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By SARAH GIBSON

Mackenzie Verdiner goes to one of the most diverse schools in New Hampshire, Manchester’s West High School. Students there speak about 50 different languages.“If I grab a fistful of kids randomly, it would be a different color on each finger — it’s...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. With mass shootings practically a daily event, defenders of unrestricted gun owner rights typically invoke the mantra of the Second Amendment. Attention is rarely paid though to the historical circumstances...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have wanted, as did poet Mary Oliver, to keep a distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. I have tried, I...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For Adam Hassan, Umuganda is a chance to show his 2-year-old daughter a slice of life from home. Gathering to do community activities, like the gardening and painting that happened in Keach Park on Saturday, is a frequent feat in his home country of...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The Granite State’s affection for Donald Trump appears to be wearing thin.Trump’s decisive 2016 victory over the crowded Republican field in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary once propelled him towards the nomination and...

By DAVID BROOKS

Smooth slender crabgrass, a plant known to exist only at Rock Rimmon Park in Manchester, has been officially declared globally extinct, the N.H. Natural Heritage Bureau announced Wednesday.This is the first documented plant extinction ever in New...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In a small room in the Merrimack County Visitation Center, Disney princess stickers line the beige walls. Toy trucks, board games and a Little Tikes plastic kitchen are at the ready for children to play. This room, along with three others down the...

By HOLLY RAMER

A New Hampshire man who spent six years in state custody as a child is suing multiple facilities alleging physical and sexual abuse.The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the latest of more than 400 targeting the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called...

By DAVID BROOKS

After years and years of declining birth rates, New Hampshire has surprised just about everybody by seeing the country’s biggest baby boom last year with a birth rate that rebounded 7% since pre-pandemic times, far more than any other state.Whether it...

By RAY DUCKLER

Sometime during the past 20 years or so, Dustin Kay latched onto his older brother’s hip for the very first time.Then he rarely let go.Maybe that’s why Mikey Kay wore so many hats on the day Dustin’s urn was buried. He hugged nearly every person in a...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

When Concord school psychologist Melissa Pazdon heard the news Tuesday evening about the school shooting in Uvalde Texas, she immediately sent out an email to all her fellow employees at Christa McAuliffe School, to prepare them for work the next...

By RAY DUCKLER

On Oct. 9, 2019, a stranger from North Carolina named Carson McLean noticed a photo of Kraig Emery on a website.Emery was raising a glass of beer, as though toasting someone. Shown alone, he wasn’t smiling, but he didn’t look mean, sad or angry,...

By DAVID BROOKS

The first mutual bank to get a state charter in a century has started making loans as it gets one step closer to fully opening, although financial turmoil may complicate matters.“Market conditions have obviously changed quite a bit in the last six...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Early plans to develop a 95-acre parcel of land along the Merrimack River would include more than 600 units of housing in a mixed-use project along Interstate-93 and the railroad, north of the Concord Monitor building.The potential project near Exit...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The Democrats are facing a scary mid-term election. Parties in power typically lose ground in the mid-terms. Add high gas prices and inflation to the mix, issues where voters often blame office-holders, and...

By RAY DUCKLER

Bryan Caruso was a bear of a man who once smashed home runs to far-away places during his high school and college careers.When it came to hitting, Eric Duquette, Caruso’s former business partner and coach at the Concord Sports Center, called his dear...

By DAVID BROOKS

Tenney Mountain Ski Area should be up and running again next winter as a new owner takes a fresh look at long-simmering development plans around it.“We have a ways to go on master planning … over the next year,” said Steven Kelly, CEO of...

By DAVID BROOKS

The news that Tesla is coming to New Hampshire – probably, at least – is the latest indication that life is changing for New Hampshire’s auto dealerships as electric vehicles take center stage. But it’s not the only one.“Prepping for EVs (electric...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Tom Robert still remembers waking up at 3 a.m. on an August morning seven years ago to a loud knocking on his front door. A Manchester police officer and a prosecutor from the New Hampshire Department of Justice had come to tell him that his...

Weare Middle School and Center Woods Upper Elementary School will have a new principal next year. SAU 24 Superintendent Jacqueline Coe announced last month that Jon Barry will become the new principal of the school, effective July 1.Barry will be...