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By DAVID BROOKS

The Bath & Body Works store at Steeplegate Mall will close Saturday, leaving the mall with fewer than 10 occupied storefronts of the 60 it was built to hold.The closing comes as Bath & Body Works has shut a few of its roughly 1,700 stores in Canada...

By RAY DUCKLER

It’s hard following a legend.Quarterback Mac Jones has played well this season, helping the Patriots and their fans forget about Tom Brady. Or at least Jones is creating optimism, enough to dull the pain of losing the player who guided the franchise...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the longest-running transportation debates in New Hampshire, whether to bring passenger rail back up the Merrimack River Valley, has been rejuvenated by potential funding from the new federal infrastructure bill.A public information hearing has...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Plans to address traffic jams on exit ramps at the intersection of Exit 2 of Interstate 89 and Clinton Street in Concord are advancing, with another public meeting planned for next week. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation ramp improvement...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Joy Cadarette and Sharon Beauchesne are old friends, opening a store in an old building where they will sell old things. But the idea of starting a new antique shop in Concord together is newly hatched, when just three weeks ago they discovered that...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

The decaying Department of Transportation complex sandwiched between Loudon Road and the Concord Coach bus terminal has sat vacant for years, greeting highway drivers with glimpses of low-lying buildings with broken windows, peeling paint and creeping...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

An annual Concord bicycle race ended in tragedy this weekend after a young competitor crashed and died.On Saturday, Sunapee Racing Team hosted the 40th Annual Concord Criterium, a race that draws cyclists from around New England to compete on a 1-mile...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

There is finally something to see at the location of the incoming Market Basket in Penacook. Construction has begun on the buildings off of Exit 17 of 1-93 in Concord that will house a long-awaited supermarket and a NH Liquor and Wine outlet. The...

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of Concord’s largest commercial properties, 181 acres around two office buildings once occupied by Lincoln Financial, has been sold to Brady Sullivan Properties.The site, off northern Rumford Street, was sold for a total of $3.4 million, according...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-standing effort to create a permanent home for Concord’s famous horse-drawn coaches has taken another step forward, although it’s a funny-sounding one: Concord has transferred ownership of a potential museum to itself.More specifically, the...

By JULIA STINNEFORD

Soula Maloutas has run the Gas Lighter restaurant in downtown Concord for almost 45 years, with the same original menu and beloved recipes.Located at 204 North Main St., the building is being sold to a bank later this year, leaving an uncertain future...

By DICK OSBORNE

When the Lincoln Financial Group sells its office park and campus in Concord’s North End (you can buy it for $6 million) and no longer has a presence as an employer in Capital City, it will close the books on more than a century of history of life...

By DAVID BROOKS

Passenger rail up to Concord is part of a wish-list map of new and improved routes issued by Amtrak in response to President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan.The map, titled “A vision to grow rail service across America,” includes new service from...

By DAVID BROOKS

When news came that a grocery store was finally going to be built in Penacook after a decade of discussion, some people celebrated. But others were puzzled.“Does Concord want to have the highest per capita grocery store concentration in New England?”...

By RAY DUCKLER

The Suncook Valley has no choice. The people there must play by Don Chase’s rules.Those are his chat rooms on Facebook, focusing on Suncook and the rest of the towns in that area. You’re invited to discuss all things Valley, but keep it nice, keep it...

By DAVID BROOKS

The huge, struggling company that owns Pleasant View and Pleasant View Retirement homes in Concord is preparing to sell control of 51 of its facilities around the country, including three in New Hampshire.Concord’s Pleasant View nursing home and...

By DAVID BROOKS

The irony is painful: On the year that it would have celebrated its 100th anniversary, Camp Spaulding is shut for good and up for sale.The financial strain of running the 57-acre summer camp at the intersection of Bog and River roads in Concord as a...

By RAY DUCKLER

She called herself a “fighter,” tattooing the scripted word, in black ink, onto her inner forearm while fighting for her life.Her family used the verb “pivot” again and again to describe her adaptability, explaining that Grace Orzechowski absorbed the...

Correctional officers are sworn law enforcement personnel. These men and women are eligible for the same retirement police and firefighters are entitled to. They receive emergency first responder training and must maintain that certification in order...