Not everyone dreams of becoming a property assessor. Jonathan Rice was no exception.Once a teacher of engineering and sciences at Merrimack Valley High School, Rice decided that job wasn’t for him and left after two years to return to his old food.
Ralph Jimenez of Concord served on the Monitor editorial board. The agita over the potential completion of the northwest bypass past Concord Hospital has largely abated. The yard signs on the lawns of the parkway’s opponents have come down. Not so for.
A group of city residents calling themselves the Concord Greenspace Coalition, packed City Council Chambers on Thursday night to ask councilors to remove the third phase of the Langley Parkway extension from the city’s future spending.
Emergency calls for service are up this year, which will require significant new investments in public safety, Concord City Councilors were told on Thursday in one of the first meetings to determine next year’s city budget. What councilors weren’t.