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By RACHEL WACHMAN

On some days, Chelsea Annett begins baking at 3 a.m. She needs the early morning time to prepare for the stream of customers that will arrive at her bakery once the clock strikes nine.From spinach feta scones and cardamom buns to chocolate coconut...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Cheyenne Boucher decided to join Best Buddies in 2014, she had no idea her involvement with the organization would shape the trajectory of her life.Best Buddies had just come to the state of New Hampshire. The organization was looking for partner...

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 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 RACHEL WACHMAN

The deli was Susan Hart’s dream. For 18 months, she poured her energy, creativity and passion for food into keeping her dream business afloat.But between permit issues around water usage, staffing troubles, equipment failure and franchises moving in...

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 RACHEL WACHMAN

A single-story home on Shingle Mill Brook Road in Pittsfield was destroyed by fire over the weekend.Firefighters from Pittsfield and surrounding departments responded to the fire call around 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning at 7 Shingle Mill Brook...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Maria Pacelli remembers sitting at her father’s bedside as he took his final breaths. She was in college at the time and had, coincidentally, been taking courses on death and loss.She and her brothers held a vigil for the final four days before her...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Yvette Lascelle has a favorite saying: “It is what it is.” “Whatever happens, happens,” Lascelle said with a faint smile. “They try to prevent it, but you can’t always prevent it.” The 81-year-old has been fighting multiple myeloma, or plasma cell...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

November marks Home Care & Hospice Month, a time to celebrate the caregiving professionals and volunteers who work with many people around the state – and the country.When some hear “hospice,” they often think of death. But hospice can be so much more...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

It started with a peregrine falcon. For Robert Vallieres, a veteran of the Gulf War, this was the bird that changed his life once he returned from combat.“They needed people to watch their natural habitats. It’s called nest-watching,” Vallieres said....

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Each year on Veterans Day, Janice-Ann Sinclair thinks about her father. A master sergeant in the Air Force for 21 years, followed by two years in the Navy Reserves, Merrill Wentworth Sinclair felt pride in serving his country.He passed away in 2019 at...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

In the lobby of Peabody Place, a retirement community in Franklin, Susan Chisholm sat by the baby grand piano as if it were an old friend. She doesn’t play much anymore, but decades ago, this piano kept her company on a daily basis.The piano,...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Incumbent David Lovlien, a Republican, won the race against Democratic challenger David Doherty for County Commissioner of Merrimack County’s District 3.Lovlien received 15,004 votes compared to Doherty’s 13,117. He has held the commissioner seat...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As the van pulled away from Peabody Place and headed to the polls at Franklin High School, the senior citizens aboard reminisced about prior elections and what voting means to them.“We used to have booths with curtains and machines that had little...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Anne Baier remembers attending a New York campaign rally for John F. Kennedy when she was eight years old. Baier wore a button that said “If I were 21, I’d vote for Kennedy.” She recalled the awe she felt at seeing Kennedy come on stage and address...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

While different in many of their views, Howard Pearl and Kelly Roberts find common ground in lowering property taxes for New Hampshire residents and wanting to serve their constituents to the best of their ability.“I firmly believe that New Hampshire...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

With a pink, fuzzy boa around her neck and a white sash over her shoulder, Donna Kuethe stood at the entrance to the large tent on Memorial Field smiling, shaking hands, offering hugs.“Are you a survivor?” she asked each person. “I am, too.”She...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Ian Scura started experimenting with a camera in elementary school. Using his older brother’s equipment, he created stop-motion videos with Legos and toyed around with other film projects with friends.“I just grew up loving using the medium of film to...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Jim O’Connell and John Stephen have spent weeks crisscrossing the eastern part of the state door knocking, talking to people on the streets and attending events to inform them about the duties of the Executive Council and what’s at stake in this...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Sunlight streamed through the trees and gravel crunched underfoot as a small group of town officials gathered at the entrance of Allenstown’s new mile-long rail trail connecting to Hooksett.After a year and a half of work clearing the trail, laying...