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By DAN ATTORRI

HILLSBORO – Ever since Jay Wood was hired as Hillsboro-Deering High School’s athletic director, he dreamed of bringing football to the community. On Saturday, 17 years later, that dream became a reality.It’d be hard to draw up a more exciting opening...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The room fell silent as Franklin City Council candidate Valerie Blake reached into a plastic pumpkin bucket and withdrew a slip of paper. Her opponent, former school board member Al Warner, followed suit.Whoever drew the higher number would win the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Desiree McLaughlin hoped that five words on a yellow sign would sway voters: “Save our tax cap Franklin.” Instead, a slip of paper will determine who fills one of three open seats on Franklin’s city council, each for a three year term, after a race in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Bruce Marshall adores Franklin so much that he said he wants his ashes scattered there. Sam Jacobson said he wants a city where he can live and play.As a result, the two men changed their legal domiciles to the state’s smallest city to run for...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chances are when most people walk by Brothers Donuts on Central Street in Franklin, the longstanding shop is closed. Owner Malverino Rizzo hoped to capitalize on inquiring minds who walk by after hours with two long decals in the window displaying a...

By DAN ATTORRI

The Bishop Brady football team might have a small roster, but it plays a big game. At least, that was the case on Saturday night when the Giants opened the season with a 28-0 victory over the visiting Newfound Bears.With Somersworth and Newport, who...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mackenna Trudel grew up on the stage of the Franklin Opera House to choruses of applause as the curtain closed on theater performances. Now the high school freshman is applauding the Franklin City Council after they voted in favor of a $6.8 million...

By ALEXANDER RAPP and DAN ATTORRI

Merrimack Valley High School’s varsity volleyball program will begin it’s inaugural season at John Stark Regional High School on Wednesday. This project is many years in the making and the time has finally come for the team to compete.In the fall of...

By DAN ATTORRI

When Cassidy Huckins played field hockey for Merrimack Valley, John Stark wasn’t even on the radar.In the four years that Huckins played for the Pride between 2011-14, MV amassed a 44-21-3 record, reaching the playoffs all four years and playing in...

By DAN ATTORRI

Summer conditioning is done, equipment has been handed out and, on Friday morning, area high school football players donned helmets for the first time, marking the official beginning of the 2024-25 NHIAA season.This fall is also the beginning of a new...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Each time Glenn Morrill drives around the traffic circle in Franklin and the long grass blows in the breeze, he jokes the swaying blades are waving hello.The long grass at the rotary is one of many spots Morrill can look at in New Hampshire’s smallest...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With 153 apartments, a gym, common spaces, a hairdresser and a brewery, Stevens Mills in Franklin is akin to a college campus to Elizabeth Stewart, the property manager. The shuttered mills off Central Street downtown are now transformed into a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As Olivia Sylvester lined up to lead Franklin’s 100th Class Day Parade, she put her sunglasses on and lifted her drum up onto her shoulders. With her blue cap and gown, this year’s class co-valedictorian led the parade with the rolls of her sticks and...

By DAN ATTORRI

Concord High softball’s playoff run might have been cut short, but Maddy Wachter’s light still shined brightly in the circle this year.The Crimson Tide’s senior ace was absolutely dominant this season, earning Gatorade’s New Hampshire Softball Player...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

At the beginning of this school year, the 270-student Franklin High School employed only one math and one science teacher, an educator shortage so dire that district administrators informed parents at a meeting last fall that they would be unable to...

By RAY DUCKLER

Stephen Donahue retired from the United States Postal Service 12 years ago, at the relatively young age of 61.And these days, he’s busier than ever.Whether leading a Scout troop or climbing a ladder to hang a sign for a local business or installing a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Franklin Police have made an arrest after an accidental gun discharge Wednesday evening left one man with a hip wound. Police said Jacob Champney, 41, and an unidentified man, 46, were “displaying firearms to each other” inside a residence on Plains...

By RAY DUCKLER

Bill Athanas saw the sign outside Laconia High School and flashed back to the hallways of Franklin High.He remembered walking past the plain Franklin High sign – white letters on a black background, flanked by two small brick pillars – and greeting...

Franklin Footlight Theatre presents Dan Goggin’s popular musical comedy, “Nunsense!”When the Little Sisters of Hoboken find themselves in dire need of burial funds following an accidental convent-wide poisoning, they decide that the best way to raise...

By RAY DUCKLER

The Attorney General’s Office concluded Friday that the two state troopers – working as part of a SWAT Team response – who shot and killed a Franklin man last November in an armed standoff were justified in their actions.Troopers Aramus Caraballo and...

By RAY DUCKLER

With hypothermia approaching fast, the combined efforts of a Franklin police officer who jumped into freezing water, working in concert with firefighters and other rescue personnel, saved the lives of two young boys last Friday who had fallen from...