Environment - Concord Bridge

Task force delays 2229 Main vote to October 15

October 3, 2024

Lingering questions about the true cost of a federal Superfund site have stumped members of the Select Board about a deal to acquire the land.

A life-threatening illness, a tiny culprit, and an uncertain recovery

June 15, 2024

“Each day, I seemed to get hit with new and debilitating symptoms. I was getting sicker with no sense of what was causing it.”

Chemicals to carrots? Task Force envisions safe future uses of Superfund site

June 11, 2024

"Zero risk does not exist in the world. You can live here, recreate here, without ever being impacted by what's left."

Ferry tales? Residents, activists blast Hanscom developer’s ‘inaccurate’ claims

June 9, 2024

“You want to take credit for the possibility of reducing ferry flights. Yet your analysis is so simplistic."

Night bear on Elsinore Street: Roving Concord bruin caught on camera toppling nesting box

May 29, 2024

“I'm thinking, ‘Come on — you're going to take the time to knock a pole down [for] what's not even an appetizer for you?’”

Heywood Meadow gets ‘serious rehabilitation’ with plantings and invasives removal

May 19, 2024

An ongoing project includes removing invasives between the road and Mill Brook, planting native pollinators, and restoring stone walls.

What’s next for Concord’s solar storage battery initiative

May 18, 2024

Brian Foulds of the Concord Municipal Light Plant Board said Town Meeting voters provided “stakeholder buy-in” with the bonding authorization.

By popular demand… the swans

May 15, 2024

It was remarkable timing for photo enthusiast Jean Fain — and for all those who've come to expect moving, high-quality pictures in The Concord Bridge.