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The Concord City Council has voted to allow City Manager Tom Aspell to enter into negotiations with Atlantic Broadband to receive a cable franchise from the city, raising the possibility of new cable television competition.Atlantic Broadband, the U.S....

The Concord City Council unanimously approved a change to the purchase and sale agreement on the former Employment Security building with the John J. Flatley Company to include the cost of removing asbestos discovered this spring.Director of...

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...

Capital Connections: Delivering connection, learning and hope Guest Speakers Angie Lane and Emmett Soldati discussed business and community leadership with CASL students in March. Courtesy Some members of Leadership Greater Concord Class of 2021 connecting safely through technology. Courtesy Published: 4/21/2021 5:36:07 PM The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce offers two leadership programs annually: Capital Area Student Leadership and Leadership Greater Concord. CASL provides capital area...

New Concord fire chief aims to maintain ‘community trust’ Sean Brown, newly appointed Fire Chief of Concord Fire Department. —City of Concord Published: 2/26/2021 4:22:37 PM Concord Fire Department Deputy Chief Sean Brown comes from a long line of police officers, but he always wanted to be a firefighter. “It’s cliché, or funny maybe, but since I was a little boy, since I can remember, it’s all I’ve ever wanted to do,” Brown said. This week he was named Concord’s new fire ch...

Bates Communications Published on January 15, 2021 Kathryn Tibbetts Gates ‘91 was having supper in old Commons when a friend burst into the dining hall and shouted, “We’re at war!” At that moment, Gates had two thoughts: Her friend had entered through the exit door, so her automatic response was, “You can’t come in this way — you’ll get in trouble.” Her second: “I will always remember this moment.” Such was the seismic surreality of Jan. 16, 1991, when the U.S. wen...

Have to put that political situation kicking in and get the transition in place and then restore dignity to the great syrian people. >> how do you get assad to give up power? >> again, this is a process. were seeing gestures from opposition. we have statements from the syrian national coalition saying hes willing to talk to representatives of the regime, so long as they dont have blood on their hands. this is a positive step forward. we saw statements talking about the regimes and its important ...

Colleague, a great correspondent for nbc died monday after a two-year battle with cancer. tom was one of the best. spent decades in the middle east. always calm in the fray. selfless around the globe. he began back in 1970, it was his lens that captured some of the iconic images as saigon fell to forces in 1975. later as an intrepid and fearless correspondent tom covered it all. from bosnia, from chechnya, baghdad and kabul, always as the us in president steve capus recalled where others were fl...

Point as it has been in several american evacuations in the past about that will they have to be able to process people through here. but they are saying that the situation is so uncertain that they have no idea whens next flight will arrive. >> thank you so much, tom. the washington bureau chief joins me here now. weve been talking about the muslim brotherhood, weve been talking about whats happening in the streets. lets talk about mubarak. what is his calculus as he sees all of the stars align...

Tom, with the word now from the pakistani government, theyre going to open up the border, how soon does immediate affect mean? >> i think it means right away. theres a terrific backlog of tankers parked at various points on the border particularly through western pakistan and kabul. nato has always said that it doesnt have much of an impact on the -- and much of fuel they say is being kept on the pakistani border, they have others -- but by everything the border with immediate affect as you ment...