigration, identity
09-27-2024 12:45 PM

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...


Hometown Hero: In Hopkinton, high school student Finan Murphy highlights help for homeless families
09-26-2024 4:31 PM

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...


Two Franklin transplants vie for seats on City Council
09-24-2024 4:25 PM

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...


‘The best thing for Warner’: Manufactured home residents purchase their park, forming the 151st co-op in N.H.
09-19-2024 5:45 PM

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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