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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As Gov. Kelly Ayotte works to deliver on her campaign promises, state lawmakers are approaching the finish line of the 2025 session.

Concord was among the many towns and cities across New Hampshire to observe Memorial Day with a parade on Monday. Monitor photo editor Geoff Forester captured photos and video from the Concord event. 

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Dana Flanders walked into a room at the Quality Inn on Staniels Road on Jan. 27 with almost no information. The Loudon police chief knew only that a man inside was experiencing suicidal ideation and hadn’t answered his phone or answered the door in hours.

By CHLOE MAHEU and PARKER JOHNSON

Chloe Maheu and Parker Johnson are middle school students in Hopkinton.

By SHANNON TREMBLAY, MARIANNE BARTER, LYNN OUELLETTE and JACKIE FIRMIN

Shannon Tremblay, Marianne Barter, Lynn Ouellette and Jackie Firmin are respectively director, chair, vice chair and secretary of the New Hampshire Child Care Advisory Council. The Council is a legislatively enacted body that advises state and local leaders on issues impacting child care.

By DAN ATTORRI

With one week to go until the NHIAA track and field division championships, the Belmont girls’ team showed its a favorite for the crown by winning the 23-team Wilderness League Championship at Newfound Regional High School on Saturday.

Concord, Merrimack Valley at Londonderry Invitational

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Former Concord Schools Athletic Director Bill Whitmore remembers watching his wife, Jill, help create the city’s skatepark in the late 1990s so that their son had a place to inline skate. Decades later, his son coaches basketball at the University of Wyoming, and Whitmore believes it’s time for a deserved upgrade to the park.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLINand DAVID BROOKS

Prominent Manchester-based developer Dick Anagnost is set to buy the stalled Railyard Apartments project and he intends to follow through on the rest of its construction, which is good news for the fits-and-starts status of new housing in the city.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Gov. Kelly Ayotte called on the state legislature to pass a school phone ban in January, the pivotal question wasn’t whether the widely popular policy would pass but how far it would go.

By ROBERT C. WASHBURN

Robert C. Washburn lives in Concord.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Mason DeFrancesco initially returned home to Concord from four years of service in the Marines, he spent his first few Memorial Days going to the New Hampshire State Cemetery in Boscawen and thinking of those he knew who didn’t return home.

By YAA BAME

At Sweet Dreamz in Penacook, hardware, animals and ice cream mix every day.

Memorial Day provides a time for solemn remembrance of those who died serving their country. Many local towns hold ceremonies or events to commemorate these lives lost in service. Here is a list of local Memorial Day events.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing are great ways to stay active, but once a board gets scraped and beat up, most people move on from their well-loved piece of equipment and store it in the garage or toss it away. Back Alley Boards, the brainchild of three New Hampshire artists, gives these boards new life by upcycling and turning them into art.

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com and jstim.substack.com.

By AMY O’DELL WILSON

Amy O’Dell Wilson is the vice president of the New Hampshire Acupuncture & Asian Medicine Association and an acupuncturist member of the New Hampshire Integrative Pain Care Committee. She lives in Harrisville and practices in Peterborough.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Emerging plans to renovate Concord’s athletic complex at Memorial Field include four new fields, bleachers, parking and a field house, all of which are expected to cost $27 million over two main phases.