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By LINDA MATTLAGE

Linda Mattlage is a Concord resident for 40 years, a retired nurse, and a member of the golf advisory committee and ad hoc building committee.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord Board of Education reversed its 2023 decision to locate a new middle school at Broken Ground and will now move forward with designs for a new school at the current site of Rundlett Middle School on South Street.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Berit Brown dreamed of participating in a hot cocoa tour. She pictured people strolling along Main Street with mugs of steaming cocoa and a stampable passport in hand for rating their sips of liquid chocolate at various stops.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Sweatpants, snow pants, a t-shirt, a windbreaker plus an outer shell, hiking boots and a hat weren’t enough to keep Raymond Blodgett warm against the biting cold. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord police arrested and detained a “person of interest” related to a shooting in Healy Park last week that left someone with life-threatening injuries, Concord Police said Tuesday. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord Board of Education faces a decision: schedule a referendum on where to put the new middle school, leaving the decision up to the voters, or start plans to build a new school at Rundlett now.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With more income than expected from property tax bills, vehicle registrations and ambulance charges, the City of Concord ended the 2024 fiscal year with a more than $1.4 million surplus in its general operating budget.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Andrea Alexander hit the “post” button in her new Facebook group, Concord Kind, back in September, she had no way of knowing that the virtual space she created would yield widespread impacts for so many in her community.

By REBECA PERIERA

A tidy collection of newspaper clippings, preserved in clear sleeves from time’s harsh glare, tells of Rodney Tenney’s decades of public service.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

One by one, friends, family, teachers, and even strangers stepped forward, their hands trembling as they each took a candle at the snow-covered field at Merrimack Valley High School.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A new middle school in the South End would carry an $8 million higher price tag than one of the same size in East Concord, according to a new comparison presented to the Concord Board of Education.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A superior court judge denied an attempt by Andy Sanborn to have criminal charges against him dismissed but disqualified two members of the state investigative team from participating in the criminal case because they accessed information they shouldn’t have.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Every week, Concord’s purple trash bags are placed at the end of driveways, with varied opinions of the residents who place them there.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Roughly 16 years after Concord instituted a pay-as-you-throw trash program, residents are torn over how effective the program is, whether or not they like the bags themselves and the cost.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Karen McNamara had heard the criticism, and she’d heard enough.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN and ALEXANDER RAPP

For the first time in two winters, Concord residents have been able to spin and glide atop the ice on city ponds. 

By DAVID BROOKS

Relatively low winter power rates from the state’s electric utilities have led to a change in Concord’s community power program.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Four collective bargaining agreements — with unions representing police patrol officers, police supervisors, city office workers and public works employees — will go before the city council Monday representing $1.7 million more in spending next year, perhaps more.

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com

By JANE HUNT

Jane Hunt of Concord is formerly an NHTI English professor, actor and disabilities advocate.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jigme Ghising has thought about opening Nepali restaurants in New Hampshire since before he moved here.