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Next weekend marks four years since New Hampshire saw its first death from what was then called “the novel coronavirus,” and although COVID-19 isn’t taking many lives these days, the passage of time shows it has ushered us into an unhappy new normal...

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The continuing problem of cyanobacteria blooms in French and Keyser ponds, mostly caused by phosphate from runoff and septic systems, would be targeted under a proposal to hire a consulting firm to recommend ways to tackle the problem. The $100,000...

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Concord and several area towns are getting on the community power bandwagon.The City Council unanimously voted Monday to adopt the program, which allows communities to participate in buying electricity rather than just getting it through the local...

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Henniker said yes more than Weare said no, which means the John Stark School District operating budget passed on election day.The two-town school district often sees a split between its member communities at annual meeting time and this was no...

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Weare voters rejected the town operating budget but approved the school operating budget on Tuesday, and made a decision that leaves a decade-old debate about town-owned land on East Road even less settled than it was before.Voters approved both...

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Incumbent Select Board member Kris Blomback was re-elected while Peter Flynn will replace Scott Osgood on the five-person board after Tuesday’s election in Henniker.In the Henniker School District, voters easily passed the operating budget of $10.07...

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An electric-car-charging station has just been installed at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.Actually, that isn’t quite accurate. It’s really an electric-car-and-electric-plane-charging station. That might surprise you because there aren’t any...

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Community power, the system under which communities can buy their own electricity instead of depending on the utility, is continuing its rapid expansion in towns throughout the region.Three Concord area towns are among the dozen launching the system...

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There’s one month to go before a full solar eclipse comes through New Hampshire and people are getting excited. The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center has the numbers to prove it.The science museum alongside NHTI put in an order for 500 pairs of...

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With the spring thaw showing up early, Concord will begin posting load limits to streets on March 11 to minimize damage from heavy commercial or construction vehicles.Seasonal weight restrictions of 9 tons are posted on roads annually. They will...

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Another proposal to bring large amounts of electricity from Quebec into New Hampshire, one that would have used existing power lines that cut through a corner of Concord, has died despite hefty support from the federal government.National Grid said...

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Some people on the Verizon cell phone network did not receive the series of Amber Alerts sent out Friday concerning two missing New Hampshire children, and the state is trying to figure out why.“I have heard from other folks that have a Verizon phone,...

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Carlson’s Motors, a family firm that in 1937 became one of the first car dealerships in Concord, has been bought by Nucar, a regional company with deep roots in New Hampshire, as part of a continuing trend of consolidation in the industry of auto...

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Hoping to turn the total solar eclipse on April 8 into a tourism bonanza, New Hampshire state government has created an online portal touting seasonal trips, places to stay and other things to do as preparations ramp up around the area.One event will...

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It’s getting hard to keep track of airlines at Manchester airport. A week after Sun Country said it was coming and four days after Spirit said it was leaving, a new low-cost carrier has announced its arrival.Breeze Airways, a three-year-old airline...

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New Hampshire likes to be different. To celebrate our uniqueness we point to things like motorcycle helmet freedom and cannabis lack of freedom – nobody said we were consistent – and freeway signage.Freeway signage? Yes, we are one of just a couple of...

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With no obvious savior in sight, the historic green mansion between Concord Co-op and Bank of NH Stage on Main Street faces a demolition deadline even as a long-standing effort to save a historic brick building a few hundred yards away continues to...

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Just three days after a new airline said it would be starting service at Manchester-Boston regional Airport, Spirit Airlines says it is suspending service, partly because it isn’t selling enough tickets.The company said it would suspend service to...

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The change of companies overseeing mail-order prescriptions for roughly 11,000 retired state employees has resulted in so many problems since the start of the year that the state may fine Anthem Blue Cross, the company that won the contract.Gov....

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The nation’s first major offshore wind farm, the under-construction Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, has shown up in an important, if obscure, location.The project is one of more than 900 energy providers of various types who won bids to receive...