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Thoreau Street will be center stage for shopping locally this Saturday, as sidewalk sales and a farmers’ market featuring local growers beckon customers to businesses in the Depot District.

“Over the 23 years I have been here, I have seen a lot of changes,” said Andrea Zall, owner of Frame-ables, a gallery and frame shop on Thoreau Street. “It’s always been a mixture of food, retail and service. In recent years, a lot of the retail and service disappeared. Now it’s coming back.”

Before reading the meeting notes, there is one very important request for many of you photo and history buffs -- this concerns the Warner's Pond Stewardship Committee's ability to obtain money under the Community Preservation Act. Old pictures and documentation of Warner’s Pond are needed to declare the restoration effort as a historical preservation project. Without these facts, the Community Preservation Committee will likely turn down the request.

Celebrate the arrival of summer along the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord rivers with Musketaquid Arts and Environment and Organization for the Assabet River (OAR) on Friday, June 20. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with a musical picnic on the grounds of the Old Manse, 269 Monument St. Bring food, drink and a blanket or lawn chairs, and enjoy the music of Snow Crow and Voices for the Earth.

Selectmen Monday heard a petition from Verizon and the Concord Municipal Light Plant to relocate two poles at Flint’s Bridge on Monument Street, a move necessary for the MassHighway project to repair the bridge. 

Two existing jointly owned poles would be removed and two new jointly owned poles 50 feet in height would be placed on the east side of Monument Street — about 690 and 955 feet south of the centerline of Liberty Street, respectively.

Selectmen grilled leaders of the West Concord Task Force about the soon-to-be-formed committee’s purpose, scope and time frame Monday while reviewing a list of potential committee members who have submitted green cards.

Resident Joanne Loynd, who led a campaign to update the town’s master plan and was involved with the “West Concord — A Call to Action” plan on which this task force is based, said the task force would “address immediate concerns in the village center.”

The Peabody School gymnasium in Concord was arranged like a civil engineering science fair Tuesday night as MassHighway held a public workshop to solicit input on the Route 2 Concord Rotary Reconstruction Project. 

Concord’s Natural Resources Commission is responsible for the overall stewardship of the natural resources of the town and, in conjunction with the selectmen and Town Meeting, the establishment and guidance of the town’s environmental policy. A majority of the commission’s time is spent administering the Wetlands Protection Act.

Concord is densely populated with history preserved, charming conservation lands and plenty of places to ride a bike.

Bike Hike, a summertime activity for students entering sixth through eighth grade, will combine these attributes. Organized by Sue Merlino of Concord Bike Tours and Richard Fahlander, a Concord writer, educator and event producer, Bike Hike will take bike tours hitting places around town that will pique the interest of middle-schoolers.