Obituary
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former AMC President Williams, Who Designed Prosthetics
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The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
NH Poll: GOP On Defensive With Unpopular President; Dems Stefany Shaheen and Maura Sullivan in Dead Heat
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“Republicans are still on the back foot as the midterm elections draw near. An unpopular President and an unpopular war are causing problems for candidates even as negative attacks on Democrats are finding their mark.”
Radio Free New Hampshire: Green Monsters
American politics has long had a big green wall of its own, called the New Hampshire primary. Just like Fenway’s monster, it came from a quirk of history.
Rep. Maggie Goodlander Accepts Environmental Group Endorsement, Tours Facility
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Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Pappas Accepts Labor Organization Endorsement
Proposal for NH to Secede from the United States Praised, But Mostly Condemned
NH Reaction Mixed on Trump Plans To Dismantle Roadless Rule on National Forest
News
Rep. Spillane Censured by the House for Social Media Posts
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The House in what might be its last action of the 2026 session, censured Rep. James A. Spillane, R-Deerfield, for defamatory and demeaning remarks he made about fellow legislators on his social media (X) account.
Lawmakers Uphold Ayotte’s Vetoes of Bathroom Bills
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Lawmakers were unable to muster the vote to ultimately override any of the three “bathroom” bills that would allow businesses, prisons and jails and hospitals, to restrict the use of bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities to a person’s biological sex at birth.
Business & Economy
New Hampshire Libertarians Fight Losing Battle To Stay in National Party
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A more subdued than normal Jeremy Kauffman sat through last week’s appeal hearing in front of the Libertarian National Committee’s Judicial Committee as he leads the fight to get the New Hampshire Libertarian Party back into the fold.
Business & Economy
Lawmakers Easily Override Ayotte’s Veto of Highway Improvement Plan
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This session Gov. Kelly Ayotte may have vetoed a modern record number of bills — 33 — passed with her party in control of the legislature, but House and Senate members Wednesday were in a mood to overturn a healthy number — seven — of her vetoes Wednesday.
Business & Economy
Easterseals Closure of Adult Day Care and Adding Staff at SYSC Covered By Council
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The fact that Easterseals NH is cutting its adult day care services in Manchester and Rochester has the governor and Executive Council asking for a meeting and a review of all contracts that nonprofit has with the state.
News
Congresswoman says target of ICE operation in fatal Maine shooting wasn’t up for removal
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Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian national, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in a car near his Biddeford home on July 13.
Courts & Corrections
NH Supreme Court Now All Republican and Under Public Scrutiny
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Chris Sununu and Kelly Ayotte have broken with the tradition of maintaining a bipartisan balance on the New Hampshire Supreme Court so all five justices are Republicans now instead of a 3 to 2 split along party lines at a time when the court is facing heightened public scrutiny and Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald is out on indefinite medical leave.
Business & Economy
Ex-DOC Officer Snared in Poaching Case and Accused of Stealing Mail Now Charged with Sexual Assault
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Thomas Kelley’s career with the Department of Corrections ended in 2023 with his firing for reportedly stealing a letter sent by a prisoner to court officials detailing Kelley’s abusive behavior toward inmates.
Courts & Corrections
Harvard To Pay $53M To Settle Cadaver Lawsuits
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Harvard Medical School wants to pay $53 million to the families of people whose cadavers were mutilated by former morgue staffer Cedric Lodge, and then sold as parts online.
Business & Economy
23% of Residents ‘Somewhat or Very Likely’ To Leave NH in Next Five Years: Carsey School
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Younger and unmarried people were the likeliest demographic to move out-of-state, with over half (54%) claiming it was likely they would leave.
Arts and Entertainment
Speaking of Words: An Article on Articles
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But we are sometimes strangely inconsistent in English about where we deploy the. We use it of rivers (the Mississippi, the Merrimack) but not of lakes, we use it of groups of islands (the Azores, the Isles of Shoals) but not of individual islands, and we use it of mountain ranges (the Andes, the White Mountains) but not of individual mountains, unless they are in Switzerland (the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau).
Business & Economy
Keene Residents, Council Members Outraged Over Recent ICE Activity
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In response to recent Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Keene, the city hosted a council workshop Monday evening to address questions, help residents understand what transpired, and hear concerns as immigration remains a source of tensions statewide.
Business & Economy
Attorney General Wants Claremont Education Decisions Overturned
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The two original Claremont education funding decisions should be overturned in whole or in part, the state argues in its 125-page brief in its appeal of the superior court’s Rand decision.
Three Bipartisan Bills Related To Protecting Victims Celebrated in Concord
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A suite of bipartisan bills to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence were passed into law and celebrated Monday when Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte held a ceremonial signing before victim advocates, lawmakers, and survivors.
Courts & Corrections
AG: Adult Son’s Death Ruled Suicide After He Killed His Mother and Shot Two Others in Whitefield
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Eric Blake, Jr. was pronounced dead at the hospital and an autopsy determined his cause of death was a gunshot wound to his head and his manner of death was suicide. Amy Blake has since died as a result of her injuries.
Courts & Corrections
YDC Abuser Woodlock Wants New Trial
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Convicted sexual abuser James Woodlock says new information that’s come to light since he was found guilty could upend his verdicts, but what that information might be isn’t public.
Feature
Joyful Musings Asks You Some Odd Questions, Got Answers?
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Good August, Musers, good summer’s height, good brilliance of flowers, of sun, of summer feet and well used beach chairs. In today’s musings, I simply have questions.
Politics
Democrat Carleigh Beriont Runs for Nomination in NH’s 1st Congressional District
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C-SPAN: Carleigh Beriont, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, spoke at a house party in Newmarket in early August.