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Small-scale road improvements suggested by Middle School traffic study
11-07-2024 6:00 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A traffic study found that only minor improvements to roads and sidewalks would be required to accommodate car, bus and pedestrian traffic for the Concord School District’s new middle school, if the project moves ahead at the Broken Ground location in...

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New squash courts in the works at St. Paul’s
11-07-2024 7:00 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

One hundred and forty years after it built the first squash courts in the United States, St. Paul’s School is planning to build a 10-court replacement facility at its campus in Concord. The private boarding school’s current squash court building dates...


Leaf collection continues throughout Concord
11-07-2024 4:55 PM

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Fall leaf collection is ongoing in Concord as crews look to erase the signs of fall before winter moves in.Bulk leaf collection began on Monday, Oct. 28, and workers started removing raked leaves from curbs with one crew beginning in the south end...


The school district charter amendments passed. What now?
11-06-2024 4:49 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

School board member Jim Richards said he saw no clear edict from voters Tuesday on where the new middle school should go.Board president Pam Walsh, who pledged to abide by the results of Tuesday’s vote if the charter amendments passed requiring public...


Reardon cruises to state Senate victory in Concord, Bow, Hopkinton
11-05-2024 10:24 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In her decades of public service in Concord, Tara Reardon has held the titles of county commission chair, city councilor, school board member, state representative and commissioner of the department of Employment Securities. With a roughly 27...


Higgins, Walsh, and Sadowski win seats on Concord School Board
11-05-2024 10:12 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Incumbents Barb Higgins and Pamela Walsh as well as newcomer Sarah Sadowski narrowly edged out three competitors to claim seats in the at-large race for Concord School Board.Voters could choose up to three candidates from an open pool of six. Higgins...


Concord school charter amendments pass, catapulting future of middle school into uncertainty
11-05-2024 9:40 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A pair of amendments to the Concord School District’s charter decisively passed on Tuesday, throwing the future of Concord’s controversial middle school project into question.The votes could ultimately lead to the reversal of the school board’s...


Opinion: Beware the temptation of credit card rewards
11-04-2024 3:02 PM

By BENJAMIN T. KING

Benjamin T. King is a partner at the Concord law firm of Douglas, Leonard & Garvey, P.C., a Concord resident, and an American Express card member since 1994. Have “credit card rewards” ever caused you to lose your hard-earned dollars on your quest to...


Here’s what’s in the state’s decade long interstate project
11-03-2024 4:01 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In the works for about two decades, locals got a recent update on the state’s plans to make improvements to the major interstates in Concord.The current design calls for a three-lane highway going through the city that will widen to four lanes in...


Concord Police arrest man accused of June coffee shop burglary
11-03-2024 1:22 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police have arrested a man accused of breaking into a downtown coffee shop in June. Deshon Stone-Davis, 29, was arrested Thursday morning and faces burglary charges after he broke into Brothers Cortado and stole cash, Concord Police...


Opinion: Why bother voting? Here’s how you can make a difference
11-02-2024 7:00 AM

By ROB FRIED

Rob Fried lives in Concord. There’s a lot of cynicism abroad in the land, cynicism that turns into apathy, apathy that leads almost 40% of our citizens to stay home on election day. They are people who feel that it doesn’t matter who we vote for...


Opinion: Overcoming election anxiety
11-01-2024 4:00 PM

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 In my 65 years of voting every four years for the president of the United States, I have never experienced the amount...


In reversal, Concord now open to scaled-back Penacook housing development
11-01-2024 3:52 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Reversing course, the city of Concord will consider a potential zoning change that would make a Penacook housing development possible, after the project vastly downsized, dropped a request for public assistance with infrastructure and proposed a new...


As NH Retailer of Year, Gibson’s Bookstore is part of a surprising trend: Thriving independents
11-01-2024 2:03 PM

By DAVID BROOKS When Michael Herrmann bought Gibson’s Bookstore in 1994 and started the journey that has taken him through three different Main Street locations and brought him to the title of 2024’s New Hampshire Retailer of the Year, you have to...


Swenson Granite quarry in Concord to fully reopen by next summer, owner says
11-01-2024 10:45 AM

By DAVID BROOKS

The company that owns the Swenson Granite quarry in Concord says it plans to resume cutting slabs of stone there by next summer and in the meantime will continue processing material into smaller pieces known as aggregate. Polycor, the world’s largest...


Opinion: Charter amendments are not the solution
11-01-2024 6:15 AM

By CARA MEEKER

Cara Meeker is a Concord School Board Member, Zone B (Wards 5, 6, 7) Elections are an exciting time and there is much for voters to weigh in on this November, from local to national. As a Concord School Board member, I am paying particular attention...


Opinion: A school in the woods is a win for kids
10-31-2024 6:00 AM

By NICK BABLADELIS

Nick Babladelis is a Concord public school parent and sustainability educator. There is one key fact that is being crowded out in the conversation regarding the new middle school project and the proposed amendments to the Concord School Board...


Ethics Committee won’t weigh in on Reardon and new recusal law
10-30-2024 5:24 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The state’s Legislative Ethics Committee declined to determine whether or not a new conflict of interest law would require Senate candidate Tara Reardon to recuse herself from certain legislation if she is elected next month primarily because she is...


Senate candidates Reardon, Ean on marijuana, abortion and school vouchers
10-30-2024 5:23 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In the State Senate race to succeed Becky Whitley, a former teacher and police officer is facing off against a longtime former state representative and lawyer.Republican Pamela Ean came to New Hampshire nearly 30 years ago, and has served as a teacher...


Emerging artists get live band support at Concord’s open mic nights
10-30-2024 5:18 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Once every month on Wednesday evenings, the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord comes alive as the musicians of Andrew North and the Rangers band scatter across the stage to set up their instruments.Drum kits are checked, guitars tuned, and...


Opinion: Don’t resist the popular vote in Concord
10-30-2024 6:15 AM

By JEFF WELLS

Jeff Wells lives in Concord. While the views of those who support the school charter may be informed by experience, they verge on an alarming philosophy that leans toward authoritarianism, where a small, elected board decides what’s “best” for the...

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