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Field HockeyPembroke 1, Kennett 0Key players: Pembroke – Ashlyn Barker (goal), Annika Jawidzik (goalie)Highlights: The Spartans stunned last year’s Division II runner-up in their season opener. Barker scored on a breakaway midway through the first...

By DAN ATTORRI

PEMBROKE – They led, they trailed. They were called for penalties, they drew penalties. They were up and they were down. But in the end, they came from behind. The Pembroke Academy Spartans experienced nearly every emotion in their first match of the...

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dogwalker who lives and works in Contoocook. When I was in college, I spent my summers on campus working on an archaeological project. In...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Malachi Gagnon’s videos usually feature him sitting on a couch while strumming a guitar. The first notes of his voice as he begins to sing, smooth and deep, offer an invitation into his living room. The tempo picks up and he loses himself in the...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The Crimson Tide’s boys’ soccer season kicked off Thursday against Portsmouth High School at Memorial Field. Unfortunately for Concord, they were battered 7-2 by Portsmouth’s strong attack. The push from Portsmouth started early in the first half as...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The 51st annual Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb drew hundreds of new first-time participants and the previous women’s record was broken.This year’s race had over 500 first-time participants and many returners of different age groups ranging...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged a Manchester school district policy that protects transgender students’ privacy and requires staff to refer to those children using their chosen pronouns.This policy...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Construction of New Hampshire’s first forensic psychiatric hospital is progressing steadily, with the state targeting an operational start by late 2026.This 24-bed hospital, located next to the existing New Hampshire Hospital, an inpatient psychiatric...

By DAVID BROOKS

Jeanne Gerulskis remembers her first impression of the Christa McAuliffe planetarium when she interviewed for the job of director back in 1997.“The lights on the walkway were broken, there was nobody at the desk to greet me. There was no parking lot...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker heads to New Hampshire this holiday weekend, to campaign on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris, her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as well as down-ballot Democrats running in this year’s elections.Pritzker on...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord is gearing up for the start of lower electricity rates through the community power system, with a public information meeting set for Sept. 4, but one question about rates has arisen.The program is set to begin in October, making Concord one of...

Girls’ SoccerBow 5, Kingswood 1Key players: Bow – Lexi Insana (2 goals), Lexana Farr (goal, assist), Ashley Wallen (2 assists), Brylie Gelinas (goal), Marissa Reyes (first varsity goal), Anna Zerba (midfield), Vivi Madden (defense), Abby Foote...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Alan Quimby, who has served as Chichester’s longtime fire chief, co-emergency management director, and forest fire warden, resigned suddenly from his position effective Sept. 1, a move that caught town officials off-guard.“This board has supported...

uBy ALEXANDER RAPPand DAN ATTORRI

Concord High’s Chris Beyer won the New England cross country championship as a senior in 1991, and he was the last Crimson Tide athlete to do so. Now, 33 years later, he has taken over the as the girls’ cross country head coach.After falling short of...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Two Democrats and two Republicans are facing off in primaries to run for the District 2 seat on the state’s Executive Council, which was held by Cinde Warmington, who was the lone Democratic voice on the five-member board.The council, which is...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Demolition of most of the Steeplegate Mall is on hold due to two lawsuits filed by the owner of the land beneath the neighboring TD Bank.Onyx Partners, the company planning to remake the former mall into a mixed-use housing development with hundreds...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Since the farm at the intersection of Routes 3 and 4 in Boscawen was bought by the Crete family in 1958, they have expanded the operation steadily to over 500 acres to support cattle, soybean, wheat, and notably, corn.Highway View Farm is renowned for...

By ALEXANDER RAPP and DAN ATTORRI

Bow High School boys’ soccer coach Josh Smith is looking to build upon the success of last season after leading the Falcons on a fairytale run to win the Division II championship in his first season as varsity head coach.They beat top-seeded Lebanon,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Big Apple is Rebecca Chartier’s baby, tipping the scales at around 300 pounds and only 52 days old.Chartier has poured months of care and attention into nurturing this giant wonder at home in Weare and is now ready to showcase her orange marvel at...