Concord Journal

The Attorney General’s Office hung Peggy Brace’s bylaw out to dry, but the Concord woman’s quest to enshrine residents’ rights to dry laundry on clotheslines may have a second champion in state Sen. Jamie Eldridge, D-Acton.

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Verrill Farm and Macone Farm of Concord placed in the commonwealth’s 26th annual Tomato Festival, held Monday in City Hall Plaza.

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They keep the signs simple outside Frank Scimone Farm on Old Bedford Road in Concord. “Cold Drinks” it says in blue capital letters on a white board. On another the word “Fudge” is scrawled in brownish paint.

Each says exactly what it means, like the rectangular sign with “Mass Sweet Corn” written in green letters, which when the Scimones’ corn crops up, they’ll replace with one that says, “Our Own Corn.” Read More »

A month-old Solar Committee is working to figure out whether Town Meeting’s authorization of a long-term lease to build a solar plant will come to fruition.

In April, Concord’s annual Town Meeting authorized Town Manager Chris Whelan to enter a long-term lease at the site of the Wastewater Treatment Plant on Bedford Street or the Ammendolia Land on Old Bedford Road, both of which meet the requirements of being at least 5-acre parcels of town-owned, building-free land. Read More »

Concord-based Organization for the Assabet River (OAR) received a $24,000 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust this month to assess the effects of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in the Assabet River and to raise public awareness. This funding will enable OAR to work with UMass Amherst faculty to assess the effects of EDCs on fish in the Assabet River’s water, and to educate the public about what they can do to reduce this kind of pollution of local rivers. Read More »

Editor's note: This article was changed June 18 to reflect a broken link and an incorrect quote. The Journal apologizes for these errors.

To save money on a level-funded fiscal 2011 operating budget, Concord officials decided to remove nearly half of the town's streetlights -- a move officials say could save $35,000. Read More »

Early Monday afternoon, Richard Marshall bent down and, for what he figures was the millionth time, plucked a weed from the ground.

It’s been a farmer’s life for Richard, who started out picking berries for 5 cents a basket, then worked for 50 cents an hour, then partnered with a neighbor and then, in 1970, established Marshall Farms in West Concord with his late wife, Diane.

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In the local fight against plastic bottles piling up in the Pacific Ocean, Concord’s vote to ban the sale of drinking water in plastic bottles was the shot heard ‘round the world, but it wasn’t fired in a vacuum.

Jean Hill’s petitioner’s article, which seeks to ban an everyday item she calls superfluous and wasteful, made a splash. Others in Concord and Carlisle are making waves by backing an updated Bottle Bill that would add bottled water, juice, teas and sports drinks to the state’s existing redemption program. Read More »

If Emerson were around this past Saturday, he might have said something like this: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flags in autumn’s mist unfurled, here once the climate cognoscenti stood, and shouted the digits heard ‘round the world. Read More »

We all have important numbers in our lives, but 350 may well be the most important number in the life of every person on Earth.

The number 350 refers to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as measured in parts per million (PPM). In order to understand the importance of 350, two other numbers give us a reference: 275 and 390. Read More »