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By DAVID BROOKS

Eversource customers will be seeing large increases in their electric bill this year, although exactly how much is hard to say at the moment.Electric bills have several components. The energy charge, which covers the cost of the electricity actually...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Bow High baseball headlined area teams this spring on the diamond, winning the state championship for Division II. It was also a strong spring season for Belmont and John Stark, both of which made deep playoff runs as well.Here is a recap of the area...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Numerous area teams turned in strong 2024 seasons in boys’ lacrosse. Bow reached the championship game in Division III, Hopkinton played in the D-III semifinals and Coe-Brown and Kearsarge each posted double-digit win numbers. Here’s a recap of each...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Like last season, Bow, Hopkinton and Merrimack Valley headlined area girls’ lacrosse teams. In Division III, the Falcons fell short in their quest for back-to-back state championships, losing to No. 3 Gilford in the semifinals. Hopkinton similarly saw...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Hailing the roughly $170 million spending plan as “tight,” “responsible” and “as good as we can get it,” Concord city councilors unanimously approved the city’s 2025 budget Monday night.Including councilors’ adjustments — the reinstatement of a...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord is facing the biggest percentage increases in water and sewer rates in recent memory if the proposed city budget is approved, including hikes that would cost an average Concord homeowner around $43 more a year depending on how much water they...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For the city tax rate to remain flat next year, Concord city councilors would have to cut roughly $2 million off the spending plan proposed by City Manager Tom Aspell, according to city estimates.As weeks of hearings draw to a close, councilors will...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Last week I saw a letter to the editor in this newspaper about Republicans. The letter said we are inundated with misinformation and name-calling. The writer explained that Republicans believe in God, America,...

By LISA D. CONNELL

Sometimes it takes more time to bring a vision into reality as the development team behind The Balsams is experiencing in its goal to bring the former resort back to life.The Coos County Planning Board voted to give the Dixville project the extra time...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The $53.6 million Concord wants to spend on capital projects next year doubles the current figure — but it pales in comparison to what’s to come.Several major city building projects are slated for 2026, meaning increases in coming years would likely...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For Leanna Lorden, one positive to come out of the state’s child care crisis is how the staggering numbers caught the attention of lawmakers.A new estimate reveals that child care costs $32,000 annually for a New Hampshire family with two kids under...

By MICHAEL McCORD

Joan Cudworth had a burst of show-and-tell inspiration in the summer of 2018.Cudworth, who was then solid waste supervisor for the town of Hollis, came to the select board meeting with a partial solution to tackle the rising costs of trash disposal....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With the largest increases in proposed city spending next year tied to major water and sewer projects on the Heights, some city councilors appear open to leaning harder on developers to pay for growth-driven infrastructure improvements.The more than...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Twice a day the fire department can expect a call relating to homelessness in some way, whether it’s a fire at an encampment that needs to be extinguished; the river flooded with high rains and campers are stuck on the banks, or a medical emergency...

Thank you to Olia Webb for the May 11 letter condemning the recent barbaric Wyoming incident in which a young wolf was intentionally run over with a snowmobile, tortured and killed for the amusement of the perpetrator. The letter writer poses an...

Trump reiterates he will not accept the results of the November election unless he wins. When president, he states he will rewrite the U.S. Constitution to his liking; punish his long list of domestic enemies; reward insurrectionists with pardons; is...

By MADYSON FITZGERALD

In the small North Carolina town of Bryson City, just outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Kathleen Wain raises two grandchildren in her subsidized-rent apartment, taking them to sing in a church choir on weekends.For the past year and a half,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With capital expenditures more than doubling, total spending in the city of Concord would increase by more than $40 million next year under the city manager’s proposed budget, while several major projects still wait in the wings. If approved as...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers got some good news this week. State revenues were about $142 million ahead of projections as of May, despite lower than planned revenue from tobacco, real estate, and business enterprise taxes. The House Ways and Means Committee heard some...

By LEANNA LORDEN

Leanna Lorden is Chief Operating Officer at White Birch Center. At the White Birch Center, we experience the child care crisis every day. The bright red banner on top of our website reads: “No open enrollment opportunities until Fall 2025 for infant,...