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NASHUA - Actors, animatronics and special effects fuel the nightmare that is Graveside Manor, a haunted house at 13 Foxboro St.The story goes that the Hillsborough Institute for the Criminally Insane is led by an equally disturbed Doctor Barlow, who is eager to expand his experimentation to those...

Cue the blood-curdling screams, the hallways that shrink into claustrophobic slivers, the teeth-gnashing zombies, and, oh, all those creepy clowns.Halloween haunts throughout New Hampshire this weekend are working hard to raise the dead - and patrons' blood pressure. Here's a look inside some of shriek-inducing...

PORTSMOUTH - Catch glimpses of long-dead sea captains, 17th-century shopkeepers and wayward pirates as they haunt the streets of Portsmouth's oldest neighborhood during the annual Ghosts on the Banke event at Strawbery Banke Museum.Tickets to the family-friendly Halloween celebration from 5:30...

The passing of the seasons still inspires pianist George Winston, who captivated audiences in the 1980s and 1990s with albums such as x201cAutumn,x201d x201cWinter into Spring,x201d x201cDecemberx201d and x201cSummer.x201dx201cI think everything I encounter is part of it one way or another, big or...

PORTSMOUTH - An afternoon with five groundbreaking chefs is on the menu for Sunday's x201cRainbow Symposium III: Fabulous Food,x201d a free event featuring James Haller of Blue Strawbery fame, Throwback Brewery's Nicole Carrier of North Hampton, Doug Johnson of Portsmouth's The Rosa...

Local artist and writer John Herman will host Horror Tales and Halloween Scares Friday night at The Millspace in Newmarket. Local authors will be reading original scary stories with live spooky music accompaniment. They include Jeff Deck, Rebecca Rule, James Patrick Kelly, Dan Szczesny, Morgan Sylvia, Katherine Silva,...

LAST YEAR'S SCHOOL voucher bill SB193 was soundly defeated but rose from the dead and had to be beaten back down, repeatedly. There is every reason to expect that it may rear its head again in the coming legislative session.

To the Editor: Some New Hampshire Democrats are calling the voter residency requirement bill 'voter suppression.' That phrase conjures up poll taxes and literacy tests.

The HCPA creates criminal penalties for, among other things, crimes committed 'because of the actual or perceived race ... of any person.' Actual hatred is not required. It is enough that the defendant acted 'because of' somebody's race.

To the Editor: A politician should be able to stand on hisher own merits and have a streak of independent thinking.