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By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Four collective bargaining agreements — with unions representing police patrol officers, police supervisors, city office workers and public works employees — will go before the city council Monday representing $1.7 million more in spending next year, perhaps more.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Concord police officer was found not guilty Friday on charges he assaulted a drunk homeless man outside Sal’s Pizza while attempting to place him into protective custody.

By JANE HUNT

Jane Hunt of Concord is formerly an NHTI English professor, actor and disabilities advocate.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jigme Ghising has thought about opening Nepali restaurants in New Hampshire since before he moved here.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Piles of food scraps mixed with yard waste gently released steam into the crisp winter air at Lewis Farm in Concord, where James Meinecke regularly turns them over to make rich compost.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Concord police officer on unpaid leave testified that he followed his training when he knocked a resistant homeless man to the ground while attempting to take him into protective custody in April 2023.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The resource list at the bottom of this story has been updated with a 24-hour plan for warm weather shelter over the weekend. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The five members of the board were torn.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Normally absent from his legal proceedings, Andy Sanborn made his first appearance before a judge on Thursday since the controversy surrounding his Concord Casino began two years ago.

By CHARLES MARTONE

Charles Martone lives in Concord.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A former employee of Sal’s Pizza said she thought an on-duty Concord police officer was going to kill a homeless man when she witnessed him push the man to the ground outside the Storrs Street restaurant in April 2023.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After five months working without a contract, negotiations between the Concord Fire Officers Association and the city have made progress, according to union leadership. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Barb Higgins wants her fellow school board members to stop delaying the inevitable. The Concord Board of Education has been weighing the location of the new middle school should go to a public vote, either in the spring or the fall, or to simply work...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A proposal to build nearly 200 housing units along the Merrimack River near the Wheelabrator power plant in Penacook is not in the “public interest” for multiple reasons, according to Concord’s city planner.The city has ample housing in the works, and...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include comments from Concord Mayor Byron Champlin.Late last month, a leader in New Hampshire’s Jewish community reached out to Concord staff to express concern about a description on a little-known...

By DAN ATTORRI

The Concord High wrestling team opened the 2025 calendar with as good a start as the Crimson Tide could hope for, topping 38 other teams to win the Keene Minickiello Holiday Wrestling Tournament.The boys didn’t bring home any individual champions, but...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Morgan Mbuyi remembers his first time riding the bus in Concord.It was winter. He didn’t have a firm grasp on the schedule, and he waited at the stop for what felt like hours.These days, when a Concord Area Transit bus pulls up to a stop, he’s behind...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Once upon a time, I was invited to a family dinner to welcome in the New Year. I was to be introduced to the extended...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Inside the old Holiday Inn in downtown Concord, hundreds of recently empty hotel rooms are filled with a laundry list of furniture – bed frames, mattresses, desks, chairs, lamps, sheets, pillows.Developer Steve Duprey, who is renovating the hotel into...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Every morning, Zoe Vigneault takes two buses to get to work.She grabs the Heights bus coming down Loudon Road and exits in front of the State House, one of few bus stops in Concord with a bench and shelter. She catches the Crosstown bus about five...