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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If you ask Joe Kwasnik and Bill Judd how long they’ve known each other, their answer starts with an “Oh gosh…,” a hand to the chin and a pause.

By YAA BAME

The Penacook Village Association will host its fourth annual Memorial Day Parade on Sunday, May 25 at 10 a.m.

By GEOFF FORESTER

When the third through fifth graders arrived at Penacook Elementary School last week, they found their building had been transformed into a Super Mario Kart course.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A steady drip of new housing will land on Fisherville Road in the next few years, as construction formally begins on one condo development and another begins to put listings on the market.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A developer looking to build nearly 200 units of housing in Penacook has asked the Zoning Board to reexamine the city’s denial of the project, claiming that the rejection means he is “deprived of any reasonable use of the land” by the city.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Fire officials are still investigating what caused a blaze that destroyed a garage in Penacook early Monday morning.

A high-speed chase on Interstate 93 ended when the erratic driver crashed his vehicle at the roundabout in Penacook, state police said. 

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

One by one, friends, family, teachers, and even strangers stepped forward, their hands trembling as they each took a candle at the snow-covered field at Merrimack Valley High School.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A proposal to build nearly 200 housing units along the Merrimack River near the Wheelabrator power plant in Penacook is not in the “public interest” for multiple reasons, according to Concord’s city planner.The city has ample housing in the works, and...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Members of the public got their first chance to check out the new Penacook branch of the city public library on Thursday. The Penacook branch had been housed in an old police station on Merrimack Street for around 75 years, but is now open at its new...

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. In Nov. 12th’s Monitor, reporter Jeremy Margolis asserted that “Poorer school districts in Merrimack County [are] lagging on...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s property tax rate rose 3.1% to $27.69 in 2024, while Penacook’s rate will be to $30.64, a heftier jump of 5.1%.Both communities pay the city tax rate, this year $9.84, and the county tax rate, but each has its own local school tax rate and...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Penacook branch of the Concord Public Library will close its doors for good on Monday in preparation of its move to the newly unveiled Penacook Community Center.Dating back to the start of the 20th century, the 3 Merrimack St. building has housed...

By ADAM CZARKOWSKI

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. Since the election results were announced I have heard a lot of people questioning how so many voters could support Donald Trump. I don’t think that is the right question. The...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Reversing course, the city of Concord will consider a potential zoning change that would make a Penacook housing development possible, after the project vastly downsized, dropped a request for public assistance with infrastructure and proposed a new...

By TERRY DONOVAN ODELL

Rev. Terry Donovan Odell, MA, Ordained Interfaith Minister, lives in Penacook. As a religious educator within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester for over 30 years, I taught many and varied courses, but by far the one I most treasured teaching...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

They came from opposite ends of world: she from Rio de Jainero, Brazil, population 6 million; he from Fort Kent, Maine, five hours north of Portland, population 4,000.And they arrived for different reasons: she to support her sick sister in 1994; he...

By ADAM CZARKOWSKI

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. The commuter rail expansion project is a lot like Michael Myers in the Halloween franchise. Just when you think it is dead it pops back up again. This time it is governor candidate...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When addressing the lack of housing in Concord, city officials often cite 3,000 units in the construction pipeline. Yet nearly a third of those come from a single project that the city manager and mayor now say they have no interest in seeing move...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In a few weeks, children will be back in the Penacook Community Center for the first time in nearly 18 months.But it will look quite different.At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, local officials and the Boys & Girls Club of Central and Northern New...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The city’s first new park since 1988 is nearing the end of construction and will make a soft debut this fall. The Canal Street Riverfront Park project is part of the revitalization of Penacook Village and is transforming the 2.5 acres that once housed...