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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

He may have been a year behind her in school, but Kayleigh Hollis looks up to her younger brother, Kaiden. 

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

A resident of a homeless encampment in the South End was shot in the back Saturday morning and transported to Concord Hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to police.

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. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Haley Patnode remembers the last time Arthur T. Demoulas was at risk of losing his job. She was 14.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Winding a plastic spider around the yarn web strung by his teacher, Chip Deroharian wasn’t just making a “garden friend” but practicing the fine motor skills he’d need next year in kindergarten.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If you ask Joe Kwasnik and Bill Judd how long they’ve known each other, their answer starts with an “Oh gosh…,” a hand to the chin and a pause.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Just weeks before he would have faced trial, Jesse Sullivan pleaded guilty to murdering his half-brother, Zackary Sullivan, in January of last year. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Former Concord Schools Athletic Director Bill Whitmore remembers watching his wife, Jill, help create the city’s skatepark in the late 1990s so that their son had a place to inline skate. Decades later, his son coaches basketball at the University of Wyoming, and Whitmore believes it’s time for a deserved upgrade to the park.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The public will have a chance to weigh in on the Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse, as well as other major upcoming projects, at the City Council’s budget workshop Thursday evening.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The friends of Beaver Meadow Golf Course and its harshest critics can agree on one thing: In most places, golf is a sport that keeps its door shut to many people.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When City Manager Tom Aspell introduced a new, scaled-back design for a rebuilt clubhouse at the Beaver Meadow Golf Course on Thursday, he concluded by agreeing with a common refrain from the project’s critics.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In April, more than a dozen young adults sat in the front row of Concord City Council’s monthly meeting, holding up signs calling for Concord to “Light up Keach.” But they didn’t get the chance to speak those words out loud.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

New England has three great dynasties: Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots and Concord, N.H. and its drinking water.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With one major asterisk, City Manager Tom Aspell proposed a roughly $155 million budget to city councilors for their review, which would rely on reserve funds to carry a 4% increase in the tax rate next year.