Search Results

Keyword search: Concord

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.

Join us on Saturday, June 7 for the McLane Center Native Plant Sale and Spring Craft Fair!

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s one lesson to be learned from what is occasionally the most chaotic parking area in Concord: Sometimes it’s better to hand over your keys.

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 ALEXANDER RAPP

Joan Vallieres has dedicated nearly 20 years of her life to Concord Crew. Her role as a coach was never about finding the most powerful rowing techniques or setting the team’s tempo, but more about building strong and kind character in each child who showed up at the boathouse.

Concord was among the many towns and cities across New Hampshire to observe Memorial Day with a parade on Monday. Monitor photo editor Geoff Forester captured photos and video from the Concord event. 

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 RACHEL WACHMAN

When Mason DeFrancesco initially returned home to Concord from four years of service in the Marines, he spent his first few Memorial Days going to the New Hampshire State Cemetery in Boscawen and thinking of those he knew who didn’t return home.

Memorial Day provides a time for solemn remembrance of those who died serving their country. Many local towns hold ceremonies or events to commemorate these lives lost in service. Here is a list of local Memorial Day events.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Emerging plans to renovate Concord’s athletic complex at Memorial Field include four new fields, bleachers, parking and a field house, all of which are expected to cost $27 million over two main phases.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

In December, Concord’s work to clear the path for more housing hit a new level.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Four Concord businesses have been selected to receive grants aimed at building financial resilience and self-sufficiency.

With creativity abounding in the community around us, The Concord Insider, in collaboration with Concord Arts Market, highlights local artists on a regular basis.

Our soggy spring hasn’t let up this week, and we’ll likely get more rain on Friday and possibly this weekend. Memorial Day showers remain a possibility as of midday Thursday, but by all accounts, next week is shaping up to be a nice one with temperatures in the high 60s and low-70s and dry skies through Thursday. Weather, Page A8

Kick off this growing season with organic plant starts, food and drink tastings, farming education from local farmers, and community gathering and fun!

Concord Hospital Trust will host the 20th anniversary of Pedaling for Payson on Saturday, September 6, at Elm Brook Park in Hopkinton. Proceeds will support patients receiving treatment at the Payson Center for Cancer Care. Registration is open at www.PedalingForPayson.org.

By YAA BAME

The Penacook Village Association will host its fourth annual Memorial Day Parade on Sunday, May 25 at 10 a.m.

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 DAVID BROOKS

State officials are looking into “construction issues” that have halted work at the new forensic psychiatric hospital being built on Clinton Street, Gov. Kelly Ayotte said at a Wednesday press conference.