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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

On a rainy day in Warner, the rivers roar around Loud Lane, in conversation with the birds, bugs and other critters on the dead-end dirt road. It’s such a symphony of sound, that when Nico Kimberly moved into a restored farmhouse on the street, he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Diane Ricciardelli, the former town administrator in Warner, was placed on administrative leave from her new job in Newbury recently after an emergency non-public select board meetingScott Wheeler, the chair of the Newbury Board of Selectmen,...

By ARIANNA MACNEILL

A tractor trailer rolled over on I-89 southbound in Warner Wednesday night as the early spring storm began to barrel through the region, leaving the highway closed for several hours.State police said they were called to the area near mile marker 21.6...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A routine audit of the town of Warner’s finances found officials were sometimes slow to deposit funds, late to pay credit card bills, and some account balances didn’t add up, among other financial irregularities.While the accounting firm of Vachon...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michael Cutting opened Warner’s Town Meeting with a mea culpa. The long-time town budget committee chair admitted town spending over the last five years had gotten out of control.Since 2019, the town’s annual operating budget has increased from $4...

By DAVID BROOKS

Community power, the system under which communities can buy their own electricity instead of depending on the utility, is continuing its rapid expansion in towns throughout the region.Three Concord area towns are among the dozen launching the system...

By DAVID M. CARROLL

Artist, naturalist, and writer David M. Carroll lives in Warner. As it has long come to be for any places with wildness, natural wildness with rich and complex ecosystems and biological diversity, the fate of the Warner River and its ecologically and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For Karen Coyne, Warner seemed like the perfect retirement town for her family. She and her husband bought a house on a dead-end road with seven other houses. And then for the past three years, they’ve seen double-digit tax increases forcing their...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Laura Russell has been growing vegetables like potatoes, lettuce, beans, and carrots for more than 20 years in her humble 4-foot-by-6-foot plot at her Warner home.For her, it’s not just a personal interest but a means to savor the bounty of homegrown...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Bradford fire chief Bryan Nowell arrived at the scene of a two-alarm fire in Warner to find the three-bedroom log home engulfed in flames.Just before 8 p.m. Nowell was on the way to assist with a fire in Dunbarton when he received the Warner call and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Christine Frost recognizes the many duties of a select board member in Warner. Sometimes they need to know the role of a town librarian. Other times, they’re a town historian. And they’re often equal parts rule-setter and follower. She believes it’s a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Diane Richter knows two things to be true. When she moved to Dunbarton 22 years ago, she saw friends of generational families move after the town passed a significant tax spike. If the proposed budget passes in Warner, where she lives now, the same...

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner will close at the end of this academic year, the latest victim of declining post-secondary enrollment in New Hampshire, according to the state.The school, which moved to Kearsarge Mountain Road in 1991...

The couch in my living room is against an outside wall, right under a window. I have spent three decades trying to eliminate the draft against the back of my neck when I sit there.WindowDressers might have an answer. Better than that: They go about it...

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

After upheaval on the Warner select board and an unsuccessful move to fire town administrator Diane Riccciardelli in July, she will be resigning from the job to take a similar position in the town of Newbury.At a meeting Monday night, the Newbury...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Susi von Oettingen is always on the lookout for endangered species.Take her to a river, and she’ll look for mussels. Bring her to a wetland at dusk, and she’ll watch for bats in the sky. On a sandy beach, her focus shifts to scanning for plovers along...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

On the front steps of the Warner Community Center, caution tape sections off one side of the entrance, with missing bricks revealing chipped concrete slabs. Inside on the first floor, a door handle is missing from one bathroom, while windows in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Allan Brown will round out the Warner Select Board, as the second, and final, interim member appointed. After interviewing a slate of seven candidates this week, board members Harry Seidel and Faith Minton selected Brown to join them in a deliberative...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Typically, on Town Meeting ballots, four candidates will vie for three positions, or select board races will go uncontested. These volunteer positions are subject to public scrutiny and the will of residents.But with a vacant seat on Warner’s...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The two members of the Warner select board have formalized a process for filling the open third seat.The board accepted interest forms from residents until 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Once they’ve compiled a list of interested applicants, they will then hold...