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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

CJ Girard packed school lunches during the week and made fresh pancakes on Sundays. He played floor hockey with his kids in the basement, always pleading for one more game. On a rainy day, he’d sit by the woodstove and plug away at a puzzle. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

More than a year after the Concord City Council put off a vote on the Beaver Meadow clubhouse to develop more options, city proposals and flaring tensions have boxed the debate back into a starkly similar binary: all or nothing.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Services to honor the life of Concord firefighter Christopher “CJ” Girard will be held this week, including a funeral on Thursday at Christ the King Parish on South Main Street. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A steady drip of new housing will land on Fisherville Road in the next few years, as construction formally begins on one condo development and another begins to put listings on the market.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Council will get an update on plans for the Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse amid a new ethics complaint against a city committee that recommended the city build anew.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Just weeks before the start of spring, Eugenia Snyder and her husband paid to winterize their Campton home as a way to keep pipes from freezing after repeated delays by AmeriGas to refill her propane tank.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Gov. Kelly Ayotte walked through the different programs at the Concord Regional Technical Center and asked students about their plans for the future and staff about their relationships with local businesses.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In the long shadows outside Concord Hospital, members of the Concord Fire Department stood in two lines saluting Christopher “CJ” Girard, a seven-year veteran of the department who died suddenly after a brief illness on Saturday night.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A developer looking to build nearly 200 units of housing in Penacook has asked the Zoning Board to reexamine the city’s denial of the project, claiming that the rejection means he is “deprived of any reasonable use of the land” by the city.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Last year, the Concord Fire Department became the first in the country to secure funding for PFAS-free firefighting gear for its members, but a halt in production means the department still awaits the gear’s arrival.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The New Hampshire Retirement System will close on a $5 million purchase of an office building near Horseshoe Pond next week, removing another revenue-generating property from Concord’s tax rolls. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Concord man has been charged with attempted murder and seven other felonies related to a January shooting in Healey Park.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Prakash and Bisnu Maya Adhikari live with their son and his family in Manchester.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

State police are searching for the driver of a silver sedan who they say struck another driver while fleeing the scene of a crash on Interstate 93. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Just as the city of Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee has started to put rubber to road, laying out the timeline for their first action steps, the national climate surrounding their work has changed.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ryan Schoch’s father is a mechanic. His grandfather was a mechanic and his great-grandfather was a mechanic. His godfather is a mechanic, too.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The big, old buildings in Concord speak to Jonathan Chorlian

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If staffing levels were held constant in Concord schools next year, salaries and benefits alone would increase by almost $3 million.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As leaders from the Concord School District and city government prepare to convene on the future of Memorial Field, some mutual agreement has emerged that the project ought to move forward sooner rather than later.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Residents of the Granite Ledges assisted living and memory care unit huddled in the cafeteria of Concord Hospital late Friday night, evacuated from their apartments after a fire broke out in the senior care facility earlier in the evening.