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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

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. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Councilors will vote on whether to move forward with the installation of lights on the field at Keach Park, accept grant money for a police K-9 program, and streamline the process for getting demolition permits at their regular meeting Monday night.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A woman was transported to Concord Hospital with serious injuries Friday morning after a collision involving a gray pickup truck near the intersection of School Street and Green Street downtown, according to Concord Police.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police have identified remains found near the I-393 bridge downtown as 36-year-old Concord resident Curtis Ayer. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A three-year contract with the Concord Educational Assistants Association, approved by the Concord Board of Education, will create an additional wage step in the first year, followed by 3% increases in the following two years.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Hopkinton-based logger cleared 12 acres of trees on land near Sam’s Club and Walmart in Concord to ready it for development.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Skeletal remains found in a dilapidated shed off North State Street have been identified by Concord Police as those of Michael Schilz, 59, of Concord.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

David Browall, 25, of Concord, has been identified as the man who died inside a burning RV parked at the former Steeplegate Mall early Saturday morning. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Steve Quinn sees Beaver Meadow Golf Course as the 18-hole equivalent of Cannon Mountain.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Bob Maccini doesn’t like to think of a new petition about Concord’s middle school project as an ultimatum, even if it is one.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

It’s now officially the season to loop a dog leash around the table leg and sip a cold drink under an umbrella — that is to say, outdoor dining is now open for the summer in Concord.