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By RACHEL WACHMAN

It takes James “Jim” Marshall three minutes to snip the netting off a Christmas tree, unwrap it, determine the price, put a ribbon on the top, and add it to the pile of trees to be sold. He’s perfected this skill over 38 years of spearheading...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Kearsarge Regional School District has yet to face any legal consequences for declining to comply with a new state law barring transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams, according to Superintendent John Fortney’s response to a...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Moo-ve over, class fish and hamsters. Merrimack Valley Middle School math teacher Becky King has adopted a cow.Bonnie, a Brown Swiss dairy cow, does not literally live in King’s sixth-grade classroom, but her presence is very much felt. The...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michelle Laverdure wants a plan for tomorrow.She’s tired of living out of her van, driving spot to spot so her vehicle isn’t towed or vandalized. She’s exhausted by watching her friends relocate their tent: one encampment sweep means they’re herded to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The night after the man she considered her grandfather pleaded guilty to assaulting her as a child, Haley Dempsey had a dream.“It was the same scenario: everything looked like that day in the courtroom,” she recalled. “But as he was put in handcuffs,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Most visual artists stick to a primary surface. Jaeden Taylor is not like most artists.The Merrimack Valley High School junior has designed gnomes adorned with three-dimensional beards and has sold painted rocks that customers use as paperweights.Even...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

On Thanksgiving Day at the Windmill Restaurant, everyone becomes family.This will be the 34th year the business will provide free Thanksgiving meals to anyone who asks. People can go to the Windmill, located at 172 Loudon Road in Concord, between 11...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Holiday Inn in downtown Concord will close for renovations on Dec. 15 and will reopen next year as a Hilton DoubleTree, according to its new owner.Developer Steve Duprey purchased the hotel on North Main Street in August for $16.8 million. Already...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Andy Sanborn received all the extensions he was entitled to and more to sell his Concord Casino with his gaming license intact, an administrative judge ruled Monday.Now that Sanborn’s time has run out, Judge Gregory Albert determined the state may go...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Edward Smith was at the Pittsfield Post Office when he got the call.“Your house is on fire,” his neighbor at Deer Run Farm told him over the phone on Saturday, Nov. 16.The 61-year-old rushed back to 7 Shingle Mill Brook Road, where he lived for nine...

By CAROLE SOULE

What’s more fun than riding in a carriage pulled by a horse? How about a cart pulled by a Scottish Highland steer? Most people think horses are the only draft animals, but maybe they should think about it again. Something as insignificant as a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

One out of every 25 pedestrian or bike accidents in Concord happen along one stretch of North Main Street. By redesigning the crosswalks and moving the bus stops there, city leaders are hoping to change that.On North Main Street, from the intersection...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Bodhi Bhattarai’s fifth-grade field trip to Sewalls Falls to observe ecosystems aimed to bring students into nature to see firsthand the organisms they had discussed in class.For Bhattarai, however, his focus remained on the ground below him. The...

By MIKE MOFFETT

State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) played college basketball at Plymouth State before the advent of the three-point shot. I’m someone who sometimes thinks “outside the box,” to use that timeworn cliché.For example, as a state representative...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Cole Thompson has been glued to a motorcycle’s seat since he first got a Yamaha PW50 at age 3. Now 14, he has ascended from novice to amateur to compete in races across the region and country and aims to jump to expert races soon.Thompson and his...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As a retired Marine Corps troop commander, Loudon State Rep. Mike Moffett has seen veterans run into trouble with the law – something he argues is often directly related to their military service.That’s why he sponsored a bill in the Legislature this...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jose Cambrils has had his eyes on Whitney Hill Road in Canterbury for years.He bought a 30-acre plot of land where the trees were spared from logging and wildlife roams about and another 95 acres just down the street in hopes of building a house in...

Cars and Coffee on Capitol held its last event of the season on Sunday with a variety of makes and models parked downtown. From 8 to 11 a.m. various cars rumbled in, parked with hoods up as the crowd meandered on Capitol Street in Concord. The event,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Brooks Young had played with some well-known musicians, sharing stages with the likes of B.B. King, The Wallflowers, and Three Dog Night. Despite these impressive collaborations, he never bragged. For Brooks, music was about joy and connection —...

Sierra, an off-price retailer of outdoor apparel and gear, is opening on Loudon Road later this month.The store is slated to open Saturday, Nov. 23, in the former Bed, Bath & Beyond store alongside the TJ Maxx clothing store, which is located at 12...