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By CAITLIN ANDREWS

In 2013, Sarah Hoidahl’s life was complicated.She was a single mom, living with her mother and son Ashton in Henniker, making ends meet by waiting tables at Concord’s Ruby Tuesday out on Loudon Road.Her life was briefly turned upside down after she...

By RAY DUCKLER

Col. Kevin Jordan of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department couldn’t help himself.He had to start his eulogy for Scott LaCrosse with a joke. The one about modesty.At the church in Loudon, Jordan did his best impression of his former colleague,...

By CAROLE SOULE

Victor hobbled quickly ahead of me on three legs, his right front foot swinging in the air. He had escaped through an open gate. Even on three legs, he moved faster than me, but I had to get him back to continue treating his infected hoof. Victor is a...

By CAROLE SOULE

The fair season is over, and the Highland Riders 4-H kids and their ribbon-winning animal associates can look back on it with satisfaction. I call the cattle “associates” because the kids don’t actually own them. None of the Highland Riders live on...

By CAROLE SOULE

Brittany’s baby was small. Her white bull calf weighed only 45 pounds (half the weight of most Scottish Highlander calves), but he was walking and nursing within hours of birth. His mom keeps him clean and runs to him when he calls. They are a good...

By CAROLE SOULE

Stash looked at me through his fringe of shaggy hair as I shouted, “Walk on!” He just stood staring at me with a puzzled look on his face. I was standing about six feet in front of him and using the voice commands I thought he’d learned. But he was...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Chris Audet was drawn to thewater.Whether he was fishingfor hornpout or bringing his kids to Horace Lake or Tucker Pond to swim – the water was the place to which the Loudon native always returned.“I think he just felt free being in the water,” said...

By CAROLE SOULE

As we unrolled an 800-pound round bale of hay, a dead fawn fell to the floor of the feed bunker. The fawn was all in one piece and must have been accidentally scooped up by the hay baler.I’m sure the farmer would have tried to save this fawn if he had...

By RAY DUCKLER

Rest in pieces, Old Man.That’s what I was told Thursday, which marked the 15th anniversary of the day the Old Man of the Mountain crumbled during an early-morning fog.Not out of disrespect. Quite the contrary, this opinion grew out of love and respect...

By CAROLE SOULE

A blanket of snow covered my black and red Scottish Highlanders turning them white.When it snows you might ask, “why don’t you bring your cows inside, where it’s warm.” I don’t because cow hair acts like roofing, keeping heat in.Cattle “insulation” is...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Eighty-eight local, state and federal law enforcement agencies executed one of the largest ever drug sweeps Thursday in the Granite State that resulted in 151 arrests, the seizure of more than 551 grams of heroin and fentanyl, $37,251 in cash and 24...

By CAROLE SOULE

Don’t know what to do with leftover holiday candy? Here’s a thought: feed it to livestock.Of course, too much sugar is not good for cattle, but a bite here and there won’t hurt them or their teeth. We only feed peppermint to our “ambassador herd,”...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

One of the state’s largest concert venues has been purchased by Live Nation, the entertainment giant that owns Ticketmaster. The global company announced Wednesday it had acquired an interest in the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, formerly known as...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Jeffrey White knew something wasn’t right with his son Alec.It hit him in the face when the 16-year-old tried to overdose last spring. He knew his son needed help and he tried his best to get it for him.Just last month, White, 46, went to a suicide...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

To catch a piglet, you gotta go for its hind legs.That’s what Carole Soule, standing amid a litter of pigs, thermometer in hand, will tell you. On an overcast afternoon at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, she’d been tasked with catching one of her sick...

By CAROLE SOULE

Even though I had washed several times, two maggots were squirming on my smartphone screen as I called my vet, Christina Murdock. A Highlander calf, born five days earlier, had an army of maggots on her back and legs, which we were trying to...

The family of a Maine boy has sued the meat processing plant in Northern New Hampshire that processed 8,800 pounds of beef that was recalled after several people became ill with E. coli last month.Sarah Monks, who lives in York County, Maine, is...