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By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH 

 A former Pembroke Academy student convicted of assaulting female classmates in 2019 has been arrested on charges of failing to properly register as a sex offender following an incident with a sixteen year old girl. Police say Griffin Furlotte had one...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire hunting camp that was used by people more than 12,000 years ago has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as an archaeological property.The eight-acre Potter Site in the North Country town of...

By GEOFF FORESTER

Father Constantine Newman of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Concord started the Easter weekend with the Apokathelosis, known as the Decent of the Cross service on Holy and Great Friday, followed by the Service of Lamentations, where...

By DAVID BROOKS

Farming livestock is a good way to celebrate life but it also requires dealing with death. That can be a problem for small-scale and beginning farmers, including the many people who decided to start raising chickens during the pandemic.“There’s a...

By JULIA STINNEFORD

Soula Maloutas has run the Gas Lighter restaurant in downtown Concord for almost 45 years, with the same original menu and beloved recipes.Located at 204 North Main St., the building is being sold to a bank later this year, leaving an uncertain future...

By DAVID BROOKS

Passenger rail up to Concord is part of a wish-list map of new and improved routes issued by Amtrak in response to President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan.The map, titled “A vision to grow rail service across America,” includes new service from...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Last year, Concord boosted the salaries of its police department by nearly $1 million above and beyond contractual raises.Those pay increases carried a hidden cost through rising contribution rates to the New Hampshire Retirement System, which will...

By DAVID BROOKS

Six people, including a novelty candidate for governor, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire on charges of participating in a conspiracy to launder money using virtual currency such as bitcoin.The group operated a business...

By DAVID BROOKS

The huge, struggling company that owns Pleasant View and Pleasant View Retirement homes in Concord is preparing to sell control of 51 of its facilities around the country, including three in New Hampshire.Concord’s Pleasant View nursing home and...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has a lot of farms – an estimated 4,100 of them – but most are small and don’t come close to being able to support a family.That’s the conclusion of the latest National Agriculture Statistics Service estimate for New England, which is...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

New Hampshire lawmakers are debating a bill that would prevent educators from teaching about systemic racism and sexism in public schools and state-funded programs. HB 544, titled an act “relative to the propagation of divisive topics,” seeks to limit...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Dawn Tyree was a child back in 1985 when she married the man who impregnated her.A couple years later, after years of physical and sexual abuse, she decided to leave her husband at just 17.As Tyree made her way into the world as a child herself with...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A Concord High School teacher was arrested Thursday after police say he solicited sexual activity from a minor in exchange for money, and obtained images depicting child sexual abuse.Joshua Harwood, 36, of Manchester, who taught business at Concord...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Every employee, volunteer or independent contractor who works with the Concord School District will be required to undergo a criminal background check and do training in child abuse prevention, according to a recently-updated policy.At the monthly...

By DAVID BROOKS

The irony is painful: On the year that it would have celebrated its 100th anniversary, Camp Spaulding is shut for good and up for sale.The financial strain of running the 57-acre summer camp at the intersection of Bog and River roads in Concord as a...

By ETHAN DeWITT

As a boy, Chris Sununu traveled down to down at Cape Canaveral with his father to watch the Challenger take off in person. But then the weather intervened.Sununu, a fifth-grader back in January 1986, went to Florida for the weekend with his father,...

By DAVID BROOKS

I am happy to say that the Space Force has come to New Hampshire, although not in the form that rocket fans might have hoped.Alas, they are not going to build a spaceport at Pease. You’ll have to continue going to Odiorne State Park to watch...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Police have identified a Hudson man who died Tuesday in a single-car crash on Route 106 in Concord.Nicholas Coolen, 27, was killed when he was ejected from a 2001 black Chevrolet Corvette traveling south from Loudon to the Capital City, Concord Deputy...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Ten-year-old Francesca Brown will have to wait a few more weeks to learn whether a city committee will support her calls to amend Concord’s backyard chicken ordinance, thereby getting her one step closer to realizing her dream of raising a flock.It...

By DAVID BROOKS

So many bad things are happening in the environment that the sight of what looks like huge balls of cotton candy all over some trees feels like the latest new disaster.But don’t fret: They’re routine and not as bad as they look.These aren’t gypsy...