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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...

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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...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police have arrested a man accused of breaking into a downtown coffee shop in June. Deshon Stone-Davis, 29, was arrested Thursday morning and faces burglary charges after he broke into Brothers Cortado and stole cash, Concord Police...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Reversing course, the city of Concord will consider a potential zoning change that would make a Penacook housing development possible, after the project vastly downsized, dropped a request for public assistance with infrastructure and proposed a new...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The state’s Legislative Ethics Committee declined to determine whether or not a new conflict of interest law would require Senate candidate Tara Reardon to recuse herself from certain legislation if she is elected next month primarily because she is...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In the State Senate race to succeed Becky Whitley, a former teacher and police officer is facing off against a longtime former state representative and lawyer.Republican Pamela Ean came to New Hampshire nearly 30 years ago, and has served as a teacher...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Kass Ardinger saw this coming.Last December, when the Concord School Board seemed poised to relocate the middle school across the river, she issued a warning.More than 100 people had turned out to the meeting, urging the board to rebuild Rundlett...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Concord bicyclist died after he was struck by car on South Main Street Wednesday afternoon. Joel Bashaw, 61, was transported to Concord Hospital after being struck near the intersection of Holly Street and South Main Street. He was pronounced dead...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As any middle school math student knows, just writing the answer to a question isn’t enough. Students must show their work.Based on estimates from its architects, the school board set a $152 million budget cap for the middle school project in July....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s school board planned to build a new junior high school and city residents wanted answers about the location.An architect slammed the proposed property as “too remote,” questioning whether the parcel’s size, larger than others considered,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After 20 years, Steve Shurtleff has cast his last vote as a member of the 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives.On Thursday, colleagues and friends gathered to honor the speaker emeritus, who also held the titles of House speaker, minority...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Public outcry led the City Council to send plans for the future of the Beaver Meadow Golf Course Clubhouse back to the drawing board in December, and in January newly inaugurated Mayor Byron Champlin asked city staff to develop cost estimates for a...