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By RAY DUCKLER

Peachy Healy wasn’t sure she got all the words right from Concord High School’s old fight song.But when she raised her right arm to show school spirit, and her eyes, deep blue against her white hair, squinted in delight, you knew she’d give it a try....

By RAY DUCKLER

Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown is a direct descendent of a program born during one of the most important times in U.S. history, and both are celebrating milestone birthdays this year.Bear Brook is 80. The Civilian Conservation Corps...

By RAY DUCKLER

The old trailer with a floor made of wooden planks – packed with state officials troubled that many of the farm’s apples never had a chance this season due to a late frost – rolled up the slight incline on Friday, surrounded by small trees with bright...

By RAY DUCKLER

Sometimes, when your business is booming and the public loves you, changes must still be made.That’s the scenario downtown, as Sunday’s ice cream shop will soon be making things hard for its recently expanding customer base and increased sales.The...

By DAVID BROOKS

The auto industry is facing more changes than it has seen in a century, but not everything is different: Concord is about to see an event that is very familiar to car fans – the opening of a big, new dealership.Grappone Mazda is moving from the site...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has joined Florida and Oklahoma in allowing students to receive academic credit by watching certain short videos from a group that says it “offers a free alternative to the dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media, and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Adam Hassan tucked a small American flag into the front pocket of his button down shirt and smiled for a photo. On Friday he became a U.S. citizen.It was a day he’s worked toward for nearly a decade and one that’s hard to comprehend.After leaving his...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ashley Cheney knows the state’s child welfare system through and through – for better or for worse.A few years ago, her three young children got on the bus to school. At the end of the day, they never came back.Instead, they were sent off to foster...

By DAVID BROOKS

A proposal to create as many as 625 units in five buildings to replace Steeplegate Mall is the latest in a series of large, multi-use developments proposed for Concord that could bring well over 1,600 apartments and condominiums to the city.It’s...

By DAVID BROOKS

The owner of the Steeplegate Mall submitted plans to the city of Concord proposing to tear down most of the sprawling shopping complex as well the Regal Cinema next door, creating a large mixed-use development of retail buildings and 625 residential...

By RAY DUCKLER

His fans are eager to talk about his class off the field, excited to examine his 20-year career on the field and determined to declare that no one – no one –loved Tom Brady more than they did.Actually, we should use the word ‘love,’ because the years...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

On Mother’s Day in 2007, Rich St. Pierre crouched in the dirt as he dug a hole to plant a cherry tree. As a mound of earth grew beside him, his youngest son, EJ, sat with a shovel in hand, throwing the loose soil in the newfound backyard...

By RAY DUCKLER

Barbara Hays trained employees at a telephone and communications company for decades.These days, at age 80, the Bow resident is still involved in communications, but she no longer needs to say anything to anybody.Her quilts say it all.“Barbara has...

By DAVID BROOKS

The weird thing about New Hampshire’s housing crisis from my point of view is that it seems to have erupted out of nowhere. One day we had a tight but bearable market for rentals and home ownership; the next day there wasn’t an open apartment south of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Almost a decade after the state was forced to step in because Fred Fuller Oil Co. wasn’t delivering heating oil to customers amid a January polar vortex, the federal government is still trying to collect more than a half-million dollars in unpaid...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you want to support public education and have a little flutter at the same time, should you buy a lottery ticket or do some state-sponsored betting on sports?Buy the lottery ticket, by a long shot. But you’re less likely to lose money from the...

By RAY DUCKLER

An Epsom couple received permission to open a home business to sell firearms online and at trade shows after residents protested that it wasn’t allowed in a residential area.The decision follows a disagreement between the Planning Board, which...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s fall hunting seasons start rolling out Sept. 1 amid signs that a decades-long decline in the number of hunters has finally ended.The state sold 50,599 hunting licenses to residents in 2022, about 11% more than the pre-COVID year of...

By RAY DUCKLER

For Gurcharan Singh, selling his family business was like losing an old friend.In fact, one of Singh’s daughters, 25-year-old Anupreet Saini, cried when her father announced that he had sold House of India, the Indian restaurant that called Pleasant...

By RAY DUCKLER

Puns have been ruff to avoid, but, doggone it, Jessica Martin has done her best to paws and maintain control.“There are so many jokes with something like this,” said Martin, the executive director of Intown Concord. “I’ve definitely had to show some...