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Red Cross announces blood shortage

MANCHESTER — The American Red Cross is declaring an emergency blood shortage as the blood supply fell nearly 25 percent in June. Blood donors are urgently needed to give now to help ensure patients receive lifesaving medical care without delay. The shortage is especially serious for ...

Melendy Pond legal battle drags on

BROOKLINE - Second Street resident Peter Rondeau continues to spearhead the effort to free the Melendy Pond neighborhood, which remains trapped under the town’s iron fist. In court documents filed last month, Attorney Christopher Drescher, counsel for Brookline, called attention to Section ...

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FANTASTIC FINISH: Frye gets MVP in NH Lions Cup win

HANOVER — Sarah Frye went out in style. The former Nashua High School North standout, playing her final game with her sister Allie as a teammate, scored both goals to win the Most Valuable Player in New Hampshire’s 2-1 win over Vermont in the annual Twin State Lions Cup Soccer Game. For ...

STAR PRESSURE: Hosting an All-Star Game not easy to pull off

NASHUA – Think it’s easy to put on a Futures Collegiate League All-Star Game? Guess again. The Nashua Silver Knights will be hosting their third FCBL All-Star Game next Tuesday, July 21, with a Home Run Derby starting around 4:30 p.m. and the game to follow. “It’s a showcase event ...

Wrestling show set to be held at McCarthy MS on Aug. 8

NASHUA – There will be a live pro wrestling show “The Gate City Brawl” held at Brian S. McCarthy Middle School on Saturday, August 8. The event’s proceeds will benefit the Nashua Cougars Youth Football and Cheer. The event is put on by New World Wrestling-Extreme. Former Nashua High ...

STARRY NIGHT AHEAD: Holman site of tonight’s FCBL All-Star Game

NASHUA – The Stars are coming out today/tonight at Historic Holman Stadium, and one All-Star will likely shine the most. While the players go in and out of the lineup of the Futures Collegiate League All-Star game, typical in such an affair, there will be one constant: the stadium ...

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What ‘Toy Story 5’ is really telling grown-ups

The reviews of “Toy Story 5” have settled into a comfortable consensus: it’s a movie about children and digital screens, and about the parents who worry over them. Director and co-writer Andrew Stanton has said as much, describing the film’s central crisis as the fact that “nobody’s ...

History starts now

With the celebrations over, a hard question remains: What does history ask of us when we must act before we know how events will turn out? In Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, he first wrote “our fellow subjects.” While the ink was wet, he erased ...

It’s time to take bioweapons seriously

When it comes to bioweapons, we’ve moved beyond anthrax in the mail. No one wants to think about an AI bioweapon or any other type of biothreat. These threats are a real risk that we must confront now before Americans suffer. We have powerful tools available to protect us, but Washington must ...

Give women the maternal care they deserve

Women nationwide are thriving in ways previous generations could only imagine, but in one area, progress has stalled: maternal health. The United States now lags behind its peer nations, and the federal government’s launch of moms.govreflects a growing recognition that American women need ...

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Sharon Lou (Smith) Smetana

Sharon Lou (Smith) Smetana, 83, of Brookline, New Hampshire, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 13, 2026 at Bedford Hills Center. Born on May 19, 1943, in Victor, New York, Sharon spent most of her life in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where she and her husband, Gary, raised their family. To ...

Bernard “Bernie” Raymond Grimard

Bernard "Bernie" Raymond Grimard, 74, of Lyndeborough, NH, died Saturday, June 13, 2026 at St Joseph Hospital in Nashua surrounded by family. He was born January 4, 1952 in Whitefield NH, the son of the late Raymond Bernard Grimard and Barbara June Grimard. He was the husband of Susan Mae ...

Elizabeth Forward

Elizabeth Forward, surrounded by loved ones at home in Wilton, NH, peacefully passed June 30, 2026. Born June 18, 1937, Nashua, NH, to Lilla Mae (Moulton) Murphy and August Albert Murphy, of Nashua, NH. She was predeceased by her parents, three sisters, Elaine Lyons, Dorothy Merrill, Kitty ...

Kathleen “Katie” Whipple

Kathleen “Katie” Whipple, 45, passed away peacefully surrounded by her mother, sister and very close friend, Michael on July 2, 2026. Katie was born in Manchester, NH, to James and Barbara Whipple. She lived with her parents and sister first in New Boston and moved with them to Mont ...