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5 reasons to buy a cow (or part of one)
10-29-2020 10:35 AM

Want to buy a cow? It could live in your backyard and eat the grass. Then you could feed it expensive fermented hay all winter. It could supply all the manure you could ever want – and more. To the point, how would you turn an inconvenient pet into...


My Turn: Progressives want to indoctrinate our children, not educate them
10-17-2020 1:01 PM

By JOSEPH MENDOLA

If you are a Progressive in the political sense of the word, here is the philosophy you subscribe to. If you think about public education, you think like John Dewey, the father of a progressive educational system. Americans have allowed Dewey’s...


Letter: Three reasons to vote Democrat
10-15-2020 7:00 PM

Reason one to vote Democrat on Nov. 3: Leadership with vision really matters.Leadership and vision for our state and our country start with caring more about its citizens and its future generations’ personal health, community health, environmental...


Tall trees on the high seas
10-14-2020 9:33 AM

By JAMES SPAIN

Like many young boys craving adventure, it is the lore that draws you in. You hear a story or stumble upon a mystery in your youth and you think about it still from time to time. Your young heart once knew what your old heart still remembers.As a...


Regal Cinemas to shut its theaters, including in Concord, due to shortage of new movies
10-06-2020 12:42 PM

By DANICA KIRKA and LINDSEY BAHR

In the latest blow to the beleaguered film industry, the second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is temporarily shuttering its locations due to a lack of blockbusters on the calendar and major domestic markets like New York remaining...


Concord police identify victims in Route 106 fatal crash
10-02-2020 5:29 PM

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Police have identified a Hudson man who died Tuesday in a single-car crash on Route 106 in Concord.Nicholas Coolen, 27, was killed when he was ejected from a 2001 black Chevrolet Corvette traveling south from Loudon to the Capital City, Concord Deputy...


Foe or friend? Blue jays provide an important service to other wildlife
09-27-2020 7:54 PM

By LEE EMMONS

Plenty of backyard birdwatchers consider blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) the villains of the avian world. Mark Twain best summarized anti-blue jay sentiment when he compared the bird’s principles to that of an ex-congressman. In Native American lore,...


New legal protections for sexual assault victims in N.H. take effect this week
09-26-2020 2:11 PM

By ETHAN DeWITT

New Hampshire’s protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence were widely expanded this week, after a broad package of reforms pushed by lawmakers and signed by Gov. Chris Sununu this summer took effect.House Bill 705, known as the “Crime...


Witness details feud with Cantwell
09-24-2020 5:11 PM

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

A Missouri man who got involved with online white nationalism told a jury Wednesday how his life intersected Christopher Cantwell’s in a way that landed them both in a federal courtroom.Cantwell, 39, a white-nationalist podcaster who lives in Keene,...


Inconsistent approach on police psych exams
09-21-2020 9:52 AM

By RYAN LESSARD

After police applicants in New Hampshire are winnowed by a rigorous process of written tests, interviews, oral boards, polygraph tests and background checks, many prospective officers must also be psychologically evaluated before they go through the...


My Turn: Blue eyes, brown eyes, and the lessons learned
09-20-2020 7:00 AM

By CHRISTINE HAGUE

Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student activism generated protests for civil rights and...


Capital area real estate listings from Aug. 17 to 21
09-17-2020 8:43 AM

Aug. 17 to 21ALLENSTOWN61 River Road; apartment building; $323,133; Ernest J. Amyot to Lily Fritz and Khai A. Vanvu.ANDOVER218 Currier Road; land and building; $200,000; Pilot Realty LLC to Alan and Katherine L. Gielarowski.65 Hall Road; land and...


Purchase a piece of history
09-17-2020 8:41 AM

By JOHN MATTES

It all started with a letter written out of hope and adoration that may or may not have ever reached the intended recipient.Carol and Jeff Owen wrote the letter about two years ago. Carol had made a habit of walking the “five-mile loop” from their...


Organizer of Old Man memorial hopes for more volunteers
09-14-2020 2:01 PM

Associated Press

Now that the memorial to New Hampshire’s iconic Old Man of the Mountain is complete, an organizer of the project says maintaining it and keeping alive the memory of the fallen granite profile will be paramount.On Saturday, officials attended a...


Susannah Colt: If Lincoln had lived
09-13-2020 7:30 AM

By SUSANNAH COLT

Abraham Lincoln has been on the minds of many people lately in the midst of the racial justice movement that is catalyzing the nation. After all, he was the president that steered this country through the Civil War and freed 4 million slaves.Our...


The Outside Story: Garter snakes can be surprise guests
09-06-2020 5:05 PM

By SUSAN SHEA

One summer day I lifted the black plastic top of our composter and jumped back, startled — a large snake was curled up on top of the compost. The yellow stripe down the center of its dark back and two yellow stripes along its sides identified it as a...


Former N.H. Gov. Stephen Merrill dies at age 74
09-06-2020 4:10 PM

Associated Press

CONCORD — Former New Hampshire Gov. Stephen Merrill, who served two terms in office during the 1990s and coined the phrase “New Hampshire Advantage,” died early Saturday morning, according to a statement from Republican Gov. Chris Sununu and the...


Concord committee balks at decision over backyard chicken ordinance
09-02-2020 5:30 PM

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Ten-year-old Francesca Brown will have to wait a few more weeks to learn whether a city committee will support her calls to amend Concord’s backyard chicken ordinance, thereby getting her one step closer to realizing her dream of raising a flock.It...


Those webs in trees are ugly but not really a problem
08-31-2020 4:08 PM

By DAVID BROOKS

So many bad things are happening in the environment that the sight of what looks like huge balls of cotton candy all over some trees feels like the latest new disaster.But don’t fret: They’re routine and not as bad as they look.These aren’t gypsy...


Popular sub shop will submerge from sight, but not due to Covid-19
08-31-2020 4:07 PM

By RAY DUCKLER

After his final shift as the owner of the Yellow Submarine on Saturday night, when his tiny business closed for good, Concord lost a stalwart businessman and his signature sandwich.David Luoma is retiring after 27 years working in the same spot, near...

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