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By DAVID BROOKS

With Concord reduced to a single movie theater for the first time in living memory and New Hampshire chain Chunky’s Cinema Pub closing two of its three locations, going out to the flicks in the Granite State just keeps getting harder.Don’t expect that...

“Not Your Grandmother’s Jane Austen…”Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life.The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to...

I have been a taxpayer in NH for 38 years, most in Concord, last 5 in Loudon. I do not want our public schools to have less stringent criteria, larger classes, and the systemic loss of my taxpayer money as it has been sent instead to school voucher...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In January, Merrimack Valley High School senior Lena Pelleteri’s mother passed away following a multi-year battle with cancer.For her senior project, Pelleteri put her “pain on paper”, as she put it, writing a 40-page book that delved into her...

By LAURA VINCENT

Laura Vincent lives in Loudon. The debate over the adoption of updated 306 rules (minimum standards for public education) rages on. After multiple hearings for public comment, Commissioner Edelblut and the State Board of Education still appear to not...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Maggie Doorlag said she could picture her life outside the walls of the women’s prison, where she’d spent the last 17 months. She’d be reunited with her husband and two young daughters. She would get her cosmetology license and continue with...

By DAVID BROOKS

After Thursday’s 7:30 p.m. showing of “Kung Fu Panda 4,” the Regal Cinema on Loudon Road will close for good, ending 28 years of multiplex movies on The Heights in Concord and marking the latest step in the redevelopment of the Steeplegate Mall.What’s...

By RAY DUCKLER

A Chipotle is set to be built across the street from the Merchants Way shopping plaza, giving patrons another dining option.Two years after the City of Concord approved the construction of a new Starbucks on Whitney Road – a site located off Exit 17...

By PAUL NICHOLS

Paul Nichols lives in Loudon. The solar eclipse of April 8 united our country for a brief period amid the vile turmoil here and across the planet. The short respite was welcome. This celestial phenomenon brought feelings of togetherness, goodwill and...

I found Dr. Bennett’s My Turn to be sound advice in the discussion regarding diversity in our society, and schools.We need to continue to welcome everyone’s experience in our schools by embracing all history of and by our diverse group of...

By ARIANNA MACNEILL

Bimbo Bakeries USA has permanently closed 28 of its outlet stores in the East, including all remaining New Hampshire locations.“Company processes have shifted and product will be redistributed to other locations,” the company said in a statement....

In the upcoming exhibition at Two Villages Art Society (TVAS) in Hopkinton, three artists explore the subject of water in all its guises, from tides to tears. The exhibit opens Saturday, April 13 at the gallery at 846 Main Street in the village of...

By ARIANNA MACNEILL

The Shell gas station on Loudon Road was allegedly robbed by a masked man who reportedly handcuffed the clerk and put a pillowcase over his face.Police were called to the station around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to the report of a robbery – the clerk was able...

By MIKE MOFFETT

State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) was a Sports Management professor for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He currently chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. A 2014 court case ruled that the...

AllenstownAllenstown Historical Society will meet April 3 at 6 p.m. at MRF Building off Rte. 28 on Lavoie Drive. Meetings are open to the public. Allenstown Planning Board will meet on April 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the Allenstown Town Hall.St. John the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

By the time 16-year-old Teegan Paul finally told her parents, and then police, about the Boys and Girls Club employee who had been sexually assaulting her for years, her mental health had gotten so bad that she couldn’t hide it anymore.“It was one of...

By SHERRY BOSCHERT

Sherry Boschert is the author of “37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.” She lives in Lebanon. Republicans in the state House of Representatives recently narrowly passed a bill targeting transgender kids on a party-line...

By CHLOE RATTEE

In Loudon, like town meetings across the state, attendance was higher than usual due to the concern over high taxes. Throughout the meeting, residents spoke of their disappointment.“I want to thank everyone for turning out today, this is by far the...

Karl Wiegandt called looking for two small Scottish Highland heifers for his Berry Farm, a busy and lively agritourist attraction. I had the perfect pair for him: two friendly heifers, Rosemary Lynn and Pepper Spice. He wanted a third smallish calf...

By DAVID BROOKS

Next weekend marks four years since New Hampshire saw its first death from what was then called “the novel coronavirus,” and although COVID-19 isn’t taking many lives these days, the passage of time shows it has ushered us into an unhappy new normal...