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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

David Goldstein said his Halloween retirement wasn’t intentional. It sure is fitting, though, for someone who spent their childhood wearing the same Medford Police costume on repeat each year.Goldstein grew up across the street from a local police...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Emmett Soldati figures his first question about the seat he's running for is the same as most voters. “What is the Executive Council?” Five years ago, then-councilor Andru Volinsky walked into Teatotaller Cafe in Dover, where Soldati is the owner, and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Former Franklin mayor Jo Brown was fined by a judge Friday for using a private email account for official city business after she did not produce all requested documents in an ongoing lawsuit filed by a business owner against the city. Miriam Kovacs,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

To Matt Walsh, Concord’s housing market is a mixed blessing.In 2023, New Hampshire’s capital city was 10th on the list of most popular markets on Zillow. It shows Concord is attractive – people want to raise a family in the city and post-pandemic...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Danielle Feole knew the drill taking her son Joey, 6, to see President Joe Biden.The wait to hear the president would be long, so she packed an iPad and Grey, the stuffed animal wolf that’s attached to her son’s hip.The afternoon in Concord would be...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Aryn Bernardo watches Filipino telenovelas to feel connected to the country her parents left just before she was born.She can understand Tagalog in the shows and when her parents speak it to her at home, but she doesn’t know how to speak the language....

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

President Joe Biden is set to visit Concord on Tuesday with an official White House event at NHTI. It is his first trip back to the state since stepping out of the presidential race in August. He last visited the Granite State in May, with a speech in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Freeman Toth wants to set the record straight.Out of the 300 or so people he talks to who are experiencing homelessness in the Concord area, more than two-thirds do not use drugs. Three in four people are disabled, as defined by the Americans with...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Nelga Kisula loves to draw. When she comes to Project STORY after school, art is her favorite thing the group does together.But that hasn’t always been possible. The volunteer-run group, which offers free programming after school and in the summer for...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Matty Gregg’s story started with a movie and a bet.The 1983 film, The Terry Fox Story, chronicled 22-year-old Canadian Terry Fox as he attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research after he lost his right leg to osteosarcoma.He...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Desiree McLaughlin hoped that five words on a yellow sign would sway voters: “Save our tax cap Franklin.” Instead, a slip of paper will determine who fills one of three open seats on Franklin’s city council, each for a three year term, after a race in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

To help pay their tax bill, the second floor of John and Meredith Lunn’s Newport home is now a 600-square-foot apartment. Any source of income helps when they’re trying to pay an annual tax bill that only seems to grow year to year.In 2023, that bill...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Lochan Sharma has faint memories of Nepal. He knows he used to run in the halls of the school his dad worked at and that he was enrolled in classes quite young. His family helps him stitch together the fabric of the life he left – his sister reminds...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A card game helped put things in perspective for Finan Murphy.As he sat in a church in Concord, where residents at Family Promise’s emergency shelter stayed the night, and played a game against one of the teenagers living there at the time, he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Bruce Marshall adores Franklin so much that he said he wants his ashes scattered there. Sam Jacobson said he wants a city where he can live and play.As a result, the two men changed their legal domiciles to the state’s smallest city to run for...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Heather Otten never thought she’d be a homeowner.When she moved into a single-wide manufactured house in Warner, she was 20 years old with no credit, a newborn and her second child on the way.Now, 14 years later, she’s a partial owner of the 33-home...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chances are when most people walk by Brothers Donuts on Central Street in Franklin, the longstanding shop is closed. Owner Malverino Rizzo hoped to capitalize on inquiring minds who walk by after hours with two long decals in the window displaying a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Editor’s note: Ahead of Sunday’s Multicultural Festival, the Monitor will highlight individuals and organizations that make Concord a more welcoming and inclusive community in a series of stories called “Welcome to Concord.”As Karma Gonpo walked the...

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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mackenna Trudel grew up on the stage of the Franklin Opera House to choruses of applause as the curtain closed on theater performances. Now the high school freshman is applauding the Franklin City Council after they voted in favor of a $6.8 million...