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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.
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.
By RACHEL WACHMAN
For Jonathan Hutchins, coffee is far more than a drink. It’s an ideology, an ecosystem, a source of connection between people and the natural world.“I enjoy finding out where things came from and how they work and how they came to us,” Hutchins said....
Concord residents with curbside trash collection can put out their Christmas trees curbside on their trash collection day starting on Monday, Jan. 6.Christmas trees will be collected for two weeks through Friday, Jan. 17.Trees must be placed at the...
Fencing has gone up around the Holiday Inn in downtown Concord as renovations continue. It is slated to reopen in four months as a Hilton DoubleTree hotel.Developer Steve Duprey purchased the hotel on North Main Street in August for $16.8 million. It...
By RACHEL WACHMAN
The owners of the former Red Apple Buffet in Concord are prepared to reopen the all-you-can-eat restaurant after the sale of the Loudon Road property fell through multiple times.“If it doesn’t sell in the near future, the owners will open it up...
By SETH C. ORANBURG
Seth Oranburg, a law professor at UNH in Concord, advocates for stronger ties between New Hampshire and its institutions. As 2024 ends, many of us are resolving to strengthen our personal relationships in the New Year: Hey Siri, remind me to put my...
Boys’ BasketballPembroke 66, ConVal 47Key players: Pembroke – Devin Riel (17 points, 8-for-11 FG), Evan Berkeley (12 points, 4-for-7 FG), Javin Sinclair (11 points, 5-for-8 FG), Andrew Fitzgerald (11 points, 4-for-7 FG), Zac Bemis (7 points); ConVal –...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Everybody knows Arnie’s Place.It’s a staple of the Heights neighborhood landscape with its maroon facade, one of the small business oases that haven’t been swept into the river of national chains along Loudon Road.That’s why Deb Casselberry wanted to...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
In February 1975, two months after Jimmy Carter announced he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination, he arrived at the aptly-named Carter Hill Road home of Concord Monitor editor Thomas W. Gerber for an informal gathering.The hill Carter...
By DAN ATTORRI
It’s still very early in the season, but the Concord High School girls’ ice hockey team already has something to show for its effort.The Crimson Tide competed in the two-day Kingswood Holiday Tournament last week, winning the tournament championship...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The online petition that started it all — calling for the school board to rescind its vote to move the middle school — has officially declared victory. The Concord Concerned Citizens, the group of residents who organized around their outrage to the...
By JOHN BUTTRICK
John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. If we think it’s a puzzle how Santa gets down and up chimneys and carries enough toys and gifts in his sleigh for all the world’s people, we may have an allegory...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
With the help of a basket lift, the first lanterns on a large menorah outside the State House were lit Wednesday afternoon in celebration the first night of Hanukkah. At a ceremony in the State House courtyard led by Chabad Lubavitch of New Hampshire,...
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