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Bargains — and loyal volunteers — abound at Council on Aging gift shop

April 10, 2024

You’ll find bargains aplenty at Harvey’s Treasure Chest Gift Shop inside the Harvey Wheeler Community Center, home of the Council on Aging.

Concordian’s Alzheimer memoir helps children, caregivers navigate loss

January 19, 2024

While her father was battling Alzheimer’s, Isabelle Schnadig of Concord turned to the things she knew could help both her and her family — art and writing. The result: A book to

H: ‘Try trusting my words, not my body’

January 13, 2024

His name is Hasan, but he prefers to be called “H.” He’s nine years old and likes shirts with collars, singing and dancing, jumping on trampolines and writing. Hasan is also a

Woodworking teen crafts fine boards from local woods

December 23, 2023

At 10, while most kids were spending their time playing video games or hanging out at a friend’s house, Eliot McDonald was learning how to make things with wood. Now, at 13,

Photo Gallery: A stroll with Santa through West Concord

December 14, 2023

He came to the woods to write — and hopefully, not freeze

December 7, 2023

By Jennifer Lord Paluzzi jenn@theconcordbridge.org Eric Miller is the first to admit he is no Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, he’s come to the woods — to write, to live his life deliberately, to

Photo gallery: Santa Claus flies in for Concord visit

December 4, 2023

Santa Claus didn’t mind the rain. Sunday’s downpours may have canceled Concord’s annual Holiday Tree Lighting and parade downtown, but the North Pole’s most famous resident had an appointment with the children

Concord artist completes mural on Thoreau Street

December 1, 2023

Fred Berthoff learned how to paint in prison, saying he “took tips from a couple of old-time Brooklyn wise guys” while incarcerated for 18 years on a drug conviction in 1994. But