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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Based on their income levels, registered nurses can afford a two-bedroom apartment at $1,833 a month in the state’s rental market. Public school teachers and electricians make enough for a typical one-bedroom at $1,430.Since rental costs are on the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

To Zack Sheehan, any taxpayer in New Hampshire should be enraged if they pay a school tax rate of more than $8 – which is most of the state. These high rates could be alleviated if a town that raises more than what’s required by state law for the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

City Councilor Jim Schlosser is hoping Concord will take a step forward in the city’s response to end homelessness and hire a paid program manager. The request comes with caution – “It’s early in this work.” The city’s steering committee on the plan...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A lucky buyer with a $1 bill can purchase a historic bridge spanning the Warner River on Route 127. The bridge in southeast Warner is slated to be replaced by the state’s Department of Transportation. In an effort to preserve the materials – the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Each time Glenn Morrill drives around the traffic circle in Franklin and the long grass blows in the breeze, he jokes the swaying blades are waving hello.The long grass at the rotary is one of many spots Morrill can look at in New Hampshire’s smallest...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

At the end of the month, Edmund McGahey plans to load up his U-Haul with the American flag neatly rolled behind his front door, take his wind chimes down from his front porch, pack his eight potted Christmas cacti, and leave for Texas.With an...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Words like institutional and hardened type of secure construction raise alarm bells for Cassandra Sanchez.When the Office of the Child Advocate supported legislation to build a new youth detention facility, a requirement was that the center take on a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With the Hunger Free New Hampshire Act, Becky Whitley wanted a buffet of solutions to eliminate food insecurity. In the end, Gov. Chris Sununu signed a small portion of her original bill into law. Students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With 153 apartments, a gym, common spaces, a hairdresser and a brewery, Stevens Mills in Franklin is akin to a college campus to Elizabeth Stewart, the property manager. The shuttered mills off Central Street downtown are now transformed into a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire’s gubernatorial candidates are in agreement with voters: housing in the state is at a crisis point.To Cinde Warmington, the lone Democrat on the Executive Council, there’s one person to blame for the current state of affairs: Governor...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With the need for housing dire, Concord is expected to see a new casino built on land that was once eyed for a multifamily development.The Flatley Company folded on talks for a project in East Concord in 2021 in favor of a different opportunity...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A Massachusetts developer has pulled out of a project that was set to bring 98 housing units to East Concord on Old Loudon Road.The project, which had been in the works for over a year, received conditional Planning Board approval. With high...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

If Freeman Toth had a wishlist to address homelessness, he’d ask for more permanent supportive housing, rent control, better access to voucher programs and outreach from community mental health centers.To solve homelessness in the state, New Hampshire...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The Railyard development on Langdon Avenue in Concord’s South End is nearing completion, but not yet ready for new tenants. In downtown, the former New Hampshire Employment Security building, now renamed the Isabella apartments, is nearing completion,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

By 3 p.m. the U-Haul was filled to the brim. Laundry baskets, rolled-up rugs, folded tarps and plastic bins were stacked one on top of the other as Concord police fourwheelers were parked next to the truck. After weeks of warning people living along...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

David Elberfeld felt steadfast in his convictions against former President Donald Trump and solemn about President Joe Biden stepping aside.To watch Biden, 81, chase the presidency throughout his lifetime – running several times before being the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Concord Police and outreach workers are beginning to tell people living along the railroad tracks behind houses on North Main Street that they must move their encampment or it will be cleared out.The tracks are owned by CSX, which has a memorandum of...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The state of New Hampshire decided to sell 30 acres of protected forest to nearby landowners after the city of Concord declined to match the $132,000 purchase price.The sale of the Allen State Forest off Warner Road along the Contookcook River to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Straps tied to trees supported the blue and gray tarps hanging like a canopy over the green tent. Plywood, scaffolding, pallets – even a swing – line the wooded encampment.This is the jury-rigged home that a woman named Melissa and her husband built...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Hope Butterworth’s house on Merrimack Street in Concord was unconventional. Here she raised her three kids with a darkroom occupying one bathroom where she developed film and a picnic table serving as the dining room table. Next to it, a stereo played...