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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 EILEEN O’GRADY

Members of the Bow football team, wearing their home jerseys, quietly placed American flags around the field Friday night to honor their teammate Nick Ouellette and his younger brother Gavin, who both died in a car crash earlier that morning. A large...

By RAY DUCKLER

Don’t tell Jean Durgin of Henniker that the War on Terror in Afghanistan was a failure.In fact, don’t try to convince any Gold Star Mother, or anyone else for that matter who’s suffered a loss over there, that the recent chaotic, deadly scenes from...

By CARISA CORROW

Two recent My Turns (“A Healthy Future,” Monitor, 8/20 and “A Serious Approach,” Monitor, 8/29) both miss the mark when talking about public education and how we understand what it means to be successful for learners and public schools. If we are...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Joy Cadarette and Sharon Beauchesne are old friends, opening a store in an old building where they will sell old things. But the idea of starting a new antique shop in Concord together is newly hatched, when just three weeks ago they discovered that...

By BENJAMIN DOMAINGUE

Mountain lions remain an enigmatic animal for residents of New Hampshire, with New Hampshire Fish and Game reporting three to five sightings per week.“Of those three to five reports, one or two come with photos,” according to Patrick Tate, a wildlife...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

The decaying Department of Transportation complex sandwiched between Loudon Road and the Concord Coach bus terminal has sat vacant for years, greeting highway drivers with glimpses of low-lying buildings with broken windows, peeling paint and creeping...

By DAVID BROOKS

Long before “River Dave” there was The Taylor Pond Hermit.Like David Lidstone, who lived alone in a cabin in the Canterbury woods for 27 years but was known to many people in the area, Perley Swett lived alone in a cabin in the town of Stoddard but...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Methamphetamine is flooding into New Hampshire at alarming rates, overwhelming first responders and filling recovery programs.Jon DeLena, an agent at the New England field division of the Drug Enforcement Agency, said the new influx of methamphetamine...

By DAVID BROOKS

The news that criminals used fake e-mails to fool the town of Peterborough into sending them million-dollar payments comes as no real surprise to the state’s cybersecurity chief.“We’ve heard about this multiple times over the past four years,” said...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Six state troopers were legally justified in firing 40 shots at a Claremont man, hitting him nine times, because they were “concerned about their safety” and the safety of residents in the surrounding neighborhood, according to a report from the...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

An annual Concord bicycle race ended in tragedy this weekend after a young competitor crashed and died.On Saturday, Sunapee Racing Team hosted the 40th Annual Concord Criterium, a race that draws cyclists from around New England to compete on a 1-mile...

By DAVID BROOKS and GEOFF FORESTER

It’s not quite true to say that chicken wings have become as rare as hen’s teeth, but pandemic-fueled changes in habits have turned this fun restaurant item into a hard-to-find and painful-to-pay-for commodity.“I asked all over the country –...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

There is finally something to see at the location of the incoming Market Basket in Penacook. Construction has begun on the buildings off of Exit 17 of 1-93 in Concord that will house a long-awaited supermarket and a NH Liquor and Wine outlet. The...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As cars speed around Turn 4 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend, fans will be able to stand just a few feet from the Loudon track while drinking a beer and playing lawn games on green turf.The track’s new bar and viewing area called Rock...

By JENNY WHIDDEN

Nearly 30 years ago, Charlotte DiLorenzo moved to Newmarket from Massachusetts, where she had lived her whole life. The lack of racial diversity in her new home state was nothing less than culture shock for her.“I lived in Beverly, I grew up in Lynn,...

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

By DAVID BROOKS

No, you’re not imagining it: Chipmunks really are everywhere.“We have no formal monitoring of chipmunks,” said Matt Tarr, a wildlife biologist with UNH Extension, “But my observation and what I’m hearing from folks all over New Hampshire is: There’s a...

By RAY DUCKLER

She bought the dog harness two years ago, unsure if she’d ever use it.But Jeannine Robbins of Thornton knew that it was a good idea, that someday she might need one for her golden retriever, Appa. She never figured, however, that the harness would be...

By JOSEPH MENDOLA

If you Google “Dr. Walter E. Williams Amnesty Proclamation,” you’ll find a pardon that bestows forgiveness on all Americans of European descent who, along with their ancestors, may have discriminated against his people.Dr. Williams was a great African...