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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Gov. Kelly Ayotte walked through the different programs at the Concord Regional Technical Center and asked students about their plans for the future and staff about their relationships with local businesses.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Stacy Phillips has a long list.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Andy Sanborn notched a legal victory after the New Hampshire Supreme Court temporarily reversed the revocation of his gaming license while reviewing his appeal.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The developers looking to convert Concord’s former Steeplegate Mall into 600 housing units mixed with large-scale retail bought out a nearby property owner who had stalled the project.Onyx Partners, which is looking to tear down most of the massive...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The legs of the black Baphomet outside the State House stood standing, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the pieces...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Thorne’s of Concord will close its doors by the end of the year, shifting away from retail and toward full-time intimacy advice and support.By nature of the field, Thorne’s has always been a source of education, affirmation and guidance for its...

By DAVID BROOKS and GEOFF FORESTER

Anybody who remembers the disappointment of Al Capone’s Vault, which was opened on live TV after being sealed for decades but turned out to be empty, will sympathize with the neighborhood group that has rehabilitated the Eastman tower clock monument...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Celebrating what would have been his 220th birthday on Nov. 23, members of the Pierce Brigade, New Hampshire National Guard and Beaver Meadow students gathered to honor Franklin Pierce, the only Granite Stater to serve as U.S. President, at his grave...

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

Riverbend Community Mental Health is set to open a 12-bed facility in Concord, providing much-needed housing and on-site care for adults dealing with acute mental health challenges.Located at 278 Pleasant Street, the facility will offer 24/7 staffing,...

By DAVID BROOKS

In a long and storied journalism career, mostly at the Concord Monitor and its sister paper the Valley News, Mark Travis occupied just about every position available in local newspapers, from freelance writer to publisher. But it wasn’t those titles...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Extending the Northern Rail Trail to Concord has been bogged down in over four years of negotiations and delays, with completion still a way off.Initial work began in 2019 when Concord entered negotiations with Pan Am Railways to purchase a five- to...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In an ongoing legal battle between Anthony Sanborn, owner of now-shuttered Concord Casino, and the New Hampshire Attorney General, a new issue involving the handling of privileged documents has emerged.On Aug. 21, Judge John Kissinger of the Merrimack...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Six-year-old Ollie Tyrrell knows all about Christa McAuliffe. He hopes to be an astronaut someday and frequently visits the planetarium at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord.When his mom, Danielle Vincent, heard a statue of McAuliffe,...

By DAVID BROOKS

The bald eagle who had been marveled at and enjoyed by thousands of people over the past quarter century, acting as one of New Hampshire Audubon’s most popular ambassadors at the Concord facility and in school trips, has died. He was 36.The eagle,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Over the past three years, New Hampshire’s population has grown by more than 23,000 residents – about as many people live in the entire town of Bedford – with some communities like Pembroke growing a lot and others like Durham shrinking, according to...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At the start of the year, Concord Casino was ordered to close its doors and sell the business within six months, but, so far, no buyers have stepped forward to acquire the establishment.“There’s been no change in the status of the Concord facility,”...

By JIM KENYON

In less than two weeks, Jim Parker should know whether the state of New Hampshire agrees that after 23 years of incarceration he’s earned the right to re-enter society.Parker’s hearing before the state Adult Parole Board is scheduled for April 18 at...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Within 24 hours of learning that the suspect in the double murder of Steve and Wendy Reid was expected to flee the country, Concord police moved fast to locate and arrest Logan Clegg. Due to the immediacy of the situation in October, detectives...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With two maps of the United States, a flag in the corner and photos of past U.S. presidents pinned to a foldout whiteboard, an office at Overcomers Refugee Services resembles that of a high school history classroom. Instead of high school kids, Eileen...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

NEW LONDON — A 78-year-old man shot and killed his domestic partner inside their New London home and then killed himself, state officials announced Wednesday.Douglas Lyon called police to the Shaker Street home at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday. When officers...