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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s Board of Ethics is set to weigh a claim that City Councilor Stacey Brown, who is married to a city police officer, ran afoul of city rules by voting on a street closure that could have created a financial conflict of interest.Later in the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ian McGregor knows as well as anyone the multitude of reasons people use public transportation.As a kid, he relied on Milwaukee’s bus system to get around.“I’m the son of an alcoholic who could not drive,” he told Concord city councilors. “This is...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon, long-time former state representative from Concord and current county commissioner, won the Democratic primary for the state Senate representing the Capital Region by a 372-vote margin. In the three-way race between Reardon and two...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Ward 5 polling station at the Christa McAuliffe School was the epicenter of election day energy in the Capital City Tuesday morning. Not long after voting began, a swarm of CindeWarmington supporters flocked to the courtyard outside the school...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Two new festivals will bring art, music and reading to the streets of downtown this October.Bringing more than 50 authors to Concord, the New Hampshire Book Festival will land in Concord on Oct. 4-5.Novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz and Kate DiCamillo,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For one Concord voter, the candidate who knocked on his door earned his vote. For another, it was a longstanding relationship that earned her trust. A third leaned on his top issue, the environment, to determine his choice. The race to succeed...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jillian Andrews Dubois picked up her newspaper a few weeks ago and saw three side-by-side stories that painted a stark tableau.One described how average rents in the state continue to burden the average firefighter or retail worker, another explained...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Andrew Winters knows that if he won a seat on the Concord School Board, he couldn’t single-handedly overturn its decision to move the middle school to the East Side of the city. But he wants to try.Like many fellow residents, he can’t see why the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will hold a public hearing on two proposed amendments to the district charter Monday night that, if passed, could strip the board of some of its autonomy.The pair of proposed changes, brought on by a citizens’ petition that...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When addressing the lack of housing in Concord, city officials often cite 3,000 units in the construction pipeline. Yet nearly a third of those come from a single project that the city manager and mayor now say they have no interest in seeing move...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

New Hampshire’s Legislative Ethics Committee will determine whether Tara Reardon, if elected to the state Senate, would have to recuse herself on legislation that her spouse’s firm lobbies on — but not until after the primary on Tuesday.That means...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon, whose spouse is lobbyist and former Concord mayor Jim Bouley, won’t be able to vote on any legislation that involves her husband’s clients if she is elected to the State Senate due to a recent change to state law, her critics say.“Under...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Demolition of most of the Steeplegate Mall is on hold due to two lawsuits filed by the owner of the land beneath the neighboring TD Bank.Onyx Partners, the company planning to remake the former mall into a mixed-use housing development with hundreds...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The filing period for three at-large seats on the Concord School Board opens in less than two weeks.Pamela Walsh, the current school board president, Barbara Higgins and Bob Cotton currently hold the seats — they haven’t said whether they’ll run again...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The New Hampshire Senate is going to look different next year, as multiple high-ranking senators have stepped away — including in the Capital area.Three Democrats — Angela Brennan of Bow and Rebecca McWilliams and Tara Reardon, both of Concord — are...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When State Sen. Becky Whitley made clear that she wasn’t running for re-election, two Democratic state representatives — both far younger than most New Hampshire legislators and eager to serve in higher office — dove into the race to fill her...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The largest planned housing project in Concord has been scuttled by city leaders to the point that even a scaled-down version of the project may not be possible for years.Developers behind the Monitor Way project have claimed city staff have not...

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...