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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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
To Matt Walsh, Concord’s housing market is a mixed blessing.In 2023, New Hampshire’s capital city was 10th on the list of most popular markets on Zillow. It shows Concord is attractive – people want to raise a family in the city and post-pandemic...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Public outcry led the City Council to send plans for the future of the Beaver Meadow Golf Course Clubhouse back to the drawing board in December, and in January newly inaugurated Mayor Byron Champlin asked city staff to develop cost estimates for a...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Organizations looking to apply for the city’s event grant program are now required to be 501(c)(3) non-profits and present a financing match, among other new requirements announced by the city manager’s office Monday. The grant program, created in...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Growing up in Auburn, Maine, Zoey Murphy struggled to find spaces where she felt like she belonged.“I was the only Black person in my graduating class, and it was really hard to see different signals that really spoke to me,” she said.Now, she’s a...
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 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
Jillian Andrews Dubois picked up her newspaper a few weeks ago and saw three side-by-side stories that painted a stark tableau.One described how average rents in the state continue to burden the average firefighter or retail worker, another explained...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
City Councilor Jim Schlosser is hoping Concord will take a step forward in the city’s response to end homelessness and hire a paid program manager. The request comes with caution – “It’s early in this work.” The city’s steering committee on the plan...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A potential partnership between the city of Concord and the developer planning to revamp the Steeplegate was met this week with skepticism by some members of the city council.“Between the spending of the council and the school board right now, we...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Plans to rehabilitate the music venue within historic Phenix Hall, plus add housing, restaurants, and retail, took a big step forward Monday night as the Concord City Council agreed to allow new downtown developments to circumvent height rules on a...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The developer looking to transform the Steeplegate Mall into new stores and hundreds of housing units is asking the city for a hand. When projects in Concord are built that require new city resources — adding new or improving existing roads, sewers,...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
A city rule that prevents buildings from blocking the view of the State House dome could be modified to make way for certain projects.Concord has strict zoning that mandates no construction downtown can exceed 80 feet or in any way block a view of the...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
City Councilor Michele Horne doesn’t live near either the current or proposed middle schools, or even in the Concord School District, and she’s never had to make a vote on the middle school project. Nevertheless, it’s the one thing her constituents...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
In the sweltering heat at Keach Park, Project STORY summer campers seek any shade they can get. When it rains, Charm Emiko has no choice but to cancel the free camp for the day.From the fields, Emiko’s campers can see the nearby City Wide Community...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Working for a company that does business with the city is not automatically a conflict of interest for people who give advice to elected leaders, the Concord’s Board of Ethics determined Monday. As long as they walk a fine line to avoid influencing...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The city’s Board of Ethics will reconvene Monday to hold a hearing on one of two complaints on its plate.In May, the ethics board, an appointed committee that weighs complaints against city officials, received a handful of complaints — the first it...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
If Freeman Toth had a wishlist to address homelessness, he’d ask for more permanent supportive housing, rent control, better access to voucher programs and outreach from community mental health centers.To solve homelessness in the state, New Hampshire...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Dan Williams posed a big question to the Concord City Council at its meeting Monday.“What is your position on the school board’s middle school project?”Councilors left it dangling.The council is only required to answer questions about matters on the...
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