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It took just a few hours for a vandal to strike The Satanic Temple statue erected in front of the State House on Saturday evening, said Ellen Read, the state representative who coordinated the unveiling.In the ensuing days, the plaque displaying the...

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Merrimack Valley High School senior Keighen Duppong knows attending the University of New Hampshire would likely cost thousands of dollars less per year than most of the schools on his college list.Duppong, who plans to study applied physics, has sent...

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A Concord school bus that veered off the road Friday morning did not have any students on it and there were no injuries, according to Concord Police Department Deputy Chief John Thomas.The incident involved a car and occurred at the intersection of...

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The water supply in the Hopkinton Village Precinct is down Thursday morning and the Harold Martin School was in the process of dismissing students early as of 9:30 a.m., according to a series of notifications that went out to parents.A separate...

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It took longer than expected, but Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee finally has hired a consultant to facilitate its first steps as a committee.The Texas-based Racial Equity Group beat out three other applicants...

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Hiring superintendents, principals and nurses is not necessary to provide the state’s youngest residents with an adequate education, Solicitor General Anthony Galdieri argued at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday.Neither is providing heat...

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Editor’s note: Inside EFAs is a new occasional Monitor series that will examine New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program from multiple perspectives over the coming months.The vast majority of money from New Hampshire’s four-year-old school...

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A proposal by district administrators to raise meal prices in Merrimack Valley schools was temporarily tabled by the school board on Monday, with some members expressing concern that any increase could further hamstring families who are struggling to...

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The Kearsarge Regional School District has yet to face any legal consequences for declining to comply with a new state law barring transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams, according to Superintendent John Fortney’s response to a...

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Moo-ve over, class fish and hamsters. Merrimack Valley Middle School math teacher Becky King has adopted a cow.Bonnie, a Brown Swiss dairy cow, does not literally live in King’s sixth-grade classroom, but her presence is very much felt. The...

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The night after the man she considered her grandfather pleaded guilty to assaulting her as a child, Haley Dempsey had a dream.“It was the same scenario: everything looked like that day in the courtroom,” she recalled. “But as he was put in handcuffs,...

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Most visual artists stick to a primary surface. Jaeden Taylor is not like most artists.The Merrimack Valley High School junior has designed gnomes adorned with three-dimensional beards and has sold painted rocks that customers use as paperweights.Even...

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New Hampshire schools likely surpassed $1 billion in special education spending for the first time last year, though the final numbers are still rolling in.As special education costs have steadily risen since the pandemic, state aid has stayed roughly...

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Hopkinton School Board members erupted in anger at the state Legislature over news delivered earlier this month that school districts would receive significantly less money to cover certain special education expenses than they are eligible to...

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School Superintendent Marcy Kelley told a federal judge that the symbol “XX” displayed on pink armbands worn by Bow parents should be banned from all sporting events going forward, whether or not a transgender athlete is playing.Kelley repeatedly...

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A resolution will not come until at least next school year in a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender girls’ participation on girls’ sports teams, a federal court judge ruled during a court conference on Thursday.Lawyers for the two...

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The pilot of a small plane that crash-landed at the Concord airport on Wednesday morning was uninjured.The single-engine kit plane lost control in the air above the airport but the pilot was able to circle it around before it came to rest on grassy...

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A prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday that Manchester youth detention center employee Bradley Asbury restrained a 14-year-old resident while two other colleagues raped him 26 years ago.Asbury’s attorney countered that the allegations were made up or...

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For $350,000, Boscawen’s historic library building could be yours.Designed in 1913 by famous New England architect Guy Lowell, the building is listed on the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance’s “Seven to Save” collection of historic properties and on...

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Participation in New Hampshire’s education freedom account program has risen 26% since the beginning of last school year, according to recently released Department of Education data.A total of 5,321 students have enrolled in the program as it enters...

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The day after notching a surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses in January 2008, an exultant Barack Obama strode into the Concord High gymnasium, the 11th presidential candidate that cycle to make the trip.The person responsible for transforming...