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By JAMIE L. COSTA
Twelve years ago, Deb Horton visited a patient in hospice who couldn’t afford a surgery for his wife.To help the couple, their son took money from his children’s Christmas fund to pay for the $500 surgery. They were broken at the thought of their...
The last big agricultural expo of the season, the Deerfield Fair, is taking place this weekend. The popular fair he'd at 34 Stage Road includes live music, 4-H demonstrations, festive fair foods, roving performers andruns through Sunday, Sept. 29....
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
In Deerfield, a bridge replacement has led to an unintended consequence — neighbors say the area has turned into a death trap for Canada geese.Last year, the bridge over Freeses Pond was replaced due to a failing culvert that was causing flooding.On...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
As the number of school-aged children in Concord drops and more families choose educational options outside public school, the Concord School District has seen a long pattern of declining enrollment.On the backdrop of shrinking elementary school class...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Deerfield voters said they wanted more choices for the town’s high-school-aged students. A year later, with tuition agreements finalized and approved for three area schools, they’ll get it – at a steep price. “What we were saying last year is that...
By RAY DUCKLER
He believes he has the delicate touch needed to win, created by the experience he’s gained from playing a video game.But digging a hole with an excavator to build a farm, on a video screen with absolutely no pressure, is far easier than working the...
This past week’s stretch of hot, sticky weather will move out starting this weekend, leaving Concord and surrounding areas with a very tolerable forecast with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s. We’ll likely get some thunderstorms and showers today,...
By DAVID BROOKS
Deerfield voters on Tuesday soundly rejected a new 20-year contract to send their high school students to Concord, making it unclear where the students will go starting in fall of 2024.With only a K-8 school system, Deerfield has sent its students to...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
The finalist for SAU 53’s co-superintendent serving the towns of Allenstown, Chichester and Epsom was introduced to residents at a meet and greet event Wednesday. Jack Finley, the principal of the Hanover Street School in Lebanon, emerged as the...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
Deerfield residents discussed an increase to the school budget and a boost in teacher salaries, but a 20-year tuition agreement with Concord dominated a lengthy deliberative session this weekend.About 60 voters gathered in the Deerfield Community...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
Deerfield residents packed the basement community room of the town office building with one topic on their minds – the future of Deerfield’s high school age students.The event, a panel discussion on school choice, was put on by a citizens’ group that...
By EILEEN O’GRADY
Deerfield parents who want to expand school choice options in their town are holding a panel discussion with state education officials Tuesday night as the town prepares to vote on a contract with Concord High School in March.It’s a conversation...
By LOLA DUFFORT
A Hooksett district court judge dismissed one of four charges in the DWI case against state Rep. James Spillane on Tuesday and could issue a ruling on the remaining counts as soon as Wednesday.Spillane was arrested a little after 11 p.m. May 4, on...
By CAITLIN ANDREWS
To catch a piglet, you gotta go for its hind legs.That’s what Carole Soule, standing amid a litter of pigs, thermometer in hand, will tell you. On an overcast afternoon at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, she’d been tasked with catching one of her sick...
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