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By DAVID BROOKS

After 20 years, Contoocook Covered Bridge Restaurant is closing as its owner retires, but the site should be reborn this summer as a new restaurant.The decision to close the restaurant overlooking the Contoocook Railroad covered bridge stems from...

By BREANNA EDELSTEIN

 PLAISTOW — A Timberlane Regional School District official only contacted David Russell’s former employers after his recent arrest for assaulting a 15-year-old girl in his math class — not during the hiring process — new police documents explain.Human...

By BEN DOMAINGUE

Millions of dollars will soon be available to plant more trees and improve the health of the White Mountain National Forest through funds available in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.The REPLANT Act, which stands for Repairing...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the longest-running transportation debates in New Hampshire, whether to bring passenger rail back up the Merrimack River Valley, has been rejuvenated by potential funding from the new federal infrastructure bill.A public information hearing has...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Joy Cadarette and Sharon Beauchesne are old friends, opening a store in an old building where they will sell old things. But the idea of starting a new antique shop in Concord together is newly hatched, when just three weeks ago they discovered that...

By BENJAMIN DOMAINGUE

Mountain lions remain an enigmatic animal for residents of New Hampshire, with New Hampshire Fish and Game reporting three to five sightings per week.“Of those three to five reports, one or two come with photos,” according to Patrick Tate, a wildlife...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

The decaying Department of Transportation complex sandwiched between Loudon Road and the Concord Coach bus terminal has sat vacant for years, greeting highway drivers with glimpses of low-lying buildings with broken windows, peeling paint and creeping...

By JULIA STINNEFORD

Doug Nelson opened up his candy shop on Main Street in Wilton in 1994, hoping to find a quieter place than his previous venue to ply his craft of candy-making, according to Dick Putnam.“Little did he know what was to come,” wrote Putnam, who owned...

By KENNETH TRAN

In his senior year of high school, Diego Perez’ biggest concern about college was affordability. A college counselor told him to apply through Questbridge, a non-profit organization that matches low-income students such as Perez with the nation’s...

By EDITH TUCKER

Three big-ticket capital projects in the 60.3-acre Mount Washington State Park will be built and paid for with federal funds available under the American Rescue Plan and state and local fiscal recovery funds designed to boost the post-pandemic...

By DAVID BROOKS

Coal, once the dominant fuel for heating buildings while driving industry in New England, has faded almost entirely from view. Julie Kinney can point to one remnant that she wishes would fade with it.“We have an ash pile right now. At some point we’ll...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A Concord family is accusing a private boarding school in Massachusetts of failing to protect their daughter, who they say was taken across state lines and sexually assaulted by former summer program director Howie Leung in 2015 and 2016.A lawsuit...

By GEOFF FORESTER

Father Constantine Newman of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Concord started the Easter weekend with the Apokathelosis, known as the Decent of the Cross service on Holy and Great Friday, followed by the Service of Lamentations, where...

‘Alnôbak Moskijik Maahlakwsikok” (“Abenaki People Emerging from Ashes”), will be on display at Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton from May 7 to 28. The show is a collaboration between Two Villages Art Society, Abenaki Trails Project, and Vermont...

By RUTH SMITH

During a recent evening trip to the shed to fetch some firewood, I heard a strange sound in the woods. I recognized the sound but listened intently to be sure I was hearing what I thought I was hearing. It resembled a truck backing up, but we live in...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has a lot of farms – an estimated 4,100 of them – but most are small and don’t come close to being able to support a family.That’s the conclusion of the latest National Agriculture Statistics Service estimate for New England, which is...

By PETE NAKOS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...

By MICHAEL J. CADUTO

Last June my wife Marie and I encountered a mature wood turtle while walking through a forest near our home. We admired the intricate topography of its shell, inspiration for this species’ scientific name: Glyptemys (“carved turtle”) insculpta...

Aug. 17 to 21ALLENSTOWN61 River Road; apartment building; $323,133; Ernest J. Amyot to Lily Fritz and Khai A. Vanvu.ANDOVER218 Currier Road; land and building; $200,000; Pilot Realty LLC to Alan and Katherine L. Gielarowski.65 Hall Road; land and...

By RUTH SMITH

At this time of year many people, not just gardeners, think about plants. Gardens are lush with flowers and ripening vegetables. Meadows, wetlands and forests are rich with the colors and textures of hundreds of species of flora. But one group of...