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By KEVIN PORTER

Kevin Porter lives in Concord. If there is any doubt about how the disparities in our community are exacerbated by city spending (or lack thereof), look at the recent conversations around recreation spending within the city of Concord. Proposing that...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After most New Hampshire mayors called for a better state response to the ongoing homelessness crisis, Gov. Chris Sununu, members of the Department of Health and Human Services, and select legislators will meet with city officials to discuss...

By KELLY SENNOTT

First and foremost, Bradford artist and printmaker J. Ann Eldridge is a storyteller.Her subjects? Bugs. Rocks. Moles. The outdoors in general. Instead of novels, she prefers reading about the science of the natural world, from horizontal gene transfer...

By ADAM DRAPCHO and DAYMOND STEER

A 50-year-old grocery store was destroyed by a fire on Monday evening. The fire occurred after hours, and no injuries were reported.Hunter’s Shop ’n Save, a family-owned independent grocery store, was reduced to cinders by a fire that was reported at...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Rob and Kristine Parisien have been residents of Bow for 12 years, living in an eco-friendly home on Branch Londonderry Turnpike East with unimpeded views of nature. The Parisiens moved from Portland, Maine to settle down in a small town away from the...

Valley News

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Authorities believe the woman whose body workers found at a Casella Waste Systems recycling processing center on Tuesday was from White River Junction, according to Hartford’s acting police chief.Workers found the woman’s body...

By CAROL ROBIDOUX

Manchester’s Department of Public works delivered totes to a downtown homeless encampment as police began the process of moving people from tens set up on city sidewalks.The city on Tuesday learned that it had prevailed in a court challenge to its...

By Monitor staff

New England College will use a $2 million grant to triple the size of its nursing program, and it is adding a third partner hospital to the program.The Henniker college announced Tuesday that Elliott Hospital will become a partner in its three-year...

By JON DECKER

Sydnie Quimby, a 15-year-old student at Gilford High School, died on Monday following a head injury sustained in a skiing accident at Gunstock Mountain Resort.According to a statement from Gunstock’s president and general manager, Tom Day, witnesses...

By JESSICA LIVINGSTON

Jessica Livingston lives in Concord. When archaeologists and anthropologists discovered a human skeleton with a broken femur that had healed over, it was determined that that is when human civilization began. The fact that it had healed over meant...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire sugarhouses bounced back in 2022 after a dismal prior year, producing more maple syrup than any season in the past seven years.The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that New Hampshire produced 167,000 gallons of maple syrup last...

By DAVID BROOKS

The building that holds the Loudon Village County Store will be going on the auction block in two weeks along with three sand and gravel pits, including one next to the I-93 welcome center in Hooksett.Four properties owned by Plourde Sand & Gravel...

By MAGGIE FOGARTY and GRACE KINDEKE

Maggie Fogarty is the NH Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Grace Kindeke is the Program Coordinator for AFSC’s NH Program and winner of this year’s Martin Luther King award. In the weeks before the holidays, as many...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The NIL wave sweeping college sports has hit New Hampshire high schools.Short for name, image and likeness, NIL has become shorthand for the ability of amateur athletes to receive endorsements and other forms of compensation as a result of their...

By BETH J. SLEPIAN

Beth J. Slepian, MBA PT, is president & CEO of Granite VNA. ProPublica and The New Yorker recently published a lengthy feature story that paints a negative picture of hospice in the United States. The article, “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle”...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Leonard Peltier remains in federal prison in Florida, now in his 47th year of confinement. So far, all efforts for clemency have failed. Very disappointingly, President Biden has not yet granted clemency.I previously...

By RAY DUCKLER

Al Cilley Sr. looked tired this week behind the old Department of Transportation building off Storrs Street.He made a special appearance Wednesday at the DOT site, his first visit in about three months, shuffling slowly, hunched over a bit, wearing...

By MELANIE MATTS

Eric and Sharon Houle finally felt heard.They came to the school board Friday night to discuss discrimination in schools after their Black son was the victim of a racial death threat at John Stark Regional High School last April.“We are here to ask,...

By RAY DUCKLER

Nina Gardner’s fingerprints are all over Sanbornton.Few residents in town have spread themselves this thin. Gardner contributed to Sanbornton’s school system, its historical society and its overall look. She’s 76, and her arms still extend in various...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Grace Kindeke wishes she wouldn’t have to watch Sen. Maggie Hassan talk about immigration policy from a video, with the Senator standing in front of a steel paneled wall in Nogales, Arizona, over 2,000 miles away. She’d like to have these...