From origin to transformation: William & Sons Coffee Co. brings a flavorful experience to Concord

By RACHEL WACHMAN

For Jonathan Hutchins, coffee is far more than a drink. It’s an ideology, an ecosystem, a source of connection between people and the natural world.“I enjoy finding out where things came from and how they work and how they came to us,” Hutchins said....

What happened to all that PFAS-filled foam collected in New Hampshire?

By DAVID BROOKS

They’re called “forever chemicals” but the program destroying PFAS in New Hampshire firefighting foam shows that a better name might be “everywhere chemicals.”“They really are everywhere,” said Amy Dindal, business line director for Battelle, a...

Surgeon General calls for new label on drinks to warn Americans of alcohol’s cancer risk

By AMANDA SEITZ

Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday. Murthy’s advisory comes as research and evidence mounts about the bad effects that alcohol...

Dry conditions limit early season snowmaking in the Upper Valley

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — When the Oak Hill Outdoor Center in Hanover first fired up its snow guns in March, it was a game-changing upgrade for local athletes, providing expanded on-snow training and racing opportunities close to home. But when a recent mid-December...

Concord starts collecting Christmas trees curbside on Monday

Concord residents with curbside trash collection can put out their Christmas trees curbside on their trash collection day starting on Monday, Jan. 6.Christmas trees will be collected for two weeks through Friday, Jan. 17.Trees must be placed at the...

Fencing goes up around Concord Holiday Inn as renovations move forward

Fencing has gone up around the Holiday Inn in downtown Concord as renovations continue. It is slated to reopen in four months as a Hilton DoubleTree hotel.Developer Steve Duprey purchased the hotel on North Main Street in August for $16.8 million. It...

‘How many days?’: One nine-year-old girl's years-long wait for permanent residency and a visit home to the Philippines

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Nine-year-old Khloe Tag-At sat at her dining room table, hunched over her sketchbook with a colored pencil in hand.“It’s Mount Apo,” Khloe said without glancing up. “The tallest mountain in the Philippines.”She smiled at the thought and continued to...

Bow schools cite ‘hostile’ environment, outside activists in continued opposition to sports protests

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...

School bus company employee claims she was fired for reporting safety issues on Manchester, Kearsarge buses

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A school bus company employee says she was fired for speaking up about safety issues on Kearsarge Regional and Manchester School District buses, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last month.Alison Jones, a corporate employee at the bus...

Fatal crashes in N.H. similar to last year but motorcycle deaths fell sharply

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s highways didn’t get any safer in 2024 but at least they didn’t get deadlier, judging from year-end data about fatal accidents – with one sad exception.The number of drivers under the age of 21 who were killed on state roads last year...

A Dartmouth grad student is in Antarctica this winter on a mission to find the world’s oldest ice

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

Dartmouth graduate student Jacob Chalif is far from home this holiday season. He’s in Antarctica on a mission to find the world’s oldest ice.“It’s certainly a unique experience,” he said. “Everything you do, you have to adapt to do it in the freezing...

Dartmouth men’s basketball team requests to withdraw its unionization petition

By OLIVIA RICHARDSON

The Dartmouth men's basketball team is no longer trying to form a union, ending their push to become the nation’s first college athlete’s union.The Associated Press reports that the local Service Employees International Union Local 560 chapter...

Plymouth State University researchers receive grant to study snowpack data

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Researchers at Plymouth State University will use a two-year, $192,000 federal grant to look at almost a century of snowpack data in the Northeast and create the first “Snow Drought Index” in the nation.The index “will look at measurements of depth...

Red Apple Buffet could reopen if the building doesn’t sell

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The owners of the former Red Apple Buffet in Concord are prepared to reopen the all-you-can-eat restaurant after the sale of the Loudon Road property fell through multiple times.“If it doesn’t sell in the near future, the owners will open it up...

Allenstown to hold discussion between Board of Selectmen and School Board about elementary school building

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Allenstown Board of Selectmen will hold a joint discussion with the school board on Thursday to continue gathering information as they weigh options on what to do with the former elementary School building.The town is considering purchasing the...

N.H. to test dairies for bird flu

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu, which so far has been detected here only in some wild birds in early 2024.In other parts of the country, concern about Highly Pathogenic Avian...

Continuing the beloved name: Bow resident buys Arnie’s Place

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Everybody knows Arnie’s Place.It’s a staple of the Heights neighborhood landscape with its maroon facade, one of the small business oases that haven’t been swept into the river of national chains along Loudon Road.That’s why Deb Casselberry wanted to...

Barn destroyed by fire in Andover Saturday night

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A detached barn next to a single-family home in Andover was destroyed by fire Saturday night, authorities said.Firefighters were notified around 8:16 p.m. of a building fire at 82 Hoyt Road. By the time first responders arrived the the structure was...

Advocates and developers hope for progress on housing crisis in 2025

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelly Ayotte admits that in today’s market, it would have been unlikely for her and her husband to have afforded their first home.They were in their 30s, newly married and buying a condominium. From there, they purchased their first house. Nowadays,...

Granite Geek: You can get a local-news-ish product from A.I. Should I be worried?

By DAVID BROOKS

I promise that this column was written by me and not by artificial intelligence. The fact that I have to write such a sentence says volumes about where we are at the moment.Here’s another one of those volumes: You can get a weekly email summarizing...