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By LAURA VINCENT
Laura Vincent lives in Loudon. The debate over the adoption of updated 306 rules (minimum standards for public education) rages on. After multiple hearings for public comment, Commissioner Edelblut and the State Board of Education still appear to not...
By PAUL NICHOLS
Paul Nichols lives in Loudon. The solar eclipse of April 8 united our country for a brief period amid the vile turmoil here and across the planet. The short respite was welcome. This celestial phenomenon brought feelings of togetherness, goodwill and...
By MIKE MOFFETT
State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) was a Sports Management professor for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He currently chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. A 2014 court case ruled that the...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
After the moderator read the results of the Merrimack Valley School Board elections Friday night, Julia Jones dabbed away a few tears.Though she is the president of the Salisbury parent-teacher group, she relied only on word of mouth to promote her...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Merrimack Valley School District voters will weigh a 5.9% budget increase and decide two contested school board races on Friday. The proposed operating budget for the five-community district is $48,298,106, up almost $2.7 million from last year. The...
By MIKE MOFFETT
A retired professor and former Marine Corps officer, State Rep. Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. In early 2021, our New Hampshire House Education Committee held a hearing on a...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
When Alicha Kingsbury thinks of town meeting, truly understanding where tax dollars are going and what a warrant article means comes from years of attending monotonous meetings and talking to town officials. For most people in Loudon, that’s out of...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The two drivers of next year’s budget increase in the Merrimack Valley School District are forces hitting its peers across New Hampshire: special education and health insurance.The proposed $48,298,106 budget for the district is up almost $2.7 million...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
For weeks, in order to reach her two chicken coops in her backyard, Tessa Dyer put on chest waders. At its worst, the water that had flooded her property surpassed her waist. On a good day, it was still knee-deep.As temperatures dropped, her flooded...
By MIKE MOFFETT
State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a former Marine Corps officer and retired professor. He chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs. It seemed Ronald Reagan’s political career was over in early 1980....
By MIKE MOFFETT
State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a retired sports management professor and former Marine Corps officer. He chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. I recently received a text from an old Marine Corps...
Monitor staff
Concord police arrested a Loudon man after being alerted to homemade child sex abuse images that were uploaded to the Internet, police said Friday.Michael Nadeau, 38, was charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault on a victim under 13 and...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
Perched at her dining room table smoking a cigarette, Haley Dempsey recalled the moment her stepfather broke down the front door of her childhood home and shot her mother before turning the gun on himself.She was just three years old but the violence...
By MIKE MOFFETT
State representative Mike Moffett of Loudon is a former sports management professor. He chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. In our sports vernacular the expression “losing your fastball” is a euphemism for no...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
The brother of the former Loudon Police chief has been indicted on felony sexual assault charges involving a child. William Fiske, 69, of Loudon, who is the brother of former Loudon Police Chief Robert Fiske, is accused of sexually assaulting a minor...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Massive red Coca-Cola trucks sat in the parking lot, packed to capacity with cases of water and soda. Forklifts roamed around. Pickup trucks zoomed past. With just a couple of days before NASCAR weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, it’s all hands...
By RAY DUCKLER
Chris Hacker holds the steering wheel of his car race differently from the rest of the pack.His left hand is positioned at 11 o’clock, his right at 4. That’s not the standard positioning, 10 and 2, that other NASCAR drivers use. They have two...
By NINA MOSKE
At the Loudon Planning Board meeting Thursday night, Jeffrey Green wore two hats serving as the chairman of the board and an applicant presenting plans for approval.He presided over the meeting for the first six minutes, calling the group to order and...
By JAMIE L. COSTA
A 51-year-old Loudon man was shot in the chest in front of his home on Thursday following an altercation with an acquaintance. Loudon police were called to School Street near the Concord town line around 7 p.m. after receiving reports of a gunshot....
Monitor staff
The state has retracted its claim that some salad greens grown and processed at Loudon’s Lef Farms greenhouse were tainted, saying an error by the state Public Health Laboratory in Concord was responsible for the incorrect alert.“The products from Lef...
By MIKE MOFFETT
State Representative Mike Moffett of Loudon is a former Marine Corps officer and retired professor. On March 24, 1984, my Marine Corps infantry company took off on a night training mission in South Korea. Tragically, the CH-53 helicopter behind mine...
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