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By ROB AZEVEDO

There’s a framed picture of Abraham Lincoln that sits atop the mantle behind the bar at Pembroke City Limits, our new venue down in the historic Suncook village.Abe is there for reasons only those familiar with a particular old saloon in South Dakota...

By CAROLE SOULE

With retirement approaching, husband Bruce and I decided to scout a strange new land. We’d love to visit New Zealand, but Nova Scotia is closer, so we went there.We loaded up our dogs, Flora and Joy, and embarked on our adventure. Because the dogs...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to New Hampshire this week may be the one and only time the Democratic presidential nominee stops in the Granite State during the closing stretch of her 2024 election showdown against former President Donald Trump.On...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker heads to New Hampshire this holiday weekend, to campaign on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris, her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as well as down-ballot Democrats running in this year’s elections.Pritzker on...

By JIM SPAIN

I have always been fortunate with supply and demand. My family has supplied me with many stories relating to the old days of Concord while my demand for interesting stories seems to be quite bottomless. I attribute the fact that I am the fifth...

By RUTH SMITH

As August wanes, many people lament that the summer is coming to an end. In fact, it is. Numerous natural events that we associate with fall, such as bird migration, begin in August. Some songbirds, shorebirds and insect eaters like the Common...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

CHICAGO – Democrats came into their national nominating convention riding a wave of energy and enthusiasm.And the four-day convention – that culminated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech accepting the nomination – did nothing to blunt the...

By ELLEN RAFFIO

While most graduation parties fit neatly in the family backyard, Eli Lemire, a 2024 graduate of John Stark Regional High School in Weare, took his to the highest peak in New England. Lemire had run in previous Mount Washington Road Races and planned...

By JIM SPAIN

Travel back with me 208 years to Barrington, New Hampshire. It is the Hayes family I greet, some of the earliest settlers of Barrington and known locally as hard-working farmers. The Hayes family resided over on Green Hill and grew their crops like...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With New Hampshire’s primaries less than a month away, a new public opinion survey indicates that former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is the clear front-runner in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.Ayotte, who served as state attorney...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.When the Willey family — Samuel, Polly, and their five children, Eliza-Ann, Jeremiah, Martha, Elbridge, and Sally — settled in Crawford Notch in the fall of 1825,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster is optimistic that having her good friend and former U.S. House colleague Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on the Democratic Party’s national ticket will help her party carry New Hampshire in the presidential election.“I’m very...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Editor’s note: This story was published on Friday. Over the weekend, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz canceled his trip to New Hampshire. Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend interviewing potential running mates. Walz is believed to be a...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was back on the campaign trail in New Hampshire throwing haymakers at former President Donald Trump while making the case for Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot.“Trump cannot get elected,”...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

MILWAUKEE, WI – Former President Donald Trump, in the longest presidential nomination acceptance address in modern political history, made a pitch for national unity in the culminating moment of the Republican National Convention.The former president,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Chris Sununu has long been one of former President Donald Trump’s loudest Republican critics.But New Hampshire’s four-term governor, who isn’t seeking re-election this year, believes that Trump, who next week officially becomes the GOP’s 2024...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.In early July 1863, news of the Battle of Gettysburg was flooding the media. Casualty reports were streaming in for what would become the bloodiest battle of the war,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Retiring six-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster was long known on the campaign trail for her fundraising prowess.And Colin Van Ostern and Maggie Goodlander, the two candidates running for the Democratic Party nomination in New Hampshire’s Second...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, one of the most high-profile politicians in the Democratic Party, is headed to New Hampshire next week.The two-term Golden State governor who three years ago crushed a recall attempt by California Republicans will...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Housing stands head and shoulders above other leading issues as the most important problem facing New Hampshire, according to the results of a new poll.Thirty-six percent of those questioned in a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released...

By PAUL STENHAUSER

Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the polling and fundraising front-runner for the GOP nomination in New Hampshire’s early September primary for governor, is firing back after coming under repeated attack by her rival, former longtime state Senate...