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By RACHEL WACHMAN

For Derek Astles, music offers a manual to the world.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Brian Karoul was ready to move back east.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A chaotic week that raised questions about the fate of a widely popular bell-to-bell school phone ban ended with the proposed law added to the latest version of the legislature’s state budget, all but ensuring one of Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s signature policy priorities goes into effect ahead of the upcoming school year.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Charles Michelson remembers his first time trying a drive up a steep hill on a motorbike, back when he was just a few feet tall and about the same age as his 8-year-old son is now.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Two thousand new students applied to New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program during the program’s first week without an income eligibility cap, according to the program’s administrator.

By FISTO NDAYISHIMIYE

On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, were finally told they were free. This day, now known as Juneteenth, represents both a celebration of liberation and a painful reminder of how far justice can be delayed for Black people in America.

PILLAR Gallery + Projects and Kimball Jenkins Estate announce their first collaborative exhibition, “ON/OFF The Wall,” a contemporary printmaking exhibition in Concord, on view from Friday, June 20 to Friday, Aug. 15. An opening reception will be held on June 20 from 6-8:30 p.m.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Department of Corrections officer who helped restrain an uncooperative psychiatric patient said she never saw Matthew Millar place his knee on the man, offering little support for prosecutors’ claim that her fellow officer had caused the man’s death by kneeling on his back.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

A push to create mandatory minimum prison sentences for fentanyl-related crimes will move forward after it hit the skids earlier this week.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The New Hampshire Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Concord athlete against the state’s athletic supervisory organization, ruling that the former student lacked standing in the case and the court system lacked jurisdiction over the claims.

By YAA BAME

A jury should never have convicted Richard Ellison of second-degree murder because he was unable to mount a full defense due to court errors during his trial, his lawyer told the New Hampshire Supreme Court. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

While his older brother, Jesse, was in prison, Zackary Sullivan used to send him his allowance. Even as a kid, he wanted to share everything he had with the people he loved. 

By DAVID BROOKS

Something weird is going to happen Saturday: It won’t rain.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

A malware scam across New Hampshire and Massachusetts in February stole thousands of dollars from ATMs at multiple establishments, including Bell Brothers, a convenience store in Pittsfield.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Lisa Beaudoin walked into the Legislative Office Building in Concord on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to plead with state lawmakers not to cut Medicaid in the state budget.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Michael Durgin got the call on Tuesday morning, he thought it was bad news.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Aside from his baseball hat displaying the words “It took me 101 years to look this good,” Floyd Severance hides his age well.

By YAA BAME

New Hampshire could receive up to $30 million over the next ten years from a settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, according to state Attorney General John Formella.

By ANDREA BRYANT

It’s the ninth inning of SB2 budget bill, and state Sen. Howard Pearl R-Loudon has introduced an amendment that would strip away local control over landfill siting by invalidating zoning laws as well as legal agreements. It also expresses a preference for the expansion of existing landfills. That would leave the six towns with landfills in them – Nashua, Lebanon, Conway, Bethlehem, Rochester and Success – to be literally dumped on forever.

By DAN ATTORRI

Kearsarge senior Liam Miller was the top area tennis player at the state boys’ singles tournament which was held last week, reaching the semifinals.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

To get better at tennis, or any sport for that matter, you need to play around the clock, year-round. No one knows this better than Concord High girls’ tennis coach Greg Malette.