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By DAVID BROOKS

The Concord Fire Department spent Wednesday morning fighting a stubborn brush fire burning on a steep bank between the Merrimack River and the rail line just south of Sewalls Falls Road.“We think it had been smoldering for a couple of days,” said...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Construction can now begin on a project to transform the former First Congregational Church on North Main Street into housing after new plans, updated to reflect an agreement between developers and the neighboring Greater Islamic Society of Concord,...

By ALICE WADE

Alice Wade is an aerospace engineer from Dover and serves as the treasurer of 603 Equality. When I grew up in the early 2000s, I didn’t know what being transgender meant. I grew up in a time when people cross-dressing on TV shows were laughed at,...

SoftballCoe-Brown 15Pembroke 2, 5 inn.Key players: Coe-Brown – Jayden Porter (win, 4 IP; triple, double, 3 RBI), Bella Pelletier (1 IP), Reilly West (3-for-3, 4 RBI), Addison Coffin (2 hits, 3 RBI), Brook Orluk (2-for-2, triple), Judi Quinney (hit),...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Down every street in Dover, reminders of his late wife Stephanie followed Larry Regan. After she passed, he headed towards Concord to start anew. It’s taken a while for that to feel like a reality, but the day has finally come. For the last three...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A week after a federal appeals court ruled a transgender sports ban in West Virginia was discriminatory, more than a dozen transgender girls, parents, educators and advocates in New Hampshire argued that a similar ban under consideration in New...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously voted on Tuesday to advance Senate Bill 472, which allows host communities to participate in charitable gaming alongside charities and non-profits.Senate Bill 472, now heading to the full House of...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Assistant principals don’t typically serve students food, but at Bow High School, lunch duty is a daily responsibility for Matt Fisk.Last Wednesday, Fisk dished out Big Mac subs and cheese nachos and checked in with students as they passed through the...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Deb Leahy can finally breathe easy, freed from the fluctuating rental fees each time her organization partners with a New Hampshire casino for donations.Thanks to a new law, casinos are now prohibited from imposing rent charges on charities for...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Before she moved to Hanover, Susan Gillotti was hesitant.“I said that I wanted to move a continuing care retirement community in New Hampshire, but I was really afraid of doing it because I’d lose my entitlement to medical aid in dying,” said...

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A man is facing a felony animal cruelty charge after he allegedly struck and killed a cat Monday afternoon.Felix Perez, 30, was arrested on the charge, and is set to be arraigned on Tuesday.Police were called to Mammoth Road around 1:44 p.m. for a...

By MICHAEL STRAND

Michael Strand is a candidate for Executive Council in District 4. He lives in Bedford, where he serves on the Bedford Town Council, manages a small staffing firm, and has a daughter in Bedford public schools. He holds degrees in English and history...

SoftballBow 5, Campbell 4Key players: Bow – Maddy Oppold (2-for-4), Ella Roos (3-for-4), Taylor Ouellette (2-for-4, 2 RBI), Emma Kelly (1-for-4, walk-off single), Lilly Wright (1-for-3, 2-run HR), Caly Poitras (4 IP, 7 H, 1 BB), Taylor Ouellette (3...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

If you’ve attended a sporting event at Merrimack Valley High School, the odds are high you’re familiar with the voice of Nick Gelinas.Perched atop the press box during the spring and fall sports seasons and in the bleachers of the MVHS gym in the...

By DAVID BROOKS

More than 28 years ago I interviewed Kenneth Levasseur, a professor at UMass-Lowell, about his innovative new project: A math class via email.In the resulting column I noted that the course, the school’s first official online class, would have...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Every spring morning, as the first rays of sunlight dance across Dunbarton, Donna Dunn is treated to a vibrant sea of yellow daffodils unfurling before her eyes.It’s a sight that fills her heart with indescribable joy, a gift that few are fortunate...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A fire on Main Street in Plymouth Saturday night tore through two empty commercial buildings but left one, the neighboring Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center, largely unscathed.Just after 9 p.m., with a Foreigner-Journey tribute band on...

By MAGGIE FOGARTY

Maggie Fogarty is NH Program Director, American Friends Service Committee. On Feb. 8, a bill (SB 439) cosponsored by a bipartisan group of 18 New Hampshire senators was approved by a voice vote in the NH Senate. The bill, which would codify a 2023...

By RAY DUCKLER

Visiting United Shoe Repair downtown may not only result in improved shoes, but also may serve as an environmentally friendly act.D.J. Annicchiarico is on the ground floor of conservation, an individual whose multi-generational business dates back 115...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Four years after a commission to study law enforcement in New Hampshire produced a series of recommendations about better policing practices, people of color continue to be disproportionally incarcerated in the state at virtually the same rates. For...