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By MILLIE LAFONTAINE
Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. Like so many people, I’ve been following with bated breath the story of the young football player who suffered a cardiac arrest on the field after a seemingly routine tackle in a high-stakes game.The public has been...
By ROBERT AZZI
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices,” English philosopher and Franciscan friar Roger...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
On a chilly December morning four years ago, three Concord High School students approached a school administrative assistant and asked her if they could talk about something private.“We didn’t want anyone to know we were the ones who told,” the...
By PARKER POTTER
Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dogwalker who lives and works in Contoocook. In my last My Turn, I mentioned a couple of youngsters who share my interest in gravel, The...
By RAY DUCKLER
Chris Brown is usually nervous this time of year, when the Black Ice Pond Hockey tournament at White Park is on the horizon.This time, though, the president and CEO of New Hampshire Distributors insists that he’s calm as his self-imposed deadline of...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Pittsfield residents will be asked if they want to fund public safety infrastructure – like a new ambulance and tanker truck for the fire department – at this year’s annual meeting. The proposed $6.6 million town budget would increase the tax rate by...
By JONATHAN VAN FLEET
With almost daily drug overdoses and spillover from Concord’s homeless population, Epsom just isn’t what it used to be, the police and fire chief told town officials Thursday night.“Every time you watch TV and they close one of those camps in Concord,...
By JANET WARD
Janet Ward lives in Contoocook. HB 61 would repeal and replace the “divisive concepts” bill which attempted to make teaching accurate history dangerous. The true personal story explains why HB 61 is necessary and appropriate.Several years ago, I was...
By MELANIE MATTS
Eric and Sharon Houle have grown more and more upset since last school year when they were informed of a racist death threat targeting their son written on a bathroom wall of John Stark Regional High School in Weare.Equally disturbing as the threats...
By KELLY SENNOTT
For Melissa McKeagney, there’s nothing like creating art and putting it on repeat.The Wilmot resident has been a textile artist for fifteen years, but until recently, she’d been creating with other people’s prints. Now her company, Studio Buue, sells...
By RAY DUCKLER
Downtown will lose a tasty treat spot early next month, but plans are advancing on a transformational project in the city by the same landlord.Concord’s Orange Leaf, which has sold to-die-for frozen yogurt with to-die-for toppings for the past 10...
The Pittsfield Budget Committee will hold a public hearing for its proposed town and school budgets Thursday.The meeting will be held at the Pittsfield Middle High School Lecture Hall, beginning at 7 p.m.The filing period for both elected town and...
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,...
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Firefighters quickly put out a fire at a single-family home on East Sutton Road in Warner on Sunday night.Crews were alerted to a structure fire around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The roof of the blue custom-built, contemporary home was fully engulfed in flames...
By DAVID BROOKS
If you’re looking for an industry that is adapting to the pain that accompanies climate change, take a walk in a hardwood forest until you find plastic tubing stretching off into the distance. That’s the tradition-bound maple syrup industry tossing...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The Concord Coalition to End Homelessness will continue to add to its housing stock with a new purchase at 6 South State Street. A residential home currently owned by the South Congregational Church will be converted into eight one-bedroom units to...
By BRENDAN WILLIAMS
Brendan Williams is the president and CEO of the New Hampshire Health Care Association. As of December 15 data, 59.2% of New Hampshire nursing homes were experiencing a nursing staff shortage, the nation’ second-worst crisis. Compare that to...
By SCOTT MERRILL and JILL PATEL
Merrimack Station in Bow, built in the 1960s, is the last coal-fired plant in New England. The plant has a long history of serving the energy needs of New Hampshire residents. But, in recent years, the plant has come under fire by anti-coal groups...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
Towns, cities and schools across the state will save a little money next year due to decreasing contribution rates to the state retirement for the first time in 20 years. The rates employers pay into the system on behalf of government workers, which...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Most stories about the increase in antisemitism now focus on events like Donald Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. I certainly would not underestimate Ye’s influence...
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