Phenix Hotel project asks Concord to relax height rules
A major Main Street project, unsuccessful in getting a variance from the Concord Zoning Board, is asking the city to consider softening its rules on height requirements.Mark Ciborowski owns Phenix Hall and is in the process of restoring the historic...
As maple weekend nears, a small Warner sugarhouse does it the same as always (just earlier)
By the standards of modern maple sugaring, the Courser brothers’ operation isn’t exactly high-tech. No vacuum pumps, no reverse osmosis, no digital timers. But their gravity-fed tubes leading into barrels and tanks, with sap boiled down in a sugar...
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Nordic skiing: Concord boys win D-I championship, girls finish 2nd; Watt, Lesser and Clarner earn individual crowns
Girls’ basketball: Pembroke withstands late surge from Laconia to punch its ticket to the Division II championship
Girls’ basketball: No. 1 Concord Christian one win away from third straight state championship after defeating No. 4 John Stark
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Sports
Hockey: Pembroke-Campbell advances to program’s first championship game appearance with 5-0 semifinal win over Kearsarge-Plymouth
In 25 years the Pembroke ice hockey program has never played in a state championship. That will change on Saturday.No. 2 Pembroke-Campbell (15-4-0) controlled Wednesday night’s semifinal from start to finish, defeating No. 6 Kearsarge-Plymouth...
Opinion
Opinion: Famine, UNRWA and a ceasefire
John S. Hancock lives in Concord. ‘Gaza is on the brink of famine,” according to Alex de Waal, world-renowned expert on the weaponization and use of starvation during wartime and the executive director of the World Peace Foundation. This man-made...
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Arts & Life
Love notes to our family home on the Heights
When it came time to clean out my parents’ house to ready it for sale just over a year ago, my brother Rick was nowhere to be found.I thought that he and our other two siblings were in agreement that we would sell our 60-year-old family home on the...
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Obituaries
Hope Westcott Burnett
Peterborough, NH - Hope Westcott Burnett, 96, resident of Peterborough, NH, former longtime resident of Milford, died peacefully on Friday, March 1, 2024, at the RiverMead Retirement Commun... remainder of obit for Hope Westcott Burnett
Cecelia Richardson
Wilmot, NH - Cecelia A. (Yeager) Richardson, 65, of Campground Road, died Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH surrounded by family. She was born ... remainder of obit for Cecelia Richardson
Richard McLeod
Franconia, NH - Richard McLeod, 77, of Franconia, NH, passed away peacefully at home on February 29, 2024, surrounded by his family after a short but aggressive illness. Rich loved the outd... remainder of obit for Richard McLeod
Donald Ford
Danbury, NH - Donald C. Ford was born in South Danbury, NH on July 25th, 1929 the oldest son of Clarence E. and Vera (Jenness) Ford and died on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Donald attended ... remainder of obit for Donald Ford

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Harmony Montgomery’s stepmother granted parole for perjury
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Girls’ basketball: No. 1 Concord Christian one win away from third straight state championship after defeating No. 4 John Stark
Girls’ basketball: Pembroke withstands late surge from Laconia to punch its ticket to the Division II championship
Nordic skiing: Concord boys win D-I championship, girls finish 2nd; Watt, Lesser and Clarner earn individual crowns
Boys’ basketball: No. 4 Coe-Brown pushes No. 1 Pelham to overtime, comes just short of reaching D-II championship game
Opinion: Why joining the Community Power Coalition is a smart move for Concord
Supreme Court rejects state attempts to ban Trump from ballot over Capitol attack
On the trail: Haley returns to New England ahead of Super Tuesday
Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls says he was trying to highlight a need for AI rules
Vintage Views: Concord’s Main Street has served as a gathering spot for years