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Expect 3 nights for Concord Town Meeting

January 9, 2024

The Select Board approved the order of warrant articles for the upcoming April Town Meeting this week amid a broader discussion of how to get more Concordians more engaged in their self-governance.

Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of — Tidd and Munroe? Prescott?

January 7, 2024

Everyone knows the story of how Paul Revere rode through the night, broadcasting the alarm throughout Middlesex that the British were headed out to capture the colonists’ stores of weapons and ammunition.

Letter: ‘Concord Stories’ podcast now available

January 4, 2024

For those wondering what the tercentenary markers got wrong, Aya Belyazid and I have launched a new blog of Concord stories on Spotify as part of preparing Concord for our Concord250 celebration.

Courteous dissent marks early discussion of 2024 Town Meeting topics

December 21, 2023

The warrant for 2024 Town Meeting closes January 3. The deadline drew a slate of speakers to Monday’s Select Board meeting — and it wasn’t all one big kumbaya moment. First up:

Concord finally inks deal with neighbors to mark revolution’s 250th anniversary

December 6, 2023

Concord may have been the first battleground of the American Revolution, but this week it became the last of its neighbors to sign on to a multi-town deal to celebrate the war’s

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

Deputy town manager: Local government ‘makes the biggest difference’

November 6, 2023

Deputy Town Manager Megan Zammuto started work in Concord in April, but she’s not new to local government, having served with Lexington, Maynard and the Massachusetts Municipal Association. She sat down with