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Since the June debate, one presidential candidate has been under a microscope. The media scream about Joe Biden’s age, and declare him virtually dead on arrival after a faltering debate performance that capped a month of international travel and...

By ALLIE GINWALA

The Concord Monitor’s reader advisory board, an initiative to bring readers and community-minded individuals together to talk about local news, is currently in its third year. Our 2024 board members are Kathleen Beltrami, Berit Brown, Ann Davis,...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As New Hampshire’s 2024 legislative session wrapped up, Gov. Chris Sununu last week signed 81 bills into law. They spanned from environmental regulations to healthcare to expanding publicly available data. Here’s three new laws New Hampshirites should...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

If Concord’s property assessment team encounters a no-trespassing sign on a homeowner’s property while conducting their city-wide revaluation, they’ll leave the site and send a letter in the mail. If a resident isn’t home when the team, marked by neon...

By ETHAN DeWITT

New Hampshire cities and towns will be required to provide accessible voting machines for all elections after January 2025, according to a bill signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu this month.House Bill 1264, signed by Sununu July 3, states that every...

By JAMES RINKER

Tractor Supply Co., which has three locations in the Monadnock Region, has eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives amid backlash on social media from some of its customer base.In a statement released June 27, the Brentwood,...

It’s good that word is getting out about Project 2025, the GOP’s 900-page plan to gut public agencies and turn them over to people only committed to serving the president and his loyalists. It’s worth drilling down a little into policy specifics....

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New Hampshire’s utility companies are expected to change their rates for electricity starting on August 1. Energy costs could go up for some and down for others.The state’s three investor-owned utilities – Eversource, Unitil, and Liberty – are...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If you own property in Concord, someone in a neon vest will come to your house at some point over the next year and a half.With a Monday start, Concord is beginning both a citywide revaluation and a full measure and list of all of its properties ahead...

By HUNTER OBERST

The city of Keene could help Keene Housing apply for a $412,000 state grant to cover demolition costs for an affordable housing project on Washington Street.In a unanimous vote, the City Council’s Finance, Organization and Personnel Committee on...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Investing in people and culture, promoting thriving communities and improving customer service are three core commitments included in a new roadmap for 2024-25 released by the state’s health department. The plan lays out initiatives and goals for the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SUNAPEE — Fourth of July light displays will be a little different in several towns this summer.Sunapee and Lebanon are using lights instead of pyrotechnics to celebrate Independence Day, and Claremont and Woodstock have switched the dates of their...

By ROB CLAFLIN and MARY WILKE

Rob Claflin and Mary Wilke both live in Concord and are members of Kent Street Coalition. Two years shy of its 250th birthday, our country teeters between alternate futures: either we continue the American Experiment or we abandon it. With an...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Documents unsealed earlier this week in criminal cases against five former Youth Development Center guards describe in gruesome detail repeated sexual and physical abuse perpetrated against minors held at New Hampshire’s juvenile jail in the late...

By ETHAN DeWITT

New Hampshire’s Department of Corrections is facing a temporary $3.44 million deficit caused in large part by an increase in overtime payments, according to DOC Commissioner Helen Hanks. Now, as the June 30 end of the state fiscal year approaches,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Concord man accused of fatally shooting his half-brother in the back of the neck believed that his sibling had “ratted” on him to Concord police in a separate investigation, according to a police document in the case. Jesse Sullivan, 32, is charged...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com In contemporary society, identifying as “Christian” invites more confusion than clarity. Last year, Pew Research...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — Work crews are beginning to construct a $6.6 million facility that will convert greenhouse gas emissions from the city’s landfill into electricity that will be redistributed to the electrical grid and used to power the city’s buildings. The...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. It’s time again to celebrate Pride Month and all the benefits joining the LGBTQ+ community has brought us as parents and grandparents. Our joys have only grown in the past year,...

By MARK QUIRK

On Feb. 1, early in the 2024 legislative session, the N.H. House of Representatives rejected House Bill 1520 by a slim 193-184 vote. The bill was aimed at reviving the state’s long-dormant Wheels to Work initiative.The program had been sustained for...