Full-circle moment: A 19-year-old freshman state rep navigates his first day of the 2025 legislative session

01-08-2025 4:13 PM

James Thibault spent his final hours before the start of the 2025 legislative session on a tour of the New Hampshire State House.


‘I thought he was going to kill him’: Trial for Concord cop accused of assaulting homeless man in 2023 begins

01-08-2025 5:05 PM

A former employee of Sal’s Pizza said she thought an on-duty Concord police officer was going to kill a homeless man when she witnessed him push the man to the ground outside the Storrs Street restaurant in April 2023.


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High schools: Tuesday night’s basketball results
01-08-2025 12:45 AM

Boys’ BasketballJohn Stark 47, Plymouth 40Key players: John Stark – Cedar Beaupre (21 points), Joey Dykstra (8 points), Hayden Pond (8 points, 4 assists), Aiden Harris (6 points, 8 rebounds, 5 steals)Highlights: A Beaupre 3 with less than a minute to...

Opinion

An officer demonstrating for the Shah of Iran strikes a typical Mussolini pose as he harangues crowds in front of Parliament Gate in Tehran on March 3, 1953. He wears a photo of the Shah on his hat.
Opinion: No war with Iran
01-08-2025 6:00 AM

Jesse Gillis is from Pembroke and an active member of NH Veterans for Peace. I was 15 years old when the warmongers in Washington finally got their war on the citizens of Iraq in 2003. At this point in the 2020s, I thought it was a common...

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The 2025 legislative session kicks off Wednesday.
Republicans return to Concord in firm control — and facing steep budget challenges
01-08-2025 10:46 AM

When Gov.-elect Kelly Ayotte is sworn into office Thursday, she and her fellow Republicans who gained ground in Concord on Election Day will have the power to implement many of the policies they ran on — from housing, to immigration, to taxes.But the...

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Library
01-08-2025 8:00 AM

There are so many words unspoken,volumes just waiting to be read,but the hour is very late,so very quiet instead.There is darkness in the great room,a scent of pages so old,wisdom has a way of doing that,perhaps something I have been told.I enjoy my...

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Obit photo for Ann Marvin Ann Marvin

Wolfeboro, NH - Ann Peters Marvin Ann Peters Marvin, born Ann Peters Crowley on February 11, 1926, in Danvers, Massachusetts, died in her sleep on January 3, 2025, on her farm in Denton, Maryland. The daughter of Daniel Napoleon Cr... remainder of obit for Ann Marvin

Obit photo for Leona Ruth Davis Leona Ruth Davis

Leona Ruth (Haines) Davis Concord, NH - Concord NH – It is with great sadness that we announce that Leona Ruth Davis, 95, passed away early in the morning of December 21, 2024 at Concord Hospital due to complications of Pneumonia. She wa... remainder of obit for Leona Ruth Davis

Obit photo for John Wescott John Wescott

Center Barnstead, NH - John Wescott, 69, of Barnstead, N.H., passed away following a short illness on Dec. 31, 2024. He is survived by his beloved wife of 35 years, Mary Johnson Wescott; his sister, E. Mary Carroll of Pembroke, NH; his... remainder of obit for John Wescott

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Concord, NH - Patricia (Provencher) Phillips, 81, of Concord, NH and formerly of Superior, WI and Manchester, NH, passed away Monday, December 23, 2024 after a short illness surrounded by her family and friends. Froggy was preceded in d... remainder of obit for Patricia Phillips

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