Concord football returns home Friday night amid bleacher changes and parent concern

The Concord Monitor is a Pulitzer Prize winning daily newspaper and website located in the capital city of New Hampshire. The Concord Monitor is Central NH's dominant media with more than 70 percent household penetration. The Monitor is a key source of news and information for Concord, NH. Concord High’s homecoming football game against Manchester Central will be played on its usual Memorial Field home turf. Just not quite in the same way it has in the past. Originally scheduled for midday Saturday, the school has moved the game up to Friday at 7 p.m. to avoid the adverse weather expected over the weekend. On top of the game-time change, the bleachers are notably gone . The Tide’s “home” opener was played at National Guard Field in Pembroke earlier this month. Now that bleacher demolition work at Memorial is complete and temporary bleachers have been installed on the site, Concord football is returning to its true home. Concord athletic director Stephen Largy said it was important to students to bring the game back to its normal site. The temporary ADA-accessible bleachers seat around 300 people total, with the band taking up a considerable portion of those. The city has worked with the school to move some of the other smaller bleachers used around the field to the football field for additional seating. “It’ll be interesting. I recommend bringing a chair.

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