by Eileen O'Grady | Sep 21, 2022 | Community, Food & Drink, In Print
Long a staple at the annual Multicultural Festival, Batulo Mahamed has built a following with her meat pies, which she learned to bake as a child in Somalia Batulo Mahamed’s vendor booth at the Concord Multicultural Festival never fails to draw a crowd. Her...
by Sarah Pearson | Sep 16, 2022 | Community
Reagan Bissonnette is the executive director of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA), a nonprofit organization that helps communities in New England manage their own recycling programs, including 85% of towns and cities in New Hampshire. (You’ll notice...
by Sarah Pearson | Jun 30, 2022 | Community, In Print
A Pennsylvania native, Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, chief medical officer at NH Hospital, has become quite the Granite State transplant. He’s been an internist/psychiatrist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, worked at Concord Hospital, the state prison system and Riverbend Community...
by Sarah Pearson | Jun 17, 2022 | Community, In Print, Life & Leisure
Hanging around the city pools has been a rite of passage for many of Concord’s youth. It’s also where many learned their first doggy-paddle many years ago. The city of Concord has seven pools, and in recent years it’s been a challenge to find the staffing to keep them...
by Paul Miller | Mar 24, 2022 | Community, In Print
Clinton Mungeta’s story, evolving as it might be, is a fascinating tapestry — colorful threads that reflect a life of journey, challenge, individuality, and unequivocal accomplishment. His is a story of perseverance. The youngest of seven children in a family that...
by Steve Leone | Mar 24, 2022 | Community, In Print, Uncategorized
Like most of us, Tom Raffio was a little slow to recognize COVID-19 for what it ultimately became – a pandemic that would challenge our businesses and our institutions like never before. In fact, Raffio, an avid basketball fan, was at a packed TD Garden watching the...