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Parts of Concord’s downtown were closed Saturday after a woman on a motorized wheelchair was struck by a vehicle near the intersection with Franklin Street. The lanes were shut down for hours while investigators re-created the accident.

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Christmas this year reminds me of an uneasy congruency between the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and the Roman occupation of Palestine over two thousand...

By MILLIE LAFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. I have had the privilege of visiting the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, not just once, but several times over the course of my lifetime. Standing in the nave each time, I have felt and understood true awe. The...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Concord school bus that veered off the road Friday morning did not have any students on it and there were no injuries, according to Concord Police Department Deputy Chief John Thomas.The incident involved a car and occurred at the intersection of...

By LOUREY SAVICK

Rev. Lourey Savick is pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord. As a Christian called to public leadership and accountability, I pray about when and how to address local matters from the perspective of my faith. Reading about the...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Department of Education named the Christa McAuliffe School as a “Distinguished School” based on the high academic achievement of its students.The Concord elementary school takes its place alongside around 100 schools across the United States...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It took longer than expected, but Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee finally has hired a consultant to facilitate its first steps as a committee.The Texas-based Racial Equity Group beat out three other applicants...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michele Horne doesn’t want to have the same conversation next year.The past two years, Concord police have asked for retention bonuses for current sworn officers, pitched as a stopgap measure necessary to keep an already slim staff.To Horne, the...

Winter’s first kiss was expected to be washed away by rain and warm temperatures later this week.A brief storm delivered several inches of snow to Concord Monday night that might not stand a chance after Wednesday. Forecasts are calling for 1-2 inches...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The legs of the black Baphomet statue outside the State House still stood, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and the panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the...

By NICK PERENCEVICH

Nick Perencevich is a semi-retired physician living in Concord. I’ve gotten into a habit of traveling by the John Gilbert Winant statue on Park Street, just to the left of the State Library walk up, and saying hello to the former governor. When it...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Two Las Vegas companies have shown interest in buying Concord Casino, but the sale has hit a snag after a judge ruled that owner Anthony Sanborn has run out of time to close the deal.Last month, Judge Gregory Albert decided the state can proceed with...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

It takes James “Jim” Marshall three minutes to snip the netting off a Christmas tree, unwrap it, determine the price, put a ribbon on the top, and add it to the pile of trees to be sold. He’s perfected this skill over 38 years of spearheading...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As the lights dimmed and the screen began to glow with the film’s opening scene, audience members at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage settled in for a journey into Samuel Habib’s world.Born with cerebral palsy, the 25-year-old filmmaker and his father...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Alex Brown wakes up before his family, treads downstairs, brews a pot of coffee and shapes dough into loaves on his kitchen counter.As his two children and his wife start their mornings, Brown puts the dough in the fridge to proof and gets ready for...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving weekend we traveled to Portland, Maine to visit our daughter, son-in-law, and our two grandchildren. We drove over hills and through woods passing by...

By DAVID BROOKS

Steadfast Spirits, a distillery on Hall Street in Concord, has purchased the nearby Lithermans brewery and the owner plans to take the brewpub back to its earlier “vibe.”“The focus is on going back to those original beers, small batches of really good...

By DAVID BROOKS

After more than a decade, an unusual program to place markers on long-forgotten graves of 686 infants and adults in the former “poor lot” of Concord’s huge Blossom Hill Cemetery, the resting place of people who could not afford family plots, has wound...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

On a night in July, a car crashed into Alissa and Don Jelley’s garage. Sunday night, it happened again — only this time the driver hit their house, careening into their home office and leaving an eight-foot hole in their foundation. “We heard this...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s school board is at a crossroads.An election day vote threw plans to build a new middle school into the ringer, and the board now faces a variety of options about what to do next. None have officially been ruled out, but their once-fervent...