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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The way William O’Mahoney saw it, Pembroke voters had two options: price out the elderly or support schools. With a proposed budget of $33.8 million delivering a 28% tax increase, it was hard to feel like one didn’t come at the expense of the...
By DAVID BROOKS
Community power, the system under which communities can buy their own electricity instead of depending on the utility, is continuing its rapid expansion in towns throughout the region.Three Concord area towns are among the dozen launching the system...
By RAY DUCKLER
Amid all the property tax hikes in the Concord area this town meeting season, Pembroke residents are facing the biggest with a whopping 28.1% increase in one year.The combined town and school tax rate is expected to increase from $27.88 to $35.70 –...
By MAURICE REGAN
Maurice Regan is a psychologist and former college professor. He lives in Pembroke. Many news stories of personal tragedy include the suggestion that “mental health services” or more mental health services might have prevented the disturbing outcome....
By JENNIFER SMITH
Jennifer Smith, MD, MPH, lives in Pembroke. I was upset to see Rep. Moffett’s black and white opinion on transgender girls’ participation in sports. His My Turn shows insufficient knowledge and a bias that seems widespread among some in the NH...
By DAVID BROOKS
Pembroke residents will get their chance to join the community-power bandwagon soon, with notices going out in mid-January and a Jan. 31 public meeting.The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Academy auditorium, will explain how Pembroke...
By RAY DUCKLER
Elizabeth Duclos, a third-grade teacher at Pembroke Hill School, was named the state’s Teacher of the Year Thursday.Duclos was nominated for the award by superintendents, principals, past and present colleagues, parents of students and other community...
By RAY DUCKLER
The twin boys, 10-year-olds Jackson and Bradley Doyle, devised a plan to keep their former teacher at Pembroke Hill School in their lives.They called it Lunch Bunches, an informal setting that the boys invented during recess one day. They chose a...
By RAY DUCKLER
Lianne Keary’s son turns 18 this year, and that tells her a lot.It tells her that the photos she used to publish Pembroke’s version of the popular Acadia Images of America series were used 18 years ago, because she was pregnant when she pieced those...
By MAURICE REGAN
Maurice Regan lives in Pembroke. That famous, inventive psychologist B.F. Skinner once described a crackpot idea that he could train pigeons to be missile guidance systems for use in WWII. This idea led to the Pelican Project and the development of a...
By RAY DUCKLER
Once, Andrew Chiavaras saw airplanes as small metal tubes, narrow, claustrophobic and dangerous.His irrational fear of flying turned the family’s annual visit to Disney World into a house of horrors, featuring a grade-school kid whose meltdowns on...
By MAURICE REGAN
Maurice Regan of Pembroke is a psychologist and runs Companion Dog Training. Recent data suggests that nearly five million people are bitten by dogs annually in the United States with 17% requiring medical care, 7% requiring emergency department care,...
By CHUCK DOUGLAS
Chuck Douglas of Pembroke is a former State Supreme Court Justice and a trustee of NH Civics. You cannot preserve our democratic institutions when only one in five students understand the basics of them.Eighth graders’ test scores in U.S. History and...
By RAY DUCKLER
Ignore, for a moment, his endless rocking, minus the rocking chair.And forget about his white, outsized long-sleeved shirt, which he uses to hide the damage caused by his obsessive urge to scrub his hands to kill germs and calm his fears.Instead, just...
By RAY DUCKLER
Road work on Interstate 393, extending from Exit 1 to the Pembroke/Chichester line, will occur all of next week, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.The facelift will include the ramps to Exits 1 through 3 and begin on Monday, weather...
By RAY DUCKLER
Some of Keith Judge’s most vivid memories of his late father contain lights.For example, he recalls the urgency of the red lights, part of Terrence Judge’s DNA and Keith’s childhood, swirling on the trucks inside the Pembroke firehouse each time...
ALLENSTOWNElderly database■Just In Case Program - Safety Net for Elderly and Vulnerable Community Members. The Just In Case Program is a comprehensive town-wide registry of elderly vulnerable community members of dementia, autism, and more. The...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
A Pembroke Fire Department lieutenant died suddenly after returning home from a fire last week and succumbing to a severe medical incident, fire officials said.Terrence Judge, 64, of Allenstown, was a 33-year veteran of the department and served as...
By SARAH DONOVAN
A proposed change to the way the town governs itself was resoundingly defeated in Pembroke on Saturday.The change from a traditional town meeting format to the SB2 format is allowed through a law enacted in New Hampshire in 1995 that allows...
ALLENSTOWNChurch anniversary■St. John the Baptist celebrates its 150th Anniversary with the birth of St. John the Baptist falls on June 24 and starts that day with a special mass at 4 p.m.; followed by a catered dinner, music, and a featured speaker....
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