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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

Concord is prepared to spend $205,000 to clear and clean Healey Park, which for years has been the site of one of Concord’s larger homeless encampments.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Despite a consensus to build a new clubhouse at Beaver Meadow Golf Course, Concord City Councilors wondered whether the prolonged debate over this project had been productive or poisonous. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Six hours into discussions about paring down the budget that ultimately yielded a 3% tax increase for next year, former Concord city councilor Bob Washburn took to the microphone. 

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

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

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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Freeman Toth can suggest few places for people experiencing homelessness now that the winter shelters have closed and police have started clearing tent sites along Concord’s downtown and near the river. 

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

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

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Mayor Byron Champlin took a moment away from talking about housing development in Concord to ask a favor of business leaders in the room.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The city of Concord should want people with relevant experience to give advice about pressing issues — that’s how Steve Shurtleff sees it.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord residents might soon be able to install an accessory dwelling unit or host a daycare at their home by right. Businesses might be able to more easily obtain and change their signage, and typos in the zoning rules might be corrected.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jennifer Kretovic sees the ethics complaint against her and members of the Golf Course Advisory Committee as really about one thing. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With a decision looming about the multi-million dollar plan to build a new clubhouse at Beaver Meadow Golf Course, an ethics complaint about a committee that helps govern the city-owned facility has fallen into the lap of the Concord City Council.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The city of Concord is looking to further coordinate its response to homelessness in the state capital with the help of a new program manager.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For the 12 years Landrine Tumaini has lived near Keach Park, she’s gone for walks, shot hoops and played soccer there.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After a push to reimagine the way the city regulates development was quietly abandoned, the City of Concord will pursue changes to some zoning rules in the coming months to the relief of local business leaders.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The vast majority of issues taken up by the Concord City Council are first reviewed by one or more of several dozen committees, which make recommendations about city decisions.