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Jan 31, 2024 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
After shaking off the initial shock of the news that MCI-Concord will close as soon as June — opening new frontiers for the redevelopment of the sprawling property — town officials are moving to the strategy stage. “How will the state dispose of the property? We don’t know yet,” Deputy Town Manager Megan Zammuto told the Select Board Monday night.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
Their time was up: Concord’s three surviving tercentenary markers were pulled up Thursday morning. Two of the signs — “The Milldam” and “Jethro’s Tree” — were removed from Concord Center. The other, “The First Settlement,” was pulled out of its spot on Lexington Road near Orchard House.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
When Jodi Dakin Loughlin’s Vizsla, Tenney, plunged through the ice of a pond near her home, her dog walker rushed to the rescue. Tenney is “very lucky to be safe and sound after a heroic rescue at the end of our street,” a grateful Loughlin said. Shauna Butler of Walden Pet Services and Tenney were out for a stroll last Friday morning near Balls Hill Road when the 6-year-old dog “ran out onto the ice, likely chasing a bird or animal. The ice was thin in the middle, and she fell through.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
The Massachusetts Port Authority blew deadlines to give Concord records on a controversial proposed hangar expansion at Hanscom Field, a lawyer for the town says, spurring the filing of an appeal to get those documents and find out what’s in them. “Massport’s not going to answer our questions because I say so, pretty please, on some perfumed stationery,” attorney Gregor McGregor told The Concord Bridge of the appeal.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
Help wanted: Concord is preparing to take another deep dive into how its centuries-old form of self-governance works for the voters of today. “The time is right for this. I think it’s been 30 years since we’ve done an in-depth, thoughtful study of the open Town Meeting process, [and] I think that all of us are aware that there have been changes in our community,” Town Moderator Carmin Reiss told the Select Board at a recent meeting.
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Nov 25, 2023 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
Peter Lovis might be right when he says “everybody loves a cheese parade.” But that doesn’t mean everyone gets a cheese parade — and to Lovis’s seemingly immeasurable sorrow, Concord’s not getting one (again) this December. Lovis is the owner of The Cheese Shop on Walden Street. For years, he made a (literally) traffic-stopping production of bringing in a 400-pound crucolo cheese from Italy for the holidays. Hundreds, if not thousands, flocked to the deliberately zany event until Covid.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
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 in Concord Center and one on Lexington Road — after members of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Historical Commissions argued that the signs were offensive to Indigenous people as well as historically inaccurate.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
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 the 300th anniversary of the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony after members of the town’s Historical and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commissions called the signs offensive to Indigenous people. They also argued that the markers aren’t just derogatory — they also promote fantasy over fact.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
Can you hear them now? Concord’s spotty cellular service is the stuff of legend, aggravation, and downright worry, and how to deal with it has been the stuff of hot debate. But separate surveys conducted recently by the town and school committee show overwhelming backing for better service — and specifically for a cell tower at Concord-Carlisle High School. The overwhelming majority of school survey respondents — 566, or nearly 75% — supported a cell tower on the CCHS campus.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
theconcordbridge.org | Celeste Katz Marston
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 275 cast-iron markers around the Commonwealth to mark the 300th anniversary of the colony’s founding.