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By PAUL STEINHAUSER

She’s made more than 100 stops across New Hampshire in her first 100 days.

By MARY K. OTTO

I Go Down to the Shore

By GWEN TUSON

Polarization. Fear. Uncertain future. Rising prices. Politics affects nearly every aspect of daily lives. Neighbors suddenly in conflict with one another. In some communities, families focus on subsistence, but they can’t escape the larger turmoil. Am I writing about today?

By POLLY CAMPION and LAURIE HARDING

Recently, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to zero out the budget of the New Hampshire Commission on Aging.

By TRACY HUTCHINS

In my role at the Upper Valley Business Alliance (UVBA), a regional chamber of commerce, I have worked with many new business owners. We often have people interested in starting a business contact the UVBA for information on how to start their business or advice on navigating issues as a new business owner. I find helping new businesses to launch to be one of the most rewarding aspects of my job. I love to help someone to realize their dream of creating independence and a successful business.

By REBECCA BAILEY

In our society, getting stuff can be as easy as tapping your smartphone. Responsibly getting rid of stuff — packaging, broken, used, or outmoded items, waste products, and all the other materials that make up our “solid waste” — is a lot harder.

By DAN MACKIE

You might think there is nothing going on these days besides new episodes of “The Further Adventures of Donald J. Trump,” but you would be wrong.

By DOV TAYLOR

“We were slaves … now we are free.” This Saturday evening, Jews around the world will recline at their Passover Seder tables and read a story of liberation from a book called a Haggadah. That story is told in response to four questions, traditionally asked by the youngest child present:

By TRISWYKES

Two of the region’s strongest high school soccer programs have new but familiar leadership.

By STEVE TAYLOR

It was going to become “the Ben and Jerry’s of beer” and as the concept took shape it generated a lot of buzz in the Upper Valley some 40 years ago.

By MARGARET ML BYRNES

With multiple polls showing housing as the top issue in New Hampshire by a wide margin, it’s no shock that the current legislative session is awash with proposals ostensibly aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis. These bills are framed as attempts to tackle the shortage of affordable housing and to foster development, which sounds like a no-lose proposition. But take a step back and you’ll notice that most of these proposals are sweeping, one-size-fits-all statewide planning and zoning mandates.

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

All systems are go for U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas to announce his candidacy for U.S. Senate in the 2026 race to succeed retiring longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

By JIM BEDNAR

I served my country for almost 40 years, not in uniform but with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the agency that managed 60% of our humanitarian and development assistance. I have hundreds of on-the-ground examples of how USAID employees served America’s interests. (Over the agency’s six decades of work, 99 USAID staff gave their lives in service to their country.)

By MICKI COLBECK

The river is fully melted now. She sings a lullaby that helps me sleep. In the morning, the little brown dogs and I will go along the banks to see if the red petals of the beaked hazelnuts are opening. Then up into the wet fir woods to look for liverworts and mosses and the first flowers of the forest, the leatherwood tree.

By NEIL ODELL

Fairness is a level playing field, a basic expectation. Whether it’s a soccer game or a courtroom, the same rules should apply to everyone. That’s how public systems are supposed to work.

By LISA K. MADDEN

The 60-year-old Medicaid system, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, ensures that individuals have access to critical mental health and substance use treatment, along with primary care. In 2025, the Medicaid system serves about 184,000 individuals in New Hampshire, or 13% of the state’s population.

By LINDSAY KURRLE

Too often in Vermont, popular and necessary housing construction is derailed, delayed or diminished by a small number of folks abusing the appeals process who have no direct skin in the game and are reluctant to welcome new neighbors. While appeals are valuable in certain cases, they also drive-up costs, affecting every homebuyer, renter and builder in Vermont. When the project involves public money, appeals also drive-up costs for taxpayers.

By CHERYL CHARLES

Vermonters spoke loud and clear this Town Meeting Day: they support their public schools. With over 90% of school budget proposals winning voter approval and budgets passing in at least 101 districts, the message is undeniable — Vermont communities value their schools and want to see them strengthened, not dismantled.

By SCOTT BECK

A considerable amount of attention and work this legislative session has been devoted to Vermont’s PreK-12 public education system and how it is funded. This is important work — 30% of Vermont state spending is devoted to our most precious resource, 83,000 children.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — Windsor High girls basketball coach Kabray Rockwood descended the stairs to his team’s locker room in the basement of the Barre Auditorium on Thursday night.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — The heat and humidity generated by warming spring temperatures and a couple of thousand bodies packed into the Barre Auditorium on Thursday drove a gaggle of high school basketball fans out the back door during halftime of the Oxbow-Peoples girls game.