I’m running along the shoulder of a rural New Hampshire road thinking about aging. I’m 55 years old, and my companion on this run, an Australian Shepherd named Bodhi, is a year and a half.

As an avid cyclist, and a fan of New Hampshire’s backroads, I was delighted to see House Bill 1703 buried in committee, where it should die a well-deserved death. The measure would have required a $50 ...

Keeping New Hampshire food pantries stocked is an ongoing, collaborative effort that ensures that no one is left behind.

Nine years ago, when no one could imagine that every Red Sox fan on the planet would soon get his or her grubby fingerprints on not one, but two World Series trophies, Nashua firefighter Mark Wholey ...

There’s a distinct irony at the intersection where Jeremy Davis’ vocation meets his favorite pastime. At his real job, as operations manager for Weather Routing Incorporated in Upstate New York, Davis ...

Two legends have haunted the Isles of Shoals since colonial days. According to Capt. Christopher Levett, who visited from England in 1623, “Upon these islands are no savages at all.” Levett’s claim ...

You've probably never heard of Frank Jones, but he was brewing beer in Portsmouth (and making piles of money at it) way before it was the cool thing to do. Way, way, way before, that is. For Jones, ...

Move into an old home and a phrase comes to mind: “If these walls could speak.” Apply that same thought to the rugged hills and ragged shorelines of the Granite State, the “old home” in which we live, ...

If there is a trope about Stephen King novels, it would be this: A white, male novelist (or teacher) uncovers an otherworldly threat. The outside world is unable to help, so he surreptitiously fights ...

After 400 years, it’s time to face facts. The founding of New Hampshire was a flop. There, I said it. Don’t shoot the messenger. We’ve been bending reality for centuries. Our founding English couple, ...

It is a grim anniversary. On March 5, 1873, a down-and-out Prussian fisherman stole a small wooden boat from a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dock and rowed to the Isles of Shoals. In mild weather on calm ...

As kids, dreaming away our summers at a lakeside cottage, we peeled strips of bark off the birches, just for the fun of it, without giving any thought to whether or not such girdling would harm the ...