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Now that we're empty nesters, it's a special occasion when we get to have dinner with our son, the man about town we used to refer to as The Bottomless Pit. It's even more special when we can take him to a restaurant ' a brewpub, no less ' in his old hometown that we discovered before he did.

I love this time of year when you can walk outside and pick a juicy, ripe tomato from the garden and put it to good use.

Citizens packed the room at Monday night's Goffstown Board of Selectmen meeting to voice their displeasure with the board's Aug. 13 decision to reject a gender neutral name change.

A group of Portsmouth residents has taken legal action over a recent planning board decision that raises questions about the legality of appointing non-residents to municipal boards.

Organizers of a controversial climate conference on the Seacoast say they still plan to hold the much anticipated event, despite losing backing of city officials in Portsmouth.

A man who brutally murdered his father at his Londonderry home and then buried him in leaves in 1995 appeared in court Tuesday hoping to get out of state prison earlier than expected.

Two city aldermen are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its recommended alternative and do more to clean up the contaminated Mohawk Tannery site in the center of Nashua.

The former executive director of Project VetCare Inc., a Hanover-based nonprofit formed to aid veterans in the Upper Valley, pleaded guilty to eight counts of theft by unauthorized taking and was sentenced to serve up to seven years in the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women.

Gary Hirshberg, the co-founder and former CEO of Londonderry-headquartered Stonyfield Farm, who returned to the yogurt company in March as chief organic optimist, bought 180 acres of land in New Zealand to create an organic sheep farm and three other organic farming enterprises with local operators.

Charlotte Clement, Elizabeth Guertin and Brenna Novakoski scored as the Bow High field hockey team started its Division II season with a 3-0 victory over visiting Milford on Tuesday.

Canada's top trade negotiator joined her Mexican and U.S. counterparts in Washington on Tuesday in a bid to remain part of a revamped trilateral North American trade pact, as U.S. officials expressed optimism a deal could be reached this week.

Two female congressional candidates are under fire for attempting to leverage their military service in their campaigns, an American tradition going back to George Washington.

To the Editor: Iran is at a boiling point. The Taliban are resurging in Afghanistan. North Korea is up to its old tricks. Venezuela's failed Socialist government is melting down, and the Chinese are challenging us militarily and economically at every turn.

State prosecutors along with local and state police are asking for the public's help to find a North Woodstock woman who's been missing for nearly two months.

To the Editor: Eddie Edwards' service in law enforcement and the military have clearly prepared him well to shake up Congress once he gets there. I have had the opportunity to get to know Eddie's positions on the important issues, but more importantly, I have gotten to know his character.

Certainly, the passing of the senator whose life story will dominate the news until he is buried at his alma mater, the Naval Academy, on Sunday, leaves America's interventionists without their greatest champion.

To the Editor: Recently, after 30 years, our road was finally to be repaved this year.

To the Editor: Once again, the Catholic Church is under attack over the sins of the clergy.

Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico led to a spike in mortality across the U.S. territory, with an estimated 2,975 excess deaths in the six months after the storm made landfall, according to a sweeping report from George Washington University released Tuesday.

Jon Berti hit for the cycle, leading the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to an 8-4 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs on Tuesday night in an Eastern League game at Hadlock Field.