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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Merrimack Valley School District voters will weigh a 5.9% budget increase and decide two contested school board races on Friday. The proposed operating budget for the five-community district is $48,298,106, up almost $2.7 million from last year. The...

By MIKE MOFFETT

A retired professor and former Marine Corps officer, State Rep. Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. In early 2021, our New Hampshire House Education Committee held a hearing on a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Alicha Kingsbury thinks of town meeting, truly understanding where tax dollars are going and what a warrant article means comes from years of attending monotonous meetings and talking to town officials. For most people in Loudon, that’s out of...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The two drivers of next year’s budget increase in the Merrimack Valley School District are forces hitting its peers across New Hampshire: special education and health insurance.The proposed $48,298,106 budget for the district is up almost $2.7 million...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For weeks, in order to reach her two chicken coops in her backyard, Tessa Dyer put on chest waders. At its worst, the water that had flooded her property surpassed her waist. On a good day, it was still knee-deep.As temperatures dropped, her flooded...

By MIKE MOFFETT

State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a former Marine Corps officer and retired professor. He chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs. It seemed Ronald Reagan’s political career was over in early 1980....

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Perched at her dining room table smoking a cigarette, Haley Dempsey recalled the moment her stepfather broke down the front door of her childhood home and shot her mother before turning the gun on himself.She was just three years old but the violence...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The brother of the former Loudon Police chief has been indicted on felony sexual assault charges involving a child. William Fiske, 69, of Loudon, who is the brother of former Loudon Police Chief Robert Fiske, is accused of sexually assaulting a minor...

By DAVID BROOKS

Racefans are expected to drive 13,600 vehicles in and out of Loudon on Sunday, July 17, to attend the NASCAR Cup Series Race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and traffic will be affected.The race starts at 3 p.m., with maximum traffic congestion...

A former Loudon man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son in 2019, the New Hampshire Attorney General announced.Douglas Barton, 41, will serve 35 years to life in the New Hampshire State Prison, according...

By DAVID BROOKS

The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it.New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

An ex-Loudon firefighter convicted in December of negligent homicide in the death of his childhood friend will serve his two- to six-year sentence at the Merrimack County jail and not in state prison.The New Hampshire Department of Corrections...

By MICHAEL MOFFETT

In 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term as president. But while his first two elections were landslides, the political landscape had changed. Americans were inherently troubled by the notion of an entitled presidency and a...

By NICK STOICO

Sunday’s NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway came down to a last-lap shootout.Fans rose from their seats as veteran drivers Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin bumped and nudged one another through the final lap with Harvick edging out the win by...

By RAY DUCKLER

Col. Kevin Jordan of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department couldn’t help himself.He had to start his eulogy for Scott LaCrosse with a joke. The one about modesty.At the church in Loudon, Jordan did his best impression of his former colleague,...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Jeffrey White knew something wasn’t right with his son Alec.It hit him in the face when the 16-year-old tried to overdose last spring. He knew his son needed help and he tried his best to get it for him.Just last month, White, 46, went to a suicide...