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• Pollution concerns nix plan for West Concord housing (concordbridge.org) — Concord’s Affordable Housing Trust has scrapped plans for up to six new homes on a state-owned lot at 91B Main Street in West Concord after an environmental review raised costly pollution concerns. With $500,000 in ARPA funds now freed up, officials are weighing other options like rental assistance or buydown programs to expand affordable housing opportunities for local residents.
• Breaking: Thoreau Elementary School closed Tuesday after overnight fire (concordbridge.org) — Thoreau Elementary School is closed today after a late-night classroom ceiling fire activated a sprinkler and sent firefighters to Prairie Street in Concord. No one was injured, but several classrooms suffered water damage as crews from multiple towns responded, ventilated the building, and reopened nearby streets while officials continue investigating the cause.
• The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World (publishersweekly.com) — Concord readers may enjoy this new book tracing how Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1840s Concord circle of writers and thinkers helped reshape American ideas on abolition, feminism, education, and individualism. The biography-style group portrait highlights Emerson’s role as a generous connector and explores how neighbors like Thoreau and the Alcotts turned a small town into a hub of radical thought.
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