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By RAY DUCKLER

Herbie’s backers loved him, struck by his humble start and bare-knuckled fight for government transparency, and his penchant to help the poor and elderly in a city that sometimes ignored them.To others, though, he was a monkey wrench, a troublemaker,...

By RAY DUCKLER

The bronze image of John Winant, unveiled Friday at the State Library, stayed covered and unseen through most of the ceremony.Just like the memory of the man himself. But eventually the black cloth came off, removed by a pair of family members and the...

By RAY DUCKLER

We walked through two glass doors, unlocked by a gentle, soft-spoken man with a trimmed white beard. Leave your coffee behind, Wes Balla, the director of exhibitions at the New Hampshire Historical Society, told me. No use taking chances. No use...

By RAY DUCKLER

The snow is frozen, making each step sound like you’re eating crunchy breakfast cereal.There’s a slight downward slope through brush and trees, so we’re cautious as we move to the spots where a pair of barrels were found years ago, barrels mixed with...

By RAY DUCKLER

For a brief period, the buttoned-up attorney general didn’t sound buttoned up.Not this time. Not when talking about Bob Evans, or Lawrence William Vanner, or whatever the guy’s name was, the guy who killed four females in the 1980s and then dumped...

By RAY DUCKLER

I rolled my eyes when told to follow up on a recent magazine series about Pam Smart.Nothing to see here, I figured. Old news, from a story no one wanted to talk about anymore.I was wrong.Colorful Concord defense attorney Mark Sisti, who defended Smart...

By RAY DUCKLER

The news, while of course tragic, was bizarre and mysterious, leading to questions that have yet to be answered.Jacob Goulet, a 16-year-old student at Nashua North High School, was dead, but many of the factors normally associated with a teen’s death...

By RAY DUCKLER

I sat with students last week who said they learned from the best.They were not conventional students, however. They were much older than their teacher, Blake Marston, the late Navy SEAL. One, in fact, was a retired high school principal, Blake’s...

By RAY DUCKLER

As Heidi Lilley sees it, I have more freedom than she does, and the 55-year-old Gilford resident doesn’t like it one bit.I can take my shirt off on a hot day. I can take it off at the beach, on the street, at the ice cream stand, because society views...