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By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Over 155 acres of land belonging to Plourde Sand & Gravel Company in Hooksett and Allenstown will be sold at foreclosure in two parcels at an auction Thursday. Both parcels have served as aggregate excavation sites under the company.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Four collective bargaining agreements — with unions representing police patrol officers, police supervisors, city office workers and public works employees — will go before the city council Monday representing $1.7 million more in spending next year, perhaps more.

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com.

By JANE HUNT

Jane Hunt of Concord is formerly an NHTI English professor, actor and disabilities advocate.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Merrimack Valley School District exceeded its approved budget by more than $2 million last school year, the superintendent acknowledged this week, more than two months after district administrators became aware of the full extent of the shortfall.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jigme Ghising has thought about opening Nepali restaurants in New Hampshire since before he moved here.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Piles of food scraps mixed with yard waste gently released steam into the crisp winter air at Lewis Farm in Concord, where James Meinecke regularly turns them over to make rich compost.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Concord police officer on unpaid leave testified that he followed his training when he knocked a resistant homeless man to the ground while attempting to take him into protective custody in April 2023.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The resource list at the bottom of this story has been updated with a 24-hour plan for warm weather shelter over the weekend. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The five members of the board were torn.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Normally absent from his legal proceedings, Andy Sanborn made his first appearance before a judge on Thursday since the controversy surrounding his Concord Casino began two years ago.

By CHARLES MARTONE

Charles Martone lives in Concord.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After five months working without a contract, negotiations between the Concord Fire Officers Association and the city have made progress, according to union leadership. 

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Brad Gauthier paints a simple picture. After a day on his mountain bike at the Veterans Memorial Recreational Area, it’d be nice to drink a Kettle Head IPA beer in the lodge.

By JESSE GILLIS

Jesse Gillis is from Pembroke and an active member of NH Veterans for Peace. I was 15 years old when the warmongers in Washington finally got their war on the citizens of Iraq in 2003. At this point in the 2020s, I thought it was a common...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The town of Boscawen is currently without representation on the Merrimack Valley School Board after both members from the town resigned in the last three months.Loren Martin stepped down on Sunday due to what board Chair Tracy Bricchi described as...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Barb Higgins wants her fellow school board members to stop delaying the inevitable. The Concord Board of Education has been weighing the location of the new middle school should go to a public vote, either in the spring or the fall, or to simply work...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Merrimack Valley High School senior Alison Lamontagne’s first foray into New Hampshire’s All-State Music Festival came not as a trumpeter, but rather as a vocalist.“When I was in eighth grade, I was approached by my band director and he heard me sing...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A proposal to build nearly 200 housing units along the Merrimack River near the Wheelabrator power plant in Penacook is not in the “public interest” for multiple reasons, according to Concord’s city planner.The city has ample housing in the works, and...

By DAVID ALLEN

In recent years, many public libraries have dispensed with fines for overdue books, but they would still like them back. However, some much smaller local libraries geared toward young people actually don’t expect books to be returned at all. “There’s...