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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 CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Morgan Mbuyi remembers his first time riding the bus in Concord.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Every morning, Zoe Vigneault takes two buses to get to work.

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 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 CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A manufacturing building in Boscawen collapsed Thursday afternoon in what employees reported as an electrical fire. Boscawen Fire initially responded around 3:15 p.m. to Beau-Trusses, a wood framing company just off Route 3. The fire began in the...

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,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The developers looking to convert the former Steeplegate Mall into 600 housing units mixed with large-scale retail bought out a nearby property owner who had stalled the project.Onyx Partners, which is looking to tear down most of the massive former...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Last Friday marked one year that Lisa Luz, 54, had been without housing in Concord.She stood among the roughly 60 people huddled close on the downtown sidewalk at a vigil honoring the 54 people, including 14 from Concord, who died in New Hampshire...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Rosie Palamara has been ringing bells for the Salvation Army around the Holidays for 11 years. She knows first-hand the difference that charitable giving can make: her father died when she was young, and her mother leaned on churches and food banks...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police have arrested a Berlin man who they say robbed the Bank of America on Storrs Street in November. John R. Griffin Jr., 64, was taken into custody in Gorham and transported to Concord on Wednesday, police said. He faces felony charges of...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord officials turned down plans for a smaller-scale, less expensive addition to the clubhouse at the publicly-owned golf course in favor of the larger options under consideration today, according to an architect working with the city.Doug Proctor,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With the help of a group of local artists, a holiday display by The Satanic Temple once again stands outside the New Hampshire State House. “Violence and vandalism are not valid responses to something you don’t fully understand,” read a statement by...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The children's room and adult fiction sections of the Concord Public Library were closed Monday after a ceiling leak.On Sunday afternoon, sensors in the building detected the leak, according to Library Director Todd Fabian, and water had come down...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Members of the public got their first chance to check out the new Penacook branch of the city public library on Thursday. The Penacook branch had been housed in an old police station on Merrimack Street for around 75 years, but is now open at its new...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

On a night in July, a car crashed into Alissa and Don Jelley’s garage. Sunday night, it happened again — only this time the driver hit their house, careening into their home office and leaving an eight-foot hole in their foundation. “We heard this...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s school board is at a crossroads.An election day vote threw plans to build a new middle school into the ringer, and the board now faces a variety of options about what to do next. None have officially been ruled out, but their once-fervent...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car into a home in the South End on Sunday night, Concord police said.Around 9 p.m., a white Ford sedan drove into 366 South Main St., a three-bedroom...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board voted to invite City Councilors to form a working group that would develop an action plan on renovations to Memorial Field.“Whether or not we end up moving forward with the master plan and the project, we have to take the next...