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Girls’ TennisConcord 8, Manchester Memorial 1Key players: Concord – Nadia Hannah, Madie Mikkelsen, Sarah Saleem, Libby LaBombard, Gracie Lorden and Kat Tewksbury (singles winners)Highlights:  The Tide secured the victory early, allowing Penny Brown...

By DAN ATTORRI

The Concord High School girls’ track and field team has been near the top of Division I for a few years, but head coach Hayden Daly believes that this year’s team is a special group. With three NCAA Division I commits, several veteran leaders and a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The Bow High girls’ tennis team opened its season about as well as head coach Steve Langevin could’ve hoped on Tuesday with a 9-0 win over Coe-Brown. In singles, Grace Modzeleski beat Abby Coleman, 8-1; Jaden Glace beat Anna Reiff, 8-6; Katie McCabe...

By DAN ATTORRI

The Bishop Brady boys’ tennis team didn’t even exist last year, but the Giants opened their return to varsity action in the best way possible.Brady opened the 2024 season with a 5-4 victory over Moultonborough at Memorial Field on Tuesday, the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBELand DAN ATTORRI

After coming agonizingly close to winning state championships in 2021 and 2022, Concord High softball finally cleared the hurdle last June when it beat Winnacunnet, 3-2, for the seventh title in program history, capping a 20-1 season.This year, the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBELand DAN ATTORRI

In order to repeat the success of the last few seasons, Bow boys’ tennis will be counting on some younger players to take on bigger roles after losing two seniors from last year and with just one senior on this year’s roster.Beyond the Falcons’ top...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As the number of school-aged children in Concord drops and more families choose educational options outside public school, the Concord School District has seen a long pattern of declining enrollment.On the backdrop of shrinking elementary school class...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The contestants don’t have to answer in the form of a question, and there aren’t any Daily Doubles or thousands of dollars to be won, but that’s where most of the differences end.In Granite State Challenge, host Jon Cannon does his best Alex Trebek...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Bow residents brought the town one step closer to installing the state’s largest combined municipal solar development.As part of the solar project, the energy committee, along with Kearsarge Solar LLC, a Massachusetts-based energy company, has...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will hold public hearings on Monday and Wednesday next week to gather community input on its proposed budget. In the preliminary budget, the general fund — 95% of school spending — would increase about $1.78 million, or 1.67%,...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Area girls’ basketball teams made up three of the four semifinalists in Division II this season, with No. 1 Concord Christian ultimately taking down No. 3 Pembroke for the state championship. Sunday was the Kingsmen’s third straight state title,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In every other class they attended, they were known to their teachers and fellow students as Adyson, Ruth, Ava, Olivia, Lillian, and Addison. But to each other — inside a maze mimicking a burning house, blindfolded as they navigated a narrow passage...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After the moderator read the results of the Merrimack Valley School Board elections Friday night, Julia Jones dabbed away a few tears.Though she is the president of the Salisbury parent-teacher group, she relied only on word of mouth to promote her...

By DAN ATTORRI

In 25 years the Pembroke ice hockey program has never played in a state championship. That will change on Saturday.No. 2 Pembroke-Campbell (15-4-0) controlled Wednesday night’s semifinal from start to finish, defeating No. 6 Kearsarge-Plymouth...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

SALEM – After falling behind 13-2 less than three minutes into Wednesday night’s Division II semifinal, No. 4 John Stark (16-5) looked to be in deep trouble against No. 1 Concord Christian (19-1).The Kingsmen came out asserting their game, forcing...

By DAN ATTORRI

This year’s winter conditions posed far greater challenges than usual to the state’s high school Nordic ski teams, so much so that even having a championship wasn’t a given. But meet organizers pulled a rabbit out of a hat and Concord High made the...

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...

Monitor staff

On this week’s podcast, Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri recap last week’s playoff results, including Concord boys’ hockey’s stunning overtime loss to Exeter and preview this week’s D-II boys’ and girls’ basketball semifinals featuring Pembroke...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

If No. 4 John Stark is able to take down top-seeded Concord Christian in Wednesday night’s Division II girls’ basketball semifinal, it’ll be because of the Generals’ experience and composure. At least, that’s what head coach Tiffany Lewis is banking...

D-II Boys’ Basketball No. 2 Hanover 51, No. 7 Bow 34 Key players: Bow – Brendan O’Keeffe (23 points), Connor Eno (great defense off the bench) Highlights: The Falcons ran into a strong defense in Friday night’s quarterfinal, trailing 12-2 at the end...