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By RACHEL WACHMAN

Five paintings hang on the back wall of the Concord coffee shop Brothers’ Cortado, right above a sitting area complete with two lamps, a couch, an end table, and a chair. The whole corner belongs to Dunbarton artist Joe Square’s newest installation: “We Are Always Saying Goodbye.”

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Inside a windowless office crammed between two classrooms at the Mill Brook School in Concord, Louise Irafasha had a very special introduction to make.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Emmett Soldati is ready for a new chapter.

The 22nd David Surette Mandolin Festival, to be held March 8-9 at the Concord Concord Community Music School, celebrates the many voices of the mandolin, a stringed instrument heard in bluegrass, old-time, classical, swing, blues, Brazilian, Italian, and Celtic music. The festival is named for its founder, New England musician David Surette. With a reputation that reached across the US and beyond to Canada, England, France and Italy, Surette was admired and respected as a player, composer and teacher.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In the long shadows outside Concord Hospital, members of the Concord Fire Department stood in two lines saluting Christopher “CJ” Girard, a seven-year veteran of the department who died suddenly after a brief illness on Saturday night.

Staff Report

A Concord woman charged with taking off from Concord Hospital in a stolen ambulance over the weekend was held without bail pending a mental health evaluation.

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

Last year, the Concord Fire Department became the first in the country to secure funding for PFAS-free firefighting gear for its members, but a halt in production means the department still awaits the gear’s arrival.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

To celebrate student work in honor of Youth Art Month, the Concord School District hosts an annual art show compiling pieces made by students from kindergarten to twelfth-grade across the district. This year’s show opened on Thursday, Feb. 20 and will run through Wednesday, April 2 at the City Wide Community Center.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The New Hampshire Retirement System will close on a $5 million purchase of an office building near Horseshoe Pond next week, removing another revenue-generating property from Concord’s tax rolls. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Concord man has been charged with attempted murder and seven other felonies related to a January shooting in Healey Park.

Monitor staff

The early morning glare of the sun against wet pavement led to two chain-reaction sets of accidents on Interstate 89 Friday morning.

Gibson's Bookstore will welcome New Hampshire author Lisa Rogak at a launch event for her newest book  “Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS” on Tuesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. Rogak, who lives in Canaan, will present the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War Two by generating a wave of black propaganda: Betty MacDonald, a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii, Zuzka Lauwers who grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village, Jane Smith-Hutton the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo, and Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer. 

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Most students get to spend four years on their high school robotics team.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As Pembroke considers a potential partnership with Concord to reduce “forever chemical” contamination in its water, Concord leaders aren’t sure they want to share.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Prakash and Bisnu Maya Adhikari live with their son and his family in Manchester.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

State police are searching for the driver of a silver sedan who they say struck another driver while fleeing the scene of a crash on Interstate 93. 

Author Christine Murphy, who grew up in Hopkinton, will return to the Concord area on Wednesday, Feb. 26 to present her debut novel at Gibson’s Bookstore.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Just as the city of Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee has started to put rubber to road, laying out the timeline for their first action steps, the national climate surrounding their work has changed.

With hits such as “Love Takes Time, ”Dance with Me,” and “Still the One,” the smooth melodic pop-rock music of Orleans has stood the test of time in the past 53 years since the group’s formation. Bringing its music to Concord, the band will perform at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage on Thursday, Feb. 27.