By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Narratives of Native American history are frequently misunderstood and riddled with terms such as savages or primitives.Denise and Paul Pouliot, head speakers of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook Abenaki People, are altering the narrative by...
The twice-annual auction of surplus government property returns Saturday at White Farm in Concord, and crowds are expected.The auction sale, held each spring and fall, unloads hundreds of surplus items from the state and municipal governments ranging...
By TODD BOOKMAN
Catholic Medical Center has hired an outside law firm with experience in the healthcare industry to review its cardiac surgery unit, following a Boston Globe Spotlight investigation that raised concerns about a former CMC surgeon with one of the...
By DAVID BROOKS
The country’s first new mutual bank in a half-century has received final approval and will be opening the doors of its Concord office soon, with full service for the general public coming later this fall.Walden Mutual Bank, which labels itself as a...
By JENNY WHIDDEN and KELLY BURCH
Editor’s note: This story is the first in the ‘We have always been here’ series that will examine where NH stands when it comes to acknowledgment of and support for its indigenous people, what steps other New England states have taken and what Abenaki...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Around seven years ago, I started raising the question of whether Donald Trump and the MAGA movement he led were fascist. Numerous academics and mainstream journalists pooh-poohed that characterization as imprecise...
By RAY DUCKLER
Mark Patterson of Weare had it all figured out.Fresh off six-years of service in the Navy, he’d then finish his business degree at what was then called New Hampshire College. He’d be a college graduate, the first member of his family to do so.He’d...
By DAVID BROOKS
Concord-based Rymes Oil and Propane, which was sold to a Canadian firm in 2020, appears to be having difficulty with computer and back office systems that have left some customers frustrated and unable to contact them.“It’s not just that we can’t get...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
The former director of Capital City Charter School and her mother have agreed to pay $80,000 as part of a settlement agreement in a bankruptcy lawsuit accusing them of misusing funds for personal use.Stephanie Alicea, founder and former director of...
By DAVID BROOKS
In response to the host of headwinds facing small liberal-arts colleges, Colby-Sawyer College in New London has decided to shake up one of the industry’s long-standing trends: Ever-growing tuition partly offset by ever-growing financial aid.“Higher...
By WILSON RING
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Los Angeles biotech investor pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a transcontinental murder-for-hire conspiracy that led to the 2018 abduction and killing of a Vermont man.Serhat Gumrukcu, a 39-year-old Turkish citizen, appeared in U.S....
By EILEEN O’GRADY
Since cell phones were banned in class at Concord High School at the start of the year, 11th grader Skyler Hubbard says she has been able to focus better.After a tough stretch of remote learning when students could easily escape the gaze of their...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
The popular footwear store Simply Birkenstock is moving to a new location in downtown Concord. Now located near the intersection of South Main Street and Pleasant Street next to Pitchfork Records, the new storefront will be opening about a block away...
By NORA DOYLE-BURR
HANOVER — At the end of the second week of fall term classes, roughly 500 members of the Dartmouth College community gathered the evening of Sept. 23 in front of Baker-Berry Library to listen to the college’s president, chaplain and student leaders...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
By next spring, Concord officials expect to open a new splash pad at White Park where kids can tromp among familiar structures like a whale, mushrooms and tumble buckets.For the next few weeks, though, the hub of activity will come from construction...
By DAVID BROOKS
The cable company Breezeline is taking the next step in its expansion into New Hampshire, opening a customer care center at 41 North Main St. in Concord.The company, formerly known as Atlantic Broadband, signed a cable franchise agreement with the...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
NEWPORT — A 32-year-old Claremont man who had multiple convictions for using a mobile device while driving and who tried to prevent police from examining his mobile phone after he struck and killed a cyclist earlier this year in Newport, will serve at...
By DAVID BROOKS
An unusual plea for veterinary clinics to donate money to a state laboratory so it can diagnose a mysterious syndrome hurting New Hampshire’s dogs is another reminder that we aren’t doing enough to spot emerging diseases – as if a reminder was needed...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Electricity bills are expected to go through the roof this winter. Power companies, like Eversource and Unitil, have warned users that service rates will double. State and federal governments have issued assistance programs to alleviate costs.While...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
Seeing the difficulty finding primary care doctors in the Concord area, physician-owned DMC Primary Care plans to open a new facility in the city.Come Nov. 1, the primary care practice, which has been in business since 1964, will open on Hall Street...
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