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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A bill boosting the state’s school building aid program by introducing a funding minimum and removing its cap passed the New Hampshire House Thursday evening, though it faces tough odds in the Senate.With designs underway for a new middle school, the...

By HEIDI CRUMRINE

Heidi Crumrine is an English teacher and literacy coach at Concord High School where she has taught since 2004. Before coming to CHS, she taught for three years in the New York City public schools. As the 2018 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year,...

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 I remember the newsreels in the movie theaters about the progress of World War II. They depicted the bravery,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

By the time 16-year-old Teegan Paul finally told her parents, and then police, about the Boys and Girls Club employee who had been sexually assaulting her for years, her mental health had gotten so bad that she couldn’t hide it anymore.“It was one of...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Despite some pushback from the teacher’s union, the Concord School Board stayed the course on plans it made Monday to reduce the number of teaching positions in elementary schools to keep pace with a shrinking student population. The board voted 8-1...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As heavy machinery makes way for a new parking garage for lawmakers, some Concord residents and officials have wondered whether the new structure will help ease the pressure on downtown parking.The answer, according to state and city leaders, has yet...

Weare Middle School choir celebrates Music in our Schools Month with a performance outside the State House on Wednesday.

By DAVID BROOKS

The region’s last coal-fired power plants, located in Bow and Portsmouth, are expected to switch to large-scale solar power and battery-storage under plans put forward by their owner, Granite Shore Power, marking New Hampshire’s first big transition...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Eliminating elementary teaching positions and a proposed middle school resource officer, while including a new math interventionist and world language teachers at Rundlett, the Concord School Board made a balance of cuts and additions to its draft...

Workers have been replacing bricks and repairing the wall of the New Hampshire State Prison for Men on North State Street in Concord as part of an ongoing perimeter security project.The prison, parts of which date back to 1878, has a number of...

By ARIANNA MACNEILL

A Concord woman is facing felony charges after police say she shot a man with a BB gun at a homeless camp earlier this month.Kaitlin Cook, 34, is being charged with first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree assault with a deadly weapon,...

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A cement truck traveling south on Interstate 93 veered off the highway and plowed into rows of parked cars at the Concord Coach Lines bus stop on Stickney Avenue in Concord.None of the cars were occupied at the time of the crash, which was reported...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Hopkinton High School junior Matthew Grillo spent his day off from classes ringing up a steady stream of customers at Colonial Village Supermarket.The independent grocery store in Contoocook reopened Monday following a 24-hour power outage that left...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The debate surrounding the school resource officer position at Rundlett Middle School continued during the Concord school budget hearing on Wednesday, drawing concerned community members eager to voice their apprehensions about the role.The school...

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 The ideals of free speech and safe space are estranged bedfellows in our nation. Advocates for free speech are a threat...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As the number of school-aged children in Concord drops and more families choose educational options outside public school, the Concord School District has seen a long pattern of declining enrollment.On the backdrop of shrinking elementary school class...

By ERIN S. FOGEL

Erin S. Fogel, MD is a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgeon and current president of Concord Eye Center. She has been practicing in Concord since 1994. In our state legislature, there is pending legislation relative to who may provide care when...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

There’s something cinematic about the Black Ice Tournament at White Park in the middle of the Concord winter. Hockey skates slice across the ice, friends of years past reunite and the community gathers to enjoy hockey, the cold weather and all...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord residents will have a chance to express their opinion next month on whether redevelopment next to the Phenix Hotel on North Main Street should exceed height limits that are designed to keep the State House dome visible from I-93.The request,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord is unique in its commitment to the neighborhood pool with seven for its less than 50,000 residents.  “Seven pools are a lot for a community of this size,” Parks and Recreation Director David Gill said. “Each pool has a different character,...