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By ELLA NILSEN

When Dr. Jennifer Madden gets a new transgender patient at her practice, she pays close attention.“Most patients, whether they are seeing you for a sore throat or they’re uncomfortable with their gender, want a doctor willing to listen to them,”...

By DAVID BROOKS

Downtown Concord has been watching the construction work on what will be Arts Alley for months, but not everything is visible from the sidewalk. Not by a long shot.

By SOPHIE LEVENSON

In one way or another, everybody has seen the impact of mental illness.In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth in that became as clear as ever to Tom Dearborn. Not one to sit around and let the world work out its own problems,...

By SOPHIE LEVENSON

Norman Abelson sometimes has trouble remembering what happened five minutes ago, but stories from decades ago stick like glue.He recalls with incredible detail the time his local rabbi knocked on his front door at midnight in the 1950s, John F....

By SOPHIE LEVENSON

In the summer, the grass on the practice field at John Stark Regional High School grows long, but Donnie White can still point out the roughest patches of gravel. He pokes one, hard, with his sneaker. This, he says, is a terrible spot to be...

By SOPHIE LEVENSON

Concord local Alyssa Leppard planted her feet, clutched her bat and swung hard. She missed the yellow softball by several inches.Her coach, Jen Boyden, standing behind third base, met Leppard’s eye. They both laughed.It was the bottom of the fourth...

By JACQUELINE COLE

Doc, a burly man with silver skeleton rings and tattoos across his arms, has more children’s books on his Kindle than anything else. He has read them over the phone to one of his honorary kids every night for the past year and a half to help the child...