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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Like a Black Friday sale or the first heart-shaped boxes of chocolate lining grocery store shelves, every holiday season has an unofficial kick-off. For many, spooky season officially starts when a Spirit Halloween store suddenly appears in an empty...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Concord’s project to visit and reassess every property in the city is continuing to move through the South End, with property owners roughly between Broadway and I-93 next on the list. Every five years, the city is legally obligated to reappraise all...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
With the smallest flicks of their ankles, Lucy Callanan and Scarlett Sexton can string together a drum beat. From the rolling rat-a-tat of taps to whooshing scuffs, “the noise” of tapping is Lucy and Scarlett’s favorite part. “It makes it more...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Concord Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found inside a “makeshift tent” at the Steeplegate Mall property on Loudon Road on Tuesday night.Police responded to a call around 9:30 p.m. reporting a potential death inside a...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A potential partnership between the city of Concord and the developer planning to revamp the Steeplegate was met this week with skepticism by some members of the city council.“Between the spending of the council and the school board right now, we...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Plans to rehabilitate the music venue within historic Phenix Hall, plus add housing, restaurants, and retail, took a big step forward Monday night as the Concord City Council agreed to allow new downtown developments to circumvent height rules on a...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Jeff Wells stood outside school district offices Monday with a thick stack of petitions in hand, each sheet’s corners lightly rumpled from being passed back and forth across tables, between hands and in and out of bags and folders.“We’re asking for a...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The developer looking to transform the Steeplegate Mall into new stores and hundreds of housing units is asking the city for a hand. When projects in Concord are built that require new city resources — adding new or improving existing roads, sewers,...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A city rule that prevents buildings from blocking the view of the State House dome could be modified to make way for certain projects.Concord has strict zoning that mandates no construction downtown can exceed 80 feet or in any way block a view of the...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
City Councilor Michele Horne doesn’t live near either the current or proposed middle schools, or even in the Concord School District, and she’s never had to make a vote on the middle school project. Nevertheless, it’s the one thing her constituents...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The city’s first new park since 1988 is nearing the end of construction and will make a soft debut this fall. The Canal Street Riverfront Park project is part of the revitalization of Penacook Village and is transforming the 2.5 acres that once housed...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
After roughly five hours of negotiation, state police arrested a man who they say had barricaded himself with a knife inside a building at the state office complex near Pleasant Street Tuesday evening. New Hampshire State Police were called around 3...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Jim Foley knows the inside of Rundlett Middle School well — he taught in Concord schools for almost 40 years. The district now plans to put a new middle school at the end of his street, and he said it’s the wrong move. “I don’t feel the school board...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Working for a company that does business with the city is not automatically a conflict of interest for people who give advice to elected leaders, the Concord’s Board of Ethics determined Monday. As long as they walk a fine line to avoid influencing...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
An ambitious project that would bring multiple restaurants to Main Street broke ground this week.Dubbed “Arts Alley,” the development includes a two-story building between the Bank of New Hampshire Stage and the Concord Food Co-op that will house a...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
You might’ve seen them outside your favorite grocery store or in front of the state house; posting on your social media pages or knocking on your door.A group of residents wants to put Concord voters in charge of where the district puts its schools....
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The city’s Board of Ethics will reconvene Monday to hold a hearing on one of two complaints on its plate.In May, the ethics board, an appointed committee that weighs complaints against city officials, received a handful of complaints — the first it...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The City of Concord selected Chelsey Michalski to serve as tax collector and treasurer after she served three months in the post on an interim basis and two years prior as a deputy.“Chelsey has been a great addition to the City of Concord. She has...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Concord Police apprehended five people who they say resisted arrest and fled on foot after ditching a stolen car containing a handgun.“A good possibility” exists that the group is connected with an uptick in recent car thefts in the city, according to...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A woman from Brentwood driving the wrong way on Interstate 93 in the early hours of Sunday morning was arrested by State Police in Concord. Emily Lecuyer, 20, was first spotted driving south in the northbound lanes of the highway in Northfield around...
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