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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. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After a push to reimagine the way the city regulates development was quietly abandoned, the City of Concord will pursue changes to some zoning rules in the coming months to the relief of local business leaders.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The vast majority of issues taken up by the Concord City Council are first reviewed by one or more of several dozen committees, which make recommendations about city decisions.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord is divided down the middle by the Merrimack River. The Loudon Road bridge, with 25,000 crossings on an average day, is the main artery between downtown and the Heights, an essential link between the city’s two centers of gravity.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

More than a year after the Concord City Council put off a vote on the Beaver Meadow clubhouse to develop more options, city proposals and flaring tensions have boxed the debate back into a starkly similar binary: all or nothing.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Council will get an update on plans for the Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse amid a new ethics complaint against a city committee that recommended the city build anew.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A developer looking to build nearly 200 units of housing in Penacook has asked the Zoning Board to reexamine the city’s denial of the project, claiming that the rejection means he is “deprived of any reasonable use of the land” by the city.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Just as the city of Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee has started to put rubber to road, laying out the timeline for their first action steps, the national climate surrounding their work has changed.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As leaders from the Concord School District and city government prepare to convene on the future of Memorial Field, some mutual agreement has emerged that the project ought to move forward sooner rather than later.

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. 

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.”

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.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

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

By DAVID BROOKS

Relatively low winter power rates from the state’s electric utilities have led to a change in Concord’s community power program.

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.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After five months working without a contract, negotiations between the Concord Fire Officers Association and the city have made progress, according to union leadership. 

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

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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Developer Steve Duprey wants the city to take ownership of a piece of land at the former Lincoln Financial campus and help turn it into badly needed new housing in Concord.A technicality over taxes is tying that up. To be clear, Duprey has control...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It took longer than expected, but Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee finally has hired a consultant to facilitate its first steps as a committee.The Texas-based Racial Equity Group beat out three other applicants...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The legs of the black Baphomet statue outside the State House still stood, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and the panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the...