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Candidates tackle thorny questions at League of Women Voters forum

March 12, 2024

The wide-ranging, two-hour Sunday symposium at the Town House touched on an array of local challenges.

Board of Assessors to discuss rising property valuations

January 11, 2024

Michael Tarello of Vision Government Solutions, the Town of Concord’s property appraisal and valuation firm, will be on hand at a January 18 Board of Assessors meeting to “discuss the trends in

Concord’s assessed property values up 15% for Fiscal 2024

December 12, 2023

To understand why the tax value of a Concord home is going up, you actually have to look backward — two years backward, to be exact. On average, the assessed value of

Letter: What have you learned about in The Concord Bridge?

October 12, 2023

I’ve been wondering when you would need to start charging for a subscription and after reading that you are hoping to continue providing The Concord Bridge free to all households, I sent

Letter: Concord’s wealth divide, redux

May 19, 2023

At Town Meeting, we discovered another outcropping of Concord’s wealth divide. To put that a bit more formally, we exposed again the putatively bimodal distribution of financial means, across town. Three months

Howell, Reed face off at League debate

March 9, 2023

The two candidates for a seat on the Select Board handled questions about rising taxes, housing and controlling growth at a League of Women Voters-sponsored debate. Mark Howell and Karlen Reed face

Finance Committee gathers data to set the FY25 budget guideline

October 28, 2023

Setting the spending guideline for town and school departments is a key role of the Finance Committee and the process got underway at last week’s meeting. The guideline is set each fall

The Community Preservation Act in Concord: Impact and Opportunities

April 6, 2023

The impact of The Community Preservation Act (CPA) is visible all around Concord: the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail project; White Pond and Emerson Field improvements; Assabet Bluff Affordable Housing development; Old Manse