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By DAVID BROOKS

As Concord natives, Steve and Laurie Savage know a good downtown show when they hear about it.

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-simmering effort to create a walking/biking path the length of Concord may take another step forward when the city council meets on Monday to consider buying 5.7 miles of rail line from Horsehoe Pond to the city’s northern border.

By DAVID BROOKS

The flooding in Texas this week, wildfires in Canada and record-breaking heat in New England are reminders that the supercharged climate means disaster can strike anywhere at any time. It also means that interest in weather alerts and emergency preparation, once limited to places like Tornado Alley, are entering the New Hampshire mainstream.

By DAVID BROOKS

Your old window air conditioner that sounds like a jet taking off, uses a ton of electricity and can barely cool a broom closet could be worth $30 under a program operated by the state’s utilities.

By DAVID BROOKS

Bad for strawberries, good for blueberries and raspberries. In a nutshell, that’s the effect of recent weather on New Hampshire’s pick-your-own scene.

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s something a bit odd about the framed drawing that hangs on the wall of Revelstoke Coffee: It keeps changing itself.

By DAVID BROOKS

The historic Tilton Island Bridge is going to get repaired after all.

By DAVID BROOKS

I was on vacation playing with a grandchild during last week’s heat dome, so I didn’t pay much attention to the details. Now I’m back at work and wondering: How bad was it?

By DAVID BROOKS

Creating a home out of a very old building that was never a home before is a lot of fun. Mostly.

By DAVID BROOKS

When 24 teams from the Northeast and Canada come to Boutwell’s Bowling Center in Concord this week for an international competition, they’ll be playing at the biggest candlepin bowling arena in the state.

By DAVID BROOKS

The imminent closing of the Company C store on Storrs Street is a sad surprise to many local customers. The even bigger surprise is that the company itself isn’t closing.

By DAVID BROOKS

Something weird is going to happen Saturday: It won’t rain.

By DAVID BROOKS

I hate over-reacting to bad news but I don’t think this statement is an over-reaction: All emails, texts and phone calls that you get from companies, non-profits and government organizations are scams. Yes, all of them.

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord’s two Rite Aid stores will be completely shut within a month, with the pharmacies in each location closing in late June. 

By DAVID BROOKS

When the list of places where John Stark High School seniors are headed was read out at Saturday’s graduation, one uncommon item came up at the end: “starting their own company.”

By DAVID BROOKS

Even if it’s 80 degrees in the valley, it can still be winter on mountain tops.

By DAVID BROOKS

A new hanger capable of holding 10 small planes is coming to Concord Municipal Airport in response to a widespread push for more private aviation facilities.

By DAVID BROOKS

If you find a tick on yourself – and this is prime tick season for New Hampshire, unfortunately – a Plymouth nonprofit wants to see it. 

By DAVID BROOKS

During his 22 years leading the Department of General Services, building and operating and maintaining what might be called the underpinnings of Concord, Chip Chesley was involved with plenty of projects. Two of them, which cost millions of dollars and lasted many years, stand out.

By DAVID BROOKS

Just like you and me, Dean Rubine admits that he sometimes wastes time online.

By DAVID BROOKS

Another weekend, another storm doing a number on town roads. Just ask Leo Aucoin.