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By ALEXANDER RAPP

PENACOOK – The Bow Falcons and speedster senior running back, Kody McCranie, ran away with a win against the Merrimack Valley Pride on Friday night. With less than two minutes left in the second quarter, McCranie returned a punt for 68 yards when he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ashley Miller loves to tell visitors about Marilla Ricker when they walk into the State Archives. Years before women had the right to vote, Ricker demanded her name be on New Hampshire ballots.She was the first female lawyer in the state and demanded...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

On the rare occasions Rundlett Middle School principal Jay Richard takes his phone out during the school day, his students hound him.“Mr. Richard, we’re not supposed to be on phones during school,” they gleefully remind him.But Richard needs no...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Senior forward Joey Olivera sealed the win for Merrimack Valley with a brace in the second half on Thursday night over Bow. His two goals came unexpectedly, but sometimes in a game of small margins that’s all it takes.His first goal came after fellow...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s Board of Ethics is set to weigh a claim that City Councilor Stacey Brown, who is married to a city police officer, ran afoul of city rules by voting on a street closure that could have created a financial conflict of interest.Later in the...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

For those who voted in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire’s next governor this week, it probably wasn’t for Jon Kiper.Most people have never heard of him, much less know his policy positions. He was the underdog: Kiper received just under 10% of...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Gov. Chris Sununu signed a long-awaited bill eliminating voter affidavits, a reversal from concerns he’s shared for months.It’s a move to protect integrity in the voting process, he said in a statement on Thursday. Voting rights advocates say it’ll...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Francine Clave, a supervisor of the checklist in Loudon, was surprisingly thrilled when town officials received a hand-delivered letter from the Secretary of State’s office around noon on Election Day.Loudon had won a lottery of sorts: Along with nine...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ian McGregor knows as well as anyone the multitude of reasons people use public transportation.As a kid, he relied on Milwaukee’s bus system to get around.“I’m the son of an alcoholic who could not drive,” he told Concord city councilors. “This is...

By DAN ATTORRI

CONTOOCOOK – The Hawks faced the earliest deficit that Scott Zipke had seen in over 20 years of coaching. They responded with their best performance of the season.The Hopkinton boys’ soccer team gave up a penalty kick just 17 seconds into the match,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Lily Tang Williams, a libertarian-leaning Republican who fled Communist China, won one of the most closely watched primary-day races in the state late Tuesday night, setting up a race against Democrat Maggie Goodlander for New Hampshire’s second...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

John Stephen emerged as the Republican nominee to represent District 4 on the Executive Council in Tuesday’s primary following a contested race with six candidates vying for the win. In November, Stephen will face off against Democrat Jim O’Connell,...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Willem Avenant has a sense of adventure that goes beyond Concord.Growing up in Murraysburg, a small town in the Karoo region of South Africa, he dreamed of the sandy dunes of Saudi Arabia racing a motorbike in the Dakar Rally.This January, he will...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Democrat Karen Liot Hill edged out Mike Liberty, while Republican Kim Strathdee beat Mary Rose Deak for their respective District 2 Executive Council nominations.The final results, which were not called until around 12:30 a.m., saw Hill clinch the win...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Career law enforcement official Frank Cassidy coasted to victory in the Republican primary for Merrimack County Sheriff, vaulting him to a general election contest against Democrat David Croft, the current sheriff and Cassidy’s former boss.Cassidy...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY, SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN and JEREMY MARGOLIS

The race between Nashua native Maggie Goodlander and fellow Democrat Colin Van Ostern for the second congressional district nomination was never close.Even in Van Ostern’s hometown of Concord, Goodlander beat him in all 10 city wards with 63% of the...

By ALEXANDER RAPP, RACHEL WACHMANand MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dennis Martin heard “Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire” and he was sold. The U.S. Coast Guard veteran moved to Londonderry 24 years ago from the “People's Republic of communism, Massachusetts.” He hasn’t looked back. “This was the best slogan I’ve heard in...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Some voters in Allenstown wound up at the wrong voting location after the town switched from St. John the Baptist Church to Allenstown Elementary School, which is now unoccupied.Allenstown town moderator Judy Silva said the town made sure to publicize...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dennis Jakubowski put on his washed green hat, stitched with a white peace sign, and headed to the Loudon polls Tuesday morning. Jakubowski, 70, hoped he could sway his neighbors to vote down ballot Democrat. In a narrowly divided legislature, every...