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Rick Lang, a Grammy-nominated New Hampshire songwriter, will perform his new musical tribute “Great Stone Face” at the New Hampshire State House on Wednesday at the invitation-only Old Man of the Mountain Remembrance Event.

While there’s no formal Maple Weekend this year, many sugar houses, museums and other venues are still open on an individual basis, with a sweet sampler of activities. Here is a sampling:

New England Bill Koch League Festival, a cross-country skiing event for youths, is set for Saturday and Sunday in Pinkham Notch.

CONCORD, NH – The Bach's Lunch Series continues on February 2nd with a lecture by Mark Shilansky entitled “Sing! Vocal Explorations in Jazz.” On February 9th, Peggo Horstmann Hodes, vocalist, and Kent Allyn, piano, bass and guitar, will present “I Can't Give You Anything but Love: Recession-…

Herman Cain remained in the GOP presidential race until the week after Thanksgiving, Gary Johnson until almost New Year’s Eve and Michele Bachmann until last week.

SALEM — Expanded gambling in Massachusetts has shifted the odds against Rockingham Park and the charitable organizations that raise funds there.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (MCT) — Rhode Island officials will “explore” online gambling following a Justice Department ruling that could help states expand their gambling operations, State Lottery Director Gerald S. Aubin said.

If expanded gambling was ever legalized in New Hampshire, the chance of destination-type casinos being built here has diminished now that Massachusetts recently approved casino gambling, according to some predictions.

There are lots of ways to spend the holidays – shopping, cookie swapping, driving around looking at light displays (be sure to check out our Christmas lights photo contest here: Contest), and making holiday traditions that stick. In New Hampshire, there are some definite traditions too. We t…

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston will preside over the installation of Bishop Peter A. Libasci as the 10th bishop in the history of the Diocese of Manchester tomorrow at St. Joseph Cathedral.

HAVERHILL — One of the four young people sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the brutal 2008 North Haverhill killing of a 25-year-old developmentally disabled Vermont man has decided to drop his bid to have the convictions in that case vacated.

MANCHESTER —Low-income seniors in New Hampshire are expected to have access to additional affordable supportive housing, after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Wednesday it will send $6,279,900 in housing assistance to the Granite State. These grants are t…

JAFFREY — Troops returning home for the holidays meant fewer care packages needed to be filled at the American Legion Saturday, volunteers said.

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ERROL — When it comes to sawing logs, Jerry and Katy Gingras have made clear their spot on the food chain. The Errol couple is just back from St. Dhamphild, Quebec, where they set a new world record on the two-man crosscut saw.

. “Light-years ahead’’: Some practices that were routine before the attacks are now considered unacceptable.

CONCORD — Since the terrorist attacks 10 years ago, more than $100 million of federal money has poured into New Hampshire for equipment, training, planning and exercises to help protect the state and its people from another attack.

AMHERST — When 343 New York City firefighters died in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, Rick Crocker felt like he had just lost family members.

Of the thousands of images of that day, the one Jeff Benjamin will never forget is the plane.

NASHUA — The events of 9/11 may not have instantly changed the way first responders and hospitals handled their daily operations, but in the years following the attack it prompted emergency facilities — including one in Nashua — to revamp the entire way they prepare for disasters.

RAYMOND — U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Stacy Whalen was in seventh grade on Sept. 11, 2001. She remembers sitting in her social studies class and seeing the second plane hit the World Trade Center on television.

AMHERST — As the word “hijack” made its way around the control room at the Federal Aviation Administration center in Nashua, Tracey Hanlon watched as the call sign for American Airlines Flight 11 moved across the radar screen, veered sharply from its flight path and became a “#” on the scope…

MILFORD — Because of the magnitude of the horror felt on 9/11, many people have vivid memories of the moment the planes struck.

The children are the priority!

HUDSON — Elizabeth Kovalcin, whose husband was on board American Airlines Flight 11, says she may finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief on Monday.

PLAISTOW — Carol Flyzik will never be forgotten here.

ON THE COAST, the biggest blues and stripers are caught this time of the year.

LONDONDERRY — A Derry man was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless conduct after crashing his car into a tree on Old Derry Road late Thursday evening.