A message from the chamber presidentA vibrant workforce is key to the economic health of any community. One of the challenges facing local CEOs has been retaining young talent. A common complaint among 20-and 30-something rising stars in the workforce was a difficulty in making peer-to-peer business and social connections. For this reason, in 2006, the chamber of commerce decided to…

Paul Brogan’s commute to the office of the Granite State Symphony Orchestra is a rather simple one. Go to the end of the couch and take a left. Brogan’s dining room table is peppered with all manner of orchestra-related pamphlets and papers and acts as his desk for about five hours every day. There have been similar settings in other houses throughout the city in the 19 years since…

The Mill Brook Gallery is located at 236 Hopkinton Road. For more information, visit themillbrookgallery.com.

Meet the top six vote-getters – winner to be announced Nov. 2

Ocean State Job Lots’ slogan is ‘adventure shopping.’ We headed down to find the most adventurous items.

First, a little history: Goodgood Concord is the next step in what began with “Concord Got Cool When You Weren’t Looking.” CGC started out in 2008 as a funny idea for a T-shirt, but ended up capturing and describing a unique time period in Concord. When I moved here in 2005, Concord was still simmering in old stereotypes: the sidewalks roll up at 5 p.m., there’s nothing happening here, and of course, Bill Whitman’s immortally hilarious description of old Concord: “Concord, City In A Coma” (another motto that was perfect for its time). But something happened.…