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By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The NIL wave sweeping college sports has hit New Hampshire high schools.Short for name, image and likeness, NIL has become shorthand for the ability of amateur athletes to receive endorsements and other forms of compensation as a result of their...

By BETH J. SLEPIAN

Beth J. Slepian, MBA PT, is president & CEO of Granite VNA. ProPublica and The New Yorker recently published a lengthy feature story that paints a negative picture of hospice in the United States. The article, “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle”...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Leonard Peltier remains in federal prison in Florida, now in his 47th year of confinement. So far, all efforts for clemency have failed. Very disappointingly, President Biden has not yet granted clemency.I previously...

By RAY DUCKLER

Al Cilley Sr. looked tired this week behind the old Department of Transportation building off Storrs Street.He made a special appearance Wednesday at the DOT site, his first visit in about three months, shuffling slowly, hunched over a bit, wearing...

By MELANIE MATTS

Eric and Sharon Houle finally felt heard.They came to the school board Friday night to discuss discrimination in schools after their Black son was the victim of a racial death threat at John Stark Regional High School last April.“We are here to ask,...

By RAY DUCKLER

Nina Gardner’s fingerprints are all over Sanbornton.Few residents in town have spread themselves this thin. Gardner contributed to Sanbornton’s school system, its historical society and its overall look. She’s 76, and her arms still extend in various...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Grace Kindeke wishes she wouldn’t have to watch Sen. Maggie Hassan talk about immigration policy from a video, with the Senator standing in front of a steel paneled wall in Nogales, Arizona, over 2,000 miles away. She’d like to have these...

By JOHN GFROERER

John Gfroerer lives in Concord. In a few words, former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams would best be described as a crusty, tough New England Yankee. He started his work life in the forests of Vermont and New Hampshire employed by the...

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...