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Dan Dowds: A 50-Year Memory Brought To Life

In the first moments of The Shawshank Redemption, the 1994 film based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, the main character, Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, is transported to a gruesome-looking prison called Shawshank. That stern guard was my classmate from high school, Dan Dowds.

Christina Holbrook: All the Flowers of the Mountain

For nearly five years, Christina Holbrook worked on her novel, All the Flowers of the Mountain, set in a small town in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In 2022, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor at a time when she had just acquired an agent and was about to seek a publisher.

N.H. Family Planning Program Contracts Back Before Executive Council

On Wednesday, July 27, contracts for family planning providers will be considered at New Hampshire’s Executive Council meeting, including for three reproductive health providers whose contracts were most recently rejected in January – Planned Parenthood of Northern New England; Equality Health Center; and Lovering Health Center. 

AG: Suspicious Death in Hooksett, Few Details Released

New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Nathan Noyes, andHooksett Police Chief Janet Bouchard announce that officials from the Attorney General’s Office and investigators are responding to a suspicious death scene on Main Street in Hooksett, New Hampshire.

Legal Review of Gunstock Conflicts Continues

 The Gunstock Area Commission has accepted the “final report” in a legal review of the genesis of the conflict between the commission and the Belknap County Delegation. The continuing conflict between those parties and Gunstock management this week resulted in the temporary closure of the resort.