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Community leaders and soccer enthusiasts will host a public forum Saturday to discuss the importance of raising money to install lights at Keach Park, a popular athletic venue in the Heights of Concord. The event is being hosted by Change for Concord,...

Concord Major Jim Bouley presented a plan to city councilors Monday night to introduce a diversity, equity, inclusion and justice committee.The committee, comprised of Bouley and City Councilors Zandra Rice-Hawkins and Byron Champlin, will establish a...

Three city contracts renewed and approved in December will add a half million dollars to city spending as part of Concord’s efforts to offer competitive wages and retain workers.The City Council approved three new contracts that will increase employee...

A mixed residential and commercial development project on 22-acres of land off Manchester Street that was first proposed in 2021 was back before the Concord Planning Board this as it gets closer to the final design phase.Because of its scope and...

The request to install lights at the Keach Park soccer field has floated through Concord City Council numerous times over the last few years.The plea from residents of Concord’s most diverse neighborhood for lights was first budgeted in 2018 and has...

Lead organizer of Change for Concord, Fisto Ndayishimiye, asks our city councilors for a fairer shake at planning and budget making deliberations that affect residents of the Heights where many of Concord’s new Americans and refugees live. (Concord...

As Concord officials considered proposed housing developments and highway expansions that could affect downtown Concord, and a new library branch in Penacook, new American Fisto Ndayishimiye has taken to the microphone at public meetings to ask...

With used needles, discarded belongings and untreated human waste, workers in hazmat suits will be needed to clean up the site of a former homeless encampment on city-owned conservation land on Locke Road in Concord.Clearing this land comes with a...

Plans to expand Interstate 93 through Concord would further divide the city racially, physically and socioeconomically, resident Meredith Cooley told City Councilors Monday night.Cooley, like others before her, said she supported a deck park or...

Concord-area residents, and residents throughout Executive Council District 2, have been fortunate to be represented by Councilor Cinde Warmington the past two years. I’ve been fortunate a little longer than that to know Cinde as a friend and as a...