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By CAROLE SOULE

Cattle, unlike dogs, horses, and donkeys, have their own unique language. They are not people, and as much as we might wish otherwise, they communicate in their distinct ways. To truly connect with them, you need to learn their intriguing lingo.Have...

By JIM SPAIN

Our little town of Rumford was growing. People were arriving, and the frontier was becoming a town. Governor Benning Wentworth determined that the name would be changed to Concord to mixed emotions within the community, and the Revolution arrived,...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.While New Hampshire recently had its own day momentarily shadowed by the solar eclipse, what occurred on May 19, 1780, was something entirely different.In the midst...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

A former senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration and wife of the current U.S. national security adviser is launching a bid for Congress in New Hampshire, where she was born and raised.Maggie Goodlander, the wife of National Security...

By RUTH SMITH

May 1 is halfway between the spring equinox in March and the summer solstice in June. Since the equinox, there have been more hours of day than night. Yet darkness is important to natural rhythms and life cycles.Many people aren’t aware that 80% of...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests over the fighting in Gaza that have swept across American college campuses reached New Hampshire this week.More than 100 arrests were made at the campuses of Dartmouth College in Hanover and the University...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The Democratic National Committee will welcome New Hampshire’s delegates to the national nominating convention this summer in Chicago after the state party conducted a very small party-run presidential primary this weekend.An official vote bringing...

By JIM SPAIN

Our ancestors embraced darkness during the early years in our little town. When the first people arrived in Concord and gathered on cold New England nights in the Pennycook garrisons’ people would sit in front of the fireplace in search of warmth and...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Top Republican Party leaders in New Hampshire are calling for “decorum and respect” as candidates face off in the GOP gubernatorial primaries.The statement from NHGOP chair Chris Ager and New Hampshire’s two committee members on the Republican...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Although no Civil War battle was fought in New Hampshire, the stage was set here.Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, New Hampshire politicians were split over the issue of slavery. Disagreements between Franklin Pierce and John P. Hale, the first...

By CAROLE SOULE

Like many girls, I wanted a pony when I was growing up. That was long ago – in the ‘50s when the Sears catalog was the Internet marketplace of the day. When the 400-page catalog arrived, I would search for the page advertising a $200 pinto pony that,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The wife of a top adviser to President Joe Biden is considering a bid in the race to succeed longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District.Maggie Goodlander, a top Biden administration lawyer at the U.S....

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

After six terms in Congress, Democrat Annie Kuster says she won’t seek re-election to the House of Representatives this year.“I always said I wouldn’t be there forever and most of my colleagues don’t realize this,” the Hopkinton lawmaker...

By CAROLE SOULE

Each of the 27 bovines on Miles Smith Farm has a job. Cows give birth; bulls are dads; and steers (castrated bulls) are meat (usually). I had been a vegetarian until I realized that what I hated was the cruelty of feed lots and the abuse of cattle.My...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Chris Sununu summarized it best.The popular Republican governor, who was a top supporter and surrogate to the now-former GOP presidential candidate, said that “Nikki Haley was the first candidate into the arena to challenge Donald Trump, and...

By LISA PREVOST

When it came time to clean out my parents’ house to ready it for sale just over a year ago, my brother Rick was nowhere to be found.I thought that he and our other two siblings were in agreement that we would sell our 60-year-old family home on the...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.Every March, citizens from towns throughout New Hampshire gather for Town Meeting day. They discuss issues, raise warrants, and some even eat cake.The practice of...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Nikki Haley returns to New England this weekend, in a very different situation than when she left New Hampshire five and a half weeks ago.Haley, the last remaining challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination, campaigns...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

Studs Terkel was a superb author, actor and activist. He lived from 1912 to 2008. He wrote endlessly about Chicago, the great city where he resided. In 1972, he published his most famous and most widely read book: “Working — People Talk about What...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

GREER, South Carolina – Don Bolduc was once again far from home, on a crucial mission.But this time he wasn’t overseas fighting in the War in Afghanistan.Instead, the retired Army brigadier general and 2022 GOP U.S. Senate nominee in New Hampshire was...