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Girls’ TrackMerrimack Valley 94, Kennett 88, White Mountains 30, Kingswood 28Key players: MV – Elizabeth Barrington (1st shot put, 1st triple jump, 1st high jump), Tessa Lynch (1st long jump, 3rd 100 hurdles, 5th javelin), Madison Geddes (1st 1,600),...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Three years ago, Rep. Jonah Wheeler was finishing his senior year at ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough. Ten minutes down the road, his friends in Jaffrey were wrapping up theirs at Conant Middle High School. While Wheeler received  “good...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate in New England, yet Black residents in the state are three times more likely to live below the poverty line than their white neighbors.For every $1 a white Granite Stater makes, their Black counterpart is paid...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In the latest hearing for a proposed ban on transgender athletes under consideration in New Hampshire’s State House, Pembroke resident and retired physician Jennifer Smith expressed a more nuanced position than most on the divisive issue.While...

By DAVID BROOKS

A year after New Hampshire allowed dental benefits for adults on Medicaid, NHTI is using grant funding to start treating those patients in Concord, which should help alleviate a backlog in treatment as well as expand training for the school’s dental...

By SEBASTIAN FUENTES

Sebastian Fuentes is the NH Movement Politics Director for Rights & Democracy. He has collaborated with Coos County Democrats, and Plymouth Area Democrats, and became the first Latino NH State Democratic delegate from the North Country, co-founded the...

Monitor staffOfficials are looking for a  Massachusetts man whose car has been parked at the Crawford Path parking lot for roughly two weeks, although they’re unsure whether he went hiking into the White Mountain National Forest.William Neal Donovan,...

By FRANCES MIZE

After eight years at the helm of Colby-Sawyer College, Sue Stuebner will depart in June to take up the mantle as president of Marietta College in Ohio.Under Stuebner’s tenure, Colby-Sawyer’s endowment doubled — from $36 million in 2016 to $72 million...

By MICHAEL M. MCMAHON

For the first time in nearly two decades, Eric Saucier will not be on the sidelines with Conant High boys’ basketball next winter.The longtime Orioles head coach has accepted the boys’ basketball head coaching job at Bow High School, Saucier confirmed...

BaseballConcord 8, Nashua North 3Key players: Concord  – Matt Jenness (5.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 5 K), Josh Turant (1.1 IP, 0 H, 1 K), Alex Turant (3 hits, 2 runs), Noah Chrabolowski (2 hits, 1 run, 2 RBI), Brett McDonough (hit, 2 RBI), Dawson Fancher (2...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

PENACOOK — Last year, after getting off to a 5-2 start, the Merrimack Valley girls’ lacrosse team dropped four of its last seven games and slid down to the No. 8 seed in Division II. Currently 5-1 after a 14-3 win over Kingswood on Monday, head coach...

By ASHLEY SAARI

On Wednesday morning, New Ipswich fire crews responded to an unusual rescue request – a horse that had fallen through the floor of his barn and was stuck in his stall.Shortly before 8 a.m., crews responded to 11 Preston Hill Road, and when they...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After the discovery of mold in the Bow community center building, town officials have announced its closure this Thursday for thorough cleanup and decontamination.David Stack, the town manager, outlined the plan, stating that mitigation efforts will...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The Democratic National Committee will welcome New Hampshire’s delegates to the national nominating convention this summer in Chicago after the state party conducted a very small party-run presidential primary this weekend.An official vote bringing...

By DAVID BROOKS

When your job involves thinking of a new topic for a newspaper column every single week of the year, your ears perk up when an intriguing phrase floats by. And you can’t get much more intriguing than “laser scarecrows for New Hampshire farmers.”I hit...

By JIM KENYON

Under sunny skies and (slightly) warmer temperatures, Dartmouth students flocked to the college’s quintessential campus Green this week. They left their camping gear behind, though.They didn’t join the masses of students at other elite colleges across...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Polls are omnipresent in America and I admit to deep skepticism about their accuracy. I think of Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton and the failure of the red wave to materialize in 2022 as examples that justify that...

By DAVID BROOKS

The era of electric school buses has finally arrived in New Hampshire bringing less pollution, less road noise and maybe even students who are less rambunctious.“Anecdotally it brings the noise of the students down on the bus, because they’re not...

By DAN ATTORRI

NORTHWOOD – It’s only halfway through the season, but if Saturday is any indication, expect the Concord High girls’ track and field team to be a force in late May.Junior Ella Goulas set a meet record in the triple jump with a leap of 36 feet, 9...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Boscawen resident is objecting to potential designs for a proposed town flag.Boscawen currently does not have a flag, but at a Beautification Committee meeting earlier this month, resident Josh Crawford proposed the idea. Crawford is a...

Baseball Bow 12, Coe-Brown 0 Key players: Bow – Sean Guerette (1-for-3, 3 RBIs), Owen Webber (2 hits), Owen Cray (2 hits), Chase Crowell (2 hits), Dillan Abbate (4 IP, 1 H, 5 K, 1 BB), Nate Kiah (1 IP, 1 H, 1 K, 0 BB; Coe-Brown – Casey Colby (hit),...