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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s property tax rate rose 3.1% to $27.69 in 2024, while Penacook’s rate will be to $30.64, a heftier jump of 5.1%.Both communities pay the city tax rate, this year $9.84, and the county tax rate, but each has its own local school tax rate and...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A meeting of the Concord School Board will allow public comment for the first time since the election.The board isn’t expected to take major action during the special meeting on Dec. 4, but it will allow the first public input on the project’s future...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Update: As of 10:41 a.m. Friday, NH State Police report that Dennis has been located.Police are seeking help from the public in locating a missing vulnerable adult in Concord. A silver alert was issued Thursday afternoon for Doreen Dennis, 62, who was...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Police are searching for a man who robbed the Bank of America on Storrs Street downtown around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.The robber is described as a white male roughly five-foot, seven- or eight-inches tall who was wearing tan pants and a hooded tan zip-up...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Council unanimously approved $400,000 for weekly bonuses for snow removal employees this winter, as Concord’s public works director said they had stemmed the outflow of CDL employees after an “exodus” ahead of last winter.The money funds...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Penacook branch of the Concord Public Library will close its doors for good on Monday in preparation of its move to the newly unveiled Penacook Community Center.Dating back to the start of the 20th century, the 3 Merrimack St. building has housed...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

New plans to build a new Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse or renovate it with an addition are not significantly lower than the proposal rejected by Concord taxpayers nearly a year ago.Architects have presented three potential construction plans....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Anyone who thought the election would lead to a swift rehash of the middle school project location was proven wrong Wednesday. School Board President Pamela Walsh made clear in a statement that the group hasn’t committed to a path forward on the new...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

There is a ticking timer on the future of Memorial Field. On the track’s wearing oval, weeds poke through the cracks. The surface won’t last past the next two years, according to city Parks and Recreation Director David Gill.Once the track reaches...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The man who died in a police standoff at the Federal House Inn in Plymouth last week has been identified by the Attorney General’s office as Kevin Steinfeldt, the inn’s owner.Steinfeldt, 58, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

David Braley was last seen on a chilly Friday night in November 1989 at what used to be called Take Five Music Hall near the intersection of Garvins Falls Road and Manchester Street.Braley’s body was found in the Merrimack River four months later...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Nineteen-year-old Celia LeClair was motivated by the issue of abortion to cast her first-ever ballot on Tuesday, which drove her choices in the presidential and gubernatorial contests. On other races — like the school board — she didn’t feel prepared...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Renovations to Concord’s public athletic facility are due to encounter financial competition as both the city and the school district are facing a tidal wave of capital project proposals next year.Concord City Councilors will hear an updated...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With a new round of options for the future of the Beaver Meadow Golf Course Clubhouse now on the table, the committee responsible for reviewing them and making a recommendation to Concord City Council will meet Thursday morning for the first time 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...

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

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 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...