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By ALEXANDER RAPP and ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Scott Owen often talks about rectangles.“If you give us a rectangle, we can turn it into any field we want,” said Owen, Rundlett Middle School’s athletic facilitator.In the midst of two major projects in Concord — a new middle school and a renovated...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

President Joe Biden saying in Concord “we’ve got to lock him up” in reference to his former political rival sent shockwaves through the race for the White House.Speaking at a political gathering of supporters at the New Hampshire Democratic Party...

By ANDREW STONE

Andrew Stone lives in Concord. In recent years, JV sports have become a shadow of what they once represented in the high school sports world. What used to be a critical stepping stone for athletic development has been relegated to a fourth-rate...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

Ralph Jimenez served on the Monitor’s editorial board and lives in Concord. On Sept. 29, 1961, by a vote of 1,101 to 61, Concord residents became the first school district in the state to have a charter of its own and fiscal autonomy. Earlier that...

Concord Police are seeking the public’s help to locate a 70-year-old man, who suffers from dementia and was last seen walking near South Main Street in Concord Monday evening. Authorities issued a silver alert Monday evening to locate Steven Ironside,...

By ROY SCHWEIKER

Roy Schweiker lives in Concord. Count me as someone who sees an industrial future for the land on Monitor Way. While housing can be built almost anywhere, I can see at least two ways why this land is particularly suited to non-residential use.Green...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’re one of those people who loves to brag or complain about how much snow you get – and since this is New Hampshire, of course you are – now’s your chance to one-up everybody else.With one caveat: You have to live close to Concord Municipal...

By BILL GLAHN

Bill Glahn served on the Concord School Board for eleven years and during the construction of several new schools. He also served on the 2022 Charter Commission. Individuals opposing the decision of the Concord School Board to relocate Rundlett...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The atmosphere inside Nashua’s new middle school differs dramatically from the school it replaced, a dark and gloomy 85-year-old building about five miles away.Natural light pours through the expansive glass windows. Almost all the classrooms are...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Dorean Kimball bought an accordion at a yard sale in 1972 thinking she would use it with her 5th and 6th grade students at Merrimack Valley Middle School, where she taught. The accordion sat untouched in a box for over three decades until she decided...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As any middle school math student knows, just writing the answer to a question isn’t enough. Students must show their work.Based on estimates from its architects, the school board set a $152 million budget cap for the middle school project in July....

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 When reading accounts of the war in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, it is a struggle to separate...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s school board planned to build a new junior high school and city residents wanted answers about the location.An architect slammed the proposed property as “too remote,” questioning whether the parcel’s size, larger than others considered,...

By ROBERT S. KIEFNER

Robert S. Kiefner, MD, retired family physician, lives in Concord. Project 2025 is a compilation of greatest hits of the Heritage Foundation, and a guidebook for those intent upon “taking our country back” — to the Middle Ages, that is. Although...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Felony charges filed against Andy Sandborn accused him of using a portion of pandemic relief aid to pay off a private mortgage on a lakefront property in Laconia owned by his wife, Laurie Sanborn, a seven-term State representative.Prosecutors say...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Andy Sanborn, a former state senator and owner of Concord Casino, was arrested Wednesday and charged with misappropriating and fraudulently using pandemic relief funds, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office.The arrest warrant...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Three large frames decorated with leaves, sea creatures, pumpkins, flowers, and pom-poms – all made of yarn – hang in parks across Concord, injecting extra color into the foliage-saturated landscape. The frames, a communal effort among knitters and...

By OGE YOUNG

Oge Young MD lives in Concord. The skies over the Middle East are frightening. Missiles bellow “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” words from the Book of Exodus declaring the principle of reciprocal justice, rooted in Lex Talionis, the Latin...

By REBECCA J. MCWILLIAMS

Rep. Rebecca J. McWilliams, Esq., AIA lives in Concord. We are at a pivotal moment in the history of legislative ethics in New Hampshire. The most significant change ever to NH legislator voting requirements, HB 1388 was signed into law in August and...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The New Hampshire Lottery Commission is asking a judge to clarify his recent decision regarding the revocation of Andy Sanborn’s casino license, raising questions about the authority behind the ruling and its future implications.Meanwhile, Sanborn’s...