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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy will leave the district at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, with the approval of a one-year contract renewal by the Concord Board of Education on Monday night.
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
With rising personnel costs alongside declining enrollment, the proposed 2025-2026 operating budget for the Concord School district would dip into trust funds and downsize its teaching staff to blunt the tax increase.
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Watching her four-year-old son, Vincent, dance and laugh over the wooden stove of a toy kitchen set, Marcela Iacobucci held up her phone to take video. She pinched the zoom to get a closer look from afar.
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Ellen Kenny didn’t need to tell Concord school board members why she backed a new school in the city’s South End over raw land on the East Side. They already knew.
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
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 CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Barb Higgins wants her fellow school board members to stop delaying the inevitable. The Concord Board of Education has been weighing the location of the new middle school should go to a public vote, either in the spring or the fall, or to simply work...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The online petition that started it all — calling for the school board to rescind its vote to move the middle school — has officially declared victory. The Concord Concerned Citizens, the group of residents who organized around their outrage to the...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Concord’s school board is at a crossroads.An election day vote threw plans to build a new middle school into the ringer, and the board now faces a variety of options about what to do next. None have officially been ruled out, but their once-fervent...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The Concord School Board voted to invite City Councilors to form a working group that would develop an action plan on renovations to Memorial Field.“Whether or not we end up moving forward with the master plan and the project, we have to take the next...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Monday night’s school board meeting — the last of the current term — was heralded in by a string ensemble from Broken Ground Elementary, which charmed members of the school board with a seasonable rendition of “Jingle Bell Rock.”The meeting was the...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Concord’s property tax rate rose 3.1% to $27.69 in 2024, while Penacook’s rate will be to $30.64, a heftier jump of 5.1%.Both communities pay the city tax rate, this year $9.84, and the county tax rate, but each has its own local school tax rate and...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A meeting of the Concord School Board will allow public comment for the first time since the election.The board isn’t expected to take major action during the special meeting on Dec. 4, but it will allow the first public input on the project’s future...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Police are searching for a man who robbed the Bank of America on Storrs Street downtown around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.The robber is described as a white male roughly five-foot, seven- or eight-inches tall who was wearing tan pants and a hooded tan zip-up...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Anyone who thought the election would lead to a swift rehash of the middle school project location was proven wrong Wednesday. School Board President Pamela Walsh made clear in a statement that the group hasn’t committed to a path forward on the new...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
There is a ticking timer on the future of Memorial Field. On the track’s wearing oval, weeds poke through the cracks. The surface won’t last past the next two years, according to city Parks and Recreation Director David Gill.Once the track reaches...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Nineteen-year-old Celia LeClair was motivated by the issue of abortion to cast her first-ever ballot on Tuesday, which drove her choices in the presidential and gubernatorial contests. On other races — like the school board — she didn’t feel prepared...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A traffic study found that only minor improvements to roads and sidewalks would be required to accommodate car, bus and pedestrian traffic for the Concord School District’s new middle school, if the project moves ahead at the Broken Ground location in...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
School board member Jim Richards said he saw no clear edict from voters Tuesday on where the new middle school should go.Board president Pam Walsh, who pledged to abide by the results of Tuesday’s vote if the charter amendments passed requiring public...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Incumbents Barb Higgins and Pamela Walsh as well as newcomer Sarah Sadowski narrowly edged out three competitors to claim seats in the at-large race for Concord School Board.Voters could choose up to three candidates from an open pool of six. Higgins...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A pair of amendments to the Concord School District’s charter decisively passed on Tuesday, throwing the future of Concord’s controversial middle school project into question.The votes could ultimately lead to the reversal of the school board’s...
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