The man built like a linebacker wrapped his arms around a petite woman, who disappeared into the hug with a smile.
Shawne Wickham
senior reporter
Fatal drug overdoses are down, both in New Hampshire and nationally.
Shawne Wickham
senior reporter
The Israeli military pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with airstrikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area, and struck the middle of the country where more than 20 people were killed.
More than 500 Granite Staters who are retired or close to it came to the Silver Linings Expo at Manchester Community College on Saturday looking for information and answers to problems that plague people in their 60s, 70s and beyond.
MANY OLDER ADULTS list aging at home as a priority, an objective shared by staff at Right Step Therapy in Merrimack. Owned by occupational therapist Andrea Bakhit and physical therapists Willow Henry and Courtney Gamans, Right Step Therapy is an outpatient physical and occupational therapy p…
WHEN WINDHAM resident Kim DeVries was looking to organize a trip to Scotland for her mother and her two aunts — three sisters who range in age from 62 to 72 — she turned to Darcy Allen, a travel agent whose client list includes what she calls “mature travelers.”
MEEGAN BIBEL, an auction manager with Bird’s Nest Auctions out of Londonderry, remembers one “score” she and the Bird’s Nest team made for a client. “It was a ‘tube amplifier,’ an old stereo amplifier,” she explained. “I shot the picture, we put it online, and we heard from a man in Colorado…
JEN BRECHTEL, director of Community Health for the Granite VNA, said one of the biggest issues in the agency’s “Aging Mastery” program” is sleep. “It’s the topic people come in most for,” she said. “We partner with a sleep center to help them out. Another big one? Community engagement.”
Multiple generations of two soon-to-be related families are figuring out how to live together — loosely — in 2024.
Federal officials broke ground Wednesday on building New England’s first permanent laboratory that can test illegal drug samples.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
Editor’s note: Pieces of this article were obtained during a PASTA support group meeting, a Kinship Navigation Program, and participants are identified by first name only.
In recent years, the cost to attend college has increased substantially — a shift that has led to more involvement by grandparents in helping to fund their grandchildren’s college education.
IZADOR MARENGHI gets the most out of her membership to the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover. The South Berwick, Maine, woman brought her own children to the venue, and now brings her grandson Maverick, 4. She treasures a series of photographs involving her two boys in the museum’s…
WHEN KAY TAYLOR of Penacook is out shopping, it’s not unusual for a child to enthusiastically shout, “Grammy!” and run to give her a hug. But Taylor is not your typical grandparent. During this past school year, she had 12 “grandchildren” who were all in kindergarten at Beaver Meadow School …
The New Hampshire Union Leader will host a memorable day of family fun where grandparents and grandkids come together for a day filled with laughter, learning and love.
CONCORD — A state lawsuit accuses the Chinese-owned TikTok social media app of “shamelessly exploiting young users” by getting them hooked on the popular video platform with a deceptive design that has led to increased mental health problems among children.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
CONCORD — About 150 advocates for LGBTQ+ children and adults staged a raucous rally outside the office of Gov. Chris Sununu on Wednesday, urging him to veto legislation that would impose a ban on transgender girls playing female sports (HB 1205) and segregate bathrooms, locker rooms, jails a…
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
CONCORD — Legislative budget writers and the Sununu administration are expediting state contracts and legislation to increase support for homeless shelters to avert the threat that some of them would have to either reduce available beds or close their doors during the day in the summer months.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
NASHUA — The first vendor booth Merrimack senior Claire Dow saw as she entered Saturday’s Silver Linings Senior Healthy Living Expo just happened to be one of those she’d hoped would be there.
Do you have any travel destinations across the globe on your bucket list but worry about the challenges and risks of making international bookings?
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