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By RACHEL WACHMAN

A garden club recently bloomed in Chichester. With the warmer weather, gardeners are taking advantage of the sunshine and getting outside to interact with plants.

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com.

By HOLLY RAMER

Sachi Schmidt-Hori has never played Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but facing an onslaught of online harassment from its fans, she quickly developed her own gameplay style: confronting hate with kindness.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A three-year contract with the Concord Educational Assistants Association, approved by the Concord Board of Education, will create an additional wage step in the first year, followed by 3% increases in the following two years.

In just over two months — from January 20 to March 27, 2025 — rogue judges issued seventeen nationwide injunctions against President Trump’s lawful actions. This level of judicial interference is not only unprecedented, it is extremely dangerous to our constitutional system. Anarchists might be pleased, but both conservative and liberal citizens should be very concerned. For example, federal district judges have blocked executive orders addressing birthright citizenship, immigration reform, federal employment, foreign aid, and military readiness. Executive actions that fall squarely within presidential authority have been frozen nationwide by unelected judges, often before a full hearing on the merits.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to deport millions of people on the basis of immigrant criminality and/or illegal entry into the United States. Once in office, Trump authorized the start of mass deportations with great fanfare. However, deportation rates fell far short of the numbers that Trump had projected. A concerted effort to stage various photo-ops ensued.

When a pregnant woman has a dead or dying entity in her womb, she needs an abortion to remove it to save her from an infection from the dead tissue. One being may be alive and healthy with the other dead in utero. Myriad other conditions could require this remedy to save a woman’s health or life. If a woman were not pregnant and had a festering wound, she would be by law permitted to refuse treatment for it even if it would kill her, so long as she is competent and not under the influence of drugs or other compromising circumstances. If a person is so high on a drug, belligerent,or violent they have become dangerous to anyone else, the police or another person could kill them in self-defense. If a person had a limb excised because of damage to it, he/she would never be required to carry it around on their person until it rotted away. Why are women with dangerous pregnancies refused the only sane remedy? How can any child be born without women who are free to choose to give life? How is rape a crime but forced pregnancy is not? Freedom means being able to say “no” or “yes.”

The Mayor of Franklin is requesting input from Franklin taxpayers regarding budget priorities using taxpayer dollars. There has been a consistent and small (30+-) majority of like-minded residents at monthly City Council meetings. The priorities of these attendees appear to differ from other hard-working taxpayers voicing their discontent on social media platforms. Social media is a dead-end for complaints. An elected official cannot use that input for more than informal consensus.

#47: Your first 100 days are making history. Your legacy is established. The least popular President in polling history, as recorded by several credible, respected national polls – not fake, and Fox News too!

Remember when New Hampshire Republicans promoted fiscal responsibility? Those days are long gone. The Republican majority in the State House has created a budget crisis. They made the current revenue shortfall worse by repealing the Interest and Dividends tax. This modest tax (enacted back in 1923) was paid only by the wealthiest residents – those who could certainly afford it!

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to budgeting, you can’t get much worse than bottled water.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Amanda York of Loudon was appointed Monday to the Merrimack Valley School Board, replacing her brother-in-law, Dan York Jr., who resigned in March.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Hopkinton-based logger cleared 12 acres of trees on land near Sam’s Club and Walmart in Concord to ready it for development.

By Thomas Brady, Robert Theberge and Raymond Gorman

Thomas Brady, Robert Theberge and Raymond Gorman are, respectively, chair, clerk and vice chair of the Coos County Board of Commissioners.

Kearsarge 9, John Stark 4

Despite the rainy days and dreary skies we’ve been seeing recently, spring is definitely in the air. With flowers blooming and trees regaining their verdant hues, the shift of the seasons continues to inject color into the landscape. 

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A group of Bow parents has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals after a federal judge ruled they cannot wear pink wristbands at school sporting events to protest the participation of transgender athletes in girls’ sports.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

As the director of public works in Bedford, Concord city councilor Jeff Foote has overseen multiple athletic field construction projects and thinks it’s time for the capital city to have one, if not two, artificial turf fields.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Skeletal remains found in a dilapidated shed off North State Street have been identified by Concord Police as those of Michael Schilz, 59, of Concord.

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.