AI’s potential for small businesses: A skeptic’s perspective on the transformative power

After fire, Smoke Shack pivots outdoors for the summer

After a late June fire destroyed the kitchen of Boscawen's Smoke Shack Southern Barbecue, owner Josh Davis is operating out of trailers before beginning renovations for a potential reopening in November or next spring.

Beaver Meadow's Andrew Surprenant wins NH Stroke Play Championship by four shots

Beaver Meadow's Andrew Surprenant won his first non-junior New Hampshire golf championship at the NH Stroke Play Championship, finishing 13-under-par to secure a four-shot victory.

Red River Theatres unites popcorn, pacifiers and 'relief' for parents of infants

A mother strode into Red River Theatres in Concord in early July and did what daunts so many parents: She sat down for a public movie screening, four-month-old baby at her hip, Cheerios clinging to her clothes. The theater’s new weekly Popcorn & Pacifiers event hasn’t brought “a crush of 50 parents,” said Executive Director […]

Study: New 1,500-bed men's prison in Concord will cost at least $750 million

If Bill Hart knows one thing about construction, it’s that prices keep going up. “If it costs a dollar today,” he said, “it costs a dollar and one cent tomorrow.” The longer New Hampshire waits to replace its men’s prison in Concord, then, the pricier it’s going to get, said Hart, commissioner of the state’s […]

Vintage Views: Barbering dentists from the old days

The history of dentistry in Concord evolved from medieval barber-surgeons performing extractions to the establishment of specialized medical practices by figures such as Dr. Elijah Colby, Dr. Moses Willard, and Dr. William Albee.