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By DAVID BROOKS

Harbor Freight Tools will soon move into a former Toys R Us building near Steeplegate Mall this month, part of a company expansion that is taking advantage of do-it-yourself and home-improvement work during the pandemic.The announcement comes even as...

By PAUL DeMINICO

The anger many Americans feel about the state of affairs in our country rivals that of the late 1960s. It is profoundly sad. I write this as an observer of American politics from abroad, as I am a retired New Hampshire educator living with my wife in...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

The dirt road leading to the Merrimack River cuts through a spacious field before narrowing along the tree line. The drive appears easy at first, but the wide road quickly shrinks to the width of a walking path with tree branches and shrubbery on...

By LEAH WILLINGHAMand ALYSSA DANDREA

Concord City Manager Tom Aspell’s pay increased steadily over the years to the point where he was the first city employee to make more than $200,000 in a single year.In 2019, Aspell made $200,828 in total compensation, which is more than...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Richard McNamara was a newly minted graduate of Boston College Law School in 1975 when he was recruited by now-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter to work at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.Souter, then New Hampshire’s deputy...

By ANN GEHAN

Having a newborn baby is difficult enough, but Hillary d’Entremont never anticipated the challenges of raising an infant during a pandemic.D’Entremont, who gave birth in January, had planned for her daughter to join her son at day care once she was 3...

By ABBE HAMILTON

The Michalak siblings had already been hiking for ten hours on the Presidential Traverse in the White Mountains last Wednesday when they realized something was terribly wrong. The Peterborough natives had just started their final descent when they...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A Manchester teenager who authorities allege has ties to multiple burglaries in the state, including firearm thefts, is in jail.Duncan Levey, 18, is being detained on three felony charges stemming from a Jan. 29 home invasion on Woodhill Hooksett Road...

By ABBE HAMILTON

Rindge farmers Craig and Megan Jensen scrambled to adapt to pandemic conditions at Sun Moon Farm this spring while interest and sales exploded. As they readied vegetable seedlings in greenhouses and finalized CSA subscriber lists throughout April, a...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Two parolees are facing new felony charges after police say drugs, thousands in cash and a gun were found during a traffic stop in Franklin.Police said they recovered 20 grams of methamphetamine, 14 grams of heroin/fentanyl, $3,433 in cash and a .40...

By DAVID BROOKS

In Bow, incumbent selectman Harry Judd was voted out of office after 18 years Tuesday, as former planning board member Bruce Marshall defeated him easily, 845-563.With three candidates for two seats on the Bow School Board, Bryce Larrabee with 805...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Authorities say a former Bow resident accused of robbing a Concord convenience store at gunpoint on Dec. 1 went on to rob a candy store and then a gas station, both in Salem, within a matter of days.Matthew Roz, 41, whose address is listed in court...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Jurors chosen to hear the evidence in an attempted murder case against a Concord man will also learn that he sought from jail to persuade two key witnesses to falsely identify the shooter so he would be acquitted.Attorneys on both sides recently...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

The owner of the Capitol Shopping Center on Storrs Street in Concord wants to add an upscale casual dining restaurant and a Starbucks drive-thru in the parking lot where Market Basket, the New Hampshire Liquor Commission and several other major...

By DAVID BROOKS

The Merrimack Station power plant in Bow can stay open through at least mid-2024, as the coal-fired power plant has won another year’s funding from a New England program designed to guarantee future electricity supplies.The coal-fired plant will...

In a Jan. 29 letter there was a claim made that Darwin’s theory is fact. Not only is it a theory, it is a theory debunked by science. In the book Darwin’s Black Box, Dr. Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry at Leigh University, explains in the book...

Renovations to St. John the Evangelist Church on South Main Street are nearly complete after months of intense construction, which for a period of time forced worshippers to hold services under a tent.Services inside the church resumed in November,...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Lisa Taylor and Jay Corliss will tell you they grew up at Beefside Seafood on Manchester Street in Concord.And in many ways, they did.The two started working at the restaurant 30 years ago, the day after their graduations from Concord High School, for...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

An ex-Loudon firefighter convicted in December of negligent homicide in the death of his childhood friend will serve his two- to six-year sentence at the Merrimack County jail and not in state prison.The New Hampshire Department of Corrections...

By RAY DUCKLER

Two contrasting expressions surfaced during our 2019 coverage of homelessness, illustrating the sadness and hope that can accompany this issue.On one hand, we found Allie Eckersley, whose father, ex-pitcher Dennis Eckersley, is in baseball’s Hall of...