Concord's school committee recently rejected an effort to rename its middle school after Black educator and Civil War era abolitionist Ellen Garrison. The Concord Select Board ramped up pressure on ...

Would it put its current plan to move the school to East Concord on the ballot? Or some third option, potentially including fighting the amendment’s applicability to the middle school project in ...

Residents of Concord, a place rich with buildings named for famous people across history, are pushing town officials to rename the middle school for a local educator and abolitionist, Ellen Garrison.

For Joe Palumbo, the idea struck him as a no-brainer. Concord is building a new middle school. Why shouldn’t the district name it after Ellen Garrison, a well-known Black educator and abolitionist?