Jimmy Makris says he never knew how much customers liked his fried clams.“We’d have 15 people at the bar,” Makris said by phone Monday, “and at least four or five would have the fried clams.”A COVID shutdown does that to business owners, in this case.
Downtown Concord’s Bread and Chocolate reopens after six weeks
People line up to get into Bread and Chocolate on Wednesday morning, March 24, 2021. The line went all the way back to the Red River Theatres. GEOFF FORESTER
Published: 5/5/2021 3:42:30 PM
Those to-die-for pastries and tarts at Bread and Chocolate, unavailable the past six weeks due to a medical emergency, are back.
So is everything else at the longtime favorite, which opened for business this week and posted hours of 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
“We are not taking orders just yet,” read the company’s Facebook posting this week, “but our showcase will be full of options for cakes and tarts each day, and our shelves will be stocked with our regular goodies.”
Special elections coming for Concord city council, Bow/Dunbarton state representative
Monitor staff
Published: 5/5/2021 5:11:15 PM
Two people have filed so far for the special election to fill the Ward 4 City Council seat.
Karten McNamanara, 18 Prince St., and Connor Spern, 23 Union St. No. 2, have filed as of Tuesday.
Councilor Meredith Hatfield resigned last month after moving out of the city.
The special election will be held Tuesday, July 13. Candidacy filing is open through Monday, May 10, at the City Clerk’s Office. The filing fee is $5. Candidates can file by petition through Friday, May 14.
The term runs through Dec. 31.
State representative
A special election primary was being held on April 20 for the Merrimack 23 District of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Christopher Lins beat John Martin in the Republican primary. Muriel Hall ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. The general election is taking place on June 8, and the winner of this special ele
Court rejects attempt to end suit over public access near Rossview Farm
This illustration from Concord’s legal filing shows the disputed half of District 5 road, in red. The Woodard’s property is on the south side of that area; the city’s conservation land is to the north. District 5 Road is open to the public on the right half of this photo, up to the discontinued Dimond Road. City of Concord
Published: 5/2/2021 3:00:04 PM
The legal battle over public access to city-owned conservation land near Rossview Farm will continue after a judge rejected an argument that the time limit for the dispute has expired.
Data says NH has two top-10 ‘emerging housing markets,’ meaning that prices will continue to skyrocket
Modified: 5/1/2021 9:46:31 PM
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There’s good news and bad news for New Hampshire housing in a new survey, and both come from the same piece of information.
Concord and the Manchester-Nashua region are among the nation’s top-10 “emerging housing markets” in an analysis released Wednesday by the
Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com. New Hampshire is the only state with two metro areas in the top-10 list, although Ohio had three regions in the top 20. Concord was No. 8 and Manchester-Nashua was No. 9.