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By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

After several years of coming oh-so-close to a Division I team championship, Concord finally finished the job on Tuesday at Canterbury Woods to take home the 2023 team title, the program’s first since 2006.Senior Gavin Richardson finished in a tie for...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

For a program that hadn’t even had a varsity golf team since 2016, merely sending two players to participate in the Division II team championship would’ve been impressive to head coach Joe Dougherty. But on Tuesday at Breakfast Hill Golf Club in...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONTOOCOOK – Usually, an 8-1 win satisfies a head coach. But with the playoffs looming and Hopkinton poised to secure a top-four seed in Division III, head coach Mike Zahn needs the Hawks (12-1-1) to stay locked in.On Tuesday, they were able to take...

By DAN ATTORRI

CONTOOCOOK – For the Generals, it all starts with battles in the trenches. John Stark won the battle on the first play from scrimmage, allowing senior Donnie White to rip off a 65 yard touchdown run. It’s a sequence that would become familiar to...

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 CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. While Concord is a great little city with much to offer, it’s not perfect. We have some complicated issues that need to be...

By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The stories about corruption at the U.S. Supreme Court keep mushrooming. We first heard about Justice Clarence Thomas accepting expensive gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow that Thomas never reported. After Thomas...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. “Democracies don’t have to die at the end of a rifle,” President Biden recently said. “They can die when people are silent,...

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 ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Her freestyle stroke makes her look like the Katie Ledecky of 16-year-olds, metronomic in rhythm.While Margaret Rivard’s peers on the Concord Sailfish Swim Team splash in the pool at the Concord YMCA, she swims steadily, back and forth down the lane...

By DAN ATTORRI

The NHIAA fall postseason is upon us, starting with the golf championships being contested this week. The top eight teams from each of the four NHIAA divisions will compete for team titles throughout the week, while the top 14 individuals from each...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Perched at her dining room table smoking a cigarette, Haley Dempsey recalled the moment her stepfather broke down the front door of her childhood home and shot her mother before turning the gun on himself.She was just three years old but the violence...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL and DAN ATTORRI

Since Bow High School opened in 1997, the Falcons have only ever had one boys’ soccer coach: George Pinkham. That will change in 2023.After amassing a 347-110-18 record with four championships and 10 championship appearances over 26 seasons, Pinkham...

By JACQUELINE COLE

Doc, a burly man with silver skeleton rings and tattoos across his arms, has more children’s books on his Kindle than anything else. He has read them over the phone to one of his honorary kids every night for the past year and a half to help the child...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The brother of the former Loudon Police chief has been indicted on felony sexual assault charges involving a child. William Fiske, 69, of Loudon, who is the brother of former Loudon Police Chief Robert Fiske, is accused of sexually assaulting a minor...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Although this association has rarely been made, the similarities between the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are marked. Both movements have preached the centrality of...

By RAY DUCKLER

Lynn Colby wants high school students to remember that it’s not too late to avoid a catastrophe that will forever alter the course of many lives.It altered Colby’s. Her brother, Skipper Kingsbury, got drunk and drove into a tree three days before...

By JANET WARD

Janet Ward lives in Contoocook. On April 25, the NH Senate Education Committee heard testimony regarding HB 367 and HB 464. Both bills propose the expansion of funding for Education Freedom Accounts, New Hampshire’s school voucher program. This...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Coaching runs in the Whitmore family.Bill Whitmore – former Concord High School athletic director from 1990-2006 – was the men’s basketball coach at the University of Vermont and an assistant at St. Bonaventure in the ‘80s. Now his son, Nick, has a...