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By DAVID BROOKS

There may be debate among the public about the long-term effect of the COVID-19 pandemic but there’s no question when looking at the state’s test scores, especially the lower grades.“This is a generation that was back in pre-school when the pandemic...

By RAY DUCKLER

Nick Pagauisan, a sophomore at Bishop Brady High School, is growing in more ways than one.While he’s at the age, 16, in which height and maturity are often on the rise, his vegetable plants are, too, giving him a green thumb that would fill the Jolly...

By DAVID BROOKS

The most interesting energy thing happening in New Hampshire right now isn’t due to cool tech or federal money, it’s part of that terribly ho-hum tedious topic, local governance.Actually, it’s more ho-hum than that: It’s county governance.Compared to...

By DAVID BROOKS

As more New Hampshire lakes suffer from blooms of toxic algae due to warming weather and increased development, two water bodies in Henniker were part of a study of a faster way to spot outbreaks, using drones.“With the (drone), a small lake might...

By DAVID BROOKS

Red and black campaign signs for Concord School Board candidate Michael Guglielmo appeared on either side of the entrance to the city-owned Beaver Meadow Golf Course last week. More signs were placed in the triangular median at the intersection of...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The cricket’s persistent song of autumn used to haunt me, reminding me how brief life is, especially now I’m old. But it doesn’t have to...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick lived for three months in Jayyous, Palestine as an accompanier for the World Council of Churches. For three years he was media coordinator and communication strategist for Kairos Palestine. He lives in Concord and can be reached at...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When P.T. Wood arrived in Salida, Colo., 30 years ago, it was an old mining town that was becoming a shell of its former self. Ranching had slowed down, the railroad was leaving town and many homeowners were looking to move away.If you took a trip to...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The race to fill two community-wide positions on the Concord City Council features five candidates who share many of the same priorities like economic development, affordable housing, diversity and equity initiatives and public safety.But with one...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After approving $15.6 million for the Concord Police Department this year, the city will send an additional half-million dollars directly to officers in an attempt to address recruitment and retention issues.The money, which was approved unanimously...

By DAVID BROOKS

Every good mechanic has a trick or two up their sleeve. Colby Rousseau’s trick is a sleeve, with a cartoonish pointing hand at the end of it, and it’s one of the reasons he’s headed to California and maybe to Japan.“He’s pretty amazing. And he’s got...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-running effort to turn the old Gale School into a vibrant community center, delayed by cost increases, has received federal support.The United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development fund recently directed $391,000 to the project...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Under Gabriel Reynolds’ bed in his dorm at New England College, three white signs with black Sharpie letters are tucked away.One reads, “to take away our 26th amendment, you’ll have to take away our 2nd.” Another says, “no forever war in Mexico.” And...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

From his earliest memories, Brad Myrick has been immersed in music. His journey began by singing with his mother to tunes on the radio, and by the age of six, he was already tinkering with the piano. It didn’t stop there; he picked up the guitar in...

By DAVID BROOKS

Redevelopment plans for Steeplegate Mall that include a Costco and a Whole Foods supermarket as well as some 600 housing units are moving ahead now that a Massachusetts developer has purchased the site.An initial Planning Board hearing is set for next...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Christopher Sanborn, a co-owner of R & L Archery in Barre, Vermont, sold Logan Clegg a Glock 17 on February 25, 2022, he testified in court Thursday.In order to purchase a handgun in of Vermont, the buyer needs be over the age of 21, be in possession...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Beth St. John spends her weekends shuttling her three teenagers to different sporting events alongside her husband. On weekdays, her duties in the loan operations department at Merrimack County Savings Bank become a little less chaotic.Life, for St....

By STEPHANIE RUTT

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is founding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Amherst. She lives in Nashua. In the October 8th 60 Minute story featuring Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist now called the “Godfather of AI,” Hinton...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The day after retired Concord couple Steve and Wendy Reid were fatally shot last spring, police said Logan Clegg was seen on surveillance purchasing rubbing alcohol, a new tent and a new sleeping bag from Walmart. In the 24 hours after the Reids were...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Concord Detective Garrett Lemoine pointed across the courtroom at Logan Clegg in his blue button-down shirt and identified him as the same man he spoke to last spring when searching for a missing couple near the Alton Woods apartment complex. In a...