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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The plan to rebuild at Rundlett emerged as the preferred choice among Concord residents during a discussion on the new middle school’s location, largely due to the location’s proximity to downtown and the high school.“When you’re in elementary school,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The Concord School District will hold public hearings regarding the location of the new middle school, with the options now narrowed down to two parcels owned by the school district.There will be two separate public hearings: one scheduled for Tuesday...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Water jugs were carted through the front door of the Concord High School on Tuesday and positioned throughout the five-story brick building as indoor temperatures reached above 80 degrees. With limited air conditioning or climate control in some of...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Public filing for school board and city council positions begins Friday with some open seats due to the exit of several prominent elected officials, including Concord Mayor Jim Bouley.The filing period will be open until Monday, September 18. Though...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Most water faucets that showed higher-than-allowed lead levels in the Concord School District earlier this year remained shut off on the first day of classes Wednesday.Of nearly 1,000 samples taken, 26% of faucets and sinks tested district-wide came...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After months of exploring sites, the Concord School District has narrowed down potential locations to construct a new middle school to two sites.At the school board meeting on Monday night, members discussed the project’s viability at two very...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

City and school leaders agreed to spend $142,000 on Monday night to study the conditions of Memorial Field and create a Park Master Plan for future renovations. Since its initial construction in 1926, the Memorial Field Complex has grown in size from...

Concord is the leafiest capital city in the Northeast, with almost half of its residential area covered by trees, according to an aerial survey company.The ranking of state capitals was released Thursday by Nearmap. It said trees covered 49.2% of...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Dozens of drinking water outlets within the Concord schools were taken offline, including two of the district’s newest building, after they came back positive for traces of lead higher than the state minimum levels for safe drinking. High lead levels...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Mental illness in youth populations is rising at a steady rate across the country in a generation that is prone to the influences of social media and cyberbullying. On Wednesday, the Concord School District in partnership with the Concord Parks &...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The underground drainage system installed at Memorial Field in the 1970s is no longer working, leaving puddles of standing water rendering Concord’s athletic facility unusable after heavy rains.Meanwhile, smaller communities across the state,...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to getting people to talk about their own mortality, Kristine Green knows the timing all too well.“For a lot of people it’s always too soon, always too soon – until it’s too late,” she said.Green, an RN, is the chief hospice officer of...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. Memorial Field has been owned solely by the City of Concord since the 1930s. An earlier version of the article incorrectly stated the owner of the property.Memorial Field in Concord, a 36-acre complex...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Concord school board member and undergraduate student from the University of New Hampshire, Jonathan Weinberg, has been named as one of the recipients of the 2023 Harry S. Truman Scholarship, the nation’s highly regarded scholarship for students who...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Concord High freshman Isiah Rosario, 15, who Rhode Island police say was killed in a shooting in Providence early Saturday, was remembered as a young man with a “magnetic” personality who was still trying to get acclimated to his new community.News of...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A runaway Concord High School student was shot and killed early Saturday morning in Providence, Rhode Island, police officials said. The 15-year-old freshman, identified as Isiah Rosario, ran away from Concord a few weeks ago, Providence police...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In a typical fourth-grade math class in Concord, students should be able to calculate the area of a shape with the help of the acronym P-E-M-D-A-S, which stands for parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.That task...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

An outpouring of public support for a Concord elementary school art teacher took center stage at a Concord School Board meeting this week following a parent complaint last month.“I am here today because I am saddened, disheartened and discouraged by...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The Concord School District voted Monday to appoint Clint Cogswell to be the new school district treasurer for the remainder of this year’s term.Cogswell will be taking over from previous treasurer Tom Croteau, who was appointed to fill a vacant seat...

By TIM SWEENEY-FANELLI, KATE WEST and JESS CAMPBELL

Tim Sweeney-Fanelli, Kate West and Jess Campbell are Concord residents and parents of Christa McAuliffe School students. They are the group administrators for the ‘Support for Mr. Allard’ Facebook group. We represent a group of hundreds of parents and...