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If you get a text from E-Z Pass saying you owe extra money, ignore it – it’s a scam trying to steal your identity.That’s the word from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, which says it has heard of residents getting text messages telling...

By DAVID BROOKS

Cutting your own Christmas tree is a snap. Unless, that is, it weighs 3,100 pounds, is as wide as a lane of traffic, and nature decided to make the whole process more complicated.“The wind makes it a little trickier,” said Ryan Rambeau, Concord tree...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A group of Bow parents say the Pride Flag displayed at Bow High School’s music room is an example of the school’s district’s viewpoint discrimination.The federal lawsuit filed by Anthony Foote, Kyle Fellers and Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash, a family...

By BRENDAN WILLIAMS

Brendan Williams is the president and CEO of the New Hampshire Health Care Association. As Gov. Chris Sununu leaves office, his legacy will no doubt be subject to bouquets and brickbats, depending on one’s partisan view. However, from the perspective...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, Gov. Chris Sununu sent a message to state agencies: Decrease your budgets by about 4%. In hearings last week, department heads complied, hitting that mark on their funding proposals, but they're sending a message back: We don’t have...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When the doors to New Hampshire’s first psychiatric residential facility for children opened last May, advocates and state leaders celebrated the new resource that could house up to a dozen kids. Over a year later, that maximum capacity has yet to be...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

For $350,000, Boscawen’s historic library building could be yours.Designed in 1913 by famous New England architect Guy Lowell, the building is listed on the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance’s “Seven to Save” collection of historic properties and on...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Participation in New Hampshire’s education freedom account program has risen 26% since the beginning of last school year, according to recently released Department of Education data.A total of 5,321 students have enrolled in the program as it enters...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The day after notching a surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses in January 2008, an exultant Barack Obama strode into the Concord High gymnasium, the 11th presidential candidate that cycle to make the trip.The person responsible for transforming...

It’s hard to remember now, but in the Good Old Days – the decade through my teenage years, which is everybody’s definition of Good Old Days – the typewriter was just about the most interesting piece of technology in people’s homes.Whether manual or...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

A single-story home on Shingle Mill Brook Road in Pittsfield was destroyed by fire over the weekend.Firefighters from Pittsfield and surrounding departments responded to the fire call around 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning at 7 Shingle Mill Brook...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I admit to a fascination with the holes in American history. That is, the time periods outside our blockbuster events like the Revolution, the Civil War, and the 20th-century World Wars. There are periods where...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As a retired Marine Corps troop commander, Loudon State Rep. Mike Moffett has seen veterans run into trouble with the law – something he argues is often directly related to their military service.That’s why he sponsored a bill in the Legislature this...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Behind the counter at Thorne’s of Concord, a personal health and intimate wellness store on Main Street, James Roesener springs into action whenever the phone rings with a request for discreet curbside pickup.With practiced care, Roesener packs little...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Council unanimously approved $400,000 for weekly bonuses for snow removal employees this winter, as Concord’s public works director said they had stemmed the outflow of CDL employees after an “exodus” ahead of last winter.The money funds...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Maria Pacelli remembers sitting at her father’s bedside as he took his final breaths. She was in college at the time and had, coincidentally, been taking courses on death and loss.She and her brothers held a vigil for the final four days before her...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Along with friends and the media, I’ve been trying to understand the dynamic behind Donald Trump being elected to be...

By JAMES W. SPAIN II

There are times in life when practical decisions, decisions that seem quite simple, hold more value than realized at the onset. It was about seventy-five years ago when the Concord CityManager Brackett was reviewing opportunities to bring Concord...

By CAROLE SOULE

Two-month-old Scottish Highland steer Owen struggled against the lead rope. He pulled back, then leaped forward and followed with a flop. As he lay on the ground, his left eye peered balefully at me from between his shaggy bangs as if to say, “I don’t...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Yvette Lascelle has a favorite saying: “It is what it is.” “Whatever happens, happens,” Lascelle said with a faint smile. “They try to prevent it, but you can’t always prevent it.” The 81-year-old has been fighting multiple myeloma, or plasma cell...