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By RAY DUCKLER

First, at 11:05 p.m., their doorbell rang like crazy, in rapid-fire succession, suggesting something was wrong.Then came pounding on their front door, along with cries for a phone. Michelle and Michael Girard raced downstairs and opened the door,...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

As part of an amended plea deal, a former Pembroke Academy student convicted Monday of assaulting female classmates must register as a sex offender in New Hampshire for up to 10 years.However, Griffin Furlotte, 18, could petition the superior court to...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A former Pembroke Academy dean convicted of felony drug charges in early 2018 violated her probation several months later by continuing to abuse narcotics, a judge ruled.Rekha Luther, 39, of Manchester recently pleaded true to a violation of probation...

By RAY DUCKLER

Maybe Lisa Wheeler’s three kids were right after all.Maybe their home in Pembroke, site of a mass murder more than 100 years ago that, somehow, slipped through the town’s historical cracks, is, indeed, haunted. Maybe the murderer, Charles Ayer,...

By NICK STOICO

Five people were arrested on drug charges in Pembroke, including one alleged dealer, after police seized heroin and other illegal drugs from a Buck Street home on Tuesday.Roland Thibeault, 23, of Pembroke faces five counts of sale of a controlled drug...

By RAY DUCKLER

For years, filmmaker Kristen Vermilyea was sexually objectified because of her appearance, long before the Me Too Movement nudged the issue to the forefront of society.On Monday, the Bishop Brady High School graduate, now 49, will share her thoughts...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Rekha Luther recalled vividly in court Monday the first time she shot up heroin, aiming to suppress chronic pain from an underlying health condition that had led her to abuse prescription drugs.After the first time, she was hooked and the choice to...

By LOLA DUFFORT

Thanks to the Merrimack and the Suncook rivers, Pembroke is blessed with multiple floodplains. But not, as it turns out, quite as many as early European settlers had hoped. Settled by the English in the 1730s, the town was first laid out on a grid,...

By LOLA DUFFORT

Alongside representatives from the state’s congressional delegation, the New Hampshire National Guard celebrated the opening of its newest training facility in Pembroke, a multi-million dollar project many years in the making.As snow fell outside,...