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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Every time Concord High puts on a concert, Gabe Cohen rents a U-Haul. The Christa McAuliffe Auditorium at the high school —  the district’s largest performance space — has 397 seats, just enough to seat one grade of its student body of 1,400....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When Alexavier Hildreth begins business classes at Southern New Hampshire University this fall, his mother Jillian Fox will also be enrolled. He’s the reason she’s there. “I didn’t get to do this,” Fox said, tears welling behind her sunglasses, as the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If Concord School Board members wanted guidance as to where residents’ priorities lie beyond the location of the new middle school, they didn’t get it.Instead, at the first of two question-and-answer sessions on the new design and cost estimate...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A day after Concord’s School Board unveiled long-awaited cost estimates for its middle school project, city leaders encouraged the school board to ensure and communicate that the school buildings are shared community assets.“Taxpayers are saying,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Spending on Concord’s new middle school could be capped at as high as $166.6 million or as low as $136.2 million depending on a range of decisions still to come, according to long-anticipated cost estimates presented at a meeting Thursday night.The...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In Laura McKenna’s second-grade class at Concord’s Mill Brook School, her 16 students speak at least four different languages at home, from Kinyarwanda to French.On Tuesday morning, following a meeting that involved freeze dance, high fives, and a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

An updated cost estimate for Concord’s proposed new middle school is in the final days of development and will be presented on Thursday.When the school board meets on Monday, it is expected to give an update on the project and lay out a process to...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School District is standing by its hiring process and selection of Kyle Repucci as the next principal of Broken Ground School after more details of a lawsuit accusing him of wrongful termination and his early departure from his post as...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

One Concord middle schooler is facing juvenile charges after hitting another student on a bus Friday afternoon, Concord police said. A verbal altercation escalated when one student punched another who had been “name-calling,” according to Deputy...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It was supposed to be a yearlong effort to help blunt and ultimately reverse pandemic-related learning loss in math.Using relief funding from the federal government, the Concord School District pulled six expert math teachers from their classrooms in...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In the woods off South Curtisville Road, between maple saplings and tall pines and within sight of dog walkers on trails, fifteen wooden stakes flagged with hot pink construction tape poke up from the pine needles carpeting the ground.The stakes mark...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Kyle Repucci, current superintendent of schools in his hometown of Rochester, will be the new principal of Broken Ground elementary next year after the school board unanimously approved his hiring Monday night. It’s been awhile — eight years — since...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord School Board will vote on the nomination of Kyle Repucci, currently the superintendent of schools in Rochester, to be the next principal at Broken Ground elementary at its meeting Monday night. Repucci has been superintendent in the Lilac City...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Every time Leanna Kenza laces up her sneakers and steps on the track, it gives her reprieve from the day-to-day drama of eighth grade and the chance to find a new friend.While most Rundlett Middle School parents were enrolling their kids in sports in...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will get the first updated cost estimate in two years for its proposed new middle school in June and will ink a final “not to exceed budget” for the project on July 1, according to a new meeting schedule released by the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After the close of their budget planning seasons and with a mounting list of major construction projects between them, a joint committee between city and school district leaders — including both Concord and Merrimack Valley — will reconvene this...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Vandals keyed the cars of at least 10 members of the state Republican Party while the group held its biennial convention inside Concord High School on Saturday. “There’s already too much vitriol in partisan politics,” Party Chair Chris Ager said. Ager...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A group of activists upset about the Concord School Board’s decision not to rebuild a potential new middle school at the current site have issued an ultimatum: reverse the vote or risk losing your autonomy.At Monday’s board meeting, Charlie Russell of...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Five Concord elementary school teachers were told last week they’d lose their positions at the end of this year.While the district budget approved by the Concord School Board for next year did not include outright teacher layoffs, the board knew these...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Concord joined a growing number of school districts across the state Monday calling on lawmakers to increase state funding for education.The school board’s resolution, which passed unanimously, asks legislators to support a school funding system in...