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By JAMES W. SPAIN

Sadness has a way of bringing people together. Regardless of the occasion, sadness does have the ability to bring like-minded people together in a group where we mourn as one. Such was the case back in 1941, with our country marching back into war....

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The real winner on Tuesday was the group of New Hampshire voters who made history.A record 323,166 votes were cast in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.Equally impressive, 121,152 votes were cast in the Democratic primary in a contest...

By JIM SPAIN

Back in the year 1835, our ancestors listened as the United States Government claimed President Andrew Jackson paid off all of the national debt for the first and only time. Our ancestors then learned of the first assassination attempt of a United...

By CAROLE SOULE

Pregnant Maybelle stood at the 500-pound hay bale, swinging her wide Highland horns at any 15 weaning calves who got too close to her feast. When we set out the calves’ grain, she hung back, but when we opened the gate, Maybelle moved in to clean up...

By ROB AZEVEDO

Washed out by 10 am after a morning of work-related lashings, I needed to get off the road, down an ice coffee and recenter myself.Pulling into the Dunkins on Manchester Street, I was certain the foot traffic inside would be light. I wanted that. No...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

How much Chris Christie’s 2024 exit is impacting the race for the Republican presidential nomination depends on where you are.On the day after he dropped out, the candidate who benefited most from the former New Jersey governor’s departure – former...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The pressure’s rising on Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie to drop out of the White House race ahead of the New Hampshire primary to give rival Nikki Haley a boost as she aims to close the gap with former President Donald Trump, the...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

A close friend of my wife and mine recently lost her partner of many years. He died of Alzheimer’s disease at a Concord, New Hampshire hospice facility.As readers will know, I write this column primarily for New Hampshire business owners but also for...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Tensions were high in colonial New Hampshire. A Portsmouth mob had forced the resignation of a British tax collector, the Townsend Acts were being debated among the colonies, disputes over New England timber were coming to a head, and discussions of...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With just a week and a half to go until the Iowa caucuses kick off the Republican presidential nominating calendar – followed eight days later by the New Hampshire primary – the verbal fireworks between the leading contenders are firing back and...

By PARKER POTTER

In the last year of the contest, Eartha paid particularly close attention to the land she had given Abel, Beau, and Carson.Abel was long gone from his land. After he ran out of money, he had left the area to take a job to support himself. When he...

By PARKER POTTER

Able was the first of Eartha’s young relatives to really get going. He began by cutting down most of the trees on his land. He cut down pine trees and spruces, beech trees and birches, oak trees and maples. He cut down trees that gave shade to the...

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM

Most New Hampshire multi-member LLCs are and should be taxable as partnerships under Internal Revenue Code Subchapter K, the default federal income tax regimen applicable to these LLCs. This is because, for the members of these LLCs, partnership...

By GAIL PAGE

When I was a kid many decades ago, Halloween started in mid October with some lighted, hand-carved pumpkins on the neighborhood porches, and us kids asking each other “What are you gonna be for Halloween?”  The common answers were a witch, a ghost, a...

By CAROLE SOULE

The kids hooted as they pulled on lead ropes and dashed around the barnyard, each with a calf in tow. They didn’t need any encouragement to run in this competition; what child doesn’t want to race about with a calf? The calves were just as eager. It’s...

By HENRY HOMEYER

To me, this felt like the summer that never was. It was rarely hot and sunny. The rainy gray days felt more like those in Portland, Ore., than in New England. Even so, our summer is largely over; it’s time to clean up and prepare for winter. Let’s...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson both face steep uphill climbs for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.So maybe it’s no surprise that both Republican White House hopefuls went out of their way to praise New...

By HENRY HOMEYER

Despite my best efforts to support monarch butterflies, this year was discouraging: I only saw two monarchs visit my gardens. I have a small bed just for milkweeds, both the common one and swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata). But no monarchs laid...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Three days into his retirement, Joseph Monninger received a phone call from his doctor.It was the spring of 2021, and Monninger was standing outside his cabin in Pembroke, Maine, shoveling a walking path that overlooked the Pennamaquan Bay. The...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Winter in New Hampshire isn’t what it used to be.At least, that’s what Walpole filmmaker Gabriel Andrus’s grandfather has been telling him via the daily weather log the older man has been keeping for the last 20 years. As a boy, Andrus was told of the...