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By RAY DUCKLER

Martha Taylor, the official Henniker town historian, believes ghosts may exist.Not this ghost, though. Not the ghost named Mary Wallace – once connected to her hometown – despite visual evidence to the contrary, shown on a recent documentary on the...

By RAY DUCKLER

The identification of a woman and her two daughters – found dead in a pair of barrels 15 years apart in Allenstown – partially ended a mystery that had stumped police since the first two victims were discovered in 1985.Associate Attorney General Jeff...

By RAY DUCKLER

Maybe Lisa Wheeler’s three kids were right after all.Maybe their home in Pembroke, site of a mass murder more than 100 years ago that, somehow, slipped through the town’s historical cracks, is, indeed, haunted. Maybe the murderer, Charles Ayer,...

By RAY DUCKLER

The Bradford Village Inn, a 120-year-old former bed-and-breakfast, will not return to past glory anytime soon after a judge ruled against its new owner, who claimed in a lawsuit that the former owner and the current fire chief were dating and...

By RAY DUCKLER

For years, filmmaker Kristen Vermilyea was sexually objectified because of her appearance, long before the Me Too Movement nudged the issue to the forefront of society.On Monday, the Bishop Brady High School graduate, now 49, will share her thoughts...

By RAY DUCKLER

Gene Connolly, Concord High School’s immensely popular principal who became a symbol of perseverance and courage through his battle with ALS, died Sunday morning, school officials confirmed. He was 62.Connolly was diagnosed in 2014 with amyotrophic...

By RAY DUCKLER

Bill Farrand, whose portrayal of Wolfman at Clark’s Trading Post in Lincoln remains the standard by which all others who played the part have been judged, died Monday at the age of 60.Farrand had been battling lung disease, which forced him to retire...

By RAY DUCKLER

Leon Noel moved carefully toward the row of twisted, sagging apple trees near the Interstate 93 overpass in Lincoln, each step swallowed by two feet of snow. He pointed with a sweeping motion across the horizon. “There,” he said. “That’s them.” The...

By RAY DUCKLER

The local jock from a family of well-known jocks doesn’t fit the mold.At least not the kind we see in the movies and on TV. Not even close.Sure, Joey Craigue still loves sports, breathes sports, eats sports like Fred Flintstone chomping on a...