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By RAY DUCKLER

Tomie dePaola – the affable local author and illustrator whose children’s books have sold 25 million copies worldwide, but whose book about a benevolent witch was banned in several U.S. school libraries for its positive views on witchcraft – will...

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Alex Ray feeds lots of people, both in the Granite State and a war zone thousands of miles away.He’s the founder and owner of a restaurant juggernaut in New Hampshire, building a chain of establishments that’s most commonly referred to as the Common...

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When Calle Walton lost her sight for good 10 years ago, she began to change her dreams of acting, and focus on teaching instead.Typically positive and optimistic, Walton felt beaten, fearing that her blindness had ended her hopes of acting...

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His eating establishment is different from the family’s typical modus operandi, but Andreas Georgopoulos made sure to keep an old name intact.His new restaurant, housed in the former cozy home of the Yellow Submarine sandwich shop at 192 North State...

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Peggo Horstmann Hodes wants the world to sing, no experience necessary.That’s been one of her jobs at the Concord Community Music School. She’s conducted the all-female Songweavers Chorus the past 12 years and at one time had about 100 singers, before...

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Alex Ray, who prides himself on being a common man, has shown uncommon skills while building an empire within the state’s always-challenging restaurant business.His Common Man logo – a farmer working in his field, pushing and leaning hard on a tiller...

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They mentioned Grateful Dead songs and lyrics.They cited his rough-and-tumble past that reads like a fallen rock star’s life, emphasizing how he overcame substance abuse and homelessness for a brief period.And they spoke of his gentle nature and his...

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He says he vividly recalls their first kiss, about 80 years ago.They were students at Concord High School, walking home at night after a weekend party. The United States, fighting a two-front war in a global conflict, would soon emerge as a confident,...

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Sometimes, Louis Jacob wears a red vest, a white shirt and a black bow tie.He looks like someone from 100 years ago when barbershop quartets and even larger singing teams were common. A declining enrollment for such pursuits in years past was made...

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To the faster runners who had already crossed the finish line and the slower ones still on the course, the explosions heard in Boston 10 years ago Saturday could have been attributed to a celebration of some sort.Yes, they worried about something more...

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Road work on Interstate 393, extending from Exit 1 to the Pembroke/Chichester line, will occur all of next week, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.The facelift will include the ramps to Exits 1 through 3 and begin on Monday, weather...

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State and local fire officials, already investigating the cause of a house fire on Dover Road in Epsom three months ago, believe arson played a role after firefighters were called to the same house on Tuesday afternoon.State Fire Marshal Sean Toomey,...

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It was Mother’s Day last year when Michele Decoteau of Mason brought a stethoscope to a park in Nashua.She wanted to hear a heartbeat. A particular heartbeat. The one that once pumped inside her son, Daniel, before a motor vehicle accident left him...

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Finding an impartial voice these days, especially when it comes to certain topics, seems difficult. But when it comes to the world’s religions, Art Rosen plays it right down the middle.He lectures in schools, makes speaking engagements, writes books...

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Less than two weeks after the Fish and Game Department had covered a swastika spray painted on the wall of an old railroad trestle, more racist remarks and symbols surfaced on Sunday at the same spot, discovered by a local resident walking his...

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A combination of Uncle William and Hurricane Maria led Specialist Abner Classen of Exeter down the right path.He came to the Granite State after his homeland of Puerto Rico was destroyed by Maria in 2017. Amid the chaos, Uncle William lived here in...

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Connie Fellows appreciates the offers to help.Her nonprofit – giving homemade Easter baskets to children – has grown over the past nine years, to the point where an ordinary individual might welcome help packing all those baskets, containing...

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Alex Ray, the Common Man Restaurant’s founder and owner, is bringing his famed logo – a farmer working in his field, pushing and leaning hard on a tiller to prepare the soil for planting – to the Epsom Traffic Circle, perhaps by late summer, an...

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Sarah Stanley’s family name, Griffin, is forever part of the Frankin landscape.Her married name, meanwhile, has had its own impact on the town, this one centered at the Veterans Home in Tilton. That’s where Stanley has worked the past three years,...

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Hold the phone. Don’t count Soula Maloutas and her popular downtown restaurant out just yet.She thinks that, perhaps, no news is good news.Maloutas, one of many unknown stars in the universal book known as Reaching the American Dream, is hopeful that...