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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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