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During the month of May, when you enjoy a film at the Red River Theaters in Concord, you can also do a little something to help someone in need.

By JAMES W. SPAIN

Over two centuries ago, a young family ventured from the city of Boston northward to the open lands of New Hampshire. Their names were Ebenezer and Abigail, and they were a beautiful young couple living during the colonial era.

By REBECA PEREIRA

The surviving remnants of a commercial kitchen collect dust in the back room of James Meinecke’s farm stand.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When City Manager Tom Aspell introduced a new, scaled-back design for a rebuilt clubhouse at the Beaver Meadow Golf Course on Thursday, he concluded by agreeing with a common refrain from the project’s critics.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dinorah Mull hadn’t thought twice about her three decades in the United States.

Delores Flanders and her family are hosting a fundraiser at Boutwell’s Bowling Center in Concord to raise money for the Angelman Syndrome Foundation and support Flanders’s 3-year-old granddaughter, Bellamy Bresaw.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As the world blossoms anew around us and a new season takes hold, spring offers a chance to reset, to consider what we enjoy about our lives and, maybe, what we would like to alter. Spring feels like an opportunity to reshape our routines, to soak up the sunlight and stop and smell the flowers.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In April, more than a dozen young adults sat in the front row of Concord City Council’s monthly meeting, holding up signs calling for Concord to “Light up Keach.” But they didn’t get the chance to speak those words out loud.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

New England has three great dynasties: Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots and Concord, N.H. and its drinking water.

The northbound ramp to Interstate 89 from I-93 will be closed Tuesday, May 13, to allow for pavement pothole repairs.  

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mother’s Day felt like cruel irony for Barb Higgins.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With one major asterisk, City Manager Tom Aspell proposed a roughly $155 million budget to city councilors for their review, which would rely on reserve funds to carry a 4% increase in the tax rate next year. 

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Freeman Toth can suggest few places for people experiencing homelessness now that the winter shelters have closed and police have started clearing tent sites along Concord’s downtown and near the river. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Councilors will vote on whether to move forward with the installation of lights on the field at Keach Park, accept grant money for a police K-9 program, and streamline the process for getting demolition permits at their regular meeting Monday night.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A woman was transported to Concord Hospital with serious injuries Friday morning after a collision involving a gray pickup truck near the intersection of School Street and Green Street downtown, according to Concord Police.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police have identified remains found near the I-393 bridge downtown as 36-year-old Concord resident Curtis Ayer. 

As summer rolls around, here are two unique summer camp opportunities to make the months between school feel more exciting!

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A three-year contract with the Concord Educational Assistants Association, approved by the Concord Board of Education, will create an additional wage step in the first year, followed by 3% increases in the following two years.

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to budgeting, you can’t get much worse than bottled water.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Hopkinton-based logger cleared 12 acres of trees on land near Sam’s Club and Walmart in Concord to ready it for development.

Despite the rainy days and dreary skies we’ve been seeing recently, spring is definitely in the air. With flowers blooming and trees regaining their verdant hues, the shift of the seasons continues to inject color into the landscape.