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Boys’ Soccer Hopkinton 7, Conant 0 Key players: Hopkinton – Fin Murphy (2 goals, 2 assists), Nolan Linstad (2 goals), Travis Windhurst (goal), Cody Charron (goal), Kristof Cauley (goal), Nate Windhurst (assist), Deegan Tomaz (assist), Rowan Boyle...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A Merrimack County Superior Court judge wants to protect criminal investigative records into Andy Sanborn, owner and operator of Concord Casino, in the event that he is charged with a crime. Judge John Kissinger said that all documents in a civil case...

The founder of a charter school that operated in the Steeplegate Mall for two years has pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing over $73,000 in federal funds given to the school.Stephanie Alicea, 49, of Boscawen pleaded guilty to one count of...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In school elections shaping up to be a referendum on the middle school project, two incumbents and four challengers are vying for three seats on the Concord School Board.With the filing period now closed, the field has come into view. Board President...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Editor’s note: Ahead of Sunday’s Multicultural Festival, the Monitor will highlight individuals and organizations that make Concord a more welcoming and inclusive community in a series of stories called “Welcome to Concord.”As Karma Gonpo walked the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

An attorney for state Senate candidate Tara Reardon urged the Legislative Ethics Committee to dismiss a request to decide whether a new conflict of interest law would prevent Reardon from working or voting on bills where her spouse or his firm has...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Stacey Brown did not have a conflict of interest and did not violate the code of ethics when she voted in May to approve closing Main Street for an event, the city’s Board of Ethics determined in a unanimous decision Monday.“Of course...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The fight over Andy Sanborn’s proposed 43,000-square-foot casino on Loudon Road has reached the Supreme Court, as a Concord resident appeals a lower court’s ruling that upheld the Zoning Board’s approval of the project.At issue before the New...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Kori Karamanoogian’s son, Brandon, was born four years ago, she worried that his Down syndrome would prevent him from being accepted in the world.Seeking resources and a sense of community, the Bedford resident joined the board of the New...

By DAN ATTORRI

If Tim Fahnbulleh didn’t think he was a football player, he doesn’t think that way anymore. The junior returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown, led the Concord High football team with 129 rush yards on five carries and scored a 61-yard...

By PAUL LEVY

Paul Levy lives in Concord. Our housing affordability crisis has been getting a lot of deserved attention. I want to take a bit of an unconventional look at it.We define housing affordability as a household’s capacity to obtain decent housing with...

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 My father lived with conflicted ideas about education. Without a high school diploma, he attributed his success to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

On the rare occasions Rundlett Middle School principal Jay Richard takes his phone out during the school day, his students hound him.“Mr. Richard, we’re not supposed to be on phones during school,” they gleefully remind him.But Richard needs no...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s Board of Ethics is set to weigh a claim that City Councilor Stacey Brown, who is married to a city police officer, ran afoul of city rules by voting on a street closure that could have created a financial conflict of interest.Later in the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ian McGregor knows as well as anyone the multitude of reasons people use public transportation.As a kid, he relied on Milwaukee’s bus system to get around.“I’m the son of an alcoholic who could not drive,” he told Concord city councilors. “This is...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon, long-time former state representative from Concord and current county commissioner, won the Democratic primary for the state Senate representing the Capital Region by a 372-vote margin. In the three-way race between Reardon and two...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Concord School Board’s position that the charter amendments need a three-fifths vote to pass.Nicole Fox, the mother of three children in the Concord School District, believes the Concord School...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Ward 5 polling station at the Christa McAuliffe School was the epicenter of election day energy in the Capital City Tuesday morning. Not long after voting began, a swarm of CindeWarmington supporters flocked to the courtyard outside the school...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Two new festivals will bring art, music and reading to the streets of downtown this October.Bringing more than 50 authors to Concord, the New Hampshire Book Festival will land in Concord on Oct. 4-5.Novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz and Kate DiCamillo,...