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By DAVID BROOKS

The effect of a very dry autumn is beginning to show up in the region, notably with brush fires in Massachusetts and parts of southern New England, and while New Hampshire has been spared so far, little precipitation is on the horizon with...

By DAVID BROOKS

Last week I wrote about interesting stuff that UNH is doing in space, but there’s something interesting on the ground in Durham, as well. A big something. Big and cold.Admittedly, it doesn’t sound all that interesting. It’s just a giant water storage...

By DAVID BROOKS

A huge trade show coming to NHTI on Friday, Nov. 15, to show off the range of jobs available in industries known loosely as “the trades” is targeting students, as you would expect. But it has another audience at least as important: Their parents.“By...

By DAVID BROOKS

In a long and storied journalism career, mostly at the Concord Monitor and its sister paper the Valley News, Mark Travis occupied just about every position available in local newspapers, from freelance writer to publisher. But it wasn’t those titles...

By DAVID BROOKS

Some elected officials have received letters claiming that they were violating the New Hampshire Constitution by following the state’s procedure for elections, prompting the Secretary of State to tell officials to ignore the letter and proceed as...

By DAVID BROOKS

A woman died in a Monday evening house fire in Raymond.New Hampshire State Fire Marshal Sean P. Toomey, Raymond Fire Chief Paul Hammond and Raymond Police Chief Michael Labell said Tuesday that the house at 13 Hummingbird Lane was reported on fire...

By DAVID BROOKS

The AccuVote machines in Laconia’s Ward 3 is among those in eight polling places that were randomly chosen to be audited following Tuesday’s election.Two places using the new VotingWords device, Moultonborough and Rochester Ward 2, will also be...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire is known for a lot of things: Mt. Washington, the presidential primary, our slightly alarming motto. And then there’s heliophysics expertise.“I checked and in the last 30 years we have been the lead on at least 22 NASA or NOAA missions”...

By DAVID BROOKS

As you prepare to vote Tuesday, here is some advice:I forgot where and when to vote.Polling places and times in the Greater Concord area are in the Monitor and on the Monitor website. For everybody else, there’s an online form from the Secretary of...

By DAVID BROOKS

The company that owns the Swenson Granite quarry in Concord says it plans to resume cutting slabs of stone there by next summer and in the meantime will continue processing material into smaller pieces known as aggregate. Polycor, the world’s largest...

By DAVID BROOKS

The state’s top election official did his best Tuesday to ward off in advance any conspiracy theories about next week’s election, saying that claims about illegal voters or ballot tampering don’t resonate in New Hampshire because of in-person...

By DAVID BROOKS

Among other things, the Nov. 5 election will put New Hampshire judges in the middle of a long debate about how to deal with older workers: whether it’s best to keep them for their experience or ease them out to make room for new blood.A proposed...

By DAVID BROOKS

For a holiday centered around ghosts, cemeteries, spooky creatures and all-around scariness, Halloween sure produces its share of simple pleasures.“It’s so fun seeing the kids’ eyes light up and watching their reaction,” said Dave Bastien of Concord....

By DAVID BROOKS

The city of Concord is making a final push to fish and remove lead from water lines, even private ones – except they don’t expect to find any lead. What they’re really looking for is galvanized steel lines installed decades ago.“Say I was building a...

By DAVID BROOKS

From the perspective of a man who oversees getting more than a thousand students to school on time even in bad weather and when drivers call out sick – shifting the location of the middle school from Rundlett to a new school about six miles away...

By DAVID BROOKS

The most basic of all the questions around the future of Concord’s middle school is numerical: How many students should it be built to hold?This sounds like a simple question but demographics is rarely straightforward. Consider a 2019 enrollment study...

By DAVID BROOKS

When faced with a half-ton cow bearing horns that are two feet long, Carole Soule knows what to do: Tell it to lie down.“The thing that I have learned about myself with the farm is that I absolutely love training cattle – to be ridden, to drive, to...

By DAVID BROOKS

A very dry and warm October has raised the possibility of wildfire in New Hampshire, with officials declaring today as the first “high” fire danger day of the season.The risk is unlikely to improve any time soon, with little or no rain in the forecast...

By DAVID BROOKS

The failure of a piece of electric equipment known as a hot line clamp knocked out power for 1,400 customers in Hopkinton on Tuesday afternoon, including Harold Martin School.The problem occurred around 1 p.m. and was fixed by 2:30 p.m. Students...

By DAVID BROOKS

The projected price tag for the long-discussed expansion of I-93 and I-89 in Concord and Bow has risen to $370 million, almost 50% more than projections made before the pandemic, with the purchase of rights-of-way now slated for 2026 and first major...