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Bow and Concord headlined an area swim meet at the Concord YMCA Friday evening, also featuring Belmont, Gilford and Laconia.The Falcons finished atop the girls’ leaderboard, and the Tide finished atop the boys’.Bow’s Emily Hou placed first in the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

As discussions around renovation plans for Memorial Field progress, few changes loom larger than the possibility of adding a synthetic turf field.Anyone who’s visited the facility on South Fruit Street in Concord the day after rain knows the current...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – Crimson Tide head coach Tim LaTorra emerged from the locker room, his tie long since taken off, his sleeves rolled up and his giant portable white board rolling alongside him. His voice a bit hoarse, there was little he could do to hide his...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – Wednesday night’s season opener between Concord and Windham at Everett Arena could’ve been the start of a changed landscape in Division I. The Tide, having graduated one of the top players in the state in Brooks Craigue, entering 2023-24...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – For the first 13 minutes of the opening game of the season, Concord girls’ hockey looked a step slow. The Tide struggled to possess the puck and found itself down 1-0 against Berlin-Gorham-Kennett at the end of the first period.But out of...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

PEMBROKE – Graduating nine players in an offseason usually means a rebuild the following year. For coach Mike Donnell’s Pembroke Spartans, it was merely a “retool.”With several new faces taking the floor in Tuesday night’s season opener between...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Benjamin Victor, a 44-year-old sculptor from Boise, Idaho, has been chosen to design the memorial to Christa McAuliffe that will be placed on State House lawn.Victor was selected by the Christa McAuliffe State House Memorial Commission, which was...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Caia Kimball needed to come up with a project for her Silver Award in Girl Scouts. Who better to help out than Karen McCormack, her former art teacher at Broken Ground School, she thought.She’d seen that McCormack was trying to find a way of getting a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Proponents of rebuilding the Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse have argued that the new structure would serve as a community center for wider city use, but the $10.8 million project was deemed ineligible for a grant because it didn’t meet the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats – the Double-A minor league baseball affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays – have agreed to sell the organization to Diamond Baseball Holdings, a group that runs 26 other minor league organizations.The team will continue to...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie might still have ground to make up in the Republican primary, but during a Friday morning event in Concord, he reiterated something that he’s made central to his campaign for president: He’s not afraid of a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

New England College football – a program that’s restarting play next fall after a 50-year hiatus – announced on Wednesday that it will participate as an associate member of the Commonwealth Coast Conference beginning in 2025.“Partnering with a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Coe-Brown and Concord headlined area volleyball this fall, with the Bears reaching the Division II championship for the third straight year and the Tide making the playoffs under first-year head coach Maria Wimpey.John Stark, Winnisquam, Belmont and...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

At age 15, Lauryn Guevin was just named Division II offensive player of the year for field hockey and helped lead John Stark Regional High School to their second straight state championship.She’s also a cancer survivor.It was late in the summer, just...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The 2023 season couldn’t have ended any better for Josh Smith in his first year as the head coach of Bow boys’ soccer. The Falcons finished the regular season 14-1-1 before taking down top-seeded Lebanon in the championship game for the school’s first...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

EXETER – No. 3 Coe-Brown (14-4-1) didn’t look like a team that hadn’t ever before played in a championship game, at least early on. Just five minutes into Sunday’s title match with No. 1 Hollis-Brookline (19-0-0) at Exeter High School, Abbey Frank...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

DERRY – Time and again this season, Coe-Brown volleyball could’ve mailed it in. Off-the-court issues could’ve splintered the team irreparably, with players counting the days until the season was over. But faced with a choice – to continue to fight...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

NASHUA – Bow goalkeeper Aaron Barrieau pumped both of his fists, the ball tucked under his arm. He’d just grabbed it off a bounce after Lebanon’s last-gasp offensive attack. The Falcons held a 2-1 lead late in the second half.“(The referee) was like,...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

EXETER – If No. 5 Bow (12-4-2) was to stand any chance of beating No. 1 Hollis-Brookline (18-0-0) in the Division II semifinals at Bill Ball Stadium in Exeter on Thursday night, the Falcons were going to have to turn in an immaculate defensive...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

DERRY – Come the semifinal round of the playoffs, experience can sometimes matter just as much as pure talent, composure just as much as elite athleticism. On Tuesday at Pinkerton Academy, No. 2 Coe-Brown (15-3) relied on its experience, composure and...