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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After serving as the deputy for more than a decade, Danielle Pacik, is now Concord’s new city solicitor.Pacik landed the permanent position after she was appointed to the role on an interim basis following the February departure of longtime city...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A proposal from Rundlett Principal Jay Richard to add a school resource officer at the middle school — costing roughly $100,000 — has met resistance from school board members and parent.Richard and other administrators argued that adding the position...

Former Concord Police officer Richard Cobb is accused of assaulting two people while on duty a year ago.A Merrimack County Grand Jury charged Cobb with four misdemeanor counts of simple assault by an on-duty law enforcement officer.The indictments say...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When former Concord firefighter Chris Andrews introduced himself to city councilors, he described himself as “a cancer survivor — at least for now.”At the outset of his career, new types of protective gear, including the addition of breathing...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will hold public hearings on Monday and Wednesday next week to gather community input on its proposed budget. In the preliminary budget, the general fund — 95% of school spending — would increase about $1.78 million, or 1.67%,...

By CHLOE RATTEE

Siblings Emily Lozada and James Fox always wanted to open a business together, and that opportunity came about from an unlikely source: Lozada seeking out treatment for pain associated with her serving job.Enter Hotworx, a fitness studio that...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

NOTE TO READERS: Scroll below to access the searchable Concord salary database. If you’re using a smartphone, hold your phone in landscape mode to get the best results. As the number of city employees earning six figures continued to climb in 2023,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord and several area towns are getting on the community power bandwagon.The City Council unanimously voted Monday to adopt the program, which allows communities to participate in buying electricity rather than just getting it through the local...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Led by former mayoral candidate Kate West, a motivated group of activists attended the Concord City Council meeting Monday night seeking a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East. Since this issue wasn’t scheduled for discussion – a...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Concord and the town of Bow are both eyeing a potential expansion of the public water supply outside the city, but the progress on an agreement between the two communities depends on the vantage point.In December, the city council approved spending...

By RAY DUCKLER

Emily Ricard makes wishes, big wishes, come true.Last spring, for example, a little boy with a rare form of cancer got his wish, a trip to Disney World. He had fun and is now feeling better.“The update is that he is doing well,” said Ricard, who works...

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 Monitor has reported, “defense contractors are struggling to fill skilled positions that still exist in Maine and...

By ROB WERNER

Rob Werner is chair of the Concord Energy and Environment Advisory Committee. An opportunity to provide lower electric rates for Concord residents is in the hands of the Concord City Council as councilors will consider joining the Community Power...

By ALLAN HERSCHLAG

Allan Herschlag lives in Concord. I find myself in the unusual position of complimenting Mayor Champlin. For the first time that I can remember the city council’s priorities — those issues that affect you that the council will be focusing on for the...

By JOHN S. HANCOCK

John S. Hancock lives in Concord. ‘Gaza is on the brink of famine,” according to Alex de Waal, world-renowned expert on the weaponization and use of starvation during wartime and the executive director of the World Peace Foundation. This man-made...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A major Main Street project, unsuccessful in getting a variance from the Concord Zoning Board, is asking the city to consider softening its rules on height requirements.Mark Ciborowski owns Phenix Hall and is in the process of restoring the historic...

By ELLEN KENNY

Ellen Kenny lives in Concord. There have been several letters and articles in these pages recently on the proposed monetary cost of the new middle school, currently slated to be built in the woods in East Concord. I would like to speak here today...

By MEREDITH COOLEY

Meredith Cooley lives in Concord. It is clear to me that Concord stands at a pivotal moment in its energy future. In a time marked by growing environmental and economic concerns, communities across New Hampshire (on the heels of the country and the...

By RAY DUCKLER

They’d seen each other a few times before, a pair of dog lovers walking the trails under the Sewalls Falls Bridge in Concord.They’d smile, nod, say hi – common behavior among dog lovers, who often know a dog’s name before they know the owner’s name....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After pushback from teachers, Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy withdrew a plan to combine the principal positions at Mill Brook and Broken Ground elementary schools next year.“I received a lot of feedback from staff and other folks, and upon...