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By CASSIDY JENSEN
On New Year’s Eve, some 1,000 people living in the small town of Hill quietly lost their police department.At the end of December, Hill Corporal Andrew Williamson resigned after the town tried in vain to hire a new chief. The only other officer was on...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
The Concord School District has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million to two former students who said they were abused by former teacher Howie Leung.The most recent payout of $1 million was made five months ago to an unnamed former student who is now...
By RAY DUCKLER
Arlene Fleury of Pembroke, 97, continues to live on her own and even writes daily thoughts to her more than 600 followers on Facebook.She’s the latest recipient of the Boston Post Cane award, a New England tradition that honors a community’s oldest...
By Monitor staff
As a sign of its impending demise, the windows and iconic blue and yellow panels that marked the decades-old former Employment Security Building in Concord’s downtown began to come down this week.Starting on the vacant building’s top floor, crews are...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
When Mary Rose Deak sat in her car at night, she would stare up at the sky and let her imagination go.“You can look out at the stars and sometimes you can pretend you’re in ISS,” she said. “You’re in this little space, kinda how it must be like to be...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Mark Reid still has voicemails on his phone from his brother, Steve. He replays birthday messages left by Steve and his wife, Wendy – a chance to hear their voices one more time.Steve and Wendy left their house on April 18 for a walk along the Broken...
By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH
Lawyers for a man found guilty of participating in the 1988 murder of a pregnant Bow woman are working to clear his name and free him from prison after three decades, saying he is innocent and his conviction rested on a false confession.If successful,...
By DAVID BROOKS
A secure facility for 24 patients with mental illness could be operating alongside New Hampshire Hospital in Concord within two years, although many details remain to be worked out.The state will present an online update Thursday night at 6 p.m. about...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
For a second consecutive summer, there will be no lifeguards on duty at Weirs Beach.Though there will be on-duty guards at Bond Beach, the city Parks and Recreation Department was unable to sufficiently staff Weirs Beach, which requires a larger team...
By DAVID BROOKS
That big hole in the parking lot of the Capitol Shopping Center on Storrs Street is the start of the first major change to the site in decades.Brixmor Property Group, owner of the half-century-old plaza, has presented proposals to build a casual...
By SARAH GIBSON
Mackenzie Verdiner goes to one of the most diverse schools in New Hampshire, Manchester’s West High School. Students there speak about 50 different languages.“If I grab a fistful of kids randomly, it would be a different color on each finger — it’s...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. With mass shootings practically a daily event, defenders of unrestricted gun owner rights typically invoke the mantra of the Second Amendment. Attention is rarely paid though to the historical circumstances...
By ROBERT AZZI
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have wanted, as did poet Mary Oliver, to keep a distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. I have tried, I...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
For Adam Hassan, Umuganda is a chance to show his 2-year-old daughter a slice of life from home. Gathering to do community activities, like the gardening and painting that happened in Keach Park on Saturday, is a frequent feat in his home country of...
By PAUL STEINHAUSER
The Granite State’s affection for Donald Trump appears to be wearing thin.Trump’s decisive 2016 victory over the crowded Republican field in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary once propelled him towards the nomination and...
By DAVID BROOKS
Smooth slender crabgrass, a plant known to exist only at Rock Rimmon Park in Manchester, has been officially declared globally extinct, the N.H. Natural Heritage Bureau announced Wednesday.This is the first documented plant extinction ever in New...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
In a small room in the Merrimack County Visitation Center, Disney princess stickers line the beige walls. Toy trucks, board games and a Little Tikes plastic kitchen are at the ready for children to play. This room, along with three others down the...
By HOLLY RAMER
A New Hampshire man who spent six years in state custody as a child is suing multiple facilities alleging physical and sexual abuse.The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the latest of more than 400 targeting the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called...
By DAVID BROOKS
After years and years of declining birth rates, New Hampshire has surprised just about everybody by seeing the country’s biggest baby boom last year with a birth rate that rebounded 7% since pre-pandemic times, far more than any other state.Whether it...
By RAY DUCKLER
Sometime during the past 20 years or so, Dustin Kay latched onto his older brother’s hip for the very first time.Then he rarely let go.Maybe that’s why Mikey Kay wore so many hats on the day Dustin’s urn was buried. He hugged nearly every person in a...
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