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CONCORD ' A public memorial service will be held later this weeek for a beloved former Concord High School principal who died last weekend after a lengthy battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS.

A plea and sentencing hearing will take place Wednesday for Anthony Barnaby.

In last week's Tasting Notes I suggested a selection of the lighter tequila blancos. This week I'm wrapping up our tequila talk with my list of reposados and aejos ' darker tequilas that get their hue from being aged in barrels.

A worthwhile Thai restaurant with a menu as long as your arm, brisk service and a cocktail lounge serving up refreshing umbrella drinks is waiting for you at the Merrimack Shopping Center.

Corn is plentiful this time of year - take full advantage of the bounty.

More manatees have died in Florida so far this year than in all of 2017. Here's why

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Reuters - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on Tuesday on eight charges of tax and bank fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, after a jury said it could not reach consensus on the other 10 charges against him.

THE MORAL landscape of America's self-understanding is often reduced to a few easily recognizable landmarks: slavery and abolition, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, World War II and the Holocaust.

Are there some crimes so heinous that those who commit them forfeit their lives?

We have long advocated that Manchester return administration of its school district to a department under the direction of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

IF YOU'VE GOTTEN more than one political polling call in the past week, you aren't alone. It's polling season here in New Hampshire, with NH Journal, UNH Granite State Poll and St. Anselm College Survey Center all publishing results from their most recent surveys in the past few days.

To the Editor: Both the New Hampshire House and Senate voted to end the death penalty. This was long overdue. Unfortunately, it appears the ugly head of political considerations pushed Gov. Chris Sununu to veto the bill.

To the Editor: This year's primary and general elections for the New Hampshire First District Congressional seat are of great importance to the citizens of New Hampshire. Our country will decide if we continue down a road fueled with hate, distrust, and finger pointing. Or will we return to our roots of tolerance and respect?

IN BACKING John Brennan's right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the President with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain.

I DROVE THROUGH a Minnesota monsoon last week ' in the midst of cornfields, sheets of rain so heavy that cars pulled off the road ' in other words, a beautiful summer storm, of which we've had several this year, as a result of which we are not burning, as other states are.

To the Editor: I think we have some good candidates running for Congress this year in New Hampshire's First District, but there is one that stands out: Mindi Messmer!

The bodies of Joanna Colella, 43, and Francis Colella, 69, were found Monday, Aug. 20, 2018.

Trump said he was worried that any statements under oath he provides to Mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him.

In a matchup of rehabbing major league pitchers, Eduardo Rodriguez got the best of Aaron Sanchez.

While the Red Sox dismantle the East and the Cinderella A's charge in the West, the Indians are quietly moving along under the radar.