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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When it was a homeless shelter, the old First Congregational Church site on North Main Street, got busy on winter nights when doors opened each evening and then again first thing in the morning when it closed.When the church was an active parish with...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Lying awake in the middle of the night, Chris O’Connor felt physically sick. He had one number he couldn’t get out of his mind: $176 million – the approved cost of a new middle school in Concord.In December, the Concord School Board voted to build a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The state’s education funding formula will be the focus of a select group of lawmakers this session hoping to make it more equitable and pass constitutional muster.The bipartisan group, comprised of members of the House committees on education and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When New Hampshire courts offer translation services for non-native English speakers, there’s often a mismatch between intent and execution.Forget differing sentence structures, tenses and not to mention baseline words – when each word is directly...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jim Bouley loves local government.For most, the inner working of local government is a thankless bureaucracy marked by leaf collection services and property tax hikes.But to Bouley, there’s no better job to see the results of your work, whether it’s...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When P.T. Wood arrived in Salida, Colo., 30 years ago, it was an old mining town that was becoming a shell of its former self. Ranching had slowed down, the railroad was leaving town and many homeowners were looking to move away.If you took a trip to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After approving $15.6 million for the Concord Police Department this year, the city will send an additional half-million dollars directly to officers in an attempt to address recruitment and retention issues.The money, which was approved unanimously...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Construction is underway on Concord’s latest affordable housing development, the second phase of Penacook Landing. The site will feature a 20,000-square-foot apartment building that will house 20 units. Those 20 will include 18 units designated as...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Electricity bills are expected to go through the roof this winter. Power companies, like Eversource and Unitil, have warned users that service rates will double. State and federal governments have issued assistance programs to alleviate costs.While...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Teddy Miele started taking classes at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce Law School, he lived just around the corner on Washington Street in Concord.The apartment was not worth its fairly high rent, he said. At the end of the year,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mark Reid still has voicemails on his phone from his brother, Steve. He replays birthday messages left by Steve and his wife, Wendy – a chance to hear their voices one more time.Steve and Wendy left their house on April 18 for a walk along the Broken...