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By ALEXANDER RAPP and RACHEL WACHMAN

Spanning three days, six ice rinks, and eight divisions, the 14th annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship and Winter Festival will bring together hockey players from around the state this weekend for several days of competition and celebration. Even with snow in the forecast on Thursday and Sunday, Chris Brown, founder of the 1883 Black Ice Hockey Association, says the games will go on.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy will leave the district at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, with the approval of a one-year contract renewal by the Concord Board of Education on Monday night.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If pursued by the city, what should a pedestrian bridge over the interstate and Merrimack River look like? Engineers will present design possibilities for public feedback at a meeting Tuesday night. 

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For the past two years, the week leading up to the Black Ice Pond Hockey Championships at White Park in Concord was an exercise in forecasting-watching and hand-wringing. Each year, organizers determined the weather just wouldn’t hold up and they pushed the annual event indoors.

By DAVID BROOKS

And another one is gone.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The second phase of apartments on Pembroke Road is nearly ready for tenants. Sen. Maggie Hassan had the first look this week, touring the new apartments with walk-in closets. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

While five of her children darted and dashed in a game of capture the flag inside the community center gym, or perfected a drawing of Moana in the auditorium, Esther Fleurant was perched before her laptop in the lobby, studying for her Securities Industry Essentials exam.

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

Watching her four-year-old son, Vincent, dance and laugh over the wooden stove of a toy kitchen set, Marcela Iacobucci held up her phone to take video. She pinched the zoom to get a closer look from afar.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Whether you’re celebrating Dry January, don’t drink alcohol, or simply love fun drinks, mocktails could be the answer you’ve been waiting for. A good mocktail provides not only an alternative to alcohol but something to sip on, to savor, to feel like you’re part of the party.

By DAVID BROOKS

The region has new ways to commemorate the life and legacy of Concord teacher Christa McAuliffe on the 39th anniversary of the Challenger explosion.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Andy Sanborn notched a legal victory after the New Hampshire Supreme Court temporarily reversed the revocation of his gaming license while reviewing his appeal.

By JAMES W. SPAIN

My first experience with a library dates back over five decades. It is one of my favorite memories from my very early years – one that I have grasped and held onto, one that I will never let go.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Massachusetts couple has pleaded guilty to using the address for a rental property they own in Concord to vote illegally in the city.

By JOSH ROGERS

Gov. Kelly Ayotte has announced a state hiring freeze.

A high-speed chase on Interstate 93 ended when the erratic driver crashed his vehicle at the roundabout in Penacook, state police said. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ellen Kenny didn’t need to tell Concord school board members why she backed a new school in the city’s South End over raw land on the East Side. They already knew.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Berit Brown dreamed of participating in a hot cocoa tour. She pictured people strolling along Main Street with mugs of steaming cocoa and a stampable passport in hand for rating their sips of liquid chocolate at various stops.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Sweatpants, snow pants, a t-shirt, a windbreaker plus an outer shell, hiking boots and a hat weren’t enough to keep Raymond Blodgett warm against the biting cold. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord police arrested and detained a “person of interest” related to a shooting in Healy Park last week that left someone with life-threatening injuries, Concord Police said Tuesday.