Michaela Towfighi

Skiers take to the slopes at the Veterans Memorial Ski Area in Franklin last winter. DANIEL SARCH—Laconia Daily Sun file photo

She’d seen the posts on Facebook, a man experiencing homelessness was asleep in a park along N. Main Street. For nearly a week now, temperature highs remained below freezing and in the state’s capital city, there is not a consistent 24-hour warming shelter available.

An old mill on Commercial Street in Boscawen before it was demolished. —Courtesy

Rep. Mike Belcher, a Wakefield Republican, proposes an elderly tax relief exemption to the House Municipal and County Government committee on January 13. —Courtesy

Sweatpants, snow pants, a t-shirt, a windbreaker plus an outer shell, hiking boots and a hat weren’t enough to keep Raymond Blodgett warm against the biting cold.

Raymond Blodgett asks for donations at the end of I-393 as it spills out into North Main Street in Concord on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. After hours in the cold, he had one donation of five dollars. (GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff)

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Evan Vucci

Kristi Whitten, the CEO of the Whitten Team at Keller Williams Realty, walks up the three-story main staircase of the $1.6 million house on Mansion Road in Dunbarton. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff

A dozen flights to New Hampshire for refugees hoping to resettle in the United States have been canceled after President Donald Trump announced the suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program on the first day of his presidency.

Hometown Hero RebeccaCourser sits on the front porch of the Upton Chandler House Museum in downtown Warner on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. The town of Warner just celebrated its 250th Birthday. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff