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Despite the rainy days and dreary skies we’ve been seeing recently, spring is definitely in the air. With flowers blooming and trees regaining their verdant hues, the shift of the seasons continues to inject color into the landscape. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In April, more than a dozen young adults sat in the front row of Concord City Council’s monthly meeting, holding up signs calling for Concord to “Light up Keach.” But they didn’t get the chance to speak those words out loud.

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.

By ALLAN MACDONALD

Allan MacDonald is a retired public school educator and small businessman.

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dogwalker who lives and works in Contoocook.

By DAVID BROOKS

Remember all the COVID-related shortages we faced five years ago? I bet you remember toilet paper; it made for the best jokes. But you may have forgotten the big hiccups that occurred in the supply of something more significant than pulp-based hygiene products: Food.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As Lisa Walker shepherded the Monadnock Regional School District through a pandemic reopening plan in the summer of 2020, she received a pair of emails within minutes of each other.

By DAVID BROOKS

A group of New Hampshire business officials gathered in Concord Tuesday to express alarm about proposed cuts to state support for the university system and they made no mistake about who they blamed. 

The next exhibition at Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton, entitled “Whose Woods These are, I Think I Know,” will run from Saturday, April 24 through Saturday, May 24. This exhibit features the work of artists Kathleen Dustin, Dan Dustin, and Donna Zils Banfield. The creators collaborate across different media, bringing their skills and aesthetics together in a unique exhibit. Using nature and natural forms as a base, they create wood sculptures, jewelry, hanging pieces and vessels that take whimsical and unexpected forms. All three artists are juried members of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.

By JOHN D. BUTTRICK

Rev. John D. Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police are seeking information and witnesses after a proposed Facebook Marketplace exchange in the city ended with the seller pointing a gun at the buyer. 

By Matthew Harkins

Mindfulness can happen in a myriad of ways. It’s about presence, being in the moment and bridging the connection between your body and your mind. Mindfulness instructor Matthew Harkins defines mindfulness as an “awareness of the present feelings in the body and mind without judgment.” For him, it’s about “sensing the physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions without needing to act upon impulse.”

By WILLIAM POLITT

William Politt lives in Weare.

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.

By JOHN D. BUTTRICK

Rev. John D. Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The federal government agreed Wednesday to temporarily hold off on investigating school districts that have yet to comply with a directive barring them from engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

If you voted for President Donald Trump: Are you having second thoughts about some of his policies and/or Elon Musk’s DOGE? Did you vote for cutting off large chunks of staff and programs serving our veterans, disabled Americans, the poor, cancer and Alzheimer’s research, school lunch programs, IRS personnel seeking tax-cheaters and simply responding to calls for help, air traffic controllers, 83% of the USAID life-sustaining food and health work around the globe or 50% of our Dept. of Education?

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A federal judge has ordered an emergency hearing on a request by New Hampshire’s largest teachers’ union to block the Trump administration from forcing every school district to attest they are following anti-discrimination laws.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Benjamin Victor lost a lot of sleep last year.

I’m writing to you as a retired educator, mother and grandmother. Nothing matches the sheer joy and pride of a child, teen or young adult learning a new skill, reaching a personal goal, feeling exhilaratingly excited and glad to be themselves. The equation doesn’t change, no matter the skin color, economic background or gender. Good parents know this, whether parents of binary, non-binary or transgender children. As the South Pacific song says, “You’ve got to be carefully taught” to hate and fear someone perceived as “different.” When you have personal experience with queer young people, you see these individuals as the human beings they truly are, not through the lens of fearful, preconceived stereotypes the current administration wants to teach you to use. The lies told by those who fan the fears of citizens lacking in empathy or personal experience are a travesty and nothing but hateful.