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Dolly Parton gave the gift of reading to Canterbury's children — and to hundreds of thousands more across the world

Dolly Parton has been paraded through aisles of voters at Canterbury’s town meeting, hoisted like a saint in a processional. She has graced the town’s farmers markets, and for the last year and a half, she’s guarded the children’s room at the Elkins Public Library. This rendering of Parton, who passed away on Tuesday, may be two-dimensional and made of cardboard, but it embodies the queen of country music’s special significance in town. Canterbury is the only community in Merrimack County enrolled in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the childhood literacy initiative Parton founded in 1995 in her own rural home county […]

Revised Allenstown teacher contracts fail again in town vote

Allenstown voters overwhelmingly rejected a revised contract proposal on Tuesday that would have provided a 3.5% salary increase for teachers and paraprofessionals.

ICE takes custody of inmate at men's prison in Concord

An inmate at the men’s prison in Concord was transferred to ICE custody last week. The ICE Boston Field Office said on social media on Thursday that federal immigration officers had arrested Avishay Alon, a “criminal illegal alien from Israel, during targeted operations in Concord, NH.” In reality, the parole board approved Alon’s release to […]

Survey shows notable drop in depression among NH high school students

A 2025 statewide student survey released by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services revealed improvements in mental health indicators among high schoolers following a period of post-pandemic decline.

More federal workers in NH are focusing on immigration

The number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers in New Hampshire increased by 38% over the past year as the Trump administration continued its immigration enforcement push.