Arts and Entertainment
For the Love of Live Theatre
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Nashua, NH: You have to love community theatre to participate and stay with it.
Free Staters Meet in Concord for Annual Confab
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Nearly 300 people gathered at the Grappone Conference Center here Friday for the start of the 2025 NH Liberty Forum. The annual two-day event, which concludes Saturday, is associated with the Free State Project (FSP), a movement that began 24 years ago.
USNH, Cultural Resources and Justice Department Seek Fund Restoration
Higher education leaders went to the Senate Finance Committee Friday to request budget funding be restored to the governor’s recommended level for the next two years and that they reject the 30 percent cut by the House calling it “unsustainable.”
New Hampshire’s public media is here for you – be here for public media
For decades, New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire PBS have earned Granite Staters’ trust by delivering independent journalism, emergency services, and educational and public affairs programming. Always for free.
Shaheen Blasts Trump Attacks on Head Start, Demands RFK Jr. Immediately Release Funding, Reverse Firings
The letter to RFK Jr. follows Shaheen’s visit to Community Action Partnership Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties’ (CAPHR) Opportunity Center in Manchester where she highlighted the importance of Head Start to Granite State working families.
More Headlines
Foresters, Farmers Talk Trade and Tariff Impacts With U.S. Rep. Goodlander in Groveton
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Somersworth Mayor Meserve
Controversial Ex-Congressman Featured at Free State Conference in Concord
Environment & Science
Washington State Woman Nominated To Be Next Fish and Game Director
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Stephanie Lynn Simek of Olympia, Washington, has been nominated by Gov. Chris Sununu to replace outgoing Scott Mason in the role when he steps away Aug. 7.
News
Juvenile Missing from Sununu Youth Services Center Cottage Found in Pembroke
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A 16-year-old boy who walked away from a cottage on the grounds of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester Monday evening was found safe Tuesday morning in a park in Pembroke.
Courts & Corrections
AG: Armed Man Shot To Death in Officer-Involved Shooting in Kensington
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Shortly after 10:30 p.m., during an ensuing encounter with the armed male, six police officers discharged their firearms and one officer discharged a less-lethal munition. Life saving measures were attempted at the scene, but the male suffered lethal injuries and died.
Education
Four finalists selected for New Hampshire’s 2025 Teacher of the Year
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The New Hampshire Teacher of the Year selection committee is pleased to announce the four finalists for New Hampshire’s 2025 Teacher of the Year.
News
Local Governments Near Deadline to Obligate Federal Funds, Millions at Risk
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Recently released federal data indicate that county, city, and town governments in New Hampshire likely have millions of flexible, unspent federal dollars that must be committed to a purpose before the end of the year.
News
Juvenile Reported Missing From Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester
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A be on the lookout (BOLO) was broadcast to several towns Monday at about 7 p.m. for a juvenile male who walked away from YDC, now known as the Sununu Youth Services Center on River Road in Manchester.
Feature
Speaking of Words: We Might as Well Wear Togas
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If you were a senator from the ancient Roman Republic who had managed to learn some English while riding in your time-chariot to visit Washington DC for the first time, you would be astonished, and quite amused, at how familiar things looked and sounded, over two thousand years later and across a great ocean.
News
Five Offers for Former Laconia State School Property Mulled by State
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The state has received five offers to purchase the former Laconia State School.
Health & Mental Health
Families, Advocates Decry Sununu Signing of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills
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Earlier Monday, leading social service, civil liberties, and equality champions gathered virtually to discuss the severe impacts of Governor Sununu’s recent signing of discriminatory laws targeting LGBTQ+ youth in New Hampshire.
Feature
What UNH Political Scholars Say May Be Coming in Harris For President Campaign
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Roger Wood interviews University of New Hampshire political experts Dante Scala and Andrew Smith to take a look at what’s to come in the 2024 presidential race.
News
Tech billionaires signal support for Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance
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Former President Donald Trump’s decision this week to choose Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate was lauded by prominent investors and donors in the tech industry.
Arts and Entertainment
God, Lobster, and the Price of a Roof
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On the same day, the Lord Almighty spoke to Joe Biden and told him to take a knee and then turned his eyes to Troon on Scotland and anointed Xander Schauffele as the winner of The Open, because you need help from the Almighty to win the greatest game ever played on an island known for its wind, rough, and vertical bunkers, we sat down for lunch with dear friends at Petey’s in Rye.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Turn down the heat on immigrants
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Like you, unless you are of Native American background, I come from immigrant stock. Even if you have lived your whole life in the North Country, you are descended from immigrants. Your family is here because America gave them a chance.
News
Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Kamala Harris
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Under pressure from within his own Democratic party to step aside, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced he is no longer seeking re-election for another four-year term Sunday afternoon and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
Feature
Distant Dome: Constitutional Rights Are Being Eroded
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Something that never occurred before has happened not once but multiple times over the last decade: the erosion of individual rights once guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution and the New Hampshire Constitution.
News
NH DES Beach Inspection for Fecal Bacteria as of July 20
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NHDES Beach Inspection Program tests for the presence of fecal bacteria in the waters of public freshwater and coastal beaches throughout New Hampshire.
Dishonest Police
AG Makes More Names Public On ‘Laurie List’ of Dishonest Cops in Slow Process
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Three years after a new law went into effect to make public the confidential names on the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, also known as the Laurie List, four more names have been released.
Education
Sununu Signs Bills Prohibiting Trans Girls from Playing Girls Sports, Restricts Gender-Affirming Surgeries
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Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed three bills into law and vetoed a fourth that impact transgender individuals Friday, the last day he had to act on the legislation that has passed both the House and Senate.
News
YDC Trial Schedule Is A New Battle Between Victims’ Lawyers and AG Lawyers
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The state’s new proposed schedule to hold “bellwether” trials in the Sununu Youth Services Center abuse scandal is getting called out as a lie by lawyers for the survivors, while the state accuses them of trying to game the cases for cash.