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By RAY DUCKLER

Sam Mostue has lived a colorful life.He competed in equestrian events in college, ski-raced in the northeast and rose before dawn at a ranch in Colorado.These days, as the manager of Eastman Screen Printing on Pleasant Street, the color remains for...

By RAY DUCKLER

Faith Muello has been worried that her hometown, Salisbury, with no police force of its own doesn’t have enough cops on patrol.The small town 20 miles outside of Concord contracts with the New Hampshire State Police for eight hours of police patrols...

By RAY DUCKLER

Tom Walton was a picture of health.He was handsome, slender yet muscular, with shorts that showed strong, tan legs and a smile that rarely left his face. He was the type of guy who passed runners half his age, setting senior records and shouting from...

By RAY DUCKLER

Sheri Dow of Gilford had every reason to believe that the investment she made 14 years ago was a sound choiceShe trusted the central players involved. Two of her brothers were experienced in the investment game, always searching and searching and...

By RAY DUCKLER

Mark Sisti senses that the public and state officials roll their eyes each time the Chichester attorney seeks a hearing before the Executive Council to show why Pam Smart’s life-without-parole sentence should be reduced.Sisti went to bat for Smart...

By RAY DUCKLER

The days of taking the egg for granted, sometimes reducing its worth to a series of puns, are over.An eggs-amination (oops) shows clearly that eggs are the backbone of many dishes, to be treated with respect and purchased no matter how high the price...

By RAY DUCKLER

Someday this year, Mark Ciborowski will hire someone to move a pair of long, heavy oak bars from Pennsylvania to his proposed masterpiece in downtown Concord.One bar, 36 feet long, will line the back area of Ciborowski’s proposed entertainment center...

By RAY DUCKLER

Spend a half-hour with Nazzy and you’re guaranteed to run out of steam before he does.That’s what DJ Nazzy, whose real name is Marc Nazzaro, does for a living. He founded and owns Nazzy Entertainment DJs and plays music – at weddings, bar mitzvahs and...

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 RAY DUCKLER

She went around to the side of the building, bypassing the media and chaos out front.She knocked on her father’s window at the News and Sentinel office in the North Country. John Harrigan opened the door to let Karen Doolan in, then quickly moved back...

By RAY DUCKLER

She marked the day each year by baking a cake and softly humming “Happy birthday” to herself, so her sons never heard.Meanwhile, the cake had frosting on it but nothing else. No swirls or stripes or flowers or candles, and certainly nothing about a...

By RAY DUCKLER

Mark Patterson of Weare had it all figured out.Fresh off six-years of service in the Navy, he’d then finish his business degree at what was then called New Hampshire College. He’d be a college graduate, the first member of his family to do so.He’d...

By RAY DUCKLER

Dean Wilber ignored the writing on the wall that he was too old to continue owning and operating Mapletree Farm in Concord.He did, however, notice the writing on a piece of paper, handed to him by his youngest son last December, and admits he wasn’t...

By RAY DUCKLER

Pat Bonenfant enjoys a challenge.She enrolled in college at age 47, three decades after graduating from Pembroke Academy. She was elected to the Pembroke Select Board in 1981, becoming the first woman in town history to hold that office.And now, after...

By RAY DUCKLER

Cassie Carey, a nationally rising star in hairstyling and design, wanted to blend in, be the commuter in New York City moving through the subways and Grand Central Station with GPS-like efficiency.“It was confusing when I first got there,” said Carey...

By DAVID BROOKS

For most of January, New England has been reliving a piece of our past. Unfortunately, it’s a smoggy, polluting piece.During the recent cold snap, more than a tenth of the electricity generated in New England has been produced by power plants that are...

By RAY DUCKLER

Before they arrived at his parents’ house in Deering, Jim Cowan warned his future wife that his mother and father were unique.Elizabeth waved it off as something unspectacular, a quirky trait that Cowan saw as embarrassing. Sure enough, though, the...

By RAY DUCKLER

She sat in the grass and moved two fingers down the side of the granite marker, as though comforting her son with a gentle touch to his arm.She used the same care as she moved across the top of the gravestone, perhaps feeling his dark hair. Patricia...

By DAVID BROOKS

If your vehicle bears a “This Car Climbed Mount Washington” sticker, there’s a 60% chance that you were a little disappointed in the trip. That’s how often the summit is covered by clouds.But if you were there during the other 40% of the time, you...

By RAY DUCKLER

The Suncook Valley has no choice. The people there must play by Don Chase’s rules.Those are his chat rooms on Facebook, focusing on Suncook and the rest of the towns in that area. You’re invited to discuss all things Valley, but keep it nice, keep it...