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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...

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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...

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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...

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Two transgender girls in New Hampshire may continue playing on girls’ sports teams indefinitely, despite a newly enacted law that bars them from doing so, a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.Judge Landya McCafferty granted a request for a preliminary...

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Salisbury Selectman Brett Walker believes his town of 1,500 residents is being overcharged.Five years after Salisbury signed on to an unusual agreement to share emergency medical services with Boscawen and Canterbury, Salisbury is footing nearly...

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Less than two weeks before the presidential primary this year, New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Chris Ager received a mysterious package.Ager wondered if it was hate mail or a death threat, both of which he had received in the past. But his...

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Transgender girls have already sued two New Hampshire school districts, alleging that a newly enacted law that bars them from playing on girls’ sports teams violates their rights.Late last week, the Kearsarge Regional School District decided it didn’t...

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The campus of a tiny Catholic college in Warner that closed earlier this year will likely remain a destination for members of the Catholic faith.The Roman Catholic Church in New Hampshire has reached a tentative agreement to buy 135 acres of land and...

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A Merrimack County Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Tuesday afternoon in the first youth center abuse scandal case to go to criminal trial.Victor Malavet, 62, was accused of grooming and then repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl held at a...

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The newest Thai restaurant in Concord is a family affair – or more precisely, a Sister Act.Asian Thai Kitchen on Pleasant Street, which opened in June, is run by a family of eight sisters.Four members of the Senasy family, who immigrated to the United...

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Ally Snell, the mother of a third grader at the Abbot-Downing School, had never attended a Concord School Board meeting until Thursday night.But, a day after the board’s clerk certified a citizens’ petition that could re-open deliberations on the...

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A woman died after getting injured in an ATV accident in Salisbury this week, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.The woman was riding the ATV “for agriculture purposes” on Monday off of Raccoon Hill Road when the accident...

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As Merrimack County Sheriff, Jason Gerhard says he wouldn’t hesitate to arrest IRS agents who “operate outside their authority.” And while he has no interest in resorting to violence, Gerhard is quick to point out that county sheriffs have the power...

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A transgender girl in Plymouth can continue to play on her school’s girls soccer team for at least the next two weeks despite a newly enacted law that bars her from doing so, a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.During a 90-minute hearing at the U.S....

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An employee at a youth detention facility in Concord groomed a 15-year-old girl and then repeatedly sexually assaulted her over the course of several months in 2001, prosecutors argued Monday during the first criminal trial involving nine guards...

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After several months of sifting through community feedback and tinkering with designs, Boscawen now has an official town flag.The town’s Select Board voted last week to approve the flag, which is the work of town resident Josh Crawford. Crawford first...

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When Linda Sarette laid her father to rest at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen in 2019, the section where he was buried had no garden.It was an omission that bothered the Sanbornton resident so much she asked the cemetery to...

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The man who shot and killed a security officer at the New Hampshire Hospital last November had grown increasingly desperate in his search for stable housing during the weeks and days prior to the shooting, according to a report released by the state...

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A jury was selected Wednesday in the first criminal case in New Hampshire’s Youth Development Center scandal to go to trial.Victor Malavet, 52, of Gilford, is charged with 12 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault. Malavet allegedly repeatedly...

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When Cali Rollins showed up to her first Merrimack Valley Middle School softball practice in 2023, she had little idea of the legacy that preceded her. But when her mother, Morgan Mahon, emailed her daughter’s new coach that spring, Tom Burke had...

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At the age of 16, as the pandemic began, Charity McRae dropped out of Concord High School.“I don’t learn like most traditional kids, so sitting in a classroom with 40 kids wasn’t really the best for me,” McRae said.Over the ensuing four years, she got...