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Hate hits home: N.H. white supremacist makes national headlines for his role in Virginia protests
Christopher Cantwell wrote a triumphant blog post in the wake of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, declaring the driver who killed a counter-protester a hero and recounting his own “glorious” experience fighting people... → Read More
New Hampshire GOP headquarters targeted by vandal
A vandal spray-painted the word “Nazis,” surrounded by the shape of a heart, on the New Hampshire Republican State Committee headquarters Thursday, police said.In an act apparently done overnight, amid tensions following a white nationalist rally last... → Read More
For a Concord family, rezoning proposal strikes at 200 years of history
Peter Clarke has plenty of relics from the old neighborhood.Among them: pottery from his ancestors who first settled there in 1792, chairs made at a long-gone factory nearby and the foot-tall descendent of a horse chestnut tree that was fully grown... → Read More
Should Concord allow keno? Voters will decide
Concord voters will decide in November whether a state-run lottery game called keno should be played in restaurants and bars in their city.City councilors voted unanimously Monday to put the question on Election Day ballots and hold a public hearing... → Read More
VA boss’s N.H. trip comes at the end of a yearlong road
A meeting Friday at the state’s veterans hospital will bring together its whistleblowers with some of the people best positioned to make systemic changes, including the congressional delegation and national secretary of veterans affairs.It won’t be... → Read More
Plan for Concord’s first permanent mosque gets zoning approval
Concord’s zoning board unanimously approved plans Wednesday for what could become the city’s first permanent mosque.The Islamic Society of Greater Concord hopes to move out of its rented space on Eastman Street and into a vacant industrial building at... → Read More
VA whistleblower: Manchester should be a ‘test case’ for national reform
One of the whistleblowers at the Manchester Veterans Affairs Medical Center said he plans to propose his workplace as a “test case” for national reform of the veterans health care system when he meets with VA Secretary David Shulkin this week.Dr. Ed... → Read More
Residents forced to flee High Street fire; major damage averted
Two pets were killed as fire gutted a seven-unit apartment building in Penacook on Monday.The Red Cross wrote in a statement that the 6 High St. fire displaced six people. No humans were injured in the morningtime blaze, fire Chief Dan Andrus said.The... → Read More
PolitiFact NH: Sununu calls New York, California the biggest polluters
California and New York are “the two biggest polluting states in the country.”— Chris Sununu on Monday, July 10, 2017, in an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio Gov. Chris Sununu says he’s proud of his state’s record of environmental stewardship.... → Read More
Police seek statements from men who chased down ‘voyeur’
Two men swimming with a group of girls at Turkey Pond on Saturday spotted another man off in the woods, who was watching the group of swimmers and “potentially pleasuring himself,” police said.The swimming men left the pond, chased the man down and... → Read More
‘Deaf ears’ no longer as veterans confront new director at Manchester VA
Craig Meriwether had only just arrived at his first drill with the Army reserves in September 1990 when he learned the news that permanently altered the course of his life.In three days, he’d leave behind his wife and kids – as young as three months... → Read More
Snubbed by Northern Pass tour, towns from Plymouth to Deerfield seek stops
A two-day bus tour this week of sites that would potentially be affected by Northern Pass will go here and there, but nowhere south of the Notches.A group of intervenors from towns on the southern side of the controversial project that would bring... → Read More
Voter ID law in focus for District 16 special Senate election
Election officials and poll watchers will have a fresh review of the state’s voter identification law in mind for Tuesday’s special election for the Senate seat covering Bow, Dunbarton, Candia, Hooksett and part of Manchester.The attorney general’s... → Read More
More than 100 state legislators join opposition against Northern Pass
More than 100 current and former state legislators stand in opposition to Northern Pass as it’s currently proposed, according to a petition delivered to the committee governing the energy proposal.Those lawmakers set the tone Thursday ahead of a... → Read More
Democrat Schultz wins special election to become Concord’s newest state rep
Democrat Kris Schultz will be Concord’s newest state rep.Her victory Tuesday in a special election for the Ward 9 seat over Republican challenger Michael Feeley solidifies the Democrats’ undivided hold on the capital city.Schultz, Feeley and their... → Read More
Concord officials urge comments on Northern Pass
The towers that would carry the Northern Pass transmission lines through East Concord may be visible from the opposite side of the city and the upper floors of buildings on Main Street.Fearing the industrial-style structures looming above the treeline... → Read More
Veterans advocates ‘angered’ at story of failure at Manchester VA
Some veterans who say they’ve received substandard care at the Manchester veterans hospital have the ear of its leaders.They achieve this connection through the advocacy of service organizations – such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars – which have a... → Read More
Q&A: Concord superintendent Forsten talks kindergarten, Edelblut, middle school
Concord schools Superintendent Terri Forsten sat down with the Monitor’s editorial board Thursday for a summertime question-and-answer session.Below are her responses to selected topics.Will the increased state money for full-day kindergarten affect... → Read More
Downtown: Concord Craft Brewing to serve full pours; Brewers Festival on tap
For beer drinkers, it’s a good week to try something new in Concord.The city’s only downtown brewery, Concord Craft Brewing, poured its first official pint Friday and is open for extended summer hours. And the New Hampshire Brewers Festival is coming... → Read More
Family hikes past warning signs, calls for rescue on Huntington Ravine
The U.S. Forest Service placed signs at two entrances to a challenging Mount Washington trail alerting hikers to its potential dangers, but not everyone heeds the warning.A Pennsylvania family called 911 about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to report that they... → Read More