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By JAMESON S. FRENCH, JOE CARRIER and JASEN A. STOCK

Jameson S. French is the president and CEO of Northland Forest Products, Inc., a hardwood distributor with a yard in Kingston. Joe Carrier is the general manager of HHP, Inc., a hardwood sawmill located in Henniker. Jasen A. Stock is the executive director of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association.

At the upcoming Bow town meeting, voters have the chance to preserve open space. The Bow Conservation Commission will seek approval, through a town warrant article, for optional powers that are available under New Hampshire law. This would allow the Commission to provide funding to a qualified land trust for purchasing properties or conservation easements in Bow. This would give Bow landowners another option to receive funds for conserving their land.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At Town Meeting on Wednesday, Bow voters will be asked to decide whether the town should invest money to protect undeveloped private land.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

More than a year after the Concord City Council put off a vote on the Beaver Meadow clubhouse to develop more options, city proposals and flaring tensions have boxed the debate back into a starkly similar binary: all or nothing.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, Pam Sinotte has been meaning to put up a Ukrainian flag outside her Concord home. 

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Teaching science in a classroom, knitting wool hats for charity and encouraging runners to step up for an annual 5K race have been part of how Perry and Suzy Seagroves have helped build community in the Concord area.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Dunbarton voters approved the school budget and all warrant articles at their annual school district meeting on Saturday, including a new teacher contract to keep salaries competitive with neighboring towns.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As chair of the board of selectmen, Stephen MacCleery’s hopes to retain his seat for another three years. Matthew Stolnis thinks its time for a fresh set of eyes to look at the town budget and the impact of taxes on residents.

By DAVID BROOKS

One incumbent and two newcomers are running for a pair of seats with three-year terms on the Henniker School Board. All three candidates support the idea of the state’s Education Freedom Account vouchers to provide more choice for parents but say the current arrangement takes too much money from public education, making it more difficult for local districts to provide mandated services.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the five years since Derek Narducci has lived in Warner, he’s watched his tax bill increase by 40 percent.

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET

The race for a seat on the Salisbury Board of Selectmen includes two longtime town residents in the small town of 1,400 people and a man neither of them had ever heard of before.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

In this year’s Pittsfield town elections, four candidates are vying to fill two three-year seats on the select board. Sabrina Ann Smith is the only candidate running to fill a third vacancy for a one-year term.

No. 6 Merr. Valley 65, No. 11 Kingswood 20

Story and Photos by GEOFF FORESTER

St. Andrew’s Rector Reed Loy walked from the parish house in the light rain, carrying a small tin of ashes. He stood beside a sign on Main Street in Hopkinton, waiting.

By WILLIAM POLITT

William Politt lives in Weare.

No. 7 Oyster River 85, No. 7 Merrimack Valley 67

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

David Afflick loved going to his best friend Ethan King’s house growing up: It had the pool, plus one of the first Macintosh computers.

As a member of the Northwood Budget Committee, I paid close attention to our School Board’s presentation on its proposed operating budget, especially to the money allocated to be paid into the retirement system. $744,688 was budgeted out of the $15,070,878 total. This represents 4.9% of the budget.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A developer looking to build nearly 200 units of housing in Penacook has asked the Zoning Board to reexamine the city’s denial of the project, claiming that the rejection means he is “deprived of any reasonable use of the land” by the city.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A navy blue van has been making its way across New Hampshire for the past two years, stocked with naloxone, syringes, fentanyl test strips, condoms and other supplies meeting people where they are and helping to prevent overdoses and infections.