By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A bill that would require educators to answer parents’ questions about their children “completely and honestly” will move forward in the New Hampshire House without a recommendation from its Education Committee.On Tuesday – a day after the committee...
By DAVID BROOKS
One year after it made a radical change to how it charges students by slashing both tuition and financial aid, Colby-Sawyer College’s president says the benefits seem to be outweighing the risks, indirectly helped this year by problems with the...
By ARIANNA MACNEILL
Concord police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a person they believe is connected to a swath of cars “keyed” during a state Republican Party event earlier this month.Police were originally called to Westbourne Road to investigate...
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...
Concord Young Professionals Network (CYPN) introduces you to the “Young Professional of the Month,” Siobhan Lofblad. Each month, the CYPN Steering Committee recommends individuals in the community it thinks readers would enjoy getting to know...
By RICK GREEN
An attorney for the University System of New Hampshire testified Tuesday that pending state legislation would disrupt an already effective system for handling disciplinary complaints at higher learning institutions.House Bill 1288 is aimed at ensuring...
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,...
“Not Your Grandmother’s Jane Austen…”Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life.The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to...
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 CELESTE CLARK
Celeste Clark is the executive director of Raymond Coalition For Youth. Think it’s not your issue so you don’t need to pay attention? Do you think, well I don’t use it so I really don’t care? Or, are you just plain sick of hearing about marijuana...
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...
You wouldn’t buy a used car without “kicking the tires.” Of course you’d do your due diligence to determine whether or not the car was a good deal. As voters we need to exercise the same due diligence. Before we vote in the upcoming election, we need...
Thank you Tyler Czarkowski, for the My Turn “America needs systemic change.” You are so right! I urge you to consider that all politics starts locally. Plenty is happening within our state that is driven by a national agenda driven by billionaires....
Between the proposed spending sprees of the Concord City Council and the Concord School Board, soon the only people who will be living in Concord will be the wealthy and the homeless. According to one city councilor, the proposed new police station...
With the word “yeah,” Gov. Sununu’s job as a fast talking political influencer has ended. I speak of the answer to commentator George Stephanopoulos’s question of whether he will still support Trump, while a laundry list of Trump transgressions...
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