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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Everyone has heard about the kids who fell behind during the pandemic, the ones who struggled in hybrid classes or to connect with others coming out of lockdown. Tabitha Nedeau was one of them.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A second person is now facing multiple felony charges after police say he was involved in an armed robbery and shooting near the Water Street bridge last month.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Bryanna Marceau will succeed Tim Sink as the president and CEO of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce this fall.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For a second consecutive summer, the city of Concord and one of its firefighter unions have not come to a new contract agreement before the previous one expired.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

By most metrics, crime is falling in Concord from its rise in 2021 and 2022 and is now below or at pre-pandemic levels, according to a 2024 annual report from the Concord Police Department. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

On a warm fall day in 2003, what had once been a dumping ground for coal byproduct along the Merrimack River in Concord was opened to the public as a city park.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With a sigh, Violet Ruiz planted her blue sneakers onto the grass behind Abbot-Downing School. Standing over her bike, she adjusted her blue helmet so it sat squarely over her dark braid.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

While his older brother, Jesse, was in prison, Zackary Sullivan used to send him his allowance. Even as a kid, he wanted to share everything he had with the people he loved. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

During a scuffle at the Secure Psychiatric Unit inside the New Hampshire State Prison for men, prosecutors say Jason Rothe was handcuffed and forcibly restrained, which led to his death.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord leaders are considering charging new businesses and residents more for their added demand on city infrastructure after more than a decade of holding those fees flat.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With a red carnation tucked in her white peacekeeper’s vest and a long braid trailing down her back, Nancy Chabot weaved through a New Hampshire State House plaza bathed in the trumpeting of car horns and the soft strumming of a guitarist as he sang “This Land is Your Land.”

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Councilors didn’t want to be in this situation — preparing to publicly undo an appointment they made to the zoning board just days after unanimously approving it.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The final remaining Rite Aid stores in Concord will shut their doors, with this latest string of closures announced as part of bankruptcy proceedings for the national drugstore chain.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Last April, as Concord Planning Board members weighed a rule change that would support the redevelopment of a historic downtown building, Mary Rose Deak urged them to “reject this evil project.”

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A sixteen-year-old girl was transported to a Boston hospital with critical injuries after her Mitsubishi SUV collided head-on with a box truck on Langley Parkway Tuesday afternoon, police said.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Authorities have identified the driver of a Chevrolet pickup truck who died in a single-vehicle crash in Salisbury early Monday morning as Brian L. Young, 63, of Andover. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord is prepared to spend $205,000 to clear and clean Healy Park, which for years has been the site of one of Concord’s larger homeless encampments.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in relation to a shooting that occurred at a homeless encampment under the Water St. Bridge in Concord on Saturday, June 7.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Despite a consensus to build a new clubhouse at Beaver Meadow Golf Course, Concord City Councilors wondered whether the prolonged debate over this project had been productive or poisonous. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After the Kiwanis Fair was stymied by visa delays, another spring carnival will come to Concord this month. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Six hours into discussions about paring down the budget that ultimately yielded a 3% tax increase for next year, former Concord city councilor Bob Washburn took to the microphone.