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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In Concord’s Equality Health Center, a historic home converted into a family planning facility, narrow hallways lead to exam rooms and counseling areas featuring old fireplaces. The clinic has its quirks, but one thing in particular is a favorite to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the Central Street Laundromat, thirteen turkeys will fill tables alongside washers and driers this Wednesday. Franklin’s mayor-elect Desiree McLaughlin has been making pies and the food pantry is donating squash and green beans.It’s an annual...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The initiative to build permanent housing in the city will get a $100,000 boost from the Merrimack County Savings Bank. The funding, pledged to the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness over two years, will support the construction of eight...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jean Hakuzimana moved to New Hampshire from Rwanda five years ago with a background in communications and a resume that included working for the United Nations. But, his first job in the United States was working for a company making pre-cast molds...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For the sixth year in a row, the University System of New Hampshire will freeze undergraduate tuition for in-state students.Since the 2019-2020 school year, tuition rates at the University of New Hampshire, Keene State College and Plymouth State...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A walk down Commercial Street in Boscawen foreshadows the town’s future – or at least that’s what Kellee Easler likes to think.It may not seem like much today. The street is the site of a former leather tannery that left behind such a mess the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ali Sekou knows that his two kids won’t remember the day their mom brought them to the polls to cast her first vote in an election in the United States. She bubbled in the spot next to her husband’s name on the ballot in Concord’s city election.His...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

From the parking lot of Betkash Shriners, where Ward 8 voters entered to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s election, green sheathing framed a building over the fence in the lot next door. It’s the first of three structures that will establish 123 new...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Long after the school day ends, class is still in session on Thursday nights in Franklin Middle School as teachers trade their lesson plans for a seat in a graduate course led by Plymouth State University.Last spring, a pilot version of the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jacob Drouin, a former Franklin police officer and union president, is an aspiring school resource officer and father of two supporting his family, his lawyer Peter Perroni told the city’s personnel advisory board.He was fired from his job in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Matt Walsh can draw a timeline of development in Concord of peaks and valleys. In 1986, residential development was at a high, with colored vinyl panels and geometric shapes putting a mark on new construction. The Great Recession of 2008 marked a low...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When P.T. Wood arrived in Salida, Colo., 30 years ago, it was an old mining town that was becoming a shell of its former self. Ranching had slowed down, the railroad was leaving town and many homeowners were looking to move away.If you took a trip to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After approving $15.6 million for the Concord Police Department this year, the city will send an additional half-million dollars directly to officers in an attempt to address recruitment and retention issues.The money, which was approved unanimously...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The completion of the first phase of the Railyard apartment complex in Concord’s South End will mean that 10 people currently experiencing homelessness in the community will have an apartment.Dakota Partners, the developers of the nearly 100-unit...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Under Gabriel Reynolds’ bed in his dorm at New England College, three white signs with black Sharpie letters are tucked away.One reads, “to take away our 26th amendment, you’ll have to take away our 2nd.” Another says, “no forever war in Mexico.” And...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Barbed wire disguised in the dirt. Beer cans, wrappers and syringes litter the trail.This is what residents in the South End of Concord said they found at a homeless encampment in the woods next to Martin Park off Iron Works Road in early...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The former director of Warner Connects, Lori Garrett, has been indicted for theft and fraudulent credit card charges from the local food pantry. Over the course of almost two years, Garrett is accused of using a Warner Connects credit card to charge...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Franklin voters elected a new mayor Tuesday, choosing Central Street Laundromat owner Desiree McLaughlin over incumbent Jo Brown by nearly a two-to-one margin.McLaughlin will serve at the helm of Franklin’s government for a two-year term. After...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Four hours in four years.That’s the amount of time nursing students at the University of New Hampshire spend learning about care specific to the LGBTQ community. And that’s a statistic Michael Newell wanted to change.For his senior honors thesis at...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Born and raised in Franklin, Jo Brown never thought she’d be at the helm of city politics. Now, the fourth-generation air-force veteran is running for a second term as mayor. Desiree McLaughlin and Samuel McLaughlin, who have no relation, are...