Citizen Raises Concerns about Project 2025 and ASVAB Exam

By Kent Hackmann

I am 86, a vet, and I write to alert you about one item in Project 2025, Trump’s agenda for his presidency. Project 2025 wants to increase the Army force structure by 50,000 (p. 108). To do that, Project 2025 has three recommendations (p. 103).  One, requiring students in public high schools that get federal […]

Wilmot Citizen Objects to Select Board’s Decision on Electric Supplier

By Chris Wells

I write to register my strong objection to the Wilmot Select Board’s vote on June 12, 2024 to approve a resolution “to commit the Town of Wilmot to join Merrimack County Community Power to provide default supply service on an opt-out basis to retail electricity customers within the Town of Wilmot’s boundaries.”  The effect of […]

Hub Board Extends Gratitude for Successful Fundraising Event

By Susan Chase

ANDOVER-On behalf of the Board of The Andover Community Hub, our gratitude goes out to those who made The Hub’s recent “Rock, Blues ‘n’ BBQ” event a rousing success: Gail and Pecco Beaufays, owners of The Andover Barn; Ty Morris, chef extraordinaire; and the local business sponsors who helped underwrite the costs of this fundraising […]

Louise Andrus’s View from Concord – July

Thank you to all the volunteers that worked together for months to make a great Fourth of July in Andover. It was a super day. There are people that ask me why I want to be a member of the New Hampshire House. All my life I have been FREE, and I have always appreciated […]

Deborah Aylward’s View from Concord – July

By Deborah Aylward

I believe it is vitally important to bring to light the results of certain House roll call votes for important bills considered this past term. I’m hoping these startling results will cause voters, especially independents, to sit up and take notice of what is actually happening in Concord, to the detriment of young innocents and […]

Reader Offers Rebuttal to Louise Andrus’s July Beacon Article

By Lorna Carlisle

Salisbury – Louise Andrus claims “Education is a Passion” and that “Elected Officials need to support the working class,”  Then why aren’t she and the Republicans fixing the school funding problem?  Louise and her Republican colleagues have supported “welfare for the rich” by giving money to wealthy families through the School Voucher Program (EFA’s) to […]

Putting Our Money Where Our Values Are Helps Causes

By Donna Baker-Hartwell

Throughout our working lives, we are encouraged to save money for the golden years. If we are fortunate enough to have a 401K plan through an employer or a pension plan, we have allocated a portion of our income to be put into these funds. Over the years, while our money is accumulating, the financial […]

Andover Resident Reacts to “violent and hateful” Political Display

By Kim Baer

Andover – A resident on Franklin Highway in Andover has erected a sign saying: “Die with GOP – Louise Andrus”, and decorated the sign with fake bloody severed body parts, even including skulls. The sign appears to call for the killing and dismembering of State Representative Andrus. The use of violent rhetoric in politics has […]

The “U” in USA Stands for “United” – Uncle Sam Needs You!

We need to reassess where we stand as Americans

By Ken Wells
The “U” in USA Stands for “United” – Uncle Sam Needs You!

Andover – The summer of 2024 has been one of increased uncertainty and escalating inflammatory partisan speech. As one who was a high school football coach for many years, I’m reminded of countless pep rallies, in which the screaming, the cheering, the pulsing music and something akin to tribal bacchanalian rites were contrived to whip […]

Louise Andrus’s View from Concord

By Louise Andrus

Happy Fourth of July. Hope to see you during the day’s festivities with a great parade at Andover’s Fourth of July celebration. The Merrimack County Republican Committee will have a booth. The New Hampshire House held its last session until fall on June 13. At this session we voted on the Committee of Conference reports. […]