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‘Small community, large ambitions’: Sink to step down as chamber President after 33 years
02-13-2025 3:43 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tim Sink, president and CEO of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce since 1992, announced Thursday that he would pass the torch come fall. 

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With dip into savings, proposed Concord School budget would carry 4% tax increase
02-13-2025 6:00 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With rising personnel costs alongside declining enrollment, the proposed 2025-2026 operating budget for the Concord School district would dip into trust funds and downsize its teaching staff to blunt the tax increase.


Fire Officers union and city reach contract agreement
02-11-2025 4:22 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The City of Concord and the fire officers union have agreed on a new contract that, as pursued by the union, brings its annual pay increases and educational incentives more in line with those received by the police department. 


Downtown parking ban issued for Tuesday early morning
02-10-2025 5:45 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The City of Concord has issued an overnight parking ban in the downtown area Monday night into Tuesday to allow for additional snow clean up after the weekend snowfall. 


Update: Elevator at Horseshoe Pond senior apartments repaired
02-10-2025 12:27 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

An elevator for more than thirty units of senior housing in Concord was repaired Saturday after it was broken for two weeks. 


No injuries in Penacook Garage fire, silver BMW badly damaged
02-10-2025 11:16 AM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Fire officials are still investigating what caused a blaze that destroyed a garage in Penacook early Monday morning.


Bridge park designs debut, face sparse funding picture
02-07-2025 12:18 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A direct walk and bike path connecting Storrs Street, or even Main Street, to the trails on the east bank of the Merrimack River. A deck over the riverbank with room for picnics, benches and food trucks. A slatted, undulating wood architecture creating a “gateway to the mountains” that arches over the interstate. 


Broken elevator in senior apartments leaves ten or more unable to exit building
02-06-2025 3:06 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A broken elevator at the Horseshoe Pond Place senior apartments has left at least 10 residents unable to exit the building on their own for the last two weeks.


Murphy to depart as Concord superintendent in 2026
02-04-2025 3:41 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy will leave the district at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, with the approval of a one-year contract renewal by the Concord Board of Education on Monday night.


Could Concord build a footbridge from downtown across the river?: Engineers present Tuesday
02-03-2025 2:11 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If pursued by the city, what should a pedestrian bridge over the interstate and Merrimack River look like? Engineers will present design possibilities for public feedback at a meeting Tuesday night. 


SPARCs fly: Free kids programming on the Heights aims to grow community
01-31-2025 8:00 AM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

While five of her children darted and dashed in a game of capture the flag inside the community center gym, or perfected a drawing of Moana in the auditorium, Esther Fleurant was perched before her laptop in the lobby, studying for her Securities Industry Essentials exam.


After mass opposition in 2023, Concord City Council will try to pass $8M Beaver Meadow clubhouse during May budget process
01-29-2025 4:30 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Marcy Charette formed a new alliance of Concord taxpayers opposed to expansive municipal projects that benefit few and “threaten to throw many of us into poverty.”


‘Yes, you can’: Concord Family Center expands to Jennings Drive
01-28-2025 5:03 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Watching her four-year-old son, Vincent, dance and laugh over the wooden stove of a toy kitchen set, Marcela Iacobucci held up her phone to take video. She pinched the zoom to get a closer look from afar.


Mass. couple pleads guilty to illegally voting in Concord
01-24-2025 11:43 AM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Massachusetts couple has pleaded guilty to using the address for a rental property they own in Concord to vote illegally in the city.


‘Loud and clear’: Reversing 2023 decision, school board votes for new middle school to stay in South End
01-22-2025 10:39 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ellen Kenny didn’t need to tell Concord school board members why she backed a new school in the city’s South End over raw land on the East Side. They already knew.


Healy Park shooting leaves one with life-threatening injuries
01-21-2025 11:13 AM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord police arrested and detained a “person of interest” related to a shooting in Healy Park last week that left someone with life-threatening injuries, Concord Police said Tuesday. 


District will hold hearing on middle school location
01-20-2025 3:38 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord Board of Education faces a decision: schedule a referendum on where to put the new middle school, leaving the decision up to the voters, or start plans to build a new school at Rundlett now.


Concord is sitting on $15M surplus. Will it be used to lower your taxes?
01-19-2025 8:01 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With more income than expected from property tax bills, vehicle registrations and ambulance charges, the City of Concord ended the 2024 fiscal year with a more than $1.4 million surplus in its general operating budget.


New cost estimates: Rebuilding at Rundlett would cost $8 million more than at Broken Ground
01-16-2025 3:42 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A new middle school in the South End would carry an $8 million higher price tag than one of the same size in East Concord, according to a new comparison presented to the Concord Board of Education.


City Council defends, approves $40K for DEIJB consultant
01-14-2025 3:31 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Karen McNamara had heard the criticism, and she’d heard enough.


Four union contracts — roughly half of city employees — before council Monday night
01-12-2025 12:00 PM

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.

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