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By RAY DUCKLER

Chris Kane treated old trees like they were his grandparents.He respected old trees, protected them, made sure they lived full, rich lives.“He could identify any plant or tree and know if it was rare or endangered,” said Kane’s lone daughter, Hilary...

By DAVID BROOKS

Every good mechanic has a trick or two up their sleeve. Colby Rousseau’s trick is a sleeve, with a cartoonish pointing hand at the end of it, and it’s one of the reasons he’s headed to California and maybe to Japan.“He’s pretty amazing. And he’s got...

By RAY DUCKLER

Kimmy Coombs is a nurse at the Birches assisted living community in Concord, yet she felt the need to introduce herself Monday to the seniors she sees each day.As a full-blooded member of the Cherokee nation, Coombs told her audience about the history...

By RAY DUCKLER

Forget the eye-popping statistics – goals and assists - that regularly define hockey’s top players.That was not Mick Mounsey’s game. Instead, Mounsey used his refrigerator-like frame to keep high-flying forwards away from the University of New...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the attempts to block a new gaming hall near Loudon Road has been rejected following a Concord Zoning Board ruling that an appeal of a planning board decision was filed months too late.Concord Zoning Board of Adjustment ruled 5-0 Wednesday...

By RAY DUCKLER

Jay McSharry, whose 14-restaurant empire covers a large portion of the Granite State and a small section in Maine, hopes to routinely hear the shortened version of his new, eclectic restaurant in Concord, which opened for business this...

By RAY DUCKLER

Elizabeth Duclos, a third-grade teacher at Pembroke Hill School, was named the state’s Teacher of the Year Thursday.Duclos was nominated for the award by superintendents, principals, past and present colleagues, parents of students and other community...

By RAY DUCKLER

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani personally filed a defamation lawsuit against President Joe Biden on Wednesday at Merrimack County Superior Court, claiming, among other things, that Biden called him a Russian “pawn” during a 2020 debate with...

By RAY DUCKLER

Sometime before Christmas – the brains behind this operation can’t be sure of the exact date – a major milestone will be reached.In what began as a family affair at the Thanksgiving table 20 years ago has grown into an altruistic endeavor, a simple...

By RAY DUCKLER

Shilo Lynn of Allenstown read on Facebook recently that residents in the area had given food and money to a woman in the downtown village of Suncook.The woman had been spending an inordinate amount of time on a bench under a street light, alone,...

By RAY DUCKLER

He believes he has the delicate touch needed to win, created by the experience he’s gained from playing a video game.But digging a hole with an excavator to build a farm, on a video screen with absolutely no pressure, is far easier than working the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Karen Jantzen has been busy lately.She’s been to the Concord Planning Board to defend her project to build low-barrier apartments on Pleasant Street.She’s been worried about the number 40, which is the maximum capacity of the Concord Coalition to End...

By RAY DUCKLER

Donna Moorcroft-Juslin lightly pressed her fingers against a small section of the inscriptions on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington last weekend.She knew none of the approximately 58,000 names that covered the solemn tribute, with its...

By DAVID BROOKS

It says something about New Hampshire’s climate that the annual sustainability report from our largest electric utility discusses ice storms, tornadoes, floods and even microbursts, but doesn’t mention wildfiresIt says something else that this may...

By RAY DUCKLER

For Belinda Allen and James Osborne, the plan to build a cluster development of 36 townhouses and 24 single family homes along busy Route 28 overlooks the impact on the wildlife that has long added to the charm of the property.For Alida Brown, the 16...

BY RAY DUCKLER

Plans to build 36 multifamily townhomes in Epsom will be discussed at an open meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Epsom Central School cafeteria.The Epsom Zoning Board will vote on a variance request made by the developer, The Dubay Group, Inc.,...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Better drainage, a turf field, updated bleachers, public bathrooms and private locker rooms are just some of the amenities Concord residents want to see in the city’s master plan for an updated Memorial Field. Though renovations won’t come for another...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It’s hard for Claire Nepa to explain how long it took her to find peas in the grocery store without laughing. It sounds ridiculous now – it’s just a can or frozen bag of vegetables.But when peas sound like “piece” which also sounds like “peace,”...

By KHADIJA AHMED

Mischa Fay was like a lot of kids growing up around Lake Winnipesaukee – he liked boating, Star Wars and pizza. He also loved playing hockey, spending time with his sisters and cheering on the Boston Bruins with his dad. Known as kind and soft-spoken,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Voters may soon be seeing a different device when they cast their ballots: A follow-up to our current AccuVote machines or an open-source machine from a not-for-profit startup.The state ballot law commission has chosen those two to replace the aging...