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No preliminary budget guideline this year

November 24, 2023

The Finance Committee is close to setting the budget guideline for Fiscal Year 2025 but decided to wait until late November due to lack of sufficient information. Committee Chair Parashar Patel said

Residents lobby for new middle school to be named for civil rights pioneer Ellen Garrison

November 24, 2023

Concord School Committee members are trying to find clarity on an issue that is quickly gaining steam among town residents: whether to open a public process to choose a new name for

Controversial historical markers will be ‘removed for maintenance’

November 20, 2023

The Select Board has ordered three controversial historical signs temporarily “removed for maintenance” while the town decides their ultimate fate. The board voted 4-1 to pull the three Tercentary markers — two

Letter: Objectivity lacking on Warner’s Pond dam

November 18, 2023

I recently attended a sales call disguised as an informational meeting about removing Warner’s Pond Dam. The taxpayer-funded consultants seemed immune to the input of citizen attendees and instead gave an extensive

Plans take shape for Concord250

November 18, 2023

When discussing plans for the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, the focus of Concord250 is, naturally, Concord. Gary Clayton, co-chair of the Concord250 Executive Committee, said an intermunicipal

Newly controversial Concord historical signs ‘promote fantasy over fact’

November 17, 2023

Concord is looking deeper at making a nearly century-old part of its history a thing of the past. The Select Board voted 3-1 this month to cloak three cast-iron markers that commemorate

Sign of the times: Concord Select Board orders covering of ‘offensive’ historical markers

November 7, 2023

After an unusually heated debate, the Select Board voted to cover up three nearly 100-year-old historical markers, deeming them offensive to Indigenous people. In 1930, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission distributed

Letter: Not improving Concord cell coverage is poor policy

November 5, 2023

Poor cell coverage was frustrating and annoying when we moved to Concord 17 years ago. It’s irresponsible and inexplicably bad policy now. By choosing not to be part of the 99.9% of