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IN this week's Kildare Nationalist, in your shops now or online at www.kildare-nationalist.ie, the Supporter Column has a look back at last week'

Ralph Jimenez of Concord served on the Monitor editorial board. The agita over the potential completion of the northwest bypass past Concord Hospital has largely abated. The yard signs on the lawns of the parkway’s opponents have come down. Not so for...

A group of city residents calling themselves the Concord Greenspace Coalition, packed City Council Chambers on Thursday night to ask councilors to remove the third phase of the Langley Parkway extension from the city’s future spending...

Emergency calls for service are up this year, which will require significant new investments in public safety, Concord City Councilors were told on Thursday in one of the first meetings to determine next year’s city budget. What councilors weren’t...

On Monday, the Concord City Council is scheduled to meet for 3½ hours to discuss the compensation and performance of the city’s top executive, City Manager Tom Aspell.In the past, city councilors completed written surveys before that non-public...

After two years of reacting to the pandemic, city officials are looking for a “restart” as they consider a new city budget of $123.6 million, which would increase spending by 13% by increasing taxes and using more federal aid and money from the city’s...

Anyone who has dreamed of running a taco truck and fans of rolling restaurant cuisine can rejoice this week: The Concord City Council voted on Monday to modernize the peddler’s ordinance, allowing the regular operation of food trucks in the city for...

Critics of the long-planned but likely still far-off Langley Parkway extension have geared up to oppose the project, launching a website and asking the Concord City Council to remove it from the city budget’s capital improvement program.“You’re going...

A surprisingly fervent discussion on Monday night over creating new community gardens on city-owned farmland illustrated a growing division between longtime Concord politicians and newcomers to the City Council. While debates over mask mandates or the...

Changes to Concord’s parks, multiple new housing projects and a few long-planned road improvements are all on the city’s agenda for the next year. At the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s annual State of the City address on Thursday, Mayor Jim...