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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Boscawen’s modest 1.7% proposed budget increase is good news for taxpayers, but town leaders cautioned that the seeming stability belies what could be around the corner.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

New Hampshire gaming halls with historic horse racing licenses could soon swap their machines for slot machines, securing a seven-year head start over competitors in the state's expanding casino market.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

During a career in the finance industry, Bob Blake was told to do more with less. He thinks it’s time for the Town of Warner to do the same. 

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire, like the rest of the country, has a well-known shortage of police officers. To entice more to come to the Granite State, lawmakers might allocate $900,000 in state funds to provide sign-on bonuses for state troopers and other recruitment strategies.

Hundreds rallied in front of the New Hampshire State House on Wednesday as part of a national effort to protest the Trump administration and the Project 2025 agenda.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy will leave the district at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, with the approval of a one-year contract renewal by the Concord Board of Education on Monday night.

By DAN ATTORRI

Tournament wrestling doesn’t come down entirely to finalists. The Concord High School wrestling team didn’t have a single finalist on its home mats at Saturday’s annual Capital City Classic, but the Crimson Tide gutted out victories and pins through the consolation brackets, placing six wrestlers and finishing fourth out of 31 teams.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Drivers who passed Epsom Central School on any of the last few Fridays may have noticed a roaring fire burning as students trotted around in snowshoes and slid down a hill in little plastic saucers.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Last year, the deliberative session of the Pittsfield Town Meeting lasted about 30 minutes. With less than two dozen residents, the session breezed through 30 articles.

By DAVID CARLE

David Carle lives in Warren. He wrote the article for the Warner Warrant updating the Elderly Property Tax Exemption.

By LAUREN MARTIN

Lauren Martin lives in Amherst, NH. She has a master’s in Animal and Public Policy from Tufts University.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Fifth-grader Jade Adams ran on a mission: Make New Hampshire the 13th state to ban animal testing.

By DAVID BROOKS

Voters in Weare and Henniker will have a chance to attend three school district deliberative sessions this week but no matter which they go to, they’ll hear one message: Cuts in state aid are raising local property taxes.

By RICHARD SWETT

Richard Swett represented New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District from 1991-1995 and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1998-2001.

New Hampshire driver’s licenses will have a new look starting this week as part of a redesign that officials say has improved security and is compliant with federal Real ID, which becomes mandatory in May for flying and entering some federally run sites.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hopkinton Rep. David Luneau wants to nearly double New Hampshire’s contribution to public education.

Toss it up to naivete, falling prey to fear tactics, ignorance, cult-following or just plain old idolatry. A darkness falls upon this country, and democracy is under siege.

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.

I’m not a big fan of unrealistic New Year’s resolutions such as “keep my papers organized and desk tidy”, for example. But I do like to spend some time each January reflecting on the gardens of the past year and making decisions about what I will do in the coming months.