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By JAMIE L. COSTA

As Concord officials considered proposed housing developments and highway expansions that could affect downtown Concord, and a new library branch in Penacook, new American Fisto Ndayishimiye has taken to the microphone at public meetings to ask...

By RAY DUCKLER

She marked the day each year by baking a cake and softly humming “Happy birthday” to herself, so her sons never heard.Meanwhile, the cake had frosting on it but nothing else. No swirls or stripes or flowers or candles, and certainly nothing about a...

By DAVID BROOKS

Torrington Properties has acquired the Fort Eddy Shopping Center in Concord that holds a Shaw's supermarket, Staples and Eastern Mountain Sports for $30 million.The 175,000-square-foot shopping center is fully leased and is the current home of...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Police identified Ewa Martel, 75, as the Concord woman who was struck and killed by a motor vehicle on Friday, Dec. 2 near the Hood Plant on North State Street. Police and fire were called to the area of 340 N. State St. at 10:49 a.m. after Martel was...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

An 1854 Victorian home on Main Street is expected to be torn down in the next several months to make room for a new five-story eatery and entertainment venue spearheaded by Concord developer Stephen Duprey.Despite Duprey’s efforts to relocate or...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The State of New Hampshire has a $70 million agreement to rent office space at the former Lincoln Financial property in Concord from developer Stephen Duprey for 20 years. The property will act as the new home of the Department of Justice, the...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A 78-year-old man shot and killed his domestic partner inside their New London home and then killed himself, state officials announced Wednesday.Douglas Lyon called police to the Shaker Street home at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived they...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Keeping students’ school data private online is an increasingly high-stakes task. But for a small New Hampshire school district, getting a large tech company like Microsoft or Zoom to agree to protect their student data can be a daunting task.After...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Six months after falling in love with the city of Concord, a young couple who grew up in Idaho are opening a high-end, premium market featuring handmade goods next week on South Main Street.In the former location of Simply Birkenstock, Makers on Main...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The construction of an affordable residential housing development on top of a former railroad yard in Concord’s South End has been applauded for helping to ease the city’s housing crunch.“Without repurposing industrial sites like these, they become an...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

For six months, making an arrest in the double murder of Steve and Wendy Reid was the top priority at the Concord Police department. Hours of interviews, repeated searches of the crime scene, reviewing surveillance video from nearby stores, and...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A Concord man is facing new federal sexual assault charges involving minors, the United States Attorney for Vermont announced on Tuesday. Joshua Pincoske, 47, a former assistant basketball coach at Colby Sawyer College, was indicted Monday by a...

The twice-annual auction of surplus government property returns Saturday at White Farm in Concord, and crowds are expected.The auction sale, held each spring and fall, unloads hundreds of surplus items from the state and municipal governments ranging...

By DAVID BROOKS

The country’s first new mutual bank in a half-century has received final approval and will be opening the doors of its Concord office soon, with full service for the general public coming later this fall.Walden Mutual Bank, which labels itself as a...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord-based Rymes Oil and Propane, which was sold to a Canadian firm in 2020, appears to be having difficulty with computer and back office systems that have left some customers frustrated and unable to contact them.“It’s not just that we can’t get...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The popular footwear store Simply Birkenstock is moving to a new location in downtown Concord. Now located near the intersection of South Main Street and Pleasant Street next to Pitchfork Records, the new storefront will be opening about a block away...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

By next spring, Concord officials expect to open a new splash pad at White Park where kids can tromp among familiar structures like a whale, mushrooms and tumble buckets.For the next few weeks, though, the hub of activity will come from construction...

By DAVID BROOKS

The cable company Breezeline is taking the next step in its expansion into New Hampshire, opening a customer care center at 41 North Main St. in Concord.The company, formerly known as Atlantic Broadband, signed a cable franchise agreement with the...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Seeing the difficulty finding primary care doctors in the Concord area, physician-owned DMC Primary Care plans to open a new facility in the city.Come Nov. 1, the primary care practice, which has been in business since 1964, will open on Hall Street...

By RAY DUCKLER

Dean Wilber ignored the writing on the wall that he was too old to continue owning and operating Mapletree Farm in Concord.He did, however, notice the writing on a piece of paper, handed to him by his youngest son last December, and admits he wasn’t...