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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...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The campus of a tiny Catholic college in Warner that closed earlier this year will likely remain a destination for members of the Catholic faith.The Roman Catholic Church in New Hampshire has reached a tentative agreement to buy 135 acres of land and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A lucky buyer with a $1 bill can purchase a historic bridge spanning the Warner River on Route 127. The bridge in southeast Warner is slated to be replaced by the state’s Department of Transportation. In an effort to preserve the materials – the...

Driving on I-89 through Warner and Hopkinton is about to get a little more complicated as the state paints a couple of bridges.The N.H. Department of Transportation project consists of painting the steel beams of bridges carrying I-89 northbound and...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Wendy McLauchlan’s tattoos, painted on much of her body, tell the story of her life’s loves and losses. From the birth footprint of her first grandchild to the butterflies signifying her mother’s spirit to the clock memorializing her dad’s health...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

To address the rate of suicide among veterans and first responders, the New Hampshire Telephone Museum is partnering with The Honor Bear Project to plant over 660 American flags this Saturday.The event kicks off at 1 p.m. at the museum in Warner, with...

By DAVID BROOKS

The former Magdalen College of Liberal Arts in Warner, which closed in May after 50 years as the state’s smallest college, is up for sale. The campus with eight buildings on 129 acres was put on the market this week for $5.5 million.The sale, which...

A Warner man has been sentenced to a year in jail for pretending to be an asbestos abatement professional, authorities announced Tuesday.Jordon M. Dunne, 28, pleaded guilty and has been sentenced in the Sullivan County Superior Court to felony...

By David N. Carle

David N. Carle lives in Warner. ‘Median sales price of single-family homes in New Hampshire surge” is a headline theme these days, with undercurrents of the lack of affordable housing. A shortage of new houses, high mortgage rates, and zoning laws...

The following list was created from entries from community members who submit content for our weekly Talk of the Towns. Please check your town website for updated information, or if your town is not listed.Allenstown; May 27; Memorial Day Mass; St....

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s something a little surprising about one of New Hampshire’s best museums, the small but mighty New Hampshire Telephone Museum in Warner: You’re not supposed to touch most of the exhibits even though they’re the kind of thing we’ve touched all...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As Sally Metheany neared 80 years old, she decided to sell her house in Warner, bidding farewell to her garden beds in favor of renting a more manageable apartment along Main Street.Her new abode in downtown Warner sits at the top of a set of stairs,...

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...