By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A major Main Street project, unsuccessful in getting a variance from the Concord Zoning Board, is asking the city to consider softening its rules on height requirements.Mark Ciborowski owns Phenix Hall and is in the process of restoring the historic...
I read Ann Podlipny’s My Turn “Why climate education is necessary for our schools.” She is proposing a resolution for an instructional addition to schools. I have several questions. Is there money attached to HR 30 for teacher training and...
The idea that Concord should launch community power through a for-profit energy broker, instead of joining the non-profit Community Power Coalition (CPCNH) to “preserve local control” has been floated in certain city committee meetings. But what...
The February edition of the Bow Times reported on the decades-long attempt for Bow to have Concord’s municipal water connect to Hall Street and south along Route 3-A. It credited Bow Selectmen, Matt Poulin for negotiating a deal to make this project a...
When we moved to Canterbury some 45 years ago, we met Cheryl Gordon, who has now served the town in various capacities (town clerk, tax collector, selectman, etc.). We were fortunate to have such a dedicated public servant for all those years, and the...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Open discourse at Hopkinton’s traditional town meeting is something Mark Zankel looks forward to every year because it offers him the opportunity to gain insights into diverse perspectives.Stepping into these town meetings, Zankel, who sits on the...
By GEOFF FORESTER and DAVID BROOKS
By the standards of modern maple sugaring, the Courser brothers’ operation isn’t exactly high-tech. No vacuum pumps, no reverse osmosis, no digital timers. But their gravity-fed tubes leading into barrels and tanks, with sap boiled down in a sugar...
By KATHY McCORMACK
The estranged wife of a New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving the body around for months was granted parole on Thursday, more than a year after she was sentenced to prison for lying about where she was when the...
By DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE
AUGUSTA, Maine — An Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Maine last year had evidence of traumatic brain injuries, according to a brain tissue analysis by researchers from Boston University. There was degeneration in the nerve fibers that...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Hot topic: The school district is proposing a budget increase of 6.86% from the current budget, which would take up a significant portion of taxpayer dollars as every year, leaving the town with limited funds for its expensesBudget: The proposed...
By ELLEN KENNY
Ellen Kenny lives in Concord. There have been several letters and articles in these pages recently on the proposed monetary cost of the new middle school, currently slated to be built in the woods in East Concord. I would like to speak here today...
By DAN ATTORRI
In 25 years the Pembroke ice hockey program has never played in a state championship. That will change on Saturday.No. 2 Pembroke-Campbell (15-4-0) controlled Wednesday night’s semifinal from start to finish, defeating No. 6 Kearsarge-Plymouth...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
SALEM – After falling behind 13-2 less than three minutes into Wednesday night’s Division II semifinal, No. 4 John Stark (16-5) looked to be in deep trouble against No. 1 Concord Christian (19-1).The Kingsmen came out asserting their game, forcing...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
SALEM — Beating the No. 3 Pembroke Spartans (18-3) requires more than just slowing down their senior star Annelise Dexter. The Spartans have depth, they have versatility and most importantly, for this time of the season, they have poise. And in...
By DAN ATTORRI
This year’s winter conditions posed far greater challenges than usual to the state’s high school Nordic ski teams, so much so that even having a championship wasn’t a given. But meet organizers pulled a rabbit out of a hat and Concord High made the...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Dubbed by some as state-sanctioned suicide and by others as a means to alleviate the suffering of those with terminal illnesses, a bill providing end-of-life options heads to the full House of Representatives with a favorable recommendation.After...
By RAY DUCKLER
Amid all the property tax hikes in the Concord area this town meeting season, Pembroke residents are facing the biggest with a whopping 28.1% increase in one year.The combined town and school tax rate is expected to increase from $27.88 to $35.70 –...
By RAY DUCKLER
Hot topic: While many school districts in the region are facing potential double-digit tax increases to pay for their children’s education, Chichester Central School will seek just a 61-cent hike in the tax rate, from $11.73 to $12.34, or an...
By MEREDITH COOLEY
Meredith Cooley lives in Concord. It is clear to me that Concord stands at a pivotal moment in its energy future. In a time marked by growing environmental and economic concerns, communities across New Hampshire (on the heels of the country and the...
By RAY DUCKLER
They’d seen each other a few times before, a pair of dog lovers walking the trails under the Sewalls Falls Bridge in Concord.They’d smile, nod, say hi – common behavior among dog lovers, who often know a dog’s name before they know the owner’s name....
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