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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The overdue tax bill facing John Jones felt like a death sentence.​The lifelong resident of the Live-Free-or-Die state had been late to pay his taxes before, but this time was different.Jones, 66, owed $5,097.44 to the city of Franklin, a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

At the start of the pandemic, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu wanted to make sure no one lost their home.Like governors around the country, he used his executive powers to suspend mortgage foreclosures and issued a moratorium on evictions. And in the...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

A former senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration and wife of the current U.S. national security adviser is launching a bid for Congress in New Hampshire, where she was born and raised.Maggie Goodlander, the wife of National Security...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Three years ago, Rep. Jonah Wheeler was finishing his senior year at ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough. Ten minutes down the road, his friends in Jaffrey were wrapping up theirs at Conant Middle High School. While Wheeler received  “good...

By ALICE WADE

Alice Wade is an aerospace engineer from Dover and serves as the treasurer of 603 Equality. When I grew up in the early 2000s, I didn’t know what being transgender meant. I grew up in a time when people cross-dressing on TV shows were laughed at,...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

More than 1,600 ConVal parents, students, alumni and community members had signed a change.org petition by Monday afternoon, protesting the non-renewal of ConVal Athletic Director Kevin Proctor’s contract at the end of the school year.Proctor, who has...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A bill that would ease New Hampshire’s eviction process will now head to the Senate after House members passed the measure 194-180 March 21.Today, if a landlord wanted to terminate a lease with a tenant at the end of the contract, they are required to...

Two young sisters taken by their father, considered missing and endangered after their mother was found dead Thursday night, have been located and are safe.Early Friday morning, police asked for the public’s help to locate 37-year-old Dusten Mark...

By DAVID BROOKS

According to New Hampshire Fish and Game, the first call came in just before noon on Saturday, Feb. 17, that 22-year-old Cole Matthes of Portsmouth had fallen while hiking in the Ammonusuc Ravine on Mount Washington. He called 911 and requested help....

By MELANIE LEVESQUE

Melanie Levesque is a former NH state senator. As the first African American state senator in New Hampshire, I was proud to work to empower Granite Staters, not put stumbling blocks in front of them. Access to finance is key to empowering people to...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Erik Valdovinos couldn’t have scripted the moment any better.There he sat in Matthews, N.C., holding a microphone and broadcasting the NCAA men’s soccer Division II semifinals. Also a player for the Franklin Pierce University program, the 19-year-old...

By DAVID BROOKS

In my career, I’ve encountered several non-traditional ways to build a home, from stacking hay bales to rolling out plastic tubes to using 3D-printed concrete. They’ve been fun to talk about but never made the slightest dent in the industry. The...

By ASHLEY SAARI

New Ipswich residents no longer have to apply for a municipal permit for fireworks displays, after a unanimous vote by the Select Board to rescind the practice in September.This is a reversal of a previous decision by the board, which previously...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Line up 10 New Hampshire residents and eight of them can come to a consensus on their community: more affordable housing is a must. If these 10 people are under the age of 35, it’s a unanimous consensus. The message is clear: In the midst of a housing...

By DAVID BROOKS

Of all the problems that are plaguing New Hampshire’s forests these days, the cutest are the deer.Those deep eyes! Those big ears! That flash of white tail as they bound through a field!  Who doesn’t love them?Anybody (like me) with a deer-ransacked...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

An affordable, manageable starter home in New Hampshire can come in many different shapes and sizes – a small single-family home, an accessory dwelling unit on an existing lot, a manufactured home or even a tiny house on a small tract of land.However,...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’re looking for an industry that is adapting to the pain that accompanies climate change, take a walk in a hardwood forest until you find plastic tubing stretching off into the distance. That’s the tradition-bound maple syrup industry tossing...

By ALLEN J. DAVIS

Allen J. Davis of Dublin is an educator and racial justice activist. Barack Obama shattered a glass ceiling and was, arguably, a very effective president. Joe Biden has done more in his first two White House years than Obama did in eight. Biden’s...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Since New Hampshire accepted the first $10 million of a federal charter schools grant, eight charter schools have been awarded funding, including five new startup schools, two expansions and one existing school that’s opening a second location.In...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Maria Pacelli is often struck by the sickly-sweet stench of rotting onions.The inexplicable smell is not a product of the environment but of her brain, thanks to long COVID, a syndrome that wreaks havoc on the body long after the COVID-19 virus...