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By LAURA TELERSKI

Rep. Laura Telerski represents Nashua Ward 8, serves as Democratic Advisor to House Democratic Leader Rep. Matt Wilhelm and is the Chair of the House Democratic Victory Campaign Committee. ‘How can I tell her it will be okay?” said Sara Tirrell, mom...

By JESSICA ADAMS

Jessica Adams lives in Nashua. On July 19, Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law House Bill 1205 which will require all sports teams for grades 5-12 to be designated for “males, men, or boys,” “females, women, or girls,” or “co-ed or mixed.” He also...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. “I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered, I don’t have a friend who feels at ease,I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered, Or driven to its knees. Oh, but it’s all...

By CINDY ROSENWALD

Cindy Rosenwald of Nashua is a NH state senator. If you have private health insurance and have ever filled a prescription, there is a good chance you have felt the impact of a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM). PBMs decide everything from what drugs...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. It’s time again to celebrate Pride Month and all the benefits joining the LGBTQ+ community has brought us as parents and grandparents. Our joys have only grown in the past year,...

By STEPHANIE RUTT

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is founding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Amherst. She lives in Nashua. In the poem “The Place Where We Are Right,” esteemed Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai invites us deep into what can happen when certainty...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously voted on Tuesday to advance Senate Bill 472, which allows host communities to participate in charitable gaming alongside charities and non-profits.Senate Bill 472, now heading to the full House of...

By STEPHANIE RUTT

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is founding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Amherst. She lives in Nashua. “In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel in prayer. Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. The American Society on Aging (ASA) will celebrate Ageism Awareness Day on October 7. Modeled after the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons (Oct. 1), Ageism...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. As extreme weather events escalate, there is no longer serious debate about the reality of climate change. Other than confirmed conspiracy theorists, the only deniers are...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

On a crisp winter morning in the scenic winter town of Conway, the odor of rotten eggs wafted through the air at the Lower Mount Washington Secure landfill, which overlooks the White Mountains.To mask the smell of decomposing waste and to keep pests...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The blue truck backed up to the trash heap and unceremoniously belched out its contents.Next to its rear tires at the Nashua landfill was a pile of mattresses deposited before this truck arrived. Mattresses are illegal to throw out in Massachusetts,...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Called by prosecutors “a case like no other,” the trial of Katlyn Marin came to a close Friday when she received a 45 years to life prison sentence, with 790 days already served, for the death of her three-year old child, Brielle Gage.Marin was...

By RAY DUCKLER

The news, while of course tragic, was bizarre and mysterious, leading to questions that have yet to be answered.Jacob Goulet, a 16-year-old student at Nashua North High School, was dead, but many of the factors normally associated with a teen’s death...