A Masterpiece Complete: Sweet farewell of Dancing Lion Chocolate

Friday, October 3, 2025Wednesday, October 1, 2025

This isn’t a story of failure, but of completion. Tango-Lowy is closing the shop because his “piece of art,” as he calls it, is finally finished. In his final days behind the counter, he unspooled a series of profound lessons that reveal the universe hiding within every cacao bean, transforming our understanding of this everyday food into a complex nexus of art, science, history, and human connection.

Districts explore whether and how to charge tuition to EFA students

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

School districts around the state are scrambling to draft policies about whether and how to charge tuition to students enrolled in the Education Freedom Account program — students who, unlike traditional homeschoolers, are not legally entitled to free participation in district programming.

It’s your Money: You can weigh in on ‘No Taxes on Tips’ jobs; Oct. 1 changes that may cost you

Monday, September 29, 2025Monday, September 29, 2025

A variety of tax changes brought by the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will have a financial impact – much for the worse, some for the better – for many Americans.

Panel reviewing New Hampshire domestic violence fatalities will start work Oct. 2

Sunday, September 28, 2025

he first meeting of the revived New Hampshire Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee, created by legislation this year, will hold its first session Thursday.

Justice Department sues New Hampshire, 5 other states, for not providing voter registration rolls

Thursday, September 25, 2025Thursday, September 25, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Thursday announced the filing of federal lawsuits against six

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation President Richard Ober to retire in 2026

Wednesday, September 24, 2025Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Richard Ober, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, announced Wednesday that he plans to retire by June 2026. The board of directors will begin a search for his successor this fall.

Raptor Release day at Pack Monadnock

Tuesday, September 23, 2025Tuesday, September 23, 2025

On Saturday September 20, near the parking lot atop Mt. Monadnock in Miller State Park in Peterborough, biologists with The Harris Center for Conservation Education released three Broad-winged Hawks before a crowd of about a hundred members of the public. The hawks, found injured, had been treated at the Wings of the Dawn Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Henniker. Released separately, each flew off quickly with deep, powerful wingbeats, to the thrill of the children in attendance.

Federal paper check payments end next week. Shaheen wants it delayed

Tuesday, September 23, 2025Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Starting next week, paper check payments for Social Security, federal tax returns, and more, will be a thing of the past, a move that will have an outsized negative impact on low-income, elderly and rural Americans, as well as be a financial hit to the forest products industry, U.S. Sen Jeanne Shaheen said Monday.

No take-backs: Aldermen to choose new board chair Oct 7. despite Levasseur’s vacillation

Tuesday, September 23, 2025Monday, September 22, 2025

In what may feel like a solitary game of musical chair, Alderman-At-Large Joe Levasseur cannot take his chair back after previously vacating it.

Mayor Jay Ruais on Monday sent out a note to the full board of Aldermen advising them that they should plan to vote for a new chairman at their Oct. 7 meeting.

Accused Nashua country club shooter waives arraignment

Monday, September 22, 2025Monday, September 22, 2025

Hunter Nadeau, accused of killing a man having dinner with his wife and daughter at a local country club, waived arraignment Monday on a second-degree murder charge.