Concord City Council votes to buy rail corridor with a ‘heavy heart,’ threatening local rail bike business

Arts Ahead: Meet the Monitor in Pembroke

The Concord Monitor is hosting its second Meet the Monitor event on September 24 at the Pembroke Library. Also check out several upcoming regional festivals including the Manhattan Short Film Festival, Henniker Handmade and Homegrown, and Wings & Wheels.

Even with renewed volunteerism, future of Epsom Village Water District remains murky

Epsom officials, residents and members of the Department of Environmental Services met to address the critical challenges of the Epsom Village Water District due to staffing shortages.

Keene, Londonderry seek restitution for PFAS-containing firefighting gear in class action suit

Over more than five decades, a single chemical manufacturer enjoyed the exclusive production of a PFAS compound utilized in water-repellent treatments. Another company manufactured a different compound from this class of “forever chemicals” from 2002 to 2013. By then, it had already been using this compound in its Teflon-branded consumer products for many decades, including […]

Old barns need love, too — lots of it

Lifting and rehabbing an old barn in New Hampshire.

Opinion: Give people with disabilities a chance to work

Mike Dennehy, founder of the nonprofit Next Step Living, is calling on Concord-area businesses to address the local workforce shortage by hiring individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.