Annual New Hampshire Festivals Annual Sheep and Wool Festival Date: Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11, 2025 Location: Deerfield Fairgrounds 32 Stage Road, Deerfield, NH More information: ...

Note from the editor: You’ll note that some categories below have multiple winners and you will see distinctions such as “overall”, “multilocation – local” or “multilocation – regional.” Here’s how we ...

It was a time much like this time. The country seemed in shambles. Deep societal divisions, the unwinnable Vietnam War, a grueling civil rights struggle, shocking assassinations, rivers on fire, skies ...

Too often, nurses are the unsung heroes of the medical community. In fact, they are key members of any health care team, but their skills and contributions go unrecognized time and time again. As the ...

Two legends have haunted the Isles of Shoals since colonial days. According to Capt. Christopher Levett, who visited from England in 1623, “Upon these islands are no savages at all.” Levett’s claim ...

It’s hard to imagine driving past a rich field of buried treasure and never stopping to explore — yet thousands of people commuting along Route 4 do it every day. Route 4, aka First NH Turnpike, runs ...

It was zero degrees under bright blue skies when I drove into Tamworth one morning in January — the kind of day when you know it’s cold from the way dry snow sweeps across the road like dust.

It’s a sad but true fact that one of the occupational hazards of being a writer is that we are incorrigible eavesdroppers; no stray overheard comment is sacred, and each serves as potential grist to ...

When Troy Farkas decided he wanted to launch a New Hampshire-centric podcast in 2023, part of the motivation was that he felt like there just wasn’t much about our corner of the world. “There’s 6 ...

I’m on the top of a mountain and smack in the middle of a controversy. Just exactly how tall is Mt. Tecumseh? The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) lists 48 New Hampshire mountains as over 4,000 feet in ...

Amoskeag Rugby Club’s Paige Laprise of Manchester, center (in red), breaks for daylight during a match against the North Shore Monsoons. On any given Saturday each fall, rain or shine, dozens of women ...

When the pandemic hit in March of 2020, many of us found ourselves reliving some of our earliest memories. We were told what we could do, where we could go, and who we could be with, often for our own ...