David Brooks

An Italian restaurant will be built in the middle of the Merchant’s Way development near Exit 17 of I-93 in north Concord, the latest step in the years-long expansion of the site.“This is the part we wanted to save for a full-service restaurant. We...

When Ed Stein passed away in July after a long and happy life that was colored but not constrained by mild autism, his sister Kathy wanted to do something that would memorialize him.“He was the kind of guy where he would walk into a room and it would...

Preserving land from development is all about woods and streams and birds and beasts. That’s the fun part.But it’s also about laws and contracts and tax rules and finance. That’s the boring part – yet without it, the woods and beasts are in...

A truck parked at the edge of the bustling mob scene during the Tradeapalooza job fair at NHTI encapsulated the difficult position that higher education faces these days.Plastered on its side was a picture of two women talking. One asked where the...

 It looks like New Hampshire hunting has lost its COVID-era boost.Through Aug. 31, New Hampshire sold 31,266 hunting licenses, according to the Department of Fish and Game. That’s 14% fewer licenses than were sold during the first eight months of 2020...

It will be smarter than ever to wear blaze orange when going into the woods this weekend, as New Hampshire heads into the year’s most popular hunting season.Firearm season for white-tailed deer began Wednesday, Nov. 13, and traditionally the first...

High winds and very dry conditions fed multiple brush fires in New Hampshire on Tuesday, with no improvement in sight. Officials are urging people to delay any type of outdoor fires. “Even if you have a permitted campfire, use caution … the wind can...

A huge trade show coming to NHTI on Friday, Nov. 15, to show off the range of jobs available in industries known loosely as “the trades” is targeting students, as you would expect. But it has another audience at least as important: Their parents.“By...

In a long and storied journalism career, mostly at the Concord Monitor and its sister paper the Valley News, Mark Travis occupied just about every position available in local newspapers, from freelance writer to publisher. But it wasn’t those titles...

New Hampshire is known for a lot of things: Mt. Washington, the presidential primary, our slightly alarming motto. And then there’s heliophysics expertise.“I checked and in the last 30 years we have been the lead on at least 22 NASA or NOAA missions”...